The title says it all really. Here’s a pic of a base of World Eaters for Legions Imperialis. I’m very excited, it’s literally the most models I’ve painted in easily a year 😂
LImp World Eater Test Paint
Tag Archives: 3Dprint
Mantic Armada Orc Fleet
This is not the post I was planning to publish next, it should have been Bloodbowl related (also posted back in June, but we won’t dwell on that). A chance conversation with a Bloodbowl player (Tim) in the league I am participating in turned into a mad dash to get a playable fleet to have a game of Armada with…and hence the opportunity for an out of the blue article. I wasn’t expecting to post about Armada again*, I did a review when I first received Armada back in November 2020. I had an initial bout of excitement and attempted to play a little intro/test game with my son (a bit young at the time really). I started assembling and converting some models but motivation dwindled and progress stalled.
prepare to walk the plank ye land lubberBrutefun’s Lizard Team for Bloodbowl
During last year’s Black Friday sales I treated myself to an upgrade of my 3D printer. I bought myself an Elegoo Saturn 2 printer. It arrived just before Christmas, but I didn’t get chance to set it up to the new year. The first thing I printed was the Brutefun Fantasy Football Lizardmen Team as a proxy for the Bloodbowl Lizardmen team. The Saturn 2’s build plate is huge in comparison to my old Mars 2 Pro’s build plate. In fact a whole team’s worth of models easily fit onto a single plate. There were of course a few teething troubles and a couple of failures. However the full team was printed, and the models are fantastic. Sadly those models have sat around languishing unpainted in the house since then. If you’ve been here before you’ll know that this is a fairly common state of affairs with my models.
One of the first printed models, a Brutefun Chameleon:
Dark Angels Legion #3 – printer go “BRRRRTT”
I should be painting models, that’s what I am supposed to be doing. But I’ve got distracted again, its really not a surprise though. I stumbled across some really nice looking STL parts that would fit in really well with a Dark Angels force, and well I couldn’t resist printing and assembling them.
If you’re old enough a veteran hobbyist you’ll remember some metal space marine captains that had lots of cool details (for back in the 90s). Take a look at this page and you’ll see what I mean. In particular the veteran captain with the bionic leg. Now I am not right at this point wanting to build a Praetor/Centurion/Consul/HQ choice – whatever you want to call it. I just wanted to create a funky veteran sergeant to lead my tactical squad.
At this point it would be really cool to introduce you too “Sergeant Bob, a veteran of the x crusade, injured playing football” but as you can tell I have not yet procrastinated that much to avoid painting.
He isn’t on the correct size base, just a spare 40mm I had at hand to stand him on next to one of his future squad (that I should have been painting). If you’re interested* in printing/building your own I thought I would share the links to the various STL used.
- Legs, come from Mildseven’s bionic leg pack.
- Torso, is from OHM’s captain model.
- Arms, are OHM’s alternate arms.
- Shoulders – erm bugger I cant find these exact pads at the mo. If I do find the link I’ll come back and edit this post (I thought they were from here, but looks like they are not).
- Head, the current head is now been removed from sale, but I have not 100% decided on this head yet. There is almost limitless variety of styles out there to choose from (example, example, & example). I might even just use a head from the plastic mk iii kit.
I think he’ll make a cool little addition to the squad and add a little extra character (pun not intended) to them. Now back to painting these guys!
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*Its interesting to see how 3D printing is becoming more and more accessible, to the extent that gaming stores are starting to sell them.
Dark Angels Legion #1
Well Horus Heresy Age of Darkness second edition is just around the corner. Its spurred me on to actually start doing something with the models I’ve been slowly collecting in my WH30K pile of shame. Yes I know, the standard pile is so large I’ve been sub-dividing it to make it seem smaller and more manageable. This particular pile manifested itself a few years ago now with the acquisition of an unbuilt out of production Cerastus Assault Ram, but really took off with the release of the Dark Angels special units and the Lion himself.
So what was the first models I decided to work on? The gorgeous Inner Circle Knights Cenobium terminators? or the tasty Interemptors? Nope, I’ve started with the basic troops, a simple 10 man tactical squad in Mk III armour. If I ever end up playing HH then I’m going to need some basic troop choices. It also means I can afford to screw up the paint job/scheme on the less expensive models.
Crimson Fists
I mentioned painting some Crimson Fists in my last blog post. I figured I would show off the complete squad. I have slowly been gaining the new* Primaris marines as I really like how they look, better proportioned than the older ‘firstborn’ marines. My go to Chapter would be the Dark Angels, since their first codex release in the mid 90s. However I felt like doing something completely new for the ‘new’ marines. The Crimson Fists sprang to mind for a few reasons, I like blue, they have some iconic artwork** that has branches across the many editions of 40k, and they have a background reason to have a purely Primaris based force which is what I was thinking of building.
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Legio Tritonis the Dark Tide
I traded some models recently for yet more AT stuff from a mate, because I just can’t resist these awesome titans. My idea behind these was to paint up some already built models quickly to enable a couple of forces to get on the table.
Did you see there mistake I made there? That’s right I said “paint” and “quickly”. If you’ve looked at more than maybe one article on this blog you’ll know that wouldn’t end well. So where did that simaple aim go wrong? What am I up to with Tritonis Titans?
The first snag is that the titans I had acquired were not in the best examples of assembled titans. I had two Reavers, both of whom had awkward or absurd poses and a Warlord that could do with a little TLC. This was not my mate’s fault, he’d got them built second hand too. I think he’d sorted out the Warlord, and made the best of a bad job with the Reavers, but I’ve taken them apart as much as possible to try and re-assemble in more reasonable poses. While doing this i came up with the idea of making custom armour plates for the titans.
overtaken by the dark tideGrimdark Terrain ATC Tower
Its the beginning of September, so obviously this is where I tell you all about the massive success in completing the month 1 pledge of my #ATClashOfTheTitans challenge, by Battlebling Store and Maximal Fire Podcast.
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Well…yes, about that, I’m a little behind with my pledge to complete my Warbringer. However, check out what distracted me!
Motorised Radar dish anyone?July Update
…and June’s…
…and May’s.
Crikey, I’ve been a bit lax recently on the blog. Life has simply got in the way a bit. I’m still working from home – unbelievably it might be May 2022 before I’m back in the office – and my hobby area has been overtaken by my office. After sitting at ‘work’ all day the last thing I feel like doing is sitting in the same place to do some ‘hobby’. That’s not to say I don’t want to do any hobbying, its just that I can’t face sitting in same place any longer. Working from home has its advantages, but i’m now sick of it. The other thing is that I’m a dad again, we recently adopted a 1 year old daughter, this certainly makes life busy lol.
So what hobby have i done recently?March Hobby Update
Oh my word, where is the year going!!? You may have noticed that my last post was back at the start of Feb and this post is technically still in March- maybe, probabaly, just…depending on time zone. I admit it, there is no plan for this post and frantically rambling to generate some content for March. So just what I have I been up to over the last almost two month?
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Splayed Paint Brush 