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.