tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61852479569194151812024-02-20T01:28:54.178-08:00The Next CrusadeA chronicle of musings and modellings on the Eastern Fringe of Warhammer 40kEggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-31737119465372984792018-02-08T10:29:00.001-08:002018-02-08T11:27:15.479-08:00Budget jungle trees<p dir="ltr">I'm currently on a mission to create a tabletop's worth of jungle terrain and the first installment is a small forest of slightly alien looking trees. Back in the nineties i had a disperate collection of home made flora for my battlefields inspired largely by Rogue Trader and 2nd edition 40k, and I hope to recapture the feel from those days. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The basis for the trees was a mixture of electrical core wire and florists wire which was either scavenged from the garage or available from.... You guessed it the florists (or hobbycraft,llll they stock it too). The wire was twisted up into armatures and hot glued onto the bases. In my case the bases were 3mm sign board as I find that it has a good tendency not to warp and it keeps glue and paint.</p><p dir="ltr">The wire armatures were wrapped in masking tape then coated with a textured paint made up from pva glue, fine sand and brown acrylic paint. Once they were dry i had the basic tree which is good enough to game with if you prefer the blasted and lifeless look which seems to be in vogue these days. However, being of a naturalistic ilk (BSc honours Zoology thankyou very much) then i want plenty of excuse for xeno fauna on my tabletop, and that means greenery, or primary producers if i'm going to get all scientific on you. (Actually you could argue for any colour of flora pigment, it depends on local conditions and the evolution on your chosen planet as well as things such as the type of light the local star throws out, but i'm going to be conservative here and opt for good old chlorophyll. But kudos to anyone who makes a purple or orange jungle. It wpuld look awesome.)</p>
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Here are my top tips to improve, be warned they're more of a philosophical bent rather than actual techniques:<br />
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1. Take pride in what you do<br />
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Are you covering some bits of lead (or more likely plastic) in paint just to get them on the gaming table? Or are you making a minor artistic statement to the world? haha that sounds a just little pretentious. But there is a point, if you create something do your best, so when it's on the table then folk will make a little assumption about you, the same way you might comb your hair or polish your shoes before leaving the house. People will see that you take care with your stuff. <br />
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The fact that my Crimson Fists got wiped off the table last Saturday was overshadowed by the amount of compliments my army got down the club, so I didn't mind losing... although I made a mental note to take more care in my army selection in future. Always game with painted minis. If table top is your thing, then make sure your minis are dolled up to the nines. Take pride in your colours. Then if you get tabled by an empty soda can and a pile of blutack that rolled through a bitz box, at least you can claim the moral victory.<br />
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So what if your minis aren't up to scratch down the gaming club? You're trying, you're learning, seek out new knowledge and apply it. The reward comes from perseverance.<br />
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2. Learn about colour.<br />
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Get a basic art book from the library, or look online and learn about the colour wheel. The 'Eavy Metal painters at GW don't pick colours at random, they use complimentary colours, pastels, shades and alternate hues to make that miniature speak to you and say 'buy me'. Choosing your colours appropriately can go a long way to helping your model 'pop' and stand out on the table. Observe what you see in every day life and decide what works for you.<br />
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No one really knows exactly <i>why </i>orange looks good next to blue, they just do.<br />
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3. Learn about shade and highlights.<br />
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Without shade, any painted surface becomes a featureless blob. If, like me your first painted minis started off as beautiful sculpts only to become featureless blobs then you weren't painting with shade in mind. The counter to shade is the highlight and the two of these act to make any surface three dimensional. We shade and highlight our minis, because despite being three dimensional they are too small to actually look very three dimensional, so we give them a helping hand.<br />
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I personally always work from a black undercoat and shade up from there. So even if I was painting a white mini I would work up from black, to dark grey, lighter greys and finally a white highlight. The finished article would not be completely white it would just *look* white and have some pretty heavy shading. Artists might call this method chiaroscuro, and I never meant to try and emulate that technique of the masters I just sort of got there which leads me on to...<br />
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4. Find your own style/ Always be the student<br />
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There are painters out there that take it to a crazy level of good. I'll never be one of them, but it counts to look at their work with a critical eye and try and figure out what's going on there, don't just look, try to *see* and learn from it.<br />
