Tau Stormsurge

After some slow weeks I finelly got my Tau Stormsurge done, this little battlesuite is my final part of the 1500 std Tau army I am planning on fielding.
I have used the same techniques on this, as my other Tau army, but here the armour plates are much bigger so I think more time to get right, and I am stil not pleased With everything, and might stil change some things.

I went With the big D cannon on this one, it have Shorter range but when I get this one close it is very deadly. Not only does it have 2 D shoots, but it can also bring the mighty stomp :-)

The ability to shoot all weapons twice is also handy if I stand stil for 2 rounds.



Up Next for the Tau is some Riptides and normal suits to be able to field some nice formations.

And there might be a suit hideing somewhere on the table...

Eldar Corsairs Windriders (Eldar Jetbikes)

Finally. Obviously I did not kit hem out to look like ordinary Eldar Jetbikes/Windriders. My Eldar are tainted, ore maybe they remember their true inheritage…

Anyway, I used left over ”fins” from my Dark Eldar Reaver bikes, and ”wings” from my Dark Eldar ”Hellions”, to make them more ”spikey”.

I magnetized them in order to field various load outs of guns.

What next? There is something heavy yet neat walking about…

Cheers,

Ørnulv

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.