Speed Painting

Been very very very lazy with painting recently but the impending deadline of this tournement means my finger has now been plucked from my behind and is at work painting away.

Got a really good rytham on the boyz but the vechiles are proving to be alot hard, alot of details and the madderning decision of what to pick out and what to gloss over. Gonna visit GW tomorrow to pick up more red and green paint along with a tank brush that should help alot.

So here is my 1000 pt army list.

Warboss - Eavy Armour, Big Choppa, TW Shoota, Boss Pole
Big Mek - Kustom Force Field, Eavy Armour, Boss Pole

19 Boyz - (Sluggaz) Nob, Boss Pole, Power Klaw
19 Boyz - (Sluggaz) Nob, Boss Pole, Power Klaw
12 Boyz - (Shootaz) Nob, Boss Pole, Power Klaw, Rokkit Launcha

Trukk - Red Paint Job, Grot Rigger

BattleWagon - Deff Rolla, Red Paint Job, Extra Armour, Grot Rigger
BattleWagon - Deff Rolla, Red Paint Job, Extra Armour, Grot Rigger

2 Deff Koptaz - TW Rokkit Launcha

Its a very in your face Mech army and for a lad like me that hasnt modelled or painted in years its pretty daunting to look at. Decided to Include Trophies in the Army of all my mates armies for a giggle.

Mentoring

My mates young lad has start on Warhammer 40K and I sold him my now un-used Space Marine army at mates-rates. He seems really into the setting and the game to the point where he has started painting and reading the fiction.

He had his first game agasint my 1000 pt army list for the upcoming tournement (more on that later) and it was a draw and we both had alot of fun.

News for 2010

Just a very quick post to say that I have signed up for a 1000pt tourny in Febuary in Yorks and I am modelling and painting an army to match.

Pictures and details to follow...

Battlewagon Complete

Pick up my first battlewagon yesterday along with some Nobs and a Painboy. I mount all my Nobs on 40mm bases so they stand out in the Horde so I need alot more and the base pack GW sells sucks. Their website isnt much better as the prices are over the top so ebay it is. Anyway didnt want to put too much on my Battlewagon as I'm on a budget with points and I have no idea how this will fit into my final army.

Baptism of Bolter Fire

Had my first ever battle with my new Ork army agasint Brads Space Wolves. I opted for a combined mechanized and foot army:

Warboss on Warbike
9 Warbikes
3 mobs of Trukk Boyz (12 boyz each)
20 man boyz unit with shootas
Deff Dred with 2 big shootas
5 Deff Koptaz

It was a Dawn of War battle with 2 objective markers, I think I fluffed the deployment as I had my trukks going in completely the wrong flank.

High-Lights

My warbikes mob after getting chewed up quite alot smashs into a Grey Hunter pack as a trukk full of mobs hit the other unit next to it, the trukk boys were driven off after inflicting massive casualaties, the bikes were reduced to just the warboss who finished off the unit.

20 Boys armed with Shootas charged down a pack of Wolf Guard lead by the general and after several turns of bloody battle the terminators were wiped out. While the LandRaider that delivered them (that managed to blow up a couple of trucks) was ripped appart by some Kommandos

The Grey hunters in the ruins managed to hold off the advance of a trukk full of bodys, a dreff dread and the warboss loosing on a few of there number.

The making of a Waaaagh!

Got me hands on a blackreach boxset and managed to get my space marines for more orks. So got a good core of boys and deffkoptas and a big mob of Nobs and a pair of warbosses. A good friend of mine sold me his old Ork collection which I snapped up so straight out of the gate I have a sizeable Waaargh! To stomp everyone underfoot or tire.

Can't seem to decide if I will be doing a horde army, a kult of speed or a happy medium. Time and battles will tell.

Going to try and avoid using named characters and made my own general, the insane Warboss Heed!