Vets Lead the Way

I've made a start on a few models from the armageddon box, the vanguard veterans. 

A few embellishments (from dynamic prints) to add a little white scar flavour...

Post undercoat has highlighted a few bits that need a clean up but happy with the look so far.

Orks, orks, orks.... and Nids

Back to some 40k this week.

First go on the new ork codex!

Needed to get a game in before the flash gitz get nerfed 😶

Deployment 

There's some ravenors and a lictor in reserve...

Here's the flash gitz, looking flashy, in grey 

Orks surge forward, home objective? Pfff

 

The fighting begins!!

Turns out zoanthropes are pretty much the perfect tool for taking out squighog boyz! Still plenty left to put a big dent into the heroic intervening ravenors! 

The Beastboss on squig goes about his monster killing duties.....

......and performs them well! The snagga boyz clear out a warrior squad before before moving on to take out the next.

After the warboss and boyz club the screamer killer to death, with a little help from the flash gitz, there's not many nids left.

And that's where the game ends!

Good outing for the Orks, the flash gitz didn't really get going but laid down one good round of overwatch fire and held onto an objective until help arrived!

Lots more to learn still, including some of the main rules 😬

Buncha Nobz!!

Rebasing continues, this time some ancient nobz from 25mm to 40mm.

I was worried they'd be a little swamped by the 40mm size but I think they're looking alright.

Should probably touch up the paint chips before they go back in the foam 🤔 

Little Red Dune Buggy

When rumours of the new ork codex had generic warbuggies returning, I got excited!

Dusted off (literally) this venerable pair and added new bases.

Back in the day these little beauties would around the table blowing up stuff they had no right to, punching well above their weight!

Whilst it hasn't quite worked out quite as expected they will be perfect proxies for the updated wartrakk profile.

Back to zooming and blowing stuff up!

Might add some extra rokkits, one day...

Back to Base ics

Update, finished the test bases.

Cygor brown contrast over the sand, mournfang brown drybrush with averland sunset light drybrush. Static grass and more mournfang for the rim, to match my modern colour choice 

Does the job and not too time consuming...

Just the couple hundred to go...

Base ic Life Skills

 Sooo, I've started rebasing my orks to more modern sizes of base.

I'm mostly using base converters from hobby heaven, plop your old base model into the converter, sized up i

n seconds.

The tricky bit is going to be trying to match the basing material to the old version.

Here's some boyz to test out how easy this part will be!

Sand added to the wider base part.

You can see a small dip between the old and new base, nothing a bit more pva and sand or strategic static grass wouldn't fix!

I will be painting the sand to blend with the old material and adding more grass.

Fingers crossed it all works out...

Scarred for Life

 In celebration of the recently revealed marine captain on bike and upcoming change in rules for marines (toughness 5!!), here's a pic of some nearly completed outriders. 

Just a few touch ups needed....

Or call them done and move on to something new....

You're Starting to Bug Me - Vogen Battle Report

The Tyranids and Space Wolves return to the streets of Vogen

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After their previous clash with the Tyranids the Space Wolves once again met their alien foe.

 Contact had been lost with a Blood Claw scouting party who were scouring the city of Vogan for any further signs of Xenos life and so the Sons of Russ sent an armoured force to hunt for their missing Brethren.

Upon reaching the area of Blood Claws last communication, the Space Wolves were met by a small but psychically powerful force of Tyranids.

The encounter started off with a long range fire vs psychic energy fight as the long fangs and Zoenthropes targeted each other from distance. With both combatants dug in, this lasted all battle with neither losing all of their numbers.

On the other side of the battlefield, the Space Wolf dreadnought also encountered a psychic enemy but could do no damage before multiple glancing hits finally took their toll, enabling the Alien beings to claim a vital objective.

With the battlefield relatively quiet the central Tyranid warriors tried to make a dashing run from ruined building to building only to be cut to pieces as the engine roar and deafening noise of weapons fire signalled the emergence of the flying shoe, who cut down the armoured beasts with ease.

The Space Wolves joy was short lived as their left flank was engulfed by the arrival of more warriors, a Toxicrene and more importantly a burrowing Mawloc who on its own destroyed a full squad of Grey Hunters.

