Chaos goes pre-order....

Well here it is....

hard and sexy!

lets hope its not a car crash of a codex like the previous one,

I'll be taking pre-orders on the new chaos stuff, with a 15% discount, 

simply email me at mancavesupplies@rocketmail.com

and I'll sort out any queries or questions you may have,

Dark Vengeance the unboxing!

So I picked my copy of the new shiney Dark Vengeance box set up and thought I’d give my initial thoughts on the contents of the box, 

 

The actual model construction is basically the same as the space hulk set a couple of years back so options for conversions are quite limited unless you stick the models together first then hack them as required,example of a chosen with lighting claws...

 

But I’ll say the quality of the models are really nice and if these are any to go by then the up and coming chaos release should be packed with goodies and plenty of eye candy,

So the actual sprues, who ever managed to get this amount of stuff on 4 sprues should go for the tetris world championship!

 and the limited Ed chapin fella,

 

 

What you actually get for the cost of the box is very impressive:

 

Infidel Imperial dogs –

 

3 Characters (including the chaplain)

10 tactical marines

5 terminators

3 raven wing

 

The mighty Chaos forces of liberation –

 

1 character

1 helbrute/dreadnought

6 chosen marines

20 cultists

 

If you was to buy the equivalent in normal models then you’d be looking at about £190 so value for money is really good!

So I managed to get the bit that matters out of the box stuck together... 

 The "boys"

 

Even Isla was impressed....

And all the usual bumf mini rule book, templates and so on, I do like that fact that you get a stat sheet for the forces in the box and the intro booklet gives me the impression of a mini-campaign with the first mission just involving the chaos forces and you’ve got to deactivate the helbrute so that you can use it later! 

 

All I need to do is make a decision with the colour scheme of the chaos in the box, and the Dark angels are tempting start to an imperial force or I could just paint them up as fallen or get them on Ebay and get some cash for back for more cultists!

Thousand Son's Bikes/Raptors/Chosen multi-functional unit!

Its taking me a long long time but I've finally managed to finish off a unit of chaps that I converted up quite a few years ago!

Recently I added some alternative heads and replaced the normal looking chainswords with tombking/Egyptian looking weapons.

So the "boys"

Close up, of the old school heads, 

 and the new shiny versions,

 So when I had the vision for these chaps I was thinking bikes, but then I changed to raptors, and now with the "rumours" that you'll have chosen with jump packs then I might shift there purpose again,

The real bonus is that I get to field them how I like and they are universal models that basically look cool! 

The only thing that I'm not too happy about is how the boots look on the discs, I could be going into OCD mode though? what you think??

For those people interested the heads, weapons and the shoulder pad in the last full pic is from a company call kromlech Ebay shop well worth a look, the crispness of the cast and the detail is lovely.

So any feedback/comments are welcome,

XV Legion Marches again

So with 6th firmly embedded within the wargaming world, I wanted to get some bits and bobs finished off that I've had playing around for a while,

I decided to go back to the beginning and finish off some Thousand son's that I've been promising to do for a while,

I also thought of experimenting with some textured paint that I ordered in the other week,

So one Rhino finished.....

Add some textured paint,

and you get....

So I applied the first texture Stirland Mud, then added some Armageddon dust, dabbed some army painter strong tone onto the armageddon dust and then dry brushed with model colour English uniform.

Nice and simple and the textured paints are really nice, I'll be playing about with the 20mm stuff that's been completed recently and I'll pop some pictures up of them as well,

So the completed rhino, This was one of the first forge world conversion kits that I bought when I started collecting my chaos "back in the day"

The other bits that I've managed to crank out are,

so half a terminator lord and a bane knight from warmachine, I was going to use him with lighting claws or a daemon weapon depending on what mood took me,

The other was...

Now this was a rare find on the 'bay, as only 500 of these... www.solegends.com were produced, and I'll be honest I didn't pay that much for it!

So with the 11th Legion good as done it's onto the 3rd Legion...

The Warmaster!

Yup its the man who can.....

now this bad man has been sitting around the old painting table for quite a while! and as a "break" I decided to get him sorted, some bits need a final tweek but he's good as done.

Now thats he's finally painted you all know whats gonna happen now...

Here comes the chaos..... back from the dead!!

