ebay sales I don't regret! - YOU DON'T KNOW SQUAT

Another look back at some of my ebay sales. Here's most of my Squats, some still on sprues. Sadly the Squat Hearthguards in Exo Armour are not shown and actually I can't find any pictures of them either, one even had some sort of laser lance although I can't remember how many I actually had, 3, 5, I'm not sure.

These I think were going to be my first army becasue they were as cheap as the plastic Imperial Guard and just a little bit cooler. Most of the flak armour was going to be black, with light blue shirts and orange helmets, shoulder pads, boots and webbing. My ultimate goal was to have them riding hover boards like some weird band of galactic surfer dwarves, cowabunga! I was going to get Magnumm Ice cream sticks and cut them down for the boards. As you can see that never got past the ideas stage. You can also see there's a couple of missing heads that have been replaced with the old Warhammer Armies boxed set. Also of note are the heavy weapons trike and my unique Squat War Walker!

Yep, anything those space elves could do the space dwarves could also manage. The Squat War Walker was made out of my old favourite Chaos Dreadnought from Space Crusade. A simple vertical cut through the top part and some Milliput for a padded reclining control chair and the Squat operator fit perfectly. Sadly the undercoat doesn't show up quite the simple perfection of this modelling but I still think it'd stand up well today. Who knows what the winning bidder did with it? Makes you wonder...

Anyway, this post was inspired by Draxius's blog YOU AIN'T SEEN SQUAT, which is all about the Squats so check it out.

Terrain is everything - Epic terrain

Head's up on some truly Epic Terrain. 8mm terrain is not something we did a lot of with my gaming group. Sure I set about creating the siege items for what would probably become 40k Planetstrike in the future - bunkers made of foamcard and cavalry bases, minefields and razorwire. Nothing got through to painting stage but I'm sure there's at least a dozen bunkers knocking around my parents loft.

Anyway this was a truly unique piece of terrain I made, primarily as an objective. A 40mm base with an oil drilling platform and derrick [is that the correct term?]. Believe it or not these items were the toy from a Kinder Egg! The only thing missing from the actual 'surprise' is a little oil tanker that I was going to use seperately for a 'protect the convoy' style mission objective. It's perfectly to scale as well. Obviously you'll also note my attempt at red-planet basing. A bit too dark and lava world but you can see I was in love with the idea even back then.

This last building is sort of a hangar/warehouse. The main structure is the front nose of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 [if you check the link the 3rd picture down shows the plane this probably came from ;) ] The circular bit on the front is a tank track wheel [probably from another German vehicle. The bit underneath - doorway and window is a tank hatch from another WW2 model kit and there's a cylinder there in the corner to cover any little gaps. Painted to my poor standard of drybrushing but at least I tried to streak it in suc a way that might approximate real weathering, although the greenery stains on the bottom aren't so convincing.

Epic Adeptus Titanicus part 8. - Knights

Here are my last remaining 40k Epic Knight, a Warden and some Eldar 'one'. I sold most of th eothers on ebay, I'll dig the photo of them out at some point. These two must have slipped the net though. I'm particularly fond of this 'green bee' though which might be why I kept it. The blending was really quite nice for me, back in the day, perhaps it should give me hope for the future and my Dark Angels...?

Just in case you never saw an Epic Knight alongside the might of a Warlord Titan here's a shot for scale.

Lastly, an unpainted Eldar knight in high heels. No real desire to keep this, maybe I'll see what they're going for on ebay...

ebay sales YOU won't regret! Rarities, Daemons, Scratchbuilt Knights, SQUATS

You may recall I have mentioned my mate Liam, he of the scratch built Warhound and Warlord fame, a few times. His painting and modelling skills are awesome he admits he's a 40k geek, he scratchbuilt a Warlord for G.O.D.sake but he stops short of a blog so I asked him if he ever had anything he wanted to share on my blog he could.

He's been in touch and is having another clear out of old figures on ebay NOW! Starting price 99p on everything. Here's a taster of the painted highlights - I give you his magnificently painted Warhammer & 40k An'ggrath / Anggrath Bloodthirster Lord.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/250857251533#ht_500wt_1156

There's also a couple of Daemon Princes

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Chaos-Daemon-Prince_W0QQitemZ250857252320QQihZ015QQcategoryZ44127QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ht_500wt_1156

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Chaos-winged-Daemon-Prince-/250857252859?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841e7fb#ht_500wt_1156

5 Screamers of Tzeentch

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-x-Warhammer-40k-Screamers-tzeentch-/250857251275?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841e1cb

Warhammer Bretonnia original King Louen Leoncouer

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-Bretonnia-original-King-Louen-Leoncouer-/250857255682?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841f302#ht_500wt_1156

SQUATS!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Squats-command-squads-Characters-OOP-/250857255338?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841f1aa#ht_500wt_1156

2 Warhammer 40k Chaos Daemons Soul Grinders

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Chaos-Daemons-Soul-Grinder-B-/250857254619?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841eedb#ht_500wt_1156

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Chaos-Daemons-Soul-Grinder-/250857254361?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841edd9#ht_500wt_1156

And the 'piece de resistance' 2 Scratchbuilt Warhammer 40k Apocalypse knight Paladins

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Apocalypse-knight-Paladin-B-/250857253871?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841ebef#ht_500wt_1156

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Warhammer-40k-Apocalypse-knight-Paladin-/250857253272?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3a6841e998#ht_500wt_1156

And there's a whole slew of other equally exciting and old-skool miniatures of the unpainted variety, so check out bluewarpstudios on ebay, a little over 5 days left to go!

