Archive for June, 2008

Shiny space marines

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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)

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More prep work done

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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

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and a precision brown paint job for a raptor 🙂

pre silver

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with silver

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Another box of stuff assembled…

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

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:

Hordes

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.

Big brother

Defeat from the jaws of victory!

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

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

  1. 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
  2. … 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
  3. … 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
  4. … 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:

Check out those ones

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

Even more ones

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

Wattyl for the win (or loss)

Playing with basing…

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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

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Dullcoated wattyl biovore

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

… with fluffy grass

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Hail to the god of Wattyl

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Thanks to a few websites, found the glory of wattyl stain and varnish.

Here’s my undercoated and simple colour schemed lictor before wattyl:

Lictor Before Wattyl

and after, with base coloured, and eyes yellow-dotted:

Lictor after Wattyl