AFK 1/2 year challenge LI Astartes Fast Attack
May’s last obligation got done a bit late, but June will be a light month. In truth these were done yesterday except for the clear plastic flying stands.
Next: the remaining Escher girls and plus two Bounty Hunters and an Imperial Agent, then a squad of Kommandos and 10 LI Rhinos and Q2 is done!
Battle Report – WAAAAGH Gitsmasha vs. Space Wolves 2000 pts!
Recently I’ve been concentrating on Painting, and to a lesser effect Modeling. I put out Home Fires as part of Storytelling, but the fourth strand of the hobby, Gaming, has been completely set by the wayside.
Until now.
Or, rather, last Monday. I’ve been unable to post due to internet connectivity issues. But longtime friend of the blog Misha brought their Space Wolves to let me cut my teeth on my Orks!
Deployment: Tipping Point
Mission: Scorched Earth
Mission Rule: Stalwarts
Setup:
Space Wolves charged forward, occupying the center. The WAAAAAGH! followed, allowing most Ork units to push forward. Beast Snagga boys threatened the Repulsor, while Meganobs and Squighog Boys took out the Land Raider Redeemer.
The Judiciar with the Bladeguard wiped the Bikes, but were then cut down by Nobs. In a display of indignity, the Judiciar with one wound was disaptched in the following shooting phase with Nob Sluggas in close combat!
Murderfang dispatched the Beast Snaggas while Ragnar Blackmane moved up and slaughtered the Boys. Flash Git fire killed his Intercessor escort, and reduced Ragnar to one wound! In a wave of desperation, Grots charged! The Runterherd did one unsaved wound which was undone with a re-roll, but one lucky Grot got another wound through! Ragnar went down with a Grot Stabba in his eye!
After this, Murderfang and Bjorn the Fell-Handed took out most Orks. At the end of the game, only one squad of Grots remained. However, the Space Wolves had made a tactical error! Due to the mission rules, Misha burned a mid-field objective on turn 2, confident he could take more later. In truth, the Space Wolves lost more than 15 points on Primary because this objective was not kept. In the end, the Orks won 72-62!
Next: more battle reports and LI Fast Attack!
AFK Year Long Army Paint – Two Squads of Stormboys!
Two squads of five Stormboys, each with a Nob with Power Klaw!
These Stormboys were made with old pewter Stormboy torsos and rocket packs. One even has the old pewter Stormboy head! Others have heads from the Ork Boys, Warbikers, and Loota/Burna box sets. The Nobs had their legs created from Nob Legs that I clipped off for my Nob Biker project long ago, grafted onto normal Boy legs, and with heads and arms from the Ork Nob box. An Old School addition to the Ork army, heavy enough to bean your opponent with the power of pewter!
Next: LI Fast Attack sprues to complete May, then more Escher, Orks, and LI for June!
AFK Year Long Army Painting – Ork Trukk no 1
Job’s a good’un! Next: Stormboyz!
Q2 Skirmish Escher Gangers Part 2
More Escher gangers! After these, only one more batch to go! Truthfully these lovely ladies were finished days ago but weather and circumstance conspired to prevent me from varnishing them.
A ganger and a heavy, probably won’t be used due to the toxic nature of the Eschers, but who doesn’t love a Heavy Stubber?
Finally I have some complete Wyld Runners! Rizzi and Symissa are the standard ones for the gang, with the bows and a converted scope added to make them actually usable. Null is a necessity. The Escher card deck can add a free Wyld Runner with throwing knives and a whip, and also some…
Phelynx! The color schemes seem… odd though… and those names…
Oh yes, of course! The theme of Razor and the Scumettes is Maniac Mansion!
Dave
Bernard
Syd
and last but not least (best in fact) Michael!
Yes, the boys are back in town. I haven’t had an opportunity to use the boy’s names due to the exclusivity of ladies in Escher gangs. It seems fitting for them to be pets.
You might also notice the lack of Jeff. Screw Jeff. He can’t even beat the game.
Next: A Trukk that has been stripped and repainted, plus a review of stripping methods for various liquids and goos that remove paint!
