Blog Recovered

Due to some slight issues I managed to lose access to this blog but I have now recovered so after a massive delay I am back.

8th edition has gone and we are now in the world of 9th which I personally believe is a massive improvement, the codices coming out this edition are full of character and while at times there have been significant issues with codex balance we have seen GW being alot more active in FAQ's and Errata's to try and keep balance and we have gotten to a position that baring a couple of outliers we actually have a really good meta and a fun suite of missions.

At the start of 8th edition I was working on the krieg but I quickly grew tempted by the death guard and collected a decent force of them and even managed to get one of them painted up. Also due to my groups preference for apoclaypse gaming I grabbed the daemons off my mate and had some success with a combination of death guard and nurgle daemons however I also displayed a disturbing ability to roll 5+ FNP's at a disconcertingly high rate which actually disrupted the balance of the game a bit and frustrated both me and my friends.

Following this I looked at the rest of the daemons and considered my options, khorne daemons were somewhat one dimensional since they lack the psychic phase and while tzeentch daemons have some potential and bring a shooting phase I was haunted by memories of the flying circus lists from 7th edition. I finally settled on the slaanesh daemons as something of a focus as they were somewhat unrepresented, this turned out to be something of a good option since during the painting of 90 daemonettes GW were kind enough to produce some absolutely gorgeous models in the new keeper of secrets, infernal enrapturess, syll'eske and the disturbingly intriguing fiends of slaanesh.

While I have not completed the painting of any daemon army I have a decent quantity of base infantry sorted out, sadly the currently only played competitive list seems to be the monster mash army comprising of only greater daemons which feels against the lore to me.

With 9th edition I was also drawn into the necrons, the new models that were released with the indomitus boxed set were awesome and with the impact of Covid lockdown I found myself painting a lot of them and in approximately one year I managed to hammer my way through a complete army of circa 14,000 points, it changes a fair amount as GW tweak the points for balance.

I also managed to paint some white scars for apocalypse gaming, I have managed to get something in the region of 5000 points of them painted and looking reasonable.

Now I am looking forward to the imminent chaos releases, I really want to make a large chaos force sorted out for apocalypse gaming since it is our preferred gaming format but until we get the codices it has been hard to get motivated to paint. The first significant release is going to be the chaos knights, I already own one which I painted up sometime ago which is one of my favourite models - I have ordered some of the new chaos knights with the codex and I am aiming to be hammering my way through them in the coming weeks with photos for here imminent.

With this model I also invested in a LED kit for its eyes which adds a certain something. I have received a couple more LED kits in advance of receiving my knight order and I am looking forward on being able to work on this new project.

We have a plan for going to warhammer world in August and my intent is going to be getting the complete chaos knight force sorted out, painted, installed with LED kits and good to go for this event and have a visually stunning force ready to go. Updates will be coming.

Since 8th edition

So it has been some time since my last post and that is mainly due to the movement to 8th edition, I was at warhammer fest when it was announced that heresy would be staying with 7th edition which caused me no end of issues. Firstly because to be honest 7th edition did not really work for me, it simply was not that balanced and as such I was not that keen to stick with it any longer. And secondly all of my gaming group were moving to 8th edition which meant if I stuck with heresy I would be bereft of opponents to game against which defeats the whole point of it.

Therefore I gave it some thought and decided to return to a 40k army which I had been collecting before I got lured in to heresy which is the imperial guard (or as they are now known the Astra Militarum) with the intention of being able to reuse a lot of the models from my old collection - typically that resolution lasted almost no time and I decided that I would instead return to forge world to start collecting probably my absolute favorite line of models in the death korps of krieg and since then I have collected a pretty substantial force which I have been having quite reasonable success with even if they are essentially under powered imperial guard, they are still awesome models and I have been enjoying getting them painted even if I have not been painting as many of them as I probably should have.

These are some early pictures from the painting of the army and was pretty much the sample model but  I think it conveys the tone I was aiming for, I am trying to get to something pretty much like end of WW1 German infantry in the trenches

I have now started on another project as well to continue to develop my options some more, especially since such an awesome range has been released and that project is 40k Death Guard

And this is definitely the test model that new force which I think is starting to look reasonable.

So still here and still painting and will be aiming to continue to put up more pictures of the progress i am making with both of these forces going forward.

Vultarax

The second model I have completed from scratch is the Vultarax which is another example for forge world knocking it out of the park in their model design, it is simply gorgeous looking, the curved surfaces suit the candy coat I am using perfectly and I love the end effect.

I spent quite a lot of time on the base for this model making use of the newish GW basing kit to add some character and adding a fair amount of weathering to it, this is one of the other things I have been doing with the majority of my models to bring them all together. While strictly not needed for the mechanicum I wanted continuity with the iron warriors and they needed more colour on their bases or they will end up looking simply too bland so rusting was needed - I think it looks OK.

So a lovely model to work with and fortunately the rules for it on the battlefield are utterly amazing and I am seriously considering getting a couple more to round out the force, lots of BS 5 haywire firepower seems really potent especially with the way my local metagame is developing with lots more super heavies appearing (my group now has access to nine knights, four of which are mine for example).

I am currently working on a Knight Atrapos which is another awesome forge world model which will be serving as the commander of the knight household I am building up, another really potent option for the battle as well as being another awesome looking sculpt by those oh so talented forge world guys. I will put up some photo's of it when it is a little more progressed, I am trying out some pre-shading techniques which I think are working really well but it is not yet quite far enough along to justify taking and posting pictures.

Macrocarid Explorator

So I know I have not posted in sometime but I have been working on getting some models painted, most of my time has been spent putting the finishing touches and decals on models close to completion but I have managed to get some new models completed, the first of these was the macrocarid explorator which is an awesome model and was really fun to assemble and paint.

While about the same length as the triaros it is somewhat blockier and simply presents something of a formidible presence on the battlefield and I am pretty damn happy with the end effect of the painting that I have achieved.

Open days - golden daemon

I did spend some time oggling all of the amazing golden daemon models and of course I took some pictures since how could I not, so here we go. Theme for this one was enemies of the Imperium so all chaos and xenos.