The vehicle park of my Great Company is getting quite close to completion. This time, a model I always wanted to have - a Land Raider where my freehand attempts strike again.



And the look half-decent. I should probably practice something more complex though. It might come in hand in the future (though not the DE I mentioned...)...

As you can see, I added quite a few elements in an attempt to Wolf-ify it a bit. Storm Shields, random wolfish elements, tails and such.

The top that shows yet another freehand, that is probably a little funny. Oh well, I can't draw too well. You can also see runic plates I added, inspired by the vehicles in the codex (Mine are a bit more uneven though!)

A shot at the interior. It actually looks good in that picture. The interior... didn't really turn out as I had hoped and for the first time I was glad it can't be seen too well... But as you see, I added a couple of things on the inside as well.

And that's it for the Land Raider. It could still use some weathering powder, I'll get to it eventually, probably in a batch with other vehicles. It's quite a dirty work, the powder ends up everywhere in the end, so I prefer to use it as seldom as I can.


Also that's what's on the painting table as I'm writing these words.

And on a closing note, both armies painting charts (as of 6.10). The IG one grew a bit... It also includes a Leman Russ I won in a combat patrol league recently. Yaay.

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Yes, finally the 303rd. They sat on the shelf comfortably for a while now, so it's about time to show my last veteran squad.


A word of warning. I have applied matt varnish to them, as I have done with all the Guard minis... Except this time it didn't want to be matt. After two coats, I gave up. Funnily enough, I varnished the metal Rune Priest with the same varnish and there was no gloss at all.

These are... slightly glossy. I was quite annoyed, but thankfuly it doesn't show that much.

They still look quite good I guess and I would be really happy with them if not that accident. Especially since they were the first Guardsmen I painted since quite a while... But enough me ranting, pictures!

Three standard poses. I really ran out of original ideas after two squads. Since they looked slightly bland with just rebreathers (and shotguns) as their main unique points, I decided to add a couple of litanies, 302nd style.

Run-by-shotgun-in-the-face, Mr. Sir I Have A Tactical Map For you and Charge'em! men.

And another three. Glasses with rebreathers look awesome. And I could use the standard sergeant head again and it isn't so obvious, thanks to the reabreather! Only in the middle I noticed the ammo case contains lasgun batteries and they've got shotguns. Oops. So I had to paint it differently.

Finally the sarge himself. A tough guy, with a little aristocratic look in him. He needs no pansy rebreather. Or a helm, for that matter.

So, what do you think? This is the last veteran squad I'll ever be making, so it's more-or-less the official end of the long-standing IHRH series. Wow, it took a while!

And a little something, that doesn't warrant it's own post. 302nd's new Chimera

Those new Chimeras are nice, but there's like, nowhere to put stowage on. I guess it's good, since I'm running low on the remnants of the old Accessory Sprues...



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After much delaying, Sven Bloodhowl, the Wolf Lord of my Great Company is finally done! I considered the Snipers I've shown you a while ago my best conversion work probably. Now, what I think is the best paint job I've done so far.


It still does have its errors and I'm aware of them. It could've been way better. But overally I'mr eally pleased how he turned out, check it yourself!

Here he is, sitting atop his monstrous Thunderwolf and surrounded by some Fenrisian Wolves so he doesn't feel too lonely (and doesn't go down because of stray bullets).


The fur on all the doggies was painted using Master Darksol's excellent tutorial.

A dirty, worn cape. I was considering adding more weathering to the model, including blood stains on the fur, but I'm afraid I might ruin it. Doesn't mean I won't add them in the future though.

Also, once I painted the cloak I came up with a waaay cooler idea to paint it. Perhaps I will use it on his Terminator Armor version. The codex says, that Sven tattooed his extensive saga, but he ran out of space on his skin, so he takes those of his enemies. I thought it would be awesome, if he also used every scrap of place possible, including writing the saga on his cloak and armour.

And a couple of closeups, on Sven's face, which also shows the runes on his armour, that are supposed to denote it's Runic Armour. They aren't perfect, they're more or less patching up of even worse work underneath (I thought red/orange would look better. I was wrong), but I managed to make them look acceptable I think.

His chest armor.

The doggie's.. snout.

And the other, cybernetically enhanced, side. I just love this sculpt. Having painted it, I decided these are the best Thunderwolves ever and no other sold anywhere else match those. I'm going to buy at least one more to make a second TW character (A Battle Leader, though probably fielded on Lord's rules). And maybe I will be tempted into making a unit of cavalry some time in the future...

I lack one thing however. A name for the mount. I need something Nordic and menacing sounding, but nothing to obvious. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them out!

But that's not all! A little more shots of lesser dogs. On the left, one of two hamsterdogs. They have metal heads that I got with them, and of which origin I have completely no idea. They look a bit funny though.

I like the base of the left one here.

You will notice I did quite a bit of reposing with those. They were really bland originally.

And the Cyberwolf on the left!

Now it's done.

I seem to have some kind of painting fever, after I have seen the pictures of Dark Eldar. I decided it's probably time to move slightly away from the Emperor's light and collect some xenos. Yep, I'm going to be starting a DE army. Not straight away after they're released however, I still need to get a few things for the Guard first!

As for the fever - I cannot buy a new army that awesome, while still having unpainted stuff! As of now, I'm done with majority of the Wolves. I have scheduled a couple of posts now, containing a few updates, so stay tuned!



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Here he is, the WIP Commander of the 3rd Company, Lieutenant Colonel Mordechai Emmet, who is my count-as Straken.


