New years eve cadians :)

Last post in 2012 :) Lets hope for a good start in 2013. I have to admit I don't like Cadians that much. They were good models when released but lets face it they are quite uninspiring for Imperial guard when there are beautiful Vostroyans in lamelar armor, uber cool colonial British Praetorians or iconic Steel Legion and Death korps of Krieg.. Cadians are just somewhat uncool and in silly helmets.

But when faced with need for some cool enforcers for =I=28 and bunch of Cadians i decided to paint my first ones (I bought them 10 years ago and they gathered the dust and being cannibalized from time to time :)

They are up armored and have visor front mask added to helmets that make them quite cool. They need few touches but I decided to postpone them since..  one day i fancied some fastpainting and took what was closest.. you guessed it few Cadians :)

I still think that helmets are silly but there is hope for them. I have to add few details, much weathering and make them Inquisitorial stormtroopers.. Chess horsie is obvious nod to Executive outcomes, but it really give  some character to these somewhat bland models  .

Thats how they look together:

And in the end my =I=munda 28 Wichhunter warband in early stages of being WIP

Some info and more work on them soon

Pit Slave Celebrity - Old Crusher

Here is He.  Titan among the men. Crusher Joe known as Old Crusher most successful Pit slave champion from The Pit to The Sump. 10 years straight master of Kosachew !!
He will be part of my Guilder underhive  trade caravan (thats why he is carrying stuff on his back) and after his traitorous rebellion also leader of My pit Slave gang !
he is based on old Goliath plastic, I like this body for its bulk, but its somewhat short.
he is wielding his power claw (pit slave shears) and smoking pipe made from skull of his latest opponent ).Slave girl will counts as his second pit slave weapon chainsaw, when i will use him as Pit Slave boss.

He will have his  trophy slave girl (She is still WIP Warmachine sculpt). I haven't decided where to put her chainsaw, but maybe i will magnetize her to the base and exchange her for eviscerator wielding penitent sister when in Pit Slave bos girl duty)

Uwaga Konkurs !! Czyli 1 Konkurs modelarski o puchar AWu

Konkurs modelarski AWu z okazji 10000 posta na forum Strategie

W tym konkursie każdy uczestnik maluje wybrany model firmy Zwezda w skali 1:100.


Regulamin
będzie prosty (ja nie jestem prawnikiem )
1: Każdy może zgłosić 1 pojazd Zwezdy z listy* w skali 1:100. W ocenie liczy się tylko model więc proszę o nierobienie marsjańskich dioramek** i odwracaczy uwagi (poza zwyczajnymi dodatkami, ew piechota na czołgu)

2. Zwycięzce wybierze głosowanie w postaci mailowej na utworzone konto pocztowe (TBA), by glosować trzeba być uczestnikiem forum. Nie można głosować na swój model wystawiony w konkursie.

3. Dodatkową konkurencją jest niezależny subkonkurs na najdoskonalsze odwzorowanie modelu ze zdjęcia. Tu dopuszczalne jest wstawienie dioramki, ale model musi być nieprzytwierdzony na stałe by spełniać wymogi punktu 1.
Jurorem tej konkurencji i sponsorem nagrody jest Fromhold (dodatkowe zdjęcia z ewentualną dioramką proszę wysyłać do niego).
Uczestnictwo w tej subkategorii jest automatyczne dla wszystkich, którzy umieszczą w swoim poście z pracą zdjęcie które próbują naśladować.

4. Wszystkie wątpliwości rozstrzyga sędzia główny czyli ja, głosy będzie liczyć kolegialnie wybrana komisja skrutacyjna forumowiczów nie biorących udziału w konkursie [TBA] (i jako, że wybory przez głosowanie to wstawiam swój model) :>
W przypadku remisu tie breaker rozstrzygnie komisja skrutacyjna w głosowaniu.

5. Zgłoszenie i prace umieszczamy w wątku obok przeznaczonym na zgłoszenie i pracę, (i tylko to w tamtym wątku, reszta będzie kasowana).

Jedyne znane mi zdjęcie T 34 wyzwalającego  Kutno :)

Termin finalizowania prac  19 Stycznia (Bo wtedy wojska radzieckie wyzwoliły Kutno, miejsce urodzenia mej szanownej małżonki spod buta germańskiego okupanta).
W razie czego się go przesunie o k6 dni

* Modele Zwezdy 1:100
PZ II, PZ III, PZ IV, Stug III, Pz 38t, Opel Blitz, Sdkfz 222, Sdkfz 251
T-26, T 34, Bt, KV 1, Matylda, BA 10, Matador, ZiS, Katiusza

jak wyjdzie przez czas trwania konkursu coś nowego w tej samej cenie to też jest dopuszczalne

Dyskusja na forum W tym wątku

Zgłąszanie udziału i zdjęcia pracy Tutaj
Warunkiem udziału jest konto na forum, ale jest ono bezpłatne i zakłada się w minutkę.

nagroda jest Wybrany model Zwezdy 1:100, Czasopisma o tematyce modelarsko wojskowej od Xardasa, oraz specjalna nagroda model z subkonkursie Fromholda.

Sinister Duchessa and the Cults acros the sector..

