Terminators!

I have salvaged the eBay terminators and speed-painted them.  Now I have two full squads - meaning I can even tackle the odd game of Space Hulk, etc.  In fact, between terminators and scouts I can tackle most of the old GW board games.

Sand Smurf Terminators!

More metal!

A couple of eBay wins showed up and are in the process of being recovered.  Oddly my eBay wins are determining the force-nature of my Space Marine army.  At the moment it looks to be all Terminators and Scouts, and very few marines!

Techmarine!

Trying to wrap up the special characters for my 2nd ed. Marine force.  In order to run almost any vehicle in a 2nd ed. army you needed to include a Techmarine in your list, so here he is.  Plastic/metal kit-bash.

Sand Smurf Apothecary

That's right..until I create a real name for my Space Marine chapter they shall be dubbed Sand Smurfs.

More Marines!

Finished another squad of Space Marine Scouts and a Chaplain with a jetpack. 

Shotguns heyo!

So, I've finished one of the Scout eBay rescue squads.  It was only after purchasing/painting these guys that I looked up the stats and they're simply terrible for 2nd ed. (much better in 3rd+).  Oh well.  I'll equip these guys with krak grenades or hope they can land a few shots with their shotguns and knock over some models?

One big draw with the Space Marine metal scouts is that the sculpts are freakin' fantastic (really top quality stuff) and they serve really well as generic science fiction troopers for a variety of settings.

The White Lady

Since reading Gav Thorpe's "path" novels I discovered an excuse to model one of my favourite "middlehammer" sculpted Farseers.  Using a Dark Eldar head I made up this "White Seer".

Pirates, a Sergeant and his Metal

Finished up another quick batch of pirates.  I don't like these nearly as much as the first batch (because the first batch as my favourite of the minis!).  But, I now have enough for a full squad of 10 pirates (including a pirate captain).  Also finished up the sergeant for the terminators.

Also received a few small eBay auctions to supplement the marine force.

 A chaplain...and I forgot he was the Death Company one so I'll have to cover up or ignore one or two "Blood" icons.

 I chose some Scouts because I wanted to run a versatile force, and because Space Marine scouts make excellent "generic" Sci-fi troopers for various skirmish games.

I don't recall shotguns being very good in 2nd edition, but why not?

Late arrivals.

These two figures showed up from eBay today.  As of the time of posting this they've already been stripped down and and re-based/primed etc.  Will be running the Farseer as a female White Seer (who the Pirates will act as bodyguards for).

Outcasts

I had considered doing up some Pirates for my Eldar army when I started (in fact, if models present themselves I might do some Exodites too!).  The advantage to Pirates is that they become a catch-all for leftover models.  They can be armed with quite a variety of gear (not necessary to match) and are lead by a Pirate Captain, a character who gets more wargear cards than normal because of his pilfering occupational benefits.

Here are the first five of a ten man Pirate unit.  They may also double as bodyguards for a White Seer I'm considering.

Opfor.

I've been meaning to assemble a small secondary 40K force for playtesting 2nd edition games, and simply for photo bad guys for my Eldar.  I decided to assemble and paint some plastic Terminators I had laying around.  This is a real speed painting effort...and sadly my dip thickened and became pretty bad when I was dunking these guys.  The sergeant will follow (I was missing a last 30mm base).

No idea for the chapter name, but a small force (a few characters, a vehicle or two, and two or three squads of infantry) might be in the cards.

2017 begins! (Eldar)

First work of 2017, the four gun crew for the support platforms I painted last week.

Last for the year?

I'm closing in on the end of 2016.

I snapped some pictures of two Eldar support weapons I recently finished - no crew just yet.

And then on a whim I painted up a blister of Reaper Lizardmen Tyrants I had sitting around.  I had originally purchased the blister thinking it was four normal Lizardmen (so I could bump my Lizardmen from eight to twelve).  Turns out the "Tyrants" are much larger!  This meant I put them away and forgot about them.  Simple paintjob, real quick (spray, details, dip).  Pretty happy with them.  Mounted on 30mm bases.

Second pictures shows a normal Reaper Lizardman alongside for scale.

Now the question is whether I'll paint anything in the next two days...

Yderis tally for 2016.

This year I purchased and built an Eldar army for 2nd edition (mainly 2nd ed. metals, etc.).  I started in April with a single squad of Dire Avengers.  I decided I would end with a second squad.

They're the last unit in my current army.  I'll likely not get anything else wrapped up before the new years.  As it stands now, the army is 6388 points of 2nd ed. Eldar.

I'd love to be super excited about this, but it mostly relates what happens when you're unemployed most of the year and have too much free-time.  Well, it was time well spent!

Drake's Branch new-hires...

Well, after a seriously depressing slump of not painting anything for a month or so, I was encouraged via a forum to finish up some models this month.  I did six new Knuckleduster figures and re-based another ten or so Black Scorpion metals (touching them up along the way - a lot have served table-top for the past 4-5 years and have taken some chips and damage).

I stripped down four or five Black Scorpion minis as well to re-paint them at some point.  I have some real stinkers I've never been super happy with.

 Re-based Black Scorpion Metals

 New Knuckleduster 32's.

One new Knuckleduster (lady in the back) and some more re-based Black Scorpion minis.