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Hmmm already done a Shroud Mage fleet and that was a lot of fun...

Well I have a dwarf fleet, cards and custom cut foam tray + case, and I'm certainly looking to shift it, so pm if interested me, I'll send you a list - yours for a steal of a reasonable offer

Sorry I'm not really that interested thinking about it, it just wouldn't really tie in with any of my forces and I have plenty of models to be getting on with.


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Got my Officer and another Grenadier finished this weekend.


Yes they look pretty grubby but I can't imagine any battlefield let alone one of the steam powered Sturginium age being clean. I've stuck with the shades of grey and blue scheme with bronze as a bit of contrast. The Lieutenant received an Indigo coat made from mixing Midnight Blue and Purple. I'm enjoying these as the slightly larger scale means bigger details. They also aren't fussy without all the gothic bling 40k has which makes them simpler to paint.

Nice haul on those resin vehicles. They look really decent. How does the scale match up w/ the rest of your stuff?

Also, nice job on those Brass Scorpions and Nurgle Rhinos . I like the variety in your conversions. They exemplify the fickle and unpredictable winds of Chaos.

And finally, congrats on getting that Horde done. Tiny fiddly annoying things! I still have not painted mine.

Sticking 10 or so of them onto plant labels from the garden does make painting them much easier. It replaces the sprue for painting. I'll definitely do a scale shot at some point on those resin vehicles as well but they're roughly the same size as the newer plastic Land Raider which is exactly the rough size I wanted anyway.

I've been looking at the Prussians for Dystopian Wars and wondering. The main thing putting me off is a lack of Infantry in the game. I then realised Baccus does a 6mm Prussian army which with Prussian Vehicles could work rather nicely as a 6mm Guard force. Hmm to be contemplated seriously.

Painting up my first Teutonic Knight I had a go at free handing some Iron crosses and it worked abysmally so I'm now looking for a transfer sheet to print. Bugger it just realised what I want is the Luftwaffe symbol going to google it now.

Ok technically it's the Maltese Cross I'll acquire a bunch and add to the Teutonic Knights at some point. On other sorts I had my first game with the Chaos force. A 4000 pt match up against Eldar. Mostly it involved being shot at although the Deathwheel taking out the Bright Stallions and the Juggernaughts brawl with the Avatar were favourites. The detachment of 5 charged it and the last one brung it down after he'd slaughtered the first dozen. Unfortunately I just didn't have the firepower to do the damage with poor deployment of the Brass Scorpions being crucial. The Tempests on his side were excellent while my Beastmen and Minotaurs were poor in the final Close combat phase. Another key mistake was charging the Bloodthirster at the Tempests rather than the Harlequins on an objective. Snapfire from the Tempests slaughtered him. Originally I'd decided to charge the Harlequins but as they weren't worth any victory points changed my mind to hit the Tempests. The other factor which lost me the game was having nothing to deal with his Phantom Titans outside of Close Combat. Inside of Close Combat both the Deathwheels and the Bloodthirster had a fair chance.

Sounds like a brutal fight. I think the next game I introduce my friend to is Epic. It's been way too long since I've played it (like... '97 maybe?)

Definitely it's a great game. The Net Epic rules are probably the best place to start http://www.netepic.org/ that's as they've sensibly updated the Space Marine rules making things gel better and adding rules for new-fangled notions like Tau........
We'll start with the most dull update. A Prussian Fusilier

Next we move on to my response to the last game. A Lord of Battles painted up



Finally we move on to the best bit the first Teutonic Knight painted up. All it requires is some Maltese Cross transfers which are still to be scrounged.


Actually it might be worth your while looking at Spartan Games products Dystopian Wars and Firestorm Planetfall both have a similar scale and sweep to them and are living games which might make them preferable.


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Aeronautica Imperialis is one of my favourite GW games however the fact it and the models are exclusively produced by Forgeworld makes it fairly dear for a game I won't be playing regularly. Then I encountered the free Solid State Air War kit Dave Graffam games was putting out. At roughly £3 for a game and 2 kits I realised I had to give it a go and as it was scaled reasonably for Aeronautica I could kill 2 birds with one stone. The first kit I assembled was the Tigress. Here it is when I photographed it


The small size of the kit makes it rather fiddly. After finishing it I realised that by using the more gracile Interceptor as a Fighta I could turn this craft into a Fighta Bomma. Looking at the official model I realised this required a few more details specifically some Bombs and a rear turret which I added using Mortars and plasticard respectively. I then painted it to fit with my Dethskulls so predominantly Blue with a Flame motif.


