The Cannibals Goblin Contingent
More of my orc Blood Bowl team continued from last week. Note the pogo stick and chainsaw guys above. On the other hand please do not note the chipped paint on the middle goblins spikey helmet. Thanks.
Lineman and Blitzer
Another Lineman and Blitzer
Filed under: Boardgame, Miniatures | Tagged: 1995, Blood Bowl, Fantasy, Orcs & Goblins | Leave a comment »
Two Iaconian Guardians
The Iacon Craftworld was the last 40K army that I painted, and it broke my heart 😉
A bit of an aside here, bear with me:
The first army that I painted for 40k back in my teens was Eldar. I have always been more interested in the creative side of the hobby than the gaming (although I love that too) and as such always chose what forces to play based on one of two things: either they were the figures that looked the nicest to me (Eldar) or that I thought that I could have a lot of fun with them as a modelling project (Sin Eaters).
Squad Nephtys Guardians
I played a lot of games with the Sin Eaters and they were pretty well regarded aesthetically. That meant that when I finally got around to doing another Eldar army that I wanted to do “a good job” on them.
The Sin Eaters each took a very long time to paint and although it may not look like it, the Iacon guys possibly took even longer. Painting that gold took ages and it doesnt even show. Oh well. They still look good I think, they just dont really look as good as they should considering the time spent on them.
This army was a turning point for me when I decided that the painting methods that I was using were too time consuming and that I needed to rationalise the process more. That principle has continued up until the present day.
Nephtys Gunner and Guardian
There is a vaguely Egyptian theme running through the force (it isnt really that visible other than colour choice in Squad Nephtys) that should hopefully be more apparent in some of the other units.
Nephtys Gunner and Star Cannon Grav Platform
The hand painted symbol on the cannon fairing is repeated on the right shoulder plate of each squad member. Although the plates used varied from squad to squad, that variable glyph motif continued through the whole force.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2003, 40K, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Iacon, Sci-fi | Leave a comment »
Nurgling Swarm
Nurglings featured in my Sin Eater Chaos Space Marine army from day one. For some reason which I cant put my finger on I have liked (if that is the right word) them since I first read about them in 1989. Its probably the fart and other biological function jokes.
Tide of Decay
I spent way more time painting these than they really required. I like them though. They variety and character in the figures made them painting them more entertaining than it would normally be. They were originally based on large GW titan bases, in preference to the horrible square WHFB bases that they were supplied with. Once the large, circular 40k base was released I rebased them (and turned four bases into eight in the process). Go me.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 1999, 40K, Chaos, Nurgle, Sci-fi, Sin Eaters | Leave a comment »
The Cannibals Troll Blocker
Blood Bowl is one of, if not the best game that GW has ever made, right up there with Space Hulk. The rules are fun and reward good play, even though luck always plays a part. I would play the game a whole lot more if it didnt take way too long, almost always over two hours. The fact that the result after that <two hours of brain burning activity is often apparent after five minutes compounds the game length issue.
Regardless, Blood Bowl can be really great fun and as a result I have quite a few teams painted up. The one painted to the highest standard is the Clogheen Cannibals.
Cannibal Thrower and Lineman
They worked out pretty “clean” looking for an orc team, but at the time I was pushing my blending and other painting techniques hard. It show mostly I think, most of the figures are technically pretty good.
Two Cannibal Black Orc Blockers
Two More Cannibal Black Orc Blockers
The rest of the team to follow next week.
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Missile Launcher and Bolter
Part 1 is HERE.
Although Marine squads usually max out at ten men I have painted up a few extra for Squad Rico. They are marines with different heavy weapons, giving me more flexibility when picking a force. That sort of extra flexibility is always something that is on my mind when preparing miniatures for games, but it rarely works out as comprehensively as it did with Squad Rico.
The Missile Launcher above comes from an old (’89 or so) GW Chaos Heavy Weapon sprue. It is probably most familiar from its inclusion in the Space Hulk: Genestealer expansion. The Hybrids had a few.
Plasma Gun and Bolter Marines
Bolter Marine and Sergeant Rico
Heavy Bolter and Bolter Marines
The Heavy Bolter armament above is pretty cool looking (and would be all the more so only for that annoying shine…): its a cool model. The hand painted insignia is easily visible on the right hand guys shoulder pad.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 1999, 40K, Chaos, Nurgle, Sin Eaters, Space Hulk, Zombie | Leave a comment »
Squad Rico Banner Bearer
A Pair of Bolter Armed Tactical Marines
Lascannon and Bolter armed Tactical Marines
Topdown View of the Huge Lascannon
Part two to follow.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 1999, 40K, Chaos, Nurgle, Sin Eaters, Space Hulk, Space Marines, Zombie | Leave a comment »
Brother Tankorr
As early playtesting went on using my Sin Eaters (way back in 1999) it looked like getting a second Dreadnought on the table would be fun. While Brother Rhinox was made more or less exclusively from the basic metal chaos Dreadnought kit, Tankorr was made from a metal Imperial Dreadnought, albeit an Imperial Dreadnought with loads of spiky death metal type junk stuck on. Examples above include the spiky panels on the main housing and the tombstone-for-a-face.
