Hobby Time!

Ok, so I've allowed myself to get into a mad rush about trying to finish my Guardian-wing up for Battle for Stones River.

These things happen...I guess.

I am still reeling after Chris and I pulled the rug out from under the guys in the last team tournament. Dicehead Games really stepped up the scenarios and it was tough to get max points in any of the 3 rounds. Going into the last round we were down by 14 points, and our stuff was unpainted, so best we could figure we had to table and the guys ahead of us (who were fully painted) had to get 0-3 points...We ended up winning it all!

Anyway, here is the list I have decided on for BFSR:

1863 - Guardians of the Covenant

Belial armed with two lightning claws
Belial Command Squad (5 Deathwing Terminators)
1 Apothecary
1 Standard Bearer
1 Cyclone Missile Launcher
All have TH/SS

3 X 5 Deathwing Squads
1 Twin Lightning Claw
1 Cyclone Missile Launcher
4 have TH/SS

3 Venerable Dreadnoughts with Twin-Linked Lascannon and DCCW with Heavy Flamer

3 Landspeeder Typhoons

I already owned all of these models, but I haven't played them together in a long long time, mostly because Deathwing was hard to do well with since they were over priced, had crappy storm shields, and after I played a pure Deathwing army at Adepticon last year and tabled him in 45 minutes, I figured out just how bad they are...it hurt my feelings...a lot...but now with the new FAQ the Deathwing have risen from the ashes!

These are pictures of my progress. (Click the Thumbnails for bigger pictures)

Moving along nicely, I just hope I can finish. I still have to cast about 12 40mm round bases, 3 60mm round bases and 3 landspeeder sized bases.

 

Dark Eldar Venom: Take 2

So I posted my Venom prototype up on Dakka and got some good reviews, but I also received some good critisim, which is always appreciated to improve upon your conversions. And after hearing a few people say that my Venom looked like a Dark Eldar Vyper, well I decided to fix the problem.

Special Thanks to DPBellathrom from Dakka. I think he may have taken some inspiration from me, but his design was superior and I took some inspiration right back!

Without further ado:

First step: Get a Vyper and assemble the chassis, but don't glue it together.

Next: Move the cockpit 1 peg further forward, yes I understand that your driver won't have any footholds, he will have to keep his feet up!

Next: Gather the parts that you want to use to make it look more like a Dark Eldar transport and less like an Eldar gunboat.

Next: Trim the sails so that you only have the top most section attached, with the spikes still in place, and dry fit it on the Venom.

Its starting to look like a Void Raven, which is a good thing!
Next: Use the Gang Plank and Keel Blade to form a kind of "standing" area and dry fit.

Next: If you like the way it looks, go ahead and do the second side and glue it in place.

Now that you have all those parts dry fitted, go ahead and glue those puppies in place!

Starting to resemble a Dark Eldar vehicle!
Next: I started working on the cockpit, I wanted a Dark Eldar driver, so I used a Kabalite Warrior Torso and a Reaver head (because those heads rock face)

Next: Venoms need guns, and not sissy Shuriken Catapults, I mean real guns....Like Splinter Cannons! And by "Cannons" I mean two of them! But i went cheapo, since I don't want to waste my Warrior Cannons, I just used disentegrators, since I will never field them on ravagers or raiders (and I have 6 Raiders and 3 Ravagers...)

Next: Now its time to add the spikes and hooks and blades and trophies, but I just wanted to get the basics down, you can customize however you see fit. Here is a size comparison.

I feel like this better represents the Venom, and once I get all my blades and skulls on this puppy, there will be no denying it!

Dark Eldar Venom?

So I was tinkering around last night with my new Dark Eldar stuff, and though I had convinced myself to wait on the new Venom models, curiosity got the best of me. I bought 2 Vypers before I heard that GW was going to be putting Venoms out next year, so downtime and boredom led to:

What do you guys think? Should I pursue this or wait on some new models? I think this model looks pretty good, and is about the right size for 5 models.