More Knights Angelus

I finished up 6 more necron wraiths for this weekend's AWC tournament and got right back on the Adepticon push!  I knocked out 6 more marines, which will finish up what I need for my 1,000 points for the team tournament.  Here are 3 heavy weapons, a flamer and two more bolters.

Additionally I think I forgot to post earlier pictures of my finished veterans.  These will double as either seargents, death company (if I'm running blood angels) or sternguard.  Multi purpose all the way!

Now onto trying to paint 1k worth of guard: 36 dudes, 5 tanks and a vendetta in two weeks.  Possible?  Probably not, but I'll try!

Techmarine on Bike with Conversion Beamer

Here is my crazy kitbash of a bunch of different kits to come up with a techmarine on bike with a conversion beamer.  It makes for a fun HQ that is fairly durable and can dish out some strength 10 goodness from across the board!  As all my bikes will be red in the new scheme, I went with the typical techmarine red armor.  My normal marines will have silver and I'll paint the librarian in blue.

Hopefully it doesn't look too goofy, I think it captures the feel without being overly crazy.

Next up, 8 marines!

Stormraven Finished!

Wow it has been a long time since I've posted.  It hasn't been due to a lack of hobby activity, I have just been an assembling machine.  I keep coming up with different army ideas and has created about 150+ primed models ready to be painted.  I'll try to post up over the next few days what I've been working on. 

Last night I finally finished my stormraven for the Adepticon team tournament. This was previously an assembled blood angels model.  I made the mistake of tearing off (rather clumsily) the icons on the side.  I jacked up the plating so bad, I tried to mask it with the grey knight books.  Still you can see where the plasticard was really ruined.  Ah well.  I'm pleased with how it painted up!

I think I'll add some sort of gold writing on the red portion on the wings.  It's begging for some sort of latin phrase.  I'll use this in my "universal" marines army so it can be used in any marine force.

Here's the giant list of things I need to get finished for Adepticon:

4 marines
1 techmarine on bike
6 necron wraiths

Secondarily, I'm going to try and get the guard portion done just to give myself something to strive for:

30 veterans
5 command squad
Marbo
Manticore
4 Chimeras
1 Vendetta

That'll be a bit of a stretch!  Can't wait for Adepticon, will be fun.  If you're playing in the 40k Friendly, I'll be there in costume to run the event along with my buddy Jeff!

In other distractions, I think I'm getting sucked into the SCA... too much hobby, so little time!

Drop Pods, Oh how I hate thee

I'm back!  I haven't disappeared from the blogosphere but have been lurking reading on all of the boards.  For the hobby side, I've been busy adding to my Necrons, but it really is uninspired painting, just getting extra units ready for the tournament scene.  Speaking of that, I've finally settled down on a list that seems to do well.  A little light on troops, but it packs a punch. 

As for painting, it's now crunch time to get everything ready for Adepticon.  Lucky for me the only thing I need to paint up is my 1k points of Knights Angelus for the team tournament.  My necrons are done for the singles, and I'll be running the 40k Friendly. 

On to my most hated miniature to paint, the drop pod.  It's so incredibly boring to paint. Tons of surface area so lots of coats of paint, line highlighting and black lining.  I suppose I could add some creative elements to it, but it sucks the creative life out of me.  Here's my first one done.  I'll probably end up painting 5 (gotta do odd #'s), but I only have to do 2 for Adepticon. 

The model definitely needs some exhaust / burn / weathering done to it.  After all, it has dropped from space.  But this will do for now. 

Here's what I have to get done for Adepticon:

10 tactical marines
5 Scouts
1 more drop pod
1 tech marine on bike
1 thunderfire cannon
1 ironclad dread

If it stops raining here in Chicago, I'll actually get to go outside and prime some miniatures.  Until then, I'll just work on the next boring pod!

Guardsman Test Model for Knights Angelus

My master plan is coming to fruition, a combined imperial force that has the same paint scheme. I finished up my test model for my guardsmen.  I figure I'll be doing 200+ of these so I better like how they turn out.  The model has the same scheme as my marines for my Knights Angelus. 

I did a bit of fat fingering on the freehand on the shoulder pads.  I really need to go with a finer brush so I can get the detail.  All of the guardsmen will have the dark angels symbol on one pad and the inquisition symbol on the other.

Here's a photo of the guardsmen next to the starter box marine and my robed "elite" troop.

Pretty happy with how it came out overall. Now it's time to lock in the chimera chassis color scheme as well as get cracking on the drop pods for Adepticon!

Hobby Sales: Dragonforge & Battlefoam

It's that time of year for holiday sales.  I wanted to give everyone a heads up on a couple of places I've taken advantage of visiting.  As you can see by my latest imperial project, I've been basing my new miniatures with Dragonforge.  They're doing a buy 3 get 1 free.  It's a heck of a good deal and they honestly put some of the best bases out there.  They wrap up the sale at midnight on the 25th.

I picked up some more of the Sanctuary themed bases.  Now it's time to get priming models before it gets too ridiculously cold outisde!

The other site is Battlefoam.  I have 3 shelves in my basement entirely stacked with their stuff.  They're running a 25% off sale, which is also pretty amazing.  I grabbed some flyer transports for vendettas and storm ravens... yes I'll be painting those up in the near future.

I just got over a nasty flu which put me out of commission for a few days.  It sucks when you have all this "free" time and all you can do is stare at the TV.  It also meant I missed out on a tasty Thanksgiving dinner.  Ah well, at least it meant that I didn't gain the holiday pounds!

Stay tuned for some infantry updates for the Knights Angelus!

Dread Smash!

I finished the first two of my four dreads I'll be using in my Blood Angels / GK list.  The furiouso I had already modeled for another army, so the legs were positioned for a certain base. I had to pull it off that base and transpose it on one of my ruins bases.

The "toes" of the dread are a little unnatural on the pillar but I still think it does the job.  Nothing like 3 flame templates on an armor 13 platform to drop in and mince some infantry!  I think I'll add some static grass in the "dirt" area of the rubble to break up the basing.

My second dread was one of three riflemen.  I decided for both this one and the other that I had to do some other color to break up the model.  I tried going with blue cabling to mix things up a bit.  Blue is the accent color I use for power weapons, lenses, etc. so I figured it would work on this model too.

Another thing to break up the basing on this miniature is to add some dead leaves.  It shouldn't dominate the stone basing but it will help break things up.

I'm almost finished up with my 10 robed marines that will be used as death company / sternguard / vets!  I should have them finished Friday night.

My plan is Saturday and Sunday to get a lot of gaming in.  I'm debating for Adepticon whether to go with my Necrons or the drop pod blood angels / GK henchmen list. Decisions, decisions...