Hello all,
I’ve decided to try and get the Rebel Grots ready for the Fratris Salutem, a hobby event here in Maine scheduled for May. Allies are not allowed so the only way for me to field these guys is to knock out a full 1500 point army of them. It’s going to be a push but I’ve got my orks as a back up so the price of failure is naught but pride. I’ve buckled down over the last week and made some pretty good progress. The second infantry squad is complete and I’ve started on some tanks.
I’ve been carrying these two around for years and I FINALLY spent about 5 hours getting them done today. Meet Baphemut and Cassandra, my greater daemon and/or daemon prince model! Baph is an old-school GW minotaur I got for cheap (cuz he’s so old) and Cassy is an old-school Dark Elves slave girl. I just thought it’d be really cool to make this big blue monster with a hotty girl friend stretched out like a cat in heat on his base.
Games Workshop is cranking out the 6th edition codices and Tau has definitely been one many players were anxious for. As always I like to get a feel for initial impressions of a codex and then later on re-poll once the dust has settled. Considering how popular Tau are, I’m really hoping to get a lot of votes for this one. Don’t let me down ;)
Anyway, vote away on what you think of the new Tau codex.
It’s been a little over a month since I put up the poll asking what you all thought about the new Daemons codex. The results are interesting. So far it’s the lowest rated codex in 6th edition based on the polls I’ve done here anyway. Here’s the results.
In Part 1 (click to read) we find Volstag Dragonclaw, Space Wolf Scout, with no armor or weapons, up in the boughs of a tree with no memory of how he got there. He does remember being betrayed by the planet’s PDF and he remembers being tortured by a Night Lords apothecary. As these memories are coming back to him, a patrol of traitorous PDF troopers comes by, whom he has just dispatched…
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Hello all,
I’m still chugging along on Infantry Squad Yellow II for my Rebel Grots army. With the home improvement efforts wrapped up for not I have been able to make some decent progress this week. At this point I’m about 95% finished with the squad and expect to be done some time this week.
(image stolen from GW site, subject is Golden Demon winner from Adrian Bay)
The last of his scout pack, a lone wolf fights for survival and revenge against a band of Night Lords…
I wrote and submitted this story to the Black Library during its open submissions window last June. Since I haven’t heard anything in almost a year later, I’m guessing that I won’t. But rather than let this story go to waste, I thought I might as well share with the 40K blogosphere. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I bought a box full of ork boyz on Ebay a while back and finally decided to put some together for a 1000pt game this weekend. I bought them to be an ally mob for my Eldar and Dark Eldar – seemed like a good excuse to invest in some green brawlers. My list is basically a Warboss, a big mob of Boyz, and a unit of Kommandos to outflank or infiltrate with. This weekend I just needed to get 15 boyz with a nob done and I accomplished that and then some.
I’ve been working hard on the Fratris Salutem event for May 18th at Crossroad Games. Yesterday I got the master done for the winning team’s awards so now I can focus more on getting the missions completed.
I hope you guys don’t mind a little self-promotion, because… At long last, I have launched my Tarnish Kickstarter!
Although none of Grottrogg’s troops landed on the food production planet Malichor III some spores did reach the planet surface on the larger chunks of debris. As Grottrogg’s conquest spread across Malichor IV small bands of feral orks began to appear across Malichor III.
The tickets for the 40K event on May 18th, 2013 at Crossroad Games are now on sale. If you’re not sure what Fratris Salutem is you can get some more information regarding it over here. There will be 40 players, 20 per-side, and it will likely sell out. So, if you’re interested in attending then be sure to snag your ticket soon.
Hello all,
The home improvement efforts continue but I did manage to get some painting time in this week. I’m batch painting the grunts and weapon crew. So far I’ve made it through the skin tones and laid the base for the blacks and blues. It’s enough that they’re starting to take shape.
I know Rob @ Warhammer39,999 loves it when I do updates to models that have made seemingly little progress and all but here’s an update on my Heldrake :P Seriously though, I do these little updates to keep my motivation going. I often reach these points where I sit back and think, I’ve actually made some progress. This is one of those points.
I wanted the incredible firepower this contraption spits out (4 blast markers per turn) but didn’t really want to spend the money on the very expensive and bulky GW model. So I started figuring out how to make my own. I had access to lots of syringes (though not a drug addict), so I used a large syringe, sawed out the middle, sanded down the inner edges, and glued the ends back together, making the primary piece of my cannon. I then glued vehicle kit bits on to give it more character. The quadruple barrels are just drinking straws painted black with silver edges. For the track I used (you guessed it) epic-scale landraiders! Bought a handful of them for cheap on ebay. These I stuck together using paperclip clippings. The rocker in the middle is a turn-screw bit from my old desk (the one my then-girlfriend now-wife sat on when it was up on its side in a storage module, breaking it to smitherines – she’s not big, I swear, it was just a cheap desk). So for literally a few bucks I had myself a very workable and decent looking engine of destruction!
I absolutely love the Heldrake. It’s been one of my most consistently performing units game to game and I like the model as well. It has also been a model I have not been looking forward to painting because there’s a lot too it. I enjoy painting detailed and intricate models but this thing just has so much surface area that I know damn well it’s going to take me forever with what little time I’ve had lately for painting.
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