My Army for Fields of Blood 2012 is Complete!

Just a quick progress update - two weeks to go and my army is done!  I have finished painting the Killa Kanz (and I'm very happy with the end result) and I have repainted all the bases to the common standard.  I even had time to go back through all my boyz to paint their eyes red. 

I need to make a display board and some craters, but neither will take long (I'm tempted to use my wrecked battle wagon terrain for the wagon).   I'll be Orkifying my Forge world ROB Imperial strong point tile to use it as a display board.  I'll be adding a gantry for the Lootas, a crows nest for the war boss and big mek, and adding magnets to ensure nothing slips off the board.  When done, I'll actually have an armies on parade board.  Should be fun. 

Just a quick update

I have a few minutes so thought I'd put up a quick update.  The Lootas are all but finished, just need to paint their bases, which I am doing at the same time as everything else in my army.

I have modified my Fields of Blood list again - dropped the Mek Junka and some Nobz in favour of three more Kanz.  They seem to be the best bang for buck, and cause much fear.  That means I have a proppa Kanz wall list, which works well against a mix of various armies. 

Now I need to finish painting the Kanz, and the army is ready.  Then I'll need a display board...

My First Video Log

Work in progress pics of the Junka

More work done today, here are some pics:

Building the Junka

OK, so it's not the top of my to-do list, but I needed to get my Mek Junka assembled in time to game with it, so I started in on it yesterday. 

The base is a Razorback.  I have assembled the sides/tracks, and joined them to the bottom hull plate with the rear door and the 'crew compartment divider' in place.  I did consider removing or replacing the crew compartment divider detail - a bolter hung on the wall is just not Orky, but in the end I left it, as odds are it will never be seen.

I have a spare old Forge World Deffrolla that I purchased before the plastic sprue came out.  This is very big and heavy, but should make for a very intimidating sight on the battlefield.

To make it fit, it needed to be widened a bit.  I achieve this but using two 40mm bases, with holes in the middle to allow them to fit in between the sections of the rollas.

Having had all kinds of  mounting and gluing trouble with this type of Deffrolla on Battle Wagons in the past, mostly due to the weight, I decided to magnetize the whole thing.

One of the simply awesome qualities of the Junka is the range of weapon options.  To allow me to equip it a variety of ways, I decided everything would be modular and magnetised when possible.  I thought about using the Battlewagon grot turrets for the big shootas, but they are a bit too large for the front turrets on the Razorback.  To overcome this I build a new turret mount that could clip over the other mounts to hold bigger guns when needed.

I'm not 100% happy with it yet, so may keep tinkering.

This is my progress so far, after about two hours of work.  More to come soon, as I need to model a drivers compartment, elevate the large rear turret, and add guns, guns and more guns.  I want to build a custom Shokk Attack turret with a 'snotling hopper' feeding it, and also a Kustom Force Field antenna stack.  In the mean time, here is the 'assembled' build in progress.

My Updated to-do list

Last year I posted a to-do list.  Here it is, with some comments on how far I got:

1- Finish painting my Kastoral Novem themed terrain. Done, and a second wave done also.
2 - Paint the realm of battle board to match Two boards now done.
3 - Re-paint the bases on my Orks About 1/3rd of the way there.
4 - Paint my storm boyz, and any other units needed for my FOB Tourney list. Storm boyz are done, but there are new additions to my list that are being painted now.
5 - Highlight my Ork trucks and battlewagons No progress made here yet.
6 - Apply basing materials to my Dark Elves No progress here either
7 - Undercoat dark elves And thus no progress here.

 So I did Ok, considering....  Items 1-4 are all done, however some new items came along which derailed the lower priority items (and by lower priority, I mean Warhammer Fantasy stuff).

So here's my new list of things to do:

1. Paint my two Nobz mobs - in progress
2. Paint 9 Killa Kanz - in progress
3. Paint 15 Shoota boyz - undercoated waaaay back in 2008.  
4. Paint the bases on 10 Lootas
5. Paint the bases on 15 other shoota boyz
6. Build and paint two Nobz with Big Shootas and Power Klaws
7. Build aand paint a Mekboy Junka
8. Paint a Battle Wagon

Deadline for the above - 7 July (Fields runs on the 8th-9th this year).

Then once those items are done, I need to mold and cast bases for my Tyranids, get them all based, then get busy painting them all.  -

It's been almost a year!!!

Soooo, very long time and no updates - that's because I've been seeing another blog - warincorporated.blogspot.com

That said, the other blog is for my club, and thus has no hobby content - though it does have lots of pictures of the scenery I made and the models the club plays with.

That said, I have been far from idle in the painting and building area.  My storm boyz are done, and I am now painting Kans and Nobz for the Fields of Blood tourney in July.  Allistair and I have also been putting time into terrain - Kastoral Novem can now fill a 12"x6" Apocalypse sized table:

I'll put up more pictures soon (by which I mean definately this year).