Bushio Savage wave done & something "extra" special......

So after a mental painting session I blasted though the Bushido models really quick! now all I need is to get a game in and I'll be sorted!!

so after a bit of feedback from the Bushio forum chaps I put a bit of orange into the larva and I'm quite happy with it now, the arc's are marked up and all I need to do is hit the crew with some anti-shine for protection, it has to be a first though that I've painted the entire collection for a game that I've only played via a demo! 

Close up of one of the Bakemono, 

and another one, 

and the big boy himself, the Blue skin has gone down quite well, so all I need to decide is to either carry on with the blue for a uniform feel or break out the random colours like on my chaos spawn and make peoples eye bleed with the rainbow colours!

So the something "special" whilst at expo I had a chit-chat to the guy who runs simple miniatures and when I asked about trakor units for infinity he had no idea when these were going to be released, and as some of the models for my faction still haven't been done I figured it might be a while so I've decided to make my own!

the REM unit are from the nomad range and one of the guys wanted certain ones that came in a box of two, so rather than having two kicking about I went halves and took the two that he didn't want.

I've done two different looking units to represent the two types of trakor unit in the game, I've not decided which one will be what yet, but I'm sure I'll get some "suggestions" from the local chaps!

the missile pods are from a GW terminator, cut in half and slapped on the side, 

the small missile pods are from exodus games, basically epic scale stuff that I had a spare one of, again the centre section cut out and simply stuck together, the round thing above the head is a bit from the other REM that I stuck in there as a filler and an air intake to basically look cool!

Side profile. 

So the other one, bit more hacking on this one. the round bits got snipped off the back of the REM and the side armour cut back so that I could fit the huge rocket launchers on, which are 15mm battlefront nerbelwefers that I picked up cheap from ebay

front shot

side profile, I'll more than likely paint these in either a russian green or maybe the original  nomad colours to represent the Adriana's "borrowing" the REM's for a weapon test bed?

As I was in a converting mood, I decided to throw some counts as hunters for the epic marine army that I posted up a month or so ago,

so the turret is from exodus wars, but actually made of two, one half of a whirlwind type turret and the other being a anti-aircraft  mini gun I made sure I kept the radar dome to give it the AA feel,

the rhino body is simply an old school plastic one with the rear hatches on the top cut down so the new turret sits better.

Marines prepare to serve your emperor.... Or Just good old Epic!

Now I'm not talking about.....




















And BOOM like a blast from the past I caved in and decided to join in a local campaign that a couple of the guys from the club are going to be running,

So after a little digging about I found my marines from about 4 girlfriends ago, all I needed to do was finish off two forgeworld warhounds that I'd had for what seems like forever and as I was on the hunt for bits and bobs.
I stumbled across a box that I'd bought from a chap in the states with shag loads of various bits in it so decided to get those togeather and blast them out as I was waiting for the ink to dry on my emperors children dreadnought...

so the family shots...

The Firepower group

3 units of landraiders, 2 warhounds a warlord and two lots of landriders for transport

the front ones are the recently painted with the newish inks the rear ones are from back in the day

the easiest models to paint in the world! all dry brush and inks

More landraiders!

Support and AFV group

So two lots of whirlwinds, 2 lots of predators and some vinidicators

Anti-infantry predators

Vindicators

Old school whirlwinds

The infantry group

So 3 space marine units with transport one on foot, 1 devastator unit with rhinos and two that cruise around in landraiders

The Specialist Group

4 units of assault marines, a thunderhawk, 2 units of termi's 4 dreadnoughts, attack bike unit and a landspeer tornado unit

the good old thunderhawk... now only if GW did a plastic 40K for this rather than the 400 quid forgeworld one ;)

Command element with some old ones

And whats currently left to do...

The ship I'm planning on using as a strike cruiser for drop pod deployment, its from a company called ground zero games from there NSA faction range and was a bargin at 4 quid, I'm thinking of getting one to repersent a battlebarge, all I need to do is find some to use as a lander as I'm flatly refusing to pay 38 quid for the GW one!

