Really love the jetbikes. Very evocative of the Horus Heresy and the lost tech of that era.
February 12, 2018 at 2:10 PM
Well, once again I have fallen behind in posting my entries, so I will get up to date with a brief(ish) post that has a picture or two from each of my last few submissions and links to the actual blog entries over on the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge site.
My 8th entry was a group of 6 30k Death Guard scimitar pattern jet bikes from the Horus Heresy
era. I fell in love with these when they were released a few years ago,
but the price kept me from buying them until recently. I didn't want
to do a small squad of 3 since they would get wiped out too quickly like
that, and I wanted them to have some staying power, so I did 6 of them.
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The
bikes are supposed to be mounted on the normal GW 50mm clear round
flying stands and come with those along with 30mm tall mounting posts. I
thought both of these looked like crap with them, and the normal pill
shaped bike bases are way to short at 50mm long for these behemoths.
So, I custom laser cut some 32mm wide (the new standard marine base
size) x 100mm deep bases.
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My 9th entry was some long discontinued GW forgeworld terrain that I picked up at a Baltimore Games Day 14 years ago that has sat in their boxes since then!!!
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I also included in that a unit of Greek slingers to add some range to my Greek forces.
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Next up was a theme week entry for BFG (Big F!$%'ing Gun) where I did a pair of Siege-Automata for my 30k Mechanicum force.
Not
only is the gun on this thing freaking huge, the whole thing is! To
give a sense of size the base is a 120mm x 92mm oval base and a marine
barely reaches to his knee!
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Overall, I am very happy with how they came out, and I placed tied for second that week in the voting for best theme week entry.
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My 10th entry was an Archmagos for the 30k Mechanicum force and some more Greeks.
The Archmagos Prime on Abeyant for my 30k Mechanicum army
now makes it an actual legal force to play with an HQ, so expect it to hit the tabletop soon.
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Now
that it is a valid force, I have also provided an overall picture of
the army so far. This is in-fact all that I bought initially to do for
the force, but I have of course fallen in love with them, and more are
on the way....
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This time the Greek unit was more unarmoured Greek hoplites that I did as a support unit
of mercenaries or militia for either side that I am working on.
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This brings me back up to date as of the weekend, but there are 3 more entries up this weekend so expect another update early this coming week.
Now we just need to setup a game to blood in the Mechanicum force!
"Byron's 8th through 10th enties to the painting challenge"
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You're a machine Byron! And by the looks of it, you are painting Machines as well - fitting.
We need to set up a big Isstvan game so your hard-chipped Death Guard can get smacked down amid the ruins of the charming "Choral City"....
February 4, 2018 at 3:05 PM
Love the bikes! Look like they've seen some action!
February 4, 2018 at 11:19 PM
Wonderful job, especially the well and the bikes imho, superb!
February 10, 2018 at 3:43 AM
Really love the jetbikes. Very evocative of the Horus Heresy and the lost tech of that era.
February 12, 2018 at 2:10 PM