Heavy gear at Imaginary wars

Just took a photo of my 300 TV army I took for the first week of our slowly progressing league.  First game against CEF was a resounding victory against my friendly nemesis.  Second was against a new player's black talon, he did very well, and I have a new respect for stealth :)

Heavy gear painting!

Finally getting some hobby time.  Feels good, to actually do some painting.  And I think I have found the scale I like to work in.  15 mm or less.

I've sat on these models for a while, the surge if gaming activity in heavy gear and flames of war (with people actually using painted models) has helped.  Now bear in mind it could be that I like painting giant robots and tanks :)  and heavy gear is perfect for that.  The 'gears' are piloted by humans that sit in the chest area of these gears.  And the average humans height is to the knees of these military machines.

Here is a quick photo of done of the work I finished.  I hope to have more up soon (using a better camera and more lighting)

Some blurry pictures

Some of the recent work I finished.

Recent works

Having a child is a life change. A cliche but true. My wife has been wonderful to give me the opportunity to work on my hobby. I have to say these last few months have been fantastic. I felt I have accomplished so much more than I have in the last 10 odd years! I also had some motivation as well. A one day tournament held in Edmonton. All this was possible thanks to my wife!

I took a regular space marine list with no special characters :). I tried to theme my army around the Salamander chapter combat doctrine

The List!
HQ
Librarian w. Terminator armour and Storm Shield (Null Zone and Gate of Infinity)

Elites
Dreadnaught w. Multi melta, storm bolter
6 Terminators w. Thunderhammers and Storm Shields

Troops
2x 10 Marines w. Multimeltas and Flamers (in a Rino)
10 Marines w. Lascannon and Meltagun (in a Lasplas Razorback)
10 Marines w. Plasmacannon and Plasmagun

Fast Attack
Landspeeder Typhoon w. heavy bolter
Landspeeder w. Multimelta and Hvy Flamer

Heavy Support
2x Vindicators w. Siege shields

The tournament was good. I would have to say, I had some bad luck coupled with some bad tactical choices. You live and learn. I would defiantly take this army again, the Plamsacannon Squad did better than I expected and so did my vindicators. But my Terminators did not. I really rolled poorly for their armour save and they preformed poorly in combat against event the most basic troops. Oh well, I was thinking of converting up a squad of Sternguard to add to this army to swap them with.

Currently for this army I have a Rino, Devastator squad, Drop pod, Ironclad Dreadnaught, and Predator tank to finish.

On another note....
I have finally found a list I like for the Eldar. I have made the commitment to have them painted up as Biel-Tan. It may-be my fascination with the colour green :). And you heard it right. I had them painted for me, to give me something to work with, it was too daunting for me to start working on them. The friend that painted it for me did a wonderful job! Thank you!

Now I have an Eldar army for gothic, Epic, and 40K :)

Another year gone by...

Lots have changed since I last wrote....

1st. I have put my chaos warriors on hold for the time being, i have everything I want for them.

2nd. I am trying to do some finishing touches on my Wood elves, a few more models to paint.

3rd. My elder army is having a bit of an identity crisis. I haven't got the right balance in the army list. But none the less painting for them goes slow.

I hope to put some work in one of these three focuses. On a happier note, I have a fully painted elder army for epic armegeddon! Pictures coming for those soon. Almost done the elder fleet associated to them (battle fleet gothic). I would like to finish my epic armegeddon space marine force, however.

Anyways I am rambling...till next time

Had a quick game of DoW2 with a friend...which now hates this game...because of this...

Yay!

I officially have a painted army! My wood elves! Finally after so many years (and $$$).

Anyways I am attending a tournament this weekend, thats what motivated me to try to finish my army. I was almost derailed a few times...

Anyways I would like to thank my friends for keeping me motivated! I will be posting photos later :)