It's A Kind Of Magic

The new defence against teh dark arts proffesor?

So, first real day of the summer hols and the first mini rolls off the production line. This guy is the new Chaos Sorcerer from GW's new plastic range for Storm Of Magic.
The army seems to be heading down the slaanesh route at this point with a lot of purple making it's way into the armour. Still a few finer details to add but overall I'm happy with this guy. Made a slight conversion to the original by repositioning the arm and adding a flaming skull from the empire wizards kit.

Dabbling With Heresy

This weekend gone marks my return, after some considerable absence, to GMing. My play group (currently consisting of Bren and Coz) have allowed me to run Dark Heresy, the 40k RPG from Fantasy Flight.

I've been pretty nervous about running anything after so long but decided the best approach was just to do it like I was taught to swim, jump in and see what happens.

After some playing with the character generator both of my players settled on the role of Arbiters. So now I basically have Judges Dredd and Hersey running around the Calixis sector. The first game session, although a little slow went well and I really feel that this game has potential.

There are a few key points that really draw me to this game:

1. The Mythos, the 40k universe is wonderfully rich with a healthy mix of sci-fi and fantasy elements that allow for dark humour and even true horror at times.

2. Random character generation. I've always loved this aspect of games; it’s incredibly liberating and good for breaking players out of their comfort zones. I love games that actually encourage role-playing, there's nothing worse than that one player who just rolls the same dull warrior in every single game. As an unrelated note perhaps the best game I've ever played for random generation has to be the now well OOP Cyberspace bye ICE.

3. Combat. It's brutal, violent, bloody and most of all deadly to players.
Again this comes down to my love of actually role-playing, if going in with guns blazing just gets you killed you’re far more likely to use the old grey matter to solve a situation.

I'm looking forward to continuing the game now, feed back has been positive and hopefully this could become my next big game.

From The Frozen Wastes

I've done it again!
My willpower regarding the collecting of small plastic models seems to be about as strong as a Grot with the flu. So after mumblings and murmurings over the weekend we went to GW and left with a regiment each. My friend opted for Orcs where as I am now the proud owner of Chaos Warriors.

Looks like my summer hols will involve plenty of painting.

More images coming soon, just bought a new camera.

Oh and if you like classic board games like Hero Quest and Space Crusade keep an eye on our joint project over at Send The Dwarf In!

The Real Talent in the Family

So while i'm talking about painting miniatures i feel it only fair to mention  my fiancee. She is probably one of the best painters I have encountered in all my years of war gaming. We introduced her to 40k when we all decided to return to the hobby.

She decided that Deamons of chaos where her thing and took to it like a duck to water. She has created a beautifully painted army that quite frankly puts the rest of us to shame.

While I don't yet have a great deal of her stuff photographed I intend to show off her work here to.


Here's a piece she did for Bren over at Knights Of The Black Banner

I find the swirls quite hypnotic!

Oh and to top it of she makes CAKE!

The Cake Tearers, a lesser known succesor chapter.

The Sons Of Ignis

Sons Of Ignis

Marines where never my main focus.
When I made the return to wargaming a couple of years ago my initial choice was to play Tyranids but with the rumours of a new codex on the way I decided instead to defer to Necrons, an army that had always interested me. Sure enough the Necron army went well, a healthy collection of warriors and destroyers had built up and i was pleased with progress. At this point i decided to pick up a box of marines just for the fun of building and painting them.

After  browsing throught the list of existing chapters i decided to opt for one of my own design, The Sons Of Ignis.

The first box went well, my painting was a little rusty though overall I was pleased with the result. Then christmas came around and my wonderfull fiance bought me another box of marines. However thsi box was the now oop Space Marine Mega Force.

Hey that should be all the marines I need!

Well it all kind of spiraled from there and I now have enough marines to stock a full battle company.
I pointed the army out the overday and after filling all the slots on a standard FOC it came in at around 3500pts. so much for the little project.

There's still a hell of a lot to paint but it makes an immpressive display.

Sad thing is that i actually need to finish it of with Rhinos, probably another 8 or so.
I've worked up a chapter list, named all my squads and at some point in the future i'll post the details for anyone who's interested to see.

The first stage of recovery is admiting you have a problem.

Sven Bloodhowl

Space Wolves, the first army I ever collected for 40k. Alas My mother consigned the warriors of Russ to an ignoble by deeming them "In the way!"
It is amazing how many of my belongings where in the way.

Most devastating of all was the loss of my original Leman Russ mini, from long before he was the mainstay tank of the guard. oh well!

So starting again was the only option.

This time round I have chosen the Great company of Sven Bloodhowl. Know amongst the Wolves of Fenris for being so mad they set themselves on fire for fun.

This is my converted Wolf Lord used to represent Sven. (no mini currently available).

Quite proud of this guy, He won me the Middlesbrough GW painting contest on the Grey Knight release event.

Sven Bowlhowl

The runwork was a bitch!

Meanwhile on Prospero

To start us of here's a freshly finished Thousand Son.

The idea behind these guys is top compliment my Space Wolves, the army will be 100% 1k sons. In the near future I'm planning to convert some termies to go with the army.