tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29384232513853968492024-03-13T22:04:11.066+00:00Fred's Warhammer StuffWhere I speak about painting, and other things.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-90522997918191370282015-07-09T21:08:00.001+01:002015-07-09T21:08:44.811+01:00Battle Report - Tin Can Party<p>It is summer at last, and so the weekly games in the garden have resumed. The first event was a wash (really, it rained!), but we did manage to squeeze in a game last Sunday, before the mandatory evening drizzle.</p>
<p>The game was Imperial Knights allied with Chaos, against Necrons.</p>
<p>Although I thought we’d agreed on a 2,000 points game, my opponent showed up with 2,500. In a rush, I simply added the Nightbringer and a Transcendent C’tan to my carefully crafted list (ahem), which originally was:</p>
<p>- Reclamation Legion with Overlord, 2 units of 5 Immortals in Nightscythes, 3 units of 10 Warriors & one Ghost Ark, 1 unit of 4 Tomb Blades</p>
<p>- Destroyer cult: Destroyer Lord with Voidreaper, 2 units of 4 Destroyers (including 1 Heavy), 1 unit of 3 Destroyers (inc. 1 Heavy), 1 unit of 3 Heavy Destroyers</p>
<p>My opponent, who we shall call the Taminator for convenience (if that one sticks I’m a dead man) brought 3 Imperial Knights, supported by 2 Landraiders, a Dreadnought, a unit of Terminators, a unit of Bikes, a unit of Marines, and a batch of Cultists (sorry, I am not very up to date with all the fancy Chaos units).</p>
<p>Wanting to play a Maelstrom of War mission, we rolled Cleanse and Control. We did stick to our usual long-side deployment however, creatures of habit that we are.</p>
<p>I lost the deployment roll but managed to steal the initiative, and off we went.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="01 - deployment.png" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1He5tgnZDNg/VZ7UvOzTewI/AAAAAAAAAtI/SDDyNtGB26s/01%252520-%252520deployment.png?imgmax=800" alt="Deployment" width="511" height="349" border="0" /></p>
<p>The Tomb Blades advanced a bit and made short work of the Cultists hidden in the woods. Cultists no like templates with no cover saves, they routed and gave me First Blood. I also managed two of my three tactical objectives (hold objective and kill a character – I believe this was the sergeant in the unit of Cultists). The Taminator was not so lucky, managing only one tactical objective.</p>
<p>End of Turn 1: Knights 1 - Necrons 3.</p>
<p>During the second Turn I concentrated on the Knights, felling the one with mounted AA in order to protect my incoming Nightscythes. The Taminator gained one point as one of my units failed a morale test (yes, my morale 10 Necrons fled, the silly things).</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="02 - end of turn 2 Necron.png" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q5qJ26y2skU/VZ7Uw3uDKxI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/WecingTUPUU/02%252520-%252520end%252520of%252520turn%2525202%252520Necron.png?imgmax=800" alt="End of turn 2 Necron" width="511" height="370" border="0" /></p>
<p>End of Turn 2: Knights 2 - Necrons 3.</p>
<p>Turn 3 was when I managed to kill both other Knights. This gave me Slay the Warlord, which was nice. One one the tactical objectives was to issue a challenge, so I charged the Nightbringer into the Terminators, but stupidly forgot to issue the challenge. The Taminator gleefully rubbed it in by challenging the Nightbringer back. So it was one point for tactical objectives for me, whereas the (now gone) Knights managed to get 2.</p>
<p>One of those was for wiping out one of my units. This was achieved twice in that turn, both times in most infamous ways. First, one of the Landraiders shot its lascannons at my first Nightscythe, failing to hit on the original roll but then with twin-linked goodness getting a double six to hit! Boom. Then, my souped-up Destroyer Lord (engaged in combat with the Terminators) rolled two ones and one two To Hit, losing the combat by one Wound. It followed with rolling an 11 for morale, then lost the sweeping advance roll and got wiped out. I realised much later that the thing had probably committed suicide after deciding that it could not deal with an owner stupid enough to forget both its preferred enemy rules (re-roll those ones) and Voidreaper (re-roll that two). Argh.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="06 end of turn 3 Necron A.png" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RGvuttW8JKw/VZ7UyOl8l2I/AAAAAAAAAtY/NBdKsWPxDUo/06%252520end%252520of%252520turn%2525203%252520Necron%252520A.png?imgmax=800" alt="End of turn 3" width="511" height="346" border="0" /></p>
<p>End of Turn 3: Knights 5 - Necrons 5.</p>
<p>We realised then we would not have time to finish the game, so agreed to end after Turn 4.</p>
<p>My tactical objectives at that stage were not helping me: I had to either hold an objective that was both completely out of range and threatened by the Bikes; or control all all three even objectives (the ones circled in the picture above). I tried, I really did. I held onto two of them, but could not manage to blow up the Landraider that was contesting the last one. Rotten luck with the dice meant I could only remove two of its four hull points.</p>
<p>The Taminator’s Terminators (see what I did there?) managed to get Line Breaker by charging a unit of Destroyers, wiping them out and consolidating within just 12” of my side. As this happened to also be one of her tactical objectives, this gave her 2 more points.</p>
<p>Final score: Victory for the Knights (7-5).</p>
<p>A few more quick thoughts to conclude:</p>
<p>- these Maelstrom of War missions remain as fun as ever, the randomness means that the balance of the game can change quickly and pretty much ensures that concentrating on just killing enemies will result in defeat.</p>
<p>- the Nightbringer’s gaze of death is a pretty horrible thing.</p>
<p>- I have never rolled so many 2s to hit with my Destroyers. When your dice hate you, they really do.</p>
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<p> </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-78376033256592530062015-06-26T18:43:00.001+01:002015-06-26T18:43:00.066+01:00Brush cleaner<p>(Yes, it’s been a while.)</p>
<p>I have been using brush cleaner for a while now. The stuff is quite excellent, and has managed to restore brushes I would have thought were only good for the bin. As the contents of my tub were getting low, I looked for a replacement, and found something quite interesting.</p>
