Workbench time......Ork and Angels

Hello all

See I told ya i'd be more regular with posting!  So big news on the 40k front with 6th edition on it way next weekend (30/06/12) I'm really looking forward to having the rules in front of me as those rumours are getting rather stupid now.

Any how as a result of 6th and the fact I had one from ages ago I finally built me Storm Raven for the 2nd Coy Blood Angels(BA's)...... now I know that I have said that the BA's are Pre Horus Heresy(PHH) and that Storm Ravens are only a new addition to the armouries of the BA's but well its fantasy so.......its fantasy deal with it.

So as you can see I can't just leave the kit alone unchanged can I.  The kit design has a few design aesthetics that i'm not too keen on, the horrid servitor turret and the nose gun for starters.  I removed them both and moved the multi melta on to a razorback turret mounted on the roof.

The servitor turret mounted weapons, namely the Assault cannons are now wing mounted hard points using the Assault cannons from the Ravenwing sprue.

I always thought the turret on the roof was too far forward so i moved it back and filled the old turret mount with plasicard.  I wanted a Mk6 pilot just because of PHH theme and i like the helmets ( I have two assault  and one tactical squads that are all beakies!).
Finally i wanted a more old school thunderhawk type cockpit so i made it, oh and made an intake in the nose to replace the nose cannon mount.

so there you got a PHH Stormraven, may the fluff Nazi's scream bloody murder the sky!

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!
on a totally different subject....well army.  I have converted some Loota's for the World War 2(WW2) Orks.
Again not  being content with the box and seeing some of the cool Kromlech (http://kromlech.eu/) guns it got me a thinkin and this is what i came up with.....

Ok the idea behind these are that the guns count as the fire power of 2 Lootas, in a squad of 10 I have 5 guns and 5 loaders.  The loader have ammo crates and binos and the like and they are essentially wound makers for the 'guns'.
 I liked the idea of  flak guns from WW2 so these are based on many German gun types.  The guns will be painted as Luftwaffe, so blue/grey uniforms for the crew and yellow/green/red brown camo for the guns.

So that's it for this weeks update, more to come can't wait for 6th!

Suddenly.....TITANS!

Wow few tumbleweeds here, with life, work and other annoying this getting in the way of blogging this site has been neglected, but no more!

Well with almost a year gone by since my last entry I have done a fair few things hobby wise, but to get things kick started again i thought something big....Titanic in fact!  The war machines of Legio Astraman AKA the Morning Stars!
First up my painted warhound 'wolf hunter' which has been shown before but not on this site.

There are a few added details hatches, exhausts and this hand painted banner.

And there are some more free hand in the form of the symbol of the Legio the Morning star and other Legio symbols on the legs.

Ok so on to my next Titan, a work in progress waiting to be painted, the Reaver Battle Titan 'Thunder child'

The model has been more converted than the warhound with a new scratch built head, reactor room and added details and brass etched symbols. Oh and thanks to the miracle that is liquid green stuff was able to fill many air bubbles and mold defects (it is an old armorcast model after all)
The original head was too small, I liked the design of the more iconic Reaver head so after a bit of plasticard and tubing this is what I came up with.

 The back of the Titan was a bit bland so I made it bigger, some cables and added a gantry.

And utilizing some of the great brass etched sets from forgeworld, added a few symbols here and there.

So the Reaver will be painted more of the same as the Warhound, green and gold with blue and white chevrons etc, dunno when this one will be done thought as its in the queue behind Blood Angels, Orks, Night Goblins, this list goes on but watch this space!

So that the Titans.  The other BIG thing on my completed list is my realm of battle board that my lovely wife bought for me Christmas 2009 I think, painted as a desert board for the baking sands of Armageddon, Khemri or North Africa......well maybe not the last one yet, must resist historical!
Oh and to go with the desert stomping grounds for the titans I also have a deadly desert monster.....

See ya next time!