Craft and hobby storage, miniatures, digital photo frames.

Dark Elves Spearmen and Repeater Crossbows

2008-08-03T13:01:00.002Z

Some shots of my Dark Elf force, this army has been reasonably successful, and this is with it using a Black Dragon as a mount for the Dark Elf General. Depsite putting mega pts into this arrangement it seems to work. The army colours use an antique gold for the helments and extra metal fittings with a purple for cloth. Also have leather details in a creamy leather for that flayed looked.

The Dark Elves Spearmen unit uses a mix of figures, there are some older metal figures in there for most of the spearmen, the champion and the musician, whilst there are also a few of the newer plastic figures. I also used a mix of shield designs, some hand painted and some with plastic skulls, but all using the skull motif.The Repeater Crossbow Dark Elves also use a mix of metal and plastic figures, tied together with the same colour scheme. The unit has no standard but does have a musician.

Averland Empire Helblaster

2008-07-29T16:58:00.003Z

My take on the old style Helblaster, ie metal with crew including the Leonardo type figure and what I think is an excellent Gun Captain and the big feather and flouncy stuff fits Averland style much better.

Philips Digital Photo Frames

2008-07-27T18:47:00.002Z

I have added the Philips Digital Photo Frame page to the online store. There are four pages of Philips Digital Photo frames with a variety of photo frame sizes from 10" to 7" frames. Philips photo frames are high quality products with excellent pixel quality. Below is the Philips 8FF3FPB

Slannesh Chaos Marauder Minis

2008-07-24T15:04:00.003Z

Old Citadel Barbarians or Norsemen from around 1986 which I now use in my Slannesh Chaos army as Chaos Marauders. This was before they got rid of the combined Chaos force with the release of Chaos Daemons. Talk about a backward step.

Different Empire Halberdier Generations

2008-07-23T09:25:00.003Z

First generation of Empire army with halberdiers which had metal halberds that you had to put in. I think they are from the Medievals range by Citadel, so from early 1980's

2nd generation halberdiers, now painted in clear Averland colours following the release of the first Empire army book which had pics of all the main states. I chose Averland because of the strong contrast and Black Fire Pass Guard, which sounded cool. Also close to the Moot so I could use Halflings and close to the Mts so I could use Imperial Dwarves. I have some of those coming up. From the Battle Masters figures I think.
Current generation of Halberdiers and these are a bit old, head swap on the plastic figure to make him more presentable. Metal figure in full flouncy bits and big Averland feather, and a really old Moon Duke.

Latest Halberidiers that I have, though I realise that there is a generation after this. But the figures are getting so big. Those Militia figures which came from Mordheim were out of proportion and now it looks as if they have followed that up, hence the problem that people are having with head swaps etc.

Averland and Empire Old and New Army Pics

2008-07-22T10:20:00.004Z

Having posted on http://www.warhammer-empire.com/ forums with some pics of my Averland General, then someone asked about old figures, so I had a rummage around for some. These are probably some of the earliest that I have that were used in an army when Warhammer 1st edition came out, as opposed to DandD figures. I still have the boxed set upstairs. They were from the Dark Ages range that Citadel Produced some time late 70's to early 80's. Worked as bowmen quite well and probably still could use them as Kislev troops.

This is my current Averland Empire Halberdiers (just a sample) with the Moon Duke as champion. Metal halberdier and then a plastic one with a head swap to make him stand out from the crowd. .

These are some of my current Averland greatswords. They include one of the F5 Paladins from 1986 (on right). I used a bronze armour on these guys. Rather than a simple steel plate armour.

Kodak Digital Photo Frames

2008-07-21T20:15:00.003Z

I have added the new Kodak Wireless Digital Photo Frame, W1020, into the online store under the Kodak Digital Photo Frames page. This is a 10" Digital Picture Frame and comes with an optimized KODAK Light Management Film to provide a bright, clear display.

One of the difficulties of Photo Frames is getting the pictures on to your frame as quickly and easily as possible. This new Kodak Frame uses Wireless technology so that you can access and share the pictures on your home computer with the Photo Frame using wi-fi technology. You can also use leading photo sharing web sites such as Flickr or the Kodak Gallery. You gain access to your photo collection on your PC no matter where you are in your home.

Wood Elf Treeman -Quickbeam

2008-07-14T12:45:00.002Z

This it the Treeman I use in my Wood Elf Warhammer Army. It is a converted Quickbeam figure from Mithril Miniatures. I have moulded his feet more into the base so that it appears as if roots are being pulled up. There is also a skeleton on the base with tendrils draped over him, which was supposed to be the vegetation being alive. Of course GW have made the treeman much larger and brought in the tree kin which is more this models size. But fundamentally I liked the model when I bought it and it still has a nice feel about it, probably 20 years after I bought it. It was cheaper as well. My Wood Elves army is pretty clean with a Lincoln green feel to them. More models when the antural light improves, as it is more or less constant rain here. What summer?

