Merry Christmas

Here is my First fully painted bike squad

I just need to get a base for the Attack bike.

my review of the year.....GREAT!

2 strong showings at tournaments with my drop pods. Beating the all conquering ORK KAN army in the process.
Getting a lot of my back log of models painted (I can now see the end of my unpainted models)
6th edition. so much more FUN.

what will 2013 bring? well with the imminent release of the Dark Angel Codex that will be my first purchase.and some of their new fancy models. these will complement my Ravenwing and the DV models.

I will build a games board that is easy to store and move around.

I hope to go to the SVA and Carnage Tournaments in the early part of the year. and maybe some other events would be nice.

Have  a great Christmas and Happy Geeking for the New Year

Paladins Finished...at last

Well at last i have finished my 20 Paladins. They were due to be ready for the 1st week in July, so only 4 months late!

here are the last 5

here are some close ups

so the next question is what am I up to next? the answer is.....

BIKES

so these were purchased from Hyspaspist before he moved to Canada. i have always like the Ravenwing and i have been on the end of a beating or 2 from them in the past. i think that if i paint the white wings yellow then they should fit neatly into my army colour scheme.

and here is an example

i got 4 ravenwing boxes and 2 land speeder typhoons and a master of the ravenwing in a speeder. i also have 8 unbuilt bikes from my previous attempt to start a bike list, and also 6 unbuilt dark vengeance bikes and an unbuilt speeder. i have got another 8-10 bike and an attack bike in a bit of poor condition off eBay.

Tornadoes

to go with my Heavy Flamer and Multimelta squad

these bad boys have more than made their points back

2 typhoons

you can also see some of my eBay bike.

in total i think i have enough for a full mobile company

captain

command squad

5 full 8 man bike squads and attack bike (which can break down to raven wing attack squads if need be)

3 * 3 speeder squads

I think I also have a spare bike for either a librarian or chaplain.

hopefully my next post won't be so long away.

Toonboy

Grey Knights!

Well after a gee up from Doc on the lack of posts I thought I had better get round to telling you all what I have been up to. Well I had a great month off from modelling/painting but did a load of buying! EBay was a true friend. I picked up apoc + apoc reload rulebook and Imp armour 1 and 2 all for under 50%! Via Warseer, I bought 10 grey knight terminators (new plastic, 1 box unopened!) for £35, and 7 bikes and 1 attack bike (a bit mashed up) for £12; and finally I helped Hypa cull his collection buy taking his Ravenwing off his hands.

So what are my plans? Well I have many, but here are a few:

1.       Paint 20 grey knight paladins. This will give me a nice 1750 list along with my already painted Draigo.

2.       Bike company. The Ravenwing is a solid base, and I have a further 15 bikes (and 2-3 poor condition ones) and 1 attack bike. I have a bit to do with them and want to paint the white on the Ravenwing to yellow so it fits in with my whole chapter colours

3.       Scenery/table. I have got a game board but it is too heavy and was put together in a bit of a hurry. I want to make this up properly and a bit lighter. I also have a lot of scenery to update from my fantasy days of 15 years ago, and some new stuff to build and paint.

So I have a tournament at the beginning of July (probably the last 5^th edition one) and I am taking Draigo and 20 paladins! I have no idea how it will do but I think that the best models GW have ever done are grey knight Terminators (both the 3^rd edition metal and more so the new plastic ones)

So I have built 2 similar squads each with banner, apothecary 2 hammers (waiting for 2 to turn up from bits store) and 2 heavy weapons (one squad with 2 psycannons and one squad with psycannon and psilencer).

Here are some pics of them after I have sprayed them all chainmail

My next stage is to wash them in blue in (already done just no pictures) then highlight in chainmail and mithril silver. The helmets, and some armour plates will be gold and so will the weapon handles. The blades will be blue like Draigos.

That is me for now.

Toon