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Getting HtH into my AdMech gunline... Where should I head to?

Hi Folks, No painting progress ythis week. I have been kept busy by a challenging professionnal agenda and barely touched a brush. Just made some preliminary test of yellows on Micromachiens from Epic era, which turned out to be, well, no so convincing, but, hey, let´s talk about that in a future entry. So, my New Year/New Army 2023 project is now mature enough not to be considered anymore as such in a couple of weeks. But I will not commit any other New Year/New Army project f

December 14, 2023

Sagittarum complete

Now I've figured out the paint scheme, the process is nice and easy to get through and get good results. Squad Celestus and their Gryph-Mastiff:

The Strifes of the Matteus Subsector

December 11, 2023

Salamanders Chapter Salamanders’ Armour on Dakota Minor (884M41)

Introduction The Salamanders had come to the Segmentum Obscurus with a contingent of over 160 Astartes hailing from the 1st, 2nd and 5th Companies, along with their respective Captains, to fight in the ill-fated Yttrius Crusade (883M41). At its conclusion, their numbers had been significantly reduced; the veterans of the 1st Company were either dead or incapacitated, the 2nd and 5th Companies had been cut to half of their starting strength, and their drop pods had been exhausted. However, t

Mike Zulu in Defence of Dakota Minor

December 10, 2023

Salamander Progress

I have made some more progress on the Salamander Command vehicle: The top heavy bolter is from the old heavy weapons squad while the hull heavy flamer is from the chimera chassis vehicles. The plasticard in the back is a platform so that the crew can access the heavy bolter.

Harrowmaster in 53rd Army Group

December 9, 2023

Start of Sagittarum

I'm currently working on this squad of Sagittarum as a Christmas Gift to my pal. We're currently getting into Underworlds as a gaming group as a chilled and quick board game. Currently I'm the only one with any teams so I've managed to snag them all a team that fits into an army they already collect. As such I thought this Stormcast team would work well as a crossover unit for his Custodes, the Crossbows keep the Knightly-esoteric vibes his army has so far. The missus and I have also just adopte

December 7, 2023

Salamander command vehicle

Using the left over chimera chassis from the basilisk kit I have started a Command Salamander for the Cadian 223rd Artillery. It's early days but coming along well. The Sloped armour pieces are the top plates from the Leman Russ sponsons while the long pieces with the dip are the spare plates that come in every chimera chassis vehicle kit that sit on the back of the platform.

Harrowmaster in 53rd Army Group

December 3, 2023

Bad Mood Rising

What´s hidden underneath my Pile of Shame? Tiny Marines!

I dunnot plan playing the resurected version of EPIC set in the HH. I must focus, Or at least it is one of my aims. Largely influenced by my wife´s "encouragments", but this is another story. I dunnot plan playing the resurected version of EPIC set in the HH, but it does not mean that the 6mm scale, a.k.a. EPIC, is totaly unknown from me. Deep bellow my pile of shame, in the tailing end of the scoring board structuring priorities of what shall be painted, lie some small boxes on

Bouargh in Epic 2nd Ed

December 3, 2023

Militia earthshaker progress

More work has been done on the earthshaker carriage. It's coming along quite nicely I think, Not pictured are the tow hooks on the front, underneath the gun, I'll try nab a photo of it from that angle later.

Harrowmaster in Militia

December 3, 2023

Militia gun carriage

I have started work on an earthshaker carriage conversion for the militia. It's ambitious, taking the track units of a taurox and lots of plasticard, I plan to put the platform from the basilisk on top of these.

Harrowmaster in Militia

December 1, 2023

Painting by parts - so obvious I regret not having realized it was a way to go sooner...

As most, or even all, hobbyists than want to end before they even took the time to think out how proceed wisely, I used to have built hundreds of models before painting them. Thousands in facts. And I end up with stuff taht sometimes was impossible to paint in a "satisfying" way because many parts of the model are uneasy to access to. and so paint can be applied except at high cost of contortions, stains and retouching. Which most of the time is worse than the issue it is meant to solve.

November 27, 2023

AdMech Patrol #2 - Kataphron Destroyers Complete

The Series continues with the finished Kataphrons taken out of this second Patrol Box. I should say from this ooP (or soon to be) Patrol Box as anew one has been announced. BTW, what are we goint to find in this new Patrol box?: One Manipulus Five Pteraxii Three Serberys One battleline squad of Skitarii. I already commented in the forums that it is IMHO a significant change into the structure of the "Patrol" type of content vs. the previous one

November 21, 2023

First 3 Custodes finished

With some more details tidies up, bases and the power weapons finished these guys are completed: He's working on buidling some more so I should have some more to paint shortly!

