Small Update

I have decided again to have a brief mix-up from my two primary armies by adding to my pre-existing eldar army. So yesterday I went out and purchase a box of the new Dire Avenger models to see how they differ from my older models.

I must admit that they are quite impressive. a nice number of bits and with a littlecutting here and there, they can be made into some quite impressive models that look as graceful and as swift as eldar are supposed to be.

The following 2 pictures are of my 2 Dire Avenger Exarchs I quickly mashed together.

the following are two models I am really chuffed I managed to pick up from ebay. They are both made by Ronin miniatures and are their (unnoficial) yet strikingly acurate renditions of Sanguinius and Magnus the Red.

Sanguinius:

Magnus The Red

Both: Notice how big Magnus is compared to poor wee Sanguinius. Saying that, Magnus was supposed to be a Cyclopean giant of tremedous size dwarfing even the emperor, so as far as I am concerned, he is spot on.

All I can say is that these two models are tasty! They really do both look the part. I cannot wait to get Sanguinius painted and I have promise myself that when I get my first 1500pts worth of either my Blood Angels or my Imperial Guard finished completely, I will give my self the privalige of starting my pre-heresy Thousand Sons army including Magnus.

Lack of updates

Sorry for the lack of updates.

I have been busy doing stuff with my Blood Angels and prepping a big gaming board in my friends basement gaming room. It has involved many 40k scenery sets, a Realm of Battle Gaming board and MDF and Styrofoam with a hot wire cutter to boot. So far we almost have 7 tiles just needing a lick of paint and all the buildings are needing is some thin MDF bases and then a quick texture/rubble and a lick of paint.

My Bangles are looking good points wise. I have more than my bare minimum sitting including 2 assault squads, 2 devastator squads, 2 tacticals, 3 dreadnaughts, 1 scout squad with sniper rifles, 1 demolisher, 2 tech marines with thunderfire cannons, an honour guard with jump packs and a standard commander, but I also have commnader Dante on his way as well.

to top all of this off, I have also managed to bag me one of the limited edition (only 500) Sanguinius models that were made. (I also bagged me a limited edition (500) Magnus the Red model as well :) )


As for my Imperial Guard - They are on a temporary hiaitus at the moment. They are fairly labour intensive when it comes to building and painting due to the number of them, so in the interim I will be working with the Marines to learn how to play the game properly again.

I will get some pics taken of the board so far with the scenery on it so you can at least get a look at where my time has been spent (appart from an intensive driving course which I passed :D )

Bangle's ahoy!

Seeing the new shiney Space Hulk model's I took it upon myself to have a go at painting a Blood Angel up using the paint suggestions in the new White Dwarf magazine.

I must admit I was fairly surprsied with the outcome. I have posted two pictures below, one is without flash and the next is with the flash. Now looking at these, I realise how much better pics will look with a porper light box, so I am going to make one over the next few weeks.
The one on the right is probably closest to what the model looks like, however it is showing imperfections that are not apparent in real life, so its kinda strange. Anyhow's I have some proper troops to test it out on including some assault squads and some heavy weapons teams, so once I get a chance, I will post them here.

For you Imperial Guard fans, fear not, they are still in the pipeline, I am just taking my time with them at present.

Finally some pics

The following is just a few among the many things I am currently working on. I have been trying to fit too much in i think and the result is that I have a lot in progress, just not anything completely complete. Part of this I think is due to the fact that I am not happy with 'tabletop standard' and I really want to go to town on my stuff, but this will just cause the whole army to never get done.

Anyways heres some pics:

Command Squad Chimera:
Command Squad (almost done)

Valkyrie (did guts first)

Penal Legion (finished converting)

1st Troop Squad (starting painting)

As always, comments and critique accepted.

Deimurg 40k or Dark Heresy box?

Just found these pics on some radom russian site (cant pronounce) of some greys that were seen a GD Germany.

It looks like they are doing Deimurg models and the rumours are they are for a Dark Heresy box set, but the sprues to the left of the models may just show that they may possibly be for a 40k army! As we are unsure, I am leaving it to you to decide, but heres wishing they would bring the biker dorfs back!

SPACE HULK!!

Well most folks knew it was coming, but we werent 100% sure until Saturday when they finally announced it.

I for one love spacehulk, it was an awesome game and got many of my friends into the hobby, be it via the bordgame or the pc game that was released. Now I am pleased that GW are releasing it, but does it really need to be that expensive? Anyways, the fan in me has placed a pre-order from the official site and I will just have to accept the price and hopefully enjoy the oldschool game that I really enjoyed when I was younger!

Lackluster update

Well I still havent posted any updated pictures. This is because of various reasons, one of which invloved me having 3 hours of sleep the previous night.

Instead I spent the night giving half of my first 10 man troop squad a lick of basecoat and finishing off the interior of the Valkyrie so that I could actually build it. So now I have the majority of the Valkyrie built (after a falling off a table accident) and that was all I got done last night!