Space Elves

Long time no entry, thought as I’ve been painting up some stuff and ive got a shiny expensive camera (that I’ve yet haven’t got a clue how to use) I would upload some pics of what I’ve been doing hobby wise. Currently im working on finishing a elder army. Lantesh Craftworld. I decided on a rather controversial colour scheme wish I like but looks striking on the tabletop nonetheless. So far ive painted up some basocs (yes troops first). 10 Guardians and platform, 5 rangers, a farseer, 2 wraithlords, a wave serpent, 4 dark reapers and a vyper. Im going for a relatively balanced force and I’m currently working on 10 dire avengers and 5 wraithguard. Not sure how this all adds up to a tactically sound force but since I haven’t played to much over the past year or so I think ill be happy with a well painted completed force. YAY. If anyone fancies a game I have a dining room and a gaming board.

“REPENT FOR TOMORROW YOU DIE”

Well I haven’t added a blog entry in ages but either because I had chicken pox and ALOT of spare time on my hands or the fact that reading the Horus heresy series has awoken the fires within I’ve been doing alot of painting especially 40k.

Having no actual 40k army anymore I decided that since they had released a new dark angels codex and as I had five marines and a tank already painted id complete another and obviously the best space marine chapter. So now I have 10 marines, 2 tanks, a dreadnought, a land speeder, a couple of characters and a vindicator painted. There are some pics but as I was taking them with the camera on my iphone alas the quality of the shot is shocking but they are painted well enough. Next up is a unit of assault marines and the dreaded cream terminators! Oh joy so if there are any forces of disorder that want a good smiting by the emperors finest the sons of the lion are more than willing.

The steam engine awakens

So this month i did some more painting and although its probably in violtion of the rules at least i did some painting for my army lol and i painted a steam tank YAY. So only 15 flagellants and 20 swordsmen to go and my army is complete. well 2000pts of it…..

finally…a blog entry

So its been a while since I graced this blog with an entry hehe and although I havent been logging them I have still been painting up some models…and yes for my empire army and not the Slaanesh stuff I was doing.

So what have I done…well ive painted up a a lord character on griffon which I know in gaming terms will be pretty bad still looks good on the table. This more or less absorbed all my 25 budget for the month. However I think im a couple of months behind on my entries so I also painted up 6 flagellants and saved a little bit of money for next month.

Nipples everywhere… I think they belong to the Dark Prince..?

Well another month over… So what have I been painting. Well as only the unemployed can, I have had a lot of spare time recently to ponder the meaning of life and in what time remaining do some painting.  As a result I’ve massed quite an array of painted Empire troops; over 2000 points wise now. As a result I have given in to my more hedonistic side as it were and started painting Daemonettes (waves fist at Karl for buying them, he knew I couldn’t resist their Slaaneshi beauty).

Now my Empire still has my attention but I have found myself painting the followers of Slaanesh and even writing up a Daemonic Legion list (one army at a time – Ed). Anyway this month for my Empire I bought a Cannon (£12) and a Hellblaster Volley Gun (£12). A Rare Choice I know, but I have enough points worth to justify it. Pictures to follow shortly.

Purple and cream…purple and cream

Hey, well here are some pics of my models. This month I painted up a unit of outriders (£12) and a Hero on Pegasus (£12). I converted the Pegasus rider to have a sword and a pistol. Not sure if it’s gonna make the final army list but I already had the model and had a urge to paint it up so I did. Here are some other pics of other months models to (since I’ve found my digital camera again). Though I think my cameras flash emphasisesthe highlights and metallics harshly

Soldiering on…

So what have I done this month…. Well with an extra £8.50 on top of the £25.00 to spend this month I could have gone all out but in light of the fact that I haven’t even played fantasy in well over 6 months (as a result whatever I paint up won’t get played with) I painted up 5 figures! Yes 5! At £6.00 pound each 5 pistoliers took up £30.00 pounds leaving me with £3.50 to save up for next month.

A minor glimpse at Sigmar’s fury… Honest

Pics of my painted models so far…I’ve been harassed by kahuna to show something so in desperation I shot some pics off my phone…pretty bad quality but until I can find my digital camera they’ll have to do.

… Bogenhafen marshals the troops *trumpet sound*

SO… The first deadline is reached (well for the most part… Scowls in certain direction) and my £50 budget is painted up. It was hard going but I now have a collection of painted miniatures in the colours of Bogenhafen.

I purchased:

• 1 wizard – £6
• 1 engineer – £4
• 1 templar grand master – £9
• 10 handgunners, various bits, 8 knights (5 painted up to make a unit of 6 with grand master) and mortar and crew – bought from ebay – £22.70 with P&P.
• = £41.70 (£8.30 remaining)

For those who know me I really dislike bright unrealistic colours on miniatures, who would go to war wearing white and yellow?? So I’ve used a lot of dark colours with cream and purple as the signature palette. When I came to paint up my knights I wanted to represent their significance and importance so used a lot of gold/brass and blue which made them look very opulent. I shied away from silver as it’s too obvious and went for lacquered armour. In terms of what I actually painted – I kept my target quite simple as I knew I’d only get a small amount done on my first attempts. Images will follow as I attempt to find my camera and take some unfuzzy focused shots… FOR SIGMAR!

…as a new year beckons…so does a army

Well, with xmas over I ventured into my local gamesworkshop to purchase my £50 quota of lizardmen only to stubble across the store copy of the new Empire book. Well as you can imagine I got totally hooked on the new models and units so much so that I ended walking away with a unit of plastic empire knights and a wizard blister in preparation for there release in Jan…not the intended lizardman choice. So it looks like the lizardmen are on hold. On the plus side however, I have a selection of empire models (obviously none of it painted besides a steam tank, which is now a sugar coated chariot at toughness 6 in the new rules and thus useless at 300 points blah blah blah) and I know one or two people wanting to get rid of some. With this is mind I’m thinking of going for a well-rounded army with a smattering of infantry (the new swordsmen in particular) supported by cavalry and artillery. Tall orders then as those who know me are aware of my usual distaste for painting rank and file.