Lockdown 2.0 Project Log Day 44: Pharon Drone

 Hi!

I've finished my old Necron Warrior from the tail end of 2nd edition 40k and have repurposed him as a Pharon trooper!

He's actually quite a nice, if bitty sculpt which took quite a bit of work to get finished and I went for the whole Space Crusade robot skeleton look for him but with some Egyptian style blue and gold decorations and rather like how he turned out, even if the photograph has shown up the rough patches of his golden gun.

I'll need to pick up some more gubbins at some point but he will make a good random encounter for my games or possibly even a henchman to some villainous types...

I've also finished the Xenos Grafter model that I had for my Inquisitorial retinue but have to get his base done before I can get him up on the blog but I seem to be powering through all the random odds and ends I have lying around. I've also had another game of Song of Blasters, my own hodgepodge of rules which saw my Inquisitorial retinue investigating a mysterious shrine.

The ensuing Ork ambush saw my Imperial troopers shot to pieces, my Space Marine bodyguard shot in the face and my surviving Inquisitors retinue having to run for it and hide in the Slime Jungle to escape the Orkish forces...

Sadly I didn't take any photos as it was a bit of a test game to try out some random encounter options which was really fun but needs some tweaking. I'll replay it in the coming week along with a full battle report to see if the hapless Imperials do a better job.

Tomorrow will hopefully see a bit of a faction focus on some Elves that I've been pondering on for some time now but in the meantime, All the best!

Lockdown 2.0 Project Log Day 31: Make it Your Own!

 Hi!

I've tried to put together todays update twice now and have waffled a great deal of nonsense but on re-reading them, decided to delete them as they were utter guff.

Instead, I'm going to take a quick peek at some inspirational baddies that I'm planning on importing into my alternative Imperium!

The Pharon

The Pharon hark from the pocket dimension of Vor and are one of the big bads from the setting. In Vor, the Pharon gained immortality but at a terrible cost with much of the population turned into decaying mummies but the nobles being rather better preserved. They have a lot of similar vibes to the Necron from GW so I can see combining elements of both into my own version of the Imperium.

As my own version of the Imperium is heavily based on Greek and Roman mythology, the Pharon will symbolise a different pantheon to allow me to incorporate Egyptian gods, goddesses and monsters into my own setting with the Pharon being the ruling caste but also allowing for human and other, xenos races as followers.

The Kryomek

The Kryomek are an awesome concept that comes from the game of the same name and incorporate elements of the Aliens movies and the Tyranids. I've been tempted by a bio-organic alien race for some time and love the style of the utterly alien species and want to get these guys infesting abandoned ships and overrunning settlements on the border!

The Dark Legion

The Dark Legion are the villains from Warzone and hail from another dimension and seek to destroy humanity and rule supreme! I plan on having these monstrous types as the followers of The Titans, the ancient gods who the first Emperor chained forever but whose followers seek their return. I've never been a fan of the whole evil chaos of GW and far prefer these insidious bad guys with their bio-tech, zombies and all manner of other dimensional horrors!

They will allow for cults to destroy the Imperium from within too! Elements of The Dark Legion will be representing the assorted Warp Entities from the original Rogue Trader book too and I've got lots of ideas for tying them all together in the Alternate Imperium.

The Plague

The Plague are created by an alien pathogen and tinkered with by unscrupulous megacorporations in Mantics Warpath and Deadzone games. I like the idea of hordes of infectious zombies with some big tank like genetic monstrosities rampaging through frontier settlements. Alternative Imperium wise, are they going to be unleashed due to an ancient pathogen, a punishment of the gods, genetic experimentation gone horribly wrong or a sinister scheme of the Dark Legion? Only time will tell!

I hope to put together some more background fleshing out in the next few days as well as show some more completed miniatures and terrain so until then, All the best!