The updating of my Horus Heresy legions continue. For the last couple of weeks I have been busy updating my Iron Warriors armor. Trying to tie everything together and going all in on a trench theme. The 4th is my primary legion and I want to give them the love and care that they deserve :) . Some of the design elements is heavily influenced by Warhammer 40K, second edition and a specialy the second edition chaos codex.
For some time now I have been updating some of my paint schemes on some of my legions. Starting with my Word Bearers and now continuing with the World Eaters.
There is not that much to say really. Adding surface highlights and fixing details :) . First up is my assault squad.
I decided to add some camouflage to my Iron Warriors Medusa. I did like the conversation as it was, but compared to the legion Medusa I already have it felt a little small.
So I added some camo to bulk the tank out some.
I really like how this turned out. Thinking on adding camouflage to some more tanks. We will see where this leads :) .
A couple of days ago me and a friend played a game of Titanicus. One and a half year has passed since I last played with my big robots and it was finally time to get a game in.
we had a small skirmish with about 1200p on each side to get into the game again.
This time I made a proper list with a legion traits and all. And tried to play with some sort of a plan in mind.
My warlord and two reavers faced off against two reavers two warhounds and a warbringer.
We played with the open ear card deck and the primary mission was to hold the middle of the table. Secondary mission was to bring two pick two Titans secretly and bring them down to critical damage without destroying them.
My Titans was out numbered and in part out gunned. I had my warlord with double belicosa volcano cannons to make up for it.
I purchased up aggressively with one of my reavers with the hopes to bring the melta canon within range. Setting up one of the enemies reavers with my warlord and then finish it with my reaver. A nice thought but my reaver took heavy gunfire coming in from my opponents warhounds. One with double volcan mega bolters and one with a mega bolter and a plasma. This ate through the reavers voids with ease and left my reaver out inte the open. Next turn the reactor went super nova and the first titan kill was scored.
The enemy had easily taken control over the center objective, taken out one of my Titans and was now hunting my second reaver.
I started to focus on the second mission and this was relatively easy for me to achieve. But on turn three I realized I had no chance to take back the game. I only had one last gamble and that was to take one titan down and hope it would create a chain reaction among its own line and open up the center. With only two Titans my options was limited.
I did everything I could, but my warlords shoots went wide and my crazy gamble had failed. With no more cards to play I had lost the game.
Only one Titian kill had been achieved but most Titans was smoking wreckes with a heartbeat away from erupting.
A very fun game that ended 15-10 to infernus.
I learned a lot from that game and have a couple of ideas on how to make better use of my Titans and legion ability’s. I also learned that warhounds can be incredibly effective. So I started assembling my next Titans right away :) .
I have one more titanucus game coming up next week and I have signed up to an titanicus event in the end of august.
But now I will continue with my family vacation and enjoy some care free days in the south of Sweden :) . Ending it here :) .
This will be just a small little update. Adding the forth contemptor to my Iron Warriors ranks. Lately I have been everywhere and nowhere hobby wise. Doing it all but not completing anything. Sometimes that’s better than nothing :) .
A Toast to the Guns
By them we live,
For them we would die.
Whatever the Mission,
We’ll give it a try.We’ll serve them with Honor
For they are the ones;
That make us Artillerymen,
So here’s to the Guns:
TO THE GUNS!!
There we go, two artillery tanks done and ready for the battlefield. As I mentioned in my previous post, I have used a lot of oils for this particular project not just to wash the models but also painting. It is a very enjoyable process and incredibly easy. The only downside is that it takes some extra time to dry. But it is also the drying time that is the big advantage. You can change, add, remove and add to your paint scheme without worrying about if what you are doing will work or not. There is plenty of time to explore and experiment before you settle for a final result.
If you haven’t tried it I highly recommend you do. I am sure I will use it more often from now on.
Getting there, some details have been added and all models have been washed with a mix of black and brown oil washes. I actually painted some details with only oils. Like the targeting lights and headlights on the scorpius. This was surprisingly easy.
Now, I will let all models dry completely before I continue with more details and highlights.
Time to add some reinforcements to my first love. I enjoy painting all sorts of colors but it is nice to return to something that runs smoothly and is quite straightforward.
Painting Iron Warriors is relatively easy. I am sure you can complicate things even with them but generally you don’t have to in order to get a nice result.
Prime black, dark silver base coat and lighter silver as surface highlight.
Just blocking in some colors, add transfers, seal and then wipe out the oils. Highlights and details and done.
Simple, easy and it looks good…at least that’s what I think :) .
Now, these models will set until tomorrow and then I will continue with blocking in colors so maybe one third done.
Finally I got the time to share some hobby progress. May have been a busy month, but as it comes to a close hopefully it takes all the busyness with it.
Anyway, The bulk of my Word Bearers is more or less done for now. There is some small additions I want to make but more on that at a later date. However, Word Bearers is also known for all their pet deamons.
With Zardu Layak in the force we need to represent the ruinous powers. Games Workshop have some incredible deamon models in their portfolio. But to me these are the 40K deamons. During Horus Heresy chaos and humanity was a young romantic couple. All had not fallen into place. So I wanted to go with something a little different from what we usually see.
I decided to go with Sylvaneth models to represent one of the strings of my Word Bearers ruinous symphony. These models where extremely easy to convert. I only used parts from the existing kit, except for one model.
And color scheme so far have been equally easy.
Black base coat
White Zenit spray (air brush)
Turquoise shadow/transition spray from feet and up
Brown oil wash, with cotton swab. Removing the wash so that the top surface becomes lighter.
Now, I am not completely done but I don’t think I will add anything to drastic on the color scheme. All and all it feels good to finally have some more time for hobbies again :) .