This time around, it’s a 1000-point battle between Imperial Guard and Nurgle’s … er, finest?

You can find it in the Battle Reports section here.

More soon…

I performed an arm swap on the first Heavy Bolter marine, to bring the weapon up into more of a ‘bringing to bear’ pose, and swapped his arms onto the second heavy marine, who is in more of an advancing pose…

Also finished basic assembly on the remaining two marines:

So now it’s on to the detail work…

So I have kicked things off with the first two of the original reports, Biglug’s Day Out, a 1500 point Ork vs Imperial Guard battle, and Enter The Dragons, a 1000 point battle between Space Marines and Imperial Guard.

You can find these, and hopefully fairly soon the others, in the new Battle Reports section.

I’ve been introducing a couple of teenage relatives to the joys of Warhammer 40K, setting them up with basic armies to get them started and running through some games of varying sizes with different army lists to get used to the rules.

We ran a slightly larger game than we’ve previously played on the weekend, which, due to the limitations of my current armies, required some ‘creative’ stand-ins.

For the Necrons, behold the might of the fearsome Monolith-E, shown here deep striking onto the table (and unfortunately scattering into Difficult Terrain and getting stuck…)

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On the Necron backline, a nearby Star Wars Miniatures Imperial Probe-droid found itself subbed in as a Wraith:

Not to be outdone, the Imperial Dragons Space Marine Chapter brought along a ‘Thunderfire Cannon’ that looked suspiciously like a Star Wars Miniatures DF.9 anti-infantry laser battery.

And over on the far flank, a ‘Hundred Battle Form’ from the short-lived and long defunct ‘Nexus: Skirmish’ miniatures game stood in as an Ironclad Dreadnought.

The point of all this?

I’m not sure I have one. It was a fun game, and we got to use some stuff that we otherwise wouldn’t have had on the table.

So I suppose the point, if I was pressed to make one, would be that we shouldn’t feel ourselves to be limited by what we’re ‘supposed’ to use for a game. If you want to try something new, find something that’s close enough, and give it a go.

Although a supplemental point might be that having giant sad eyes doesn’t save you from twin-linked lascannon…

Also got the basic assembly done on two more Marines, with bionic arms. The first will be holding a grenade once he has a hand…

And the second, similarly missing hands, just advancing and scanning the nearby shrubbery:

When I updated all of my armies in 2004, I dusted off the Corsairs and rebuilt them using the 13th Company rules from the Eye of Terror codex. Since my original Huron was in various bitz boxes by that point, I built a new one based on Marneus Calgar.

Obviously, he couldn’t have the same profile as the original Huron, so he was fielded as a ‘Wolf Lord’ with a Combi-flamer and single Lightning Claw to represent the bolter and Tyrant’s Claw, and a Belt of Russ and a Runic Charm to represent the Hamadrya’s magical effects.

At some point, I guess I should tweak him a little to reflect the new Codex’s rules, and give him back his power axe…

More pics in the Gallery.

I also realised that the entire squad was just a little too ‘upright’… so I ripped off one guy’s legs, and put him into more of a crouching pose:

Obviously he still needs some gap-filling, and a left hand.

This was done in a fit of boredom back in about 1999. I originally had an idea of converting up an entire squad of them, although plans morphed somewhat when I got my hands on the newer plastic Hormagaunts, which would have worked out a much cheaper way of doing the legs. I have a second prototype mostly built with the newer legs, but never got around to painting her… and the rest of the squad remains a ‘maybe one day’ project.

More pics in the Gallery.

It’s been quite a few years since I did any of these, and in that time GW have changed their washes… so I’m not sure if the roughness of these is down to my rusty technique or the different formula of the red wash. Still, they’re passable. On to finishing off their Chapter Badges, and adding in Squad markings.

So, I’m kicking things off today with a Harlequin Wraithlord that I converted and painted up way back in 1999.

Built from a bunch of parts I received with some second-hand Eldar, including the old metal Wraithlord torso, metal Warwalker legs turned around so the knees face forwards, a Falcon pulse laser, and the front cowling off a Rogue Trader-era Harlequin Jetbike.

You can find more pics in the gallery here.