A Stabbin

Continuing my Assassin building I have a Callidus assassin. This based on a hasslefree miniture, some Lara Croft -esque type person. I added a massive sword and generally made her look more 40k ish. I was going to add a bunch of inquisition symbols and trinkets but I thought that it looked better without all those extra bits...

Quite a cool and elegant mini I think. She can also double up as a death cult assassin for that inquisitorial warband that I will get round to one day.

Although looking at her again I'm thinking that her gun needs to be beefed up.

Thanks for looking.

A Shootin

I decided to build a bunch of assassins. One of each flavour. I used chaos cultists as the main body then added some scion bits and pieces,

Here is my version of a vindicare assassin...

The initial build

I added a greenstuff hood / mask type thing

And a knife

Thanks for looking!

Stuttering Progress

So I've had what turned out to be a sinus infection which meant that I was feeling pretty grim for the last few weeks. 
Anyway enough moaning! I did some pretty serious airbrushing over that time and managed to basecoat most of those guardsmen from a few posts back.

Box of guard!

Still loads of detail to do, notably the red on the guns plus highlighting and the rest of the usual stuff, but you get the drift. I must admit that I am pretty intimidated about painting the character types! 

Also, a question to you airbrushers... 

During use I quite frequently get spurts of water out of the nozzle, which is incredibly frustrating since it messes up what i have been working on. Now my compressor does have a moisture trap on it, and I find that there is a load of condensation in there by the time I finish a session. So my question is how moist (fnar fnar) does yours get after and during use? I'm thinking this is the root of my problems. 

Any thoughts would be appreicated!

Thanks for reading,

Al

Plasma Cannon Servitors

I built a pair of plasma cannon servitors. Their plasma cannons are massive! Possibly a bit too big.

Here they are at first...

Quite like the cutting blade on the dude on hte left

 And then I got the greenstuff out and they ended up looking like...

Thanks for reading,

Al

Creed. But not Creed

I kit kitbashed a dude whos gonna be my Creed counts as. 

I used various Scion bits for this guy. I means that set is brilliant. I figured that Creed and Yarrick are models that cost best part of a tenner each so it made sense to buy a kit that had the potential to build tons of stuff. So I did!

The conversion itself was pretty basic, I equipped him with a couple of pistols and used a different head. Maybe a space marine scout (I dunno I'm no headologist). I can't remember where I saw it down but I robbed another idea where the shoulder mounted tracker doo dad is actually tracking where one of the weapons is pointing.

Thanks for reading,

Al

A Game!

The other month I actually got a game of 7th edition in. The photos I took don't really warrant a battle report but here are a few thoughts..

I brought my fledgling Imperial Guard. A significant proportion were only undercoated, which is a bit of shame but I really wanted to use them in anger. I brought most of a platoon, some vets in chimera and  the leman russ variant with a plasma cannon (cunningly disguised as a demolisher though...)

Ste brought a mixture of Imperial Fists and Ultramarines with plenty of forgeworld bits thrown in. Man that guy can paint. 

So we rolled for missions and deployment  and the rest of it. Plus we were using tactical objectives and the like. Here is a picture of deployment...

Ready to roll! 

 Also take note of the awesome board! Ste's impressive handiwork once more. Got to say that those tiles weigh a surprising amount once a bunch of sand and paint is applied.

Also it was a proper game of floorhammer! last time I played like this would have been 20 years ago or something, and unfortunately my knees don't work that well any more.

The game progressed like this...

• Ste marched towards my position in a relentless manner
• I managed to take down his assault squad early on
• Most of my blobbed infantry squad squad got whittled away by that massive forgeo tank in the middle
• I popped the rhino early on meaning a long walk for the marines
• I spent ages shooting that iron clad dread without doing anything. It eventually marched forwards and took down the remains of the blob squad and my Leman Russ tank. Eventually my fortifications took it down 
• The heavy weapon squad was worn away before finally succumbing.
• One of my two psykers managed to hold up the tactical marines by doing some mad power stuff and charging in like a boss
• Terminators deep stuck in quite near the end (unlucky reserve rolls) and promptly took out my wyvern
• I used some order or something to allow my vets to come in in his rear and do some damage. What really happened is I disembarked them and they got torn to shreds.
• I brought on a plasma gun squad quite late to secure an objective in my deployment zone,

In the end it was quite close, I think Ste won by 2 points or there abouts. What did I learn:

• Psykers good
• Orders good
• Bring more tanks
• Don't get out of Chimera in front of rapiers and massive anti infantry tanks
• Find more cover (this table was very open I think)

All in all a great Sunday afternoon!

Post game carnage. My few survivors hiding in the corner!

Thanks for reading,

Al

Gamesday 2014

Made the Sunday morning trip to a very misty Coventry to check out this years Gamesday to indulge in hobby stuff. Overall a really good day was had.

The good...

• Bought some stuff
• Golden demon stuff was cool
• FW stuff was cool
• The two or three massive displays were brilliant. Very inspiring.
• Thought the venue was quite chilled out, maybe the move to two days means that it wasn't stupid busy all day.
• Free car parking!
• The demo pods worked well.

The bad..

• No Armies on Parade. Really missed this.
• Bought too much stuff. But saying that not everything was there to buy, I fancied the Ork codex and a box of wracks, but no dice.
• No where to sit off and chill
• Lack of bins meaning rubbish piling up on tables
• Hardly any classic stuff. Previous years had cabinets everywhere overflowing with cool old stuff, Not this year.
• My mate whining about his trousers. All day. Gees.
• Not many big displays.

Some crap photos of good stuff..

Love this boarding action stuff. They keep on adding more and it gets better each time I see it.

Only ended up taking a couple of photos of the new Calth board. Brilliant stuff. It has a train! I wish I knew what the containers were. I wonder if a bunch were cast for this project or something...

Industrial Ad Mech stuff. Great.

Pretty much the only old school thing that I thought was worth taking a snap of

Finally I took a bunch of photos of the my favourite Golden Demon entries...

Splosh

Brilliant.

Love the creepy thing in a tank

Heres Johnny

Brilliant track spin

Mad freehand stuff