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I've tried unsuccessfully to emulate many other mini painters, though in fact copying techniques from other painters is a good way to learn. You can learn not only the technique but whether or not you like it, and it's okay to reject a technique if it doesn't work for you. Non metallic metal is my nemesis, many painters can carry off exquisite masterpieces that leave me in tears just looking at them, I've tried and failed many times. It's a limitation of mine that I've learned to live with. Some part of me thinks I should persevere and hack NMM, other parts of me think no, just play to my strengths. My minis look increasingly like MY minis the more I paint. I can do grimy and weather beaten, I can do dirty, but I can make it look pretty too. Sometimes. Other times it goes straight on ebay and I try to forget about it. <br />
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I suppose my point is, eventually you'll get to a place where you're not copying other minis but painting to your own style, and owning it. Developing and learning new stuff as a painter will feed into it but ultimately your minis will be YOU.<br />
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-71999288199326770622017-08-17T14:31:00.000-07:002017-08-17T16:15:30.529-07:00Epic 40k War GriffonsMy expanding Legio Gryphonnicus maniple features a pair of Lucius pattern Warlords and three scratchbuilt Lucius pattern Reavers. One of the Warlords is converted to house some defensive crenellations and i need to add an Imperial character to act as observer on one of the shoulders.<br />
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-58561994047297959262017-08-17T14:23:00.000-07:002017-08-17T16:16:22.329-07:00Epic 40k forumware knightsSome Epic 6mm scale knights for your delection. These are fan sculpts or 'forumware' and are joyous to both paint and game with. GW are certainly missing a trick here so hopefully the recent rumours of a new Adeptus Titanicus game will bear fruit.<br />
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<br />Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-5524531302091611072016-10-06T02:34:00.001-07:002016-10-16T10:44:07.033-07:00Converting Space Marines to 32mm bases<p dir="ltr">Recently, Games Workshop changed their Space Marine range from the age old 25mm base to 32mm. The results are undeniably better looking, making each figure look better set in it's environment as well as being about 1mm taller. </p>
<p dir="ltr">This leaves anyone with a Space Marine collection with a dilemma, do you update your collection or do you ignore the soze change and carry on? Any new purchases will be on the new bases so you run the risk of having inconsistent base sizes in your army. This might not bother many people, and it would be fine to just carry on. But the idea of updating my existing Crimson Fist collection appealed to me. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The options available are to use the 32mm bases available from GW, which would require hacking each mini from it's base- not appealing; or using one of the adapters available online. Of these, there are the mdf ring adapters on ebay- cheap, plentiful but lacking the actual '32mm base' look as they lack the bevelled edge, and the tabletop adapters from <a href="http://ttadapters.com">ttadapters.com</a>. These ingenious little plastic semicircles enable you to get the authentic 32mm base look without chopping your beloved minis of their existing bases. I ordered 100 of these from the makers in Copenhagen, Denmark. </p>
Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-54688787654926432492014-12-22T11:47:00.000-08:002014-12-31T05:46:56.865-08:00A Change of Scale: From 40k to Flames of WarAs a lifelong adherent of all things Warhammer, I've probably been a little guilty of concentrating on the universes created by GW to the cost of the huge amount of other high quality content out there. Part of the reason for this is that the content written by GW is the richest out there and allows for pretty immersive adventures in 40k and warhammer land, in fact the quality of the content, and to some extent the miniatures, make up for what I think are probably the weakest part of the Games Workshop package: the rules.<br />
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As someone who has been playing 40k since the late 1980's, where it was more of a large scale RPG rather than the thing we have nowadays, I've seen the game evolve and develop. Many things have improved and simplified, we've seen the emergence of a 'tournament' culture with the fascination with winning at all costs over writing a narrative, and now formations, dataslates and the rest. Now I appreciate the need for a company to make money and by effectively monetising individual rules which, while I think is actually very clever from a business point of view, does not attract me in the slightest. I see 40k starting to lose it's focus and frankly my interest is starting to wane. Now I have something approaching 10000 points of allied Crimson Fists and Guard, and am in the middle of running a large campaign which is very fun, so I'm far from abandoning GW, but a break is in order.<br />
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After eyeing up several systems over the last few months, including Dystopian Wars (looks incredible, not many people round here play it though), Dropzone Commander (not keen on another sci-fi thing as well as 40k), All Quiet on the Martian Front (again looks incredible but I won't get a game), Deadzone (hate the minis, sorry guys).... I settled on Flames of War, FOW is now an established rule set in it's third edition and it recreates battles in World war 2, the game is more 'beer and pretzels' rather than hardcore historical gaming, whatever that is. The battles are at the company level, with you fielding several platoons of infantry, armour, artillery and even strike aircraft. Owing to the larger scale of the games, the miniatures are smaller at 15mm scale. This means the rules are more granular, with hits and saves deciding the fates of bases which can contain several actual models, for example infantry bases tend to have 2-4 men per base.<br />