<p>To the left is my old 75g tub (typical price on Amazon and other sites: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Masters-Brush-Cleaner-Preserver/dp/B0009RRT9Y/ref=pd_sim_201_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=1G58AMNQM2KY4AT6VERM">£11</a>). To the right is the new one, all 717.1 grams of it. Amazon price including P&P: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0049UZ8Z4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00">£25</a>. I’d say I’ll never have to buy brush cleaner again, and that tub will end up in the inheritance.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="brush cleaner.jpeg" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-99laiMhW2Fs/VY2PH1y2q6I/AAAAAAAAAs0/A746sOLPMfA/brush%252520cleaner.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Two brush cleaner tubs" width="511" height="347" border="0" /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-26507833602766535812014-11-04T20:57:00.001+00:002014-11-04T20:57:26.741+00:00New Anarchy Models Kickstarter!<p>So the Summer Of Gaming Outside is over (had a good few games in the garden and tremendous fun, lost all of them but the final one, yes I’ll post about them someday).</p>
<p>In the meantime, Brian from Anarchy Models is at it again! With flexible, washable, semi-transparent and fully re-usable stencils for airbrushing! The project is already funded, and we’re now into ‘more stencils and freebies’ territory as the overall funding increases.</p>
<p>The campaign is over <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/805848592/anarchy-models-hs-stencils-flexible-and-fully-re-u">here</a>, and<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/805848592/anarchy-models-hs-stencils-flexible-and-fully-re-u/posts"> update #2</a> has a nice demo of the stuff.</p>
<p> </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-43947865588536563892014-06-15T22:14:00.001+01:002014-06-15T22:14:28.491+01:00Filla-Glu's Powda and Wicking glue<p>Still no battle reports, I know… I did have a game planned for today, but the weather was quite dodgy this morning so, being cautious and all, we decided to cancel. In the end it did not rain in the afternoon, and I managed to squeeze in a bit of hobby. Among other things, I magnetised my canoptek acanthrites (still a work in progress, paint-wise) and my recently acquired Screamers of Tzeentch to their bases. The goal being for them to be easier to store. Plus, magnets.</p>
<p>As these models have balltop flying stems on their bases, and so nice large holes on the models themselves, I decided to have a go with <a href="http://www.filla-glu.com/ourshop/cat_259050-PowerDrop-Wicking-Powder.html">Filla-Glu’s Powder and Wicking glue kit</a>.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.24.30 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3tlVZZ5uN6E/U54H4lEwcyI/AAAAAAAAApk/3n7b4dpxeIU/2014-06-15%25252017.24.30%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Filla-Glu" width="600" height="567" border="0" /></p>
<p>It’s all quite simple. Below is an acanthrite, with the hole for the base’s stem in its chest. </p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.20.22 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-4AQ8XNylTdE/U54Mhk8xnRI/AAAAAAAAApw/qsw3RLG_zAE/2014-06-15%25252017.20.22%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="2014-06-15 17.20.22 HDR.jpeg" width="600" height="331" border="0" /></p>
<p> Step 1: pour the powder into the hole.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.20.37 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Rix_mc5Topo/U54MijvrnFI/AAAAAAAAAp4/aV_0U8E0-nA/2014-06-15%25252017.20.37%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="2014-06-15 17.20.37 HDR.jpeg" width="600" height="377" border="0" /></p>
<p> Step 2: push the magnet in. It’s powder, so it’s easy to push it in.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.21.06 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-syKn40LLpcA/U54MjjKq2qI/AAAAAAAAAqA/y-zhq8qvXBQ/2014-06-15%25252017.21.06%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="2014-06-15 17.21.06 HDR.jpeg" width="600" height="393" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 3: add a drop of wicking glue. The stuff is super thin, and binds everything together instantly. </p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.21.23 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/--hKvvc1e5y0/U54Mk4iYzxI/AAAAAAAAAqI/GboS91ck3MQ/2014-06-15%25252017.21.23%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="2014-06-15 17.21.23 HDR.jpeg" width="600" height="360" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 4: use regular super glue to add a magnet to the base. I flattened the stems first (using a Dremel because I am lazy, but clippers and files should do just as well). The one below is slanted, as an horizontal one resulted in a seriously nose-diving acanthrite.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.47.33 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-w6BrM3z6Ryk/U54MrSSvS-I/AAAAAAAAAqo/Gv6Uq3gVW5I/2014-06-15%25252017.47.33%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="The base" width="596" height="600" border="0" /></p>
<p> Finished!</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.48.32 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UCqcf2G9TQM/U54MnEjerAI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/H3hVNrSEacU/2014-06-15%25252017.48.32%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Finished" width="600" height="500" border="0" /></p>
<p>And here is the same on a screamer: </p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.24.53 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-ft9Q5e0QRWM/U54MoedZvEI/AAAAAAAAAqY/QJaJfnZ5ISM/2014-06-15%25252017.24.53%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="2014-06-15 17.24.53 HDR.jpeg" width="600" height="339" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-06-15 17.25.01 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-vY0Q_fk2Jj4/U54MqD4goaI/AAAAAAAAAqg/OoWeD_AdpgE/2014-06-15%25252017.25.01%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="2014-06-15 17.25.01 HDR.jpeg" width="600" height="346" border="0" /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-26233243657858350572014-06-02T20:27:00.001+01:002014-06-15T20:42:05.826+01:00Updated objective markers<p>I do have a number of stories on how I’ve been smashed by all comers recently – be they Eldar, CSM or Tau, but this will have to wait for a bit. In the meantime, I have updated my objective counters for 7th edition. A quick preview is below, and they can be found <a href="https://db.tt/BgrIpPUJ">here</a>. Previous notes on the topic are <a href="http://fredswarhammerstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/quick-objective-markers.html">here</a>, <a href="http://fredswarhammerstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/updated-objective-markers_3.html">here</a> and <a href="http://fredswarhammerstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/fixed-bad-link.html">here</a>, but in summary:</p>
