Eldar Nightwing Fighter

Hi!

Whilst watching the Hollow Crown the other night, I managed to paint up a new addition to my Eldar force in the form of a Nightwing Interceptor:

 Nightwing

As all things Epic are horrendously expensive these days, I tend to make use of whatever proxies I can find that look good and this is no exception! It's from the excellent eM-4 plastic fighter sprue that costs £2.55 for 12 different fighters plus bases and while technically small for 6mm gaming, it does the trick. 

I have another Nightwing primed and basecoated and am looking forward to getting it finished off too but may make it a fighter ace's personal ride so will be adding some personalised touches to make things a bit more interesting!

Here's a quick shot of the complete force thus far:

 Red troops on a red planet under a red sun.

I'm really liking how the force is coming together but the next issue will be the addition of some Knights and a Titan which is going to be more difficult to proxy I suspect. In the meantime, I do have a host of infantry I can work on as well as some more vehicles and so on but I do want to eventually add some large walkers to the mix!

Saying that, I do like the way the force looks at the moment as a raiding party rather than a mighty host and looking at Horizon Wars, I think I have more than enough for a decent game or two.

Maybe I will need to stat up a couple of forces and have a bash to see how the game plays as I have some interesting gubbins for my Ultramarines, Squats and Eldar.

An Ultramarine Thunderhawk is about to have a bad day...

There's something really enjoyable about painting stuff in small scale as it's possible to paint them to a good standard in a short time and have a force come together quite quickly and cheaply too!

If anyone can suggest some decent Eldar walker proxies for 6mm or indeed 15mm scale, give me a shout as I want to paint up some centrepieces to the force at some point!

All the best

Imperial Patrol

Hi!

Well I am on my holidays and a much needed break from the hectic excitement of work! Who would think that working in a bookshop would be so much hard work but I love it so I can't complain too much.

Still I'm now on holiday and getting stuff sorted for our upcoming wedding so unsurprisingly hobby time is once again minimal but I have managed to scrape together a few moments to paint up some more gubbins in the form of the basis for an Imperial patrol:

 Ultramarine Combat Squad

I must admit that I do love the combination of detail and ease of painting that 15mm scale provides as painting a similar force to a decent standard in 28mm would take an awful lot more work and with limited time and space, I think that 15's are a good alternative.

I still need to flesh them out to a full strength ten man squad but quite like how things are looking thus far. They are Ion Age retained knights but look the job as the Empress's finest in my alternative Imperium and I look forward to adding to their ranks.

Next up, there's some lowly PDF troopers of the Imperial Guard:

 

Lowly Grunts

I went for the traditional black and grey with brown accents for these chaps as a nod to the classic 40k illustrations and quite like how they've turned out. Inkeeping with my reimagined Imperium, they are a bit better kitted out than of old with more believable armour and autoguns and are originally from Ground Zero Games. I may yet rework the helmets though as I think that the red stripe needs to be a bit bolder...

With a bit of work, I think I will have a decent squad of these chaps sorted out soonish too before moving onto some xenos types and assorted villains to menace my frontier settlers with.

Here's a quick shot of the completed models thus far:

A cosmic cornucopia 

It's been quite a lot of fun painting skirmish forces but I have also recently picked up Horizon wars which seems to be really getting a lot of interest out there so I am going to try it out in a couple of battle reports in the coming months too!

 

 Eldar Warhost

 Ultramarine Strike Force

 Squat Brotherhood

Mercenary Armour

Looking at my current Epic collection, I can't help but feel that I am missing some mechs to lord it over them so will need to rummage around for some suitable proxies as well as adding Imperial Guard, Chaos and Orks to the mix.

Hopefully I will manage some hobby time this holiday so do check back!

All the best!

Squat Re-Inforcements And Orkish Marauders

Hi!

Well I have the day off at last and have finished off a few bits and bobs for my Epic project as well as adding a couple more sculpts to my SD Orks:

 Squat Warrior Squads

The Squat Warriors have been on my painting table for some time as they are the most involved Epic figures that I've encountered as they need so many colours to get them looking right but look cracking once done and round out my infantry force nicely.

 Squat Infantry deploy

I've got another Thudd Gun underway at the moment which will give the little guys some more ranged firepower and also want to add another heavy weapons squad but that should then be the detachment complete! Looking through my small stash of unpainted Squat gubbins, I have enough to add a robot unit, some more bikers, artillery and berserkers but want to move onto another force for my next update as my Ultramarines are in need of some new additions too.

On a related topic, I've been pondering the possibilities of playing a game of 2nd edition 40k using 6mm miniatures and think I may have come up with a bit of a cunning plan but it's going to require quite a bit of planning to work out as I need to order some bits and bobs as well as tracking down suitable miniatures and adding quite a bit more scenery to my collection before a decent game can be played but I will update the blog here once I have things sorted!

I am also quite interested in the upcoming Osprey game called HORIZON WARS which sounds quite good and I think I might be picking up a copy once it's released:

Horizon Wars

Next up, there's a couple more Orky marauders for my SD project which I've been pottering around with over the last few months:

Bloodaxe Marauders

I still need to add a heavy weapon and a few more close combat troops as well as a Dreadnaught and some sort of transport but they are heading towards completion at which point I will be starting work on some Space Marines or Imperial Guard to oppose them. Interestingly, I find painting the little guys a breeze compared to 28mm scale s think I could do with making a few more too...

I also have a couple of weeks of holidays coming up which I am looking forward to rather a lot but my job is going to be requiring a lot of artwork over the coming weeks and months so I am not too sure how much time I am going to have spare to work on my various hobby projects but we shall see what we can do!

In the meantime, All the best!