Completed Kaputten Brummbar and guest stars from Last Levy 1945

So I was motivated to complete my knocked out Brummbar terrain piece,  here is the results

As is often the case, I was joined in my hobby day by my good friend Dean who is currently working on a Last Levy, Berlin 1945 German army. He has completed 6 models of his 10 man Hitler youth squad so here are the pictures. (sorry about the terrible lighting its really late)

 

Anyway we are both kaput after today's effort so good night to you all! 

Re-purposing a Brummbar and the Dark Age challenge

So in the theme of resurrection my first modelling project is the re-purposing of an armoured vehicle that had been ruined by a spray can.

The vehicle in question is the Sturmpanzer or Brummbar assault gun, this is a nice kit from Warlord Games but it had an unfortunate accident with a can of Army Painter desert yellow spray which went on too thick.  Spray can paint is a bit of a nightmare in Auckland as it has to be the the right weather (not too Humid, Damp, Cold, etc) for the spray to go on without issue, and I sprayed at the wrong time......

But after languishing in a tub of simple green for months I decided that a wrecked tank is in order for my ruined village, and I was inspired by this picture.

    

So after finding the correct ruin and a bit of chopping and sanding here is the end result...

So the next step is to get some paint on the thing.

In other News.....

So I have been trying to get my gaming group sorted with war gaming in the Dark ages/Early Medieval, 800AD to 1100 AD. We are using a variant of the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit Strategy battle game we have called Skjaldborg!

Anyhow my Brother (Sam) and I have chosen our armies, Sam will be the stinkin' Normans and I will be the Norsemen! 

The Army of Henri ‘le boucher pieuse’ Picard

The Longboat crew of Ulf the Red

Sam will be completing for the Normans, 5 knights (including the Noble) 11 spear and shield infantry, 6 Crossbow men and 1 Daneaxe armed infantry.  

My Norsemen include 1 Thegn, 3 Hersir (elite warriors)  with sword and Shield, 1 Hersir with a banner, 2 Hersir with Daneaxes, 8 warriors with Axe and shield and 8 warriors with spear and shield.

We aim to have all this painted by the 31 August 2016 so we can have a game and post pictures of the skirmish, watch this space!

From the ashes rises a new better blog!

Hello Internets,

Well this blog died a death with the last post being 3 years, 9 months, and 7 days ago........ But as the title of this post states this is the resurrection of the blog with a new name and totally different content!  
Since the last post I have fallen out with 40k and Games Workshop in general, but stayed a keen wargamer and have gone all Historical, Mainly with the fantastic Warlord Games Bolt Action.

So this Blog will be mainly Bolt Action, and many different periods and theaters of war, but also World War 1 using the now defunct Warhammer Historical The Great War rules set, and Dark Age battles using a Variant of the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit Strategy Battle game. I'm sure other wargames will appear as my gaming group is always playing new (often weird) wargaming periods and settings.

So just to get started here are example pictures of the things i will be putting on this blog......

  German 1940 Blitzkrieg Force

Michael Wittmann commanding a Tiger of 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion

A machine gun nest for the trenches of 1918

MkIV 8 Company, C Battalion, Battle of Cambrai 1917

Stay posted as I will attempt to update and use this blog far more than last time......maybe ;-)

Blood Angel Army show case

Well this is unprecedented two update in the same day!

As promised here are better pictures of my Blood Angel army that won the Armies on Parade last weekend.

The theme is a Pre Hersey 2nd Company Blood Angel army so the idea was to have no space marine armour higher than Mk 6 (beaky helmets).  All models have been converted in some way, also all symbols are hand painted as I hate GW transfers.

First up is 3rd Tactical squad under Sgt Darius

7th Assault squad under Sgt Valente.

Death Company Dreadnought Noctis and Drop pod

The Contemptor Dreadnought Faustus

The engine unit is scratch built as FW mis-packed and the actual engine was not included (they sent me a complete new Contemptor as replacement though) and the 2nd Coy symbol is freehand in practice for the Company banner when i get round to getting some Honour Guard.
Razorback/Rhino Invictus, or 3rd squads ride.

The Las/Plas turret is a conversion using the Lascannon turret and two Chaos Marine Plasma guns, the old school Rhino front is made from Plasticard and the hatches from 25mm bases.

Baal Predator Sanguis

The leaders of the army Captain Falcone and Librarian Sironis.

The Captain actually started life as a Sargent model but looked too cool so I promoted him (even though a BA Capt is a poor HQ choice) he's also all Plastic as the BA plastic sprues are fantastic.
The Libby was given the Mk6 helmet to fit in with the Pre hersey theme and based on a Rogue Trader Librarian Model.

Well thats the army that won, hope you like it....... of and like any good 40K army its always ongoing

See ya next time!

Desert Terrain showcase

Hey every one,

Today I thought I'd mix up the blog with a show of the often forgotten part of the wargaming hobby, the terrain.  You can't have nice looking armies fighting over any old table top (although the Dr Pepper refinery often makes an appearance on even the most realistic battlefields).

So first up is fresh off the painting table is a Plasma power generator.....

This was made using a old GW foam building that was for the game Inquisitor, the generator are made from chocolate milk powder container, and with some plasticard and guitar wire we have one desert themed generator to fight over.

Next up is a few bunkers, can't have a 40k battlefield without a few eh.  These are old out of production Forgeworld terrain pieces so if you want some you'd probably need to look on Ebay/Trade Me.
This single bunker has a slight conversion of 2 Autocannons but other than that its 'out of the box'

 Next is the Gun tower, sporting a twin-linked Lascannon and two heavy bolters it make for a formidable defence point, and looks cool to boot!

Lastly we have the group shot, the trio of defense

  

Blood Angels win armies on Parade!

Hello all,

Well today I actually went down to my local GW (Auckland City, my brother being the Manager there) and entered into the Armies on Parade competition, and bloody won the thing Hussar!

It was voted by the hobbyists instore (Sam my bro didn't even cast a vote) and my entry came up top. By one vote!
The other entry was a very nice High Elf army by a Simean Hawkins just moved to Auckland from the UK

But the Angels shone through (by one vote) and carried the day.

I will post some close ups of the army later, the ones I took instore are crap. Though I think just this one for now

See I told you I'd get one for my army!

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!