Almost done!

 

 

Almost done with what I brought out here to paint and what I have had shipped out.  It has been great to get so much done but I have to say that this last squad was a little difficult to finish.  Power Armour usually get a little tedious once you have painted so much of it, but they turned out pretty good.  I had fun working on the shoulders and trying out the glazing method to get a good change in colour.  Its hard to see in the picture but I work with what I have.  Hell I've even had to borrow the camera to take all of the pictures so far.  For this squad I've painted them up with mainly a Black Legion feel but I've painted a purple/pink onto one of the shoulder pads.  After playing with CSM's in my army lists with the new 6th edition rules I thought it would be fun to thrown in a Slaanesh marked unit and try them out.  I've also mixed in pistols, bolters and close combat weapons because I'm going to give them the full load out.

 

 

The last thing I would like to share is something that I have had done up while I'm here.  I have always wanted to get something done for the Gaming Club back home and could never decide on what.  Before I left home, during a paint night at a friends, I brought up the idea of a "Challenge" system.  The idea is that someone starts with a club "item" and signs his/her name on it.  He/She can be challenged by anyone else in the club once a week.  The Champion has to accept as long as life doesn't get in the way.  The two players decide on a points value and play their game.  If the Champion wins he/she keeps the "item".  If the challenger wins he/she takes the "item" and signs it.  I got the idea from one of my favourite podcasts and they use a hoodie. 

 

When I brought up the idea of the hoodie at paint night I was given the idea of a banner instead.  What a great idea!  Now where to get something like that made.  Well I found someone out here that can make pretty much anything I could want so I designed up a banner for the club and while I was at it I designed one for myself as well.  They both turned out great.  I was hoping to get the club banner the same length as mine but there was a miscommunication.  Once I'm home I will mount them both with some doweling and a base and we will be good to start the Challenges.

 

Get ready guys because I plan on holding onto this for a while!!!



Success!



2 Months and Counting!

I've had the chance to play a few games now and as the time goes by we get a few more models in and painted.  I figured I would share what I have been able to get done in the past 2 months.  Now to decide on a way to get it all home.

First up are the cultists.  These were the minis I brought with me and started off with.  One set is painted up to go with my Khorne army and the second is painted for my renegades/nurgle army.

 

 

I have had the Warmachine objective markers for quite some time and I've finally gotten around to painting them.  I don't play the game anymore but the objectives look awesome.

 

Last but definitely not least I have painted and added to my collection Abaddon, Huron, a Chaos Terminator Sorcerer, and a second Nurgle Oblit.

I have started work on a 10 man unit of Chaos Space Marines for the Black Legion.  They all have the full load out with close combat weapons, bolt pistols and bolters.  I have finished 6 of them and once I finish the squad hopefully I'll get a game in with them and post some pictures.

The last thing that I worked on, and I couldn't wait to get this model, was the Khorne Lord of Skulls.  I was really excited to see the new rule set for Apocalypse and some of the models that followed.  I have heard a lot of people moan over this model but I like it and can't wait to get it home and hit it with the airbrush.  I have fully magnetised it for ease of transport, painting and gaming.



 

This model was fun and easy to put together and is covered in detail.  GW loves their skulls and so do I.  Stay tuned so see the last bit of stuff I get pained while I'm away from home.



Out Of The Country and Making Do!

Water was consumed in the making of this Battle Report!

 

 Chaos Space Marines VS Space Wolves

Recently a friend of mine started getting into Warhammer 40k and in so doing has started collecting Space Wolves.  He has only purchased a few models so far but in an effort to show him the game and teach him not only the rules of 40k but the rules of his army we have been getting together in the evenings to play some games.  The armies are 1000pts and all but his HQ are proxy water bottle lids.  To make the 1000pt mark I also have a few proxy units.  Here are the armies for the game.

