Finecast

Okay I'm looking at the email that arrived yesterday from Citadel about the Finecast and so far I like the look of them, of course I'm not happy about the price rise that will be brought about because of this switch, but I understand the reason as to why it's been done. Metal is an expensive option and looking at these on screen they do look better, sorry better isn't the right word more detailed, than then metal I've seen. I'll with hold judgement till I can compare 2 side by side, so that means I'll have to buy either another Librian in Terminator armour or
Cypher, I think I'll go with the Cypher personally. I'm not against new for newness sake, but I feel that this could of been handled better by GW than it has been, less of look at our shiny new range and more this is the reason we are doing this, but that may of brought cost into it and we all know GW aren't going to tell us that this is a cheaper option

Old School

I have an 18 year old daughter who has been in my life less time than this Citadel Classic(read seriously old) Assassin. This was a late 80's early 90's cast in lead. Again camera detail is a bit blurry but I'm still working on these issues. (May just get that crap Sony Ericson Spiro back and use it as my miniture camera.) The rifle on in the second photo is a conversion of a Warhammer Empire Musket with a Lasgun muzzle and power pack added the grip was from a boltgun and the site came from the Space Marine box set.

On other news over the weekend I finished my 2nd Raptor squad, chaos now so they are Raptors, and started on the Iron Warrior section of my army. While doing this I pulled out some models from the XIX and swopped them with some I'd put aside for the Iron Warriors, namely what were the Sternguard and command models whioch I'd made with Knight and Chaos Warrior legs and now plan on using these as my Aspiring Champions in the Iron Warrior troop squads. And hell fire are these guys easy to paint! I think it helps that the main colour of my army is black, but the dry brushing is such a cool effect on them and IT'S SO DAMN EASY! I wish I'd done Iron Warriors in the first place.

Assault Marines

This is my 5th day of posting ths week! these are 2 pics of 1 squad of my Assault Marines. Top photo is again a bit blurry, still ironing out my issues with my new camera phone, but the 2nd photo is much clearer. Multi tude of weapons and mostly bolt pistols used with 2 flamers. At the momment the jump packs are blue tacked on, will go to magnets when I get some more money.

Counts As Gabriel Seth

Okay this is my self built version of Gabriel Seth, I know it's blurry, but this was taken with my new phone and I'm still trying to work it out( as well as missing the auto focus off my old phone's camera). 2 Chaos chainswords went into making the Blood Reavor along with the heft off something, I don't remember what it was now. Body & legs are basic Khorne Berzerkers with Khorne symbols filed off, standard bolt pistol assault marine arm, to match the altered chainsword arm on the other side. Head is a Mk7 helmet with some green stuff on to give it the Knightly look, as I couldn't find any like it anywhere. Had to kill 4 or 5 standard helmets and couple of the Corvus style helmets to get this one to look right. Okay updated this one too, loving the blogger app, this photo shows him as I have him now and painted up for The Lions Blades Assault Company, for now I'm on pause with this project as I'm thinking of re-doing this army as Carchodons after reading the updates and Chapter Tactics, and I already have a Terminator I can use as the Chapter Master, but would like to do Knights Of Blood as well... Come the Blood Angel Codex I'll decide for sure but for now I'm painting them ss Knights but will run them as counts as Carchodons

3rd Edit! I have gone back and redone this guy again last year and these are the updated photots, legs are from a knight from fantasy, shield is from an Elf kit, not sure where the head came fron and the power pack is the big one from the Khorne Berzerker set, I'm guessing that the flur de lias is from amother fantasy kit. The last photo is of Jacob Kell in Terminator Armour in the counts as Tybeross The Red Wake. ;

Other Stuff

Okay so I've been a busy little this week posting photos of what I've done over the years now on here, still a few more to come, so keep your eyes open!

But for once this week I want to talk about some of my other gaming past times.

As mentioned I used to run a Vampire the Masquerade game for 6 years so I thought I'd go over some of the details of that long drawn out saga. We started this game because basically 2 of the players had a massive falling out and the Dark Ages Were Wolf game we where playing ground to a halt when one of the guys walked off in disgust and we chose to leave that game. As a change we went back to Vampire but did it as table top rather than Minds Eye this time. I'd borrowed the Transylvania Chronicles books and started to work out a story to get everyone together as one of the players could only think of doing a Roman Gladiator, while most of the others had at least some idea of what the time was like. The most annoying character was a Mongol Gangrel, as in Dark Ages Europe he stood out like a sour thumb, espically with the Outspoken Pagan Heretic flaw, we had to keep him away from the churchs. Next was a Ravnos who was actually played really well by Ronnie Morriss, one of the players that got married before the game ended after emergrating to Canada, the Galdiator was a La Sombra and we had an Assamite Assassin and my DPC who was a Mage, I borrowed the Mage The Ascension Book and the Dark Ages Mage book to get going with this guy, but to be honst I still think I wasn't playing him quite by the rules. Over time the story evolved from it's starting point into something bigger, much bigger. After the first book of the series I had the group approached by the Black Hand, as this seemed to be the easiest way to control them. And they had taken over the city that sat in the pass in Transilviana, and where asked to make it a neutral state for Vampires, neither Sabbat or Camerilla. This worked really well and had the advantage of giving me an in for new charactors and a bit of politics. Only a bit as most of the players where of the 'Hulk Smash Puny Human' mold.

These 2 are my fromerly Necron Pryiahs converted to counts as Terminators. The warscyth has been cut off and a sword blade added to what was left of the heft and a twin linked bolter and storm shield has been added to each model.

Gaden and Chosen

Top is my Forge World Titan Tech Priest, painted up in the Rouge Trader colours for the Mechanicus. Bottom is my Chaos Chosen of Slannesh, made from from Dark Eldar Wytches with some Space Marine weapons. The Champion is made from a Blood Bowl Amazon with a Lizard Man head, 2 blades to make Lightning Claws and a heavy flames Sisters on Battle back pack.