Apocalyse Game: Tyranid invasion

Well, Saturday's apoc game was a success for me... I managed to distract close to 6000 points of dark angels and Eldar with 3000 points of orks. The game was the finale to a campaign we've been playing at miniwargaming.com. It started with some space hulk missions. This was followed by some city fight missions and then planet strike, all coming to a close with this Apocalypse game. There were 10,000 points of Imperial verses 10,000 points of Tyranids with an additional 3000 points of Orks and Eldar thrown into the mix.

Anyway, my ork army was fairly simple and was only there to serve as a distraction to the imperium.

3000 points:
2 stompas
2 Big meks with Kustom Force Fields
3 Battle wagons with deff rollas and big shootas
1 Skulla Hamma battlefortress
30 ork boyz with nob (Power klaw, boss pole)
19 ork boyz with nob (power klaw, boss pole)
19 ork boyz with nob (power klaw, boss pole)
19 gretchin with runtheard
19 gretchin with runtheard
14 gretchin with runtheard

I ended up having Andrew's 50 death wing terminators teleport in behind me, and Joe's eldar were in front. In the end it was a sort of mutually assured distruction. Both my stompas went Apocalyptic and after all was said and done there were only 2 terminators left. I also made a decent dent in the Eldar.

Videos will be posted at Miniwargaming.com's members area in the near future, and in three months those will migrate over to youtube. I'll be posting whatever is available when that happens on here (I should have some other videos moving over to youtube shortly).

Miniwargaming.com upcoming sale

The kind folks over at miniwargaming.com are having a sale to celebrate their 2nd anniversary. This is great news for us because it means all GW products are 20% off, and all hobby supplies are 30% off.

Oh, and did I mention that they put out a lot of videos? That's a decent reason to check them out, and if you decide to purchase something, great, but if not its still worth your visit. Here's a picture from the big Apocalypse game that I participated in a little while back. A series of videos has been released for this, and is part of the members section of the site. A perk of the sale is also a free trial membership to access these videos. Check them out here: www.miniwargaming.com

Apocalyse Game preview

Here's a preview of the Apocalypse game I played over at miniwargaming.com. It is currently available on their membership site, but will be open to the public in 3 months. They are having a sale very shortly, and one of the perks is that you will get a free trial membership, with access to videos like this if you purchase during the sale. I believe everything is going to be 30% off. Check out details of the sale here: miniwargaming.com/sale

Apocalypse game Cont'd

Here's a couple more pictures I took at Saturday's Apocalypse game. The general scenario was 10,000 points a side, with 2,000 being separated in a city scenario. On the ork side we had over 300 ork boyz, 2 stompas, 5 battle wagons, 2 looted wagons, 7 trukks, a Skullhamma, 15 deff koptas, some nobs, storm boyz, kommandos and lots of special charactors. I can't give away too many details, as that will be saved for the video series at miniwargaming.com

Saturday's Apocalyse game

This is what 10,000 points of orks look like. A full battle report will be published (video) over at miniwargaming.com It was a blast, and rewarding to see my 4,000+ points of orks painted and on the battle field. I think I'm going to be shifting gears and starting up my square base orcs and goblins now, but I'm sure there will be plenty of 40k stuff on the go as well. Oh, and Space Hulk.

Paint a Stompa part 5

Here's what the head of my stompa is looking like these days. I decided to do it green since the stompa is meant to be an effigy to either Gork or Mork. The base was black with bolt gun highlights. Ork Hide Shade was stippled/dry brushed, then Snot Green, Goblin Green and Scorpion Green. The horns aren't done yet, but they'll be a bone colour.

Paint a stompa part 4

Some more progress on my Stompa. I've added some highlights to the checkers, covered the over spray and painted some other checkers free hand.

Paint a stompa part 3

Some more pictures of airbrushing the checker patterns on this bad boy.

Paint a stompa part 2

Here's a few more pictures of the progress I've made.
Masking out a checker pattern:


I made the squares by laying out the tape on a cutting mat then transfering the squares over to the model.


Masking out the other area:


Remove the tape:

Paint a stompa part 1

I've been getting my stompa ready for up an upcoming apocalypse game, and last night started airbrushing some details. Here's a couple pictures:

More Skullhamma Pics

Here's a couple more pictures, this time of what it looked like before I painted it.

Skullhamma Complete

Finished last night, and made the video for the members site over at miniwargaming.com. Here's a couple pictures of the finished product.