With things looking ropey for the Emperors chosen, the Rune Priest finally managed to manifest his psychic prowess, with he once carefree Xenos now failing to overcome the psykers power and decided to turn their attention to other targets.

As the Tyranids turned their attention elsewhere the mighty flying shoe continued to cause death from above, forgoing the option to drop off he blood thirsty Claws inside in favour of unleashing its arsenal of weapons.

But it was too late for the Wolves. As the Mawloc made its second emergence from the blood stained rubble the Marine commanders elected to retreat from the battlefield and return soon with greater firepower.

The lost Blood Claws were never found but Rune Priest Bjornsson had gathered enough information to make the next attack on he Tyranids his most bloodthirsty yet.


For the fight for Vogen, continues...............

Bug Out - Vogen Battle Report

The Tyranids and Space Wolves clash on the streets of Vogen

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 Rune Priest Bjornsson, tasked with retrieving a precious Imperial Relic from within Hab Epsilon led his Space wolves through the quiet streets. Everything was going to plan until the Tyranids of the Fulminar Hive Fleet made their presence known.

Upon sighting the deadly bio-morphs, the Space Wolves sent their Long Fangs to over see the battlefield, whilst their Wolf Riding warriors and Rhino riding brethren sought to take out the Tyranids in close quarter fighting.

The early stages of the battle saw many Wolves killed by the horrific psychic capabilities of the Zoanthropes, however, once this bombardment was weathered, the orange scaled alien warriors could not take the punishment given out but the Thunderwolf riding Astartes from Fenris, with both Carnifexes being destroyed. 

As the battle looked to be swinging in the favour of the Imperium, 3 squads of Tyranid warriors, who had manage to outflank the Space Wolf attack, crashed into the Wolf Rune-priest and brothers in arms, causing many casualties including a mortal wound on the wolf psyker himself.

As the Tyranids tore through the power armoured warriors, the Hive Tyrant known as Pesadelo Voando swooped in on wings of leathery skin to snatch the Relic only to be instantly blown from the sky as every Space Wolf bolter, missile launcher and chainsword was aimed in his direction.

With the massive biomorph smashing into the city streets the Space Wolves were able to grab the priceless relic and evacuate the warzone just in time for extraction.

Victory to the Space Wolves.

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Experience rolls still to be made for this game.

Also this round a massive warp storm struck the Vogen area, clearing almost as soon as it had started.

Once the flashes of arcane energy caused by this storm had dissipated the forces of Chaos were nowhere to be seen.........

New map update and new moves coming soon!

Introducing the Wolfs

Rune Priest Bjornsson had been tasked by Lord Ragnar himself with consolidating the Imperial hold on Vogen.

“Floki….Sigemund, are the men ready?” Sigfast knew they would be but in the battle barge’s war room protocols needed to be followed.

“The blood claws are chomping at the bit priest” announced Floki with a grin on his face, “they are ready to blood the new recruits”

“Intel shows it may not be as easy as we thought Lord Bjornsson” a call came from the banks of screens just outside the war room doors.

“Show me” Sigfast bellowed as he moved over to the holotable, the main city had the standard green hue with the populated areas showing up slightly white with the mass of the population, then as they looked areas started to show red area’s which grew in size. They knew of the Chaos Horde which had been left behind in hiding after the last war but this was new.

“What are we looking at?” Sigemund called, a serf came in with a data slate and handed it to the Wolf Guard………..” Tyranids!!!”

“Fleet wide access protocol” the Rune Priest said in a calm yet booming voice, “This is Sigfast Bjornsson, ready the assault craft, war is upon Vogen and we have been tasked by our Lord Blackmane to take it to the Chaos filth, now we have alien scum wanting to taste our wrath” they could hear his voice across the entire fleet as if he was stood next to each and every one of them “For Russ and The All Farther let them wish they had left this planet alone”

……..The Hunt was about to begin.

Say Hello to the Boyz

As the weirdboy's muttering died away so did the green, electrical energy that was popping through the air. After coughing up a large gobbet of phlegm the wizened old weirdboy turned to his Warboss that was looming nearby.
"Boyz sez theres a fight brewin' back on Khai-Zann, sum city named..."

