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With this month's hobby budget I decided to buy something to transport my infantry . For too long my infantry have rattled along loose in a tray while I drive hoping I don't have to slam my brakes on. So I took the plunge and grabbed this carrier. It holds 200 infantry so that's took up all my infantry. The squares are a little tight for 32mm base but I can pull the middle out of two squares to make a bigger square.
It's really nice and was reasonably priced plus there is space for maybe a unit or 2 more. I have one unit coming from France off Etsy so that will be a new addition to the army!
It's been a busy few weeks as the oldest has to choose his secondary school but I have been doing some painting!
Up doesn't are some Ogryns you saw unpainted I'm my last blog post.
I'm super chuffed with these I especially like the leader who will be my proxy Nork Deddog. He looks very dapper in his coat. All painted with speed paints and the new metallic speed paint. The colour scheme is similar to my Krieg squad to keep a theme going through. Granted they were fairly simple to paint with not a huge amount of detail but I love em I can't lie.
Next up is some Krieg Death Marshall's to bolster my Krieg squads (Give me that feel no pain please!)
Again all painted with speed paint. I really like the power claws on them. Also the same scheme so no I have a bit of uniformity across my Krieg. I know lots of people use darker colours but that seems a bit drab to me .
Last but not least the beast that is a Rogal Dorn
So it was my birthday last month and add usual I asked for a bunch of models (mostly GW can't lie). I was blessed enough too get a few things. The aim is to chill on the Guard models now as I have quite a collection now. I am trying to pick up a few things I wanted but haven't got. So my family got me a Rogal Dorn! A beast of a tank I have to say. Not the easiest kit in the world to build but as down and undercoated awaiting is place in the paint queue.
It's a beast and has many many guns!!!!!
Next up was done Kasrkin. Now I had some of these proxied with other miniatures but I really like the Kasrkin sculpts so took the opportunity to get them. Now these have managed to be painted!! I had a simple colour scheme in my head and I think it works
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| This guy is my favourite |
I liked the idea of a winter type camo with red visors. What do you guys think?
I will say after painting a while with speed paints I need to be a bit braver to paint stuff on top of it. There were some details.i could have picked out on the las guns on a different colour. I will try that next time .
Now next up was a surprise, a parcel arrived which I assumed was for me as I have some Krieg look alikes coming off Etsy. But no the legend that was Alex of Alex does hobby fame! Inside were some ogryns and bulgryns from etsy (handily the same type of scheme that my Krieg are from. Grim guard on Etsy check em out!) These look awesome and are next to paint!
I love these guys so much character! The leader I will use a proxy for Nork Deddog . I'm gonna do them in the same scheme as my Krieg so it's all a bit consistent.
And that's that well I know I have one more model or there with family just not been delivered yet.
I also got cyberpunk from my awesome friend Dave so that's ok my PS5 at the moment!
I haven't mentioned it on here in a post I don't think but I have been playing on a gaming club league! My friend a while ago joined a gaming club and I've been a few times but with shift work and family life not a lot. When they started a blood bowl league I jumped at the chance . One game every 2 weeks I thought I should be able to manage, so far so good. The league's been good fun I have played about 6 or 7 games so far. I took halflings and have played dwarves, dark elves , wood elves, lizardmen, chaos renegades and black orcs.
It's been great fun , I have even managed a few wins as well. The league gives points for touchdowns and casualties as well as wins and draws so I am second from last n the league ha ha ha though I do seem to be providing a nice challenge for players as most haven't played halflings before. I have had surprisingly few deaths (so far! Only half way though) and I even managed to have one match where I caused most casualties! Great fun all round and am really glad I joined up.
I have been on need of a troop transport for a while. My guard die quite early when there is not a lot of cover! The chimeras are nice but I fancied something different (and cheaper). After many months of looking I had found not many but had seen 2 on Etsy. Handily from the same company Culverin Models (here's the link for their Etsy store). The 2 options were
Both look very distinctive but I settled on the bottom one. It's called the Ursa troop transport (£18 though at moment it's on sale for £14! 29th July when I wrote this). The top one was cool but I wasn't feeling the open transport section.
So I ordered and eagerly awaited the delivery. When it arrived I was apprehensive as I had not bought a model off Etsy before but I was pleasantly surprised.
I'm assuming it's 3d printed. All the parts are nice and chunky and with clear ways they stick together. I had to do next to no to no prep work on it. You also get a nice selection of guns to choose from. Obviously I'm sure magnets would give you many options here but I don't do well with magnets so I went with 2 flamers!! Mwha ha ha ha
The build went nice and smooth the only minor hiccup was I ran out of super glue half way through. So had to buy some more but then I ploughed onwards!
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| Boom! Built |
I have finally acquired the Guard models I really always wanted. Gaunts Ghosts! My favourite books from Games Workshop is now my army leading command squad. As you can imagine these were built and undercoated in lighting time! So here's the results!
