Events listing

Played around with the blog settings - someone gave me access. I had a computer. Dangerous combo...

Added an Events list to the sidebar just over to your right. I'll add links soon but in the meantime give me a shout at vonjenk@ntlworld.com if you'd like info on any event.

Edit: Links Added and they all seem to work!!! :-)
If you come across another event then give me a shout.

Come in Raptors; your time is now

First weekend in April was Vanquish over in Bristol. The results and pictures are over on the Bristol Vanguard site. Suffice to say I took the World Eaters, lost all 3 games on the Saturday and was in the bottom 4 and then won both games on the Sunday to finish 47th out of 67. I'm happy with that to be honest.

Even happier with an honourable mention for the army itself!


However, I now realise the army doesn't quite work (what's new eh?) so changes are a-foot. Or a-wing depending on your viewpoint. I'll detail what I'm planning in a later post but for now meet the new Raptors.
 

It's all gone evil. With spikes on...

My weekly post is either early as it is normally Sunday or late as I didn't post last Sunday. I'm going with early as it sounds like I have a degree of skill at clock watching...

Anyway... last weekend was all a bit Napoleonic so no real painting time and this weekend is Vanquish so again a lack of time to daub paint on models. Having said that I have completed 5 figures and who'd have guessed that Dark Eldar who have been missing for 12 years presumed squatted would suddenly be involved in the last 2 posts. More on the Kabal in a minute...

I'm baaaaaaaack!

Well, it's been a long time coming, but I've not been idle... Well, not totally. Anyhow, since my last post I've completed a Flames of War 8th army (to be posted sometime) and started work on the dark eldar.

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I bought a load of dark eldar when they first came out (November '10?) and then, like all good wargamers, let them sit in their shrink wrap in boxes for ages. I find that if I don't open something as soon as I buy it and put it together and paint it, it stays on the shelf for an age, behind all the other things in my painting queue.

So, first order of business was the 30 or so wyches. Now, I like the new wyches, which are streets ahead of those crappy old ones GW put out, but with them all in a running pose, I didn't want the tabletop to turn into an 80's nightclub dancefloor with everyone doing "the running man" dance move..... You remember the running man, right? Anyone? Errr, ok, moving on....

So, I decided that as these were supposed to be uber-athletic crazy space elfs I'd chop some of them up and give them other dynamic poses. So, mixing the legs with those from the hellion and raider passenger sprue I made a whole load of crazy poses! And yes, it did involve chopping some eldar arms into three and pinning them back together. I'm a little nuts like that you see.....

I needed something for them to be athletic over, so I reasoned that they were attacking an Imperial Guard outpost and hence the fact they're leaping over things from the imperial guard tank sprue :)

Also attached is a photo of the hellions, which are "straight off the sprue", which was a nice change of pace after the wych conversions.

The Wolves reach 500

Little bit quieter this week with only 6 figures and a bit of scenery completed. In my defence I did have 3 days without painting this week. Well I think it's a pretty good excuse...

Anyway. I decided to stick to the Space Wolves and complete the 500 points so that at least they're useable. Evil Monkey and I are planning to go to Calneage in September and these chaps will be my 1/2 of the team up!

They're behind you...

Another weekend and another blitz of projects completed, started or somewhere in between!

(Pictures seem darker this week so either my camera hates the after midnight show or my eyes are going. Again.)

Whilst waiting for various glues to dry (more on that in a minute) I took the opportunity to complete the first 5 Wolf Scouts. 4 normal guys and 1 with a Meltagun are in my initial 500 points with the previously spotted Grey Hunters.

The Holy Wolf Brigade

OK so I wasn't expecting to finish them quite this quickly after the last post but that's 2011 for you!

I've used a mix of black lining and highlighting and washes to see what happens really; so consider this bunch my experimentation marines.