Sunday, 8 April 2012

Trial Adeptus Arbite - Using a Cadian Base

So as I discussed I want to make an adeptus arbites army to use as an inquistorial henchman army.

So based on the imagery and some ideas i found, this is my first attempt with some green stuff work (need to get some skills to work on):

This is the basic idea i am going on from a google image search


Combined with the general use of cadians (still a work in progress):



Use main of a cadian body and arms, helmet still needs work as trying to get just the visor look and mouth showing.....Shock Maul is taken from a Dwarf Warrior Axe and cut it up a bit.....Green stuff padding. Not bad for a first attempt, when this is the actual squad:


Saturday, 7 April 2012

The Inquistion Force - Adeptus Arbites

Well the Grey Knights elements is coming along (see previous posts) and am now thinking how will i represent the emperor's planetary defence force and its new found alliegance...why with Adeptus Arbites!

Originally i was thinking of getting loads of these: GW Enforcers

Wouldn't the guy with a shield make an excellent crusader? The dog as a jokaero weaponsmith and then arm them all with shotguns (count as storm bolters) or dual shock mauls (Death Cult Assasins)....

On the basis of this idea I started doing some research and found out that some people are thinking about doing this and have seen a brilliant green stuff tutorial that i will be trying out over next few days!!!

So watch this space....I also plan to build the next skaven unit (Stormvermin and Dwarves)...the ogre slave unit is on hold as i really really really dont want to paint 30gnoblars.



A Passing thought and inspriation on using cadians or scouts...





A Trip to TripleHelixWarGames, Westbury

Ok so back in Somerset and took a trip to TripleHelixWarGames and had a couple of awesome games and picked up my old cases.

First Game was against a Cybork Grot and Biker Army and my opponent asked me to play Vanilla. Was a good 3000pt Game and i came out on top 7-5kill points largely thanks to 'Null Zone' on my libby....what an awesome power.

Second Game  was against a very experienced Blood Angels player (3000pts as well)...literally litertered with Special Characters (Mephiston, Astorath and Lemartes). This one i took some pictures of as I knew it would be a good game, and it turned out to be a massacre....Death Whispers got the crap kicked out of them. Just a quick heads up with my list below:


HQ:
Termi Lord with DW/MoT
Sorcerer with MoS Lash, Familiar and Gift of Chaos

Troop:
3 x CSM Squad with PF/Combi-Melta, Flamer, Melta, MoK in Rhino
2 x 10 Sumoned Lesser Daemons (my guard were filling that gap)

Elite:
4 x Termie Champ Lightning Claws with MoS (in Land Raider)
6 x Termies with MoT (5 PF, 1 CF and 1 HF)
5 x Chosen - 2 x Flamer, 2 x Melta, 1 x PF

Fast:
5 x Raptors - PF, 2 x Melta
3 x Bikers - PF, 2 x Melta Mark of Nurgle

Heavy:
1 x Vindicator
1 x Havocs - 4 x Plasma in a Rhino.
1 x Havocs - 2 x ML 2 x HB

So most of my normal stuff littered with marks and extra bits and pieces littered for fun. My opponents list was definatly alot more 'tweaked'.

HQ:
Astorath the Grim
Mephiston

Troop:
10 x Death Company all with Power Weapons (two of these, one with Lemartes, other with Astorath)
1 x DC Dread
5 x DC  in Land Raider with Flamestorm

Elite:
Furisio Libby with Wings and Blood Lance
Chaplain (with 5 Death Company)
Furisio Dread with Blood Talons and Magna Grapple

Fast:
Baal Pred with Heavy Bolter
Baal Pred with Flamestorm/HF

Heavy:
2 x Stormraven


MY opponent Lee and his army after deployment....

Me after deployment....Havocs and Libby in far right rhino (aim was to take out stormravens early, that didnt work)...also infiltrated the chosen.

Not going to do a full turn by turn analysis...but just show some highlights (mainly Mephiston, punking everything).....



Last picture uber Lord and Termies got punked despite assaulting...mephiston is a giant cock.....

End of the Battle - Libby went for it with Lash pulling astorath about and after the plasma havocs did naff all wounds i charged him in...Final Result Blood Angels 13 - Death Whispers 2....

A shocking result but an amazing game none the less.

Thanks Lee and will battle you with the inquisition when i come down again!

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

And The Massive Update.....Death Whispers FTW...

First things first, their is the Carnage update below (easy way will be to click on the link on the right side) =>

So as i have said, Death Whispers have been the main focus in preparation for Carnage so without further a due a image montage and brief explanation of the kit each squad has.....

Space Marine Dreadnought (Furisio Kit)
I have modelled this kit with the plasma cannon/heavy flamer - but have made the extra arms to treat it as a furisio or a Libby Dread (possible count as Daemon Prince)





The other parts of the model aren't finished yet...but will be added as soon as they are done.

Next up: Fenrisian Wolves
Simple and Effective: White Undercoat, Sepia Wash, Mud Wash, Black Wash....still needs some tidying but dont plan to use them that often at all



Long Fangs Pack:
In a firm belief that cheaper is better and a minimising purpose the Long Fangs are here....3 Missile Launchers and 2 Heavy Bolters with a Squad Leader for Splitting Fire....


Armored Transports:
So to Carnage I took 2 Razorbacks and a Rhino. I did paint up the extra tops for my Razorbacks however to allow them to be used as Rhinos. Really enjoyed doing the skull inlays (from a company called: Chapter MadHouse Studios)






And Now The Inquisition Is On Its Way....

