Imperial Militia Artillery and Rot Cometh to All...

Hey gang,

I've managed to get the artillery teams painted for my Imperial Militia today! So here's a few shots of all 12 of them (two for each rapier laser destroyer) and also a few shots of them with their weapons! I've also managed to finish building and undercoating, not only the last walking Proteus, but also my counts as sentinels! So I'll have some pictures of them up soon. The only thing left to buy and convert is my counts as walking Baneblade tank, so hopefully I'll have that ordered by the end of June. 

This all adds up to a 3000 point Imperial Militia list, which with 30k staying with a modified 7th, will largely remain unchanged I would imagine. The tone of their presentation was very much one of leaving the red books, and therefore the points cost of models alone.

This leaves me, the Proteus, 20 infantry, 9 sentinels and a Baneblade to paint up and then to base all of them! Not too far to go though and I guesstimate they will be done by the end of July or early August, at which point they will be played thoroughly!

In other news... NURGLE COMES!

Hopefully that's enough to tease you but in the event that is isn't... keep your eye on the blog next week. I may have some surprises coming before the release of 8th models wise ;)

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

Imperial Militia Command Squad - WIP

Good Afternoon al,l,

I've been hard at work recently trying to really get some good progress on building all the remaining models I have for my larger Heresy army projects. This involves Belisarius Cawl, who is currently still in various states of sub assembly before I get round to under coating him (crappy weather getting in the way), AND building my all raging heroes Imperial Militia. 

I have a total of 43 Infantry models for my Imperial Militia, 3 Tanks (currently) and 9 laser destroyer arrays. Two of the Tanks are built and painted, the Laser arrays are built but need a few bits of green stuffing magnet holes that were pre drilled, and now I have my entire command Squad built. 

The command Squad will have the Force Commander (sword pointing out), the Platoon Commander (sword pointing down), the Standard Bearer, Vox Operator (only one without a helmet) and 6 Grenade Launchers in it! These will all be in one of the counts as Proteus tanks I've shown you before. 

Part of the reason that I have been so determined to make headway on these has been the upcoming advent of 8th Edition, where I'd like to give a lot of my attention over to that, but mostly it has been because April was my designated off month from working on Commissions. I have just one customer right now, but boy do I have A LOT of stuff to do for him. 

As well as finish off the Dark Angels I already have built and ready to go under the paint brush, I have a WHOLE Ravenwing army to build and paint, plus some greenwing as well. This will keep me busy up till October which is the deadline for getting this done. I very kindly have permission to play with this army as well, so hopefully I will be able to get some games of 40k in when the new rules drop and see how it plays.

Expect to see a lot of Dark Angels over the coming months, as well as continued progress on the Militia, Cawl and also another Tank for my Solar Auxilia. Whilst I had been done with them, I now have decided to move a Tank that was for the Militia over to the Auxilia, as I want ALL of my Militia tanks to be walking tanks. 

Have a great weekend,

Peace out,

Rob

Imperial Militia Commanders - Raging Heroes Iron Empire

Hey all,

Whilst the fr8 train of warhammer 40k thunders on (did you see what I did there, did you!??) I've been whacking some more time into my Imperial militia using Raging heroes miniatures. As said before, I'm really trying to churn these out, which means that I have rather a lot to photograph with only a small light box. So I'm just going to give you odd tasters and then drop some big group pictures whenever I get a chance to take my gaming table out. 

I have a cat now that likes to make its presence known, so this will not be as often as it was... I wonder what stats it will get in 8th edition...

Anyway, here we have the undercoated miniatures I'll be using for my force commander and the standard bearer of the command squad :) I've also got another painted up sniper showing off one of the other poses, but I've actually knocked out 15 of these gals all painted up now in the simple, blue/white/camo scheme. Progress! I have a second tank painted up as well. A third to go and about 40 miniatures in total, plus 6 laser arrays before I have to make some more purchases.

Raging Heroes - Imperial Militia

Hey hang,

Just a quick post today. I'm painting up a chunk of Raging Heroes miniatures to act as an all female imperial militia. Much like the Shattered Legion, I won't be pouring my heart and soul into each and every miniature as I am more concerned with getting a decent looking army on the table to have fun with. I will be putting special attention on the HQs and the like however. 

Just a single sniper today working the scheme up. I haven't developed the scheme myself, but there is a very good reason for that, and I will divulge the reasons eventually!

Hopefully be painting up a good chunk of these over the next week, there will be 15 in total in 3 x 5 man squads. 

Peace out,

Rob

Showing Off - Raging Heroes Delivery

Just a note to say this arrived today!

Hand is for scale!

Peace out,

Rob