Posts Tagged ‘40K’

Slew of New Warhammer Pictures

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

I have finally gotten around to taking pictures of most of the minis I have done in the last year and a half!

From end of 2009 to the spring of 2010 I finished my Chaos Space Marine 40K army, now at around 1750 pts. This summer and fall, I also finished off my first Warhammer Fantasy army… 2000 pts of Lizardmen (just in time to start 8th edition, which rocks in my opinion). Just recently, I have started my second Fantasy army: Vampire Counts. I have completed the start of both a unit of Ghouls and Skeletons, using Kings of War figures from Mantic (about 1/2 my planned VC army will be Mantic figs.) I have also painted a few one-off minis and a small batch of War of the Ring units, but those pics will come later.

My painting log has been updated. Pics follow…

Vampire Counts (using Mantic figs):

Lizardmen:

Chaos Space Marines:

- Robin

Video Battle Report – Chaos vs Fists

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

I was able to get in a 1250pt game of 40K with my buddy Jarrett this weekend. He is trying out some HD video battle reports (which you can see more of here, so we gave it a go for our game. I think it turned out pretty well, save for serving as a record where we cheated (I think you *should* be able to auto hit something that deep strikes that turn! :p )

Part 1:

Part 2:

Cheers,

Robin

Back in Edmonton, Colton and I do Battle!

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Liz and I are now back in Edmonton, and settled in quite nicely.

My brother Colton visited for the weekend, and we even managed to get in a game of Warhammer 40K. Pictures here!

Cheers,

Robin

Plague Marines

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

This is the first of my unit of Plague Marines. I wanted to create a plaguey, Nurgley colour while still keeping some of my army’s overall black and gold scheme. There is also some minor conversion work: hooked hand, head from the Rhino kit, holes and cuts added, as well as removing the skulls from the bolters and adding them to one of the shoulder pads. Now onto the next batch!

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Robin

Strange Markers

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

First off, Liz and I are almost done a new travel blog post, this time about the Cotswolds in England. We are planning on doing several more posts to finish up our pictures of England and Scotland.

As for this update, I have finished painting up a few things. The latest edition of Warhammer 40K uses a lot of objective-based scenarios (where you fight over the spots marked by the objectives), so I have painted up 3 Chaos-themed objective markers. I don’t have background story for them yet, but I think the 4-way sign post might be ‘all ways lead to Chaos’ or something cheesey like that.

I have also been playing a lot of my Cygnar army for Warmachine lately (I am currently sitting 3rd in our league of 15 or so players), and I am really excited about my new list that will be revealed this weekend, which includes Captain Arlan Strangeways, warjack mechanic extraordinaire. I really enjoyed painting him up. I was finally able to buy the colours I needed for his face off of ebay. His pipe and the little dials and gauges on his chest and backpack were fun to paint.

 

Cheers,

Robin

40K Battle Report: Chaos vs. Sisters

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

I had a great game today with a new friend I have met in Toronto, Adam. His Sisters of Battle against my Chaos Space Marines, a small 500pt battle. I thought I would try to do up a battle report, as I had my camera with me. Here goes :p

Sisters of Battle

Black Legion Chaos

The stage was set… my Chaos Space Marines led by a Khorne-marked Daemon Prince, and two small squads of Chaos Marines, one with an Icon of Khorne (transported in the Rhino), and one with an Icon of Nurgle. Both squads had an Aspiring Champ with Power Fist.

Sisters of Battle

Sisters of Battle

The Sisters army consisted of two Rhinos with 10-women squads each, along with Adam’s HQ choice (using the Celestine Living Saint model, but it was just a regular HQ of some sort, with a power sword).

Game On!

We rolled Capture and Control, with 3 objectives (luckily I had just finished making 3 objectives for my CSM), and the table-quarters deployment.

Here we go!

Here we go!

You can see the 3 objectives labelled above.

Sisters take on the Daemon Prince

Sisters take on the Daemon Prince

The first few turns saw the Daemon Prince head towards the Sisters, but unfortunately the Sisters responded by unloading both Rhinos… all twenty sisters disembarked and then took aim at the Daemon Prince with Melta and Bolter guns.