Epic Adeptus Titanicus part 7. - War Griffons Warhound

You may recall this little fella's brother and as you can see below this one follows the more traditional War Griffons colouring. I'd wanted to attempt some opposite colours, red and green, yellow and blue and somehow the more standard colours didn't get completed.

Although Looking at his twin and the original War Griffons spec sheet below maybe both of them bare little relation to what is 'Codex approved'.

Moving on here's the arm mounted Corvus assault pod. I wasn't stuck on the top mount and it never said this couldn't be mountd on a Warhound so I chopped down a Warlord power fist mount and attached it to the opposite side of the pod, as you can just make out in the last picture. Not sure what other weapon would have gone with this, either a demolition ball or a Vulcan mega bolter...

Epic Adeptus Titanicus part 6. - The G.O.D. Machines

I'm not totally trying to spin out all these Titans for as long as I can, honest. Here's a couple more War Griffons. This is just a random load out of the painted weapons that I found in my bits box, however I had chopped the bottom mounting pegs off a habit I did on a lot of these so I clearly knew what I was going to do with them. With hindsight that's a mistake, for the sake of coolness I was abandonning flexibility? Sure at the time I had enough titans to never need any kind of flexibility - I could set them up however I wanted and just run them like that for ever...

Anyway, of note is the 'chaos' head with added Imperial Guard Sentinel feet... it's a close-combat head! Isn't that obvious? Well I clearly had a couple of pairs of leg spare from the carapace laser conversion seen previously. This was a cheap way to convert this into something a little bit more naff interesting [nah I'm not wholly convinced either].

From my earliest Adeptus Titanicus days I think this was my favorite load. My memory may be cloudy but they were 'gattling blasters' on the arms and Defence Lasers on the carapace. This had a phenomenal rate of fire for taking down void shields at a decent distance and then the lasers punched through the exposed armour to cause maximum damage. Also there's the Command head. I loved this replacement head however in the left picture you can see there's a door for the crew to get out and walk round the jaw 'battlements'. I never liked that so I acutally filled in the gaps with Milliput, which is why they go all the way up to the head. It looks cooler, but again with hindsight I'm not so sure I've taken just a little bit of common sense from the design?

Epic Adeptus Titanicus part 5. - War Griffons Walk

Finally digging out the remainder of my unfinished War Griffons Titans. As you can see below there were plenty of bits they bought for Epic, there's even a few more that I haven't photographed. I've since put the Reaver in a nice bath of Dettol  and will strip it down to repaint because I think it's had three coats of paint in it's life and it could do with starting from scratch. It amazes me that this costs £20.50 brand new from GW today. Maybe I should just ebay it instead ;)

I'm going to split up some of the titans as the interesting extras should be suffiicent for a few posts at least. Sorry if you think it's spreading the content a bit thin but I'll only end up with a massive post otherwise and will be floundering for inspiration a month down the line.

This titan features the head mounted barrage cannon [the exact name escapes me]. It was also designed with the fire control tower on the left, which had some benefits [again I forget what] and the Landspeeder landing pad on the right. This allowed an attached Landspeeder to scout ahead and you could use it's line of sight for targetting. When you factor in their ability to 'pop-up' that's kind of a cool trick for a titan that's going to camp out backfield and barrage things from safety. As you can see I used a lead [pb] Epic marine jetbike for my attached Landspeeder, which I think is cool.

The multi-launcher and close combat chainsaw were probably not on my load out list. Maybe the multi-launcher, perhaps a second one would have been cool for total barrage devastation.

Here you can catch some more of my  lead [pb] Landspeeders, I think I've another knocking around to make a full squad, hence the common sense use of the jetbike for the spotter role. The middle shot also shows the other addition to the titan, 'carapace weapon mounts'. These are small guns mounted to the banner points on the back of the titan so any attacks from the rear are covered. Not sure my logic is sound on this as if the titan is backfield there may not be a whole lot of attacks from behind but cutting a couple of Imperial Guard Sentinel war walkers down looked a lot better than the actual tiny little multi-laser accessories they made. I think the last shot is the most imposing, though I'm still not convinced that fire control tower is going to offer any adavantage over visibility than a conventially mounted head...