Flames of War: Eastern Front Board

This is an overview of the board. I have fixed some of the edging problems of where the sections butt up to each other. I will post some more pics when it is finished.

Flames of War: Eastern Front

Dirt Road leading to rail embankment

Flames of War: Eastern Front Board

The big cat is getting ready to pounce on the shermans

Flames of War Eastern Front Board

The glue isnt dry yet. I am a fan of scenic cement and locktite adhesive spray. the scenic cement made by Woodland Scenics is worth the money. I will use if for now on when working with terrain and/or basing. The dirt turned out extremely well, used the course and medium soil ballast from www.scenic express.com . I am already envisionin a mid war Afrika board made with this material.

Fames of War Eastern Front board

This is my attempt at an Easter Front board. It is a railway embankment board. we shall see how it plays in a week or so.

Flames of War

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Flames of War

These are some Pictures from my last gaming session with Flames. I have to tell you, Flames blows 40k out of the water. If you havent tried it out I would definitely recommend you give it a try.

Those bloody Blood Angels

Yes.. I know..blasphemy talking about the space vampires on a site dedicated to the Ultramarines. But with a flashy new codex and unpainted astartes in boxes or partially put together I couldn't resist starting a Blood Angels army.

I mean who can resist deep striking land raiders and heaven forbid when the storm raven is unleashed. While i am not a big assault guy - I think the assault phase in 40k is just way overpowered and the rules have diminished shooting. Can we say overwatch or enfiliading fire? well be that as it may I have decided to try to build a 1850 BA army. I am going to attempt to use regular blood angels as well as a squad or two of Lamenters in creating the army to add some flavor. However as you all know yellow is a pain to get right.

I will be posting some photos of my newly painted red land raider very soon and my thoughts on my army list as well. I want to have a group of gritty urban based Blood Angels that look like they have been in contiuous combat operations for weeks, no shiny new armor for these boys I encvision them to be covered in grime and their armor being scarred and battle worn.

Practice Round for Ard Boyz 2010

Tried out the following army list for the upcoming 'Ard Boyz tournament:

Pedro Kantor
Darnath Lysander
3 x 10man Sternguard with 4 combimeltas per squad w drop pods
Sgt with Powerfist in all squads
2 x 10 man Tac squds with drop pods
Missle Launcher/ Flamer
Plasma Cannon/ Flamer
Sgts with Powerfists in all squads
1 x 10 man Assault Squad with two flamers
Sgt Storm Shield/ Power weapon
Melta Attack Bike
3Vindicators with Siege Shields

total 2500 points

War of the Ring continued.

Here are some pics from the Forces of Good I have set up in the small battle scene referenced in my previous post. There are also some more pictures in the slideshow on the right (There are some orc v. IG with the new bastion pictures included also - they are in the same folder I will create a new folder and post them separately eventually)

Here you see the Rider of Rohan meeting warg riders on the left flank of the battle line. I have another 12 riders in the works and hope to get Theoden in the near future to shore a nice little Rohan force.

My goal is to have 4-6 core armies of 500- 750 points to play with the guys in my gaming group, that way we can have larger team battles or smaller scale skirmishes when we want to take a break from 40k to try something different.

War of the Ring

I have been working on a few projects over the last few months. Below are some pictures of the most completed War of the Ring figures, I have been working on - they are not finished by any means but enough to give you a view of the possibilities.

First up: The Forces of Sauron

Above are few pictures of Uruk-Hai pikemen and an Isengard Troll and and a Mordor Troll charging into the fray against a combined force of men, both rohan and Gondor, and Elves.

As you can see there are is one formation of three companies of pike, a formation of Uruk Hai warband with two companies, a formation of warg riders and a formation of moria orcs with two trolls. I don't have my epic heroes ready for the forces of evil, but will have Sauraman completed soon and I am going to get Lurtz, as well as the witchking.

