Desert ruins

I wanted some more terrain for this weekends event.
So I rushed and splattered some more paint on this old ruin.
The pieces is from Games Workshop old Lord of the Ring line and this is the last of my collection from the stash I bought way back intended to be used in our Crusade project...
They are not really finished, finished but it will do.

So after a couple of years its finally time to bring this kit out of the closet...

I based the ruins on a kind of "puzzle" sawed pieces, so they can be fitted together but still be placed on their own without any strait corners.

And here with some miniatures I had at hand for scale

I found a older blogpost of some of the older ruins I have painted.
http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2014/01/more-desert-ruins.html

Iron Hands delegatus, Horus Heresy

This weekend we are hosting a small battle of Tallarn themed game day of Horus Heresy here in Växjö, Sweden.
And to help out my friend Daniel I built/converted and painted a HQ for his Iron Hands army.

Here are some somewhat blurry pictures I took this morning.

I wanted to test out an idea I have had about a Iron Hands painting technique. I wanted to to test an almost black, petroleum-ish colour. Its somewhat hard to see on the blurry pictures.

I started on a base of metal and used layers upon layers of different colours of inks and washes, using different colours on different areas and then some layers spilling over them. I think I somewhat managed to achieve the result I was after.
But I think I would have done some small things different If I would do it again.

It was a fun experience and I hope that this model will gain glory this weekend.

The details on his face cant really be seen on the rushed pictures I took this morning Im afraid.

And just for fun I used some flourecent colours from Vallejo, if he ever plays in a UV lit game...

Adeptus Titanicus event

Titan walks...

We had a small Adeptus Titanicus event. It was intended as a test day of the game. To get some games played but mostly for people to get a grip on the rules and to test the games for those that had never played.

A simple concept that worked wonders.

To start up each player selected a Reaver or two warhounds and the imperial civil war had started...

The Warhounds tried to push their engines to move out of the firelanes of the heavier Reavers. A mechanical malfunction from pushing the engine resulting in one of the Warhounds mashinespirit waked up and took control, and it had no intension of moving... at all... The Warhand was caught in the open.

After a hefty firefight the traitors had pushed to far and the defensive positions of the Imperials had taken their toll. The one Warhound on the flank got smashed by a Reaver powerfist as the other traitor Reavers takes a massive smackdown from all the loyalist firepower...
First intro game, Imperial victory... Huzza !

Here we have a spread on all the great looking Titans and knights we had for the day. Its a great way to push you painting, to get things finished to an event. Its a great motivation.
And its been lots of fun to see all the pictures that people have been posted of their work for this event.
My own knight house have been given three more Questoris knights, some white stripes and details, and some more work on the white marble on the armour since my last pictures of the work in progress. kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2020/02/wip-adeptus-titanicus-questoris-knight.html

For the second game each player was given more titans to controll, I instead choose to field a collection of knights.
We didnt count any points but war is never fair to begin with...

Imperial Warlord Titan is starting to pack up some damage...

My Knights have been totally decimated by all the huge titans but two plucky small Questoris knights have managed to survive long enough to close in, trying to evade enemy firepower by standing behind then...

Engaged by something like five Titans in its flank, things starts to look bad for the Imperial...

As the Warlord pushes it shields the heavily damaged plasmacore starts to collapse, the warning lights are flickering in red.
Servitors trying to fix all the damage but it is only so much they can do.
The plasmacore explodes in an massive explosion, bits of the titan are flung far and wide.
The Imperial Reaver standing behind it gets the most of it and it is hit in the body parts and the damage destroys the almost untouched Reaver in an instant, flinging its massive body to the ground even further away...
With most of the Imperial forces destroyed the second game was a massive Traitor victory.



This had been a great day of gaming and socialising. And we all learned a lot about the rules, this combined with all the models that got painted made this an really nice mini-event.

Thanks to Fredrik for initialising the event and all others that attended.


More pictures from the day can be found over at Fredriks blog:
http://notacollector.com/blog/2020/2/22/u2po0an5c6y6vc2hc147bxj80j8gum