More Apocalypticon work, and Gary the Gargant

Not much to say, still going full speed on terrain for Apocalypticon which is in 2 weeks! The Pyramids shown below were almost finished in this shot. I've been doing quite a lot of other pieces that I can't share until after the event, and Scott has been painting up the centre piece I made earlier in the year - more photos when we won't spoil the surprise for the players. While I've been spraying and brushing, the printer has been turning out Gary here. Still needs his banners, but I think he looks ace. I printed him at 150% which caused a little bit more work, as I had to cut some pieces to fit on the printer, but I really like the old school Gargant look.

Painting the 8' wall begins!

Painting the sections of the 8' wall has begun. I've almost done 50% of the upper section now (this photo is a few days old). This leaves the base sections some of which have been given a grimy wash, the rest of the upper sections and all the turrets and bunkers. At least everything has been primed grey, so it's just washes, detail works and dry brushing to go.

After posting this, I realised I never shared the full photo of the wall here, so here's one of it printed and then dropped in place to see how it'd work. The piece in front of the ramp is the walkway that goes over the gate.

More Necron terrain for Apocalypticon

 

Necron Fort

 No posts for a while, as life has been a rollercoaster. My wife got pregnant, then decided she no longer wished to be my wife, which has meant I've been clearing out the house and small holding so we can sell it. On top of this I finally got a new job which doesn't take up 95% of my time, so I've actually been able to get some more terrain done for Apocalypticon, which is at the end of next month.

Almost done on the fort - great service from David at 3DAlienWorlds who made me a custom piece to make the walkway fit!

I printed a load more Necron terrain, but a lot of it is off with a friend for painting.

In other news, my wife has taken all of our animals with her to her family's farm, so this week I had to say goodbye to my 3 lovely ladies, Cecilie, Ellie and Lottie.

Animated Fusion Generator

I've recently sold a load of board games and treated myself to a new 3D printer as my Ender 5 seems to now what to produce anything useful anymore. I've got a Bambu P1S as a friend was producing awesome results without the level of setup/tweaking needed by the old Enders. To test it out I printed a fusion generator with an electric tealight in it, which will make an appearance at Apocalypticon.

Apocalypticon UK 2026

After taking a year off to recover, we're running Apocalypticon UK again. It's back to its home in Newcastle upon Tyne, right next to the railway station. Ticket has had to rise a little from last year as the venue has put up prices, so it's now £60 for a two day event. Players forces are capped at 12k this year, and there are some army detachments we ask player to use so we can better setup the tables so that no one has a huge imbalance with the force facing them (they are multiple players on each table so this helps too).

If you want more information, or access to the Discordto see photos from last year, or want to pay up to attend, please drop me an email at 'simonhpw at googlemail.com' doing the necessary substitution. Alternatively look at the Animosity Facebook page and speak to the head cheese himself! https://www.facebook.com/animositycampaigns/?locale=en_GB 

Doomblaster

Another old Epic unit that's made it's way into our 40k games. A Blood and Skulls kit that I mostly completed about a decade ago. I pulled it out for Apocalypticon, needing to make up points as a few players dropped with short notice, only to find I have never finished painting the cannons.

Dark Mech Tech Priest Manipulus

As per the title.

Iron Warriors Terminators

 Bought on Ebay and rebased. Obviously I need to swap one heavy weapon guy out for a bolter armed guy.

Airship #1 now with stand

 As per the title.

Thunderhawk

this has been in my pile of shame for a decade, so I'm glad it's built and painted. Not really that pretty, but it gives me options until I can obtain a real one.

Fortress of Arrogance

Another Easter Egg unit was the Fortress of Arrogance, Yarrick's ride. This one I printed from STLs found online.

I am Iron Man

Animosity events have a history of easter egg units, and Apocalypticon is no different. Scott asked me to print two sets of pokeballs, in small and large sizes, with room inside for a piece of paper. I did this and we then had a mechanism for Trazyn the Infinite to deploy units from his collection to the battle. The smaller balls were mounted on a base and became table top objectives. Once one was captured, one of the larger balls was drawn from a bag, and the paper slip inside said which unit was deployed to the battle. One such units was 20 Men of Iron - STL versions of UR-025 from Blackstone Fortress. I duly provided these. The reason we have 2 paint schemes is that I started with the silver one, but we though this was too close to the the Necrons themselves, so switched. I was rushed when painting these, so didn't repaint the first 4, so now their leader units, or something. Also the painting is very simple, this was completed a day or two before I was due to travel and I still had loads of scenery to do.

Blood Pact Missile Teams

Since GW has changed what's possible with IG, my Blood Pact have 3 Veteran Squads each with 3 Melta guns, which is now no go. The easiest way I had to bring them back so my friend Niels could use them for Apocalypticon, was to swap out 2 of the melta guns for a HWT. I had one of the missile teams done from way back when, so it was just finishing the other two. Sadly I don't know the exact colours I used then, and even if they're still made, so I did the best I could - I also cut corners, hence the skin tone difference (the very pale one is the old one).

Vashtorr

Finally painted. Lovely model but I had to rush and cut a few corners.

Squad 50 61 73 63 61 6C

 Last squad of infantry that Ben and I painted.