<p>As I wasn't entirely convinced by GW’s Munitorum battlefield objectives, I built some. They're large (40mm), and have the effects written on them. Download the file, print the sheet (important: print at 100%, do not scale), cut and glue onto 40mm bases (I use the plywood ones from <a href="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Fenris-Games_W0QQsspagenameZMEQ3aFQ3aSTQQtZkm" target="_blank">Fenris Games</a>), and you're set. They're not fancy but should do the trick.</p>
<p>Nick from <a href="http://idicbeer.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">IDICBeer</a> posted a video on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9aeh1VuyrU&list=UUnafXGuFn4DDwSkejCwRQEQ&index=1&feature=plcp" target="_blank">YouTube</a> about them.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Warhammer 40K 7th edition objective markers.jpg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-D_56mbfTT5I/U4zCKgZXVEI/AAAAAAAAApQ/f_9rd5BMGoo/Warhammer%25252040K%2525207th%252520edition%252520objective%252520markers.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Warhammer 40K 7th edition objective markers" width="420" height="600" border="0" /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-40242654162543129982014-05-21T19:22:00.001+01:002014-05-21T19:22:36.734+01:00Evil and fluffy thoughts<p>I don’t know about you, but even though I do not play them, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of Space Marines over the years. Never let good minis go to waste though, and with the release of the <a href="http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Armour_Books/IMPERIAL_ARMOUR_VOLUME_TWELVE_THE_FALL_OF_ORPHEUS.html">fall of Orpheus</a> last year, I came up with a cunning plan: my Necrons, having triumphed over the Minotaurs, have now enslaved them (thank you, mindshackle scarabs), and use them as a meat shield when going to battle. All of this to be done during Apocalypse games, of course.</p>
<p>So last winter, when all was grim and dark outside, I started painting some minis. I did not go very far, but the intent was there.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="A.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-aWNST01SBB0/U3zu6OE-MjI/AAAAAAAAAo4/84zSo5NIeRk/A.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Minotaurs" width="600" height="173" border="0" /></p>
<p>Now with the new rules coming out on Saturday, I might go a bit further. I don’t know about yours, but my Necron are nothing if not pragmatic. We don’t have psykers, but the Space Marines certainly do. And what does it matter if they die horribly? So, I think I’ll add some librarians to the fold, and when in battle convince them nicely of giving themselves to possession. Whether or not they perish while trying to summon a daemon, I see it all as a win.</p>
<p>Plus, it should be fun painting a few daemons after all that metal…</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-27471674232130970532014-05-11T22:17:00.001+01:002014-05-11T22:17:11.398+01:00Blast that weather<p>So the weekend wasn’t great weather-wise, what with the rain on Saturday and the excessive wind on Sunday. No airbrushing then, but I did manage to do a bit of work.</p>
<p>Deathmarks, finished last Monday:</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="A.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-8fUxBVrwVGw/U2_ozcGQGtI/AAAAAAAAAoY/qVHGmlC-MKM/A.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Deathmarks" width="600" height="363" border="0" /></p>
<p>My first cryptek. Not sure I like what I’ve done with it, but it will have to do.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="B.jpeg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-ZGuHRy2z7B8/U2_o0UJ5M8I/AAAAAAAAAog/eiLPK6ohcGs/B.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Cryptek" width="600" height="453" border="0" /></p>
<p>And that guy’s been happening:</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="C.jpeg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-KATGSuOPeNg/U2_o1Jp6YgI/AAAAAAAAAoo/3AIVN6YBhWM/C.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="C'tan" width="514" height="600" border="0" /></p>
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<p> </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-2596465837744680662014-05-05T12:45:00.001+01:002014-11-04T20:57:20.771+00:00Starting with the airbrush - Anarchy Model's stencils<p>Last week I attended an all-day airbrush training session, organised by the good folks at <a href="http://www.snmstuff.co.uk">SnM Stuff</a> and taught by airbrush maestro Brian Best from <a href="http://www.anarchymodels.co.uk">Anarchy Models</a>. The morning was spent on the basics: how to set things up, what to do and what not to do. It became very clear very quickly that practice, and lots of it, is the way forward. The afternoon concentrated on using Brian’s stencils.</p>
<p>Forward one week, and as the weather was nice outside it was time to train some more (for reasons that I do not pretend to fully understand, the practice of airbrushing inside the house is frowned upon by my lovely wife).</p>
<p>I could have done some more basic training painting dots and lines, but that’s boring and I went straight to the stencils (very important note: I do need to do the dots and lines exercices, many times over!).</p>
<p>I happen to own a number of Imperial Guard tanks, which I’ve never painted. The trouble was, I’d decided a long time ago that I wanted to use an <a href="http://www.emlra.org/index.php/articles/berlin-brigade-urban-paint-scheme">urban camouflage</a> pattern on them, however I never had the energy to deal with all the tape handling (or manual stencil cutting) this would have required. Skip a few years, and Brian does his stencils KickStarter. I had no excuse anymore.</p>
<p> I picked the <a href="http://www.anarchymodels.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_new.tpl&product_id=172&category_id=27&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1">shattered</a> stencil, and got started on some bits from my super-heavies. I wanted to check the quality of the stencil, especially how well it would stretch and stick around detail - can you say rivets?</p>
<p>I am a lazy git, so my scheme will be 3 colours only: black, grey (<a href="http://www.snmstuff.co.uk/vallejo-model-air-47-us-grey/">Vallejo US Grey</a>) and light grey (<a href="http://www.snmstuff.co.uk/vallejo-model-air-121-usaf-light-grey/">Vallejo USAF Light Grey</a>).</p>
