Whats up Wednesday #025

Hello all,

Hope you had another fun and eventful week in wargaming. For me not so much, had a bit of burn out at the start of the week. However the last few days have been fast paced painting of Orks (still of the Space Crusade Variety.) I have been watching a lot of videos from a speed painter on YouTube about painting with washes (Miguel Garcia Fernandez HeroQuest Series). The skin and shoulder pads have been painted with washes after a zenithal undercoat (kinda, probably too much white for that term). Once I decided on the rest of the colours for the Ork's clothing (Thanks for the Suggestion from my close friends Spud and Adam). Also from a meme about a stealthy Ork wearing purple... This is what I came up with:

Amazing the difference one colour makes to the look of a project, going from looking very unfinished to looking almost ready for the table. The boots were also painted using washes (although I think I might need to add another layer of Nuln Oil to them. Lastly for now some Leadbelcher for the metallic parts.

So until next week here is the last WIP shot of the unit:

Thanks 

Dan (DeathBringa) Cain. 

Whats up Wednesday #024

Hello everybody,

Welcome to another weekly ramble through my wargaming life...

This week it has been very quiet in my man cave as I haven't really had the energy to continue with any of my projects. I did however have chance to root through my supply of unbuilt miniatures and kinda plan a warband for King's of War Vanguard.

These are the miniatures I'm going use.

I was also lucky enough to have some time to play a few games this week. So I decided to go back to my wargaming roots and broke out some Space Crusade.

It even inspired me to get some old models onto my painting desk...

So that's me done for another week...

Space Crusade Battle Report (no battery issues this time)

Right we decided to do another Space Crusade battle report, this time I took the charger with me.

Rather than leave the camera stationary, We decided we would try to do a more indepth look so that you could actually see what was going on (well most of the time...)

Here's part 1of 9:

Please use the links in the videos or click on the parts below:

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9.

We have also filmed our first 40K battle report,

Blood Angels Vs Thousand Sons.

That should hopefully be up by the end of the week.

DeathBringa out!

Our first YouTube video

Well I finnaly got round to doing it, I got the video camera out one night when we were playing Space Crusade with aim of doing some kind of battle report. Now unfortuantly the camera battery didnt last very long (next time I will plug it in).

But here is the first part of the video:

Here is the other parts of the video:
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5



DeathBringa out.

Games Night: Space Crusade

Well its been quite a while since my last post....

...and since then we have had quite a good games night with the recently popular (well, with us anyway) Space Crusade!

More Magnets and another Predator tank! And a bit of Space Crusade!!

It's been a while since my last post, been very busy and a while ago I built another Predator tank for my Blood Angels. Now the photos were taken so long ago that I have almost finished painting it!

And it wouldn't be one of my (newer) tanks if it wasn't covered in magnets.....

Here's a few work in progress pics:

Firstly I started off with the turret. I wanted to be able to swap the guns this was a lot easier than I was expecting. The holes in the turret that normally allow the gun barrel to move up and down were just the right size for the magnets I was using. So I just sandwiched it between the two halves of the turret:

Next was the small task of drilling holes for the magnets on the Auto-Cannon and the Las-Cannon...

The guns just slide in and the magnets hold it in place.

Now I have had an issue with Predator sponsons in the past. They tend to break, and snap off, I wanted to avoid this. This is where having a selection of magnets really comes in handy. So I eliminated the weak part from the build and replaced it with magnets....

Now as part of the sponson normally went inside the gun I mounted a thin sheet of plasticard on top of the weapons. This next part is where having a selection of various sizes of magnets comes in handy. A very thin magnet (only 0.5mm thick!) was glued to the top of each of the guns and a thicker one was attached to the underside of the sponson.

I also attached a small magnet to the back of the sponson so that I could remove them if I didn't want sponsons in a game:

I used a small off cut of plasticard to build up where magnet on the sponson would attach to, same for the hatches that would be in place when the sponsons were not in use:

Here is couple of pics with the weapons attached:

And with the hatches in place...

And we also had a good games night where we played some good old games, Space Crusade being one of the better games.

Here's a few pics of that:

Please excuse the poor quality of the pictures I was using the camera on my phone..

One soon to be dead heavy weapon trooper:      Mission dreadnought. Objective sighted!

Amazingly this sergeant survived this battle... He was in more peril from the suicide gretchin!

And the Imperial Fists Enter a new quadrant.... have they taken on too much?

We enjoyed this blast from the past so much I am going to paint one of the two copies I have (I know I'm very lucky) and who knows I may find an excuse to put some magnets in there some where. Regardless I will post up the pics of the progress of this new project once the tournament is out of the way. Which will mean I finally have a fully painted army (only taken about 16 years! too many armies)

DeathBringa out