Destroyer ready for action

I finished up assembling my Destroyer today, I decided to magnetize both warjacks in the arm joins - this will allow me to customize my warjacks once I buy the Heavy Warjack Kit which contains 4 different weapon loadouts (Destroyer, Juggernaut, Decimator and Marauder).

Some pictures of the assembled Warjacks:

Juggernaut and Destroyer

Destroyer

Juggernaut with Destroyer arms

Destroyer with Juggernaut arms

Warmachine

Me and Laurents decided to try out Warmachine after Laurents bought a small Cryx army (intending to use them as 40k necrons). My fraction of choice are the Russian inspired Khador warriors, hailing from the ice cold northen region.

To start my army up I bought a battlegroup consisting of 2 warjacks and a warcaster along with a box of Widowmakers - a nifty 4 man sniper squad. All this add up to a quite potent 15 points army. Since I'll be beating up Cryx for starters the next addition is likely a Spriggan warjack and a unit of infantry - possibly Winter Guard or Iron Fang Pikemen. The Spriggan will take care of any of the Cryx stealthy units while the infantry is intended to shield my warcaster while tarpitting any problematic units.

The models in the latest battlegroup boxes are made from a plastic like resin, quite a bit harder and heavier than the GW plastic models, one downside to this material is that the usual plastic cement can't be used, the parts can only be glued with super glue like metal models.

I assembled my first warjack tonight, a Juggernaut melee orientated heavy jack. The intended pose for the model is quite boring so with a few modifications I managed to pose the model a bit more aggressively.

New stuff

One of my current projects is painting once of Laurent's buildings, since the initial wash emptied a full bottle of Badab Black Wash I ordered two 200 ml Serpia and Black washes to finished the job.

I am also working on a new case for the Deathwing models I bought, when its done it should be able to hold 40 terminators, 3 land raiders and 4 dreadnoughts. I also need to figure out how to mimic the paint job, so far I believe its a bone coloured spray with a either dark brown or black ink.

Land Raider Crusader (1 of 2)

Chaplain and Belial

Land Speeder (1 of 2)

Land Speeder (2 of 2)

Bikes

Venerable Dreadnought

Assault Terminator Squad

Terminator Squad

I bought some stuff

Back again, i bought a Deathwing/Ravenwing army, mostly painted. I set up my entire army on the dining table.

Not much else has happened, I bought a few bits from ebay but most of my time is spend on other projects, notably my aviary shed.

I plan to finish the Deathwing army, once complete it will contain 40 Terminators, 2 Venerable Dreadnoughts and 3 Land Raider Crusaders. The Ravenwing numbers 18 bikes, 3 attack bikes, 3 Land Speeders and Sammael mounted on Jetbike and Land Speeder, this is enough to field 3 Ravenwing Attack Squadrons.

My camera has been out of commission for a while but it has been repaired and I plan to shoot some pictures of the new units and upload them to the blog.

Magnetised Land Speeder

Last night I finished gluing and magnetising my first Land Speeder, I mostly followed the guide at talonstrike . I'm still missing a Heavy Flamer, but I ordered one at Modelbits so that should be arriving shortly, along with the flamer I ordered a few bits to finish up my 3 Deathwing terminator squads - the only thing missing is 5 Thunder Hammers and Storm Shield, I guess that'll be my first eBay bits buy.

Land Speeder Typhoon

Land Speeder Tornado

Its been a while...

I'm back! after a few weeks off the warhammer bandwagon I've kicked it up in high gear following an earth-shattering victory last Tuesday. The game had so many highpoints but none higher than my tactical squad that pod'ed in next to a Land Raider and promptly blew it up before it ever made a move!.... ahh what a game...

On the hobby front I've cracked open a few vehicle boxes and started assembly. Namely a Rhino, Razorback and a Land Speeder.

My paint scheme for the army has been divided into a basic and deluxe version, the aim is to speed up assembly and game readiness. The basic paint scheme will serve as foundation for the deluxe - in time everything may get the full paint job but for now its more important to get the stuff out of the boxes. The newly assembled Rhino is the prototype for the basic scheme.

I bought some plasticcard and magnets in order to make interchangeable weapons and gear, primarily on the tanks, first up is the Land Speeder which will get options for just about every weapon available. Pictures will follow in a post soon. However I am missing a Heavy Flamer for the Land Speeder so I've been checking out bit shops and ebay for that and other bits, there is an absolutely huge amount available at very different prices.

My first Rhino is finished, the paint job (excluding the interiors)  was done in one evening, this must be a new record for me. Everything is glued on (the gun turn thou), all through I read that a lot of people buy Predators or Razorbacks and magnetise so they can be used as either the tank or a Rhino. However I think you'll need at least one Rhino in 9 out of 10 games so it can't hurt to have one or two non-magnetised, and since magnetisation interferes with painting the interiors I will forgo magnetisation on the first two Rhinos.

The Ironclad Dreadnought is coming along nicely, it will get the deluxe paint job since I'm already quite far, there's not much to magnetise on the beast since the weapons are interchangeable out of the box.

I still have a week left of my summer vacation, on one of the first vacation days I went down to Flensburg with my wife to shop and check out their hardware stores (I'm building a shack for my aviary but that's another story..). For some time I've been looking for a good bits box with lots of space, rooms of different size and most of all some sort of system where the small bits won't flow from room to room.
I was in luck, in Bauhaus I got this great box for just 20 EUR;

The brilliant design of this box is that the "rooms" are small boxes that can be removed and rearranged to your hearts desire. The larger of the boxes will hold 10 marines while the smallest ones are perfect for heads and other small bits. All the small boxes are held firmly in place by both the lid and holes in the bottom of the case, the hinges and locks are also solid and I bet I can drop the box from 1,5 meters without breaking it or even with a bit "jumping rooms".

Another great buy (from a local hardware store) was this aluminium case that I've filled up with a special black foam:

There are 4 layers of 0,5 cm foam and 3 layers of 3 cm foam. The 3 cm foam will hold 50 minis of varying sizes in each layer or up to 8 rhino sized vehicles in two layers (6 cm) of foam.
The case was 129,- DKK and the foam about 200 DKK - and that's enough foam for two cases of this size, much cheaper than the cases from Games Workshop.

Gone Fishin'

Not much is happening on the Warhammer front for now, my photo stand got covered by books and various paper so no pictures either :). I've had some progress on the Ironclad Dreadnought - I'll try to get a picture up soon.

Meanwhile my fishing season has started, I enjoy fishing in the summertime - nothing quite like a hot summer evening at a lake or at the sea with a fishing rod.

Two weeks ago I caught my first fish of the season, a 43 cm, 1.3 kg perch: