Sons of Horus vs Shattered Legion of Isstvan III - Winters SEO Battle Report!!

Hey gang,

Here's the battle report I filmed last week with Winters SEO, his Sons of Horus versus my Shattered Legion, it was an absolute belter of a game with much fun had by both of us :) I hope you enjoy watching it too!

Peace out,

Rob

Warhammer Fest Golden Demon - A Finalist Pin! (Finally)

Hey all,

So I went to Warhammer Fest this Sunday gone with Serena (my girlfriend) and had an absolute blast! Not only was there lots to see and do, but I also got to have a quick catch up with the lovely Mike of StandWargaming as well as finally chat with Lawrence and the Chef from Table Top Tactics! 

All the staff were as lovely and friendly as you can expect from all Games Workshop events and there is plenty to interest someone not massively into the hobby like Serena, who also had a great time chatting to the designers and playing the video games...well worth a watch that one!!

But for me the big deal was entering the Golden Demon! I'm not exactly aiming for the top spot, but I am aiming to get to the finalist stages at the moment, I'll set my eyes on a bronze in the future I assure you! And I was very very pleased to come away with a finalist pin for my Yncarne model!! Particularly pleasing was that there were 3-4 other Yncarne models on show and mine was the only one to make the finalist stage so I was very pleased. 

Warhammer Fest is the biggest unrestricted Golden Demon Event in the UK with the others throughout the year having themes such as Enemies of the Imperium. The field was massive and absolutely beautiful. Go follow the link to Mike's blog above to see some of the stunning entries!

I'm very pleased with my pin and I will be aiming higher at the next one :) For now here are some pictures of my Yncarne that won me a pin, I re-painted the hair for the event and I think that was key!

Peace out,

Rob

BREAKING NEWS - Horus Heresy Staying with 7th Edition!?

Hey guys,

The slide says it all, a modified 7th edition rulebook tailored specifically for the Horus Heresy. I genuinely did not see this coming and was very convinced that 8th edition would be used with the Horus Heresy AND that it would be a brilliant move for the game overall. 

Obviously this doesn't mean this will be a bad move, so I shall remain optimistic with how they will modify 7th edition to remove the problem of things like the psychic phase particularly.

Peace out,

Rob

Warhammer Fest Reminder and Winters SEO Battle Report

Hey all,

Just a quick reminder that I will be at warhammer fest this Sunday so please do come and say hi if you are around and have a natter :)

In other news, I filmed a battle report with my shattered legion against Winters SEO's Sons of Horus yesterday and it was an awesome game! I will give you all a heads up when it arrives. Plus we may have discussed some other future plans which should be exciting ;)

Just a short post today, I'll probably be absent for a few days with prep for warhammer fest and the Ban Holiday off with my lovely girlfriend Serena (who is also coming to warhammer fest!) but I'll be back next week in short order :)

Peace out,

Rob

8th Edition and Horus Heresy - Thoughts with Winters SEO

Hey all!

I played a game with a Winters SEO today and we sat down to chat about how we think 8th edition will work with the Horus Heresy/30k.

Check it out :)

Peace out,

Rob

Hobby Space Bomb Site and Deathwing Land Raider - What a Difference a Day Makes

Hey ho,

Last night was one of those days when I looked at my desk and thought... I think I might be addicted... And I should really tidy this up! On my desk alone, we have Belisarius Cawl, 12 Imperial Militia, a mid-conversion Militia walkin Proteus, the Yncarne, a Culexus Assassin, a Wraithblade, Mortarion the Reaper and two Land Raiders!!

Yaaaaaay! Happy hobby space all round... But I will be tidying this up come the weekend I think! Saturday is going to be given over to tidying both the desk and also a few miniatures that are going to Warhammer Fest with me that just don't cut the mustard quite yet. The Yncarne's hair being one of those. Here's a few other snaps:

And in other news, you can see in the pictures above the progress I made last night on the second Deathwing Land Raider. Here's the last side by side picture I showed you:

And here is the side by side after an evening of work:

Obviously the lighting isn't as good! But I'm pleased with how far that came. All the highlights are needed now! Then I can work on the peripherals, once this beast is done, I just need to finish the bases off for the Deathwing termies and then you'll get a shot of the whole force :)

Peace out,

Rob

8th Edition Release Date and Starter Box Revealed!

Hey gang,

The Dark Imperium!!! Pre-orders are in June 3rd and the release is June 17th! This looks fantastic! Even if you don't like the Primaris marines in the fluff or in looks, everyone can get behind how beautiful those death guard are! For the price point that GW usually puts starter sets this looks to be great value for money, with a hard back rulebook as well!

I am very much in the mind for getting this and converting the shit out of those Primaris marines!! 

Additionally they have confirmed the Index books that will update all of the codices until each faction has an individual book released:

This is EXACTLY what they needed to do for the release of 8th and they are knocking it out of the park. 

AND they have also released info for updated Forgeworld books, starting with Chaos and Imperium.

Colour me excited :)

Peace out,

Rob

Slowly Slowy - Do the Belisarius Crawl!!

Good morrow!