 

Space Wolves:

HQ:

(1) Canis Wolfborn

Elite:

(2) 3 x Wolfguard all with Power Swords - all attached to the two Grey Hunter and Blood Claw packs

Troops:

(3) 10 x Fenresian Wolves

(3) 10 x Fenresian Wolves

(4) 7 x Grey Hunters

(4) 7 x Grey Hunters

(5) 5 x Blood Claws – one with a flamer

Fast Attack:

(6) 3 x Thunderwolf Cavalry – one with a Power Sword

Heavy:

(7) 5 x Long Fangs with 4 Heavy Bolters

 

 

Chaos Space Marines:

HQ:

(1) Chaos Sorcerer in Terminator Armour – VotLW, Lvl3, Mark of Tzeench, Force Axe, Sigil of Corruption, Spell Familiar

Troops:

(2) 20 x Cultists – 2 x Flamers, Champion with Shotgun

(3) 20 x Cultists – 2 x Heavy Stubbers, 17 x Autoguns

(4) 5 x Chaos Space Marines – VotLW, Champion with Power Sword, 1 x Plasmagun

(5) 5 x Thousand Sons – VotLW, Champion with Doombolt

Fast Attack:

(6) 5 x Warp Talons – VotLW, Champion with Gift of Mutation

Heavy:

(7) 1 x Obliterator – VotLW, Mark of Nurgle

As you can see we are working with what we have.  After an evening of watching movies and turning out some oh so awesome terrain we were ready for some games.  Our table of choice is a Triwall shipping container which is aprox. 48”x40”.  Big enough for smaller games.  So with our armies built and the bottle caps ready to go we rolled for mission and set up.

We rolled “Big Guns Never Tire”.  I love this one!  For set up we got the standard 12” deployment and we rolled up 5 x objectives.  I only have 3 here that I painted so the other two are.....you guessed it.....BOTTLE CAPS!  However, with these ones we coloured the tops black.  For Warlord Traits Mike rolled the Tenacity Trait, I think that’s what it’s called, where his warlord and retinue get the Feel No Pain rule when within 3” of an objective.  I rolled the “Black Crusader” Warlord Trait which gives my Warlord and his unit Preferred Enemy Space Marines.  We forgot Night Fight and we skipped the Mysterious Objectives for this one.

I won the roll off and decided to set up and go first.  Mike did not steal the initiative.







You can’t really see the objectives in this picture but you’ll get a better idea of where they are in later ones.  I have one in my deployment zone that is right behind the Tim Hortons Tower of DOOOOOOMMMM.  There is one next to the building on my right, one in the middle, one in front of Mikes centre building and one on a building off to my left.  I deployed my Thousand Sons on the left flank to push them into the building.  My Sorcerer set up with close combat cultists to move forward with them.  The Chaos Space Marines were placed behind the tower to hold the objective and the “Shooty” cultists were deployed on the right so they could push forward towards the building and hold the objective located there.  My Warp Talons and Obliterator were held in reserve to Deep Strike.

Before I move on the Mike’s deployment I would like to share another improvisation of ours.

 

 

Now on to Mike’s set up.  On his right flank he put a pack of his Fenrisian Wolves out front to shield his Blood Claws.  On his left flank he put his second Fenrisian Wolf pack out in front of one of his Grey Hunter Packs.  In the centre holding the objective he has his second Grey Hunter pack and his Long Fangs set up in the building.  To his right of the building and in behind the Grey Hunters he has Canis with his wolves and the Thunderwolf Cavalry.

Ready for Turn 1!



Chaos Turn 1

Go forth my minions!  Starting off the turn I cast Endurance on my autogun cultists then moved them up to the objective trying to stay at a decent charge range from Mikes wolves.  My close combat cultists moved up to the low wall also trying to stay at a decent charge range from the wolves and get a cover save when the Long Fangs start their torrent of fire.  I pushed my Thousand sons up into the building to get ready for the Cavalry and Blood Claws.  My CSM squad stayed on the objective behind the Tower.  To end it off my autogun Cultists with Relentless granted from the Endurance spell fired on Mikes Grey Hunters on the middle objective killing two.  They passed their leadership check.

