Ordinatus Macro engine (phase 1)

So something showed up yesterday in the mail and holy cow is it cool!!!!  I basically dropped everything and started building it almost immediately. The Ordinatus-Minoris Macro Engine – Sagittar Pattern is pretty much a farm tractor with a Warlord titan cannon.  I'll be using it as a LOW with my 30k Admech as well as 40k Skittari/mech armies.  This is part 1 of the build and paint.  I'm probably going to paint after I get it in 5-6 large pieces.  

The Gal Vorbak ( which is bigger than a Marine) is so tiny next the the primary weapon of Awesome!

More Word Bearer's!!!

I wanted to get the rest of the Gal Vorbak done as well as a tech-marine and Leviathan Dreadnought, but car shows and having a beer with friends dominated my weekend.  He are a few of what I did manage to paint.

The Gal Vorbak,  AKA what the 40k Possessed should be. 

Mahara Gal Dread. Great rules, but keep him away from you daemon allies and psykers!!!

another shot of the consul

Word Bearers Armored Company

So thank you all who commented on the Glaive.  It has lit a fire for me to get off my butt and start painting.  I still need to add a few transfers, but I'm finally in the home stretch on most of these.

Laser destroyer Vindicator conversion

Glaive, Vindicator, LR Achilles, Fellblade, and Spartan

Word Bearers Terminator Consul

Word Bearer's Legion Glaive

WIP on my Legion Glaive I bought more than a year ago and decided to build and paint this week.  I love this model and that it has a giant "CHOOOMMM" cannon is icing on the cake.

Dirty Calth style :)

Before adding OSL, decals,  and some extra depth shading.

Rust and Mud effects came out decent

I used a metallic black for the turret to offset the crimson to better rep the word bears colors

Selling my Tau

Decided to sell my Tau since I played them one time in the team tourney at Adepticon 3 years ago.



Will publish more pics later but for now just a description:

- The above Riptide
-1 Riptide primed black
-1 Farsight, primed black
-1 Forgeworld Command suit and 2 drones ( I think they are missing antenna's), primed black
-6 Broadsides new on sprue
-8 Pathfinders ( with a few drones) painted desert sand
-1 Skyray painted digital camo,  like the above riptide

If you are interested let me know.

Fellblade, Heavy Metal for your Khorne army

Like I said I have been very busy:) PMAC here with another Deamonic Engine of Doom.  This time in the Legion Fellblade.  Great model and pretty good rules.  BTW there is a Dark legacy rule in IA13 you can take giving all Daemons of Khorne +1 to there invul with 12".  ( very nice for a KDK army)

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Do you even lift Brah?? Chaos Knight part 2

Back with some more pics of my progress.  I still have emblems and chains to attach and a bit more to paint. Enjoy!

Dirge Dirge Dirge

Possessed Melta Cannon 

Do you even lift Brah?? Chaos Knight Part 1

It's been awhile since I have posted, but have been steadily working on various 30k and 40k projects. The latest Chaos Knight had taken a long time to figure out just the concept of what I wanted to build. More pics to follow, but I wanted to get this crappy cell phone pic in to kick things off.

I went with lots of magnets and made him as Chaos undivided as possible.  Though I did magnetize the chaos god symbols when he takes a specific mark.  The power claw is just AWESOME and makes the model AFAIK. Definete center piece in my KDK army.  Also the Styrix head with in-build dirge caster plays ever so well with the scheme of things. BTW the Styrix Knight was said to lust after battle and even go on murderous rampages so it's not hard to see how this one was rebuilt for chaos. ( I'm writing a full fluffy background for this guy as well if you couldn't tell ) 

More to come in part 2!!!  ( lots more pics)

Waxing and Waning of 40k, or just go play 5th edition

http://23lines.blogspot.com/2015/05/to-all-tournaments-screwing-with-40k.html


Pretty much sums up all the banning GT's are implementing in recent 7th edition 40k.  And before jumping to a fan boy conclusion realize that TO's have a vested monetary interest in tournaments which ultimately will drive the decisions they make.  ( example is if no one wants to play a certain codex and therefore will not attend the TO will ban the codex Vs. not having the GT and suffer the financial consequence)

7th edition is not 5th edition, stop trying to make it that.

