Start of something new!

After months of doing mainly Iron Warriors, I'm starting something a bit different. I'm finally restarting on my loyalist guard army that I began in 2009. There is however a twist, I'm planning on building a skew list that I can run for 40k and also for 30k using the militia list. Let's hope 3ed Heresy doesn't remove that option! The theme of both lists is horse heavy, about 60 for 40k and 90 for 30k. To make the points, I will also be using up lots of my really old guard models from my storage box in the garage. Here's the first WIP shots of some infantry. I'll be adding a couple more guard to replace one of the melta gunners so that the can be fielded as grenadiers in 30k, or Catachans in 40k. The models are Catachan legs combined with the upper parts of Empire Outriders. I have the latter left over after making rough riders. The melta guns look a bit shonky, but they are a digital kitbash of something I found online, and it was an easy conversion.

Fortress of Arrogance

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

It's been a while!

 I haven't posted for ages as I've had a roller coaster ride lately. We moved on the 26th of May, and on the same day as we were packing up the removal van, I heard through the grapevine that I'd lost my job. Two months later, I'm working again, but with a punishing schedule, longer hours and 2 day per week getting up at 4am and home at 10:30pm to be in the office. In the middle of this, I'm trying to get the new place sorted, do jobs on the acres we have, repair a tractor etc etc. Lately it's been moving Chickens on site, after that the horse, then some sheep - so as I say crazy busy as we already have 2 dogs and several thousand bees!

The only 40k I've done since the move is repair one of the Blood Slaughterers, and make these guys. The Harlequin and 2 of the Ogryns are for Blackstone Fortress, the other is of course Nork, for 40k. No idea when I'll get chance to do more.