Nick's News! - On the Table - Forgefathers

Warpath - Forgefathers

I purchased a whole lot of Warpath goodies from the Mantic Games open day last year.

As I already enjoyed assembling some metal Forgefathers a couple of years ago, I thought I would put together the plastic Forgefathers.

The weapon options I considered carefully to try to make the models work in the three Warpath games systems......

The assembly process is not yet complete......update to follow......

My plan is not to paint them up in Urban Camouflage, as my metal miniatures were....
But to paint them up in a silver and blue colour scheme which would compliment my other Forgefathers and also be similar to my Dwarf Army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle.....

Nick's News! - On the Table - Eagle Marines

Warhammer 40K 

The third company of the Eagle Marines has been On the Table on and off a fair amount over the last twelve months. Primarily because it was the last to be repainted from Eagle Warriors to Eagle Marines.

Bikers

This is a quick update of how the bikers were brought up to a battle ready standard.

The two biker squads were incomplete......

A box set of three bikers was acquired to even out the squads.

 The captain and chaplain of the third company are on bikes too.

The bikers have a little heavy weapon support from two attack bikes.

The first job was to take the bikers off their old rectangle cavalry bases.

Once the white armour had been repainted blue they were based on biker bases.

The squad with melta guns was next on the table

 Again, the white sections of armour were repainted blue, and bike bases used.

A quick look at the battle ready 3rd Company bikers next to the 5th company bikers.

The Chaplain and Captain got updated too

 Ready for battle.....

The attack bikes needed bases.

I am not one hundred percent sure that the round bases are the perfect ones as there are some great oval shaped bases available now, but they will do for now.

The third company is battle ready.....

Nick's News! - On the Table - Eagle Marines

Warhammer 40K

This post is a little update on my Eagle Marines. The third company is a 3rd Edition WH40K army.
I have tried to keep all the models in the company and the attached support from that era.
The squads are the first all plastic space marines produced by Games Workshop since the RTB01 box. 2nd Edition WH40K saw metal and metal/plastic hybrid miniatures.

As with all of my miniatures from this period, they spent some time as Eagle Warriors but have since been overpainted as Eagle Marines.

The tactical squads were the first to begin the transition......

They each received a very basic Basecoat covering.....

In the future they will get some shading and highlighting. But for now they are battle ready.

Squad 4 is tabletop ready....

Squad 5 is tabletop ready........

Squad 6 is tabletop ready.....

The third company, plus support, is now tabletop ready and I will show further updates in future.....

Nick's News! - On the Table - Raven Guard

Warhammer 40K - Horus Heresy

When I purchased the two Horus Heresy boxed sets, Betrayal at Calth and the Burning of Prospero, I considered what Legion I wanted the miniatures to be modeled and painted as.

My initial thought was the Ultramarines, as my Eagle Marines are a successor chapter. But I felt that I had already painted enough 'blue miniatures' and so looked at the other potential Legions. My chaos army is World Eaters and so that was a consideration, but 30K era World Eaters are not red and gold so they might not be dual purpose - being a 30K army outright and a boost for my 40K chaos army.

Whilst assembling them I considered that my usual black primer might be also good as the base coat for the army - and that is when I decided that the Raven Guard would be the chosen legion/chapter.

Not only would the 'Ravens' be different enough to my 'Eagle Marines' but as they are both named after birds there was some synergy too.

There is still a lot more to do

\But I have made a start

With plenty of troops, and terminators and a couple of dreadnoughts (one from the Talons of the Emperor set) there is a good core army for both 30K and 40K

Once fully assembled, the next step will be to give them a base coat of Chaos Black spray

The Raven Guard project is probably third or fourth in line in my current schedule

The next update will hopefully be in a month or two...........

Nick's News! On the Table - Stug III

Bolt Action & Flames of War

This is a project I started a year ago. I was looking to create a Stug Zug in three differnt scales.
15mm (Flames of War) 20mm (Airfix) and 28mm Bolt Action.

The intention is to have the same squad markings and camouflage patterns on each size. The thing that halted me was the lack of schirzen on the Airfix models. My skills with plasticard are not great, but that will be what I attempt next to get them to the next step. I am also working on a similar project involving SD.KFZ 251 'Hanomags'........

Nick's News! Blog Update

General Update

It has been a long while since I have updated this blog, and an even longer time since I added new content to my YouTube Channel. Hopefully, this will now change. I am close to completing my new hobby room and I will have a place where I can take new photos and maybe some video content.....