Showing posts with label warhammer 40K. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warhammer 40K. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Necron Invasion!

 Hoi,

 

The Necrons shown here were part of my Indomitus Boxed set, while I had fully inetended to keep them myself and use them in games with Arthur, I found myself thinking they would be far better suited to be donated to the gaming club were more people can enjoy using them so I made a donation of them to our founder and chairperson Martijn who has now put them up at the club!

 





I really liked painting the simple yet clean and cool scheme of white, green, silver and gold.  Hope you like them too.

Cheers Sander


Monday, 23 May 2022

Challenge Memories Part 3

 Hoi,

 Another batch of Challenge posts up for you guys right now! Let's start with some 40k goodies. While the new gameplay is humongously complicated with all the special rules, abilities, stratagems, objectives and whatnot, the miniatures and background are still only second to CBT. So here is my re-paint of some old favourites: Gaunt's Ghosts. Not the ghastly new models, no I still swear by the old metal ones. Gaunt himself is missing because I am rather afraid of messing him up...

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The second post for today is more Blood Bowl stuff. Some years ago (it must have been 2018 or 2019) I bought Mark a Skaven team, which he then misplaced. When we re-discovered Blood Bowl and started playing in seriousness, he bought a second team and...predictably found his original team. Since his eyesight doesn't allow him to paint anymore, I painted up the first 12 of his rats for him as well as an old white metal star player for myself. Enjoy!

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Cheers Sander

Thursday, 26 August 2021

Killteam Unboxed!

 Hoi,

 

This will be a rather special post as I will try to write it both in Dutch and in English, today I am uploading the Dutch version and later this week I will put up an English translation, so my English speaking friends will have to make do with the pictures as we say in Dutch "Luckily we still have the pictures" ;-) .

 

De nieuwe versie van Killteam unboxed! Soms is het handig om één van de huisschilders te zijn van je Vriendelijke Lokale Spellen Winkel, toen men mij vroeg of ik wellicht een "Unboxing verslag" voor de nieuwe versie van het Killteam spel van Games Workshop wilde maken, greep ik die kans natuurlijk met beide handen aan.

 Kill Team: Octarius

Deze doos bevat een gezonde hoeveelheid figuren, terrein en andere spelbenodigdheden, ik zal proberen zo duidelijk mogelijk alles te benoemen. Een beschrijving van de spelregels zal moeten wachten, want ik heb nog geen kans gehad om de boeken goed door te nemen, maar ik kan al wel aangeven dat die  afwijken van de vorige versie, meer informatie hierover is ook te vinden op de website van Killteam zelf.

 

Als men de doos open doet treft men de grote hoeveelheid plastic rekjes aan die alle figuren en gebouwen bevatten.  Gaan we die een voor een langs dan zien we het volgende,

De gebouwen:









Enkele van deze rekjes zitten 2 maal in de doos zodat hetzelfde gebouw ook 2 maal kan worden gebouwd.

De figuren van het Death Korps of Krieg:





De Orc Kommandos

 

De rekjes bevatten genoeg onderdelen om 10 soldaten van het Death Korps te maken, alsmede 10 Orc Kommandos, 1 Gretchin en 1 Squig. 

Barricades en speltoebehoren: 

Andere speltoebehoren bevinden zich onder een stuk karton om ze tegen beschadiging door het plastic te beschermen.


 

Deze omvatten 10 dobbelstenen (oranje met zwarte stippen en zonder factie logo, die zijn apart verkrijgbaar), kartonnen tokens, twee identieke sets met kaarten, een stevig kartonnen speelveld dat bedrukt is aan twee zijden, drie boekwerken; een gids om de figuren en gebouwen in elkaar te zetten, het regelboek en een boek dat de oorlog in de Octarius Sector (is het gek dat ik die in mijn hoofd de ORCtarius sector noem?) beschrijft waarin ook de regels voor de Death Korps en Orc Killteams beschreven worden alsmede de scenarios voor de Octarius Oorlog.

Als laatste zijn er dan twee blaadjes met watertransfers (decals) voor de Orcs en Death Korps. Op het Death Korps blaadje staan markeringen voor Infantry (regiments nummers) voertuig markeringen, campagne markeringen en markeringen om een mijnenveld aan te geven.

Voor de Orcs zijn er algemene symbolen, maar ook symbolen voor alle grote bekende Orc Clans.  

De uitvoering van dit alles is van een relatief hoge kwaliteit en oogt degelijk, de figuren zijn gelukkig niet in een mono pose, maar met onderling uitwisselbare armen gemaakt en met name de Death Korps figuren bieden hierdoor veel flexibiliteit. 

Zijn er dan geen minpunten te bedenken? Nou een paar kleine dingen dan; zo had het GW gesierd als ze een zip-bag hadden toegevoegd om de tokens en dobbelstenen in te doen. De dobbelstenen ogen van een wat mindere kwaliteit, maar hebben het juiste aantal stippen dus voldoen, met factie dobbelstenen voor de Orcs, Death Korps, Adeptus Astartes en Chaos verkrijgbaar hoeft dat echter geen probleem te zijn. Bovendien kun je nooit genoeg dobbelstenen hebben en hier is dan een mooi excuus om nieuwe te kopen nietwaar? Het speelbord en de gebouwen hebben een overduidelijk "Orc-achtig" thema en wellicht was het handiger om meer algemene gebouwen te gebruiken om meerdere strijdtonelen mee te creëren.

