Epic 40k War Griffons

My 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.

The reavers are scratched from thick card and plasticard with weapons converted from my 40k bits box. The heads are converted from 40k Centurion spares. The scratchbuild was very rewarding and it means I can field a fully lucius pattern titan maniple instead of mixing my patterns.

Epic 40k forumware knights

Some 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.

Scenery with Sketchup

I downloaded this free application from Google a few hours ago and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. Sketchup is a free CAD type program with a bias toward architecture that Google have made available so people can add buildings to Google Earth. Seeing this opportunity I decided to have a go, except the buildings I intend to design have no real life prototype as they exist 40,000 years in the future ;o)

I'm a keen scenery maker and I even sell some of my cast pieces on eBay from time to time, so having a tool that enables me to plan on a screen means less time wasting mistakes and printing out scale plans makes life a lot easier (I could print the plan straight onto card if I wanted to). The example below is an Epic scale Censorium, the sort of building that would be common in a city of the Imperium, if I decide to make a master model for casting, the plans will make life a lot easier.

When trying CAD before I found it confusing and returned to pen and paper pretty quick, this application however is really easy to use and i recommend it as total novice to this sort of thing.

Hope you all had a nice Christmas, next week I'll be back with some more conventional painting type stuff...