I've decided to put the 40K hobby on the shelve for now. I' in a process of figuring out who I actually am and who I want to be, and that kinda takes up all of my focus. Neither playing nor painting is really any fun at the moment, so I change my focus towards self realization through my tumblr.
This is the last painting I've done for now. I did just manage to get one of them done, lacking basing before the motivation left me.
I hope to return to the hobby once I got things figured out. Until then!
Liber Heresius
Astra Militarum, Imperial Navy, Adepta Sororitas, Collegia Titanica, The Inquisition, Slaanesh, Adeptus Mechanicus and Imperial Knights. A blogg spanning my 40K hobby.
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Bragging rights and such
So I decided to register my Warhound with the Titan Owners Club. The fact that every titan made by Forge World comes with a numbered certificate proving it is authentic and the production number makes the titan models a little bit more than "juts another model from FW" I believe. The Titan Owners Club aims to get as many of these numbered titans registered with the site for people to see, and by the looks of it, it works pretty well. You can sort by legions to see different takes on the legion colours which is pretty cool.
Hopefully I'll one day be featured on the Reaver as well as the Warlord list. One day. :3
My entry: http://titanownersclub.blogspot.no/2016/02/mars-warhound-no3639-titus-vermundo.html
Hopefully I'll one day be featured on the Reaver as well as the Warlord list. One day. :3
My entry: http://titanownersclub.blogspot.no/2016/02/mars-warhound-no3639-titus-vermundo.html
Sunday, 24 January 2016
A Prison for Gods - Part 5 - The Might of Mars
"Target sighted, ruined building type imperial, first through 3rd floor, within range, distance: Far. Probability of total neutralization: 45%. Take aim, fire at will sanctioned. Omnissiah be praised." Ferrodir 4-Gyros chimed in binary to his assigned ranger squad. The message, received and understood within fractions of a section, and the whole squad opened fire upon the dark eldar hiding across the street. The nearby guardsmen, oblivious of the enemy presence startled turned their heads looking in all directions, trying to get a glimpse of what the vigilant Skitarii had observed, analysed and fired upon by the time it takes for a single breath.
Ready for battle! (Or rather ready for packing) |
The field of battle, 4' by 4'. My deployment zone was rather cramped by people wanting to run forward as soon as possible. |
Last stand of the Vanguard Alpha shortly before charging the dark eldar troops disembarking from the closest skimmer. |
Dominating. The knight take up a lot of points, but as long as it stays alive it delivers a ton of damage and can efficiently grab objectives with the 12" move. |
Fight me? Now why on earth would you do that? I'm just standing here behind this wall calibrating the data blocks for the rest of the army. Move along now! |
Ready to run. The dark eldar had no plans for moving any closer. |
The battle is over. Remnants of guardsmen cling to cover and the dark eldar skimmers hide from the knight. |
With the victory on Nest, I captured one sector on the planet from Chris and due to my Relentless Assault campaign rule claimed yet another sector on Tresium. Truly a glorious day for the Imperium and for Omnissiah!
EDIT: As a friend of mine pointed out, I forgot all about the scout move granted by the Sktarii Maniple. That extra 6" would have meant a lot for the vanguard and ruststalkers. I'll make a not of the until next time.
Objective completed, sector secured. Enemy forces routed, great losses on both sides. Lots of new data to analyse from the engagement. New profile type registered for [Dark + Eldar(?) + Wraith Knight.] Upload started. Estimated processing time H:42M:52S:27. Permission to return to mechanicum base of operation requested. Ferrodir 4-Gyros out.
....Access granted...... Magos is satisfied by the results, return for further personal sensor data analysis.
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Ruststalkers, Vanguards and 1 year of blogging
More Skitarii done, which concludes my current batch of based and primed models. With this last addition, my Skitarii forces numbers 10 vanguards, 10 rangers, 5 ruststalkers and one dragoon, enough to field on their own without having to bring the knight. I have not yet started on the "start collecting" box, but next up is going to be Cult Mechanicus, taking a break from painting Skitarii now.
One year has passed since I created this blog and I got to say I am rather proud of myself for keeping it alive through the whole year, even with no more than a post or 2 per month. 40K is a time consuming hobby and during stressful periods, you just got so much time to spend. Here is to another year active on the blog, improvements in painting and more winning.... I hope :) The upcoming new AM codex and a combined AdMech are reasons for excitement, and along with the new codexes, hopefully some new units as well.