<p>Below is what I did:</p>
<p>Step 0 - airbrush <a href="http://www.snmstuff.co.uk/vallejo-acrylic-polyurethane-primer-black-200ml/">black primer</a> on all the parts (they had already been primed with Games Workshop’s Chaos Black spray, but as I expected to have to do retouching down the line, I wanted to make sure to be able to match the blacks).</p>
<p>Step 1 - place the small-sized stencils on the parts. The idea is that what’s covered will end up being black in the finished model. I made sure I half-covered some rivets and aquilas with the stencils, again to check the stencil’s quality and the potential bleed. Brian’s tip: use your thumbs to press the stencils down firmly. Brian has the strength of Hercules in his thumbs. I don’t, but I did try hard. It will become very clear that the more care is taken at this stage, the better the final result will be.</p>
<p>(note: after a first try, where the parts flew all over the place under the airbrush’s air pressure, I had another go, this time with everything Blu-tacked to the board)</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Step 1-s.jpg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-uIVnA8ou-98/U2d5vgmvGZI/AAAAAAAAAnA/z5xEAb2N0QA/Step%2525201-s.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Step 1" width="600" height="471" border="0" /></p>
<p> Step 2 - airbrush the first grey, basecoat style. No subtlety here.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Step 2-s.jpg" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2yGYMeou7Q4/U2d5wSjX3zI/AAAAAAAAAnI/tdy5hqTxAtE/Step%2525202-s.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Step 2" width="600" height="438" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 3 - after the paint has dried, stick on the large-sized stencils on. It’s fine to overlap on the previous ones. Again, make sure all are pressed down firmly. I must admit I wasn’t as careful this time as I was in step 1.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Step 3-s.jpg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-nfUB_cl797s/U2d5xA-5jXI/AAAAAAAAAnQ/UPSV5yo3h_s/Step%2525203-s.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Step 3" width="600" height="433" border="0" /></p>
<p> Step 4 - airbrush all again, this time using the light grey.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Step 4-s.jpg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-hwpMv-iQR-k/U2d5x5NOOII/AAAAAAAAAnY/gp3116nGQHk/Step%2525204-s.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Step 4" width="600" height="434" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 5 - once dry, remove the stencils carefully, and admire the results. </p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Step 5-s.jpg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-L2SRlWhJRK4/U2d5yr3Y8_I/AAAAAAAAAng/0Dy9uYvxg-Q/Step%2525205-s.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Step 5" width="600" height="408" border="0" /></p>
<p>So, how did it all go? Well, not bad at all. As I’ve mentioned above, it is essential to take care when applying the stencils but it you take the time, the results rock: just look at the details below, all without unsightly bleed (note the picture is a bit crappy as I had to enlarge it).</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="detail 3.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-C5HA7lsuKnY/U2d50rkNDvI/AAAAAAAAAn4/6lL4CtJ1R2o/detail%2525203.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Detail 3" width="600" height="348" border="0" /></p>
<p> This one shows how it all works nicely, even with the stencils’ border running across rivets: </p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="detail 2b.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8GhZdUCkzT8/U2d52NXvx7I/AAAAAAAAAoI/VCP9yGsfYME/detail%2525202b.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Detail 2b" width="600" height="298" border="0" /></p>
<p>If, however, the stencils are not stuck carefully enough, or allowed to kink, this is what happens:</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="A.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-T8gcLfIeJY8/U2d5zbUKn7I/AAAAAAAAAno/-6ynouZXG6A/A.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="A" width="600" height="404" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="detail 4.jpeg" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Cz3Q1bs9M2I/U2d5z9fVAHI/AAAAAAAAAnw/SEmzAc4ZZpo/detail%2525204.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Detail 4" width="600" height="371" border="0" /></p>
<p> Not a major issue (and certainly one entirely of my own doing); a few quick patches with a regular paintbrush should sort these out.</p>
<p>Here is a quick look at the result so far:</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1 tank.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-bW5TBjSJDBg/U2d5uR0M8oI/AAAAAAAAAm4/kc79qpsJYUU/1%252520tank.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Tank" width="600" height="313" border="0" /></p>
<p>And in final news, I currently have a non functioning airbrush, which will happily blow air but no paint. No idea what’s wrong. I have been told that taking a hammer to it is not the wisest course of action, but it might yet come to that.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-35457685367167153252014-04-11T23:28:00.001+01:002014-04-12T07:12:56.495+01:00Leigh and the Insaneorium<p> Leigh, he of recent Apocalypse “<a href="http://fredswarhammerstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/a-relaxed-apocalypse.html">Red Mist</a>” fame, has started a blog at <a href="http://insaneorium.blogspot.co.uk">The Insaneorium</a>, where he unashamedly exposes to all comers how far off he’s gone. If you want to see what extreme hobby can do to you, or your loved ones, go have a look before the men in black catch up and it all gets disappeared. You have been warned.</p>
<p>And in other new, tomorrow is Salute, and so it is time to get the orange shirt out again…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a style="text-align: center;" href="http://smbc.myshopify.com/collections/shirts/products/revenge" target="_blank"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9rVDZd4jM3UV64euEQCTSaGlU0_q9_xtkDhPngZE3xrRLg87qhjSaKtn_MYgiNUOJ22DyfcCNzV3-dNcHQ6x_nigOwMki1fnizoIuAGUw9EcVKgLJlNr7ARqC5s4Y8BAqSdlo2p8L5mA1/s1600/Revenge_large.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-26386966545707090422014-04-06T10:35:00.000+01:002014-04-06T10:36:11.486+01:00Quick magnet tip<p> </p>
<p>I have started (at long last) assembling my 4 Necron Ghost/Doomsday Arks. They will be fully magnetised of course (thank you Nick Beer for the <a href="http://www.idicbeer.co.uk/2012/04/how-to-magnetising-necron-ghostdoomsday.html">tutorial</a>).</p>
