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).

The first wave of Kastorel Novem terrain is finished!

Well, it's been a productive week hobby wise.  I have re-painted my realm of battle table, and 'finished'* my first batch of Ork themed Kastorel Novem terrain. 

So without further ado, here are some pics!

*As always, nothing is ever truely finished. 

Bugs inbound

Behold! 80 Genestealers and 4 Brood lords are now assembled - the core of a Tyranid army.  Just need to add a few Mawlocks and a Tyranid Prime and I have a third army.  Muahahahaha...

Oh, I also have 48 Blood Angel Terminators done too :-)

The Kastorel Novem Terrain work continues

I've now completed airbrushing the bases and buildings/ruins.  I have also finished drybrushes on the bases - first Tau Sept Ochre, followed by 1:1 Tau Sept Ochre and Skull White.  For the dry brushes I ended up using a 1.5" brush - it was a little weird using such a big brush, but it worked really well - and fast.

Next step is to drybrush the buildings with Astronomicon Grey (the airbrushed base coat was done with Adeptus Battlegrey).   I also airbrushed the broken up Aquila with Adeptus Battlegrey - was really happy with the result. 

I'm now thinking of pulling out the all other base coated terrain at the end of this batch, as with the airbrush/big drybrush combo, it goes really quick.

In other news, I've almost completely cleared my backlog of build work - I have some grots, a techmarine with servitors, dark elf metal kits, and a few other odd kits (a Valkyrie and a Leman Russ among them) and I'm done.  I'm thinking about holding off on the sub contracting for a while as a result.

Kastorel Novem work in progress

The bases have all been airbrushed with calthan brown, and I have also done an initial airbrush of adeptus battlegrey on the tower and mek shop.
On a side note, this is my first blog update from my Milestone Android phone using the Blogger app!

My to-do list

As always, I have a never ending list of things to do, but I thought I'd note down what I plan to work on in the near future:

1- Finish painting my Kastoral Novem themed terrain.
2 - Paint the realm of battle board to match
3 - Re-paint the bases on my Orks
4 - Paint my storm boyz, and any other units needed for my FOB Tourney list.
5 - Highlight my Ork trucks and battlewagons
6 - Apply basing materials to my Dark Elves
7 - Undercoat dark elves

There are a few items in there that will need expanding. 

A small but very enjoyable game of Apocalypse

Saturday night saw Jordan, Allistair and new gamer Luke (Hi Luke) come over for a small Apocalypse game of 4000ish points.  I ran 200 points of Blood Angels, Allistair allied with me and ran about 1850pts worth of Grey Knights.  Across the table Jordan ran 4000pts of Chaos, split between daemons and CSMs, along with Rusty, his Reaver Titan (I've been calling it Rusty in an effort to get Jordan using the name) and Luke ran approx. 800pts of Tyranids.  TO beef up our side Allistair also ran my Baneblade.

We played on a 6'x8' table made up of my 'rough' realm of battle table, and Allistairs 'ski field' realm of battle table, which we suspect he polishes between games just to listen to Jordan grumble about Bloodletters skiing down the slopes.  The mission was normal Apocolypse.

Overall it was a lot of fun.  I tried out the 'Dantes Sanguinary Host' formation, with Dante, an Honour Guard, and three squads of Sangunary Guard.  I matched that up with two Baal Predators - one with flamestorm and heavy flamers, the other with TL Assault Cannon and heavy bolters.  I then added two furioso dreadnoughts - one vanilla and one librarian.  Both in Drop pods with deathstorm launchers.

A few highlights - Indestructable Paladins holding our right flank, wiping our nearly all of Lukes Nids, then taking on two big mobs of Bloodletters, along with Skull taker, and taking one casualty in the whole game.  Gotta love the Nemesis Warding Staff - if you're the one with the knights.    Dante collected the head of a Bloodthirster - got to explore Honour Guards a bit more - they proved to be an excellent companion to Dante - and they can have Storm Shields.

A few lessons learned - it takes a Titan to kill a Titan.  Failing that, at least three super heavy tanks.  The lone Baneblade just couldn't knock off void sheilds fast enough (they kept regenerating) and the rest of the force just lacked the punch necesary to take it out.  Also, Sangunary Guard are definately a 'scissors' unit - very good against normal troops, but they fall like leaves when facing anything with power weapons (e.g other scissors units, and most rocks).  Building a list made up almost exclusively of SG is not a good idea.  Next time substitute at least one unit for Terminators, and if they are the only troops, don't put them all in one place.

Luke did ok considering it was his first game.  Admittedly an Apocalypse game may not be the best way to start.