Using the new Games Workshop Daemon Army

2008-06-09T12:19:00.004Z

Well had an opportunity to try out the new Daemon Army and it confirmed my suspicion that it just didn't feel right. Fundamentally it felt beardy to choose the separate Chaos God forces in one army, when you have a themed army then you know you get some pretty rubbish troops sometimes but they possibly have a really strong theme that makes up for this. So if you had a Nurgle army then you might take Nurglings even though they are a bit of a waste of space to boost the theme element.

The battle was a straight forward pitched battle with 2000 points, which to be honest is the way that we normally play, against a new Vampire Counts army. For a General I went with a Great Unclean One, and then a herald of Tzeentch amongst some pink horrors and a Herald of Slannesh on a Chariot. Slannesh Demonettes, Plaguebearers, pink horrors, Fiend of Slannesh, chaos furies, and Screamers made up my force.

Things started off okay, and probably got too cocky but in essence the battle dissolved into a slog fest in the middle, which gradually sucked in more and more troops. With neither side running but losing men to instability then it was attritional. I lost my Great Unclean One on the last turn and that handed a Narrow Victory to the Undead. A major problem was that I had failed to realise that the Wight King was also the Battle Standard Bearer, it was a very ethereal banner and not visible in the real world, and I should have tried to take it out earlier.

The other major point was I should have tried to take out the skeleton unit and not allowed any rebuilds since I never managed to defeat the unit. It was a good game but slightly frustrating since we had had to take units from our Slannesh, Nurgle and Tzeenth armies to make the force, and Games Workshop has written three characterful armies that we have spent along time building up out of the game. In my opinion an all Daemon army did not offer enough to warrant this.

Averland General

2008-06-03T18:28:00.002Z

I use this guy as my general for the Averland Empire army. He is one of the Averland metal mercenaries that Citadel made for Mordheim, but I can't see them on the site anymore. He makes a great general since the cut and quality of his clothes is so much better than the rest of the troops. Equipped with a great weapon, he can do some serious damage but is not too expensive points wise.

Empire Averland Swordsmen

2008-06-03T10:57:00.007Z

So I have nearly finished the unit of Averland swordsmen but there is basing to finish off with static grass and tidying up, but these five are respectable. The standard bearer uses a basic Games Workshop swordsmen body (now old style) and I have added a standard bearer arm from the Knights set and a head and pistol arm from the militia set. The size is a little wrong since Games Workshop made them bigger but with two larger arms and a head this is slightly mor balanced. Also its a pretty simple paint job on the standard but with the repeating yellow and black of the Averland Black Fire Pass guard it works well.

New Games Workshop Deamons

2008-06-02T21:39:00.002Z

Well have just read the May White Dwarf. I haven't got it for awhile since the quality has been a bit iffy, but wanted to see what they up to with the new Deamon army list. I liked the fact that they had articles for both Warhammer and 40k using Daemon lists, and it helped since the 40k used Dark Angels.

I have a 40k Chaos list mainly based on Chaos marines and wouldn't be using the new Codex anyway.

But the Warhammer list was another matter, and must admit that I was rather peeved by the way that the list has gone, with from what I understand the only option being to have an all Chaos Warriors or an all Demon army list. Well that buggers up my Slannesh army which is based on the Hordes concept, and has a mix of Warriors and Deamons, and I would imagine most of brothers lists who has armies for Nurgle , Tzeentch and Khorne.

The Chaos Warriors armies are not characterful enough in my opinion on their own. All you can do is change the colour scheme, whereas with some Demonettes thrown in or a flamer unit you can tell which Chaos God they support. Well I think we will ignore that one but we will use the revised instability rules. The old ones were so bad anyway that we treated it the same as the Undead rules. Oh look my entire unit just disappeared, glad I spent £70 and 2 months painting them!!

2008-06-02T21:31:00.000Z

These photos show efforts to convert cheaper Ebay Games Workshop bought figures into something half decent again. Basic Empire swordsmen as they came, basically with big slapshes of blue paint all over them.

Figure cleaned up and bits from various sprues added, such as the militia sprue, to add some individuality. Then properly based.

Finished Empire swordsmen, in Averland colours, of black and yellow, with unit sheild of red and gold Maltese Cross. Now only 20 more to do!!

Dark Angels Chaplain Asmodai

2008-06-02T16:05:00.001Z

Have posted this guy before but just trying picasa out as a method to upload pics as Blogger is so slow.

Coby Digital Photo Frames

2007-10-08T15:27:00.000Z

Added details on Coby digital photo frames and Parrott digital picture frames to another site I run which has details on digital photo frames. I have found them a great way to view my digital photos which otherwise just get stuck on your computer. But it is hard to find information on them so you can look at www.digitalphoto-frames.co.uk for information about these and other manufacturers of digital frames such as Philips, Kodak and Cibox.

