Fortress

So I am working on the Fortress of Redemption. I will have pictures up this week when I learn how to make my tablet talk to my computer. This will happen!

Fortress is complete and primer black, time to dry brush with gun bolter gray then line with a bronze. Perhaps tin bits.

Will update.

Now What

I like my jumpers and I am going to keep them but I believe the next addition to my army and change to my army is going to be some type of support armor.

I am looking at keeping the scouts and the assault marines but I am going two add at least 3 Baal predators and perhaps two standard auto-cannon predators.

I am also toying with the idea of building a bike unit to go with this, not sure if I will replace one my my scout unites and take a scout bike unit. I want to keep the combine capabilities of the army. Be able to deep strike and outflank as well as come in from board edge reserves. If you can come in from many directions it gives you some real advantages over your opponent I think. Just have to find out how to leverage those advantages into effective returns.

Soul Drinkers Battle Company Part 2

Here are the rest of the pictures of the Battle Company.
I am very proud of some of the models and I can see where I learned what I was doing on the rest.

Soul Drinkers Battle Company

This is what I have painted so far of my Soul Drinkers. They allow me to play them pre and soon post Heresy.

2 Librarians
1 Chaplain
1 Tech Marine
4 Apothecaries
1 Land Raider
2 Predators
3 Rhinos/Razor Backs
2 Dreadnoughts
5 Sternguard Veterans
10 Terminators
40 Tactical Marines
30 Assault Marines
20 Close Combat Scouts
10 Snipers Scouts

131 Models

LibrarianTo Lead The Way!

The new Liby on his own, check out the eye not bad for a new painter.


Ok so I have a real like for Librarian, I have made two of them jumpers for my new Jumper Army. One of them is one I painted months ago and one of them is one I just painted this weekend. I think they both look ok. The new one I am really proud of the new one.

Soul Drinker Close Combat Scouts

More Scouts!

Soul Drinker Snipers

I haven't been posting lately but I have been working on my new Jumper Army. I am going to be running three scout squads and three assault squads. I finished painting up two of the scout squeds and the librarians to join with the assault squads.

Ten Scout Marines on the table.

Unit one of my hide and go seek started.

Going to start with the assault scout squad then build the scout sniper squad. Also as a treat to myself today I bought a land raider crusader. It is on the shelf till the scouts are finished.

Pictures tomorrow.

Hide & Go Seek!

Ok I have noticed that since the change of my blog I have put in fun little titles! I believe I am going to try to keep this up. Now that the side note is out of the way.

Jumpers And Scouts!

I am going to try to build a jumper army based around jumpers and scouts. The battle plan is basically to send in the scouts with camo and scout moves and use them to harass the enemies. Depending on what I am facing going to use the assault troops and the death company to plow my way to the objective. Either by deep striking using decent of angels to land near the target or moving quickly from objective to objective.

For this I am going to try this List out.

1850 points

HQ Librarian with Jump Pack
Power
Blood lance
The Sanguine Sword

HQ Librarian with Jump Pack
Powers
Blood Lance
The Sanquine Sword

Scout Unit with bolters and camo (10)
Scout Sergent with combi-flamer or melta

Scount Unit with bolters and camo (10)
Scout Sergeant with combi-flamer or melta

Assault Squad (10) 1 flamers
Assault Squad Sergant with hand flamer


Assault Squad (10) 1 flamers
Assault Squad Sergant with hand flamer

Death Company (15) with Jump Packs & 3 hand flamers
Lemartes (1)

Giving In Not Giving Up

Ok so for the longest time I have heard that the Blood Angel Codex is the best codex to play the Soul Drinkers. Heck even their creator said that you should play the chapter with a Blood Angel Codex.

At the same time people have said that the Blood Angels are cheese and that they are over powered, and I have just started with my friends and I didn't want to grab out to the most powerful army and be thought of as THAT GUY. You know the one I mean, the guy with no skill but wins often enough because he has the biggest whatever.

So here we are with the SM codex and I am using Gate of Infinity and Avenger and other such crazy trying to get around the board as fast as possible. Not doing a terrible job but not a great one either. A few of my friends said that I should try Blood Angels codex they think I would like their style.

Fast Forward to last night, I gave in and tried the codex out. I love it, I screwed up terrible and got eaten by nids. The good news though is I think I have some ideas, I think I can move this around. I am hooked.

The First and Worst

This is where the mistakes started if you take a good look at the primed model and its partner you will notice I didn't have a clue on how this type of plastic and primer reacted to the difference of temperature and humidity. You know this because of what I like to call the fluffy look, like the model has build up and bubble on some parts. Alot of this was because I tried to prime them to soon after stripping them, leaving a layer of water that I didn't realize was there on the model.
Here I added insult to injury by not thinning my paints down and putting a nice base coat over the whole of the model. I tried to be careful and not paint the edging you see on the center model but realized later that a base color makes a big difference to what the final color looks like once it is applied.
So in the end these are what you end up with when you try to strip and primer the models in the same day, and by going in and out of the house to do the priming. The lesson here is strip the models let them sit a couple of days. When you prime, take the primer and the models to where you will be doing the priming and leave them for about 45 minutes to become adjusted to temperature.

So here are some pictures from my first go around in painting. Most of these models are reclaims. Reclaims are gifts from friends that get you into the game and make you addicted. They are also how you learn what not to do when it comes to painting. A Reclaim is a model that was painted at least one time before and you have stripped and put on a new coat of primer. Not all reclaims are equal.

Heresy Is the Only Answer

Welcome to a change of venue for my blog! This was once "My Own Private Hell" now it has been changed to reflect a new life to this blog. I will be posting pictures and writing my experiences playing the game of Warhammer 40K.

I am also going to do some back grown posting of where are started painting six months ago and where I am now. I am going to talk about the things I learned and where in the process I learned them. As well as thanking the people who showed me what I did wrong and how to fix those mistakes for the next go around.

After a fustrating start playing 40k, I found that I really enjoyed the painting and sort of enjoyed the game play. Mostly because some traditional stratagies and tactics do not work on a 6 foot by 4 foot board. I have since through the help of my friends found alot more fun in the game play and so many enjoyable hours in the painting. My next post should be some pictures of my first models. Don't judge to harshly...... I only painted model cars before now.

Soul Drinkers Cobat Squads

And here is my new unit in its whole, I made two combat squads for the game we had so I made two sergeants. I went out on a limb because of my friend Dan and made all of these guys with open faces. I had to repeat a couple of heads but for the most part they are all unique.

Soul Drinkers Razorback

Ok so my mini crew number two here are a couple of Razorbacks that I have finished. All the missile launchers are maged so that they pull right off. The Chalices are made from doll house goblets cut in half with my dremal

MINI'S! Soul Drinkers

Ok my friends have gotten me into a new hobby! and I am going to torture you and myself with my work. My wife took the pictures and didn't get a soul drinker chalice side at all.

These guys are going to be my main Tact squad they are the first guys that I started from sprues and built myself.