After starting to paint this model I realised that the intakes were best made 3D using a hole punch rivet while the Cockpit which was the trickiest part of the kit could be easily replaced with some sculpted sprue both of which improvements I've used on my second craft an Interceptor. I haven't played the game yet but the best fact is that the dice tell you what the result means saving a lot of looking at tables which is a nifty idea......

The Lord of Battle looks great! And once again I enjoyed playing 'I Spy" with the different bits you used. You are the King of Kitbash!

Everything was going so well until I turned up on Dakka and read GW's latest plan. Axeing Specialist Games is a pain in the arse for me, fortunately nothing I want will be that rare or popular but I'll be making my last GW order through Wargames Emporium for the foreseeable future and the chances of me buying anything from Forgeworld has plummeted. Sad that.

On to better news oddly enough mainly involving Spartan Games

I've got the Vierling Gunner finished.

I've almost got the box set finished.

I've also got scale shots of my Chaosified Artillery



Thanks Skalk and rather than trying your friend on Epic I think you might be better of with one of Spartan Games products.

To make things even more expensive I won a rather impressive lot on Ebay which should be winging its way towards me.

Finished of this.
Verum Irae, Truth of Wrath. Khornes follower among the Verum Consumptis, The Truth Bringers my Chaos Titan Legion.




Also got my Birthday present on order a month earlier than I planned.

Thanks for the scale ref. Right now I have a lot of Space Marine, Ork, and Chaos (3 sets, 3 sets, 1 set) models from forever ago. I'd like to get into Epic later this year. Right now everything is Necromunda but Epic (or Blood Bowl) .

Your Titan is another great example of your vision for Chaos. Every model you create is unique and displays a creativity that doesn't come from a box.

Fair enough mate. It's great to be working at different scales and it really encourages army painting. However with the Specialist Games range going Chaos is going to be a pig to get hold of. The key box is only really available from GW and rarely turns up on Ebay however Orks and regular Space Marines are easy to get hold off I just add spikes to tell you the truth. Painted yesterday Verum Irae then had his head bitten of by a Bio-Titan after his reactor was almost criticaled and he was mind controlled. The rest didn't go at all well as well. Easy win for the Tyranids.

Got a few things done today.
Heres the Fusilier.

I've also got the Contagion Engines done as well might roll out the Nurgle forces next time I play Chaos. Although I still don't own any Nurgle Daemons although I've got some on order and a few from the magical land of Ebay to come in.

The glorious leader of my Prussian band. He hav vays of making you talk....

Looking good! Have you tried brushing on quickshade dark tone? Adds a lot of depth and varnishes simultaneously.

Interesting kit-bashes as usual

Those Burza class Bombards look very nice, reckon they'll make some lovely track units for some poor boyz who have lost their lower limbs.....

The Contagion Engines are excellent.

Your thread has inspired me to at least dig out my stuff. I'll take pics and share them w/ you soon.

That means it's time to PARRTTYY with some Goffik Rok

I've also got a Gargant done


My Chaos has also seen some reinforcements


The tanks are my old Imperial tanks with extra spikes and skull racks made using the fence post and small beads.

As well as that I've got my Prussians finished with the final Fusilier the Sergeant and the Armsman all done.




I've also got my first games in my Armsmen are monsters in close combat and shooting as you'd expect generally their rampaging on their own after the rest of the force is dead. It's worth noting though Dystopian Legions is not a Skirmish game its a battle game. To be honest the mechanics are arguably more suited to larger games than we're playing at the moment but it's certainly fun.

I also have my birthday present to myself brought it's in boxes and I won't start till play till it's time. The GW end to specialist games meant my planned order had to be earlier. Oddly enough I've only made 3 real mail orders and two of them were for Specialist Games and the last one was to take advantage of the bit service. To keep me amused until June I was slightly extravagant on Ebay and brought the Primarchs all of them (weeeelllll with a spare Magnus the Red) at a relatively reasonable price.

Oh by the way Duelling between them Magnus wins as he has by far the best reactive shooting.

Wowser! That's some haul. And I love gargant, although I thought Orks were appendage-less?

He's not pleased to see you it's a gun in his pocket. Yep that haul was excellent it also included 5 of the metal Slaanesh Daemons including a tiny Keeper of Secrets and two sprues for the sum of £35 including postage. It also means I own three generations of Keeper of Secrets (two versions of the Epic one and the Warmaster one and they've definitely been suffering from inflation over the years.

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Wowser! That's some haul. And I love gargant, although I thought Orks were appendage-less?

