Lach's Blog

The groovy cake

lachlan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:37:26 +0000

2 photos over time

lachlan — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:14:28 +0000

2004(?) all unmarried.

2010, all married!

Wicked dust storm gale sunrise in Sydney

lachlan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:01:06 +0000

Flyrant done…

lachlan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:56:15 +0000

Used some winged nightmare wings from GW, and fashioned some twin linked Devourers from leftover bits of gaunts

… after the typical slop-happy paint job

Then I gave him a good old coat of wattyl walnut and coloured/flocked the base … and a coating of Dull Coat

Shiny space marines

lachlan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:01:36 +0000

Here’s how they came out after wattyl. The brown one was too boring so i bleach boned his arms in a couple of different ways to see how it looks. Probably should have done his crest (and his skull lost detail as it was wattyl on bone on wattyl on brown on undercoat)

More prep work done

lachlan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:46:51 +0000

Undercoated all the minis i’ve been working on, and gave a marine a simple colour scheme to see how he wattyls:

and a precision brown paint job for a raptor

pre silver

with silver

Another box of stuff assembled…

lachlan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:52:00 +0000

8 each of genestealers, hormagaunts, and gaunts, with 3 warriors and a carnifex!

Here’s the little guys assembled, and based, awaiting calm weather for an undercoat:

There’s 3 space marines in there as well as I’m seeing how they ‘wattyl’, as well as a couple of older genestealers that Dr Dave kindly donated to the horde. I rebased a couple of my warriors with 40mm round bases (but am 4 short to do the others), and did my 2nd Biovore and a couple of spore mines.

And here’s me new big Carnifex … makes his older associate look teeny. Gotta greenstuff him before I base and undercoat.

Defeat from the jaws of victory!

lachlan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:25:17 +0000

Heh! I played pretty badly this time, 4 things aside from tactics brought me low

Tyranid get an extra dice for difficult terrain (i was thinking normally you get one dice, so i was throwing 2) … i should have been throwing three = Broodlord didn’t get into play
… assaulting a vehicle with gargoyles in turn 1 when under the impression it was a jetbike (cc’able) type of thing = all gargoyles dead by my turn 2
… forgetting that you have to assault the target of your shooting = enemy flyer survives even though my carnifex could’ve had a go at 3x str9 cc hits on it
… forgetting to hit and run = lictor losing at least 2 attack dice, which could easily have affected their survivability

The 1750 take and hold marathon did start well for me though with scotty putting on an exemplary display of dice throwing – his 5 to-hit dice throw for his fire dragons on my armless carnifex … 4 2′s needed:

… to be followed immediately with some heavy fire on the same guy from a wraithlord:

and finally a snapshot of some Wattyl genestealers that later become warp spider and reaper fodder along with their Wattyl hive tyrant:

Playing with basing…

lachlan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:22:53 +0000

Fixed the biovore’s base and played with some static grass for a hormagaunt’s base.

Dullcoated wattyl biovore

lachlan — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:51:32 +0000

… with fluffy grass