<p> A quick tip for glueing magnets in series: use a larger/different magnet as a reminder of which side is not to be glued.</p>
<ol>
<li>Glue magnets to the first series of components in one go (in my case the gauss flayer’s supports).</li>
<li>Put the “magnet handle” on the other side of the magnet stack (or, if using another type of magnets, plop them onto the other side of the handle).</li>
<li>Glue the magnets to the second series of components (in my case the gauss flayers).</li>
</ol>
<p>This solves the problem of mixing polarities and having to fix things later. Been there, done that, did not like it one bit.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="magnet tip.jpeg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-1F3m9O52MyE/U0Ef8Ugj3pI/AAAAAAAAAlw/psTDZdmb67M/magnet%252520tip.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Magnet tip" width="600" height="253" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-04-05 15.38.40 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-2z151jFWd7U/U0Ef9N-WeII/AAAAAAAAAl4/lfYwUkB8byI/2014-04-05%25252015.38.40%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Magnet tip" width="600" height="755" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-04-05 15.39.21 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-WFOOt0aEYL4/U0Ef-ia1vwI/AAAAAAAAAmI/yh14JxgvKtA/2014-04-05%25252015.39.21%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Magnet tip" width="600" height="261" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-04-05 15.39.33 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dnSYsrvAVrw/U0Ef_hSabaI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/EHIxkgL7pVU/2014-04-05%25252015.39.33%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Magnet tip" width="600" height="209" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-04-05 15.39.02 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-HNVPEbwbOfA/U0Ef94J8LeI/AAAAAAAAAmA/tE3SzICSlCU/2014-04-05%25252015.39.02%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Magnet tip" width="600" height="877" border="0" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-04-05 15.38.24 HDR.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/--LndYYN_xLs/U0EgBcqsB6I/AAAAAAAAAmY/va3Hx4F7d2w/2014-04-05%25252015.38.24%252520HDR.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Magnet tip" width="600" height="567" border="0" /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-56088217332067843582014-03-30T19:34:00.001+01:002014-11-04T20:57:11.617+00:00Airbrush training<p>I will soon be learning how to properly use an airbrush (about time), and Brian Best of <a href="http://www.anarchymodels.co.uk">Anarchy Models</a> gave me a nice tip on the topic last week: train with cheap toys! I went to the bargain bin of the local toy shop and picked a couple of plastic planes, and grabbed the tanks from eBay for a few quid. They look quite presentable after a grey undercoat. Now I’m all ready for the course!</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="cheap_toys.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-qUzmIiYXimM/Uzhjl8LHXXI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/YbqXjHxsx04/cheap_toys.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Cheap toys" width="600" height="356" border="0" /></p>
<p>Brian is the brains behind the <a href="http://www.anarchymodels.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=27&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1">HD Stencils System</a> (recently reviewed by Mad Fez-man <a href="http://fez-man.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/product-review-anarchy-models-hd.html">here</a>), and offers half-day and day-long airbrush courses in association with <a href="http://www.snmstuff.co.uk">SnM Stuff</a>.</p>
<p> </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-26799745833947851242014-03-23T18:02:00.001+00:002014-03-28T18:54:19.957+00:00A relaxed Apocalypse<p>Yesterday was <a style="color: #11151b;" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/631003806950313/">Military in Miniature - Military Modelling & Wargames Show</a> in <a style="color: #11151b;" href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Park+Barn+Community+Club/@52.8382004,-2.3278149,6z/data=!4m5!1m2!2m1!1sPark+Barn+Community+Centre!3m1!1s0x4875d0d884b35d31:0xa350b1d3101bc132">Guildford</a>. I have attended the show for the past couple of years, running small 40k demo games with friends. This year I was supposed to help by working the door for a change. So I was just a little bit surprised when I got instead asked on the Friday evening to help run a 40k demo game the following morning. Not to worry, my co-demonstrator Leigh and I quickly agreed on a Necron vs. Chaos Daemons 5,000 points Apocalypse game. At which point I went to bed, as the work week had (once again) been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times">interesting</a>.</p>
<p>(As I have been painting a couple of Transcendent C’tans recently, I briefly entertained the idea of finishing one, as one really ought to do the night before a big game. Unfortunately my army is all in the Shed of Hobby at the back of the garden, and just then it started hailing like mad. The Transcendent C’tan was not to be.)</p>
<p>6AM on Saturday found me building up a list in Army Builder. I went with a variety ForgeWorld models, as the point was to get people to come and talk to us rather than play a sensible army. After a trip to the Shed I ended up with 5,010 points of Necron goodness:</p>
<ul>
<li>3 Gauss Pylons</li>
<li>3 x 10 Immortals in a Night Scythe</li>
<li>1 Triarch Stalker with Heat Ray</li>
<li>5 Deathmarks</li>
<li>1 Destroyer Lord with all the trimmings</li>
<li>1 Overlord with all the trimmings in a Catacomb Command Barge</li>
<li>1 Doom Scythe</li>
<li>1 Canoptek Tomb Sentinel</li>
<li>2 Canoptek Tomb Stalkers</li>
<li>2 x 5 Canoptek Wraiths with Whip Coils</li>
<li>1 Tesseract Ark</li>
<li>1 Night Shroud Bomber</li>
<li>2 x 5 Destroyers, 2 x 2 of which Heavy Destroyers </li>
</ul>
<div>I arrived a little bit before Leigh and set up the terrain. An Imperial industrial city having seen heavy fighting would provide plenty of cover (not that it matters that much with Strength D weapons).</div>
<div> </div>
<div><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040767_DxO.jpg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-fKXPwWJ771I/Uy8hwjJ7MZI/AAAAAAAAAj0/F0FEIr9AHLg/P1040767_DxO.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="The battlescape" width="600" height="281" border="0" /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><em>Look at all those nice buildings that have gone boom…</em></div>