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Something that excites me about FOW is the way that suppressive fire, pinning, gone to ground and artillery seem to be represented in a way that might actually be.... realistic. Now as someone who has never thankfully seen combat, that might seem a weird thing to say, but let's say that the removal of pinning from 7th edition 40k was something that I took quite badly, in fact I was holding out hope that GW were going to enhance this side of the game (gone to ground, pinning etc) to better represent infantry tactics, but I think i'm the only person who thinks like this, in fact I bring it up at my gaming club, and the common counter argument is that 'well 40k is sci fi, it isn't meant to be realistic'. Well my counter to that is this: suppression was effectively modeled in none other than Epic Armageddon which is (was) an awesome game and one that I still mourn the loss of. Secondly, while 40k requires a suspension of disbelief to fully enjoy, plausibility is another thing entirely. Okay, so at this point people start drifting away, or tell me that I think too much... well I want suppression, and if GW won't provide, I'll go and find it ;)<br />
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So the 'Open Fire' box set is on it's way, along with enough reinforcements to bring both axis and allies up to approximately 1000 points. This isn't 'goodbye' 40k, more of a see you soon, i'll be hanging out with some very fine looking 15mm World war 2 miniatures for the time being.Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-29090521097682439342014-11-19T08:23:00.002-08:002014-11-19T08:24:01.388-08:00Holbronx campaign, Turn 7A quick map update for turn 7, with only 4 turns left until sudden death everyone will be striving to seize those manufactorums and cities to maximise victory points. All economies seem to have peaked now, so with lots of resources to spend there is sure to be a lot of 40k action coming up!<br />
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<br />Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-81019299901959780462014-11-02T07:59:00.000-08:002014-11-02T07:59:57.586-08:00Apocalypse at Warhammer World!An hours drive up the M1 took the three of us to Warhammer World in Nottingham. It had been decided that we should have an apocalyptic mega battle to help decide the outcome of the Holbronx campaign, with Perhow and TJ teaming up against my Imperial forces at 8000 points a side. At such a high points value we needed a huge table, and we were lucky enough to get a place on the excellent J'migan Bridge themed table that measures a whopping 12 x 6 feet! Warhammer World is undergoing some works at the moment but the staff are no less welcoming and the themed gaming tables are totally awesome. A visit is most recommended!<br />
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We played end to end, focussing on the bridge as the main objective with each end of the table having a 'home' objective in their own territory, giving six objectives in all with standard secondary objectives. It took over an hour just to set up over 16000 points of 40k troops, but by lunch time we were in full swing.<br />
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The loyalists rolled to take the first turn and the xenos/chaos pact failed to seize the initiative. At this point I remember thinking that the first turn advantage might be weak with 48" of no mans land to cover, my misgivings would later turn out to be true as I lost control of many objectives on the last turn... the benefit of hindsight! The Imperials opened up with a massive artillery bombardment, stunning the traitor tanks that were poised to roll on to the bridge, while on the left flank the Crimson Fist scouts infiltrated across the river bed supported by a drop podding dreadnought they quickly saw off a large mob of cultists. A second dreadnought scattered off the table to go into ongoing reserves.</div>
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In my back lines I spottted a squad of eldar infiltrators, and a space marine assault squad moved forward to interdict them supported by a 'rifleman' dreadnought. The assault marines ended up successfully holding off the striking scorpions for the entire game, but their exarch managed to kill off the dreadnought by the third turn. The problems presented by the sheer size of the table started to present themselves, because infantry without transports are very slow! This really started to hit home later on when my transports started to dwindle thanks to xenos energy beams :(</div>
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On the right flank a large contingent of tactical marines mounted in rhinos surged forward with the intention of crossing the river bed. Supported by devastators, PDF heavy weapons squads and several Leman Russ battle tanks I had high hopes of this flanking force crossing the river bed and securing the enemy side of the bridge head. However as we shall see the chaos/xenos pact had other ideas!</div>
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The pact appeared to be having trouble on the left after the early successes of the scouts, on the right a large contingent of bikers, both Nurgle plague marines lead by their warlord and Dark Eldar jetbikers rushed forward to try and refuse my massed attack on the right, it soon started looking like a blood bath would ensue on the river bed. Unbeknownst to me an eldar grav tank that joined the force was carrying a squad of Wraith Knights. I hadn't encountered these alien constructs before but I can attest to their combat prowess after seeing them in action, and I advise that you do not let them anywhere near your space marines! The rest of the pact's first turn was uneventful, with their movement on the road blocked by the Landraider that had been stunned by my long range artillery fire I allowed myself to believe that things were going okay.<br />
