Nick's News! Showcase - Fifth Edition

Warhammer: 40,000

When I realised that sixth edition was on its way and I had no more battle companies to use I had two choices. 1) begin a whole new chapter 2) keep the chapter growing.
I chose option number 2 and decided that new miniatures would all be part of or attached to the expanding fifth company of the Eagle Marines.

The Dark Vengeance box set miniatures were all incorporated into the company and it happened that the wings depicted on the Dark Angels models could quite easily be Eagle's Wings and so no converting was necessary and I even bought Dark Angel specific models to keep the theme running.
All too soon the Seventh Edition was announced..........

The fifth company is now huge, and not yet photographed with the seventh edition codex - it will be coming soon!

Nick's News! Showcase

Warhammer: 40,000

The fifth edition was when I decided to separate out my collection into battle companies with each company being the corresponding edition. (except of course for the Rogue Trader era Seventh Company). As I came back to the hobby late into fifth edition I had the Assault on Black Reach set along with a couple of other NIB sets and like the fourth edition stuff and these have now been assembled and basecoated. The rhino and land raider I'd had since late third edition but I felt that the fifth company was where they belonged.

Of course, as soon as I had finished dividing my collection the announcement that sixth edition was on its way came......and I had run out of battle companies to use!

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Warhammer: 40,000

The fourth edition was the time when I was out of the hobby. I had picked up the codex and one or two models that caught my eye in the pages of White Dwarf but they were NIB in a cupboard for years before they were assembled and basecoated.

There are a couple of squads which form a part of the Fourth Company which I had assembled and painted at the tail end of my playing days. The devastators have metal weapons and are a bit top heavy. I might give them 30mm bases at some point.......

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Warhammer 40,000

The third company of my Eagle Marines Chapter still requires some of the models to be touched up from their days as 'Eagle Warriors'

It was the third addition codex which introduced the force organisation chart and all plastic miniatures were introduced. Most of these models are easy-assemble plastic models from the time. The terminators are mostly my own from the second edition Space Hulk box plus five more I picked up of ebay more recently.
The characters in terminator armour are metal and were originally on 25mm round bases but as there were too 'top heavy' they were re-based to the 40mm bases when they became the standard. However, now there is the 30mm base available they may get re-based one more time so they fit better into the late 1990s era of the force.........

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Warhammer 40,000

After I had re-organised my collection into different companies which corresponded with the different editions my second company turned out as follows:

All of these miniatures date from the the early 1990s and are either metal or metal/plastic hybrids.
Again, many of these models have been painted more than once.

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Warhammer 40,000

I thought it was time to post some pics of my WH40K collection. Starting with Space Marines.

The oldest miniatures are of course the 'womble noses' or 'beakies'

Most of the Rogue Trader era miniatures have been in my collection for some time and some have several coats of paint on them!

The reasons will be explained in more detail on my WH40K page but for now I am showing the:

7th Company, Eagle Marines in all their glory *ahem

Nick's News! Quick Battle Report

Bolt Action

Last Friday I played my second game of Bolt Action against Rob. As an introductory game we were able to learn that we got some rules wrong in the first game (artillery bombardment is not as devastating) and this time we learnt that assault is quite devastating!

The table looked a lot better this time as we were able to get a better table at the club.

Although we has laid out on a 6x4 table most of the action was in the middle of the battlefield.

Fortune favours the brave as my Sherman moved in on the Panther.

A lucky shot destroyed the Panther - however, we later realised that this was a bit too generous as we forgot that Panthers have 'extra front armour' - immobilised was probably the correct damage result.

All in all a great game. It will be a couple of weeks before I can play again, so in the meantime I have been reading up on the 101st Airborne Division and I have decided which specific unit my platoon will represent. Further update to follow.......