Adrian's Blood Angels Wrap-Up post - And cut!

Challenge Wrap-Up

Finally, I can say that my fourth OWAC is done. Yay!

This year started pretty good, but maybe I got a bit carried out with the extras. I would have love to have more time in the last months, both for giving time for checking other entries and commenting (no worries, I've seen all your post now that I have less convoluted time, they're amazing and now I've been pushed into blood bowl madness myself!) and for putting the same amount of love to the pictures as in my first month.

Believe it or not, I had to left out some planned pictures and gags from the orignal script! There was even more foolinesh behind scenes that didn't get to be posted. 

Maybe I would need to write a campaign some day that includes all the scenes and the enemy profiles, even the ones that were left unpainted like the duke nukem's pig cops (yeah, remember the ones that disappeared in Monroeville? they'd have been shown in all their mutated glory)

Now, lets roll the credits and all the actors:

That's 2772 points of Rogue Trader godness, in the shape of 48 cool models, including 3 tanks.

And who knows how many points in current Horus Heresy. I want to get the opportunity to play in an event and see the faces when I start deploying this bad boys and several others I plan to convert in the future.

Last, but not least, for the moment I think I will try another OWAC despite it seems that next year will be also another... interesting spring.

I need to keep things simple if I want to participate and enjoy it. Another important thing to consider is that I may not start a project that I do not previously own or require large purchases. Instead, selecting something that is ready to be painted from my collections and reduce the pile of unpainted things. As my main dwarf army needs some rare purchases, and the orcs need an entire Ruglud squad, that disqualifies them for now.

I forgot until now that I had an old dragon that I would love to paint and several gems purchased from old middlehammer lots. So I probably will count the amount of elves I had laying around and get something interesting out of it.

That's it folks

+ AND CUT!

...

George, my man, that was amazing. I cannot wait to see the script for Blood Omen 2.

-Well, I think that we will need even more zombies. So far, I can only give you in advance that the ship will pursue doctor Vile up to a misterious space hulk. I am thinking about terrorific aliens, and terminators shooting unnumbered horrors. And probably Fabious is aided by one of the last orks after Ullanor, a mischievous painboy known as... the Reanimatork!

Until next challenge

Adrián’s out.

Adrian's April Leader Month - even more Night of the Living Dead (328 points)

Leader Month

T+027: The command squad redeploys to the farmhouse where the chief officer kidnapped in Monroeville lives in search of any possible evidence of what do the enemy legionnaries are up to.
A somewhat uncanny place, but in all, a normal house surrounded by normal crops. Or aren’t they?.

Lt. Commander Lazarus establishes his field command in the first floor once it is safe. Lieuteant Bahamut and Lexicanum Trent investigate the basement while field medic dr. Copper jump to the roof to spot any funny activity nearby.

-Lt. Bahamut: Sir, you have to see this.
-Lt. Commander Lazarus: What is that? Have you found something?
-Lt. Bahamut: This place is a mesh, but there is a stash of files, possible evidences… the man, I mean, officer Tempeny… is a major weirdo.
-Lexicanum Trent: But see, this plan over here. This sounds familiar. He may have been up to something in the end.
-Lt. Bahamut: Look at the charts, I cannot dismiss that the warmaster is using xenos technology but I do not think that he has a flotilla of disk-shaped spaceships. Much less that he and his xenos friend may have any plan to do with his holy rectum. Tempeny is deranged and this conspiracy crap is of no use.

-Lexicanum Trent: But see, here are some notes of the current events. At least he is obviouslyright, at this time...
...According to this, an apothecary of the Emperor Childrens called Fabius Bile was experimenting with a several viruses mixed with the evil sorcery that the Word Bearers were conducting.
-Lt. Bahamut: Maybe he made a point but, here there are tons of bullshit. How can we be sure?
-Lexicanum Trent: The last note before the zombie apocalypse and the kidnapping is something about a stash of a chemical supplies of something called “Trioxin”. He may have several barrels hidden here, in the basement. Let see if it is true.
-Lt. Comm. Lazarus: Good, search for that compound if we…

[Radio noise] COMMAND SQUAD, HERE IS SCOUTTING PARTY, THE DEAD, THEY’RE HERE

 

T+028: Field medic Cooper attend the wounded retreating to the farmhouse while cutting down some undeads.