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My first act of the second turn was to use my Officer of the Fleet to use his logistical nous to get me a 2+ reserve roll. Thanks to his skills, two of my Valkyries, an assault squad, a 10 man terninator squad with a captain and two dreadnoughts all showed up on time. At this point I decided to concentrate a large force on the enemy home objective, with 11 terminators and two dreads landing nearby I was aiming to silence the enemy macro cannon and butcher the cowardly xenos within. By turn 4 I would realise the hubris of investing nearly a 1000 points of my elites in such a venture... as they are not actually 'objective secured' the objective was eventually snatched by an eldar skimmer on the last turn and all was for nothing. Well at least they looked pretty while they were achieving nothing! The assault squad was tasked with deep striking behind the nurgle bikers and flaming them, but they scattered widely onto the opponents river bank and lobbed a grenade at an enemy tank, which missed. Aside from the artillery crippling more of the traitor space marine tanks and thinning out the nurgle bikers, it was a desultory turn for the loyalists.</div>
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The xenos started to deep strike their skimmers into my rear lines, supporting the eldar striking scorpions already present. This attack was to shift my attention away from the assault on the bridge which aided the pact hugely. My devastators and PDF weapons teams who were meant to be covering the advance across the river bed were quickly cut down by deep striking warp spiders accompanied by the xenos warlord, a rather cocky autarch who would meet his comeuppance on the end a my captain's relic blade. This would be scant compensation however for a series of events that resulted in three squads of tactical marines perishing over the following turns and me losing control of the right flank.<br />
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To make matters worse, three squads of terminators materialised on the dried up river bed, they would be the anvil against which my marines would be smashed by the xenos hammer.<br />
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Recognising the threat from the deep striking xenos in the rear, Pedro Kantor signalled his honour guard forward along with 20 sternguard. Low difficult terrain rolls for the sternguard left Kantor and his honour guard badly exposed, but I hoped to get Pedro into combat where he would be safer, only for him to take wounds from overwatch fire then fail his charge roll. Things were getting a little frustrating now and I could feel victory slipping between my fingers. I later found out that I had been making my difficult terrain rolls on 1 dice when it should be two and pick the highest! That's a real 'rules 101' mistake that may have helped my game quite a bit, oh well.</div>
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The terminators and dreadnoughts attacking the enemy macro cannon, a full 6 feet behind enemy lines, finally managed to silence the weapon and kill the eldar wracks hiding inside. They moved onto the objective and took cover in the ruins. Back in the imperial sector the valkyries strafed the dark eldar raiders with their twin linked lascannons but didn't manage to actually destroy anything.</div>
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The PDF armour, now somewhat beaten and battered, continued to advance onto the bridge. The second remaining squad of Crimson Fist terminators teleported onto the mid section of the bridge, hoping to protect the PDF armour from assaults. My only consolation from this turn was that I finally managed to kill the nurgle warlord on his bike with artillery fire, but the tide had already turned to a point where the traitor's combat prowess wasn't really needed.</div>
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The traitors, sensing victory, pushed forward onto the imperial river bank and the Heldrake washed the river bank with warp flame, killing more power armoured space marines. Their xenos comrades continued to catch the space marines in a withering cross fire from behind, using their monofilament weapons, shurikens and d-weapons the river bank was reduced to a steaming abbatoir. Pretty much the only warrior left standing was the enraged company captain, who accepted the challenge of the eldar autarch, the autarch flounced into combat muttering arrogant alien insults, while the captain remained taciturn and waited for his opening the eldar did some showboating with his blade. When the captain had seen enough he hewed downward with a single brutal strike from his relic clade, a strike that even the agile eldar couldn't avoid. Cut in two the alien flopped to the ground, the captain had avenged his murdered brothers, but he knew the battle was already lost.</div>
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A further two Leman Russ battle tanks went up in flames then to make matters worse an eldar Wraithknight appeared and efficiently vaporised the terminators on the bridge. The spelled disaster for the imperial armour as they were unsupported by infantry and open to assault by the traitor terminators.</div>
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In the imperial sector the cackling xenos opened up on Pedro and his honour guard and they were cut down to a man, his sternguard moved forward to protect their chapter master's stricken form and teleport him to the medicae bays on the battle barge.</div>
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We had just about enough time to play a 4th turn and from my point of view this turn would be about damage limitation. I still had several thousand points worth of forces on the board but nothing that was within striking distance of the objectives. I desperately shelled the enemy bridge head with everything I had, killing dozens of traitor space marines, but to no avail. The survivors trudged on through the carnage to secure the bridge. To add insult to injury a xenos fast skimmer moved back to secure the pact's home objective, making the efforts of the first company completely futile! After some discussion we decided to end it there, a full 6 hours of gaming managed to get us four turns, but we had to stop there as warhammer world wanted to close. A further turn may have seen me recover some of the bridge, but it would have required no small amount of luck on my part to prize those objectives back. A solid win for the xenos and traitors.</div>
