Sons of Horus Lupercal Tank

It's been almost a year since I started printed the Lupercal tanks I only shared photos once I had them mostly assembled, so I thought I should get some paint on at least one of them. Since I've off for my second game of v2 Heresy next weekend at an event (more details of that later) I thought I should do the SoH one since that's the army I'm using.

After this week, things will go back to quiet mode most likely. Since some point in the latter half of last year, I've not pretty much stopping gaming - I tried 9th ed Crusade and one game of HHv2 plus the Cold War Commanders event but apart from that not much. On top of that, we've now accepted an offer on out house, and have made an offer on a smallholding - so things are likely to be crazy busy for a few months. 

40k Larp

I recently attended a 40k LARP called Death Unto Darkness, so needed a few props. From an X-Shot water pistol I made this flamer (which got stepped on and it now being rebuilt) and a bolt pistol from an off brand foam dart pistol I bought in the pound shop years ago.

Flamer, as completed, then back in time to various phases of construction

The Bolt Pistol, sadly no before pictures.

And because it's necessary, me as a preacher of the Imperial faith

Eldar Corsair HQs

You are probably thinking that there are no Corsair HQs, even if you are running legends. This is sort of true, way back when, FW did have a Void Prince and a Void Dreamer in their publications. For the former, you used an Autarch, and for the later, I guess a Farseer or similar. As I do have some old FW Corsair models, and have printed some bits to field a few more, I really fancied making some suitable HQs, usable with modern rules, that I could run with them.

My Void Prince is from the AOS range, a Scinari Loreseeker with 3d printed jump pack, fusion pistol and head. 

The Void Dreamer is also from the AOS range, an Isharann Tidecaster, also with a jump pack, new head and the staff head replaced with a singing spear tip.

The two beasts are from Kromlech and look suitably Gyrinx like, albeit bigger and more ferocious, and are just here for show.

Iron Warriors Land Raiders, Sergeants and Warpsmith

I attended the Northern Warlords team event back in the summer, just after the new CSM dex dropped. The changes in it, meant that it wasn't worth running my old list, as the Decimators were now highly likely to obliterate themselves, and a few other choices just didn't gel so well anymore. The upshot of this was I had a week to replace a part of my army with 2 Land Raiders as well as make a few chaos marines to act as sergeants for my squads. Previously I'd been using mark 4 marines with a studded pad for this role, but it was too hard to easily spot them against regular mk4.s

This is what I produced:

An IW Land Raider that has been in my attic of shame for about a decade, finally built!

An Ebay purchase, fitted with a Kromlech dozer and a few bits from the bits box.

The 3 sergeant models

My Warpsmith, who I realised had never been finished, although he's seen tournament use before.

It's been a while!

Life has been very busy, what can I say? I got married, went on honeymoon to California, then came back and started a new job. I haven't had much time for gaming as we've been doing lots of work on the house to move to something bigger - a small holding hopefully. I've been digging out 7.5 stumps from the 9 trees we had felled last winter, which has been a major under taking. A few stumps were in the 30kg range, so took a lot of work to remove them by hand. The garden does not have vehicular access, so no shortcuts using JCBs or similar.

One of the blighters.

I've also become a trainee beekeeper, and will hopefully be getting our own bees next spring (we have the hive ready to go).

On the hobby, but not gaming, front, I've attended a few LARPs - first since 2019 and spent some time with a model railroad club so that's taken a few weekends too. On top of these, we've acquired more chickens, and spent some time using up vouchers we've had hanging about since the pandemic started.

So what have I done that's of interest here, well, I've worked on some Eldar for a crusade campaign at the local club, I've made some IW Land Raiders in a week due to the codex changes and started printing figures for a Rogue Trader RPG game we'll be running soon. I'll post pics over the next few days! 

1/300 - Oddballs

I'm not here right now, but from a few weeks back, I had some space on a build plate so printed some more Microarmour - a few Shorlands and an XP-54 Swoose Goose.

Wedding not Wargaming!

Righto - pausing for a bit as I'm off to get married, so I'll leave you with these horrible abominations! We got them as an early wedding gift - I'm saying nothing more. On a more positive note, I did get to do this with my tractor last week - roll the field we're using for the reception. It's the first time I've been able to drive it for a real task, so that was fantastic!