 

Space Wolves Turn 1

Mike kept his wounded Grey Hunter Pack on the middle objective to hold and shoot.  The second Grey Hunter Pack also stayed still deciding on letting the wolves move up in their stead.  Both packs of Fenresian Wolves moved up intent on getting to grips with the cultists.  The Blood Claw Pack moved up behind the wolves using them and the building to their front as cover.  Canis and his Thunderwolf Cavalry also moved up behind the smaller wolves.  The Grey Hunter packs fired on the autogun Cultists killing only a few as their Feel No Pain kept them alive.  The Long Fangs targeted the close combat Cultists and were also only able to kill a couple around their cover save.  The Fenresian Wolves being within charge range went for it.  The ones coming for the autogun Cultists needed 10” and were able to roll exactly 10”.  On the Overwatch I only had to kill two of the wolves and they would fail the charge.  Sadly I was only able to kill 1.  Here they come!  The second pack coming in for the close combat cultists only needed 7” and of course that’s what Mike rolled.  I concluded my Overwatch and killed just enough of the wolves with my flamers that they failed the charge.  Whew!  That was close. In the ensuing assault phase Mikes wolves kill all but 6 of my autogun cultists.  I roll their leadership check........SNAKE EYES!  Woo Hoo!

 

 

Chaos Turn 2

I start off by casting Endurance on my close combat Cultists.  After successfully stopping the charge of the second wolves pack my CC Cultists move off to save the other Cultist squad from certain death and the Sorcerer Lord moves into the building joining the Thousand Sons to prepare for the inevitable attack on that flank.  For reserves I was able to bring in my Warp Talons.  I placed them right in behind the two Grey Hunter packs and beside the Long Fangs.  Lucky for me, being so close to enemy units and the edge of the table, I rolled a hit for their deep strike.  I was within 6” for all 3 squads so Mike started rolling for the Blind rule.  All said and done both Grey Hunter packs were blind but the Long Fangs were able to pass their check.  The Thousand Sons, Sorcerer, and Chaos Marines all fired their bolters into the Fenresian Wolf pack and killed all but one.  My “choppy” Cultists charged into combat with the “shooty” Cultists and wolves.  All of the Fenresian Wolves were killed but I lost a few cultists from each squad in the combat.  Everyone consolidated and got ready for the Space Wolves turn.

 

Space Wolves Turn 2

Having both of his Grey Hunter packs blinded hurt Mike on this turn.  He moved one squad up a bit to get within rapid fire range of my cultists and the second squad moved up to shoot at either the cultists or the Thousand Sons if need be.  The Thousand sons were going to be a problem if his Thunderwolf Cavalry somehow failed their charge.  The Long Fangs stood still and the Blood Claws moved up around the building to support the Thunderwolf Cav in close combat.  Mikes luck did not pick up during the turn.  His one Grey Hunter pack double tapped the cc cultists and with Endurance on them he was only able to kill 3.  The Long Fangs fired at the Thousand Sons and only killed one and the second Grey Hunter pack fired at the Warp Talons killing one.  Not looking to good!  To really bring home the bad luck the Thunderwolf cav failed their charge and in the ensuing overwatch from the Sons lost a man.  The Blood Claws were just out of charge range.

 

Chaos Turn 3

The Sorcerer cast Endurance once again on the Cultists because they would be going up against the Grey Hunters.  I was able to bring on my Obliterator this turn which saw him land in the open off to the left of the Grey Hunter pack on the objective.  With the Thunderwolf Cavalry and Blood Claws stuck out in the open the Thousand Sons and Sorcerer stayed put and prepared to fire.  The Chaos Marines moved back behind the tower so they would a lot harder to hit by the Long Fangs and the Warp Talons moved up to assault a Grey Hunter pack.  In the shooting phase the Thousand Sons with the help of Doombolt and and the Assault 3 AP 2 spell (can’t remember the name) from the Sorcerer saw the Thunderwolf Cavalry dead and Canis’s wolves dead.  The Obliterator fired at the Grey Hunters and didn’t cause one wound.  The cc Cultists and Warp Talons assaulted the second Grey Hunters pack and the combat was bloody.  The Warp Talon champion challenged the Wolf Guard and killed him.  One Warp Talon and a handful of Cultists were dead at the end of the combat along with all but one of the Grey Hunters.  So we stuck it out to fight another round.