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A win for the pact! They get 3 vp's toward the campaign total, though how they are shared out remains to be seen, it was an uneasy alliance at best! </div>
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Playing such a huge game was great fun and a memorable experience, though it made me realise that there is a limit to how much one can remember when responsible for moving and shooting 8000 points worth of miniatures. I think next time at this amount of points I might recruit a leuitenant or two to get on with the minor stuff while I take the command throne and concentrate on the big picture. It was really challenging coming up against two experienced 40k players in TJ and Howard and unlike in smaller games where you can feel unlucky over a dice roll or two, in a game this size everything averages out and I can say that I was definitely outplayed through the superior sneaky tactics of my opponents. Well done to Perhow and TJ, top game lads.</div>
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We had a '3 colours' painted rule for this game and everything looked spot on when set up on the table, I even got to dig out some of my old rogue trader beakies, (who incidentally showed Pedro's lads how it was done) it was really cool to see all that painted 40k stuff on the table together, it isn't often we get to use all our toys at once is it?</div>
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-69701967913236535772014-10-01T13:19:00.003-07:002017-08-17T17:00:15.921-07:00Dante's last stand.The servo skull, originating from deep within enemy territory took hours to reach Imperial Intelligence. The data feed was immediately transmitted to Commander Pedro Kantor, it seemed to depict a desperate few Blood Angels being cut down by overwhelming Eldar forces. Kantor only needed to watch the grainy video clip once to be certain that it was indeed Dante. It was with mixed feelings Pedro ruminated on the news, Dante, hero of the Imperium had fallen in battle, but only after besmirching the honour and dignity of his chapter, and plunging a whole system into bloody war. The Inquisition had declared Dante 'Exocommunicate traitoris', along with his warriors on Holbronx. The entire Baal system was locked down by Grey Knights kill ships while the Inquisitors looked to find the root of the heresy. Already the Administratum was busily rewriting the Blood Angels out of the Imperial histories, a process that would take decades, if not centuries. Stone masons would already be erasing the names of countless Blood Angels from the Tower of Heroes on Terra, such was the fate of heretics, even by association.<br />
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But Kantor could not help but feel compassion for his wayward comrade, whatever it was that had lead Dante and his Angels down this path he wagered that it came from a very human compulsion, of love and desperation. Weaknesses turned to tragedy by the whispers of the primordial annihilator.<br />
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-69333278316874721782014-09-30T13:28:00.001-07:002014-09-30T13:29:32.457-07:00Holbronx Turn 6: Armour on the PlainsIn an attempt to break the stalemate on the River Schutze, the Imperials amassed companies of armour for a decisive thrust along the South coast of Pangea. The Blood Angels were caught napping and despite throwing their own armour into the gap, it was too late to turn back the tide. The Blood Angels suffered grievous losses and the Loyalist forces have successfully established a foothold to the West of the Schutze.<br />
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It remains to be seen whether the Blood Angels can halt the armoured advance, they have a bitter struggle on their hands to stop the juggernaut before it gets to their back lines!Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-61260965788904085152014-09-22T08:42:00.000-07:002014-09-22T08:43:37.314-07:00Crimson Fists Dreadnought 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been looking to add some elite and heavy choices to my Crimson Fists and following a search on eBay I found an incomplete 'bjorn' dreadnought going for a very cheap price. The claw part of Bjorn's left arm was missing so after a trip to the paint stripping bath I modelled a new power claw on using green stuff and plasticard. The new dread now has a Crimson Fists paint job and he has been re-christened 'Sergio'. The wolf pelt was awarded by the Space Wolves after Sergio rescued some wolf scouts from a tricky situation and he proudly wears it over his left arm. Any similarities to the old Bjorn are therefore purely coincidental. The photo shows him on the right, alongside his ancient comrade, brother Antal.<br />
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<br />Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-53927027712221416372014-07-20T01:30:00.002-07:002014-09-30T14:03:28.138-07:00Holbronx Turn 4<div class="western" lang="en" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin-bottom: 0.35cm;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Trooper Stumpf surveyed the distant hills from his observation post on Olympia Heights. It had been a tough year, with the Reivers taking whomever they wanted, and slaying the rest. Everyone in his platoon had lost someone, everyone had a score to settle. Things had got better since the 'Fists had arrived, some big cheese called Kantor was helping them take it all back, things were certainly looking up. He'd even seen one of the power armoured guys from a distance. Massive, deep blue fella wielding a heavy bolter like it was a las pistol. Stumpf was glad they were on his side.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Sure, things were okay, just hold this observation post up here in the hills, smoking stogies all day and writing letters home wasn't so bad. No one wants some crummy hill, all the fighting was down in the cities and manufatories and Stumpf felt sorry for the poor figgers down there in the trenches.</i></span></div>
