WFB - Odd knights

More of my Marauder Miniatures Heroes of the Empire. The Morrisons clearly liked tall Heroes, this Halberdier is massive. I used gold and silver, with some white/silver mix highlights. His Helmet was randomly 'enamled' in red with my red to white highlights picked up also on his gloves [what was I thinking?]

This Hero was my favorite of the three but originally he had a really feeble looking Warhammer so I chopped it off. I had quite a nice Greatsword, impressive looking if a little lacking in detail that fit perfectly but sadly the superglue did not last and I'm sure it's knocking around in a bits box somewhere waiting to be reunited with it's wielder.

Lastly our old friend the low level champion from a small squad of Swordsmen. This fella's using some magical flame sword. Altogether these were fantastic miniature, the Morrisons really could lay down some fantastic sculpts.

WFB - Empire Knights Panther

Given the choice of the Empire Knightly Orders, Knights of the White Wolf were my favorites but I didn't like how they played on the battlefield. Actualy I should say how they would play because I'm still not sure if I ever got to play a WFB game with my Empire army. So next up on my list were Knights Panther. In particular the knight with the 'portcullis' helm, with Panther pelt on top. Below is the painted unit of five, in actual fat I had eight and at some point I'll do a full shot of them.

As you can see my exagerated highlights were put to good use, I think they work well from a distance. I also struggled with the idea behind the Panthers crest so simplified it with the slashing claw motif on the shield.

A close-up of their Panther claw slashed shields.

From the back you can see the Panther markings on their ceremonial pelts.

And a close-up of their ceremonial pelts.

WFB - Homemade Hellblaster volley gun

Another one of my home made Empire artillery pieces, a Hellblaster Volley gun. All that was needed was some copper tubing, some Milliput and some balsa wood. The copper tube was cut into nine equal pieces. The pieces were glued to a balsa triangle and Milliput was wrapped around the end and the middle to hold the pipes together.

A box was constructed for the breach [I think that's the correct term] and a Milliput cog was made. Although not in this picture this had a sprue crosspiece from between four slotta bases as a handle and a skull was positioned in the centre.

One of the plans for this was that GW ran some rules in White Dwarf to mount a Hellblaster Volley Gun on the back of a wagon and with my success creating the Empire War Wagon I thought I'd have a go at that, though ultimately never got round to it. If I ever find the rules to it I'll pop them online.

Drop poding (again) - Drop pod update

Just a little update on my Dark Angels drop pod. As previously mentioned in my post on the fabulous Tin Bitz I'd tried to approximate Michal Gmitrasiuk's tutorial on CoolMiniOrNot [that I found after this] on battered metals. Pretty much doing so without reading the tutorial, I just went with a lot of stippling. Here we have the cleaned up version of the pod, I've set up using Black on all the bits that will eventually be Dark Angel Green.

Here you can see the nice effect of the stippling, both under flash and slightly shadowed.

Another shot of the interior under different lighting conditions.

Next up is the green [oh G.O.D. not green again?!] and I've got myself some Orkhide Shade, the Dark Angel debate and painting genesis has reached a new stage and Orkhide Shade is my new starting point.

++ Dark Angel insertion ++ Purge xenos ++ End ++

And that is it folks. I thought we would get in a full game but Tyler is bored now and the wife has just got back from work. Don't think I could have saved the Imperium today but there were some good moments and although the blogging slowed things down at least we played, if only for a little bit. It was Capture and Control so it was a technical win for me but I don't think I would have survived.

Here's how it stood.

++ Dark Angel insertion ++ Purge xenos ++ turn 2 ++

Dreadnought stunned

++ Dark Angel insertion ++ Purge xenos ++ turn 2 ++

Tarantula targets Tyranid warriors

All three shots hit and all wound and Tyler removes the warrior with the deathspitter!