Dark Eldar – Reaver Jetbikes

It has been a while since I built and painted “ordinary” Dark Eldar models. I like the idea of “Wyches” on bikes, with access to some cool weapon upgrades as well as combat drugs.

Reaver Jetbike with Splinter rifle and Cluster caltrops

It was a challenge to re-invent my old colour scheme, and my 15 Reavers are in fact 30 models (not counting the bases). I think the “packs” of 5 bikes each looks best with different heights on the stands, so I made each individual.

These speedy gladiators should be able to complement my new army concept; a really fast moving Dark Eldar army.

I have magnetized most of the weapons so I can field each unit with different weapons.

Parting shot.

Reaver Jetbike with Blaster

What next? Maybe some Eldar Corsairs to accompany them(?)

Cheers,

Ørnulv

Rebasing the Crimson Fists

It's been a while now, since Space Marines models started coming with 32mm bases instead of 25mm ones. Contrary to the predictions and rumours from around that time, the game did not break, the sky has not fallen and it's still entirely up to the individual army owners to decide which size bases they want to use for their army.

Starting a brand new army for the Team Tournament at last year's Adepticon could have been the ideal opportunity to start using the new bases, but they were not readily available in large enough quantities or at a reasonable enough price for it to be viable. In addition, Ørn had 'just' rebased his entire Ultramarines army, and was not really all that eager to do it all over again.

Not too long after we came home again, however, I found an eBay seller offering 30mm bases at a fraction of the cost of GW's 'official' 32 mm ones. These bases are a little flatter, though, but that's easily corrected by me finally getting on the 'cork-base bandwagon'. ;) I started on the rebasing-project in between playing games, re-tuning lists and adding about three new models to my Crimson Fists army for the "I am Alpharius" event this weekend.

In any case; I've used a modified/simplified version of Ørn's recipe from a few years ago, but still think the end result came out okay. For now, I've just finished the thirty-something bases I need for the army I'm using in Nottingham this weekend. I'll get back to the remaining one hundred partially completed ones after we're back home again. I expect to have finished at least half a Battle Company of Crimson Fists by the end of the year, plus several squads of Veterans as well as quite a few (transport) vehicles in support. (Stay tuned!)

JørnN

PS: Here's a few WIP-pics of the entire lot of new bases:

Tau goes to Nottigham

we are only days away from the "Alpharius" event in Nottigham, and my Tau army is almost done.
This a army I started on slowly this winter, and I got very inspiered to get it done for the doubles weekend. The Army wil be a suits army, a small Farsight group that have all the Tau high tec.
For the weekend my main go to suite wil be the XV109

As we will be playing Malestrom missions the troops wil be very importent to take the objectives so there will be some units of Fire Warriors, these guys will bring some back up shooting to the table

And what Tau army would be complete with out Battle suits and Broadsides. There will be 3 Battle suits and 1 Broadside in the 1010 point army.


The playtesting have shown me that I need more markerlights, and some small units of Pathfinders, so finnishing these is the last thing to do before Team Stormbolter takes on Nottingham.

Tyranid Malanthrope and Mawloc

Inger Helene and I decided to play Tyranids at the friendly doubles tournament in Warhammer world (Nottingham) in April 2016.

It has been a while since I built and painted models for this army; It was great fun when Jørn gave my son, who has participated in painting “our Tyranid army” (since the Battle for Macragge starter set came) a Imperial Armour book containing the Forge World range of Tyranid models.

After evaluating different Forge World units, Inger Helene gave me a grand birthday present, two Malanthropes! It was great fun building and painting them. However, I decided not to go with the stands/bases they where fitted with from Forgeworld, and we build our own. This is how they turned out.

Malanthropes

To get the right "team spirit" and "team feeling for the army", Inger Helene built a second Mawloc. She had great fun posing it, and I tried to create a stand/base that gives the impression of the mighty beast breaking its way up from underneath the surface.

Mawloc

After test playing, the only thing remaining to complete our tournament army is to finish some more Troops and Object Markers (and my son has started painting a mighty Tyranid beast of his own…). I will post pictures when they are finished.

Cheers,

Ørnulv

Linus' Raven Guard project part 1

So, finally a unit finalizing first step in a hopefully longlived and fun hobby project.

Sorry for the bad pics - black is't easy. I guess the best would be somwhere between the ones with flash and the ones without,

I landed on some blue/grey highligting on the armour, finishing off with subtle edge highlighting. Time consuming, but I think it ended up ok. The lines could always get better though, but some time you just have to say stop and go on. Please say what you miss, what you think I have left out and what could have been done better.

I know there is no such thing as weathering or other worn effects here. Not sure I want that. What do you think? I will be using som weathering techniques on some vehicles, though...

The only thing missing now is the squad numbers flying in from China and the sergeant's power weapon.

Next up: Shrike, Korvidae and Solaq, then a couple of vehicles and of course finishing the knight from last summer.

Cheers