You Wot? I Iz back cos I iz random

Well hello there,

So I haven't been on this blog for a while, and it was a random happening that made me login again, so I've been doing lots of hobby related stuff, blame new techkenolgy an dis git being lazy BUT I do have a Instagram account so you can catch up on my latest hobby shenanigans https://www.instagram.com/rovanovalov/

So I may post so more stuff on the blog, like the fact that 8 year old ork Loota project have been (half) finished, (still nuthin' on the Stormraven though stinkin Beakies gubbinz) and that after falling out with Warhammer 40,000 after 6th edition, 8th edition has brought me back to the fold but Bolt Action and various other historical wargames are very much still a thing for me so expect more random content!!!

As an example, here is my scratch built Epidemius the Tallyman finally finished! only took 7 years, which was obviously planned as that the number of Nurgle not be cause he was forgotten in a box for that long.  More pictures can be found on dis https://www.instagram.com/p/B5aA3H5nMtr/

DAEMONS!!!!!

Hello All,

Ah a month without posting, blame Batman (the movie and the Arkham games) but I have been doing various as normal but i'd thought it would be cool to show you my latest stuff, Daemons.

Well this month saw the release of the awesome Nurgle Daemons, which in my humble opinion were a long time coming as the last lot of Nurgle stuff was sub par.  I have always had a thing for the fatty diseased one so along with my Plague marine I can redo my old Nurgle List, who remembers my old chaos lord Pestalius.

I've purchased two of the new Plaguebearer box sets and I got me the awesome new nurglings with the intention of making this dude, Epidemius the Tallyman  

Never been a fan of the GW model (past Nurgle models being sub par) as the palanquin just looked like a blob and not in a good Nurgle way, With the new super cool charactiful plastic Nurglings the palanquin look like a horde of Nurglings, and with a chair made up of various plastic part and a completely scratch built Epidemius there you go my version, hope you like.

Then on to the other big bad Daemon, Fateweaver!  

The GW model for him bugs me, he looks so depressed and more importantly about as dynamic as a dead pigeon (which may have been the inspiration).  So i had an old metal lord of change which had the awesome mispack of two complete heads! (Tzeentch obviously had his hand in that) so I set about making my own.

so after a few broken drill bits and a bit of green stuff hes come up nicely I think.

Daemon are always interesting to play, there last outing wasn't the best (I hate Grey Knights, and that tit Draigo) but it just makes me want to fight harder next time, as with all good bad guys there always is a next time!

Death Guard Plague Marines WIP

After an unsuccessful tourney with Thousand sons I have had it hammered into me that Plague Marine are a much better choice for your points.

As it happens I had bought some of the awesome forgeworld Death Guard conversion sets and did some concepts for special weapon troopers awhile back.

crappy sketches of marines with 'plague gun'

So I started to tinker about with the FW Death Guard and found that using parts from FW mk2 crusade and mk3 Iron armour sets from an abortive Blood Angel sternguard project made them look wicked cool! I also wanted to make my special weapons into 'plague or bile' gun which could be used as Flamers or Meltaguns, one spraying the area with corrosive pus and bile and the other concentrating it into a jet of slime that will decay armour in seconds.......or something like that, plus they look great too!

Rear view of 'plague or bile' gun

Complete with 'sack of pus' and flayed face!

I have made minor conversions to the aspiring champ and troopers making the boots into hooves as per the classic plague marine look and making the tri skull symbol on the back of the powerfist.

The special weapon trooper had a bit more done on him. I started with the Cadian IG flamer and fuel tanks. Gluing the tanks on to the chaos marine power pack and then connecting to the weapon with a hose using guitar wire. I sculpted the 'pus sack' and flayed face using green stuff and the hose connecting them is off a Tyranid weapon(I can't remember which one). To top it all off I made some sores out of little balls of green stuff.

I still need to make 2 more troopers and another 'bile gun' to make the squad into the sacred number of 7....and then the second squad of 7, just waiting on some Phobos pattern bolters from FW before I can proceed......................