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Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up

For Titan!

So with game time this weekend I was leaning towards My Raptors, but I switched it up and I am playing my Grey Knights, as they are painted and I don't need to paint anything. Still toying with lists. Happy I have so much done as it gives me a lot of options. I believe I am playing against my friends Iron Warriors.

W.A.Rorie in Hobby Game time

July 12, 2023

Call to Arms 2023 - Stronghold Xenos - Weeks 1 and 2 progress

After a well deserved rest of 1 week in a cabin in the woods, I finally started working on my first vow. Progress has been relatively satisfying with two of the units pledged at a completion stage of 75%: 1. The first unit I focussed on is the Wave serpent, for which I had great expectations. Indeed it is the first time I try a bicolor scheme (black/red) on a model so curvy. So a kind of new challenge for me. I worked with masking tap which in the end was globally satisfying eve

Bouargh in Call to Arms 2023

July 11, 2023

Ashen Sentinels - an Ultima Founding Space Marine Chapter

Panel lining and Red helms

So after the base coat of Dawnstone, I gave these Marines a wash - a mix I made that is 4 parts Lahmian Medium, 1 part Nuln Oil and 1 part Agrax Earthshade (the older, pre-2022 versions of those shades). Here they are after applying this custom shade: Now I begin the slightly fiddly and time consuming process of panel lining with Nuln Oil: Finally, I wrote about them having red helmets in my previous entry - here are the results of some tests: fi

firestorm40k in Work in Progress

July 10, 2023

Sons of the Dawn

Sternguard/Lieutenant

Had a bit more time to work on building my squads over the last few days, decided to get the Sternguard put together! No major changes with these guys, added some studs, swapped a few heads around, and used a couple of the old Sternguard heads (which are some of the best going, imho) And also put the Lieutenant together. I really like the idea of him being a lone covert operative, but I think making him Nid specific was a mistake, both in the min

Lysimachus in WIP

July 10, 2023

The Strifes of the Matteus Subsector

Salamanders Chapter The Great Adar - Salamanders Venerable Dreadnought

Introduction The Great Adar was a near-1000 year old Astartes who served the chapter as one of it's many revered Dreadnoughts. He was previously known as Bresh’Tan Adar, an Assault Marine Sergeant of the Salamanders 2nd Company. After suffering grievous injuries in combat 840 years ago against the Arch Enemy, his fractured body was interred into the sarcophagus of a Dreadnought. This is when he became The Great Adar, “last survivor of the Drop Site Massacre”. That statement is begrudging ac

Mike Zulu in Defence of Dakota Minor

July 9, 2023

Ashen Sentinels - an Ultima Founding Space Marine Chapter

The start of a new army project

"The enemies of the Emperor - our enemies - believe us weakened; they believe they can attack His worlds, bringing fire and tumult, till all that remains is the ashes and blood of our defeat. No. When they come, they will find that we stand, that we defy them, and that the ashes and blood which remain is the sign of their defeat." - Chapter Master Noumen Arkos, Ashen Sentinels, prior to the victory at Genovian III Greetings Frater I'm starting a new army, one that has (beli

firestorm40k in Work in Progress

July 9, 2023

Call to Arms: Week 1

Last week, like many of the people here, I embarked on the Call to Arms forum event, (perhaps foolishly) vowing to paint the Tyranid half of the Leviathan box. This is 47 miniatures in 3 months...easy right? Let's see how I got on... The painting started on Saturday night as I drybrushed all the models with White Scar, this didn't take too long and I was set up to move to stage 2 of my process, the green flesh. I use Ork Flesh Contrast paint here: T

ZeroWolf in Hive Fleet Boreidas

July 8, 2023

Faith and Teef, a toaae blog

Raptors

Well I have a game on 07/15 against my Friends 1k pts of Nids, Plan is use my Raptors and debating going Phobos/ Scout heavy as they are at least primed or more. Phobos Librarian is a go and more than likely Revier LT. Trying to figure out the rest of the force. I may need to build an Impulsor for the Reivers to ride in. I need to start my Call to Arms vow too....hopefully this weekend

W.A.Rorie in Ravenguard/ Successors

July 6, 2023

Sons of the Dawn

1st Entry: Terminators!

Hello Fraters, I was going to start a thread in the WIP Forum, but this seemed like a good opportunity to try out the Blog feature. I've not done this before so we'll see how it goes! So, I've got the Leviathan box Space Marines, which will be painted as Celebrants Chapter. (I've got a Hall of Honour thread here for already finished units) I want to try to convert and add bits to make all of the units a bit different from the stock minis, so expect plenty of kitbashes, gr

Lysimachus in WIP

July 4, 2023

10th edition goals (Orks)

As a whole, I am not satisfied with the rules for 10th edition. I still don't want to go into a rant about why, but the TL;DR is that I'm less interested in this edition of the game I've been playing for 20 years then I have at any other edition launch. But I am still interested in putting my painted models on a table and rolling dice. So instead of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, I figure that the healthiest thing to do is to approach my hobby from a different point of

toaae

July 3, 2023

The Yncarne's Hand

Game Pics 02 July 23

Was part of a 3 vs 3 game yesterday. I fought mostly against Orks and Space Wolves. While the score has my team down 1, I'd say I still won with meeting new people and having a close game. Here's the list And the game pics. Thanks for looking.