Daemon Prince needed to roll 3's... Fail

Daemon Prince needed to roll 3's... Fail

The first squad did two wounds to the Daemon Prince, leaving him at half life. The next round of firing landed three hits on the Daemon Prince… he of course needed to roll 3′s to save, and as you can see above, all three dice came up 2′s. No more Daemon Prince. He didn’t even get his claws dirty.

Sisters and Chaos Space Marines gets stuck in

Sisters and Chaos Space Marines gets stuck in

The squad of Chaos Marines with the Khorne icon (yay for extra attacks!) charged the Sisters to enact their revenge after the early decimation of the Daemon Prince.

Run away! Run away!

Run away! Run away!

After a few rounds of close combat, both sides had been whittled down, with only one squad of Sisters remaining, the Chaos Champ and Icon Bearer, and the Sisters HQ choice failing a morale check and almost running off the table in retreat. Unfortunately, the Sisters HQ choice rallied, and re-entered the fray.

Two Rhinos face off in no-man's land

Two Rhinos face off in no-man's land

Strategy tip 101: don’t bother ramming a Rhino with another Rhino when you are only three inches away. :) I wanted to try out the ramming rules, but since I didn’t build up any speed, I don’t even think we scratched the paint when we connected (there is statistically no way to do damage if you move less than nine inches. Now I know, heh.) I do think the airbags deployed, which means spending $$ getting the damn things repacked.

Mid-battle overhead shot

Melta gunner takes aim at enemy Rhino

Melta gunner takes aim at enemy Rhino

While all the action was going on near Objective #3, the Nurgle icon squad snuck down to Objective #2, and started taking pot-shots at the Sister’s Rhino. They stunned it once, but that was all. I am sending my Melta gunner back to sharp shooting school.

And stay down!

And stay down!

The close combat fighting went down to the wire. The only two combatants left where the Chaos Champ with Power Fist, and the Sisters HQ choice. As you can see, the Blood God was smiling as the Champ put down the Sister once and for all.

Game Over Man

I have only played 40K about five times, and almost every time the game has ended early at the end of turn 5. This time was no exception.

Troops claim the objective for the win

Troops claim the objective for the win

Final Result: Chaos wins! Objectives #1 and #3 where both contested, but the Nurgle icon squad camped #2 and claimed it uncontested, sqeaking out the win! Also, the only thing remaining of the Sisters’ army were the two Rhinos. A good day for Chaos!

Thanks for the game Adam – I had a *blast*. 

Cheers,
Robin

More Painting

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Hey all! First off, Liz and I still do have plans to post the rest of our UK tour pics, not sure when, but they are coming. :)

I have been able to continue painting on a regular basis, along with playing a decent amount of games lately. My Warmachine league play has been a lot of fun, but I haven’t yet played as much 40K as I would like. Now that I have my Rhino completed (my first ever vehicle), I will try and get some more games in. Also, I have provided a quick pic of the station setup I use for taking pics.

Cygnar (Warmachine): 

Chaos Space Marines (Warhammer 40K):

 

 

My Lightbox Setup: 

Cheers!

Robin

Painting Up A Storm

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Happy New Year! We have taken a small break from posting for the holidays, but have plans to complete posts that will cover our fall tour of England and Scotland, so stay tuned. Today, I wanted to post an update with lots of pictures of one of the hobbies that has been keeping me busy since we landed in Toronto. I have started putting together a Warhammer 40K army of Chaos Space Marines, and have now painted up my first 500 pts (pictures below). I am also posting up my Warmachine Cygnar army (pictures taken by Jarrett Lee – thanks man!)

My plans this year are to play both 40K and Warmachine on a regular basis, while keeping to as much painting as I can. I have joined a local Warmachine league that starts this weekend (and goes for 3 months), and there are a couple of Games Workshops nearby (including a battle bunker with lots of tables), so finding 40K games should be easy. Woohoo!

Chaos Space Marines (Warhammer 40K):

 

Cygnar (Warmachine):

This was the first army I painted up back in Edmonton. I have a couple of Centurions almost done that will be completed once I get my Chaos Space Marines up a bit more in points.

That’s all for this week. Take care!

Robin