Already tired of Space Clowns!

I know its in the fluff, but it's dumb. 

So I'm probably going to get hate for this , but please can we stop with the stupid space ninja clowns! The fan boy stuff is getting old and the grim dark is already filled with poor examples of how combat works ( HTH and trench warfare VS using your gun like Cypher ) in the future much less the present day. Now we have an entire army of acrobats flying on hover boards with V for vendetta masks, using weapons that sound like valentines presents ( look for the up coming armory additions filled with stuff like "the kissy face", smooch bomb, and the orbital bombardment of spooning ).  I can't wait to see the tyranids new dex of evolved furries that kill with cuteness.  And while we are on tyranids the entire fact that they got screwed in psyhic powers( limited to their table ) , but still suffer the warp etc is now beyond stupid when the eldar codex is talking about eldar gods.  Were the hell are these gods???  Another Warp, they are dead ( gods die??) ? And before you say it , I know the tyranids perils is to show synaptic feedback.  Really?  Its the same as a daemonic presents raping your skulls and soul?  hmm that's a bit of a stretch.  Shadows works for squat now as well.  Sorry for the rant :)

Mechanicum transport : Triaros Armoured Conveyer Budget Pattern

I'm slowly building more and more mechanicum models and painting.  The 40k universe is starting to wear on me and I feel like 30k is actually better.  So with that I'm keeping up my hobby progress limited for now to the Horus Heresy. I'm set on selling a 40k army soon, but have to determine what one.

Now for the Triaros Armored Conveyor I came up with since I'm not too down with paying >$100 per model.  The Forgeworld ones are awesome , but Damn!!!  I modeled these as close I could to the actual transport.  Heavy bolter reps the mauler bolt cannon. the 2 little sponsons are the volkite servitor chargers. The front of these really represent the AV14 IMHO. The blue glowing thing is the force shield which i think plays better to the rules as it states the blast are -1 to the front of the vehicle.  These are also big!  bigger than a land raider so I'm pretty comfortable fielding these as  comparable to the original vehicle. A little more detail work and they will be ready to take to the battlefield.

30K Mechanicum jet pack Magos

Went with "Kingdom of God" style faceplate

Newest Mechanicum Magos with Jet Pack and Chainfist.  He should sure up some weaknesses with a Thallax Cohort squad. 

Heresy Era Jump pack and Haywire Staff

Imperial Knight Shield Markers

So I wanted to way to display the shield facing for my knights and have some sort of hull point marker other than my wound counters.  Well enter Mechanical Warhorse. I picked up a bunch of these as they include side and front/rear shield markers and HP counters!!  A great value and I'm sure your opponent will appreciate not having to ask over and over facing directions.

Zup Bro! Questoris Knight Magaera and Radiation Base

So the Mechanicum has procured a new relic from the dark age of awesome. The Magaera knight!  Since this guy came out from FW I was "Must Have!!"

So the knight arrived Friday and I went to work.  I wanted to stick with my Mechanicus paint scheme the rest of my army sports.

First up is the base. I wanted a base that reflected a battle ( maybe hersey era) that radiation was very prevalent and extreme.  Most of my mechanicum army has Rad-cleanser so it was cool to have a base big enough to show Radiation Weapons.

Contemptor foot , Marine helmet and shell casings. radiation hot spot areas in green

So with the base done next the big guy himself!! I really enjoyed painting this model and assembly was straight forward.

Rad Cleanser on the claw 

I wanted it to look like the knight just irradiated the battlefield and on the prowl for enemy targets!

