A first-time Warhammer 40,000 player's chronolog of assembling, painting, and playing a Tau mechanized/light-hybrid small-points cadre.

2010/09/27

More Blood Angels

A Razorback.  The most compelling option is a lascannon + twin-linked plasma gun, but there are no bits for that.  So instead it's got a twin-linked lascannon and a twin-linked...I dunno, Storm Bolter or something, I'm not sure.


As you can see I didn't get the Imperial eagle on right.  That sucker bonded instantly as soon as it touched the hull; when I tried to straighten it up I actually snapped the whole thing in two at the root of the left (from our perspective) wing.  Oops.

2010/09/13

There's Blood On My Battlesuit

Here's my nascent Blood Angels HQ (Librarian, generally w/ Power Sword and Infernus Pistol even though that's a plasma pistol) flanked by two blurry Sanguinary Priests as Elite choices.


I haven't actually glued them together yet; their bits and bodyparts are just held on by blue tack at the moment.  That's not going to work for actual play, though, as the blue tack doesn't grip metal/metal or metal/plastic nearly as well as it does plastic/plastic.  Part of me would like to magnetize them, as for sure I'll be giving them jump packs on occasion, but I don't want to mess around with drilling metal.

2010/09/04

Manufacturing Terrain

Another building.  A manufactorum this time.


That smokestack was a bitch, and still isn't on quite straight.  I had to snag one of Calvin's sillybands (those are his pirate sunglasses there behind my yardwork ones (which picked up a few new scars today)) in order to strap it in place for half an hour.  Part of me thinks it's pretty much the same damn thing as the Basilica Administratum I assembled a few weeks ago (that's 3-stories + roof, this is 2 + roof) so why didn't I do something different, but the rest of me thinks fuck that I've only got so much time and getting fancy with buildings is low on my preferred uses of it.

I did manage to get some of the accoutrements (lights, roof-level railing things) on, though, unlike the Administratum.