Non-LPC update!

As promised to the fair Rachel, this is my newly-finished, ray gun-tastic Contemptor Dreadnought, Venerable Isskar entombed within Drakor Rex:

Plasma Blaster and Heavy Conversion Beamer for all your energy weapon needs

Half Way

That's right, I'm halfway to finishing my LPC Vow for the B&C. All this stuff is totally finished:

The most badass Marine I think I've ever built

While these guys are nearly done... I'm finding it quite hard to settle into painting them, but I am a big fan of how cool the wedge looks and the implacableness of the Centurion-y sergeant...

Exciting news...

That's right. Primarily that I am almost done with the stuff I need to get finished for the B&C challenge - photos will follow reasonably shortly, I hope - but also that from tomorrow some of my Minotaurs will be proudly on display in the Miniatures Hall of Warhammer World.

Which is, I think, pretty darn cool. They'll be up there for a couple of months so if you are passing by, let me know what you think :)

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId&categoryId=6200002a&section&aId=13000016a
I'm actually fanboi proud!

The B&C challenge continues...

Well I'm cracking through the bits that I'm doing for the B&C Librarium Painting Challenge 2012, and playing a bunch of games as well which is wicked. Mount&Blade: Warband is sucking huge swathes of my time away like a ridiculous time-vacuum, so I've not got as much done as I wanted. But I have found time to rebuild Brother-Captain Lyonidaes:

 He's rocking a Relic Blade, Storm Shield, Digital Weapons and Artificer Armour. I'm actually rather proud of him.

However! The Challenge!

Devastator Squad Epheus, 50% fully completed...

And here's the WIP element

Meanwhile, their Razorback is finished! I need a name for it...

Something like Calibrous Maximus

 I've also got one finished Boarding Marine, which I'm quite happy with except for his wierd lean...

I am really pleased with his shield!

The squad is expanding somewhat as well

Another Challenge!

Well I have once again pledged myself to the B&C painting challenge... I failed last year so I'm actually hoping I can achieve something this time.

My pledge is to build and paint the following:

A 10-man Devastator squad equipped with Heavy Bolters
A Razorback
A 10-man Boarding Assault squad (in a Badab War style) - shields, bolters, a couple of chainswords, a graviton gun, a las-cutter and lets face it a flamer would be cool as well!

So far I am 4 marines into the Devastator squad... it's looking good!

4 of the Boarding Marines plus some tasty resin bases I blagged from Blake, our scenery guy :)

Devastators, in moody lighting.

Korvydae's head. Get Some!

Pictures will follow as soon as I can fumble my ham fists onto a camera.

And here they are! Yea, verily!

A Painting Challenge

So we are currently doing a Battleforce painting challenege here in the office. The rules are simple. We have 4 weeks (ish) to paint a Battleforce of our choice. The deadline is december 16th - also fuddle* day and Secret Santa day...
If we forfeit the challenge, however, everything we've managed to paint will be smashed and we have to buy a pint for everyone who has completed the challenge. Hhmm...

I went for Space marines, so I can add some more Space Marines to my Space Marines, and so far it's all going well. I've got 5 Tactical Marines still on their sprues and 5 built that need painting, and that's all I've got left so It's going well.
I also played a game against the new Necrons. Actually old Necrons with new rules, as Laurie from BL hadn't finished any of the exciting new stuff but still handed my arse to me on a big arse-plate. Shocking!!

*Fuddle - where evryone brings in an item of food and we spend the day eating, eventually becoming fat and sassy.

Anyway, some pictures...

A quick group shot...

Moar War! Minotaurs vs Night Lords now with added pics!

So I have chivvied and goaded the lovely Rachel Docherty into expanding her Night Lords over the past few months, and so today we played a 2,500pt game in which I deployed a veritable wall of Tactical squads and, I'm ashamed to say, thrashed her 7 kill points to 2. I do feel bad about this, as her army is properly gorgeous...

Some Devastators, earlier. Not shown is a
Terminator squad getting all shot up

Moloc once again did his thang and messed a bunch of stuff up including a stand-in Tyberos the Red Wake who made assault marines led by a Chaplain outrageously nasty - doing over a squad of 10 lightning claw-equipped assault terminators in a single turn!
Plus, as Rachel deployed a Tactical squad and totally beat down on part of my thin bronze line, there was this awesome sight:

Land Raiders square up against each other...
but wait...
THAT ONE HAS EYES!!

Yes, I'm aware that there were no Thunderhawks :)

So here we be. I'm rocking a new laptop and have spent much of this evening playing Dawn of War 2 instead of building Spehss Mehrinz... I have 30 sets of Tactical marine legs on my hobby desk. Some will become Boarding/Siege Assault marines, others will replace some of my older models in tactical squads, and I'm not sure about the rest.

Anyway. I have a game against Nids tomorrow/today, 2,500pts to be exact. I hate playing Nids. So, here are some more pics - Thunderhawk, as promised, and some BFG... including my still to be painted conversion of the Dedalus Kraetyr itself, the Minotaurs' relic-flagship. I should get Alan to write some rules for it, really...

The Divine Justice

I did not hand-paint the lettering...

Some Dreadnoughts, yesterday

Que 'hammer time' gags.

Dreadnoughts and Tanks and Thunderhawks, oh my!

Well, I am back from various foreign lands, and to celebrate I have a feast of images. Less infantry, more armour - that's today's watchword. So, without further ado...

Land Raiders a go-go:





Deus Ferrum, Mars-pattern MkIII
Land Raider Achilles

Strength of Ares, Hekate-pattern MkIIb
Land Raider Redeemer

Iron Rain, Phobos-pattern MkIII
Land Raider Helios

Tempered Will, Phobos-pattern MkIII
Land Raider Prometheus







Relentless, Deimos-pattern MkIII
Land Raider Redeemer

 I do have quite a few Land Raiders, in fact. There's a standard Phobos-pattern on the way along with what I'm hoping will be a fairly cool looking modified Hekate-pattern Redeemer; MkIIb-style side sponsons with a MkIII-style assault cannon mount. More details to follow. I also have these:

There are only two Whirlwinds in my squadrons because they are a bit dull. Some day I'll consider adding a third, but finally for today we have this gem. I only use it in Apocalypse games when Codex legality doesn't matter as much, but after the artists drew a Lamenters Baal Predator in IA9, and Alan gave it the telling description 'captured by the Minotaurs Chapter', I started adding a few more bits of Blood Angels equipment into my more recent squads and units. This is the Voice of the Martyr: