Pablol - Imperial Guard - Month 6 - Field of bones

 Bones bones bones

Behold my pile of shame. I shouldn't have saved the best for last as June was much too busy. Off to the field of bones.

I spent the two first weeks of June painting walls at a nursery and couldn't really do any painting at night. My friend was commissioned to make an artpiece for this nursery and the time table was pretty tight. The rest of the month went finishing other work projects that were on hold for the two first weeks and preparing for my holiday that starts now. Summer has also finally started and the few free nights were spent out with friends.

This is one of the walls of the public art commission I was working on.

Sadly an army is nothing without a leader. Though I'm glad I saved most of these models for later as I feel like during this challenge I've finetuned my painting a bit and feel much more confident working on these centerpieces now compared to the beginning of the year.

Here are the last three models for the Mortar team. One is a Cawdor and the two are masked up Orlocks. I was really struggling to find any Cawdor gangers all of this year. I bought some last year, but didn't realise I would've needed a few more and passed on a few deals.

I started painting the Techpriest already in May. So far it mostly just has the main colours blocked in. I've never really liked any of the original Techpriest models so I had to find something else. The old 6th edition Grave Guard models have the capes, eerie poses and perfect Blanche hats. I even extended the hat a bit higher to give it more authority.

I armed the Techpriest with a Bolt pistol and a power axe.

The last Lasgun servitor is pretty straightforward and will fit in well with the rest of the squad. I had chopped both it's arms off sometime around 2005.

The Imperial Preacher was also ready in May and got some paint while I was working on the last month tanks. He's based on a 6th edition flagellant with a flail that is replaced with an Imperial eagle. I also gave him a backpack and some equipment.

Probably the only Rogue Trader model is this headless psyker that I converted into an Inquisitor. I really like his pose. He'll lead the Cadian command squad.

My army leader will be this command squad. The power fist Catachan Lieutenant is a really cool model, but his Bolter hand is a bit stiff and at a bad angle for photos. I think this position with the Plasma pistol gives a better dynamic front pose.

The rest of the command squad:

The standard bearer is only missing it's flag.

The Cawdor heavy is missing the end of his weapon.

The Cawdor leader is as is.

The Bretonnia pilgrim will fill the last spot of the command squad.

I even got a bit gready at some point around April and May and started painting these Ratling snipers that I never managed to finish.

Last but not least I have this tank commander to go on the Leman Russ Demolisher.

Most of these models are already based and ready for paint, so I'll be working on them as soon as I get back home from my holiday. Luckily I have one more deadline to motivate me to finish this army. Ropecon is one of the biggest roleplay and miniature events in Finland and it's during the last weekend of July. They have an Armies on Parade themed army gallery called Show of Force. I'll try my best to have the army finished by then so I'd be able to show it there.

A great thank you for the Old World Army Challenge and all the motivating comments and messages throughout this year. I don't know if I've ever managed to build and paint this much in 6 months. Next year I'll hopefully be better prepared and have less to build and more time to paint.

Good luck for everyone else! Can't wait to see and read about your completed armies!

JohnR's Rogue Trader Wrap Up - OWAC VII (2463.5 points)

All done for another year. I didn't put as much into this OWAC as last year but in my defense I had a lot of other stuff going on. Still, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I finally got paint onto some minis that I've had for many decades.

 

 

Group shot - the contingent explore an abandoned outpost of the mythical Eugene Federation, deep within the Halo Zone.

Imperial Navy

 

The Holy Inquisition.

Adeptus Mechanicus

 

Imperial Archaeologists

 

Space Dwarves

Mercenaries.

I'll definitely be back again next year. Currently it's between WFB Dwarves and Rogue Trader Space Marines, so I'll probably end up doing neither lol.

See you all in about 6 months :)

Jaakko and Forin - Rank & File month #2

The Squats have advanced our cause considerably over the millenia. On no other group of worlds has so much Dark Age technology survived, nor so much expertise been preserved.

- Morgin Harad, Adeptus Mechanicus

February was a good month for hobbying. I had some days off and so managed to paint some stretch goals in addition to a small buffer that might come in handy later.

I finished one Combat Squad, a Squat Adeptus Mechanicus, two Tarantulas (to give options for last months Weapon Teams), a Commissar advisor to the Warlord and two Guild Weapon Teams with multi-meltas. In addition to these miniatures I made some craters for the terrain pledge.

TROOPS:

A Combat Squad with a heavy bolter lead by Colt Stoner.

A Squat Adeptus Mechanicus and two Tarantulas, one with twin lascannons and one with twin multi-meltas. I have been acquiring more models for the project, including this squat and multi-melta Tarantula.

A Commissar who serves as an imperial advisor to the Warlord. According to the rules he cannot shoot squats so I think I need some Imperial Guard allies.

 

Two Guild Weapon Teams with multi-meltas. I started batch painting all the bikes but quickly realised that they should be painted one by one. Still, I managed to finish two of them and there is definitely more to come.

I showed the finished bikes to my brother and we got into a headlight discussion. The middle lamps might be meant to have headlight blackout covers. I thought that it was just glass and painted them yellow. So, I have a decision to make before painting more. I might a) paint them metal, b) fill the middle with greenstuff or c) let them be. Feel free to advise me on what to do.

This month in points:

 

TERRAIN:

I wanted February to be a bit easier month, just in case. So instead of building something from scratch I got some old Citadel craters. They are thematically important in this project as mole mortars and some of my other heavy weapons will form them in battle.

So, it was a pretty easy month for terrain. I glued the individual craters onto plasticard, gave them some PVA and sand and painted them in the same way as all the bases.

SECRET SANTA:

This month I was in the receiving end of OWAC Secret Santa and got mail from Pokrzyw. I loved his story behind choosing Redugal Ironbeard as his model and so had to dig out my old dwarf army for the welcoming ceremony.

Redugal Ironbeard

This army is an eternally ongoing project with earliest models painted in the 90s. Maybe one year OWAC will help me finish it.

That's it, until next month!

JohnR's Month 1 - Rogue Trader Adeptus Mechanicus.

Rank and File Month #1

Admech this month with 2 tech-priests and a gaggle of servitors to open my account.

Servitors are created from the dregs of human society - those considered beyond redemption by service in a penal regiment - traitors, heretics, apostates and people who hang the toilet roll the wrong way round.

Finally my pledge: Flint Skymine. Space Dwarf prospector, asteroid miner and sometime mercenary. Flint wears flak armour and carriers a flamer. Soon to be winging his way to some (un)lucky secret Santa recipient.