The action has escalated in the Holbronx campaign, with each faction now having a defined front and lots of resources to spend on their military adventures.<br />
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One highlight of this turn was that everyone realised the importance of hex F6 (also known as Olympia Heights) and made a dash for it. We played a three way game of 40k with modified core rules to keep things fair, and after a jolly slaughter on the heights the Imperial faction emerged victorious by several victory points.<br />
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Now in control of the heights, the imperials are poised to sweep down into Pilgrim's Sanctuary Spaceport but he must watch their flanks as the Dark Eldar control the high ground to the north.<br />
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<br />Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-56114568245775815002014-06-29T01:27:00.001-07:002014-09-30T13:29:59.237-07:00Holbronx- Turn 3A quick update on the Holbronx campaign. It's turn three and we have our first engagement! The manufactorum at E9 is contested and we are awaiting the outcome... Howard's Dark Eldar have advanced in force while TJ's Blood Angels have used a 'Raid' action, giving him greater reach at the cost of less big guns to use in the coming game of 40k.<br />
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TJ has also grabbed the Aeronauticum, giving him the ability to strike deep into enemy territory from next turn. Might he have overstretched his supply lines? Time will tell....<br />
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The imperials have so far concentrated on building a power base, all those resource tokens will come in useful!<br />
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Things have got to the stage where most of the hexes have been taken, expect to see a major escalation in violence, explosions, sneakiness and tough times from next turn!<br />
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<br />Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-85060059637620816232014-06-29T01:14:00.001-07:002014-06-29T01:17:07.307-07:00Holbronx: prologueWhile the campaign for Holbronx is hotting up we decided to play a final game in the prologue to the campaign.<br />
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After the initial occupation of the planet by the Dark Eldar, the beleaguered PDF were reduced to defending themselves from the night time terror tactics of the xenos who could at this point move around the surface of the planet pretty much unhindered, enabling them to harvest human slaves and spread misery at will. After the desperate rescue of the astropaths by a courageous special forces group the imperials were able to send for help, and fortunately this arrived quickly in the form of a detachment from the Crimson Fists chapter.<br />
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The arrival of the Astartes provided a much needed boost to imperial morale as well as the required leadership to turn the tide. Master Kantor however was confronted by the same problem: how to bring the highly mobile eldar into a pitched battle so he could destroy them. Realising that the enemy would only attack where the imperials appeared weakest he assigned an Astartes detachment to wait in orbit ready to land at a few minutes notice, while keeping an apparently weak imperial patrol on the ground.<br />
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The eldar took the bait, advancing in force on a weakly held outpost they seemed poised to overwhelm the PDF defenders with their scattering of space marine allies, but the trap was sprung as drop pods came from the sky and unleashed their cargo. The imperials inflicted grievous losses on the enemy, destroying dozens of eldar vehicles in several similar engagements the imperials had managed to break the back of the occupation.<br />
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The victory however rang hollow for some, the drop pod of Captain Jorge had scattered deep into enemy lines away from any chance of imperial fire support. The vile leader of the Eldar, known colloquially as 'Vicious' killed the captain in single combat and was seen decamping from the battlefield, holding the severed head of the battle captain aloft while cackling in his incoherent alien tongue.<br />
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These events poised the imperials for a final victory, were it not for the arrival of the Blood Angels and their own selfish motivations.Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-2003820136260523512014-06-12T13:36:00.000-07:002014-06-12T13:36:04.462-07:00The battle for Holbronx, preliminary map.We're nearly ready to kick of this little campaign, and every campaign needs a map so I rustled this one up in Hexographer followed by some tweeks in GIMP. My graphic design skills are a bit rough and ready but I think it gets the job done. The triangular continent allows each of the three players to start in a corner and carve out some territory before the fighting begins. I intend to back this map up with an actual planetary empires map, for which I've converted quite a few tiles, it hasn't escaped me that carting a 45 tile plastic map around isn't the easiest thing in the world so it might not happen and we stick to paper, we'll see.<br />
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The campaign kicks off with some background we came up with to tie up a few interesting games of 40k that lead to the campaign idea. The overall aim is to keep it narrative, the Blood Angels are desperately trying to find a cure for the flaw, but it remains to be seen if they are being lead astray by a scheme of chaos. The Dark Eldar seek to plunder and pillage as much as possible before abandoning the planet, while the Crimson Fists and her Imperial Guard allies must secure the planet from all comers.<br />