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| Colonel -Commissar Gaunt |
The main man himself! My new army warlord, armed with his trusty chainsword and bolt pistol ready to lead his Ghosts and my army to victory! (Hopefully)
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| Mkoll |
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| Colonel Colm Corbec |
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| Try Again Bragg |
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| Major Elim Rawne |
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| Hlaine Larkin |
The behemoth that is 40k has arrived with a new edition!!!! Now I still have fond memories of the 2nd edition and getting murdered constantly by my cousin's eldar or tryanids. All the things I've read and watched give me good vibes (not even the huge queues at Warhammer fest will put me off), I'm not going to rush out and buy the box set as the rules are free online so that suits me . I liked the fact all the data sheets for all the units are free online (I'm still a bit dubious as I know GW likes their money so a wary eye is always on them). I really like the new points, now I see both sides some people like planning intricate lists but I like the fact I can pick a unit and add what I want. Yes on a competitive side those players will always take the best combo but as you all know Rule of Cool is number one!! Plus me and magnets don't get on so I am stuck with whatever I have glued on at the time. I'm happy with that!
The rules seem simpler and I like how they have moved certain stats onto the weapon profiles and they are all on the card for easy reference. Will save me having to flick through books and battlescribe during the game as I can just look at the card for that unit. My awesome folks have printed the data sheets out for me (only the ones I need for Astra Militarum as there is over 100 pages but all the Votann)
The data sheets have changed my army somewhat but nothing drastic Just a re-think and adjustment. I've heard this word a lot on YouTube so I'm stealing it. Sinergy seems to be the key with the Guard. With the army special rules being orders I need to learn to spread out officers and add them to squads now which is a new thing! This way can issue orders to all units and get the best out of them. Commissars look much improved now, able to give orders and keep units from being battle shocked by using Summary execution to persuade the unit to stay in the fight.
I will have to get used to some changes but now I can try a 20 catachan blob led by Colonel Stracken and Sgt Harker (proxy)! But excitingly I may have a new warlord on the horizon!!! I'll keep you updated on that!!
The Votann took a hit with 10th going from the elite army I thought they were to a more average army and I was planning on changing armies but I decided to stick with them. So my next purchases should be aiming at boosting my votann list though again this could change and they get sold. I'm in two minds at the moment
All in all in looking forward to trying the astra Militarum in 10th edition! Hopefully we will get our codex before 11th!!!!
**Warning Heavy Games Workshop content gonna keep it all to this post so you can ignore if you want **
So this weekend I went to Warhammer Fest with my cousin and oldest . This was his first foray into GW proper. I was quite excited as I have never been to a GW event before and my son was excited and intrigued. Me and my cousin were looking forward to hopefully finding more out about 10th edition (and maybe get some models). There was all the Golden Demon entries to look at as well.
We arrived and my son was blown away by first the 2 cosplay he saw. A tau stealth suit and a Chaos space marine terminator. Then we hit the shop to get it out the way the queue for the till was massive!!!! (we soon found out this was to be a thing for the two days we were there) I picked up a event exclusive commissar and my son picked up a get started with 40k book.
My cousin grabbed an exclusive chaos marine and some kill team terrain. After the hour queue to pay we had a look around. Saw some more cos play, the new tryanid models and space marine models. The tryanid models looked really nice!! I'm quite tempted by the ravenous hordes! The new space marines did look very cool also.
Though the only photo I got of the space marines was from the back so a bit pointless putting it on here for you. After this we had a go on the Squigapult!
This was quite difficult but we managed to win a pen!! Next to the Squigapult was a titan legions battle going on except the titans were 40k scale!!!!! It looked awesome I have to say.
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| Very careful foot placement needed here! |
Also on display by the titans was a very impressive 40k scale Imperator titan. This thing was a beast!!
This thing was almost as tall as my son! We then had to remove my cousin from the area as he was getting buying a 40k scale titan vibes. We joined another queue! For the hang out and paint after a brief hour wait we sat down with our free mini. Me and my son picked a space marine and my cousin picked an age of sigmar storm cast warrior. We sat and painted for a while. It was really good fun and my sons first proper try at painting a miniature.
My sons on left, cousins in the middle and mine on the right. I really like the yellow on bolt gun.
After this we had a bit more of a look round. There was a section of warhammer computer games which looked awesome. Again massive queue so didn't get to play any but Battle sector looks good. Also the new Boltgun looks brilliant!! We went and had a look at the golden demon entries. We did half and then left for the day and got soaked in a torrential rainstorm! The next day we went back our plan get in early and get in the queue to play 10th edition! Mission................. Failed we stood in the queue for around 10 minutes to be informed it was more than a 3 hour wait! Me and my cousin maybe could have been able to do this but not my 9 year old. So disappointed we gave up on that idea. Back into another queue. The models were all awesome and the talent on display was immense. Then we watched the cos play parade. My son was a big fan of the space marine suits. There was more attempts at the Squigapult and a quick look at an app called combat cards then we headed out there and home!
Overall we had a good time! And it was good seeing all the amazing painted models and showing my son the models, the lore and the amazing community. The queues were the only down point for me. The shop not sure what you could have done about that but hangout and paint or trying 10th edition they could have easily implemented a time slot booking system or even as simple as take a ticket and wait for your number to be called. I'll drop some pictures of my favourite models that I saw.
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| Awesome Led use here |
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| Amazing epic Rhino! |
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| The epoxy resin work here is amazing! |
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| 6mm gretchin!! |
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| Awesome Catachan model |