Tankorrs huge and ludicrous close combat arm.
Tankorrs arms were made from spares from the kit that was used to make Rhinox. The left arm above had an Ork Choppa and two Necromunda Pit Slave weapon arms attached. I also added another pit slave chainsaw bit to the front of the body on that side for good measure.
In the above shot you can make out bits where some of the many spikes attached to the figure used to be attached, only to have broken off at various points over the years. The lesson here is simply not to bother sticking those things on in the first place. If Tankorr gets away with it it is simply because of the zombie-like, dilapidated look.
Rear view.
Plasma Cannon
I like the combi-bolter mounted on Tankorrs shoulder for some reason that I cant put my finger on. I also like the silly zombie hands bursting out of the ground, “Thriller” style.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 1999, 40K, Chaos, Nurgle, Sci-fi, Sin Eaters, Space Hulk, Space Marines, Vehicle | Leave a comment »
Lord Zarak
Lord Zarak is pretty ridiculous looking really, but I like him all the same. I had had a chaos terminator captain figure for a while but hadnt got around to painting him. He was an older figure than those used in Squad Romero and was a little more slight. I wanted to give him something that would make him stand out dramatically from the other Terminators, but didnt know what.
It dawned on me to use parts of the whip arm thing (cant remember what it is called) from the parts left over from the Brother Rhinox kit to make the inner “thumbs” of his scorpion-like Lightning Claws. The larger, totally OTT parts of the claws are made from bits of a plastic dozer blade from some Imperial tank bit or another.
3/4 view showing some arm detail.
The piping coming hanging below his arms is a bit crude but whatever. It was simply made from bent paper clip. The Nurgle logo on the shoulder was made from bits of styrene rod and strip. The trophy pole is a bit taller than the poles on Squad Romero which helps to identify Zarak as the boss while simultaneously making him that much more ridiculous looking.
His name comes from the binary bonded nebulan partner of the Transformer Scorponok. Scorponok himself invariably has big scorpion claws for hands in all of his iterations, so obviously that is where that comes from. The original G1 Scorponok also had a sunglasses type look that I crudely emulated with a green stuff “visor” over Zaraks eyes.
I painted Zarak about a year or so after I painted the other Sin Eater terminators. By then the painting method I was using to get the base colours was slightly different. In the context of the grubby look that I was looking for it doesnt really make much difference. I have always found that when painting a large number of miniatures with the same scheme that the style changes as I progress, usually in an effort to speed the process up.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 2001, 40K, Chaos, Nurgle, Sci-fi, Sin Eaters, Space Hulk, Space Marines, Zombie | Leave a comment »
Sin Eater Dreadnought: Brother Rhinox
Like many geeks, I like robots and power suits. Dreadnoughts and Titans have always been a big 40k draw for me. As a result one of the earliest miniatures that I painted for my Sin Eaters Chaos Space Marine Nurgle army was Rhinox.
Power Claw
Rear Shot. Just greasy looking metal really.
Twin-Linked Lascannon
There was only one weapon fit appropriate for a Dreadnought in those days: Twin Lascannon & Power Fist/Claw (I have no idea what, if anything makes Dreadnoughts competitive in the current 40k tournament climate, nor do I wish to know). There wasnt a twin-lascannon model available for Chaos Dreads then so I chopped up the twin-autocannon in the box and replaced it with two weapons cut from a Space Crusade dreadnought (I think).
Possibly I should have added more detail to the muzzles of the cannon while I was adding the trim that had been removed when cutting the autocannon off. On the other hand it does give the gun a pretty primitive and brutal look that is very suitable.
Other than the Lascannon arm the figure is unconverted apart from the added scuffs and dents etc.
Filed under: Miniatures | Tagged: 1999, 40K, Chaos, Nurgle, Sci-fi, Sin Eaters, Space Marines, Vehicle | 2 Comments »
"Achtung! Minen!"
I am in the process of assembling a lot of smaller pieces of characterful terrain to give my tabletop gaming a little more visual interest and to function as encounter markers, scenario objectives etc. Trixie and the Zombie Crows are other parts of the same project.
Unexploded Bombs
With that in mind I picked up the limited editon box of Mines, Bombs and Boobytraps that GW released in conjunction with their Planetstrike promotion this summmer. I have very little interest in ever playing Planetstrike but this little set was too cool to pass up.
Mines
I got the lot (22 pieces) painted up over the course of an evening in front of the TV. They provide interest on the table and look good I think.
Boobytraps: note the concealed grenades
Filed under: Terrain | Tagged: 2009, 40K, Post Apocalyptic, Sci-fi | Leave a comment »
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