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The planet of Holbronx Prime is an Imperial agri/industrial world of minor note, faithfully supplying a tithe of food, machinery and soldiers to neighbouring imperial planets. It has a population of 4.2 billion with 95% of production and habitation occurring on the principal continent of Pangea. The Holbronx system was made compliant in the Great Crusade and has remained a relative backwater since. Imperial Archaeologists have recorded evidence of ancient xenos activity on the planet.</div>
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Date M41.999. In recent decades the planet has succumbed to the unwelcome attentions of xenos (species: Eldar) raids. At first these started as minor incidents, but escalated as the raiders gained confidence and started annexing larger population centres effectively using the towns and cities as labour camps. This culminated in large swathes of territory falling into the xenos’ hands as they established a permanent presence on Holbronx and continued using human populace to their own ends (forced exportation, slave labour, sadistic entertainments, gladitorial combat, biological feedstock etc). It is estimated by the present time that 30 million imperial citizens are missing as a result of Eldar action. The local Planetary Defence Force suffered many reversals at first, losing control of their command and communication structure and having to resort to guerilla tactics on their own soil to wrest control of the communications network long enough to request aid from the wider Imperium.</div>
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Help arrived in the form of the Crimson Fists chapter, with Pedro Kantor himself marshalling the PDF to prosecute a successful campaign against the Dark Eldar. The Imperial forces managed to push the invaders back to the coastal fringes of the continent and liberate several cities. They were poised to make the final decisive attack when matters were complicated by the arrival of the Blood Angels chapter.</div>
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What truly motivates the Blood Angels is a mystery, and the arrival of a battle barge above Holbronx Prime was at first a cause for celebration for the Crimson Fists, whose Primarchs stood together against the tyrant on the walls of the Imperial Palace all those millenia ago. That the battle barge manoeuvred into an assault stance over the capital while ignoring imperial communications struck the Crimson Fists as arrogance, what happened after was an outrage. These most humane but aloof of Space Marines harbour the secret doom of the flaw. One can only speculate how such a genetic flaw influences the decisions and responsibilities of the chapter, and the temptations and pressures that can arise. It is rumoured that Dante has been forced to relent and allow a faction within the chapter to pursue every possible rumour of a cure, no matter how slim or unlikely. If this is true then it is plausible that a faction of Blood Angels may be responsible for the massacre of loyal troops that occured in the capital city of Holbronx. There is no doubt that the attack on the Basilica of the Martyred Angel is outside even the broad mandate of the Astartes, where brother opened fire on brother. The imperial forces have been left reeling by this act.</div>
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-67817408831125501542014-05-12T13:50:00.003-07:002014-05-12T13:50:54.340-07:00Planetary Empires hive tile<div dir="ltr">
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-43375589337806254712014-05-04T02:50:00.002-07:002014-05-04T02:56:25.139-07:00Finished Manticore and Leman Russ tanksI've gradually been working my way through the pile of tanks I acquired recently, and with the release of the new Astra Militarum Codex I've been feeling motivated to get some more stuff off my painting table. I'm now at the half way point with some more Leman Russ, several Chimera and a Hellhound remaining to do, not to mention the trio of Valkyries that need detailing. So without further ado, here are some pics of the finished tanks.<br />
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The basic camouflage pattern is Castellan green airbrushed over a black primer, the model is then masked with normal masking tape taking care to ensure the paint underneath has cured completely (otherwise the tape can lift the paint, although sometimes this can make for a neat paint peeling effect). The camo pattern is then completed with P3 Hammerfall Khaki. Once the masking tape is removed I weather the vehicle with Agrax Earthshade and also an oil paint wash made from Burnt Umber and white spirit, although I am tending toward the GW wash as it is less smelly and alsmost as good in this application. Paint chips are sponged on where damage might occur, then edge highlights are applied using Gretchin green and Kommando Khaki to help the model pop on the gaming table. Transfers are applied over a gloss varnish, and when they are dry I distress them with the end of a needle file or scalpel, if i didn't do this the transfers would look far too fresh compared to the rest of the vehicle. Details are then added- lenses, skulls etcetera. If the vehicle has a name plate I write this in using a 0.25mm Rotring Isograph technical pen with indian ink, my hand isn't all that steasy but the results look okay. My two Manticores are named 'Inductor' and 'Perditrix' which translate loosely as 'Persuader' and 'Destroyer'</div>
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To finish the model is given a coat of Vallejo Matt Polyurethane Varnish, which is probably the best varnish I've used so far. All of the vehicles are fully magentised with swappable weapons, it's also nice to remove to remove the manticore Missiles as there are used in a game, it beats counting!</div>
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It's been a busy few months with work but I've managed to shoe-horn in a few games of X-Wing and spend some hours getting a bunch of Imperial Guard tanks up to tabletop standard. I was going to leave them at that but the acquisition of the Forgeworld Model Masterclass books got me doing crazy experiments with white spirit, bandagaes, artists pastels and florists wire.... don't ask! I do highly recommend these books, they've helped me raise my game and even won me a GW voucher for a 'best painted' army at a local tournament, so this hobby can pay, well kind of.</div>