The Yncarne in Game Pics

July 3, 2023

Building Leviathan: The Final Day

With a crestfallen heart, I must announce that we've come to the end of this little Building Leviathan series. I mean, It's hard to continue something when it's all built! Today, all I had to do, was 10 Infernus Marines and 1 Dreadnought... First up: These went togethed easy enough, though I did wonder about why GW designed them to go together as they did. Like the one Marine where you put the pieces together verticality. Still after an hour or so, I had the fu

Bouargh´s miniatures´ closet clean-up

July 1, 2023

Call to Arms 2023 - Stronghold Xenos - 1st Vow

And here is my first vow for the Xenos Stronghold. The equivalent of a Patrol box, changing the Wraithlord for a skyrunner Warlock. Primed and assemblied, except the Wave Serpent that will be painted hulls and chassis separatly before being glued together. But where did I put the canopy??? All minis are ooP ans have seen for some of them conversions or modifications/swaps: - Wild Riders logo from Dark Elf shield sprue (WFB) - A Dark Elf (?) pol

Bouargh in Call to Arms 2023

July 1, 2023

Building Leviathan: Day 6

Day 6 of building Leviathan and I inch closer to having the whole box built (for comparisons sake I did Indomitus over a period of months and I technically haven't completed AoS's Dominion yet...) For (Thursday) I completed the Sternguard, and all of them were pretty straightforward with no issues, and I tackled these big boys: Not going to lie, these Terminators went together like a dream. No seams, no awkward fitting parts, just perfection. I'm looking forward to paintin

June 30, 2023

Raptors vs Ravenguard

So every time a new edition my Raptors get kicked down the stairs. My Raptors started out as 10th Co with support, 9th saw it adding a ton of Phobos as scouts were not troops. Now 10th ed is upon us and Phobos is not battle line. I was really planning on making my Leviathan, the Blood Angel Combat Patrol, and Boarding Patrol into Ravenguard. Currently I am leaning towards making them Raptors. I usually play my Raptors as Ravenguard anyways. I am trading a friend the Drukhari NIB half of Piety

W.A.Rorie in Ravenguard/ Successors

June 30, 2023

Building Leviathan: Day 5

Day 5 of building the Leviathan box and I finally reach an important milestone! I started off by going back to the last Tyranid sprue (the one with the Neurogaunts and Barbgaunts) and started clipping off the Barbgaunts. This was a unit that had piqued my curiosity during the reveals, and their unique ability to slow down opponents (doubtful they would actually kill anything but luckily that isn't their primary function). Some of that enthusiasm was drained away by the build as sever

June 29, 2023

Building Leviathan: Day 4

Day 4 of building Leviathan and the end is in sight for the Tyranids. I should point out that on average, I get about an hour and a half of free time a day, which isn't a lot for building a box of Leviathan's size! However the building today was focused on the gaunts. My first task was to get the lsst sprue of Termagaunts done and dusted, bringing the total to a healthy 20. Needless to say, these will not be the last Termagaunts I'll ever build. With them done

June 28, 2023

Building Leviathan: Day 3

So Day 3 of building Leviathan and what did I do today* Well, I was through messing around...It was time for the Screamer Killer (oh, and I guess the Neurotyrant + drones) The Neurotyrant was a smooth build and i was surprised by the detail that was just covered up by the 'armour', the designers really went to town on him. The Screamer Killer on the other hand, seemed to have developed a case of gapitis. No matter how much I filed down the contact point

TTCombat Paints and Ultramarines

June 27, 2023

Calgar and Vitrix Honour Guard Completed!

After finishing Calgar and his Honour Guard before the weekend, I was stuck waiting for my basing supplies to arrive before I took a few completed shots. All in all, I'm really happy with how things have turned out. Sure, improvements can still be made, which will show on the next models I do, which, incidentally, are my Leviathan Marines for the Combat Patrol. Group Shot Honour Guard 1 Honour Guard 2 Calgar

Damo1701 in Introduction

June 26, 2023

Xenos Threats Spotted....Grey Knights Engage

Well first game of 10th edition is in the books......While the Sons of Titan technically won the battle, the losses were so heavy a tactical withdrawl was needed. I played against my buddy's ork army Consisting of a Mek, Mega nobs, 6 Killer kans, Deff Dread, 3 deff kopters and 2 Flash gitz squads Vs my Librarian, 5 Terminators (psycannon), 5 strike marines (psycannon), 5 interceptors, 5 purgation (4 psilencers) and to 2 lasbacks. Game ended with 4 dead kans, and 3 deff kopters and I

W.A.Rorie in Hobby Time

June 26, 2023

Building Leviathan: Day 2

Day 2 of Leviathan building...Let's get to it. I had a bit more time and more choice, so I decided to get the large, multi-tooth elephant muncher out of the way: The psychophage wasn't a bad build persay but there was some annoying parts. First off, the little legs/arms it has. Unlike the four bigger ones that lock in place, these two little ones don't and they got annoying when it came to putting it on its base as I had to keep adjusting it to make sure it was flat. Second