Itsy bitsy Romans

Another long term project I have burning slowly in the back ground is a 6mm Late republic/Roman civil war army from the Julius Caesar/Marc Anthony/Octavian era. Based for FoG, I love the look of lots of 6mm troops on the tabletop and this promises to be a nice looking army. Still got to decide on an enemy to face them

Flames of War

It's not all Sci fi on my desk, I'm working on finishing of my British Paras for Flames of war. I've had them for almost a year, but they get put to one side everytime something else comes up.

So far I have painted 2 platoons of Paras, an assault platoon, a mortar platoon, and a light AT battery. I also have a Vickers platoon to finish off and one more Para platoon. I'm looking to max out on pait teams as everyone seems to love tanks, and well paras don't have any.

I  have based them all on Kerr and King urban bases, they look great but take longer than the figures to paint with all the detail. My favourite piece is my observer team in the 2 story base, loads of character and fun to paint.

Once I've finished the last few bits here I just need to get some Heavy AT guns (Tigers have been spotted), an artillery battery and a platoon of Royal Engineers (very handy in FoW as they allow you to deploy mines and barbed wire) I might get a flight of Typhoons as well.

Baking powder and snow

I have been playing around with ways of making snow bases for the past two days, the campaign I have been playing in for the past year is on an ice planet called svaard and the final battle is taking part in the snow. So after a lot time I have finally decided to make the snow army I have always wanted, and it's the Dark Angels that get the pleasure of freezing their power armoured toes off.

I've looked at lots of commercially available snow basing material and it all comes in small pots and is rather expensive especially to rebase 130 troops; looking around on the internet I found a video on you tube of someone using baking soda. I had some in the kitchen so tried it out straight away and... it works really well. Just mix a bit into PVA glue and water and it starts to foam up, apply the foam (more watering down is needed) to the base where you want snow and then dip it into more dry baking powder; then allow to dry and varnish to harden it all up, it looks awesome and is easy as anything.

The tanks I dusted in baking powder, blew most of it off then varnished; it gives a nice lightly snowed on look.

I had to take some pictures and here they are.

2010/2012 Campaign

The final Apocalypse game of this years campaign is approaching and while deciding on formations etc I thought it would be nice to field a full battle company as a formation. This causes two problems

1. I need to acquire and paint three more tactical squads and ideally nine Rhinos before April

2. It doesn't go with the Vraks list as the 3rd company wasn't a full company.

So I've abandoned the Vraks idea, and as it means I now will have one full battle company; why not do the rest. Which is the inspiration for me writing this blog. The collection of the entire Dark Angels Chapter.

To Break up the monotony of endless green I have decided to mix up a few Squads from other successor chapters as 'exchange' units.

Current Project then is the completion of the Battle Company, Still to go three Tactical Squads, 8 Rhinos, two Razor backs, and ten drop pods as I have that option. Then after that it will be a half ravenwing company.

I must be mad

Iron Wing

Recently I have been playing around with a 1500 point Iron Wing list, it's very Landraider heavy but struggles to take objectives; scares most opponents though.

Librarian

10 Man Tactical Squad

10 Man Tactical Squad

Land Speeder with assault Cannon and Heavy Bolter

Land Raider Prometheus

Land Raider Redeemer

Land Raider Achilles

By Combat Squading the Tactical Squads I get four Scoring units out of it and just have to be careful the don't get shop up. However the Landraiders, especially the Achilles are great fire magnets.

Off topic again?

I've been trying to write blogs focused on one army, but being easily distracted I'm finding its not working; the only choice I have it seems (not including the giving up completely) is to combine all my mumblings and ramblings into one hopefully not to confusing Blog. I will start with bringing over my posts on my Dark Angels and then drift off into whatever turns up in the future. Plans? Well yes I have them you will read quite a bit on my favourite project my Dark Angels and also my fledging FoW Paras force. Work wise I have a few projects in the pipeline in the near future and will post those when the time comes.

So expect to see Green Space Marines very soon

Les. www.armouredcorpsminiatures.co.uk