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The Hydra is 95% finished, just a few details to do and a coat of matt varnish and she's good to go, although I'm already thing I need another two thanks to the preponderance of Necron flyers at my local gaming club. The camo paint scheme was airbrushed over a black base coat letting the black show through in the recesses, I then applied a wash of burnt umber oil paint diluted in white spirit. This gave me the tabletop scheme as originally intended, but then I weathered further with sponged on paint chips, powdered pastels and selective line highlights to bring the model up and help it 'pop' a bit. That said I always seem to be a bit conservative when it comes to highlights so i might apply another level.</div>
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Even the most ardently frothing of 40k fanbeards needs to take a break from the Grimdark occasionally. So after a dig in the box of orphaned pewter bits i found this i-kore Void mini. I've heard rumours of other gaming systems, and whispers that some of them are even well balanced and reward tactical play. Huh! Heresy! </div>
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Steve at the local gaming club is running a Supersystem campaign and i painted this chap up to be my hero. The last game i witnessed looked a lot of fun with the hero players ganging up on the gm's nasties and having a good old fight, so i'm looking forward to being involved. Now i just need a back story....</div>
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-62874437944302679842013-11-27T08:05:00.001-08:002013-11-27T08:07:20.586-08:00Crimson Fists RhinoHalf way into my week off and i've finally got round to picking up my paintbrush. I've just about finish this Rhino, one of two for my fists. Just the lights and lenses to paint then some varnish and it's done. I decided to weather these pretty heavily for the 'on campaign' look. I used paint chipping, oil paint shading and brushed on pastels to make it look a bit dusty.<br />
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-78198043303333058482013-11-12T11:26:00.000-08:002013-11-12T11:26:03.131-08:00Crimson Fists Land SpeederI decided to finish this item that has been sat around for a while. It started life in my younger bro's Black Templars army and it had a pretty thick layer of black spray primer on it which I removed by putting the model in a bath of brake fluid for a few days. Consequently the surface is puckered where the solvents ate into the plastic, but for a free fast attack choice I can't complain. I think I'll pair this up with a tempest to make a nice anti-tank reserve choice.<br />
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I gently sponged on grey paint on edges and vulnerable areas to simulate paint chips, and chainmail to a lesser degree on extreme edges where paint would be totally removed.<br />
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The transfers were applied over a brush painted gloss varnish- you only need to do the part that will be covered by the transfer. They all had Micro-Sol applied to help the transfer to the surface, on the shoulder pads this took something like 15 applications over a few days so it takes patience, but the end results are worth it as the markings really add to the overall effect.Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-67505466697200148372013-11-10T09:07:00.001-08:002013-11-10T14:10:33.017-08:00Painting the ManticoreI've manged to get some paint on the Manticore this weekend. I decided to go for a camouflage scheme in colours that tie in with my infantry, so after applying a matt black base coat i airbrushed on desert yellow then after it dried i masked off a camo pattern with normal masking tape. I then sprayed on caliban green for the camo pattern.<br />
Removing the masking tape did remove some of the paint underneath so in future i'll use a coat of matt varnish between layers if i'm using a mask. After some touching up it looks fine but it's worth taking the time to varnish if you're going to use a mask.<br />
The next stage is to detail and use transfers before sealing it and applying weathering. More pictures soon.<br />
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Eggmarinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655226931653858617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185247956919415181.post-64150074917464302602013-11-09T14:15:00.000-08:002013-11-09T14:17:11.976-08:00Magnetising the ManticoreI've been looking for a heavy support choice to complete my 875 point Imperial Guard list for the upcoming tournament, and today an assembled, unpainted Manticore landed on my workbench. The prospect of landing D3 strength 10 pie plates per turn makes this vehicle an attractive prospect. To avoid burdening my memory during games i decided to magnetise the missiles so i could remove them during play.<br />
You'll need 8 small neodymium magnets (i used 3mm but 2mm might be better), an appropiate sized drill, a scalpel and superglue.<br />
For the missiles, pare away the reinforcing strip halfway between the slots and drill a hole partially into the missile body. Don't go all the way in you just want a countersunk hole for the magnet to sit in. <br />
For the launcher rails you just need to trim away enough plastic halfway between the tabs to house the opposite magnet.<br />
Before gluing in the magnets make sure you have the poles matched up so they actually attract each other. Let the glue set and enjoy your magnetised tank... check no one is looking then make 'vwoooosh' sound effects as you fly your missiles across the room and explode them amongst an imaginary xenos horde. Everyone does this right?<br />
I'm planning an airbrushed camo pattern for this tank, i'll post that up soon.<br />
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