Ajax campaing: Horus Heresy Army on Parades

I have been rather quiet on the blog but rest assured I have been painting...

Alot...

I havnt had time posting anything here as I was stressing to get a 3500pts Horus Heresy Alpha Legion Recon Company ready for Ajax, an event held in Alvesta Sweden.

More about the actual gaming event in an later post.
The Ajax event was held at 7-8 July 2018 http://dirtyk.se/events/ajax

Here is a photo dump of the 3500pts armies at the event.

First up is my Alpha Legions that I spent all to many late nights getting ready for the battles at Ajax. Lots of work and details still left but good enough to but on the table atleast.

This was the first time for me to actually see all my miniatures in daylight as I spent even the last night before the event painting...

 

Here are a video of some of the armies filmed by my friend Erik.

And here is my other blog post with after action reports from this event:

Game 1:
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2018/07/ajax-horus-heresy-event-game-1-aar.html

Game 2:
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2018/07/ajax-horus-heresy-event-game-2-aar.html

Game 3:
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2018/08/ajax-horus-heresy-event-game-3-aar.html 

Game 4:
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2018/08/ajax-horus-heresy-event-game-4-aar.html

Game 5:
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2018/08/ajax-horus-heresy-event-game-5-aar.html

A visit to Bottnaryds church, Johan Printz, Kalmar Nyckel, New Sweden

Some time ago I visited Bottnaryds church here in Sweden, Småland.

Its located not so far away from my parents summerhouse but I have never visited it before. Besides being, a rather old church and interesting in itself, being restored to old splendor it housed a small exhibition of Johan Printz. 
He was amoungst other apoinments govenour of New Sweden  from 1643 until 1653.
The Swedish colony on the Delaware River in North America.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Bj%C3%B6rnsson_Printz  

And the miniature gamer in me got a little exited… Maybe a small Pike and Shot project in the future…

Thought I should share some pictures: 

The text is roughly translated to:
Shipmodel of "Kalmar Nyckel" built 1988 by Bengt Faleskog, Bottnaryd.

Kalmar Nyckel is the fist Swedish ship that arrived to America with the Swedes and Finns that started up the colony of New Sweden at the Deleware river 1638.

Dragon teeth tank traps

I made some quick dragon teeth tank traps.

It was a reall quick work but I like the result, atleast for the time it took to make.

Im not sure about the English word for it but I think its callet "peat pots" used for planting seeds.

I cut each container lose and glued it on a mfd base, zenith primed it with black and then white to give it a quick grayish colour and effect. I then glued regular sand on the base and painted it with a colour deluted with much water to let the colourvariation on the natural sand shine through.

Quick, easy and extremly cheap dragon teath tank traps.
I succesful test batch och terrain.

If I make more in the future I think I will spend some more time on the edges between the sand and the tank trapp to look a little better.

I borrowed a friends Imperial Guard models here for scale.