Daughter Beinemac's High Elves (WIP)

As promised, these are Daughter Beinemac's High Elves WIP. This is her first army, and will have the base of the army done well before she turns 11.

Sharpclaw

 Ellyrian Reavers

 Caladris the Mage

Sword Masters of Hoeth

The Lothern Sea Guard are still only in a primed state.

We are hoping to figure our how to play Fantasy in the coming weeks, meaning I better get to work on my Skaven. This is my first foray into Fantasy, and I have to say that the sculpts in the Island of Blood are great. The quality of the detail inspired me to make some 'Eavy Nobs from the Black Orc set. I will post WIP pictures next week.

Ironclad Paladins Command Squad

I want to start mixing in some pictures of my almost completed Space Marine Army. This is the Second Company of my custom chapter, the Ironclad Paladins. There is a great Chapter Creation Table on 4Chan (not normally a corner of the internet I frequent) that is really helpful for those of us who haven't spent a great deal of time in the fluff.

Chapter Creation Table

After mainly picking (I wasn't going to roll, they are my plastic army men) I came up with:
* Crusade Chapter
* 26th Millenium Founding
* Ultramarine Progenitor
* Deeds of legend: actions against an Eldar Craftworld
* Combat Doctrine: Armoured Assault
* Chapter Friendly: Inquisition

I have a big list of names to work through for naming the 2nd Company members. To make it easier on myself (and to give some kind of theme) all of the names are coming from Shakespearan characters.

 Captain Benedict, 2nd Battle Company

 Another angle, both shots include the 2nd Company Command Rhino

The entire Command Squad and one of two possible Librarians.

Wazdakka Gutsmek

I have finished putting together Wazdakka and hope to start painting today. The model contains parts from: the AoBR Warboss, a SM Scout Bike, a DA bike from Dark Vengeance, the Loota box, the AoBR Deffkopta, and a hand from the fantasy Black Orcs. After having him sit around for about a month I double-checked the codex and saw that he did not have a shoota, which made it easier to work some handlebars onto the bike.

The picture quality is going down for a bit :(

Once I have Wazdakka painted I am going back to work on some custom Meganobs. The next post will have pics of my daughter's High Elves.

Dakka Jet

So, I am lousy at updating this blog in any kind of timely manner. My daughter talked me into getting Island of Blood for us to do together, so I have been painting rats for a bit.

Here is the "finished" Dakka Jet, and I have sent out requests for input on it's acceptance for tournament play  (for size issues).

I am still exploring what I want to do with the base.

I have basecoated my custom Battlewagon and took pictures to seek out the same opinions about tournament play.

Expect pictures of my daughter's WIP High Elves soon!

Ork Trukk Conversion

Sooner or later I'll take some decent pictures of the finished Dakkajet and Looted Deff Dread. I took advantage of the weekly 40% off coupon at Hobby Lobby and picked up a cheap German Half-track. My heart was set on an American one, but my wallet won out.

The model was in 1/35th scale and had almost enough length, but I ended up cutting it in half and widening it.

My bits are running low, so I wanted to see how much I could accomplish with plasticard. I always feel like I have a better sense of how it has come together once I have primed it.

Looted Deff Dread

I've been looking a pictures of looted Deff Dread conversions based on Space Marine Dreadnoughts for some time, but I finally got past the nostalgia and cut up my old AoBR dreadnought on Wed. To work in the round can feel I grabbed one of my extra paint containers that was a little larger than the old 35mm film canisters.

I decided I was never going to field this dreadnought again. Depending on the SM codex update my Ironclad might make it out of the box.

I haven't heard great things about walkers in 6th, but I felt like a looted dreadnought would add to the aesthetic of my army. I may go back and add back in my Ironclad Paladin color scheme for most of the SM parts.

I haven't had a great deal of success painting my Ork vehicles black, so I went through and dusted the Dread with some flat black spray paint and am going to build the colors back up on top of that.

After adding in the bases and a few washes I plan to do another (lighter) dusting with flat black and make pick up some flat "rust" color spray spray paint.

Here he is standing in front of my unfinished looted battlewagon based on a WWII M3. I took a look at Hobby Lobby today to try and find a half track that I could try to use for a Trukk, but the WWII German on they had in the store seemed to have a little too much style for the Orks.

Next post are pics of the completed Dakkajet and painted Weirdboy conversion.

Dakkajet first flight

I got the chance to catch a great, relaxed 1200 pt game yesterday against the Sisters of Battle. This was the first time my Death Skulls got out of the box in 6th Edition. These orks need a lot of paint.

I managed not to get tabled, but was roundly beaten in Victory Points. Wazdakka and the biker mob he was with managed to Immobilise his Penitent Engine in Overwatch. My 5 man Loota Mob did well, so I am definitely going to get that up to a 10 man squad. I'll post better pics of the Dakkajet soon.

Upcoming projects:

1) Deffdread conversion from Dreadnought
2) Trukk conversion from WWII halftrack
3) Loads of painting.