Commin' up commin' up

So, seome weather we're having huh? It 's just raining codexes and the sun is shining. I m'self am waiting to face up against my friend who just picked up the hobby again after the Long awaited Orc 'dex drop, having gotten in on the ground floor i can't really imagine having to wait up to a decade for a new 'dex drop(and playing the noble Astartes there are good odds that i never will have to, at that) so i'm just glad that i'm going to be shooting at some green skinned Xenos as opposed to some alabaster skinned or blue skinned. Face the imperial truth or go home heretics.

Point in fact, this is most probably what i will be working on next.

As i've mentioned before i got into GK as a cheap way to dip my toes in the game as such, and with that in mind, i was kind of reluctant to shell out the full amount for a bunch of figures i might not end up using after a few trial and error matches. So i wound up doing a lot of " counts as", ie pointing and saying , "now this looks like a Warhammer fantasy Vampire count, but it is in fact a ordos hereticus inquisitor with a conversion beamer and...." 

My crew were incredibly accommodating with this arrangement, but it got confusing, and it was a lot of hassle. So i started hitting up my (by this point already) pretty substantial Bitz pile, and my friends, and from it i built this lil' thing.

The head is a GK terminator Apothecarion, and the iron halo is from a servo skull attachment that comes on the GK sprues. the staff is a modified "force staff" that i added extra purity seals to and a polished Fantasy skull from the Vampire counts Skull bitz. The legs, and torso is from a standard GK Strike squad box, and the arms and shoulder pads are from the Dark angels veterans bits. The servo arm is a donation from one of my friends (in pure ecstasy of me actually getting my thumb out and getting a model that is somewhat distinguishable as a Techie). The thing you see in the right hand is going to become a Orbital strike co-ordinator. To get some delicious, delicious large blast templates on the board. It's simply a gutted down bolt pistol with a stock from the las pistol.

I'll probably paint this one the coming week. Or some terminators.

This is how i objective

On a less serious note.

It is hard to get good objectives, you have a narrative campaign, or you're just trying to get into the overall mood of your match, and you want a good objective marker to tie into the the spirit of "your guys"?

It might be just me, but i'm pretty happy with the way these markers worked out.

The first one is simply a plastic frame that we cut up with pliers, and then glue gunned onto some architectural construction foam, then i took the banner from the terminatour librarians back (overall i'm not that fond of the carrying of coat of arms on my models, they break of easily, and the detail is FAR beyond my skill to execute decently) and painted gold twice over.

The second one is more or less the same, except that i used a spare part leftover from the Dark angels Veterans sprue. 

Both of them have served with distinction in a campaign where the Dark angels where trying to locate their hallowed relics in the face of a tau expansion. Just small touched like the implication of a chapters specific involvement tends to help with the immersion when playing. 

The third one is probably my best one to date. It still needs sprucing up and "The relic" that is going to be placed on top. But all in all it feels pretty solid, these kinds of objectives are easy to do,fast to do and are easily customized to your needs. Just my reccommendation. 

Summer of 2014 GK- First platoon, El purifico inquisitorial chimera

I actually purchased and glued this cardboard box a good year ago. But i postphoned painting it, due to the frankly HORRIBLE experience i had when building it, i'll spare you the details, but if you've ever had a bottle of super glue crack while building a model? You'll know what i am taling about.

I can't see that happening to anyone else tho'

Now i really had little inspiration to draw from here, so i googled "inquisitorial chimera" and i found a picture to go by, just what parts to paint red and not (.....yeah, i'm not great at conceptualizing the ordos), so i got to it.

Now, i basically went with painting the Chassis red, and going "runefang steel-> leadbelcher-> armour wash for the threads. It felt better leaving the actual turret black, so as to give a better foundation upon which i could actually "adorn" the Chimera, and give that special "inquisiton touch" (which i expect would be an exterminatus *badump-bish*) I also took the liberty of adding some GK terminatour livery to the front, using it as a relic to show piety to the patron of Formosa himself, and getting purity scrolls, now i also "freehanded" an an inquisitorial -=I=- to the turret, something i either need to stop doing forever, or just practice. Probably the latter to be honest.

Now the left side is pretty empty, but the right side has a few extra purity seals, and a incense censer. I've also higlighted the detailed scroll and skull that is on the chimera, and "Might" write something appropriate there, eventually. 

Finally. A picture of the entire squad themselves. With the lord inquisitor himself. 

The summer of 2014-ongoing GK inquistion-First platoon. "El purifico"

I'll be shifting between stern stories of failing, and posts of what i'm actually painting at the moment.

To cut to the jist, i've always had a soft spot for running henchmen with bolters, and my group has always been very understanding with the good ol' "counts as" rule. But i decided that this was the summer that i got my shit together and actually got stuck in. 

So here we go.

First of, we have my Bolter bastards, pretty standard, but the paintjob, and my skills at that, are pretty middlin, so i'll be looking for feedback :d 

The basic parts are Games workshops own "Cadian" guardsmen, that i picked up on the cheap on Ebay. I swapped the heads to "Secrets of the Third reich" heads by Westwind productions. I then had to do a bit of cutting and gluing to get the bolters to look ok, and after that, i picked a paint scheme that seemed to go well with ordo base colours. So, flame red and black as sin. There we go, easy as. 

Now the picture quality is pretty boggy, but if you look at the model on the far right, (not the snazzy blender, i WISH i painted that) i took the freedom of cutting and gluing some MK5 Power armour arms, so as to give the look that my inquisitorial henchmen have faced many battles, and been given bionic prostethics, a luxuary scant awarded a simple guardsmen, but the ordos provides for it's own.

I'll be running these with Coteaz, so as to get my scoring troops in play. Now i'm not certain if this is going to be around for the next errata. But for now, Coteaz is really worth his points as well as the overall synergy provided by his traits. 

I'm actually pretty darn happy with my Coteaz paintjob. It's probably one of the best ones i've painted. I touched it up the other day, and i think it holds pretty well. 

And so it begins.

I think i picked upp most of my current Grey knights stuff sometime in the beginning of 2011, i was looking to get into 40K as a hobby, and looking into it on-line, it seemed like getting Grey knigts as an army would be a unit count efficient (turns out that it wasn't) and fiscally sound way (nope) to get my toes in the water.

So after looking into the fluff, and reading up online i got kind of psyched. Psyched in the way that people who never had an attachment to the Daemon hunters codex can get psyched. An elite army of psychers who safeguards humanity? often against themselves? And does whatever needs to get the job done? Sign me up!

*ASIDE* i had not, as of yet, really understood what grimdark meant here, as evident of my statement above

So i got a quick 1000 points army together, looking something like below.

*a librarian in terminatour armour
*a brother captain
* a full strike squad with a rhino
* a Psyfle dread (a dreadnought with 2 TL autocannons with Psybolts, which give a +1 in S)
* a terminatour squad

Now, looking at this list, i mentally cringe, i remember playing this match, it was against an eldar friend of mine, with a forested canopy and mysterious objectives. Highlights include.

* half the Terminatours dying due to scattering into an iron wall
* the librarian "joining" the Strike squad, but me not knowing that , even if there are empty spots, terminatours armour can't jump into a rhino. So he had to "run" behind the rhino.
* a "mysterious objective" blowing up two turns in a row, killing two Grey knights, and making them flee due to wittling down by fire dragons.

My friends agree that they have NEVER, not even in ye olden days of second edition.Seen anyone take that hard of a beating.

And honestly? I don't think i've even heard of anyone losing that hard. But i did, and i learnt, and i moved on.And there was no way to go but up.