Planetstrike thoughts

I played my first game of Planetstrike Saturday. It was a team matchup - two to a side with 1850 per player. I played 'Nids and my teammate played nurgle chaos marines, we matched up against Dark Angels and Eldar. I hope to get pictures posted in the future.

From the outset I really liked the concept of the game mechanics, nothing better than having an attacker and defender with different force organization charts, however I think it is important not to go into playing Planetstrike that this is a finely tuned and balanced set of rules - it is not. That does not mean that it isn't fun, because it is. You just need to think of Planetstrike as a formalized means to play some really cool narrative games. Also I believe that the supplement can benefit from your own house rules depending on how your gaming group plays

Upcoming

I have been away for a while.. why is it so hard to download pictures? I have taken a bunch of pictures that I need to post on various subjects. some of the projects I want to talk about that are non-UM related include my Tau force.. I am in the process of repainting them and putting them on urban type bases. I also have an Ork force lurking which I want to get done. My Tyranid force is about 80% completed so I need to finish that. Of course there are my numerous UM projects I need to finish... I just rec'd my Prometheus conversion kit for my UM command landraider as welll as finishing up my Vanguard vets...the list is pretty long as to what I need to finish... This is not to mention not one but two LOTR forces I am trying to get done for the soon to be released War of the Ring. I haven't tried WFB, just could never pull the trigger but LOTR seems to be a good compromise withthe WoR ruleset. I have a mordor and a gondor force in the works. I am also working on a LOTR style board to play. Oh yeah I just rec'd my stompa and my stormlord in the mail.... I should have it all done by 2010... If I am lucky... I will post my progress

Project: Sternguard Conversion

This is the first of my converted Sternguard. These are converted from the FW Red Scorpion veterans. He is armed with a powersword and combi-plasma. The green left shoulder pad denotes their assignment to the 4th company as they fight an ongoing campain in the Scalerax system located in the Eastern Fringe.

Let me know your thoughts

Project: Forgeworld Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnaught

Positives: The model is just cool and is definitely a must have for the UM player. Easy to paint the main body

Negatives: The banner was delivered with banner pole bent in the casting process so warm water didn't work. so I had to trim the banner pole off and reattach it. I will eventually swap the banner pole for a brass rod so this wasn't a big negative

Overall impression: good kit. easy to put together. the painting is pretty straight forward, except for the banner.

Coming Soon: Forgeworld

I was surprised Tuesday when I got home and my wife, Karen, said that I had recieved a package. Lo' and behold there was this beat up brown package from Forgeworld. This was the first order I have made with them and didn't expect to receive the stuff so soon. It has only been a little over two weeks and I was steeling myself for at least a month's wait. Enough of that.

Here was my list:

• UM Venerable Dreadnaught (I am about finished with this one and will have it up soon) with plasma cannon and CCW
• Red Scorpion Vet upgrade kit - I just love the MK IV Maximus armor and will convert these guys into my sternguard (along with my 'Nid Hunters)
• Commander Culln Red scorpion Terminator
• Red Scorpion Vanguard squad
• Grey Knight MK IV Dread with psycannon and close combat weapon
• Inquisitor Lok
• Grey Knight Vehicle commander (for my GK Landraider)
• Inquisition/ GK Brass kit
• Tau Shas'o R' Myr
• Tau XV-81 Battlesuit
• Tau XV-89 Battlesuit

I hope to have reviews and pics of the finished models as I complete them so comeback soon for updates

Project: Ironclad Dreadnaught

This is my conversion of the Ironclad Dreadnaught built from the dread from the Black Reach Box. As you can see it is a very simple conversion. The Hurricane Bolter is from the Redeemer box, as I used the Firestorms instead of the bolters. The extra plating is from a Land Raider door and a Rhino/Razorback top hatch.

On the Hurricane bolter I used the crane cover from the Vindicator to add some detail to the hurricane bolter. The paint job isn't complete yet, but thought I would throw this out there for comment.

I still would like to convert a better seismic hammer arm, but for now the combat arm will count as that.

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