For my Inquisiton wing of Death Whispers I wanted to add a load of Inquistorial Henchman in various states...as I can ensure that i can use some Power Armor dudes as well as guardsman/scout models. In my mass building state yesterday I built about 800-900pts for this army....

Coteaz:

Techmarine:
Without the plasma cutter and twin linked flamer as I wanted to be able to use these to convert up more guardsman as combat servitors/gun servitors...although some are in various stages of their development.
Plasma Cannon Gun Servitors:
So Coteaz has an awesome out of shooting ability and to make the most of this I am going Plasma mad...as most models that are gona deep strike by me are going to have an amazing save...so lets ignore it.


They were made using the Heavy Bolter Finecast Servitor bodies, Heavy Bolter backpacks and then Green Stuffing a Plasma Cannon (from the Space Marine Devies kit without its cable) to make it look kool and WYSIWUG.

Combat Servitors:
Every good Inquisitor needs some Combat Servitors to train on. So from the kit i used the 2 standard servitor bodies and added guardsman armys, then used some normal guardsman with servitor arms...bit of a hit and miss idea, but wanted to sort of show a development and various stages of a combat servitor.




Grey Knight Justicars:
These were awesome to make, they used Death Company legs and bodies, Sanguinary Guard Heads and Shoulder Pads, GK Weapons (obviously will be converted to the scythes):



Grey Knights Heavy Weapons:
I like the idea of having stolen some GK weapons, so I got Joe to make up the full range of weapons that are in the GK boxed set...giving me 4 new weapon sets (2 x Psy, 1 x Inc, 1 x Psylience)....

Inquisitorial Henchman Squads:
I then proceeded to use my two squads of Veterans that I had not painted for my guard army chopping off a load of arms to make some flamer dudes....Only showing one of the squads as the other is exactly the same

Interceptor Squad:
Ok so first issue, there is only 4 models...thats because i don't have any more halberds or Thunder Hammers to be able to readily convert...To make them more combaty I went with the dual weild falchions. What you will notice however is that to make the squad a bit more individual I used my spare Sanguinary Guard/Death Company Angelus Pattern Bolters in place of the Storm Bolters....




So massive update....I would of built more but i have YET AGAIN run out of Silver Skull Shoulder Pads...bringing the total bought and used so far to (Drum Roll Please)....(logs in to Games Workshop to check orders)...90.

CARNAGE 2012 - WARHAMMER WORLD

 TEAM READING RAPTORS

So as in the previous post...Carnage happened on Monday and a good time was had by all...with Reading getting some good results overall...Personally I had: 1W, 1D and 1L with my Space Wolves Army, paired with Dave from Games Workshop Reading...Here is the Link to the Warhammer World Carnage Folder....Carnage Album

My 800pt List (1HQ and 1 Troop Mandatory):


HQ:
Librarian with Living Lightning/Murderous Hurricane with Chooser of the Slain

Troop:

Grey Hunters (10man)
2 Meltagun, PF and a Rhino

Grey Hunters (5man)
Meltagun in Razorback

Elite:
Dreadnought
Plasma Cannon and DCCW with Heavy Flamer

Fast:

Fenrisian Wolves (5man)

Heavy:
Long Fang Pack
3 Missile Launcher, 2 Heavy Bolter

Was just under 800pts iirc.

Round 1: Me and Dave were drawn against Chaos and Nids....Was Spearhead/Annihilation. (photos limited after this game as camera started to die).....


The thirty seconds before my Dreadnought was charged not just by a Winged Hive Tyrant but also a Nurgle Daemon Prince hiding on the other side of the trees.....



 The last shot of the game....we won 5kill points to 4....it was a closely fought contest and our opponents were awesome.

Game 2: Vs Tau and Vanilla = Pitched Battle / 3 objectives.

Me getting ready for our second game....This is the only photo i could find...Opponents were good, but Dave forgot about his Baal Predator for a turn and meant that it was harder to contest their objective and it ended in a square all draw. It was good fun against the Tau as its not an opponent I see really in any game so good experience for me.

Game 3: Vs Grey Knights and Necrons.....Against the Newbury Manager Quinn and his partner Tom.

Now quick thing about Quinn's list, 2 sets of 10 deep striking Interceptors with Two Hammers and Two Psycannons is quite a nasty little surprise.....or you would of thought..

The Dreadnought killed 8 of the first 10man squad with a single plasma hit...Quinn then became hell bent on destroying that dread..shame he didnt!

End of the game though, I was out of range for a plasma shot and hadnt positioned the models correctly to protect the home objective, so the silly teleport move screwed us.

Also C'Tan's = PAIN IN THE ASS.....We lost so much to this C'Tan ability of destroying your own weapons screwing us for our wiping out the troop choice on Quinn and Tom's Objective, meaning a loss instead of a draw.....disapointing but fun none the less!


At the end of the day a lovely awards ceremony occured and some of her Reading Raptors proved their metal winning 3 games and winning best painted army (well done Wes, who was with Elliott). I really recommend looking at their 'reworded team name'....


Congrats to all, even those that didnt win...Remember its all about the fun!

Carange 40K Tournament and Panic Building

Right, so i came back from Carnage yesterday from Nottingham Warhammer World and it was an excellent day and has been the reason why i haven't posted in a couple of days....

In preparation for Carnage I had to build and paint:
- Long Fangs
- Fenrisian Wolves
- Dreadnought
- Razorbacks

And god knows else what...so I am gona post some Carnage stuff over the next couple of days when I have got the photos uploaded to my phone....

Will also upload the start of the Death Whispers Inquisition Band, and Kat's (the new flatmates Dark Eldar project.....Its gona be good!

Signing in soon.