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.

Shadow War - Armageddon: The Fallen - Chaos Marines

This Kill Team was mainly built from the contents of a 2005 Chaos Space Marine box set.

 As you can see, the box was bought very cheap.

The Kill Team - The Fallen comprises one Aspiring Champion (with bolt pistol and assault blade) and four marines with bolt guns.

I still need to check the numbers and who can get grenades.

Shadow War - Armageddon Beastman Kill team part 3

The ten Beastmen are now assembled, though they need green stuff and possibly adding some more pouches and combat blades.

Shadow War - Archeology part one

One of the joys of Shadow War - Armageddon is the ability to use all those odd boxes of figures that you bought but never got round to doing anything with.

So I had a look through the boxes in various locations (and reunited the Tau Pathfinder instructions with the kit) and found these.

Though not actually a Kill Team choice in SWA, the renamed Stormtroopers have various uses for Imperial Guard or Inquisitor kill teams.

I knew I had a box of Pathfinders somewhere, and a couple of weeks ago I did find the instructions, and now they are reunited with the kit.

I bought a number of boxes of the 2005 Chaos Marines cheap at Salute one year (what year I do not know). It is the original multi-part figures (two lots of four Chaos Wombles with a Chaos mutation sprue and a Chaos Marine sprue with a Heavy Bolter and Officer bits). They were originally bought to supply bits for Forge World Chaos Marine conversion packs.

Dark Space Pixies (or in this case Maniac Nightmare Pixie Girls - and boys).

 And finally a box of Skitarii (I have an Enginseer as well).

Started with the Chaos Wombles. The plan is a stripped down squad of five, very basic weapons.

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.