Points wise...

well its rolling in just shy of 8,900

Thats without the 2 addational thunderhawks, scout unit, 2 warhound and 1 reaver (but no weapons?) that needs to be stripped and painted up in the guise of space wolves, get some of the old school whirlwinds to convert into hunters and that'll be all good as done!

quite a crazy week considering "oh I'll do a quick unit of terminators"

Celt Skirmishers, Commission work, Epic & countdown to Salute 2011!

So after the success of the test with the army painter dip I decided to crack on with the skirmishers for the Celt army that I'm going to use to crush Lee's gay Romans...

 I managed to do this lot in a couple of days and decided to keep with the rag-tag feel of the warriors that I'd done previously.

Close up there not that "pretty" but as a whole unit they look quite spiffing!
I'll look to field them as two skirmish units but once I get my hands on the rule book I'll see what options I have.

About a month ago I was taking some of the guys at the shop through Maulifaux and made a joke comment to Kurt about painting his stuff for the "right price" and the usual gay jokes prevailed, Dave then approached me on the same night asking if I'd paint his new crew as a commission previously I'd done Danny's everblight to help him out for the warmachine nationals last year and seemed to be quite happy with the out come,

This is to be my first "proper" commission so the models arrived earlier this week and looked like

the brief is to paint them as they are on the wyrd miniatures website and give the death marshalls black coats as they look very "matrix style"  with there poses, I started on the coffins as I've not done wood for ages and figured I might as well dive in feet first

I'm quite happy with these and once I've had a look on the net to see how the rest of the models should look I'll carry on over the remainder of this week, but there's no real rush as I've 6 weeks to get these done before Dave comes back to Leicester and I figured I painted a whole load of French in about the same time these can have a little extra work on them to make them look super cool!

There has been some interest recently at the shop in playing epic and after an initial resistance to another system but after digging through my space marines painted up as space wolves I decided to do a bad thing and agree to join in the fun!

Myself and Spencer organised a game last minute and with neither of us playing for about 4 years decided to get some practice in to try and remember how the system played, it was going to be the classic face off between dark angels and the wolves at 2000 points,

Now I thought I didn't get a great deal with

2 Assault units with commanders mounted in a thunderhawk
1 tactical unit with a dreadnought & vindicator
1 Devastator unit with two dreadnoughts and a landraider
1 Predator unit
1 whirlwind unit

I was facing:
2 Tactical units
1 whirlwind unit
1 Deathwing terminator unit with commander
1 Reaver titan


so the game started like...

And Kurt had to get in on the action ;)

Still the same turn trying to suss out the rules! 

The view of the devastator unit seeing that huge hunk of metal about to blow it to kingdom come! 

And thats where the pictures stop as we plough through the turns and Spencer being the sneaky git that he is deep strikes his terminator behind the devastator gun line and wiped them out to a man!

I returned the favour and the gunship with the assault marines came out of no where to try and secure one of my objectives which the succeeded in doing and a last minute dash from the tactical marines secured Spencer's objective with the titan sitting on the other one it was in the bag for Spencer!

so following that cracking game, I went on a bit of a dig and got these lot ready to go, a mere 750 points worth of space marine killy goodness...

I'm also gearing myself up for the yearly pilgrimage to Salute, should be a good one this year with myself, Lee, Chris and Nick going down, not as many as last year but regardless it'll be a laugh, the shopping list is quite hefty and I'm looking to pick up a Celt army for hail Caesar as well as the book from the show that I've preordered from warlord games and I'll see if I can find Rick Priestley so that he can scribble in it for me ;)

I'll take my camera so that I can get plently of funky pic's and get them posted once I get back/sobered up!

Other bits that I would like to "look at" would be:

The Merc's game thats been floating around for a while
Force on force
Future war commander - maybe as an alternative to epic, I've been reading the cold war commander rules and they look really good!
6mm modern stuff and 15mm modern stuff
Hit the bring and buy to see if there is any epic stuff in there


Talking of looking for epic is there anyone out there looking to shift some of there old stuff? if so drop us a comment in the box and we can discuss prices etc..