Slannesh Warhammer Army

2007-09-30T11:45:00.001Z

As mentioned before have built up quite a few Games Workshop armies over the years, and one that I have for Warhammer is the that of the Slannesh Chaos Champion Valsav of the Hrud. Yet again since it has been built up over time it has a number of old models in it as well as some of the newer ones. So for example the Chaos Lord incarnation of Vaslav is the latest Chaos Slannesh hero, but the Demon Prince alternative uses the original Keeper of Secrets. I also have some of the first Chaos Warriors from the first box set in there.

Below are two figures, mostly finished although the bases need more work. A Chaos Warrior and a Marauder. The Chaos Warriors are using a basic black scheme for speed of painting whilst the Marauders unifying element is the red and white shield design.

New Veterans

2007-09-30T11:32:00.001Z

Wow doesn't time fly when you are not aware of it. Life has been up to its usual tricks of being very painful and unpleasant at the moment so haven't had mush time for painting, or writing!

Anyway I have made some progress on the new five man veteran squad, after distributing some of the kit from the sprues around the whole army I have a five man squad of veterans kitted out. Not all of these come with monk style robes, which I am assuming equate to Inner Circle or at least further on the path to the Inner Mysteries than other marines.

So the first guy just has enhanced equipment with a sniper sight for his bolter and the combat shield.

The second guy will probably act as the Veteran Sergeant for the squad with his power maul, bionic eye and monks robes. A little frustrated with the flash lines on the robes which are still a little visible despite much scrapping with a sharp knife. The robes are a sightly different hue to those I have done before, more honey in colour, but I guess that just makes the army look less uniform on the detail front rather than too monochrome.

Dark Angels Tactical Marines

2007-07-20T18:57:00.001Z

Well some of the figures so far have been a bit old so these are some of the later incarnations of space marine. Fairly standard iconography for them. All are from the 4th Company so have knee markings where these appear. Using the bolter in the standard Tarrantino fashion in the bottom figure. So accuracy is probably rubish. I use black for suit intersections and hoses, red for weapons and often a blue/grey for Dark Angels insignia. Pipes and conduits are in yellow to stand out.

Since its been about 30 years of collecting Citadel miniatures, my brother and I have armies from most of the Warhammer range. He got rid of his 40k stuff some time ago, but I have Dark Angels, Imperial Guard, Chaos and Eldar. Warhammer armies are Dark Elves, Wood Elves, Empire, Skaven, High Elves, Dogs of War, and Slannesh. My brother has Dwarves, Orcs, Beastmen, Nurgle, Khorne and Tzeentch. So we cover most of them! I'll put some of them up at some point in the future.

Cheers

Dark Angels Devastators Space Marines

2007-07-19T09:50:00.002Z

Devastator squad with missile launcher, plasma cannon, veteran sergeant with power axe, lascannon and heavy bolter. Couple of really old guys in here and some middle aged. But hey they do what they say on the tin.

Ravenwing Landspeeder

2007-07-19T09:42:00.001Z

The smaller metal landspeeder but a great Ravenwing model. The good thing about 40k is that you can justify it as coming from an earlier time and is a relic passed on, rather than always having to get the latest incarnation from Games Workshop. I do have one of the newer ones, and have reworked that with some Forge World icons and bits from the new sprues.

Deathwing Terminators

2007-07-19T09:36:00.001Z

A couple of Deathwing Terminators for you, standard issue Storm Bolter and Thunder Hammer and Shield. They are on normal size bases, might change them to the large ones but they do take up less room on the battlefield melee and in the army carry case.

Dark Angels Chaplain and Standard Bearer

2007-07-17T20:35:00.001Z

Another couple of classic miniatures, you can't beat Asmodai as a Chaplain

Standard Bearer for the Company, based on Brother Bethor

Old Apothecary

2007-07-16T19:58:00.001Z

I do have one of the new style ones that I need to paint up, but this is an original guy. Still have the White Dwarf article somewhere where they were introduced along with Imperial Guard Medics (have to finish and photograph that army at some point as well). The only Dark Angels iconography is in the painted pin shoulder pad. Uses a blue white rather than just using whites and greys.

Dark Angels Running Combat Squad

2007-07-14T11:31:00.001Z

On looking through the various squads after sprinkling pieces from the new Dark Angels Veterans through them, I noticed that I had a number of running poses. Have to put these in squad 2, and move a veteran seargent back to squad 1. Putting these with the new Squad 2 seargent who was also running this would give me a combat squad of models advancing at pace. I'll do them as squad 2 figures so I will need to do a bit a repaint job on some for shoulder pad markings and fill in the gaps back in squad 1.

Master of the 4th Company

2007-07-14T11:08:00.001Z

The iconography for the Dark Angels is based on the 4th Company. I have used the classic Dark Angels Captain as the basis for the 4th Company Commander Sheol. Carries back pack banner with cloak which is based on the same hue as the Battle Robes.