He is quite finished, but I think he is still lacking something, but I have no idea what else could I do. Perhaps you could help me, dear readers?

Emmet has quite a backstory to him, which I think I'll share once he is painted up. For now I'll say he used to be a mere Veteran Sergeant, but won his way into the wearing the officer cap through his deeds and "friendship" with (then) General Havelock Hals.

A battlefield experience has left him scarred for life, but due to his skills, commitment and service record he was deemed well worthy of recieving extensive bionics, which allow him to continue his duty to the Emperor.



Thanks to this twist, I was able to give him all the wargear he used when I still fielded him as a Vet Sergeant, back in the 4th Ed. - a Power Weapon and a Plasma Pistol - which also match Straken's loadout!



The Standard behind him is supposed to make him stand out on the battlefield, considering he is a Special Character. Besides, I was itching to use that standard for a while.

But he still looks somewhat generic. And I'm all dry on ideas. If you have something on your mind, say it!



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And so one of the biggest tournaments in Poland came to an end. 2 days, 5 battles, 70 players, 2100 points and a bucket of fun! Warning - picture heavy post!

Games result - 41th out of 70 people. I guess not bad, although it could've went way better. Unfortunately, I know exactly what I should've done for all this to end better. First, my list:

HQ: Company Command Squad - Std, 3xMelta 95
Chimera - ML, HF 55

Elites: Psyker Battle Squad(9) 100
Chimera - ML, HF 55

Troops: Veteran Squad - 3xplasma 115
Chimera - ML, HF 55
Troops: Veteran Squad - 3xmelta 100
Chimera - ML, HF 55
Troops: Veteran Squad - 3xmelta, shotguns 100
Chimera - ML, HF 55
Troops: Platoon Command Squad - 4xFlamer 50
Infantry Squad - GL, AC 65
Infantry Squad - GL, AC 65
Infantry Squad - GL, AC 65
Infantry Squad - GL, AC 65
Special Weapon Squad - Flamer, 2xDemo 80

Fast Atck: Vendetta 130
Fast Atck: Vendetta 130

Hvy Sup: Leman Russ Battle Tank(2) 300
Hvy Sup: Leman Russ Demolisher - Plasma Cannons 205
Hvy Sup: Manticore 160

First of all shooty Blood Angels suck. They really do. Especially if they begin or worse - sieze the initiative. Manticores popping before they get to fire aren't good at all. Still, most of my firepower works on close ranges and shooty BAs don't have to drive towards me, while I can't really drive towards them, ugh. Also reserves - two times my BA opponents hid their entire armies and nearly everything came out on turn 2, thanks to some lucky rolling. I'm never leaving home without an Officer of the Fleet again.

Oh, the only issue I had - 4 times I played against SMs (vanilla and 3xBA) and once against Daemonhunters, which really are like SMs anyway. Hooray!

On the bright side - squadroned Leman Russes aren't really that fragile as I thought. AV14 works well to scare shooting away from them and a platoon-bumper helps keep assaulters at bay. I'll be sure to consider them in the future. Meanwhile Demo Charges did not fail me - they killed themselves as often as they did the enemy.

Still, lots of fun games were played, with really nice opponents. And since a painted army was required there were quite a few really awesome armies. I tried to catch them all with my camera, but probably failed to do so. There are sure to be other picture sources later on however, which should contain them all.

I think that's it. I don't think I can force myself to remember all the battles now, to write detailed battle reports, I guess not this time! On with the pictures!

Pisałem już na Gildii, dziękowałem wszystkim, mogę jeszcze raz!
Turniej od strony organizacyjnej - mega pro. Nie sądzę, żebyśmy wam dorównali na Fire Frenzy, ale próbować będziemy na pewno!
W sumie mam tylko dwie uwagi "negatywne". Scenariusze i modyfikacja o KP - nie wiem, jakoś mi się to nie podobało, zwłaszcza, że w Gwardii stracić wiaderko KP to nie sztuka. Ale może po prostu ja nie umiem grać. ;) Po drugie - to raczej nie do organizatorów - ludzie, grajcie czymś innym niż Marines. :P

Przeciwnikom dziękuję za wymagające bitwy, zwłaszcza te z BA, dzięki którym sporo się nauczyłem na przyszłość.

Raportów raczej nie będzie. Pierwszy dzień słabo pamiętam, drugi niewiele lepiej. Było krwawo, było wesoło, choć na dobrą sprawę to były same remisy, poza Czaj-nikiem, który mnie zmasakrował, a moje kości tylko mu w tym pomagały no i biednym Mailem, którego DH miały niewielkie szanse. Lemany w squadronie okazały się być twardsze niż się wydawało i generalnie słabość squadronu nie dawała o sobie znać. Zginęły jedynie gdy szalone Bladzie przerwały już wszystkie moje linie, a wtedy nie squadronowane padłyby równie łatwo. Reszta spisywała się tak jak zawsze, oprócz Mantikory, która w dwóch bitwach bezsensownie umarła bez choćby jednego wystrzału. Patrząc po tym co działo się potem dochodzę do wniosku, że ona nie jest jakimś szaloną przegiętością, ale cholerną koniecznością, zwłaszcza przeciwko takim BA. Dobra, dobra, wiem że nie umiem grać. ;)

Za rok na pewno się wybieram, jeśli tylko będę mógł. I tym razem w 100% moją armią, nie dam już sobie obcinać punktów! ;)

Tym niemniej, słyszałem, że na Fire Frenzy będzie jeszcze lepiej. ;)


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