With my rather long Christmas holiday drawing to an end I have tried to get as much painting done as possible. This is the result of the last painting frenzy:
Got to love those transonic blades. Mine are not quite as detailed as the 'Eavy Metal team does them, but hopefully I'll get there in time.
Might have to re-paint this guys some day, not entiiiiierly satisfied.
More special weapons to go around. With the models from the "start collecting" box I'll have 3 of each type to field with 3x 10 man squads.
You will be next, alien and/or heretic and/or chaos spawn and/or other not favourable of the Imperium and/or the Omnissiah and/or the Emperor!
One year has passed since I created this blog and I got to say I am rather proud of myself for keeping it alive through the whole year, even with no more than a post or 2 per month. 40K is a time consuming hobby and during stressful periods, you just got so much time to spend. Here is to another year active on the blog, improvements in painting and more winning.... I hope :) The upcoming new AM codex and a combined AdMech are reasons for excitement, and along with the new codexes, hopefully some new units as well.
With my rather long Christmas holiday drawing to an end I have tried to get as much painting done as possible. This is the result of the last painting frenzy:
Got to love those transonic blades. Mine are not quite as detailed as the 'Eavy Metal team does them, but hopefully I'll get there in time.
Might have to re-paint this guys some day, not entiiiiierly satisfied.
More special weapons to go around. With the models from the "start collecting" box I'll have 3 of each type to field with 3x 10 man squads.
You will be next, alien and/or heretic and/or chaos spawn and/or other not favourable of the Imperium and/or the Omnissiah and/or the Emperor!
Monday, 11 January 2016
The Sydonian Dragoon - Done
My favourite model to be released in 2015 by far and now I've finally come around to paint him. Wile the model is not really [that] big for a walker, there are a lot of surfaces and details sticking out making this a long lasting painting project. Also, be especially careful not to break the antenna and various cables hanging out, I might have done that. (Ooops)
Too bad they are not characters, I would easily nominate a dragoon my warlord when fielding Skitarii alone.
Scratched paint detail on all the bone coloured chassis. I tried following the instructions from WD 61 to some degree of success, but with more practice I hope to improve my brushwork with the detail brush.
He got a cool cockpit with a lot of instruments boosting Ld of nearby troops.
The ever growing forces of the Red Planet. Omnissiah be praised!
Too bad they are not characters, I would easily nominate a dragoon my warlord when fielding Skitarii alone.
Scratched paint detail on all the bone coloured chassis. I tried following the instructions from WD 61 to some degree of success, but with more practice I hope to improve my brushwork with the detail brush.
The ever growing forces of the Red Planet. Omnissiah be praised!
Saturday, 9 January 2016
Kit bashing 30K + 40K
First time in ages I do some proper kit bashing. Today I'm assembling my custom Kataphron Breachers and Destroyers from the original GW kit and FW Vorax Battle-Automatas.
I really can't find myself to take the tracked servitor models seriously, and no way I am going to field them looking like that. The search for proxy models landed on the Vorax which looks beyond awesome. Too bad battle-automatas is a lost technology from the years of 30K to 40K, so
[DISCLAIMER]:
My custom Kataphron are in reality servitors hard wired in to to robot bodies, not automatons. Like the original Kataphron, they living and breathing in agonizing pain just like Omnissiah intended.
Now with that out of the way, here are the result:
Kataphron Breachers with heavy arc rifle and arc claw. Om nom nom vehicles. Added a few bits and pieces to try make the look more armoured than the Destroyers given the difference in armour save.
Kataphron Destroyers with plasma culverin and phosphor blaster. Less armoured, but more ranged damage output. Heavy infantry beware!
The entire happy family together. Looking forward to painting them.
Also, picked up this little bundle today. More Skitarii incoming! :D
I really can't find myself to take the tracked servitor models seriously, and no way I am going to field them looking like that. The search for proxy models landed on the Vorax which looks beyond awesome. Too bad battle-automatas is a lost technology from the years of 30K to 40K, so
[DISCLAIMER]:
My custom Kataphron are in reality servitors hard wired in to to robot bodies, not automatons. Like the original Kataphron, they living and breathing in agonizing pain just like Omnissiah intended.
