Fred's 2016 Painting Diary

[fred.]

Thanks guys - it was a good game.

Random epic stuff in progress, some Marine bikes, that need re-basing. Some Tyranid Gargoyles, that are done via the last bit of basing. And work on some Trygons - which still need a bone colour on their armour plates.



And just in the picture some the Pendraken Barricades - how are people painting the box like things on these? Are they meant to be boxes, or something else?

[Techno]

Looking zippy , Forbes ! 
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Got a bunch of 1/300 WarPac bits from H&R to convert up some of my banana marines



Small twin rocket launchers for the skimmers, big triple rockets launchers for the Rhinos, and bulldozer blades for Vindicators.

Various detailing added the rockets and bikes - helps to break up the yellow.

[Techno]

Yep !.....Very nice indeed, Forbes. 
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks Phil. I'll see if the suffer the fate of all newly painted stuff tonight!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Doooooooomed! 

[Matt J]

Nice stuff Fred you are giving me an epic itch. Need to finish my chaos and IG at some point.

Also if you run out of Rhinos or Land raiders or if any of your gaming buddies want some Ork battlewagons PM me. Got a few gathering dust and in need of a good home.

[fred.]

Very kind Matt. I'll check with my Orky mate tonight.

[Matt J]

I think there is a couple of mega gargants and a bucket of boyz. Give me a shout if any use

[fred.]

More Epic, Nids vs Marines and Sisters of Battle.

The Nids were rather scared of the Sisters, and a lot of their troops concentrated on my flank - which allowed the Sisters to smash the Nids on their flank, and then swing round to help me out. In the end we managed to hold all 3 of the objectives. 

[Techno]

That looks great, Forbes ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Fred!

[Womble67]

Looks very good

Take care

Andy

[fred.]

Thanks guys, it was a good game - looking at those photos I think I need some new bases for trees and other scatter terrain, the bits of funky foam, while functional, look a bit rubbish in photos.

Got some new deliveries at the weekend - more epic stuff, but from Vanguard miniatures. And got all of it sprayed and at least one colour on - lots of rain is good for painting!

Got a bit of detailing on the support aircraft and the not terminators tonight




At the weekend I also did a bit of (limited) sorting as I had bought a few more really useful boxes, so shuffled trays around to try to put the same era stuff in the same box. Found a fair bit of stuff that was rather forgotten. And then as I had discovered piles of stuff, bought a load of Pendraken stuff to add to the lead pile  This is mainly stuff for Irregular wars - mainly various pike and shot troops to make some European factions, and some Scots to allow my Jacobean ones to be used a bit earlier.

I'm getting more jealous of your retired guys being able to game lots.

[Techno]

Very nice indeed, Forbes. 

(At least I can comment on these, as they won't be in the painting comp.  )

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

More Yellow Marines - they must be finished soon.



Based up the Terminators and added some texture to the bikes and some land speeders. Also detailed the red bikes.

Not quite sure what the next step with the planes is - probably some geometric splinter camo.

[Techno]

Ho....Yus. 

Those look terrific, Forbes ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top work Forbes!

[fred.]

We played Epic again on Friday night. A Scenario called the Living Wall, with the Marines having to smash through the Tyranid forces to escape.  This was a good time for a first outing for the new bikes, Terminators and bombers.

We ended up with me playing all the Marines vs 2 Nid players - one of the Nid players had mis-read the scenario and thought he was trying to escape - unfortunately we pointed out his mistake before the first turn started - although it would have been rather Benny Hill like with his guys running in one direction, while mine went passed in the other!


This is mid first turn. My bombers made a mess of the Nids clustered in the woods, and other units piled on the hurt. In the centre 2 harridans with flocks of Gargoyles had jumped on my small scout formation - and really struggled to kill them. Then just allowed themselves to be shot up by my Titan and tanks. The purple Nids on the far side were being very cautious - as expected!


This was the end of the first turn - with my bikes streaking off the table, through a handy gap left between the purple Nid formations.
In the middle both Harridan formations were broken, with one loosing its Harridan. I'd lost a Scout formation at this time, and had very few blast markers on other formations.

In the End Phase the Nids did very badly at rallying - I think all 3 of the bone formations failed to rally - leaving 2 broken and the bombed one in the wood with loads of blast markers on it.

I teleported the Terminators in, but they weren't paying enough attention to their protocols and picked up a couple of blast markers. Or it turns out their armour - they got jumped on by a Nid formation and despite killing a lot of it were wiped out.
With a load of broken formations on the right, I was able to smash through pretty easily and get several formations off the table. The Nids did cause some casualties, but not enough. At the point we called the game I was up 6 VP to 3, with the ability to easily get several more formations off the table for a VP each.

It was a good scenario - the Marines are very mobile, and were able to cover the whole table forcing the Nids to defend in width - then the Marines were able to concentrate their force on the centre right and smash through.

Of the 3 newly painted units, the Bombers were MVP, the terminators died miserably, and the bikes revved their engines and shot off the table!

Most of the rest of the weekend has been spent with 1:1 scale painting of the kitchen (and rugby watching!) while the paint dries...

But I did managed to spray some of the Land Raiders and the Rhinos that Matt J very kindly donated to my war effort!



I suppose I better get on and think about the painting comp...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looks a fun game