And here is my complete ork army. It is not as grand as it once was. But what remains is in my eyes a formidable force. I very much plan on expanding the force. Mainly with Dreads and other vehicles. I do however have my old grots and Gretchins left to finish so there is still stuff to do :) .
And these is the latest addition to my army. I can’t take full credit for the conversions. I bought them half converted and just finished the job added the top gun and fixed some smaller areas…and painted all of course. As far as rules goes I have realized that the boosts blasta is not the best unit in the game. But to me it is one of the coolest :) .
So here is the ork commander’s for my ork force. Old faithful models ready for the table, Lead by the big lill warboss, Old Gazz, the small stomper, the gut krusha :D .
This unit is a treat and a treasure for me. It contains all generations of stormboyz sculpts. It is rather fun to see the different directions in design. I love my old models but the latest stormboy design is really cool.
Here we have a collection of interesting models. Some older kommando models from both second and third edition and some old mad boyz and blood axes. All converted to be kommandos. I was thinking of removing the two burna boyz from the unit because nowadays kommandos can’t have them. But they have been part of my kommandos since third edition so they will stay. If I ever play with the unit I will run them as orks with tank busta booms.
Let’s continue my small little showcase of my old orks. My tank bustas. I particularly like this unit because of the weird conversions and the old models.
I was not sure where to begin in this post.
The content has been shown somewhat before on this blog but I later removed it. I am tempted to explain why its reapers now, but I feel that it dose not matter.
This is my very first army. Back when I was a young boy, me and my friend age 7-8 got our hands on the second edition Warhammer 40k starter box. He picked space marines and I picked space orks.
With a beginner’s guide in Swedish we took our first steps into the wargaming hobby. One or two years later we sat with the original rulebook and an English to Swedish lexicon trying to deciphered how the game was played.
There is some found memory’s there, almost like a treasure hunt when the game system slowly unfolded before our eyes. Discovering that there was something called codex’s and with it came additional rules for our army’s.
Around 2002 the army and the hobby were packed into storage containers and would not see the light again for about eleven years.
As I entered the hobby once more my old orks was outdated and badly painted, so many greater sculpts had been done for other factions and so the orks stayed in the storage as I went and built other army’s.
But my old miniatures slowly called me back. And now I feel determined to bring the army back to its former glory. This have been an on and off project I have been working on since 2015. Trying to fresh up the old paint job, add missing squad members and stay true to the old army layout.
I feel that it is time to show what I have been working on. Now, this is not an army that will win prices. It will not blow anyone away. Some models are very poorly painted, there are mould lines here and there, weird conversions and odd old sculpts is in the army. But this is my original army. 90% of all models are from second or third edition. I must have played with these guys hundreds of times. Some models have incredible stories to tell of great feat they did during some games.
I have tried to keep true to my original paint scheme. Not striping any paint if I did not need to. Most of the colours is the original paint from back in the day. I have however brushed it up as good as I could. Added washes and dirt. And painted them in the clan of deathskulls.
The intention is to continue with the army adding to it. But I will mostly add vehicle and walkers. I want the original infantry to make up the bulk of the army.
Hope this can bring some inspiration.
Today we had our first Adeptus Titanicus event with the local gaming club. The focus of the day was to introduce and learn the game. I had a great time!
Adeptus Titanicus is a wonderful game. Very nice rules and lovely models. The first game was a large one with 6 people involved, each one with a Titan each. This worked great. The game feels surprisingly complete with just one Titan to control. It worked so good in fact that we decided to play the next game together once more but with some more Titans to control each.
The only down side to the game is the rule book layout. It is incredibly hard to find what you are looking for. And with basic rules + advances rules + additional rules, one part taking president over others it can become a mess of things. However, once the rules is understood. The game runs really smooth and with a lot of immersion. There is a lot of tactical depth even just with so few models on the table. But the game never feels bogged down or overwhelming. You kind of feel like a princept controlling something massive.
The game feels quite exciting at every step and only grows more intense the longer the game progress. I can tell you that loosing in this game is quite exciting as well. Exploding Reactors, detonating fellow Titans around it, is just as fun no matter if it is yours or your opponents war machine that’s erupts.
This might just be the greatest game Games Workshop have ever produced. All of course is my opinion, but if you have an opportunity, go check this game out. It really deserves a large audience. This will definitely be a game I will play more often.
Thank you to all who participated, hope we can do this again soon!
This went quicker than expected. The second Reaver is done. The Legio grows :D .
So let’s do another Reaver :) . With both Reavers magnetized along with all the weapons I can now run any weapon combination on any Reaver. It required a “couple” of magnets, but I am happy it is done.
First Reaver is ready for battle. And the second Reaver has been started :D .
Next little update on the reaver.
Work continues on the reaver. Small steps forward.
The underlying paint job is more or less done. Next will be to block in the panels and add transfers.
I went about this a little different. Instead of painting all panels separately I glued everything on the model. This is mostly how I normally do it and the when the weapons is magnetized it is easy to reach otherwise difficult places.
Looking forward to continue the work :) .
When I was trying to figure out what 2020 would mean for my hobby, I scanned the mountain of un built models and spotted my Reaver for Adeptus Titanicus. A few minutes later I had setup a small AT event at my local club and formed an idea that I want AT to be part of 2020. Now the Reaver is built and is ready for paint.
I could not decide what weapons I wanted to build it with so I ended up adding magnets everywhere. It was actually relatively easy and now I can take any weapon combinations I want.
There, I consider these done. I think they turned out ok. I have some more plans for Van Saar but I have some other stuff I want to get done before that.
A small update on a slow moving project. But I like where they are going. Exited to get them finished and use them in the next campaign.
I decided to add some plasma to the Van Saar suit. Instead of removing one claw I just added the plasma. According to the rules one of the four claws can be replaced by the plasma. I will just run it as if the power pack can’t support all weapons so one of the claws will be powered off :) . I think it works.
So, the idea was to make some quick conversations for some van saar juves. It is always a good idea to check the rules before you build stuff, unfortunately I am not that kind of a guy. So once the conversions was done I had a look at the book. I quickly realized that juves can’t take lasrifles. So what started as a quick and simple conversion became a much more extensive project. But at last I am finished. They look a little different from the rest of the gang but I think they will fit right in.
Happy holidays! With the Christmas holiday comes some free time for hobby work. I was able to finish my Van Saar Servo suit. I think it turned out really nice.
