Tales of a hobby butterfly

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.

These models from microcosm miniatures are perfect looking bikers with an old school vibe.

You can order them with biker heads or military helmets, I chose the helmets as they fit the theme of my army better, but was very tempted by the biker heads.

The squad leader had his weapon replaced with an axe from the old dwarf warrior sprue.

In 2nd edition games they can be used in games as bikers as intended. In 10th edition games I will use them as proxy rough riders, I know they don’t have lances bur I’m sure if they were to ram something with their bikes they will do similar damage.

Picked up a pack of metal space dwarfs at a the selwig show from the bring and buy. I belive these dudes were from a kickstarter from uscarl miniatures.

The sculpts are full of detail and really catch the old school vibe with the padded flack jackets and cool helmets.

Kind of want the models to be useful in 2nd edition 40k as well as 10th I’m trying to get 1500 points painted by the end of the month for an upcoming game at wayland, will have to see how it goes.

The dwarfs in exo armour are from scibor and make a rather swish command squad, the big dude in mech suit is from gudrun studio and be used as an ogryn body guard in this force