At the same time, squad Ismail has reached the central park of Monroevile, making contact with the cultists.
-Sgt. Piero: We’re under heavy fire, watch out there but do not wait to much behind cover. The hordes of undead will be here in minutes.
-Biker #1: We will give support fire from those benches there. Marshall Westwood will lead us. He’s a legendary gunman.
[BLAM]
...Oh no, Westwood is dead. We’re done, man.

 

-Chaplain Giteau: DO NOT FALTER, IN THE EMPEROR'S NAME! Even the more humble men are capable of great deeds if he's strong in mind and determined to the imperial cause and...
 

[BLAM]
Mr. biker...guy... oh...Well, maybe some of us are more predestined to higher deeds than others… IMPERIAL SPACE MARINES, KILL THEM ALL.

 

Brother Lewis and brother Morris return fire to the cultist heavy weapons.
-Pvt. Lewis: Watch out Morris, machine gun at eleven, behind the red car.
-Pvt. Morris: Lewis, in the Emperor’s name, be more specific. Which red car from all, there are like two types of cars in this entire star system. They'll look the same!

T+029: Lt. Bahamut finds the trioxin stash and take several samples for dr. Copper. However, they find that the trioxin was already inoculated into living samples. And one of them has scaped the security pods…

 

 

-Lt. Bahamut: Agh, they’re already in. This creature is… is like it’s made of tar. My sword cuts it but his body is not destroyed.
-Lx. Trent: It is probably the creature scaped from one of the trioxin pod. maybe if we did like in that  holomovie…
-Lt. Comm. Lazarus: Lexicanum Trent, in the name of the holy throne of Terra. Why do you think that the primarch reintroduced the librarium? Burn that thing down!

T+030: The cultists are conducting a ritual in the church of Monroevile, sacrificing several human offerings including officer Tempeny. Whatever they’re up to, they must be stopped.

[the deep voice of the deacon start sounding louder and louder in the night while there is a funny looking storm approaching in the horizon]

 

 

KLAATU. BARADA. NIP.. [BONK!]
-Chaplain Giteau: Enough with this foolinesh. All of this starts to feel like on of the horrible holomovies of brother Trent.
Oh boy, the officer does not look good with that knife in his chest.
-Pvt. Morris: Sir, Tempeny looks pretty awful with that knife in his chest. Do we call the apothecary?
-ChaplainGiteau: Nah, too late. At least we disrupted whatever these freaks were doing here. Squad, we’re leaving to the farmland, rendevouz with mission command.

T+031: The command squad defend the farmhouse against the zombie horde. Mowing down dozens of undeads.

The plans of the Emperor Children and Word Bearers have been finally exposed. After killing the horde, Lt. Commander Lazarus prepare his entire force for the final assault against the enemy compound when the Blood Omen locate the facility.

 

April's done at last. For this month I painted all the heroes with one goal in mind: make a command worthy of Brian Ansell.

His RT marines has been an inspiration and wanted to make something that also pops up and feels different to current 40k markings.

The specialist colours were limited to the upper part. Except for the Chaplain, who also diplay a quarter colour scheme with some bony armour areas because reasons.

 

And a blood drop.

It was pretty fun to paint. Another challenge was the freehand in the librarian banner. 

I would have wanted to give an extra freehand to the lieutenant commander back banner and probably to the lieutenant, but sadly not enough time for that.

 

I took some inspiration from the 2nd Ed. 40k box art and made severa flames to te lieutenant armour.

Lastly, a bunch of extras. You cannot make all the weird B-movie theme and many hints toward George Romero series without the farmhouse. A modular building with both porchs, and probably an interior in the future.

I also included one of the most famous encounters from the diverging universe from Dan O'Bannon, tarman!

The Word Bearers have been spreading his evilness and trained some freaks in the arts of the sorcery and wrongdoing. Here are some cultists and the cult sorcerer/leader.

Next month, the wild card and finally the blood angels will assault the enemy base.

Until then.

Adrián’s out.

Lissanne's Rainbow Warriors- Wrap Up! The Rainbow's End

So my 5th OWAC comes to an end, with an unbroken string of victories and no mulligans!  My goal was to complete all the figures necessary for a series of Space Hulk games using Rainbow Warriors, while doing a 2nd legion army full of equality and eco friendly pony loving marines! Rainbows are fun!  Rainbows are hard....I didn't get all the vehicles done I had intended, like another rhino, a land raider and a bike squad, but I am happy with all I did get done!

