Tests, Big Guns, and Wrecks

 Wow it has been a while! but I am very excited to be back with my first movie marine test paint. Trying out painting camo to offset these Iron Hands paint scheme.

 While this is the first test marine, I have not decided on base schemes yet. Going with the urban camo pattern I think moving with an urban rumble look is the best choice.

 Along with the red, I am going with black and yellow warning paint to break up the models look.

 After much looking and not finding Imperial Guard players wishing to part with their basilisks on the cheap, a nice substitute came in the mail. A 1/35 scale WWII Long Tom will be featured on our 40k trench table.

 Along side the long tom will be a wrecked old school 40k tank out in "no-mans" land. I had some spare time with a blow torch, kitchen steal, and pliers.

Anyway, this should kick off a lot more frequent updates with completing some marine squads and then moving forward with a new lord of the rings army.

Inked Out

With Theon Greyjoys sudden but inevitable betrayal I celebrate Game of Thrones Episode 8 with something I doubt they ate on the Iron Shore.

We have a squid ink lasagnetta! Made in a classy muffin tin. Space Marines will be hopping walls to get their hands on these.  

 This tactical marine doing hurtles just to get in line. Part 2 of the future Kill Zone squad adds in a techmarine to keep those gears turning when you need them.

 Even the Iron Father/Tech Marine won't wait to cut into this blackened pasta treat.

 Just as a battlefield mechanic should be built, this marine has parts ranging from a dread knight to the 2012 Adepticon give away mini.

Notorious

 Getting this 40k kick in full motion with a bunch of terrain painting down in the suburbs.

 A ton of small barriers and random bits to flesh out any board.

 We started cleaning some of the bigger terrain, other pieces include the land pad from GW and some homemade hangers to complete an airbase type board.

 Some internet research started our plans for making a couple 2 foot by 2 foot trench sections you could lay down on any surface to mesh with the static terrain.

 Built two terminators for my ever expanding Iron Hands army, these guys are going to be the back bone for our upcoming Special Operations Killzone games.

Biggie and Smalls will be the front runners for the force. Smalls shoots his gun sideways...

 Biggie will be the assault terminator with Smalls a regular terminator. The metal planking will somehow find its way into their bases.

Next kill zone squad members are going to be two scout marines.

Dreadnaught Dundee

That's not a dreadnaught.

THAT's a Dreadnaught!

I picked up a Nemesis dreadnaught to add to the growing Iron Hands marine force I am building. Here is the beast at large. 

 I added in some miscellaneous old bits from childhood toys and then mashed up a landspeeder to go with it.










Up next will be some terminators to go with a Kill Zone squad in the works. Multiple terrain boards are in the works for these games including an airbase, fallout shield generator, and some sort of PVC sewer system for both our movie marine games and kill zone small scale encounters. 

Adepticon Team Tournament Coverage

Lights, camera, action! Peter Jackson is trying to get the actors lined up for their final shots...

My team tournament partner and I chose to go with a less conventional team force. We split the force into Frodo, Aragorn, and Boromir; Elrond, Legolas, and Gimli in the 2nd 350 point list. We then added in Elrond and the other 3 hobbits for a combined 1000 point army.

Weta workshop will be adding in the CGI over the green screen later.

The Gondorian princes face off against some morgul knights and an early appearance by a maxed out witch king.... the men survived but Legolas, gimli, and Gandalf faced brutal deaths from Khamul.

Round 2 saw Ursuper swan knights trying to force the Gondor succession to the South.

Boromir ate his spinach this morning....

This game started well with Gandalf's blast dehorsing a handful of knights and legolas sniping horses and riders as they advanced.

We put the ring on Frodo just for the sake of actually using it and ended up losing the roll off, the swan knights moved him off Legolas's platform, took the ring off and got some axes in the face.

Eomer lost his horse to Legolas and he looked to be on his last legs with Aragorn charging him.

The tide was turned when Aragorn rolled three 1s and lost the 2nd fight to Eomer and a rider, who then smash his face. The end of the game saw the men and hobbit dead with the wizard, dwarf, and elf on their backs.

The last game with the fellowship saw them facing off against corsairs and morgul knights. Gimli and Elrond entered play as reinforcements. This contest of champions had Gandalf facing off against a troll chieftain who fell to Aragorn and Boromir's blades.

Next time the fellowship can face off against some mumaks....