Now with that out of the way, here are the result:
Kataphron Breachers with heavy arc rifle and arc claw. Om nom nom vehicles. Added a few bits and pieces to try make the look more armoured than the Destroyers given the difference in armour save.
Kataphron Destroyers with plasma culverin and phosphor blaster. Less armoured, but more ranged damage output. Heavy infantry beware!
The entire happy family together. Looking forward to painting them.
Also, picked up this little bundle today. More Skitarii incoming! :D
Friday, 8 January 2016
Milestone - playable AdMech
Like the title says, I've finally panted up enough Skitarii to field the basic detachment for them. More to come as I still got a lot of models to paint and I'm picking up the "Start Collecting" box tomorrow for the formation and a even longer backlog of unpainted miniatures. :D
The painting scheme is based upon the Mars scheme presented in White Dwarf #61 but with a tad darked red tones to match the rest of my Imperial forces.
The plan is to field Vanguards and Rangers at a ratio 2:1. Got to love the rad poisoning rule. Also, did I mention the Skitarii infantry is the most detailed models I've ever painted? Feels like an eternity just to paint 5 of them.
The rangers are cheap for a precise 30" "sniper", but offer little more than the precision shot rule, Hence why I'll focus more on the vanguards.
Wasp stripe pattern on the cables are fun, but wish I was able to get them thinner. More practice needed!
The painting scheme is based upon the Mars scheme presented in White Dwarf #61 but with a tad darked red tones to match the rest of my Imperial forces.
The plan is to field Vanguards and Rangers at a ratio 2:1. Got to love the rad poisoning rule. Also, did I mention the Skitarii infantry is the most detailed models I've ever painted? Feels like an eternity just to paint 5 of them.
The rangers are cheap for a precise 30" "sniper", but offer little more than the precision shot rule, Hence why I'll focus more on the vanguards.
Wasp stripe pattern on the cables are fun, but wish I was able to get them thinner. More practice needed!
Thursday, 31 December 2015
Corruption spreading
I've been painting my Slaanesh daemons lately and at last the basing is done as well! With 10 daemonettes and a daemon princess, I am still 10 daemonettes short of a playable army but I'm getting there. This first batch was a test run of the colour scheme and basing technique, both of which I think works pretty well. The "corruption spreading-basing" got potential for improvement, but as a fist try I'm satisfied. More to come, next on the list is Skitarii.
Daemon princess with daemonic flight and daemonic weapon |
Daemonettes with instrument of chaos |
Spreading corruption on stone |
Spreading corruption on the ground |
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
Hades
Hades is a ageing Malcador 'Infernus' of the 501st recently pulled out of retirement in a dusty storage bunker on the home planet. Though the paint is old and faded, the newly painted slogans are bright and encourages nearby guardsmen safe in the knowledge that wherever the mutant, the heretic or the alien is hiding, Hades' cleansing flames will find them, reducing them to pious ash in a matter of seconds.
Hades is, due to the old and faulty engine of the Malcador class tanks, known for showing up late wile in reserve, and for turning in early wile finally on the table. It is almost like the enemy don't like its presence. Emperor preserves!
UPDATE!
Hades was recently featured on Faeit 212, thanks Natfka!
http://natfka.blogspot.de/2016/01/whats-on-your-table-malcador-tank.html
Hades is, due to the old and faulty engine of the Malcador class tanks, known for showing up late wile in reserve, and for turning in early wile finally on the table. It is almost like the enemy don't like its presence. Emperor preserves!
UPDATE!
Hades was recently featured on Faeit 212, thanks Natfka!
http://natfka.blogspot.de/2016/01/whats-on-your-table-malcador-tank.html
Thursday, 5 November 2015
A Prison for Gods - Part 4 - New Commander
As things are not going well for the Imperial faction, a new commander have been brought in to oversee and lead the 501st Foreign Legion. To make sure the force stay on the righteous path, true to the Emperor, the Commissariat found it necessary to oversee the campaign personally.
Introducing Lord Commissar Maxine Fabii
Following the Mothballed crisis mission (of which we lost badly), each warlord taking part (I was using a proxy for Maxine as she was not painted up yet) got to choose one fixed warlord trait that stick to the character. As the imperial seam to lack any strategic plan to date, it was fitting choosing the Grand Strategist trait from the AM codex. Let's turn this ship around!
Skulls! Friend or foe, she shoots both if the Emperor demand it.
Why yes, of corse she does cause fear!
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