Nurgle orks part 2.

Good morning all,

I have been quite exited about this new army, I also did a change in the list.

It all started when I realized I was a few points over with the terminators. Also carrying a combi melta and a scythe is quite hard. So I removed them from the list thought they may be back, i like the idea of waiting for the terminators to appear and rolling for them.
I took out the special character grotsnik and replayced him with a warboss which is cheaper and makes the meganobs troops.
I added a blight drone, its already ordered. That and a demon prince and a rhino from ebay.
Three of the five Meganobs are almost done the other 2 are put together but need some green stuff sesions.

 I made them gorila like with nurgle infenstations, Even though meganobs they are not wearing much armor, I wanted them primal, I imagine bolter shoots just sink into their body or just remove loads of roting flesh. I did give them twin linked shootas to avoid confusion, for a power claw I used minotaurs fists, the torso was from a plastic savage boar boy and then I build it up with mucle reaching a warboss in size. The arms are either nobs, ogre or minotaur.

So up to know my list looks like this

ΗQ

Demon prince of nurgle wings (jump pack)    

Troops

·              10 Plague marines                                    

 champion fist

2 plasma guns

Rhino                                                                  

·        5 Plague marines, 2 plasma guns            

Fast

Blight drone                                             

Heavy

2 Obliterators                                              

Defiler (nurgle forgeworld)                       

Allies

HQ

Warboss Mega armor                                  

Cyborg body

Attack squig

Troops

5 meganobs                                             

Truck

    that is 1415 points.

     Initialy I thought to paint them as death guard then i stumbled uppon the Lords of decay chapter from          the  IA7  book. I though it would look cool cause all plague marines are painted green.

    I keep saying to my self I will paint them fast. But now I want to show them some love and do a good job.

I I started painting the plague marines. I think I have gone too white. I am going to give them another go today.

New 40k edition New army.

Hello all,

New 40k edition

I have had a brief look at the rules and played 3 games last saturday with my fire hawks.
My 5 terminators & Captain managed to kill 15 terminators and Belial.

 My thoughts on the new edition are all positive, as all changes feel realistic.
There were initialy fears for a psychic phase and with premasuring they were going to make 40k into a fantasy with laserguns edition, but that is not the case.

I have yet to play against a psycher or flyers and 3 games does not make me an expert.
But I feel that it is not as random as fantasy is with magic.

I think the things that make the game more stratigic is

• placing your troops correctly 
• Passing out the wound pools in the correct order
• list creation

Creating a good list is more important than ever, cause of flyers if you dont have AA guns or flyers your self they seem realy hard to hit. Depends on the enemy list I suppose but can you ignore them? I think mortis dreadnaught is a very good choice for space marines.

Ground vehicles seem easier to destroy cause of hull points, I was going to say its because of the +2 and +1 on the damage table from ap1 and ap2 guns but that is not the case because the chart has changed also 5 is immobilized and 6 is wrecked. On the other hand hammers, fists and chainfists benefit from that rule too. I dont think I will be changing my melta guns for anything else quite yet.

I also like the kill the closest rule.

Another favorite of mine is the army allies.
Finaly tournament legal fluff armies (and not) combinations. A real joy for a modeler and painter and gamer.
Actually my next army is a combination but more of that later.
Have you thought any army combinations?

A fiew of the top of my head is:
death guard + nurgle orks, there is a picture of nurgle orks in the old demonhunter book.
Word bearers + demons
Chaos marines with IG.  Good chance for a tournament legal astral claws list.
Preheresy death guard with sisters, flight of  Eisenstein
Space marine alliences
Some pirate theme orks and dark eldar
Eldar (Mandrakes) and demons.
Ig cultists and demons.
Lost space wolfs in the warp with demons.
Tau hiring orks insted of kroot as mercs.
Nightlords(space wolf codex) with red corsairs (chaos marine codex) from the book blood reaver
I am sure there are many more.



Now in any way GW made a rulebook there will be players that abuse the rules what so ever. Maybe i am a silly romantic but I will accept any combination as long as you can present it and sell it to me. "here is my zenophobe black templars allied with tau broadsides". or here is "captain tycho allied with some ork hordes" is not going to make the cut for me.