<p>Leigh, true to form, arrived with 5 models only (but what models!):</p>
<ul>
<li>Aetaos’rau’keres, Daemon Lord of Tzeentch</li>
<li>An’ggrath The Unbound, Daemon Lord of Khorne</li>
<li>Scabeiathrax The Bloated, Daemon Lord of Nurgle</li>
<li>Zarakynel, Daemon Lord of Slaanesh</li>
<li>and a Chaos Reaver Battle Titan to round things up (see some pics <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fikster/6775990643/">here</a>)</li>
</ul>
<div>Total: 4,780 points.</div>
<p>At this stage there is a little bit of a point imbalance. However (and I only just realised this while typing this note) I completely forgot that I had put a Doom Scythe in the list and so it never even left its box. Down to 4,835 points for the Necron, now we’re even.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-03-22 08.45.39_DxO.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-O2zlFXsUs8g/Uy8hqseFFyI/AAAAAAAAAi8/JfA707IPP1U/2014-03-22%25252008.45.39_DxO.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="What a bunch of jokers we all are" width="600" height="416" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>What a bunch of jokers we all are</em></p>
<p>The game was a blast. We kept things straightforward, with no finest hour, strategic assets or unnatural disasters. We’re simple folks, Leigh and I. I hadn’t played with the new rules before, but my initial impressions from reading them were confirmed: it’s brutal. Strength D is now horrifically powerful. </p>
<p>So, a few notes:</p>
<h3>Turn 1</h3>
<p>I deployed little, as most of my army could deep strike or outflank. I won the roll and started first.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040772_DxO.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-hS-RtgSaN4Q/Uy8hxKDD80I/AAAAAAAAAj8/1Aer5xM70hs/P1040772_DxO.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Deployment" width="600" height="238" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>After deployment</em></p>
<p>The very first casualty was the Tesseract Ark. As I realised that I had not brought the rules with me, back into the box it went. D’oh.</p>
<p>The Triarch Stalker was deployed inside difficult terrain, and would spend the next five turns progressing veeery slowly towards the centre of the board. I am grateful to Leigh for paying token attention to it by targeting it as part of an Apocalyptic barrage. It lost two hull points and can at least claim to have seen some action.</p>
<p>The Pylons did their work, blasting off the Reaver’s void shields and starting to take down Hull Points (I have played with the previous Apocalypse rules for too long: I’ve just only realised that I could have deep struck a bunch of Strategic Reserve models close to the Reaver on Turn 1 and killed its void shields with them instead of having to waste strength D shots on the task. Oh well, live and learn, at least I did do that from Turn 2).</p>
<h3>Turn 2</h3>
<p>I was a bit worried about those four Daemon Lords trudging across the board, but then Leigh gave me Christmas in early spring: An’ggrath The Unbound, Guardian of the Throne of Skulls, Most Favoured of Khorne, Lord of Bloodthirsters, The Deathbringer, took flight. A quick shoot with a Pylon resulted in three hits. I rolled the dice of the Destroyer Weapon Attack Table: with two sixes, An’ggrath (7 wounds) was already dead.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-03-22 10.48.07 HDR_DxO.jpeg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-mOc39mtQxWA/Uy8hpw5k1II/AAAAAAAAAi0/jBdwu8B2Z34/2014-03-22%25252010.48.07%252520HDR_DxO.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="An’ggrath The Unbound does not like what he sees" width="340" height="600" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>An’ggrath The Unbound realises he should not have taken to the skies</em></p>
<p>Leigh did insist for me to roll fully for damage and so it is that, having suffered 22 wounds, An’ggrath got to add ‘The Red Mist’ to its long list of titles.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2014-03-22 10.52.36 HDR_DxO.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-aRP-nu9HEAI/Uy8ho200z_I/AAAAAAAAAis/EQE2pUTKqQw/2014-03-22%25252010.52.36%252520HDR_DxO.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="That would all add up to 22 wounds" width="600" height="379" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>2D6 + 12 wounds…</em></p>
<p><span>I had never played with the Outflank rule before, and I was quite excited to see that Leigh had deployed his Big Bird close to a table side. With my Canoptek Tomb Sentinel and Stalkers able to re-roll the die if the results did not suit, I was quite confident that I’d get where I wanted to be. Which I did. Only to learn that one cannot charge when arriving from Reserve anymore. Bother.</span></p>
<p>I was also soon to learn that the Tomb Stalkers and Sentinels are definitely not equipped to engage Greater Daemons. They went very squish very fast. Those extra D3 attacks for the Stalkers are only granted when outnumbered. Well Big Bird is very scary, but there is still only one of him (thank the Gods!).</p>
<h3>Turn 3</h3>
<p>Leigh had by now blasted 2 Pylons, with a single one remaining with a single Hull Point. I got lucky dice however, and managed to finished the Reaver before it got me.</p>
<p>I also deep-struck everything I had left, with no mishaps apart from the Deathmarks, which only got delayed.</p>
<p>I managed to engage Zarakynel with a unit of Canoptek Wraiths. Leigh started grinding his teeth as the whip coils moved Zarakynel’s Initiative from 10 down to 1. The Canoptek Wraiths remain a powerful assault unit, even against a Daemon Lord. They managed to keep Zarakynel engaged long enough to allow the Destroyer Lord to assault as well in turn 4. It took a while (and the second unit of Canoptek Wraiths), but Zarakynel, by now joined by Scabeiathrax (who had been barely slowed down by an outflanking Canoptek Tomb Stalker), finally went down.</p>
<h3>Turns 4 and 5</h3>
<p>The remaining Pylon pulverised Aetaos’rau’keres (a.k.a. Big Bird), with 12 Wounds inflicted in one turn. Mind you, I also had every other available unit ready to shoot at it: 2 units of Destroyers, the Deathmarks and 2 Night Scythes. Not that all of them combined would have done it much harm, but at least they were ready to try.</p>
<p>After 4 turns of trying to fly over one of the daemons, the Night Shroud Bomber finality passed over an unengaged Scabeiathrax and did a bombing run. Which is when I discovered that bombs always scatter, and so are not much use against a single creature. Scabeiathrax escaped unscathed.</p>
