Scenic Bases

Been a while since my last post, been working feverishly on a new army for our next campaign, but more on that later. This post is about custom resin bases. I like scenic bases and i really like for my attack bikes to be on a base, just adds to the look and feel of the army with them on one. So i did some research and found some amazing resin bases that fit attack bikes (and all other sizes) at www.dragonforge.com. Here's what they look like start to finish

As with all resin products, wash them before you apply any paint with hot soapy water and rinse well. I have two bikes in the army and unfortunately they only had one base design for the style i like.

Here are the bases finished.  I went with a Ash wasteland look to my army for their bases.  Start with a mixture of black ballast (gravel) from Woodland Scenics and the small slate pieces from the Warhammer 40k scenic basing kit.  The black ballast is easy to paint as you can just dry brush it or with dark colors a light layer of paint is all that is needed.

 The bases were primed chaos black and then a base coat of Charadon Granite and then dry brushed the gravel only with Adeptus Battlegrey and then Codex gray allowing for the dry brush to hit the edges of the "cracked earth" parts of the bases.  Bone pieces were painted with Deneb Stone and then washed Devlin Mud.  The grass that is used is Citadel's Burnt Grass.

Here are pictures of finished models on the bases, Enjoy!

Objectives

For part of our first campaign we were to create our own objectives for our games. No longer are dice cubes required or that off color tree.  Here's the 5 I created. The two flags are from the SoB immolator spru. The floating demon stone is a die that no longer was needed. The books were bits from both empire and gk sprus and the chaos shrine is kit bashed from various chaos bits...with a special night lords helmet to tease at kyle.

Enjoy

Christmas in August?!

As with most of us...40k isn't the only system we play. The new Storm of Magic really got the fire burning again for fantasy for me, as well as my girlfriend. She favors the fantasy side more than 40k and is the person I know that makes a pink goblin/orc(k) army look good. So with the recent releases of SoM and the new vampires. Figured it was time to treat her instead of more gray knight stuff for me....although there is a clanrat box hidden amongst the vamp/orc stuff

Librarians, Dread Knights and more...

Here's some of the items i have been working on.  Over the past few weeks I've been feverishly working on my objectives (pictures to come), so i have let my painting slip on my Knights themselves.

With the vast amount of bits you get in every GK box, it's easy to make all of your HQ choices from them. Here i modeled my GK Librarian to look similar to the standard Space Marine Librarian.

One of two of my Dread Knights. GW Should have molded big ass cross-hairs on these things cause them seem to die within a turn or two.

Last but no least, every GK needs some sort of transport. Here's the chariot for my Paladin squad.


So the challenge has been set. One of the kids that plays in our group and I have layed out a deadline to have our armies done by in hopes of playing some fantasy (with the new Storm of Magic book). We're both to have our armies done by end of summer, so i'll update as i get more models/squads done.

Progress....

Took me a while, but i finally made it to my blog.  Our crew of gamers has posted some pretty exciting and detailed stuff about our campaign, I only hope to add to it.

So a little background. I've been playing Warhammer 40k for about 3 years now and like most of us, i have an addiction known as Hobby ADD. I've got numerous armies, but I've remained pretty steady on the Inquisition based armies. I have a full Witch hunters army (which is currently collecting dust) as well as a full Grey Knights army.

I like the flair of both armies (still enjoying the SoB army more). The use of Inquisitors really allows you to make every army unique to that individual Inquisitor.