It doesn't look so... 'appendage' on the original model:

Yeah. uh part of that is it was part of an Ebay junk lot and I only got three of the official parts equally it was enough for the pair. The sides and back are the original kit but the card front on this, Smokey Joe and the Great Gargant here which also lacked a front plate was to get the most use out of them. Incidentally why are Ork Gargant front plates so often missing it was the same bit from three of them doesn't quite make sense. Anyway I went to Triples this weekend and my imaginary friend and the voices in my head got me some nice birthday presents which'll have to wait and you'll have to wait till I can officially play with them. There is a method to the madness I expect to get some money for my birthday but Triples is just a great opportunity to look and buy while saving the postage. The highlights to me were of course Ground Zero Games and Dark Realm Miniatures where I indulged. The three other stands which had the nicest stuff were Hawk Wargames, Antenociti's Workshop and Black Scorpion. Hawk Wargames Dropzone Commander sculpts are gorgeous Resin models and look absolutely beautiful seeing them in the flech mean I want to use the large Shaltari Walkers for something probably Slaanesh Titans and I'm hoping for small walkers for them on the way no plans in the pipeline yet. Antenociti's Workshop has one of the most interesting ranges of Resin vehicles for 28mm bar none the futuristic sports car was especially exciting as I haven't seen a nice one by anybody else. I wants one I do's.....Hmm Inquisition transport? The other vehicles have a nice future tech rather than WW2 gothic vibe ging on and are well worth a look. Black Scorpion are a tiny manufacturer of really nice models I've got several of them in the Conclave of Hrin and my gallery and they've done a Skaven Bloodbowl team which might be good for the Nationals. If a wargaming like Convention is within easy distance of you do try and get there. Seeing models in the flesh is so much more real than seeing them on the website. The only disappointment was Exodus Wars who said they'd be there not making it which is a shame as I'd have liked to see the size of a few of there tanks before I make an order for an IG army. But enough of my wittering here's what your here to see more Gargants with protruding appendages.......



Yes two of these have Snappers mostly because I play Net Epic and can. These have been produced as rewards for getting stuff done. I've also got some painting done


Not as happy with the Deathdealers as the Brass Scorpions or the Cauldron of Blood but these are usable.The Marteau bombards as Cannons of Khorne have come out really well even if I do say so myself.

Hot DAMN this is more like it - your Orks needed some serious Gargant reinforcements and now they're getting them! I wish I hadn't flogged mine - I'd have loved to send them to you, mate.

Everything looks very good as always - still waiting for a battle report from ya though ;P

I'll admit Jihad Ragsta part of me's glad you didn't this way I got to bodge the blighters myself and individualising Gargants is one of the true pleasures of Epic Orks,

I've finished painting the first of the Primarchs, Magnus the Red, the ability of his shooting makes him a really useful Primarch he's got one of the most effective none titan anti-titan weapons in the list and hits on 2's guaranteeing a role of a 1!

I've also got the Doomblasters done.

These are Hunter-AA Vehicles its the Flak Rhino created for Epic Armageddon. These however are conversions. The weapon is a triple torpedo turret from the Aoshima naval weapons sprue with a plastistruct turret bodge based upon a hole-punched disc, a hexagonal piece and a triangle piece which I think looks effective and is a lot cheaper than buying them either new or on Ebay.

First of all some terrain. An utterly crude landing pad. Cheap as Pizza the most expensive part of it was the Milliput. I've got another 4 done and they should make up a fun space port table.

Basing and painting should cover up a multitude of sins and the idea is to resemble a crude crumbling pad at a small Mediterranean airport.

Painting wise I've got some old Slaaneshi Daemons the oldest of the Small scale Keeper of Secrets and 4 old Daemonettes. The stockings on the Keeper of Seret amuse me and the masculine faces on the Daemonettes make them much scarier.

I've also got a pair of Silver Towers done up based on glue lids I'm fairly happy with them although the blue flames on top look more like Anemones than blue hell fire.

The last thing I've been up to involves Aoshima ship bits with some Mammoth tanks and Predators. The Predators are one E40k metal and a pair of Rhinos with added Aoshima weaponry.



The Mammoths have been painted differently. They are part of the Imperial Guard PDF list which I've decided to use for this force as bits like the Warriors and Cyber Berzerkers just fit nicely. They were T35 tanks which I decided were too small for Ork Gunwagons and would fit better in here. The Mammoth tank is an ideal representation.

Ooh tiny stuff. It's been a while since I dropped by, love what you're doing here!

Thanks a lot Commissar Khaine.
Excellent news it turns out that Wessex Archaeology has decided to give me a birthday present and I'm of to Perth. Unfortunately it means my plan of a big post then to discuss all my new toys is out of the question I'll have to do it this weekend. Ah well means I get to play with new toys early and incidentally means I might be able to fund Troublemaker Games 6mm kickstarter.......http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/6mm-scale-armies