So here is that Space Hulk list and pics of the finished models!
One Captain with Power Sword and Storm Bolter
Two Sargents with Storm Bolters and Power Swords

One Lieutenent with Storm bolter and Power fist
One Sargent with Storm bolter and Power fist

Chaplain with Storm Bolter and Crozius
Librarian with Storm Bolter and Force Axe
Techmarine with Storm Bolter and Photon (Missile) Launcher
Techmarine with Storm Bolter and Auspex

Two Termies with Heavy Flamers and Power Fists

Two Termies with Assault Cannons and Power Fists

One with Chainfist and Storm Bolter (I have 2, oh well)

One with Lightning Claws, and one with a Thunder Hammer and Force Shield (who was done previously)

And 7 standard terminators with storm bolter and power fist, and the other Sargent (front left) that ended up in the group shot.  There are actually 8 standards here, but what the hey!  More is good.

And those things not on the list

Terminator Hero Rainbow Dash

 The two dreadnoughts Cadence and Cascade

 Drop Pod Chrysalis

Skyrangers (7) and Grav Tank Azure Sky

QT Mark Crusaders (10) and Rhino Celestia

And the Baneblade Tarkus

 

Since I am doing a 12 squad challenge elsewhere, I have the Skyrangers to finish and another 10 person squad of marines.  I painted up a fancy space marine the other week who turned out to be a Primaris, so I think the final squad will be all Primaris.  No one is around in the fluff to stop Cawl from doing it, LOL!  So it isn't really the Rainbow's end, after all.

 This was probably the hardest OWAC for me since the first (cavalry...) but I'm happy to have gotten it done!  An endless line of intricate models all mostly alike is difficult and mind numbing, as it turns out.  But I can finish the last models (for the other challenge) more slowly..  And I have painted so much this month- only one Rainbow Warrior!

So Congratulations to all the finishers, be you a novice or repeat offender.  It never gets easier!

Lissanne's Rainbow Warriors- Three is the Magic Number (200 pts) Leader month

 

 

This month, I decided to do my command figures, in order to get some sort of buffer back.  THEN I got a great opportunity to have a solo gallery show in a widely seen gallery.  The condition being it is open when I sit there.  Fortunately, despite a heavy workload, my plans didn't completely fall apart.  And as there can't be really extravagant basing either, since these are for Space Hulk, that helped too.

In my initial blog post, I pointed out I am working from a very specific list of terminators for a series of Space Hulk games.  In the list, there are 2 different command figures, a Librarian and a Chaplain., These figures don't pair to make a command squad in 3rd, but I decided to do them both in my command month. In addition, I decided to do a (non-list) Hero, Rainbow Dash.  Gotta have Rainbow Dash!

Years ago, dissatisfied with the tiny terminators,  I sculpted my own body for my Khorne terminators.  Terminators were supposed to be midway between Marines and Dreadnoughts, and the wearer sits inside them.  So large.   I used doggie juggernaut heads for Khorne, and they look wonderful and scary. So scary, that when I fielded them, even the Space Wolves found something else to do on the far side of the board.  Ah well...

But I have a few bodies I cast still laying about. So, proud hero Rainbow Dash.  I had a spare pair of Exarch wings I bought off the bits man many moons ago, perfect for this!  Add a unicorn head, and a bolter I cast from an unreleased metal giant bolter I got from GW, & here is my scratchbuilt offering of the month.

More Rainbow Dash

 The chaplain and the librarian are conversions so they have sister heads and weapons proper to that aforementioned Space Hulk list.  Also, I was given a bunch of weird paints for Xmas, one was called Mirror Black. So I decided to try for a mirror black chaplain.  I like to use my presents!  
So,Aspect of Luna unicorn of Death-Chaplain Midnight Strike.  

As for Mirror Black, read shiny shiny black.  And stinky.---meaning I turned out to be allergic to the paint.  So it took more time than I would have liked.  It looks nice, but I won't be using that paint again.
 
Lastly, Aspect of Celestia unicorn of Life-Librarian Dawn Wings.  I had decided to do this one in a NMchrome last year, as I have done 2d chrome many a time and wanted the practice on 3d objects.

 Well, I should have looked more closely at the figure, as not only is it heavily converted to fit my army list, but less than half of the fig is armor, and a lot of that is in shadow.  Still, I like the way it came out.

So....
Rainbow Dash hero
Chaplain Midnight Strike
Librarian Dawn Wings
 
Since they are individual command figures rather than a command squad, I'll just take the 200 pts for leader month and call it done.

Not sure if I will do my 4th Rank and File or Wild Card extravagance next month.  I have 3 terminators already done for R&F, but the rest of April is busy.  We will see.