Munitorium Container number two

I picked up another Munitorium Container from the 40K artwork.

While I was building it, I decided to photograph how poorly the doors fit.

I doubt whether that is vac-tight!

I continued to number the containers using the Cadian decal sheet. As you can see, the containers stack.

Lead Legion marine for scale.

View from above.

Munitorium Container

Games Workshop have licensed a part-work based on the latest version of 40K. With the exception of the first couple of issues, they are all £7.99, which for someone just after the figures may (or may not) be good value. The issue for Christmas week contained the Munitorium Container sprue.

Now £7.99 is less than the individual cost of a sprue from the box (of three) sold in the GW stores (and is just cheaper than the cheapest on-line stockist - your prices may vary).

The sprue builds one Munitorium Container (with optional Storm Bolters), three fuel drums and four ammo boxes. The one I bought was in a sort of Mournfang Brown colour.

One side of the sprue.

The other side of the sprue.

There is interior detail if you want to build it with the doors open.

There are a few issues with this kit.

The first one is more an aesthetic issue, as you can see, the components are actually two copies of each other. Now this does not have any major problems, only the top and bottom are really affected. It just seems cheap - the top and bottom components could be different to give some simple variation.

A more significant problem are the feeds to the  aforementioned top and bottom components. I wonder if they were laid out by a trainee and they had to correct it by adding the thick feeds due to fill issues.

They are awkward to remove without damaging the surroundings. My method was to remove the surrounding sprue from the main sprue.

I then cut the intervening outer sprue away.

This allowed me to get my sprue cutters in to gaps between the ribs, angled so the cut was along the slope.

Once cleaned up, the edges were not too bad.

Assembled container (Humbrol Liquid Poly and Tamiya Extra Thin Poly cement).

It is a pity that the doors cannot be hinged. There are some fit issues with the doors, there is a bit of a gap all round. Some more positive location and a better fit would help.

The other side.

 The roof (the bottom is similar).

If it moves, salute it, if it does not, paint it

The container is intended to be part of an Imperial Guard base. Like most militaries, the maxim is "If it moves, salute it, if it does not, paint it". This means it will have a simple paint scheme.

I decided to go for a completely Citadel paint finish.

After undercoating with Citadel Chaos Black spray, it was sprayed with Citadel Death Guard Green. The "eagle beak" hooks were painted with Citadel Abaddon Black, as was the control panel with skull.

The Imperial Eagle was from a year 2000 GW decal sheet (part number 99 51 01 05 004) which was very very shiny. The numbers and the Cadian Gate were from a 2003 Cadian sheet (part number 99 51 01 05 005) which was not quite so shiny. It took a lot of Humbrol Decalfix to get the eagle to lie flat over the surface.

There was some chipping of the decal with Citadel Death Guard Green. The whole container was dry brushed with Citadel Dry Nurgling Green. Once dry, the whole container was washed with Citadel Athonian Camoshade. The roof and the angled undersides were washed with Agrax Earthshade, as was the lower part of the door and the surrounds. The whole thing was dry brushed again with Citadel Dry Nurgling Green.

The control panel was repainted with Citadel Abaddon Black and the skull painted with Citadel Leadbelcher. It was then highlighted with my ancient Citadel Mithril Silver. The eye of the skull was then spotted with Citadel Ceramite White followed by Citadel Mephiston Red. The buttons on the control panel were spotted with some veteran Citadel Bleached Bone.

The skulls on the sides and the doors are left in green, the crew painting had no orders about decoration, though they left the Mechanicum supplied control panels well alone.

The roof.

Shadow War - Armageddon: The Fallen - Chaos Marines

When I photographed the second Chaos Marine, I had not noticed that I had forgotten to finish the base.

 Rather a small squad

Shadow War - Armageddon: The Fallen - Chaos Marines

The second member of the Fallen Kill Team.

 The base needs a bit of work.

With his squad leader.

Shadow War - Armageddon: The Fallen - Chaos Marines

A long time ago in a blog post far, far away...

Okay, not Star Wars.

A Chaos Space Marine leader, part of the Fallen for Shadow War: Armageddon.

Armed with a sword and a bolt pistol, backed up with grenades, he is ready to lead the fight against their enemies.

The Fallen's leader squares off against a loyalist Cadian trooper.

Lead Wombles - part 2

So, my first Lead Legion marine is now painted.

Though he is wearing his grade one armour maintenance rosette, he has been fighting hard and has not had enough time to perform the rituals of maintenance.

He has stocked up on frag grenades

Not sure how to paint the chapter icon.

 Supporting a Cadian squad,

Shadow War - Armageddon Beastman Kill team part 2

So, first the Beastman Leader has had a head transplant. I replaced the previous head with one of the larger heads.

You can see the plastic rods I have fixed to the line of the figures spine before I apply some greenstuff.

The next two are basic Beastman troopers.

I need to clean up the inside of one of the horns.

Another two members of the team.

The unit so far.

Shadow War - Armageddon Beastman Kill team

More years ago than I can remember, Games Workshop had an opening sale at their new shop in Bristol. At that time they would have offers such as three for the price of two. At the Bristol opening, I bought two boxes of plastic Catachan Imperial Guard and a box of three Sentinel walkers.

Over the years I have whittled the forty Imperial Guard down to ten unassembled miniatures. I was not deeply impressed with the over muscled nature of the sculpts (they are bigger than wombles).

I also bought at some time a Warhammer Chaos Beastman Regiment.

At some point on the Lead Adventures Forum someone asked if anyone had a use for the Catachan plastics.

So I dug out the Catachan and Beastman sprues to build a Beastman Kill Team.

This is the Beastman leader. The Catachan legs and arms are as supplied. The neck hole was widened and part of the collar removed to allow the Beastman head to fit.

I will be adding some greenstuff to add some hair to the torso and arms.

Shadow War - Armageddon Cadian Kill Team go visiting

Well, last week I had a chat with the Daniel, the local minion of the Great Womble and he mentioned that he had never seen one of my figures.

So having "finished"the Cadian Kill team, I took them in to show him.

I bought a couple of "Figures In Comfort" mini boxes for the West Wind Empire of the Dead game way back when. They are small and convenient for carrying a small number (12) of figures. I added some of my Womble figures to fill the available slots.

Of course they cannot stay there, the box is normally the home of the Ortega Posse, and frankly I do not want to get on the wrong side of Perdita and her family.

Shadow War - Armageddon: Cadian Kill Team part 6

Here is the complete Kill Team.

The bases need finishing, and I might add some decals from the supplied decal sets.