And there is the 2000+ point games were you get anothe force organization chart so you can spam *6, hopefully 2000p will be in fun relaxed games so no worries there.


New Army Death Guard/Nurgle Orks.

Initially my plan  finish the non flying orks (tank bustas, boys, deff dread)
Then Chaos codex comes out continue nightlords
Then when dark angels come out do Greek marines.

So I started building my tank bustas( which are almost green stuff completed) then something old awaken inside me an old desire for nurgle orks while looking at the allies chart.

Another contributing factor is that i already own most of the models and a good chance to paint 2-3 nice models I dont own without breaking the bank.
So the list is built in mind of what I own / think will look pretty /fun to play.


Death guard/Nurgle orks 1500p

ΗQ

Demon prince of nurgle wings (jump pack)     

Troops

·              10 Plague marines                                        

 champion fist

2 plasma guns

Rhino combi                                                                   

·        5 Plague marines, 2 plasma guns            

Elite

3 Terminators , 3 combi meltas                        

Heavy

2 Obliterators                                               

Defiler (nurgle forgeworld)                         

Allies

HQ

Mad Doc Grotsnik                                          

Troops

10 greachin                                                      

rutherder

5 meganobs                                                

Cyborg body

1

Truck 

    

Only thing I needed to buy for the army was the demon prince, the plague hulk defiler and the rhino a total of £100.

Death gueard is built, obliterators are built too, the 10 greachin are painted I am thinking of adding a plague bearer as the hearder.

I am currently building the mega nobs, they are the size of a warboss but without armor pure mussle and rot.
I have modeled them with twin linked shoters but used minotaur fists instead of power claws photos later today hopefully.
So what is your new army for 6th edition?

Back from Diablo and my holidays

Yes this blog is still alive,

I am back after Diablo3 and my holidays.
6th edition has rekindled my hobby mojo, and I am hopping to paint 2-3 armies this year.

Holidays in Crete were great, lots of sun sea rest and great food. Went for 2 week, which is not to short but not too long either. First week some friends of mine came  along so I showed them around my homeland.

I also got engaged which makes me happy.


I am officialy bored of Diablo3 and I dont know why, is it cause I am 9 years older? I stilled played D2 last year.
The graphics are great, the auction houce does not affect me, what is it? I just cant see my self doing the same thing again and again. I am going  to let it go and try guild wars2.

Next post (today) hobby related.  

4 years of 40k. Painted armies and grey models , armies in the pipeline. Part 4

Chaos marines Slaanesh...
Nightlords...
Orks..
Fire Hawks...

you would think I have enough, but no. Ever since 300 (2006) I wanted a greek warhammer army in fantasy, probably with chaos warriors but at that point I was busy with my Lizardmen and I still did not feel I could do them up to the standard I wanted. There were no bits for them either. My first play with them was back in 2009. Sculpting was still new to me too.

2010 I experimented again, gw released the blood angels sanguinary kit which has a great body for my greek marines and black lotus relased some nice greek heads that combined with the tutorials from Master of the forge gave me this.

While I was tinkering with the build I did not know which army book to use for them.
Back then it was space wolfs, thunderwolfs so i got back then archaions horse and went to work on it.

Today it is most likely I will use grey knights,  power weapons and storm bolters. the only draw back is that they do not have stormshields something I want in the army, I might just give them shields anyway. Lets see what chaos codex and dark engels give us.

Today 2012.
Two week ago puppetswar released the most amazing thing for my army; futuristic greek style helmets!
(http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=89 they are doing some realy nice stuff, good quality and great prices.)

I think its like a dream come true.
I am going to magnetize the hands, I will use gw torsos and not try and make my own. 2-3 from the sanguinary kit are sutable with minor modifications and I like 2 of the space wolf ones. The one bellow and one from the new thunderwolf kit same style.

Because I have made them true scale I am using terminator arms, so I will need alot of terminator stormbolters.

Background
The background of the army I had writen ages ago, the army will be like deathwatch but with anchient greek chapters unsted of your regular chapter marines. They have abandoned the emperor in their pocket in the galaxy and gone back to worshiping the 12 gods of olympous.