So after a week of doing various "family" stuff with the other half being off work and the Golden Child's first birthday to plan and sort out, I've not really done that much painting this week,

but what I have managed to get done I'm quite happy with, I've managed some leaders for the up and coming warhammer chaos army starting with the lord....

I found this bad boy kicking around in one of my bits boxes and figured I might as well use him as my lord, turns out that this is a limited edition  gamesday miniature and after being told this found him on ebay for about £40!

I've angled him up so that you can actually see the front rather than a shadow, 

the view that I'll see the most of, I'm quite happy with the red of the cape but I did have quite alot of practice with the sann hann! 

The "newish" plastic chaos scorcer painted up to please Kurt... (the first game I used him he kicked ass!)

As always I've been keeping my finger on the geek pulse and spotted this cracking bit of kit on Ebay and ended up paying less for it than I would if I bought a baneblade brand new!!

 In the traditional "Anton" fashion no sooner had I unpacked it I'd already applied the initial coat and done a heavy dry brush....

 then I started to ponder at it looking at the cannon and thinking that it could be better, so out came the pliers and off came the cannon to be replaced with one that I picked up a while back from the states, that same evening Coop's saw the about picture and felt that it wasn't "spikey & Chaosy" enough now I'm not a massive fan of the spikey chaos but I agreed on the chaosy factor there was some elements in there but not enough for grand father nurgle to give it his blessing! 

So some random bits and green stuff later I ended up with...

 













I'll continue to take snaps at each stage but it's going to be my "reward" project so that I can take my time on it and not just pump it out, but I'll only count it as one model towards my "pledge"

Whilst I was down the club on Thursday I wandered into the kitchen were we tend to mooch whilst the ninja's finish beating the crap out of each other and seen Coach & Sonny playing warmachine on the table and the best use of a paper plate as a damage grid for his jacks!

As a bit of a break from all of the SOTR that I've been playing recently I got a text from Nick saying that he was starting a Cutlass campaign and did I want in... stupid question really ;)

So after convincing Coops to play Cutlass rather than flames it was me and Cooper against Nick's Superhard crew and we was after his loot!

After some very un-orky sneaking through the trees I decided to go for it and paid the price with most of my gang getting the be-jesus kicked out of them in combat and the Orc captain losing his had to a serious injury... 

But even with his hand lost Captain (insert name here) will be back to lead his crew to victory! 

I've not really made much of a start to the secrets of the third reich themed board, but I picked up aload of these pallets so can make some real cool scatter terrain, 

So the doomsday clock is no longer an issue as I've managed to get all my bits done well in time and as for the pledge thats well under control for this month!

Bought - 17

Painted - 49
Difference + 29

I'm going to pick up yet another system at Derby at the weekend in the form of Saga from gripping beast, basicly 28mm vikings on the rampage.. carn't wait!! and more than likely some MERC's stuff as well.

Secrets of the third reich.... bits finished off & whats next???

So the bren carrier is done and dusted!! and just as I've finished off my British secrets army I'm now pondering what to do??
















Well its simple do a themed board for the club!!

I managed to get my hands on one of these.....

ok so its a tad big being 1/35 but looks good to me and not bad for a tenner! So I'm going to do a rocket assembly type board, I'll make it modular so that stuff can be moved about as needed all I've got to do is suss out what do I want on the board! one of the guys from the Hinckley club has sourced a supplier of cheap 1/48 armour so it'd be rude not to have some of those around in various states.

But I did manage to pick up these off Ebay the other week only after the auction finished did I notice that the green stuff was a little OTT!, but after working out that the ravener bits would have cost me £56 if I'd bought two boxes so I wasn't that bothered!

I decided to hack these to bits as I've a game of 40K coming up in a couple of weeks,

and as always when I convert I managed to nearly slice open my finger.... 

But I did manage to get one mocked up all I need to do is repair the missing bits and a little green stuff to blend in the upper body and the snakey bit and jobs a good un!! 

I'll use these as fiends of Slannesh, and with some digging around all I've only a few deamon bits left to paint and I'll be looking at another finished army, shocking!!

Question is will the fantasy army ever get off the ground, and will the 40K chaos boys be finished in time for 6th Ed and the new codex??