AFK 6 month Army Challenge – LI Legiones Astartes Support
That’s the Support frames from the Legiones Astartes box set, bringing me up to 3/5 done! This fulfills my obligations for April, meaning any more painting I do this month is getting ahead!
Next: More Escher girls, an Ork Trukk, two squads of 5x Stormboyz with Nob, and the LI Astartes Fast Attack sprues!
AFK Full Army Painting 2nd Quarter – Warbikes with Nob
These three Warbikes were harder than normal as I assembled them long ago. Most kits are much easier in sub-assemblies.
I am constantly amazed by the quality of the Dirty Down brand rust effect paint.
Next: Legion Imperialis Astartes Support! This is my last obligation for April and after that I’m on to doing things to get ahead for May! I have eight more Escher girls, an Ork Trukk, ten Stormboyz, and a LI Astartes Fast attack selection. Then, for June, eight more Necromunda models including some bounty hunters, a unit of Kommandos, and ten LI Rhinos! That’s it for the first half of the year!
AFK Full Army Painting 2nd Quarter – Deffkilla Wartrike
My first entry for the 2nd quarter is complete! To stay on pace, all I need to finish next is three Warbikes, which are ready to begin!
2nd Quarter Skirmish Painting Challenge pt 1 – Escher Champions, Little Sisters, and Chymist
For the 2nd Quarter Painting Challenge at AFK, you must paint a full skirmishing force. Although I have several models in my Necromunda Escher Gang painted, I have many, MANY more that are not. I decided to finish up this gang for the competition, though the actual number of models is quite large.
To ease organization and make it so each of the three months had roughly the same commitment, I split the models into three groups. This is group 1.
Wendy and Sandy already have painted models. However, in the Necromunda Campaign that I ran, each had an alternate loadout for weaponry. Wendy used this meltagun to one-shot an Ambot. Sandy only used the gas projector once sadly. Their needle rifles were more effective against all but the largest targets.
I never got a second Death Maiden, which is probably good because my previous Death Maiden literally killed anything she touched. This alternate loadout should be similarly lethal at range.
Oh these poor girls. Baiting charges, being bullet magnets, and lugging treasure. They deserved to be painted at least.
Coral is a Clan Chymist converted from the Wyld Runner box set. At the time, no Clan Chymist model was commercially available. I do not regret building her, however, because I an not a fan of the mechanics of the Shivver, and the Chymist and Shivver come together. She’ll hopefully never see combat but technically you need a miniature for her or else she automatically leaves the gang if you suffer a raid on your gang’s base.
The paint for these is a simple Contrast blend over Wraithbone with a few extra details like metal. I made the weapons pink and the boots black for gang colors, but everything else is a 90’s style neon frenzy.
Next: Ork Deffkilla Wartrike!
Six Month Half Army Painting Challenge – Legiones Astartes Kratos Squadron
The 6 Month painting challenge of half an army is coming along smoothly. This Kratos squadron and the two frames of Infantry I painted represent about 2/5 of the Legiones Astartes Box Set which is my goal. All I need to do is paint one set of frames per month to stay on schedule. Remaining frames are Fast Attack, Support, and Rhinos.
However, this completion marks the end of my necessary obligations for March! Anything else I do is bonus!
Coming up next in March to prepare for the rest of the year:
- Take stock of Escher gang for Q2 Skirmish painting challenge, possibly adding on Hangers on or other models.
- Convert one Flash Git (the original Flash Gitz squad I converted from Nobs only had nine members because the tenth was a Painboy in 5th edition)
- Convert two Stormboyz Nobs from the old pewter Stormboyz
- Strip Trukks and write article about new stripping agent.
- “Loot” old Battlefoam Space Marine Case to make it worthy for the new foam I ordered for the Orks
And coming up next for painting:
- Escher Gang and Hangers on for Q2
- Finish Legiones Astartes box for Half Year
- Ork Year Long Army for Q2:
- Deffkilla Wartrike
- 3x Warbiker, Nob w/Power Klaw
- Trukk
- 5x Stormboyz, Nob w/ Power Klaw
- 5x Stormboyz, Nob w/ Power Klaw
- 10x Kommando, Nob w/ Power Klaw, Skorcha, Distraction Grot, Bomb Squig
That’s a lot of work for three months! Hopefully I’m up to it!