TrueScale Deathwatch Marines

I'm jumping on the True Scale bandwagon!

This time, to keep it simple and small, Im just going to be doing a 8-10 man Deathwatch Squad, with possibly a scaled up Dread too.

Plan is to do Captain/Libby/Assault Trooper(2)/Heavy Troop(1)/Tacticals(3+)

anyway, before the tl:dr, here are some pics of the first two builds, and one of them painted.

and Painted up:

As you can see, the heavy guy is of the Imperial Fist persuasion, and the other completed Marine is a Wolf. Just waiting on some more Terminator Pads to continue the project...

any suggestions for Chapters to represent? I certainly want an Ultramarine, an Angel and a White Scar in there, so there are up to 5 slots free...

The Emperor of Mankind

Yeah, the title is right, this post is about the one, the only, The Emperor, Him.

Not the ridiculously overpriced (and generally a crappy knock-off) one you can find on ebay for something around £70, but one I picked up, with my Custodes, for a much more reasonable price, and a far far nicer model (IMHO).

Well, he is finished. I wanted to go all out on this, try my absolute best and do things I have never managed to pull off before. I wanted to wet-blend the sword and do a proper freehand scroll on the cloak as the two main things, the rest I just wanted to do well...

And, well, you be the judge

Appreciate any thoughts...-jap

Archangels: Part 5

Every First Founding Legion has/had/has-in-some-strange-form a Primarch, and the Blood Angels are no exception. So, I set about getting my own Sanguinius (besides, you kind of HAVE to, really...

After some internet searching, I found this chap, Reaper Miniature's Avatar of Aurellius.

The first step was to file away the sleeves, and replace them with something more "power-armour-y". Then, a sword swap (an metal Grey Knight Terminator sword fit the bill nicely) and since the Sanguinary Guard use them, a wrist mounted bolter (hey if its good enough for them...)

Im Still Alive...

Well, its been far too long since I've updated this, (work, bereavement, work, and certain interwebz drama) but I've not been completely inactive all this time! Work has continued at what can only be described as a haphazard pace, but still, at least there is progress!

Firstly, a Fantasy update:

How important is the background, or "fluff" to you? Personally, when it comes to 40k, I may start with noble intentions but I end up with a mix of "What I Like" and "What Is Best". However, when it comes to WFB, I get sucked into the story a lot more. Perhaps it comes from being more of a fantasy-book guy than a sci-fi guy, I dunno. Alls I knows is, when it comes to a Fantasy army, I like mine to have (even a rudimentry) theme/character/a reason.

As you may know, The Empire is made up of several Provinces, and I have decided to draw my Empire army from 3 provinces. Stirland, Ostermark and Averland This will enable me to get a nice range of colours in the army, but keep overall unity for the army. from a fluff point of view, the fact that all three provinces border Sylvania, and and could fight my vampires is just an added bonus!

Breaking it down, Stirland is the rustic, backwards province, and as such will provide the green and yellow-garbed militia, archers and one raving warrior priest. Being a war-weary, hard bitten province, Ostermark will be providing the backbone of the army, the infantry and leadership cadre in the finest purple and yellow. Finally,the wealth of Averland wealth will be used to provide the Artillery and gunpowder regiments for the force.

Tomb Kings Necrosphinx and WIP stage 1

I recently finished the first model for my new TK army, and in my own humble opinion, it is one of the finest models GW has made. Firstly, its size. Its huge! both taller and longer than a Land Raider, and it dwarfs almost anything on the battlefield (except the O+G Aracnarok spider). Secondly, the detail. You can do justice to this model simply by blocking colours and using washes to bring out detail, but if one were to go to town (as I tried to) you can make it truly special.

The Archangels: Part 4

Of all the Blood Angels, I like the background of Mephiston the most. This talented and noble warrior fighting in the biggest battle of his life on Armageddon, but falling victim to the Black Rage, and eventually being buried alive under tonnes of rubble. Instead of dying though, he was literally so pissed off, he beat off the psychotic madness of the Rage, and in a proper Hulk-Smash moment, burst free from tonnes (yes tonnes!) of rock as an even more superhuman version of the already superhuman Marines...

But, whilst there are some very good bits, the old metal model really doesnt do him justice (God, that should be a slogan or something...) since it is hampered by the technology of the day, and has a broom up its arse.
(plus, really didn't suit the complete powerhouse the new 'dex turned him into...)

So, ready for this?

I built my own.

Hi, Im JP and Im addicted to Plastic Crack

Well, apologies for the lack of activity recently, dont you hate it when Real Life rears its ugly head?
But, its all good, my girlfriend and I have a new house to move into in a few weeks, I (finally) got paid, and I got to buy some new shiny things...

So, onto the aforementioned new shiny things!

Also, Ive had some lucky eBay purchases and some bits box scrounging/recycling recently too, so I now have on the table:

For the Angels:
A trio of Land Speeders, including 2 LS Storms to be converted up to be Typhoons.
Another Drop Pod
Some objective markers, including a truely awesome Skullz Iwo Jima diorama...

For the Vampires (which I still need to show here):
A pack of old Necrarch Vampires
Some more ghouls and zombies (always want more...)
My personal favourite, the one and only Heinrich Kemmler (and Krell too...), him with the super awesome hat.

For the fledgling Empire Army:
More artillery :)
An Imperial-style Ogre Maneater for unit filler
Another warrior priest, this time the Mordheim one.

And, Iv been bitten by the New Army bug, and bought a whole host of Tomb Kings stuff over the past two months, so
For the Tomb Kings:
The old school Battalion, before GW decided an extra 8 skeletons warranted a £20 price hike
another 4 Chariots (one for the king)
6 metal Tomb Guard, a Liche Priest and a Tomb Herald (won in a lucky ebay auction for under £10)
Tomb King
and yesterday bought myself the new Army Book
and
the Necrosphinx!



I cant wait to get stuck in to this lot, but Im not sure where to start! Bear in mind that this is about half of what I have, and only covers the stuff I bought in the last two months. I do still have a (mostly unbuilt) Empire Army to finish (start!). But I do love my undead armies...

Also, yesterday I was at the grand opening of a new LGS in Northern Ireland, Creative Destruction, and had a great day out! I will hopefully be getting a good bit more gaming in. Im also very very tempted to start Warmachine too...

But sorry for the wall of text, I hope you managed to stick with it the whole way through, and I promise the next post will have plenty of pictures. But of what?

I pose a question to you then. Would you like:

Archangels Part 4

OR

The Vampire Counts rise

which would you would prefer to see..?

thanks for reading

Jap