Tales of a hobby butterfly

I have not played epic 40k for a long time but have signed up to a campaign a the local club as part of my new year’s resolution to play more games.

These chaps are from the 6mm vanguard miniatures range and now form the 69th hamfists regiment of the death korps of krieg

Even though they are teeny tiny they are full of detail that shows up nicely when painted.

I mounted them on washers to help with storage on magnetic sheet

Having enjoyed epic from asaptus titanicus in the late 80s through all its other editions the excitement of impeialis was too much for this old dude to miss out on.

Then I saw the price!!!, after Trying to work out which body part to sell I decided that 3d printing is the way forward so I ordered the new rule book and tokens from ebay, also hunted through my bits box for a bag of marines I purchased from vanguard miniatures a few years ago, turns out they are pretty much the perfect scale.

I found enough to form 2 demi companies with special weapon squads and some assault marines in support.

Luckily I also have a stash of 25mm metal washers that are perfect for bases with the added bonus of giving heft and magnetise for easy storage.

Next I need to break out the 3d printer for some teeny tiny tanks

Printed these chaps a few years ago now, every now and again I pick them up and paint them a different colour as I could never find a green I liked for the sons of horus.

Being colour blind they spent some time both grey and brown I would have sworn it was a cool green.

I should maybe have stripped the layers of paint before adding this layer as some detail has gone but was in a hurry whilst I was in the mood to get the unit finished.

Had a go with the v2 speedpaints and was mightily impressed. The metallic speed pains are very swish. The plan was to add some rusty bits to the metal but unfortunately my rusty paint is now a crusty dry lump due to the turd gw paint pots.

Decided to give the Wight a funky pumpkin head made out of green stuff

Every year we try to meet up for a game around Christmas time, because of work this is the closest we coukd get.

The game played over 3 tables with nuts vs golden Boys on one table, blood angels vs space wolfs and a three way of squats vs dark eldar and guard.

I learned two lessons don’t get in a knife fight with dark eldar and don’t get in a gun fight with guard.

The mission was to capture santa who randomly wanders the table after being shot down. You have to capture and escape your table edge with the jolly fellow. After 5 turns santa managed to evade our best efforts to capture him with only the dark eldar capturing him for a turn before escaping.

I stupidly told the opposition the squat bikers were my favourite so they were wiped out in the first turn, luckily I did get to see them again by using a cp to bring in reinforcements.

The dark eldar hold a moral victory As they were able to erase Marbo before he could cause any mischief as well as taking straken out in close combat.

The catchans did well also by taking out both my and the dark eldars warlords.

These are the last bits and bobs needed to bring the force up to 1500 points for a 10th edition game.

The tank commander in punisher and the two vanquisher tanks are from world war toons with some 40k gubbins stuck on.

The commissar in his dapper white hat and boots is there to keep order in the ranks and the counts as tech priest was added to try to keep the vehicles alive a bit longer.

Thought a yellow and green storm lord would look cool on the table and will fit most of my squishy infantry to save them walking across the table.