 

Space Wolves Turn 3

Mike is now between a rock and a hard place.  His Blood Claws move up to the building ensuring an easy charge and Canis also moves up.  This time he is going to make it.  The free moving Grey Hunters move up to the close combat ready to save the remaining member of the other squad.  The Long Fangs fire at the obliterator hoping to drop him before he gets within charge range.  Still no luck.  Not one wound.  The Blood Claws fire their pistols into the Thousand Sons killing one then charge in along with Canis.  The Grey Hunter pack charges into the Cultists and Warp Talons.  The Warp Talon Champion challenges again and kills the Wolf Guard in the combat.  The other two Warp Talons are killed in the combat along with a couple more cultists.  Thank you endurance!  The remaining member of the other Grey Hunter pack is killed along with a few from the other squad.  Chaos wins the combat and the Grey Hunters hold.  Canis challenges the Sorcerer but is on his last wound and is killed while the blood claws kill all but the champion of the Thousand Sons while losing a few of their own.

 

Turn 4 sees the end of the game.  The Obliterator makes the building with the Long Fangs and after shooting at them is able to charge in and tie them up.  The Cultists and Warp Talon finish off the Grey Hunters.  The Cultists consolidate back onto an objective and the Warp Talon moves up to the building to charge in and finish off the Long Fangs.  The Sorcerer and Thousand Son Champion kill off the remaining Blood Claws.
 

Mikes army building is getting a lot better and he is starting to figure out the strengths and weaknesses of his army.  My army did much better than I thought it would but I think that has a lot to do with the bad luck Mike had throughout the game.  That ends the very long BatRep and I hope you all enjoyed the write up.  Stay tuned for more bottle cap throw downs!

Keeping a Blog?!



I keep a Blog like I keep a Journal. Not at all! It’s only been 10 months no big deal. I don't even have a good excuse. I've been busy sure but holy crap! Well let’s see if I can get this going again. It has been a very productive 10 months at least. I have gotten my Khorne army painted up and I’ll post some pictures later on. I even added a Khorne Lord on Juggernaught to the army which was awesome to model and paint. It also doesn't hurt that he is a bad ass on the table. My World Eaters have made an appearance in 2 tournaments so far this year. I didn't do too hot in the first tournament and I was 1 point away from winning the 2nd one. I have also started painting all of the extra Chaos Space Marine stuff I have around the house for the Black Legion supplement. At this time I’m out of the country on business but that hasn't stopped me. I have brought some stuff with me to work on during my down time and I will post pictures of that as I finish it. Before I go I would also like to apologize to zweischneid26. By the time I saw your comment it was too late. I can't get on your site from here so I don't know if you used the picture or not but if you did that’s great. Stay tuned for a very "interesting" battle report.

Its a Bird! Its a Plane! No wait it's..it's......Trogdor?

Well its been a month filled with red and brass paint.  So much damn red and brass!  On top of all that, winter is now officially here.  After going back to my parents for Remembrance Day I spent approx. 2 hrs shoveling the damn snow out of my driveway.  I love winter but I could definitely do without the foot and a half snow fall/drifts in the driveway.  

As far as painting and modeling goes it has been a fairly productive month.  For the 40k Radio Freeboota Motivational Challenge I pledged my Helldrake and finished it last week.  It was a fairly slow process and pretty tedious at times but I love the way it turned out.  I still have to decide on what to do with the base.  I have an old OOP Rhino model that I was thinking of half melting half wrecking on the base but im still a little torn.  I'm also busy with a few other projects at the moment so for now the base will stay unfinished.  Here is the completed Helldrake.