4 models finished, 40k objective, Fantasy Unit Filler, Nakai & Thunderwolf.

Here is my finished 40k objective.

 

Nakai the wanderer

And some mobile shots of the thunderwolf.

Next up I am hopping to work on some of my greek marines.

40k ork objective. Creating the objective

This is the description of the objective i wanted to build for my 40k flying army.
 "On a terminator I will put a corner of a two storey high building. Upon it will be dangling a ork with his parashute caught on the building.
I will buy this http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440265a&prodId=prod900120a and have a piece or rod from the building going through his chest.
And lastly the parashute will be made out of armies banners, blood angel grey knight, dark angel, ultramarines and  space wolfs. Which space marine would not try to reclaim their banner?"

Apologies for the photos i found it easy to open my mobile and take a quick snap.

 The model's back, left leg and left arm are flat the back. So I cut of the arm and replaced it with a plastic one.

 

 Plastic arm is pinned muzzle is drilled and I also placed a pin into his stomach.

Next up you can see the building

The building pieces got cut of with my dremmel to get the right size, then I drilled the back of the ork and the building and pinned together.


Next on is the banner.
I made a stamp of various space marine banners with Ge deo http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/model-shop/casting-modelling/silicone-rubber/gedeo-siligum.html (this is just a link showing the product, I buy it form my local craft store) I mixed green stuff and a bit of  milliput to create a rough shape parashute, then pressed in the stamp, and finaly sculpted the stiches. Once semi dry I placed it on my building piece.

For the base I placed an ork skull, will our paraboy meet the same fate?
Added some sand and placed atop a axe ( cut out the hand and replaced with plastic rod and green stuffed the handle.


So the parashute rips, he crash lands on top of some building ruins and gets impaled, at that point he drops his axe.


The parashute backpack I had made a while ago when I was trying some stuff out, it very nicely hides the flat back of the ork.


Once all of this was dry I started on the parashute ropes\cables.
I made thin rols of green stuff the used this http://www.masq-mini.com/aid-240-TubeTool-Set.html


After that I sprayed it black, air brushed it a few colous and now it is ready for some hand painting.


now you can make your own.

Is the painting bug back? My four pieces this month.

For a while now I have lost my painting mojo (painting creativity and desire). It seems this month I have started to regain it. I am preparing 4 pieces for some minor painting competitions, no prizes just for fun. I started them all in March. And I am hopping to complete them by the end of the month.

1st piece is for Greek warhammer Forum bimonthly competition, the subject fantasy unit filler.

The statue is from the GW grave terrain kit, I added 2 skeletons and 2 grave guard so it can be used either for skeletons units or graveguard. It took me 2 days, I am sure you can notice the airbrush effect.

2nd piece Greek warhammer forum painters league. Nakai the albino kroxigor.
This miniature is from trollforge. I will be use it as a blood thurster in storm of magic for my Lizardmen.

*These are old wip photos he is now almost done.

3rd piece Local GW competition.
 These is new from my local GW store, paint 1 of the releases in the past month  to enter, they say there will be prizes, I would not hold my breath though, prove me wrong GW!

A friend has comisioned me to paint him some thunder wolfs this is one of them:

Still need to paint the rider but that can be achieved in one day.

And finaly piece 4 for Greek warhammer Forum bimonthly competition, the subject 40k objective.

I had 2 months ago this idea and expressed it on GWF,
 "On a terminator I will put a corner of a two storey high building. Upon it will be dangling a ork with his parashute caught on the building.
I will buy this http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440265a&prodId=prod900120a and have a piece or rod from the building going through his chest.
The parashute and the ork will be removable so i an place them on any piece of terrain I want.
And lastly the parashute will be made out of armies banners, blood angel grey knight, dark angel, ultramarines and  space wolfs. Which space marine would not try to reclaim their banner?


I will do a small wip post on how I made it, but this is how far i have gotten to.

I am pleased once again I can actualy turn idea into miniature.
Only thing is that it is not removable, I was afraid that way the cables would break off.


Hope you like it.
I will be taking better photos of all three at the end of the month.