Here we are again after a crazy busy summer in which I mostly spent time working. Some hobby has been done however and there are some cool word bearers to show for it:
The second squad of Word Bearers was finished in June.Conversion heavy Chaplain and Apothecarion. Were done in august. Making the first 500 points complete.
What’s even better than all of this is the completion of a project that has been in the making since I recieved my tax return from the divorce. I haven’t mentioned this on the blog yet, since I wanted to avoid dissappointment if it somehow didn’t work out. Nonetheless It’s finally time to show some finished pictures of probably the most amazing piece in my warhammer collection:
Promise of Catastrophe: My actual Warlord Titan.
I love it to bitz.
This magnificent beast was painted by Scar’s Miniature Madness, who I’ve mentioned before on this blog. Amazing painter and someone I’ve been friends with for years. He deserves all the credit for this since I don’t think I could’ve done the project this much justice by myself. It means a lot to me that he was willing to tackle this and perform such an amazingly professional job on it.
Now, since there’s also been a lot of random battles since the last post I’ll sign off with this last gallery of battle pictures.
A lot of pictures this post and a lot of great battles. But including the battle reports would’ve made this post way too long.
Last blog post I was finally ready to work on the bearers. Then, of course, life happened. Now, almost 3 months since the last post: I finally have some progress to report!
The first of the holy zealotry march!
Sometimes when you realise that a project is taking longer than usual, it can be a good idea to roll with it. Instead of getting frustrated and settling for a less than stellar paint job, I decided halfway the first 5 marines that I’d just take the extra time to be completely happy with these. I’m glad I did and I can’t wait now to see the whole army come together like this.
In the meantime a few lockdown measures have been lifted in the Netherlands. So, between a couple of my most enthusiastic heresy friends, we decided we would be able to risk a 5 person megabattle at home.
Dirk’s Mechanicum
My Knight and Mor Deythan got wiped by a typhon pretty early on in the game
Sisters of Silence held out longer, but were killed by Alpha Legion and Ursurax eventually
World Eater mob looking menacing as usual
The Custodes made some brave charges
Alpharius is a beast and his abilities were definately game changers
The Mechanicum moved over kind of slowly, but still took out some jetbikes
Lerneans held on surprisingly long against the Custodes
Xiphon was one of the final things on the board for me. Helped take out the typhon so he did good.
Man! That was such a breath of fresh air to be able to play warhammer with more than 2 people again! I was playing with Arjan’s Custodes against Mechanicum (Dirk), World Earers (Bart) and Alpha Legion (Naut). For the occasion I brought along my Sisters of Silence and Knight allies as well. The game was lost in turn 3 when several key charges failed and at the end of turn 4 we decided to perform an orderly retreat for The Emperor.
Depite the long pauze in blogging I’m glad I finally had something to report in the aftermath of the Netherlands’ worst lockdown ever. As the world opens up again I hope to report more!
Here we are, quite a bit in the new year already. My last post was from November in which I had just finished my warcry terrain.
Since then I’ve mostly been attacking my ginormous pile of shame again. Although the pile is considerably smaller now than it was a year ago, there are still several armies worth of unassembled mini’s waiting for me to get started on them. With that in mind I’ve spent the final month of 2020 assembling and priming a bunch of old Skaven from the pile of shame and also worked on organizing the pile into some manageable projects for 2021.
After going through the whole thing I’ve decided to go for the completion of 3 old projects in 2021. Hopefully I can work on these simultaneously to keep my interest.
1: Skaven
I have a lot of Skaven models stocked up from years past. Some of them are metal models from more than 15 years old, a bunch of plastics from around 10 years ago (mostly clanrats) and some stuff from only a couple of years ago when I bought some start collecting pestilens boxes. Would be really great to get this finished since it’s been on my list literally since the beginning. Worth it for the peace of mind alone.
2: Word Bearers
Now that I’ve managed to completely finish my Raven Guard army as well as my small Talons force, the next Horus Heresy project has been in the making for at least 2-3 years. I’m done with planning and purchasing now and want to really get paint on these models. If I don’t have a finished word bearer by the end of january I’m going to feel very sad. Getting everything in the box done by the end of 2021 should leave me with something around 1 to 1,5k. Which should be perfect for ZM games or small centurion games. Really looking forward to that!
3: Indomitus Space Marines
This is going to be a completely new project! But should be very fun. I received my Made to Order Indomitus box in November, so I can also feel like I’m working on a new project this year. I really liked the space marines in this box and I have a lore idea to theme them as a successor chapter to my 30k Raven Guard. Going heavy with the Vulture theme I’ve already tested the colour scheme somewhere last year and was quite satisfied. Going to save these ones as a way to reward myself in between working on the Skaven and the Word Bearers.
In December, the only game I played was against Dirk’s new Thousand Sons army. It looked amazing, but the game was lost quickly when I threw everything at the blade occult, but failed all of my wound rolls on an orbital bombardment (6 ones on 8 dice).
I did manage to kill the Knight as my sole accomplishment during the game.
I also had a game in the new year already against Alpha Legion:
Once again I lost the game badly, but enjoyed using my new flyers again. Killing the AL warlord was a highlight for me (maybe I killed Alpharius?!).
The last game I played only recently against Dirk’s ogor army. Was a fun game and a real smash fest. We made a mistake on the objectives which, combined with Dirk’s double turn, swung the game heavily in his favor. I probably would have won if we had played the objective rules correctly.
Slaanesh army also looking gorge as usual.
Final thing I want to mention is that I spent some time last month looking into some foam and bags for old projects (Empire, Warmachine and Chaos Space Marines). Now 3 of my old armies are fully painted as well as safely packed and stored, which is a pretty nice feeling. Hopefully I’ll be able to do the same for my Slaanesh and Raven Guard as well soon.
So, that was that for the first 2021 update. Hopefully lots of progress in the next post!
Daan of War 