Tanks & Fireblade Update!

Little bit of painting, little bit of modelling today. Started to fill the gaps on the Hydras with some plasticard, and to give you an idea of the gap here’s before and after:

Before & After

Before & After

As you can see the plasticard does a rudimentary job, gonna need to do a wee bit of greenstuffing to smooth the whole thing over.

I also found myself distracted by the Cadre Fireblade, that’s been sitting on the table for a wee while now, and managed to add a few colours to the chap. Didn’t really realise how much of the model is armoured, this makes things a little easier on the model and means I can dedicate more on the cloak and the sept markings. These elements more than anything help to distinguish him from any old firewarrior. Anyway enough rambling, here’s a picture:

Cadre Fireblade

Cadre Fireblade

And just because they look cool :D, the tanks again:

Tanks!

Tanks!

 

 

Feeding Frenzy

Heres a fantastic battle report from the group of mates I game with, of an epic story driven, multi-player, 40k mega battle. Makes for excellent reading 😀

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FEEDING FRENZY

My mate made the following scenario for a 6 player 4500 point a side battle. Each side would comprise of 3 1500 point armies with normal force restrictions chosen from Codex Dark Angels and Codex Tyranids respectively.

DISCLAIMER: The Following battle report contains some text written in Scots dialect. Whenever I have felt a translation is needed I have inserted one in brackets.  This is my first attempt at writing a battle report so be gentle.

I chose my standard Ravenwing list with the following concessions to my Tyranid opponent. Firstly I took out the Dark Shroud. I knew there was going to be significantly less shooting coming my way and so taking an expensive Land Speeder with no fire power seemed redundant. Replacing the Dark Shroud in that precious FA slot I took a squadron of 3 Land Speeder Typhoons. These are great in any situation but particularly against…

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