More knights arriving soon :)

Alt Tyranid models forsale

I am cleaning out some hobby stuff for the new year and stumbled upon these guys I had in the wings for quite some time.

I was going to use them for any little gribble that the bugs use especially to show a different bio-morph.  AKA poison etc Hormies or devil gaunts.


So I have 119 of these guys waiting for a good home( 4 boxes ). 1 is missing as I wanted to build at least 1 model when I got them ( will try and find him ).  If your interested drop me a line in the comments and we can work something out ( I'm willing to let these go cheap )

Magos Prime: Beast Mode

              Ima Firen Mah Lazor! 

The Magos Prime kitted out in 30k is a true beast. 2+, 3++ , 5+ FNP, T6!!!  I did a little kit bashing to make this bad ass a reality on the tabletop.  The mechdrites add so much to a plain looking model as well as the Rad Cleanser.  The new HH 4, conquest book is out as well and has some very neat Mechanicum relics. (I'm looking at you Scrapcode :) )

I'm also working on 3 huge models for my mech 30k army, but I want to get them all painted up before the big reveal!!! More to come this week!!!

Mechanicum HQ: Thin Man of Mars

Getting kicked back into high gear with some modeling and painting of the Mechanicum.  I really like these guys and if you are a fan of 40k, you will love 30k.  It seems more level even though points are way more and everything seems to be strength 10 AP2.  And Now the Thin Man of Mars !!!

Haters gonna hate!!!

 Mister Sinister or the Mechanicum Version of the Thin Man.  I did a Thallax head to tie him into the theme.  Grav weapon and Volkite round him out.  The claw goes as a powerfist usually.

Next is the uber bad ass Krios Venator Tank.  It's a WIP, but almost there. I really love this guy as he is so good at killing armor.  4 shots, ordnance, Str9 AP2!!!!  oh and BS-5.  It does look like a 80's decade bass cannon so I dub the " Crankenstien!!"

Castellax Cohort

What can I say about these guys.  They are awesome as models and rules.

Cyber Occulus escorts

I borrowed these from Warmachine.  They make a great Cyber Occulus, easy to paint , but you'll want to pin them as they are metal.

Servo-automata with flamer

These guys I made with bits and figs from other game systems .  I like how they are turning out and give the mechanicum the creepy vibe they deserve.  This is one of 3 different types I modeled ( melta, servo-arm, and flamer)

Tech-Thrall

Last but not least is my Tech-thrall.  I know this isn't the Forgeworld model, but it fits the bill for me and they are soo much cheaper.  WarGames Factory BTW.  I may add some green stuff cables etc at some point, but 84 of them is a ton of Green stuffing .

Sporocyst and Tyrannocyte descend !

Thank you GW for bringing back the Nid drop pods.  My impulse buy got the best of me and I picked up a few of these guys.  The big question is what to run/build ?  I thought this was a no brainer and said Tyrannocytes hands down, but after thinking about the Sporocyst I'm not so sure. The big selling point to the latter is spore mines.  They don't contest or hold objectives, they are T1 and 1W, slow, and have no shooting, so why are they good??? Board control .  1 or 2 of these guys doesn't do it, but 40 of them will.  I had a good friend spam these out and let me tell you it made my super killy units sooo  angry to have to shoot or kill these when a much better target was in sight.  It also stopped big boys like knights etc for at least a turn.  They also do not give a KP and if you choose to ignore them you get a nice strength 7 or even 10 blast in your face.  The entire time the real working part of the army is grabbing objectives and murdering your troops.  Back to the cysts.  The also shoot blast weapons ( at a poor bs ) but who cares.  3 of them for 300 points pumps out 15, strength 6 Small blasts. Plus they make mines and the giant booger the mucloid spore once per game.  Worst part is they don't move, and take up a heavy slot , but the rate of return is pretty good.  So I have 3 more to build. I'm leaning toward the spore Vs the tyranno, but what do you think?

Ok, Pics of the test models.