Terminators... Complete!

Finally...

I managed to get the Terminator squad completed before the end of the month and they don't look too bad...

Completed Squad!

And a couple of close ups:

 

The Sergeant

The Cyclone Missile launcher guy

 

 

I will probably go back and drill out the bolters, but otherwise I think they're done!

 

 

 

I'm off to an X-Wing Tournament this weekend, so I'll try and get some pics of that up next week...

 

Until next time....

X-Wing board

So, I have a mate coming round today to try out Fantasy Flights X-Wing miniatures game and I realised I don't really have an appropriate playing surface. I normally play at my local gaming club so I haven't really felt the need.

Also, and probably more importantly, I don't really have a spare $50 or $60 kicking around to spend on a vinyl gaming mat, however nice they are.

Time to get building, instead....

First things first, a quick trip to the local hardware store:

You need a board, for X-Wing, you need a 3' by 3'. I couldn't find one this morning but I did manage to grab a 4' by 3', I'll just make it a little smaller by way of masking tape:

 

 Board ready for painting, notice the big ground sheet.

 

 

Next and most importantly, especially if you're spray painting, a decent resperator and propper filters:

 Hey that's me...  :)

 

Obviously you're going to need some sort of spray paint, anything will do really as long as it's cheap and matt:

 

 Paint and disposable gloves

 

 

Next spray the sucker and wait for it to dry:

 

 Board freshly sprayed, just got to let it dry.

 

 

 

Once the board is dry, just go over it with a fine mist of white and then another colour, in this case I used pink:

White for stars and a little pink gives a reasonable effect.

 

 

Lastly, just strip the tape of and you're good to go. This will work fine for today, in the future I'm going to go over the extra edges using a template and my airbrush along with some grey to give it a space ship landing deck feel but this will do for today:

 

Board done along with a few of the mini's to give you an idea of size.

 

So that's it, total cost was $5 for the board and $21 for the 3 spray cans. I'm sure if you live anywhere other than Oz it'll be even cheaper again....

 

Work in Progress Terminators

Here's a little "Work in Progress" on the Terminators.

This is also to show off the Scibor Miniatures Shoulder Pads, Anvil Industry Spartan Head and the Anvil Industry Bases:

And from the other side, notice the Forge-World Shoulder Pad:

Also, really looks like I need to work on my white :)

My kids are way better at this than me....

Here's a little change in tack post...

My daughter has asked to have a go at painting so I thought, why not.

I managed to find some old Gretchin, original 2nd edition box set Gretchin no less and figured they'd be a good starting point. They're quite bulky wih good expressive faces and although it's holding a gun it's not as scary as most of my other stuff....

While finding them I also stumbled across one of my first miniatures also a Gretchin...  

I thought it would be fun to show the 2 different mini's and to point out how better a painter my daughter will be if she wants to keep at it...

First, my first mini:

 

 

I was probably 14 or 15 when I painted this, notice how terrible it is...   :)

 

 

Secondly, here is my Daughters first mini:

 

 

 

Notice, you can actually see the face and all the details, also, she's not even 6 yet....

 

Obviously, some people are born with talent and others just have to work at it...   :)



First Squad Complete!!!

So, finally got the first squad completed...

Don't look too bad if I say so myself...   :)

I do need to pick up some Microsol for doing the decals properly and they still need to be sealed, but I think I can call them DONE!

now just another 50 or so to go...



Next on the list will be some Terminators...

These have Anvil Industry Spartan Heads and bases, in fact the entire army will have the City Rubble bases, which I think work really well for giving an "Urban Battlefield" type vibe...

So...   looks like I've got to keep updating this thing...

The original idea for this army was to use the Blood Angels Codex so the first things I painted a bunch of were Assault and Vanguard Marines, here are the ones I did before:

Unfortunately, purely assault troops don't work too well anymore...

With that, here is whatI'm going to start of with for my first 1000 points:

(HQ) Lord Asterion Moloch 235

(HQ) Master of the Forge 90

(T) Tac Squad 80
Multi Melta

(E) Terminator Squad 225
Cyclone Missile Launcher

(E) Terminator Assault Squad 225
5x T.Ham/S.S

(HS) Dreadnought 145
Plasma Cannon
Venerable

Total: 1000
And, to begin the Independent Characters Challenge, here is what I'm going to start off with:

 

 

A nice little squad of Tac Marines

The Minotaurs

So...

To kick of the actual hobbying, I'm going to be painting, or at least trying to paint, an entire 2000 point Warhammer 40k army this year.

I'm also going to be using this as part of the Independent Characters Hobby Progress Challenge: theindependentcharacters.com

So anyways on to the photos:

   The beginings of the force, or at least what's been built and primed so far.

 

 Devastators and auto-can Dreadnought

 Lord Asterion Moloc and his Terminator retinue

 Terminators and the air support

 

 Sniper Scouts

 

 Storm Raven

 

 Better shot of the Air Support

 

 Shotgun Scouts with tester model

Tactical marines

 

So all thats left to do is the painting...

 

I will be adding to this as we go along, I have some more terminators on the way as well as a land raider and of course more bases.

 

My goal is to update at least once a week with progress so we'll all see how long that lasts....

 

till next week...

 

Jamie

So THIS is the internet...

Hi World Here I am...

I suppose I should introduce myself, my name is Jamie and unfortunately, I've found myself becoming old...

I've reached that time in my life when I have almost complete freedom to do whatever I want, yet no time at all to do any of it.

I have a partner, kids, decent job, career, house, company vehicle...   You know, all the things society tells you you're supposed to have but I've found, especially over the last little year, eighteen months or so, that I don't seem to be doing aby of the things that I WANT to do...

So this little blog, which, I'm sure won't last, is an attempt to get me doing all the things I want to do...

It will encourage me to do the hobby that I keep procrastinating over and force me to do a bit of writing that I keep telling myself I want to do...

So, oh well, here goes nothing...