From out of nowhere... A Dark Angels Assault Company appears

Had a flurry of activity this weekend and both started and finished (almost - still need to decide what to do for the HQ) a whole Dark Angels Assault Company, using Troublemaker Games 'Novan Elite Forefront' Minis as proxies.

I decided to proxy the models for a few reasons - 1) availability 2) cost and 3) he verity of poses to break up the monotony.

Pretty happy overall, especially considering the time spent on them.

Rhinos are pretty redundant as I plan on chucking these guys out of Thunderhawks or riding in Razorbacks for the most part, but still, hand to have them in case the military budget doesn't stretch that far!

Next challenge will be to see if I can do the Devastator company with the same ease - although I might start on the support detachments (predators, whirlwinds etc) in the mean time while i wait for my Troublemaker indiegogo pledge to arrive to give me the troops i need.

Post Holiday inspiration - Epic Land Raiders

I seem to always start posts with apologies of lack of posts, but hey ho!

Apologies for the absence - I've not got a massive amount of new stuff to show for it either, although I have been playing a lot, so guess that's something!

Here's some old school "rogue trader" era pattern Blood Angels land raiders - i'm toying with the idea of having each detachment of the company in a slightly different scheme, to show their elite status and that they have been around for a while!

These are my first attempt, and I'm fairly happy, might add some more bits later (finishing off with flags etc is always the part i miss, but love the old white dwarf look it gives)

So the plans for the remainder of the year (and beyond realistically) are;

Bump my current Blood Angels detachments up to company size (Terminator, Devestator, Assault, Tactical, Bike), Add to the Death company and do some Veteren Assault troops, Furioso dreads etc.
Re-base the old guys (currently on goblin green bases, which looks kind of cool in an old school way, but its a bit boring)

Finish my Dark Angels army (Deathwing, Ravenwing, Battle Company, support units) - mostly base coated, just need detailing.

Finish the Adeptus Titanicus battle group - got 8 Warlord titans, 4 loyalist, 4 Traitor - i've collected all the bits together, just need to decide some paint schemes and crack on.

Orks! - my perpetual back-burner project, still got all the basic clans (aside from Bad Moons, Kult of Speed) to paint, and a boat load of support too.

As well as this i'm still hunting for some bits on eBay and the forums to complete my Ad-mech force...

No worries eh, easy!

Update: The re basing has started! Definite improvement, or waste of time?

Nobody expects the Epic Inquisition!

Ok, i'm in a bad state of affairs now; I'm collecting more and painting less, meaning its a daunting task to start anything new.

The plan is to speed paint/batch paint as much as I can in the next few weeks (starting with the Dark Angels - Deathwing, Ravenwing, Assault and Devestator companies to start) - I'm hoping the quality won't suffer too much, but at the end of the day these guys are going to be playing pieces, and aren't for sitting pretty on my shelf.

In the mean time - I painted up the Chimera/Chimedon proxies from SCP to act as my Ad-Mech assault troop carriers - pretty pleased with them, although they are pretty big compared to the GW ones.

Out of boredom i painted an Inquisitor stand, as I think I have a battle with chaos coming up at some point in the near future i thought i should be prepared!

I'm thinking of doing some Grey Knights too.

So anyhoo, he's whats new;

Waaaaagghhhh!!! - Epic Orks

Once again its been a while since my last update, but rest assured, i've been a busy bee with painting - i'd go as far as to say that i've bitten off more than i can chew (again!)

So, here's some snaps off my Ork horde so far (in honour of painting my Spleen rippas today) - I've not really concentrated on them much, just picking off a few units now and again when i get bored of painting the browns and greys of my IG force! I got a bunch of them painted on eBay a long time ago, and they were portioned up for E40k or Epic Armageddon, so i've spent a bit of time sourcing and painting the additional missing models to make the squads up to SM2/NetEpic spec.

As it stands there is;

Bad Moon Clan
Bad Moon Wierd boy Tower
Bad Moon Stompa mob

Kult of Speed
War track detachment
Scrocha detachment
Spleen rippas

Storm Boyz
Goff Stompas
Goff Dreds

If i'm being self critical i'd say i wasn't paying the orks as much attention to detail as these great sculpts deserve, so hopefully i'll sort that out, and i need to make more banners/flags for them.

I've got an absolute mountain of green skins to paint, but i think i'll prioritise the Goff Clan, Evil Sunz Clan, Fighta Bommas, Flak Wagons and Gargant next!

In other news - i've got a load of imperial flier proxies to paint - so expect some pics of the test models soon.

Also - happy birthday to this blog, its been a fun year of getting back in to the hobby!

Epic - Troublemaker games proxies

Finally got my hands on some Troublemaker Games models to use as proxies for my Ad-Mech tech priests/sevitors and my Imperial Guard Leviathan command centre.

I think these models are great, and my rust job painting them probably doesn't do them justice.

really looking forward to getting my hands on my 'Wave 4' indiegogo pledges from the last campaign.

In other news i've speed painted a whole bunch of IG in preparation for a 2nd play test of the 'New Points Forumla' for NetEpic Gold.

From the first game it is obvious that the cheapness of IG infantry and tank companies can give you a real horde army, unfortunately at the moment the cost of taking heavy artillery and titans/praetorians is pretty insane, in my last game my opponent had 18 more activations than me, fielding a massive IG force against my small, specialised Blood Angels and Warlord titan, so we will see how it plays with the tables turned!

Epic - Reavers!

A quick snap of the Reaver Titan Battle group as they currently stand - fully magnetised to take any load out for any mission!

I'm debating adding a few more details, maybe some decals or stripes but I'm pretty happy with them being battle ready now (maybe I'll add these details after they've had a few battles as campaign medals?!)

Next up - Still waiting on my Troublemaker games order of Ad-Mech and IG stuff, so in the mean time i'll maybe finish off some Orks.

I've also got a hankering to start an Iron Warriors Chaos army - as i'm not bothered about daemons, but like the IW's lore and some of their special units sound pretty cool, so watch this space!

And on the subject of Pre-Heresy siege masters... here's some loyalist Imperial Fists basilisks that I knocked up quickly the other day, the fists logos look a bit nonsense up close, but are fine at a distance.

Epic - Eldar, IG and Titan updates!

Hi,

been working on some odds and ends, adding to some existing forces and generally pottering around aimlessly.

Photos came out a bit dark - need to get back in to my editing I think!

So without further ado...

Warp Spiders and Firestrom AA support for my Eldar;

Some old school Death-strike Missile Launchers for my desert IG (magnetised to allow for missle flight)

And a custom carapace landing pad and recon speeder for my titans, also magnetised to allow the weapons to be swapped out.