Ravenwing inbound

After playing a totally Terminator army it is now time to see just how nasty a Deathwing, Ravenwing army can be. I'm going to be adding two attack squadrons to my army. Each squadron will consist of 6 bikers with 2 meltaguns and a power weapon, an attack bike with Hvy bolter and a Land Speeder with Assault cannon and Hvy bolter. This brings a whole lot of speed and fire power to the army and all the bikes have scout move and teleporter homers. The attack squadrons also have combat squads and can be broken into 2 groups of 3 bikes, the attack bike and the land speeder all being scoring units and able to operate independently. I have 1 land speeder left to assemble and then I will be able to base the whole contingent. Pics to follow.

Big Willie's Deathwing!!!

So here are the close up pictures of my Deathwing army that I took to the Canadian GT.
This is my Master of the Deathwing. He was modeled after Cloudrunner from the original Deathwing story.
This is my Librarian, the standard terminator model with force rod turned into a force axe, again modeled after "Two-heads talking".
Deathwing Command Squad with Medic, Standard bearer and Assault Cannon
Terminator Squad with Assault Cannon
Terminator squad with Heavy Flamer
Terminator Squad with Heavy Flamer
Terminator Squad with Heavy Flamer
Terminator Squad with Thunder hammers, Storm Shields and Cyclone launcher

FOW Armored Artillery

So after several FOW games, I finally decided that I needed something with longer range than mortars, and with more reliability than air power, so I invested in a battery of Armored Artillery, and a full 6 gun battery of Nebelwefers. The "moaning minis" aren't done yet, but the armored arty was finished a couple of days ago. I'll try 'em out with my Panzer company against Milton at some point and see how they do. I'm finally learning how to use armor effectively, but because we're Germans, the points get constricting VERY fast. Happily that won't happen with my US Paratroopers, since they can't really take much anyway. Either way, hopefully I'll be painting up 2 panthers for a Cobra Mission in a couple of weeks, another Tiger I, and just for the heck of it, I'm going to go for a Tiger II to see how he does :) Also got some magnets so the III Ns can be changed to III Ms at a moment's notice (right now, 2/4 are Ms, so I need to change barrels).

So my painted panzer force now is:

Command:
CinC Panzer IIIN
2inC Panzer IVG

Combat:
Pz III N Platoon
Pz IVG Platoon

Weapons:
2 Armored Quad 2cm AA in halftracks

Support:
3 gun battery of Wespes (10.5cm arty)
2 8rad Recon vehicles

28mm Australians

A buddy and I got into WW2 skirmish for a while, so I got a platoon of aussies. Decided to paint 'em up in jungle kit since it looks nice (I'm sick of desert camo), and they can fight either AfrikaKorps or the Imperial Japanese. Either way, here was a test shot that I did. Alas, I finished a whole squad but the dullcoat covered them in a weird white powder (not undercoat but pretty close), so I had to paint them again. I've been holding off, as I've been doing more FOW for a bit (see later)

Imperial Guard Command Squads

Also finished the command squads, so I can finally field a legal army. In the background, you can see the squad of mortars that are also complete. I'm quite proud of these guys since its the most conversions I've done.

That brings my painted force up to:
Company Commander + Squad
Platoon Commander + Squad
2 x Reg Infantry Squads + Autocannons
1 x Reg Inf Squad (but will have to be armored fist unless I paint up another squad and platoon command...)
2 Leman Russ Tanks
1 Demolisher Tank
3 Sentinals

So to get my force up to 1500 pts, I have to do a Chimera transport, Lascannon Squad, Some Heavy bolters etc., but the main core is done

Imperial Guard Tanks

Ok, so here's the first post. Basically I've been trying to finish my Tallarn Imperial Guard for like 10 years now. FINALLY, I've gotten some head way into them the past 2 years. This year, I finished the platoon of Leman Russ Tanks (2 + 1 Demolisher). Here they are. Actually,the regular tank got a 3rd place in the Large Sci Fi section of Kublacon's 2008 convention painting contest.

Review of "The Horus Heresy: Collected Visions"

I just finished reading the Horus Heresy: Collect vision book and it was outstanding. I was lucky enough to pick up a copy of it from the Oakville Battle bunker when I was there for the Canadian GT. For less than $70 it was a steal. It is cover to cover outstanding artwork, detailing loads of pre-heresy units and organizations all the way up to the Emperor being encased in the Golden Throne. In addition to all the art it gives a detailed account of what happened during the heresy. All of the history ties into the Horus Heresy series of novels being put out by the Black Library. If you enjoy 40k and are interested in learning more about the history of the Imperium or are simple looking for great modeling ideas, I highly recommend this book. It has also given me the inspiration to turn my Grey Knights into a Legio Custodians army.