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Skullcrusher of Tzeentch?!

I’ve been working on my Army for the Shiloh Slaughter for a couple of months now, fortunately Games Workshop through me a curve-ball by adding a new unit to the Warriors of Chaos roster – the Skullcrushers of Khorne. If you’ve been living under a rock, these are Knights riding Juggernauts. Something I think most WOC players have wanted for a very long time. Unfortunately, that meant some frantic juggling of my list and scrapping some models I’d already painted for the big day. No matter, the Skullcrushers are worth it. The rules for these heavy hitters came out last weekend in White Dwarf and after 6 games, I can say these guys are going to be in just about every list I play in the foreseeable future. I had some spare Juggernauts lying around from my conquest of eBay, so I spent the day yesterday rummaging through my bits…

I’ve had a few people asking me about the display board lately, I’ve been working on it for several weeks now and it’s now just about ready to paint. The question still looms large, how the hell did I do that mountain? First, let’s talk about what went into making the board. MATERIALS ■ Magnetic Dry Erase Board: This particular board is 36×24, it’s large but it needs to be – I’m playing an MSU list and I’ve got a mountain on the back end of the board. I chose this for the base of my board because I have magnetized the movement trays in my army as well as all of the models. ■ Foam Scraps: With the baby on the way I’ve ended up with a lot of furniture and a glut of packing foam, though if you like you can certainly buy a sheet from your local…

A Game of Thrones Conversion- House Lannister counts as Empire

I wanted to share a little bit of the progress I have made on my House Lannister counts as army. I have been working on it for about 2 weeks now, and have painted up some horses and demigryphs in the red and gold scheme. However, the big highlight of this army is going to be actual game of thrones miniatures from Dark Sword Miniatures. The problem with these miniatures is that they are true scale as opposed to heroic, so they require some work. Here are the conversions I have been working on the past couple days. This is the Tywin Lannister model. I am going to be using it as my Arch Lector. It is probably my favorite model in the entire series, and required very little work. The only thing I had to do was chop off his baby arm and add a heroic scale with…

Dabbling With Warmachine: Cryx Death Jack Painted

I think I am suffering by the same ‘end of the edition burn out’ so many are feeling in the blogging community. As 5th edition 40k wanes, I have taken it upon myself to paint up a few Warmachine models and give the game a try. My favorite model, bar none, was the Death Jack as I looked the line over. I had no idea what it would do, but I was sure it was going to be good. I mean look at this thing and its giant chain wrapped fists! Whats not to love? Regardless, I set about painting the model and I wanted to go with an alternate paint scheme. I went with the new GW green sequence and it gave it a unique coloring. I also decided I wanted prominate use of metals in the models as well. My last two armies, the eldar and the necrons,…

Moebius Cylon Raider to Necron Night Scythe Conversion Guide

If you are like me you can’t wait long enough to have Night Scythes on the table. I have been proxying them in games, and I absolutely love them. In my current list I run four of them. They offer up some great mobility and some very good supporting fire power as well. Great at tearing down light armor, but even better is the fact that they keep your MSU squads safe after they are destroyed. I like that a melta unit cannot take down the Night Scythe and then assault its innards, like rhinos and chimeras. At first I thought this would be a weakness, but its really not. In my travels across the internet I came upon this kit from Moebius Models: It is a Cylon Raider at a pretty good scale. I couldn’t find any size comparisons with GW models, but when I found the kit on…

After WarGamesCon, we decided that, as a gaming group, we needed to make sure that all of the new armies were represented, preferably well. Both Sweet E and I were caught out a bit by Dark Eldar in Austin. While we had read the codex, we hadn’t played them on a competitive level, and this proved a handicap. So, I decided to build a DE army for that as well as a few other reasons: they can be played competitively, and they play completely differently than my two other armies. I’ve traditionally played very assault-oriented armies that were remarkably in your face. I wanted to try something more subtle. I know there is going to be a significant learning curve, so I’m trying to get the army up and running as quickly as possible. Before anyone jumps all over me, I know that I haven’t suffered through the years of…

I’ve been playing Grey Knights for a couple months now and have defineately been making use of henchmen, but feel like I’ve stalled a little bit in coming up with new Inquisitorial Henchmen combo’s. Over on The Back 40k Spag wrote an article focusing on the best close combat henchmen setup. In response to his question, I’ve migrated towards all Death Cult Assassins. I have been running units of 10 of them which delivers 40 attacks on the charge. They don’t have grenades, but if your careful with your tactics they will still be devastating. I drop in independent characters like a Librarian or a Techmarine to buff them with Hammerhand, Might of Titan, and/or Rad Grenades making them simply murder. I’ve tried mixing in some crusaders here and there, but I just haven’t found anything that feels right for me. I like the high initiative and monster amount of…

Eldar Snow and LED Lit Display Board Finished

This will be the finale to my Warhammer 40k Eldar display board! You can read about the build in my last post here. After finishing building, wiring and taping over the LEDs, I then took a can of white spray primer and primed the board 2-3 times to give a purposefully uneven white undercoat. I wanted some areas to have a better coverage, leave a few spots which should show through a little through the snow. After the primer dried, I peeled off the tape in all the areas and again tested the lights to make sure they were working. Then, again using gorilla glue, I attached all the opaque crystals over the LEDS and glued down the trees into their places. I used some white touch up paint to cover any places that had not been sprayed. The next step was to mix up a metric ton of the…

Nurgle’s Sweet (if Slightly "Damp") Embrace

One of my favorite units in my army is my Nurgle Daemon Prince. He’s actually the first unit I bought for the army, and I’ve been painting him off and on ever since. For some reason, I haven’t spent any concentrated amount of time working on him, but this week I finally got around to wrapping him up. I like his pose as it looks like he’s daring you to take a shot, and for some reason him straddling the swamp makes me happy. From a play standpoint, he’s one of my most useful units. He has a pretty hefty price tag with Mark of Nurgle, wings, cloud of flies, noxious touch, breath of chaos, and iron hide, but I find him almost as deadly in close combat as my Greater Daemon. If I drop him with my GD, he’s generally a secondary target for my opponent, which is understandable,…

Howdy Folks:Well, this week I wanted to discuss the Keeper of Secrets I am making for my Daemons. I’ve never been much of a modeler, but I wanted a big centerpiece model for the army, and when the Arachnarok spider was announced, the wheels started turning. I came up with this idea, and it fits right in with the modeling I did for my Fiends. I put the spider together, leaving off the mandibles in front. I actually put the eye-plate on as I thought its rough nature would blend more fluidly with my green stuff. I then put together the upper torso of a Daemon Prince, filling the chaos symbol on the chest with green stuff to differentiate it from the Daemon Prince I’ve already built. I then set about working on my creation’s weapon. After convincing Big D to give me the plague furnace left over from his…

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