Afsluitend ben ik blij verrast met de inhoud van deze prachtig uitgevoerde doos voor Killteam, op verschillende sites is de doos al uitverkocht, mijn FLGS, Het Hobbelpaardje in Roermond, heeft er nog een aantal staan die vanaf zaterdag de 28e augustus te koop zijn. 

Hopelijk kan ik in de toekomst wat van de beschilderde figuren en gebouwen uit de doos hier laten zien.

Cheers Sander

 


 


Monday, 9 August 2021

The Siege of Vraks Part I

 Hoi,

 

While Battletech remains my biggest gaming love and I "play", or more accurately, paint several historical games and periods, I also have a special spot in my hobby heart for the Warhammer Fantasy Battles and 40K lore of Days Gone By.

So it is that I have collected some figures for the huge Siege of Vraks Campaign designed by Forgeworld many years ago. I have quite a few Death Korps of Krieg troops (or stuff that can proxy as such), Inquisitorial Troops, Dark Angels (duhuh), Red Scorpions and some Traitor Guardsmen. 

After a lot of time has gone by with me busy on other stuff, I finally found some time to paint test figures for my Death Korps troops. More importantly: I settled on a regiment and colourscheme, the 143rd. 

My testers are the small Combat Engineer squad and a Leman Russ tank for the 143rd. The Soldiers are secondhand Forgeworld figures and the tank is a regular Leman Russ converted with a Kromlech Miniatures Trench rail at the back and a Space Marine light added as airfilter to the turret. 

Figures:




Tank:






One could argue that I have added a lot of rust and mud to the Leman Russ model, partly that is because I am trying out my weathering skills and partly that is because the Chaos Forces at Vraks had a large continent of Nurgle followers amongst them responsible for releasing large amounts of acids and other chemicals that damaged men and equipement in alarming rates,. So I think I am sticking with the background and besides it gives a nice spot colour to all the blue.

The colourscheme resembles the WW1 French Horizon Bleu and I like that, even though the helmets and gasmasks are more reminiscent of the German forces in said War. 

 

Decals on both the troops and tank are provided by Scum4bag Kustoms and both quality of product and service are awesome! 

For now I am off to painting more WW2 Warlord Games Russians and Germans but I will be back with more of these chaps. While painting I have been checking out some youtube channels and would like to reccomend the following two:

Tabletop Tactics

and 

Broadsword Wargaming

You probably know of them aleady, but I just discovered them and like their enthousiasm and high quality productions. They almost make me want to create my own channel.


Cheers Sander


Wednesday, 4 August 2021

More White...

 Hoi,

 

As is now all but usual, life interfered with my hobby the last few weeks. Floods, evacuations and road accidents all did not encourage me doing any painting or other hobby activities. That said; it's summer holiday right now and I have been able to do some painting as well as play a game of Heroquest with the family.

Today I'd like to show you just one figure: A Tome Keepers Space Marine.





Being a friend of a FLGS owner and having two cute kids, means that sometimes one of those "free-give-sway" Space Marine models finds it's way over tot me. As the White Dwarf included a transfer sheet for the Tome Keepers (a Chapter of Space Marines created by the WD team just for fun) I decided to paint this figure up as one, it might also be that these chaps (The Tome Keepers) are a bit of amateur historians and this of course endears them to me. 

Let me be honest here, I am not all sure I like Games Workshop's present day rules, nor it's business model but some of the figures are really cool. I am still busily beavering away on the Stalingrad big box for said FLGS Owner and will show some pictures of stuff for that project here soon to.


Keep safe and healthy,


Sander

Sunday, 8 September 2019

Sisters of Battle

Hoi,

Quite some years ago I owned a nice sizeable army of Sisters of Battle for 40k. During my GW Dark-Age however, I sold most of my armies and with them the Sisters. Selling them was hard, it was the army I most hated to het rid off, recently the news that plastic SoB's are on the horizon filtered through to me and I jumped on the wagon again. I have obtained quite a lot of SoB characters and Sisters and even some stuff I didn't own back in the days of old. Painting is slow because I cannot choose what colour scheme. I have found a great blue and white scheme on Pinterest but when I did a test- figure it didn't feel right...

So I started on some of the other figures to start with. Two Death Cult Assasins and a Hospitaler.


The Hospitaler is one of the few figures I kept back from my original army and she wore pretty much the same colours then.  


The Assasins are new, well okay second hand since I bought off Ebay, a great source of figures specially if they come at a nice price.




I really like how the Assasins turned out, I am less sure about the hospitaler. I was not able to get the details as crisp as I would like to.

In between other stuff I have been doing some small commissions, one is a few figures for a friend from his Gloomhaven game. They are some of the main characters, but I cannot say I like them all too much. The detail is shallow and the material is a bit too soft.



We played two quests from the game and the gameplay is not to bad, but it is a far too expensive game with the RPG part of it taken way to much time. It's not my cup of tea.

Next up my trip to the UK!

Cheers