The Race to 100

This year has been slow as far as hobby progress is considered - the past few years I've managed 200+ miniatures.  With my armies getting closer to completion, this year has been about terrain, large vehicles, and random characters.

However, I think my goal of 100 before the end of the year is do-able.  I normally don't count terrain but I'm going to cheat and count the tractors!

The Rogue Trader from Blackstone Fortress (complete with immediately-dropped-and-broken bits...)

Spindle Drones, and Ur Ghouls from the Blackstone Fortress game.  Not much use for these, but easy to paint up.

 

Some of the tractors assembled for use with games and as terrain.

 

Chaos Beastmen from Blackstone Fortress - shown alongside a cultist for scale.

 

Two more Falcon bodies - they don't really fit in the lighting box.  Magnetized for use as Night Spinners or Fire Prisms. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yderis Awakens

After a lengthy armament programme was carried out for the Wandering Sons, I've put a lot of elbow grease into bringing the somewhat meagre forces of the Yderis Craftworld back to the fore.

Two 'Hornets' to replace the ugly Vypers I sold off on eBay a while back - note I deleted the small winglets on the Hornets as I simply didn't like the look of them.  Also ten more Wraithguard (only nine in the picture, one was hiding when I took the pic).  These are armed with the Distortion Scythe in place of the normal Wraithcannon.

And there is more Eldar firepower on the way!

While enjoying my childish giggles at the phallic appearance of the Chaos Dark Apostle, I redid his power maul.

Some better pictures of the new additions.

New Dark Apostle

He's all about Apostling.  You can even ask him.

This was a figure I sold for a friend on commission a while back.  I hadn't seen this Chaplain model before and really liked it, so I subsequently ordered a used one off eBay to make into a more appropriate Dark Apostle (evil Chaplain).  I had previously done a different Dark Apostle before deciding that I would have Death Guard styled Nurgle adherents.

This is a more suitable model, so the other one will become a generic Chaos Lord or a champion of some sort.

The camera doesn't like this guy, but he looks okay in person.

 As received from eBay.

State of the Legion, 2018.

As 2018 creeps toward its sunset...I snapped a picture of the current Wandering Sons Renegade Space Marine Chapter (and their less-than-savory accompaniment of daemons).

What is love? (2nd Wandering Sons dreadnought!)

Ordered some dreadnought bits a couple days ago on eBay.  Received the bits yesterday...bashed up some extra doo-dads and finished this guy by noon today.  Not bad for a 24 hour turnaround.  Presenting...Arakos, dreadnought of the Wandering Sons (read: Renegade Helbrute).

And alongside Syvotus, my first dreadnought.

How sexy are fences!?

Said no one.  Ever.

However, this is a quick and fruitful project thus far.  I used 3mm sintra, some hex plastruct rod, and window screen material.  Six sections.

A few minor additions..

Been in a serious hobby slump lately.  I managed to overcome it for a moment or two and do up my final Phoenix Lord, Baharroth.  Not stoked with the result, but I won't be repainting him.  I did up a Warp Spider Exarch (a figure I've avoided for some time), and did up a bonus autocannon arm for the Leviathan dreadnoughts.

Games, and missiles? Seems legit.

A large game of 40K yesterday where I was thoroughly trounced alongside my Dark Angels teammate.

And while these fellas may have snuck in some other photos, I never snapped quality pictures of the newest Scorpius launchers I built for the Rhino-Russ chassis.  I still have the larger box-style launcher if needed, but think these better represent the look of the Scorpius (without the scallop shield portion).

Games, and games, and games!

I haven't posted in a while, but I have managed to sneak in a few games, so here is a picture dump.

Game 1: Shoot N' Skedaddle

A fun three-way game with a couple of buddies.  Violent and silly as usual.

Game 2: Tokenhammer at 1250 points (Steel Legion vs. Wandering Sons)

A quick warm-up game of 40K, using tokens as usual.  Fun and violent though not very balanced toward the end.

Game 3: 3,000 points 2v2 Tokenhammer (Imperial Guard vs. Chaos Space Marines)

A large game around a scenario which we got wrong...but it provided enough madness for some fun dice rolling.