<p>We stopped after Turn 5 as the show was closing down and it was time to pack and help clean up. Only Scabeiathrax was left on the Chaos Daemons’ side, engaged in combat with the last unit of Canoptek Wraiths, the Destroyer Lord and the Overlord. If he happened to win the assault he then let himself wide open to 3 shots of Strength D from the remaining Pylon, so Leigh declared a Necron victory.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040778_DxO.jpeg" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-fWsZ3xfDDVU/Uy8hvgoqDvI/AAAAAAAAAjs/HsYlS6pB5eo/P1040778_DxO.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Final assault" width="600" height="516" border="0" /></p>
<p>I had lost very little in all: 2 Pylons, 2 Destroyers, the Catacomb Command Barge, and 8 Canoptek Wraiths. It does say something about both Leigh and me that I never bothered to disembark the Immortals, and he did not want to deploy his cultist meat shield around his Reaver (which would have been useful for trying to assault the Destroyers that kept its void shields down from Turn 2). Puny minis are not for us, at least in Apocalypse.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040774_DxO.jpeg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-dJikb4W_lCU/Uy8hx2S3SyI/AAAAAAAAAkE/zL2rxwx5vss/P1040774_DxO.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="The end" width="600" height="335" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The state of things at the end of Turn 5</em></p>
<p>And now for the Triarch Stalker, which I voted the lamest unit of the game (then again, my fault for deploying it in a stupid location in the first place):</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040777_DxO.jpeg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-vnYMspwCCr4/Uy8hubi0QBI/AAAAAAAAAjc/ADCnp0ZIgKQ/P1040777_DxO.jpeg?imgmax=800" alt="Blasted Stalker" width="600" height="302" border="0" /></p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040776_DxO.jpg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-afMu7MoMKAI/Uy8hvN7aqnI/AAAAAAAAAjk/_WmYfdi6csQ/P1040776_DxO.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Do take your time…" width="600" height="403" border="0" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Hull Point markers are from <a href="http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/accessories/hull-and-wound-markers">Laser Cut Card</a>.</em></p>
<p>So in conclusion:</p>
<ul>
<li>Strength D is horrible. Try to quickly kill anything that wields it</li>
<li>So are the Canoptek Wraiths. Shoot them before they can assault</li>
<li>These Greater Daemons are certainly no picnic. Without Strength D there was no hope for the Necrons</li>
</ul>
<p>It was a good game, with a very sporting adversary. The show itself was super cool, with plenty of traders, demos and a great painting competition. The atmosphere was very friendly, with a good number of (well-behaved!) children. In the words of one of the most famous robots of all: "I’ll be back”.</p>
<p> </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-22379251592086348602014-03-16T20:06:00.001+00:002014-03-28T18:48:54.006+00:00Playing with magnetite<p>As much as I like magnets, sometimes they’re a bit annoying to use. I have been assembling a fleet for <a href="http://www.spartangames.co.uk/products/dystopian-world/dystopian-wars">Dystopian Wars</a> (<a href="http://www.spartangames.co.uk/products/dystopian-world/dystopian-wars/republic-of-france">Vive la République!</a>), and fitting magnets to the tiny gun turrets looked like too much hassle. Enters magnetite. I bought a bag of it on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B29UNXC">Amazon</a> a while back, and today I put it to good use:</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="1.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-zevv1bQT4PI/UyYEKzcxXRI/AAAAAAAAAhw/KyZS1cqr9kY/1.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="plenty of the stuff" width="600" height="393" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 1 - drill a hole.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="2.jpg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-jDswP8V43yo/UyYEMGR7xOI/AAAAAAAAAh4/tKMB6xcfkY0/2.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="step 1" width="600" height="328" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 2 - add magnetite (yes, I am just as messy when I brew coffee).</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="3.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-U137g0QSk_c/UyYEM9oxPhI/AAAAAAAAAiA/cOMK68pcR-A/3.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="step 2" width="600" height="414" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 3 - press down, and gently remove excess using a paintbrush.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="4.jpg" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-FEjIPvepvuY/UyYENqQYpEI/AAAAAAAAAiI/rlWATpLMmZw/4.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="step 3" width="600" height="357" border="0" /></p>
<p>Step 4 - add superglue and wait for it to dry.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="5.jpg" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-Xxkofi_u2pw/UyYEOpeTxdI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/reAmG_13G9E/5.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="step 4" width="600" height="367" border="0" /></p>
<p>It holds! Result! (obviously, there <em>is</em> a magnet fitted inside the hull, but that one was easy enough to install).</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="6.jpg" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-418A2Fk3Au4/UyYEPTWkwmI/AAAAAAAAAiY/Dm9euWkud_w/6.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="result" width="600" height="522" border="0" /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-39038207347182849412014-03-02T19:20:00.001+00:002014-03-02T19:20:24.099+00:00Immortals with Tesla carbines<p>5 immortals with Tesla carbines, speed painting at its best (or worst, really).</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040690_DxO.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-14dqzlIbFLc/UxOEcoxJmTI/AAAAAAAAAhg/8g3n1TeU2V8/P1040690_DxO.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Immortals with Tesla carbines" width="600" height="163" border="0" /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-5601854622604286192014-02-23T16:37:00.001+00:002014-02-23T16:37:16.377+00:00Tesseract Ark<p>Another model “good enough to put on the table”. I’ll have to find a sturdier base…</p>
