How McRunty got his groove back

I haven't posted for quite some time. This is mainly due to the fact that I was feeling very burned out on all things 40K.

I have actually spent the last 1.5 months playing PC games, reading or just chilling out. Didn't paint and barely played any games aside from Ultra meet 4. My water cup ran dry and my mini's languished in their cases.

That seems to be coming to an end. I have recently gone back to my paint brush and am painting up a new command squad. I have stripped down my old one, scavenged it for bits and am using the new Sanguinary Guard box as a base.

I have been really happy at the results this far. I spent most of last Sunday painting up a test mini just to see if the whole "Muscled Torso" idea was viable with blue paint and it is. The test mini is below.

I will paint up the rest of the squad this weekend and should be able to post the full unit next week sometime.

Ultra Meet 4

Once again, this was a blast. We all went up to Warhammer World and this was the biggest meet yet. I think we had 14 players at one stage.

I played 6 games with my DeathWing and won 4. The 2 I lost were too Tyranids which I lost 2 - 1 on objectives and to Sisters of Battle where I was pretty much tabled. Never having played Sisters before I was unprepared for the nastiness that their Faith can bring.

The 4 games I won, I won pretty convincingly. I smote C'tan's necrons, crushed Alloyslayers 4th Co., burned GC08's pesky scouts out of the woods and destroyed Kernmists marines.

All in all a good weekend and another demonstration that Deathwing can win games if you play them right.

Ultrawing Complete

God, its taken months to get done. Months of stripping minis and painting. Months of getting my army list right but now, finally, I have finished painting all units of my Ultramarine First Company army using the Deathwing rules.

I couldnt get a very good shot of the whole thing so this will have too do.

I have had really good results with this army. Its not one that the local gaming scene is used to so people dont quite know how to combat it. Also, the idea of 20 terminators seems to intimidate some players. I had one chap who bunched his whole army up in a corner because he was afraid of my "Deathwing Assault" I then walked my whole army across the board and took all 4 objectives with only the loss of a few terminators and a dreadnought.

The army list I play is pretty much as you see here though I have either the Chaplain OR theTLLC dread in it, not both as they dont fit into 1750 points.

New Venerable Dreadnought done

Its taken me 2 weeks to paint this guy due to other commitments but here he is in all his glory.

Venerable Dreadnough "Will be Named Later" for your perusal. Only 1 little bit of kit bash on this chap. Can anyone tell me what?

Librarium Painting Challenge Complete

I have once again taken part in the BolterandChainsword Librarium Painting Challenge and once again I have completed the task.

This year I put down for 5 units. A dreadnought and tactical company which I have posted previously as well as 4 terminators, Captain Sicarius and a unit of Scouts.

It actually took me quite a bit longer to get done than I expected. I blame a plethora of new PC games that came out for this. Mass Effect 2 was the main culprit but the new Dawn of War 2 played a part as well.

Anywho, onto the minis.

Terminators first. I have to say that I am not really all that happy with them except for the Space Hulk one. This is mostly because of how the helmets came out. They are the one part of terminators that I struggle with. Not with painting the white but with getting it defined nicely.

Then came Captain Sicarius. Now, even though I play 2nd Company Ultramarines I loath the character of Sicarius. I dont like how he has been pushed as this sort of "ideal" Ultramarine. I far prefer Agemman. However it is a really great model.

                                      

                                      

Last but not least are the scouts. I bought these chaps way back in the day when I first started 40k and before I had the rules or codex. The idea of hard core snipers appealed to me. That was before I found out how rubbish the were. Anyways, I stripped them down and decided to do a more covert style colour scheme for them while still retaining enough elements to identify them as Ultramarines.

The Postman Cometh....

In a fortuitus chain of events I was at home today when a package arrived. In this overly large box was my new Venerable Dreadnought. It was not in my plans to build this today but once I got a look inside I just couldnt resist.

So in an orgy of plastic shavings and glue I put this chap together. One of my main issues was deciding how to make him as there are so many different bits you can fit him out with. In the end I went with what you see below. The only change I made to this guy was using a set of MK4 feet that I had left over from a Forgeworld Dreadnought which suits him very well.

I will put pics of him up once I have painted him up. That will have to wait to the weekend unfortunatly.