Blackstone Fortess - the Antagonists

Welcome back!

For the second BSF-article we'll be going over the models that will be 'getting in your characters' way' when playing the game. Being able to alternate between protagonist and antagonist models, as I worked through the pile of models in the set, really helped with keeping the pace up until the end.

Spindle Drones

Ur-ghuls

Negavolt Cultists

Traitor Guardsmen

Rogue Psykers

Beastmen

Chaos Space Marines

Chaos Lord Obsidius Mallex

Next? I suppose I'll have to get The Dreaded Ambull when i comes out, but I hope we can manage to try the game out before then too... I've been looking over the rules (Insert playing-with-myself-jokes here.) and think the game would be the most fun with a group of four gamers and a 'GM'.

In the mean time, I have a batch of the new ruins and a sizeable number of Word Bearers models in progress too...


J

Blackstone Fortess - the Protagonists

Hi all...

Long time no see. 2018 turned out to be my least productive year here since the inception, more that... whoa! ...ten years ago now. Seems I didn't even catch/mark the anniversary last spring... (There are reasons, but they're far from hobby-related so let's skip those and focus on some actual painted miniatures instead!)

A couple of months ago, I picked up GW's latest board game "Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress" as an early christmas/birthday present for myself. I put all the miniatures together over a couple of evenings, and have had a few at a time 'on the got' up until last weekend.

In other words: It's time for a comeback on the blog, with a couple of articles showing off my efforts.

Janus Draik

Espern Locarno

Taddeus the Purifier

Pious Vorne

UR-025

Rein and Raus

Grekh

Amallyn Shadowguide

Come back next week, for a look at the antagonists...


JørnN

Urban Ruins 40K Terrain

It has been over 4 years since I last built terrain. Moving to a flat with less space, I had to “give away” my thematic gaming boards and several terrain features. I decided to go with battle mats, and consequently I needed to build new terrain.

I bought a wonderful battle mat from “deep cut studios”. I redid two of my previous buling and decide to build new terrain from the GW range and scratch building pieces from my bit box (including making use of Forge World Pieces).

This project has taken over two moths to complete. Enough said, here are some pictures of the new terrain features.

Regards,
Ørnulv

Armiger Helverins - Imperial Knights – House Hawkshroud

Once I got hold of the new Imperial Knight Codex, I just knew I had to get a couple of them. During this summer I had an extra-long vacation, with time to build and paint them. A very nice set indeed. Here are some pictures taken during assembly.

It is always a little bit tricky achieving the same colours as on models made several years ago (2015). Trying to mach the same colour pallet and markings, I think they blend in with the rest of my knights. I see now that I have forgotten to put on the Heavy Stubbers / Melta Guns when taking these photos (I magnetized all of them).

I have already tried them (one of them) together with my other knights. I think they would do better when they team up, so I will try to reconfigure my list, so I can fit them both into my list.

Cheers,
Ørnulv

Drukhari – Dark Eldar Archon and another Succubus

Getting ready for the upcoming team event in September, I found myself short of some WYSIWYG HQ-options for my army.

I did not have time to wait for a shipment from GW (UK). And since I already have built and painted the standard Archon and Succubi models, I decided that variety was the way to go. Hence, I dived into the “bit box” once more…

I found that the body that I usually have used with heavy weapons had an ok pose and decided to add some “extra bling” trying to create an Archon with a unique look. This is how he turned out.

Unfortunately, I was out of parts from the Wych kits. Crises! Hmmm…. But, I did have left over´s from the Venom kits. The trick (for me anyway) was how to fit a model designed to hang outside a vehicle to a normal base, and to make a close combat weapon that could pass as an Archite glaive. A left-over part from the old city kits solved the first problem, and by combining two different “spears” I made a what I think will be accepted as an Archite glaive.

Looking forward to trying them out on the battlefield.

Cheers,

Ørnulv