Another minor update! This guy has really been sucking the life out of me I must say. It doesn't help that I realised I don't have any plasticard left so I couldn't make hay while the sun shines on his base, I had to settle for just gluing the grilled section down. I won't be adding to much to his base as there simply isn't that much damn room (go on a diet Bellysarius). 

But the glow was pop colours were the final big hurdle anyway so I was pleased to get them done on this cranky old bugger. He's nearly ready to receive his true mantle of Anacharis Scoria and go and break games and primarchs over his knee. 

On a side note, I am hoping with the advent of 8th edition and Forge World converting over to 8th that they will take the time to re-balance Scoria to a more palatable version for playing with. There a good few other things that I think need poking with 30k and 8th but that is a post for another time my friends. 

Peace out,

Rob

30k Imperial Militia - Progress!!

Hey gang,

Today I have a little update on my Imperial Militia force. I'm trying to really crack on and get these finished ASAP. Partly because they have been lying around for aaaages and partly because I really like the overall theme and I just want to play with them!! 

As I've said before I'm very much rush painting these gals but part of that is making them look rough and ready where possible! Helps hide all the glaring mess and short cuts I've been taking :P! I've now painted 15 sniper scouts, a 10 man squad, 2 vehicles and 3 squads of 2 laser rapier destroyer arrays. All of these are third party made or converted from third party miniatures, so you'll have to excuse license I've taken with size and design...

Here's just a quick look at three of the infantry, with the sergeant in the middle:

And here are three of the converted Laser Destroyer arrays:

I still have a regular 10 man squad to paint, the Force commander and a 9 man command squad, plus 2 crew members for each Destroyer array - another 12. So that gives me 32 infantry to paint and 1 more walking tank to convert and paint. 

That will be everything I own for this army painted... BUT I have recently received a back dated pay rise which will come through this month so I will be buying the rest of the force very soon! Which will involve 9 sentinels from an old plastic game (oooh mystery) aaaaand a giant walking tank to count as a Baneblade.... Oh yes. 

Hopefully you are finding the variety in miniatures a little interesting if not the quality of the paint job!

Peace out,

Rob

Deathwing Land Raiders - Something Old & Something New....

Hey all,

Just wanted to show you the difference between a finished Deathwing Land Raider and one that is just undercoated! Nothing too exciting, but it pleased me to look at how far a model comes :)

Peace out,

Rob

Belisarius Cawl - 75% Done!

Hey diddly ho,

More work on Belisarius Cawl!! Getting there... slowly getting there with this monstrosity of a model. By and large all the major components are done, the main stages left are to add colour where power is flowing through the model, this will mostly be in the shape of blue OSL to match the rest of the mechanicum, but I may throw an odd bit of green in there as well for a servo skulls eyes or such. 

Secondary to that is making and painting the base to completion! Then I can glue the whole thing together and be done with it. 

I've very much gone for a tired and knackered look to the whole model, nothing to clean about it, generally in keeping with the rest of my mechanicum and my painting style in general. This model has lent itself to that style well I think. I'm actually weirdly proud of the skulls colour on this model, just quite pleased with how the white turned out!

Looking forward to getting a splash of complimenting colour on it though, that should really make it "pop". 

Peace out,

Rob

A Deathly Pet Project and Deathwing Land Raider

Hey y'all,

So I picked up Mortarion the Reaper from Heresy Trading on Facebook some time ago now. I had originally been planning to start a Deathguard force, but I decided that I was pushing my time and funds a little to hard with that endeavour! Especially since I have a chunk of Sisters of Silence lying in wait... I just need their vehicle to be released!!

But I have kept hold of him as a little painting project and I've decided to start work on him fairly soon, just little odds and sods in my idle time more than anything. I bought him without his scenic base and he was pre-built and undercoated so I still need to decided where I'm going with his colours and whether he needs to be re-under coated.

It is one oft he best Primarch models out there in my opinion and really gives off a sense of dread! I'm looking forward to laying some paint down on him very much. (Just noticed I'm missing an exhaust.... hopefully that is in his box somewhere!). 

In other news I have got some way with all the gubbins that were missing from the Deathwing Land Raider in its last pictures. This one will be a crusader to make good use of the extra space and fill it full of terminators I'm sure! 

Loads of odds and sods to do on this chap still. The lights will be getting some soft OSL added and I do need to retrospectively drill the bolters (my bad!), but overall its taking good shape :)

Peace out,

Rob

Belisarius Cawl - Progress Cawling Along

Hey gang,

Belisarius Cawl is one of those models where you feel like you have spent ages adding neat little touches to it and yet you don't appear to have made any progress!! That said, the pictures below are very nearly complete. The book at his feet needs a few more highlights and the skin needs a few pallid touch ups. Mostly though I need to add some blue OSL to the many generator aspects on his carapace hide which will tie him into the scheme with the rest of my Mechanicum very nicely. 

Before I can do that though I need to bring all the other gubbins up to scratch and glue them on, otherwise I might have to find myself adding glow to a single piece at once or worse, find that I've added glow where there should be shadow!

Peace out,

Rob