Since completing the Helldrake I have moved on to trying to get some of the Dark Vengeance stuff done.  Here is the lord that I finished a few weeks ago and now im working on the Chosen.

Along with the Chosen I have built 2 different squads of havocs.  I have always wanted some but I couldn't bring myself to buy the metal ones.  They kinda looked crappy and they cost a fortune to get 4 of one kind.  So I went on ebay and bought some Space Marine lascannons and coverted 4 heavy bolters to autocannons.  Now I need to get them primed and painted.  Because I have a Nurgle army and a Khorne army I couldn't decide which paint scheme to go with.  I decided to go with Black Legion colors for both squads.  They are easy to paint and add to my armies and this way they act as detachments to both armies.  It sounds fitting to me seeing as how Nurgle doesn't employ a lot of heavy weapons and Khorne is all about close combat.  Here is where I stand with them so far.

Last but not least here is something I have been working on for a friend of mine.  In my last post I mentioned that this friend had given me the new Chaos Warpsmith model and for that I was going to build him a model.  The model he wanted built is a counts as Huron Blackheart.  I didn't have a helmetless head to use so I had to opt for the one with the mask piece.  I used an ork choppa for the power axe and a raptor lightning claw for the claw/flamer hand.  I also had a really old Ral Partha model that looked perfect for the Hymadra (pretty sure I spelled that wrong but oh well).  I think it turned out pretty good and once painted will look pretty bad ass.

Tonight a friend and I are going to try out some casting.  We shall see how that goes.  Hopefully we have everything we need but I guess we'll see.  Also tomorrow I'm going to get in a game with my Epidemius/Chaos Space Marine list.  I know its a bit of a net list but I have always wanted to be able to use the Epidemius model in my army and who doesn't want to use a bunch of zombies as well.  Hopefully I remember to take some shots of the game and I can do a BatRep with the next post.  That's it for now.  Talk to you guys soon.

Red Paint for the Blood God?!!!!

Red Paint for the Blood God?!!!!

This picture just speaks for itself

This past weekend was a very productive and game filled one.  Prairiecon held their "Gamesday" on Saturday which is something I usually try to make it to.  A full day of gaming, drinking coffee and hanging out with other nerds?  SOLD!!!  As long as its not the smelly nerds.  You know who you are!  

We started the day off with a Megabattle.  Chaos vs. the world.  I of course played on the winning side and by that I mean the Chaos side.  Of course I was to immersed in dominating the damn Dark Eldar across the table that I didn't take any pictures.  That took us until supper time and after some wings and much needed beer we finished the night off with a 2 vs 2 Warhammer Fantasy battle.  Its always fun to break out my Ogres.

Gaming wasn't the only thing that I enjoyed on Saturday.  I was also able to pick up this little beauty.

 On top of that a friend of mine brought me the new Warpsmith.  Oh man what cool models.  I can't wait to try them out on the table.  So Sunday saw me putting these two together and getting them ready for primer and paint.  

 I really wanted to try and get a different look for the Heldrake as the picture on the box just didn't do it for me.  However, as I opened up the box and started putting it together I started liking it more and more.  Its big and only being 2 sprues its hard to justify the price of this thing but man its going to look pretty bad ass on the table.  

So like I said I wanted to try and convert the look of the Heldrake a bit while I was putting it together but they made this guy hard to change.  Without a ton of cutting and molding there wasn't much I could do.  Im ok at converting but this guy looks pretty damn good the way he is.  I just angled his neck and head a bit and put him at a bit of an angle to give him a more predatory look.

The Warpsmith I'm really happy with.  I had to heat up some of the resin pieces to get the bends out of them (friggin finecast) and position the arms properly but other than that he was really easy to put together.

With the Warpsmith and Heldrake built I moved on to finishing my October motivational challenge and finish the paint job on my Chaos Rhino.  It went pretty quick and here is the outcome.