"VOGEN!!!", the red eyes of the Warboss glinted.

"..err, yeah. Boyz sez there's beakies all over and...."

"Oi, Kaptin, turn this crate around!"
Warboss Uzgut Foulbowel, Grand Overlord of the Kyn Shm system, turned to face the greenskin throng that had assembled on the command deck of the Killkroozer...
"Boyz, we'z goin' back to Vogen!!"

A raucous "WAAAGHHHH" echoed around the large chamber only to drowned out by the noise of the kroozer's massive engines firing up....

Uzgut FoulBowel, Grand Warlord of the Kyn Shm System

Warlord Uzgut and his most trusted advisors / drinking buddies

 (if you look carefully you can see two of the most recently conquered planets in the background!)

Big Mek Dofnutz

Hey, The Lights Are Still on!

He...Hello?

So the blog still exists!

Its been a while but I thought I'd actually use the blog again, so in between writing my thesis on "Whats App Killed The Blog" I'll throw the odd post up here.

Mostly it'll be to track the 40K Campaign we've just kicked off but who knows, maybe I'll feel inspired to blog some more things too!

Return to Vogen

So some of us decided a 40K campaign would be a good idea as its been a while and whilst I had grand ideas of writing a system spanning epic (one day, one day) an old adage came back to me - Keep It Simple.
So the Vogen campaign from White Dwarf number, err, really old, came back to me.
I really enjoyed planning this and its largely what brought us together as a group in the first place!
Touching!
I mean, it IS touching, not touching in the group.....
Anyway......

I found the rules online have dusted them off and fitted them to the current edition. I also plan to make a dedicated page to upload the rules, maps, armies, anything relevant too as well. Soon.

To kick off I present the map following the opening moves:

This is a temporary map until I find a why to print A3....

The campaign players:

Simon- Space Wolves
Elliot - Tau
Me - Orks
Matt - Chaos (first Campaign)
Chris - Tyranids (didn't see that coming!

After some cagey territory grabs the first conflict is between me and Elliot.
May the best Ork win!

Hobby Round up Week 43

Welcome to another week of hobby updates. Again, only a small update this week.

Elliot has been hard at work adding some more Marines to his Blood Angels, with another five well on their way.

After finishing his second Slaaneshi Hellflayer (no picture as its virtually identical to the one shown last week) he has used his week off work to finish a new player for his Morticians Guild Ball team. Say hello to Mist.

As well as finishing a new player, Chris has also created a Christmas pudding ball ready for the Festive Balls tournament in December.

Hobby Round up Week 28

It's Sunday again, Wimbledon has finished and the school holidays have either just begun, or almost on us depending on where you live. Welcome to our hobby update!

 

Big Papa has been working in multiple scales; the first few shots are on some 6/10mm scenery he has made, and some self sculpted 10mm 40k figures for scale

 

 

Back to 28mm and some Jungle bases, mounted on 40mm poker chips

 

Big Papa has also been continuing with his Guild Ball players, this time its Ox

 

 

And finally this week for Big Papa, a 28mm Egyptian scenery piece, which is heading to eBay to fund future projects

 

Simon has started his 7th Guild Ball Mason, hopefully soon we'll see a Mortician and Mason contest again on a Wednesday

 

After finishing his Tau army, Elliot has been making some progress on his Malifaux collection. 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris has also been working on some Malifaux, here we have three Monks of the Low River 

 

Chris has also been building some Deadzone scenery, in preparation for a future battle, hopefully in a few Wednesdays time.

 

Tau Army

You may have wondered why you haven't seen many hobby updates from Elliot recently, well we can finally reveal what he's been up to.

 

Elliot has been working on a new Tau army, and it is now complete, well as complete as any army is these days. It comes in at around 2000 points and looking for an opponent in the near future.

 

 

Pesky Drones

Three Broadside Battle Suits

Path Finders

More Path Finders

An Ethereal

Fire Warriors



More Fire Warriors

Even more Fire Warriors

Devilfish

Hammerhead

Riptide

A Second Riptide

Razorshark Strike Fighter

Kroot

A plethora of Battle Suits