GamesDay At The Castle

I went up to The Castle in Greensboro last Sunday and met up with a bunch of the old Pair A Dice And Hobbytown crowd. I took my 40k Adeptus Mechanicus Imperial Guard army with some Daemonhunter Allies. I fielded the Lascannon Heavy Weapon Platoon, my Ratling squad and 3 Daemonhosts amongst other troops. I played an 1850 point game against ScottT and his Eldar on a city fight terrain table.
I used the 4 heavy flamer guardsmen I had converted from the Baneblade sponson heavy flamers I got from Tuna. They didn't really help much. It was a learning game and the first time I had played 40k in months. The highlight of my game was when the Ratlings sniped the Eldar Autharch. It was still a loss so back to the drawing board.
I went back and converted several AMIG back into lasgunners, converted a vet sergeant into a lieutenant by adding a power weapon and after a good search I finally found my guitar wire to finish the heavy flamer conversions.

Another Painting Day

Another bone chilling cold day (At least for North Carolina) so a good day to stay in and paint. I finished up the 40mm Slash and Saber French Cuirassiers for Chuckaroobob. I have also started painting a unit of 25mm 42nd foot highlanders for another friend.
The Cuirassiers are nice models. Several of the horses needed a little greenstuff to fill voids and replace some of the straps that were miscast but the riders are great with a lot of detail and they paint up nicely. If I can get ahold of a better camera I will try and post up some pictures of the finished product.

Reinforcements for 40K

I have been cleaning off my wip shelf on my painting desk. I was playing in a series of local 40k tournaments and had several units I wanted to add to my Imperial Guard army & Daemonhunter army. I decided to add some ogryns, a third daemonhost and a culexus assassin. I already had the models and just needed to repaint and rebase them to match my tourney army. Unfortunately they ended up on the to be finished shelf. We had a snow day yesterday, and the boy was at his grandparents so all I did was paint.
Of the figures my favorite is the Rogue Trader Ogryn Bonehead. It is my second RT bonehead and I traded with a friend of mine to get the model and now that it is finished I will be able to put 2 ogryn squads on the table. I am looking to field them as an ogryn auxiliary for Apocalypse battles or use it in a feral ogryn Imperial Guard army using the Abhuman Doctrines.
I am also finishing up Chuckaroobobs 40mm Napoleonic Cuirassiers. I have the Horses finished and should finish up the riders either today or tomorrow.
I have started sorting thru my Dark Elves and trying to decide exactly what kind of army I want to build and play in the fantasy league.

Jan 27th Games Day at the Castle

I am getting ready for it. I have yet to decide on which GW armies to take. It looks like thet are planning 1850 for 40k and 2250 for fantasy. I am going to take my Soviet Flames of war army to possibly face off against Chuckaroobob.



I am leaning towards my Iron Warrior Chaos marine army for 40k mostly because it is a better painted army and packed up and ready to trave,l but I have to decide on which fantasy army to take.



I am hoping to play in Scott Tolberts planned Fantasy league but I am thinking about using it as motivation to finish painting up another army. I have mostly played my Beasts of Chaos and Vampire Counts in the last couple Leagues but I am leaning towards Dark Elves. I have collected up a pile of figures and haven't fielded any of them yet. I am going to make up some lists and then make a decision.

More Soviets finished

I just finished up 7 stands of 15mm soviet submachinegunners and 4 soviet anti-tank guns. I believe this is a new record for me getting more units on the table. I guess after the first 200 or so I have my system for painting the soviets down pat. I primered up some battlefront plastic bases to use with my anti-tank rifle teams once I get them painted.

More Soviets on the Way

Over the weekend I primered up 4 antitank guns, 12 crewmen, 28 submachinegunners, one rifle man and another kommisar for my 15mm FOW soviets. Hopefully I will get them painted faster than the last batch.

Strekovy Finished

I finished up my 15mm Flames of War based Soviet Strekovy Batalon, too late to add to the 2007 numbers but a good jump on 2008. I added the final touches this morning and completed 42 4 man rifle/mg stands, 9 3 man command stands and 6 2 man kommisar stands for a total 207 figures. I checked my journal and I originally primed them on 11/10/06. So only 14 months to get them finished. I plan to have a better turn around time on the next batch.

Next is to finish cleaning up some At guns, crew and submachine gunners to prep them to prime.