I really like the look of the Rhino and I love painting red but I don't know what I think of the pealed paint on the bottom of the sides.  I think I'm going to "mud" the track and sides up a bit to mask it a little.  It kind of has to much of a comic book feel.  What do you guys think?  Right now its going in the case as finished and I'll take it out and touch it up once I decide what I'm going to do. 

Well that was my weekend.  Awesome!  Thanks to all the guys and gals that participated in the 40k and Fantasy battle.  Also a special thanks to Maxx Collectibles for supplying us with gaming tables and terrain, and of course to Eye Opener for supplying me with my new Heldrake.  I can't wait for the next Gamesday.  See you all there!

Project Chaos! Still Kickin!

Project Chaos!  Still Kickin!

So it looks like I kinda suck at this whole Blogging thing.  Come on give me a break its only been what....1....2....oh 4 months.  Well at least I can say I have been busy those few months.  Oh no that's not an excuse.  Busy has nothing to do with work.  When I say busy I mean I have been building and painting my ass off.  So in this post I'd like to look at some of the things I have done this past while and what massive projects are in my future.  Lets begin!

I last left you with the Khorne Land Raider that I had just completed.  Well my Khorne army has seen some love this past little while.  I have recently finished a 10 man Berzerker Squad, a Khorne Terminator squad, and a Khorne Biker Lord.

Up first is the Berzerker squad.  I had forgotten how tediouse and dragged out painting 10 power armour marines can be.  I haven't had to do this for a while and i'll have a lot more to do in the future.

Next up is the Terminators.  Thank you Forge World.  I love these models and everyone of them was fun to paint.

Last up for Khorne, the Biker Lord.  This guy will probably also see the table as just a Champion but either way he will be a lot of fun to field.

Another project that has taken up a lot of my time this past year is my Chaos Renegades army.  I finished painting the wheeled Chimera and the last 3 Sentinels and thought I was done that army.  Well it turns out I'm addicted, go figure, so I'm never done.  

 

After playing with the army 2 months ago and having my ass thoroughly handed to me I decided to beef the it up.  As of right now I only have pics of the finished Chimera, but I have recently scratch built a Basilisk tank with the left over tank tracks from my Chimera kit, finished modeling 3 x Lascannon crew, and with some awesome minis out of the Dark Vengeance box set I have added 20 x Mutants with autoguns (Cultists).

Here is the Sentinels and the finished Chimera!

Now last but definitely not least is the Dark Vengeance Box Set.  I picked this up on its release date and i'm really glad I did.  The models in this box set are amazing and have really helped flesh out some of my armies and units.  Not to mention the great Dark Angels minis and the Limited Edition Chaplain that came with the set.  I have finally finished putting all of the models together, basing the cultists and priming all of the chaos models.

Out of the entire set I have only painted one model.  I finished the Chaplain the other day after an entire evening of just painting.  I started and couldn't stop.  This was the first time I have painted such a dark green and I really enjoyed trying to get it the way I like.

I was all gung ho to start painting the Dark Angels squads that I have and the new Chaos Codex came out.  Well consider the Dark Angels on the back burner.  With the new Chaos codex out I have been going over it like crazy and I have pulled out my two chaos armies to get a look at what I have and what I want to add to them.  

 

So I picked up a copy of the new codex on Sunday and Monday night I had built 3 more squads of 10 Chaos Space Marines, primed all chaos models that needed it and actually broke out my airbrush to get some red on all of that Khorne goodness.

Now I'm on to "Project Chaos".  Its time to get some paint on the Khorne units and I am going to keep my cultists and two squads of Chaos Space Marines neutral and paint them Black Legion colors.  Here is what the future holds for me!

That's it for now.  I'm going to try really hard to keep you all posted as I get things done and try out some new army lists against the rif raf out here.  I hope you enjoyed the new finished pieces and the next thing on the paint table is a Rhino to go with the Berzerkers.