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<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="P1040687_DxO.jpg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-GMK84nAmMBc/UwojtbuqCkI/AAAAAAAAASM/r162VeWP-88/P1040687_DxO.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Tesseract Ark" width="370" height="600" border="0" /></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-76712684707592935912014-02-22T17:39:00.001+00:002014-02-23T16:37:38.650+00:00Triarch Stalker<p>Slowly but surely, I’m working on completing my Necron backlog. The Triarch Stalker is finished, and fully magnetised (thank you <a href="http://www.idicbeer.co.uk/2013/02/how-to-magnetise-necron-triarch-stalker.html">Nick Beer</a>!)</p>
<p>Equipped with the Heat Ray:</p>
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<p>Equipped with the Particle Shredder:</p>
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<p>Equipped with the Twin-linked Heavy Gauss Cannon:</p>
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<p><br /> Beastie number 2:</p>
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<p><br /> And here's something coming out of the woods that has these Eldar Guardians very worried indeed…</p>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-61335160502436579712013-04-15T22:49:00.000+01:002013-04-15T22:49:00.266+01:00Tape measure FTW!I ordered a bit of hobby stuff from the <a href="http://www.alanwadkinstoolstore.co.uk/" target="_blank">Alan Wadkins Tool Store</a> recently (more on this later). The order got delayed unfortunately, but I found them to be charming folks, who kept me updated regularly. When I finally received the parcel I found they'd added a free t-shirt and the awesome tape measure below. Yes, the two circles on the bottom of the tape itself are magnets, people. And with 5 meters of tape, there won't be any more problems measuring during the Apocalypse games. Look how puny the GW tape measure is next to it.<br />
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With a tape measure like this, I cannot lose! Bwah ah ah!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-61775327514275108362013-03-24T16:33:00.001+00:002014-02-23T16:45:44.936+00:00Doomsday monolith<p>Back in February we played our biannual Apocalypse game at the <a href="http://guildfordgamesclub.wordpress.com">Guildford Games Club</a> (I am told that we'll get an updated site Real Soon Now, BTW). So once again off I went with my little Necrons, including two Doomsday Phalanxes. The Doomsday Phalanx is a monolith formation, which includes the very special Doomsday Monolith. Blow this guy up and you're just back to facing regular monoliths, so it's quite important to identify it. Last year I was in a rush before our big game at Warhammer World, so only had time to create 'Doom!' counters (see the monolith to the top left on the picture below). It worked, but was not very nice, nor was it very always clear to the other players (especially if you were looking at the wrong side of the monolith). </p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Doomsday_phalanx_2.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-n-dE9ftqhJs/UU8qyAFr2eI/AAAAAAAAAL8/xjcSlGvzYRs/Doomsday_phalanx_2.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Doomsday Phalanx - Before" width="485" height="518" border="0" /></p>
<p>This year I had to do better. I tried to scratch build something, but unfortunately after a disastrous eBay experience I did not receive once of the crucial bits I needed in time. Come <a href="http://idicbeer.blogspot.co.uk">IDICBeer</a> to the rescue. Nick had been <a href="http://idicbeer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/necron-defence-line-received.html">reviewing</a> some very cool pieces of terrain, which he picked from Neal at <a href="http://nothingunpainted.blogspot.co.uk">Leave no mini unpainted</a>. So I bought a few packs (more on those later), and concentrated on the <a href="http://www.lasercutcard.co.za/scenery/cyborg-monolith">cyborg monoliths</a>. It turns out these fit nicely at the top of a monolith. </p>
<p>So here is a Doomsday Phalanx at the game this year. The Doomsday Monolith is the one to the left of the picture.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Doomsday_phalanx.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-klX_5Ui5mAQ/UU8qwxJIFpI/AAAAAAAAAL0/t3qwW7VqAsY/Doomsday_phalanx.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Doomsday Phalanx" width="485" height="310" border="0" /></p>
<p> I'll try and post better pictures when I get a bit more time but meanwhile, thanks Nick and Neal!</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-77077564888406981332013-03-23T19:41:00.001+00:002014-02-23T16:39:19.881+00:00Oops I did it again<p>So… I dropped the box again. Bother.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Oh bother.jpg" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-XwzQi0DrKeo/UU4FgPRkblI/AAAAAAAAALU/8EWF72meFAo/Oh%252520bother.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Oh bother" width="485" height="352" border="0" /></p>
<p> </p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938423251385396849.post-21411031223648210622013-03-17T18:04:00.001+00:002014-02-23T16:39:31.724+00:00Of Tomb Stalkers and storing them<p>I've been looking into storing my tomb Stalkers for a while now. I used to have them in foam cases, but bits kept on breaking - I've lost count of the number of antennas and other protruding bits I've had to glue back on.</p>
<p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Before.jpg" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Oqhruhy-Td0/UU4GtAC_MNI/AAAAAAAAALc/w8fvq2rEZOc/Before.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="Before" width="484" height="361" border="0" /></p>
<p>So, after I'd finished painting my fifth one (at long last!), I thought I'd get smart, and store them so that the minis did not touch anything. Enter a custom foam card tray, with the Stalkers secured with Velcro tape. Great idea, works very well indeed. However, this was counting without the creatures' innate viciousness. Not being isolated anymore, they got aggressive towards each other, and one of them managed to get free of its bonds, and savaged the other ones. Look at the results below, it's quite distressing, really. When I opened the box the centre critter was still attacking the jugular of one of its comrades. Terrible, I tell you.</p>
<p><br /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Tomb_stalkers.png" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-Pbic2dOvufc/UU4GuZzTFRI/AAAAAAAAALk/n0Mfhet-4mY/Tomb_stalkers.png?imgmax=800" alt="Tomb stalkers" width="485" height="348" border="0" /></p>
<p>So it's back to the drawing board. And to gluing bits back on.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08377722850100423672noreply@blogger.com3