November 20, 2023

The Start of a pal's Custodes

A good friend of mine wanted to create a Custodes project that looked more Knightly than they currently do. Their armour usually is all rounded and basically bigger marines, so Stormcast were perfect for the idea he was going for. He slung me a couple of models to try a test scheme on so he can get to work on building the rest with the brief being: Silver, blue and battered armour. I reckon I can do that! WIPS so far:

The Strifes of the Matteus Subsector

November 17, 2023

Xenith's Hobby Hangout

BatRep: Tyranids v Votann

I had a small game against Votann last night - my opponent was very experienced with 8/9th however life got in the way of 10th ad they have only had a couple of games so getting used to it, much like myself. We said 1250 to allow us both to get some tricks in, while keeping the game quite small. Hive Fleet Jabberwocky (Things with G's got a grudgin'.) 1x Parasite G 1x 20 gaunts 1x 10 gants fleshborers 1x 10 devilgants 1x 10 gargoyles 1x exo

Xenith in Battle Report

November 16, 2023

Planetary Defence Force Dakota Minor Defence Corps (PDF)

Introduction Like many established Imperium worlds, Dakota Minor has a planetary defence force simply known the Dakota Minor Defence Corps (or DMDC). Most of its number are conscripted from the local population; a small number of citizens willingly join to escape the tedium of farm life that is prevalent on Dakota Minor. The DMDC is organised in a manner similar to Astra Militarum regiments, albeit more limited in their makeup. For the most part, it consists of dozens of infantry battalions

Mike Zulu in Defence of Dakota Minor

November 11, 2023

AdMech Patrol #2 - Progress report

Blog entries pass and sometimes look like very similar to some previous ones. It is one of the issues when dealing with army building on base of multiples buy outs of the same Patrol Box... Yet we might eventually expect some variation if the models are fitted in different fashion, ain´t we? The Onagre DuneCrawler as already been spoiled in the FOrums, but it has been the major progress of the past week so I will "proudly" republish it there. It is also an unhonorable wa

Noserenda's meandering path to dubious glory

November 11, 2023

Armiger Talon Intermission

Lil big knights! 368698878_10161052381015797_2401397191367279107_n As a bit of an intermission, our group is doing a throwback to our classic apocalypse games with a 30k, 30k game and after a weekend with a horde adjacent Anathema army i really wanted to run something Elite, and aint nothing more elite than Knights with Custodes allies! Both forces having barely seen table time all together, essentially being allies and addons to myriad other forces over the years (Especially the Red King!)

Noserenda in House Gevauden

November 10, 2023

Ashen Sentinels - an Ultima Founding Space Marine Chapter

A strange observation...

I am deep into painting the next three squads - and Lieutenant - for this Boarding Patrol; I've now finished highlighting the armour, so now I'm painting the undersuits. Rather than talk about that (not massively exciting ), I thought I'd share an observation about how washes seem to work differently on miniatures with a different pose. When I had base-coated the Hellblasters and Lieutenant, after I gave them a wash of my, uhh, custom wash I felt that - for whatever reason - the ar

firestorm40k in Hobby & process

November 8, 2023

Like a painter in the wind

Since all the plans for this week end have been affected by the Ciaran storm, what can I do nbut stay at home and wait for the wind to fall? Which leaves some time for painting some stuff. The prep for the Kataphron ended with the track units assemblied and wainting for their first dry brushing (boltgun metal on tracks). But the bases are done. The sad aspect of these bases is that I clipped some skulls from CSM bitz in order to use them as scenic alements, but I completly forgot usi

November 5, 2023

Sons of the Dawn

Leviathan Librarian into...

So, I know I said my next blog post would be looking at my plans for my Canis Rex counts-as… …but, I was looking at the sprue for the Terminator Librarian and trying to think how I was going to modify it to make it my own (I just don't like leaving stuff without any kind of conversion!) Anyway, sudden inspiration struck! This model: …is an old favourite of mine. It's a bit dated in terms of scale and proportions, but the character of it is just so cool. So, I

Lysimachus in WIP

November 3, 2023

milddead’s Deathguard

Death and decay…

… the beginning of the end Death is a doorway to a new life… death is inevitable…

Cenobite Terminator in Deathguard

November 2, 2023

Painting my AdMech Combat Patrol - Planning stage and first moves

Now that my Patrol box has been delivered, it is time to plan for the painting. There are 4 units to be scheduled and designed, and I will start by the one that will be painted last: Skitarii. Why would I keep it for the last may you ask? Well, mainly because I wish I could have an eye on the AdMech Codex before closing my choices. I do not necesary expect changes but it might be that the Battle line units undergo some adjustments vs. the Index. Afterall, I did not expect any ch