When I've been looking through 40K  cultist troops in the net I realized that vast majority of them is worshiping Nurgle. Small part are Khorne worshipers and.. thats it.. Slaneshian and Tzeenchian cults are countable on the fingers of one hand..
That did make me sad as Slanesh is me favorite chaos deity. I decided to change it :)

Most important factor probably is that Forge world is pumping great models for Nurgle and undivided with Khorne twist cultist all the time.. but there is no single model for Slaneshian cultist. Of course you could paint generic cultist ping and say they are worshipers of Slanesh but (and some people did that ) but where is the fun in that ?! Until FW wil do something i have to act on my own so i devised cunning plan to try and make visually different kinds of Slanesh cultist. From the top parts of Hive city Spire, to the bottoms of underhive and rebellious battlefields in between!

And thats the origin of Sinister Duchessa and her Menagerie.. While Duchessa is finished and need painting done and base, rest of her cult is still in the early stages of building.

I plan to use her in Necromunda and =I=28 gaming as opposition to my Inquisition warbands.

Here is WIP to the miniature during sculpting:

She started her life as bow I made to test my Cernit material, and as you can see her bow found place on her.. back :>



Here is small intro to my WIP Undercity Twist Slaneshian cult:

And seen before Slaneshian generic battlefield cultist:

And member of the elite cultist Traitor infantry squad

So who is mysterious Sinister Duchessa ? She is mysterious figure that lead and coordinates Slaneshian cultist activity in all orlds of the region!
Remember her name as you will be hearing about her in the future !

Fromholdov and Xardasov - 15 mm Soviets, hmm

Over a year ago i asked some of my friends for few samples of Plastic soldier company 15 mm infantry as potential Sci-fi base/stand ins. Ive got couple both from Fromhold and Xardas. They did their job as scale comparision pieces and lay abandoned at the bottom of my bits box..
Till yesterday..
So here they are seasoned frontovnik Fromholdov and rookie and reckless Xardasov lead their teams against Hitler !


Ponad rok temu poprosiłem na forum o kilku testowych maluchów z Plastic soldier company, jako potencjalne kadłubki do przeróbek i prymitywnych technologicznie wojaków do moich 15 mm Sci-fików.  Fromhold i Xardas szczodrze obdarzyli mnie kilkoma wojakami, którzy zostali oby z paczki Soviet infantry in summer uniforms. Spełnili swoja rolę  jako tester wielkości i spoczęli na dnie szuflady w oczekiwaniu na lepsze czasy..
Czekali do wczoraj.
Pod wpływem czytania opisów gier na forum postanowiłem spróbować ich popacykować. Jak się okazało koledzy się sami malują i co gorsza żądają uzupełnień !! Tak więc oto doświadczony frontownik  Fromholdow i jego młody i skłonny to ryzykownych czynów towarzysz Xardasow na czele swych drużyn.

Tylko kompletnie nie wiem jak ich zapodstawkować niestety, bo nie wiem w co będę nimi grał :)

Those are really speed painted, they took me less than 30 minutes all, boots and bases will be done when i decide how to base those guys and what game they will play, but i have to say I am enamored with them. They paint very easily, have great detail, are beautiful proportions ! Top quality little models.. Now i want full box of them, and strange urge to storm the German lines from Kharków to Leningrad !!

 Obawiam się , że niestety posiłki na nadchodzącą niedługo ofensywę nadejdą już wkrótce..
Nie wspominając, że ten T26 to jakaś kpina, faszyści ich rozjadą..  Czułbym się winny jakbym  kolegów Fromholdowa i Xardasowa nie wsparł czymś solidniejszym..

A miałem sobie kupić Tygrysy..

Loathsome Snakemen Ssylth and Cultist based

Here is my Ssylth.. This beautifully sculpted evil space snakemen from GW is reason i stopped buying their finecast models for almost a year.. He was not a quality i would consider worth paying for ;( Thats double pity as i absolutely love this model.
I have to admit i have somewhat soft spot for both snake men and multi limbed humanoids.. What could go better than combining them both, and add aesthetics of new Dark Eldar - In my opinion best range GW made since original Jes Goodwin Eldar.. I love most in GW miniatures unique and non military types  they produce. Normally they are Imperial guys and priests, psykers, fanatics, liaison officers and such. I collect them and I gathered most of them. So Dark Eldar retinue of misfits, slaves, mercenaries and courtesans was part of the DE codex i liked the most. And miniatures do not failed to impress me with ideas and sculpting  (At the same time when I said was disappointed because of finecast quality ;().
Worst think was that most of the bad cast parts were invisible before painting, so I realized how bad some parts are in half work so I did not wanted to exchange him and risk better quality ( a mistake i wont made again). Funnier story was with my Urien Rakarth, which i realized is miscast when i looked at GW page after finishing mine..but he lacked parts of the weapon I could live without.. Ssylth miscast destroyed some of detailing ;(
But now I cooled and finished my beloved snake. I used pair of original hands and pair of Wych hands.

What makes Dark Eldar best though up range GW produces (outside of Space marines obviously, but I do not consider them interchangeable thought but plain same and boring :)  is how each metal/finecast miniatures share not only aesthetics but basic build methods, so each miniature could be crossed with parts from plastic models in the range. That gives a great number of opportunities. Here i exchanged butcher blade of standard Ssylth with silly looking weapon from Wych sprue, that do not looks that silly on larger Snake men!, and exchanged pistol arm with better posed vicious Wych knife arm.
I have plans for more of those snakes, that I will equip in special and heavy weapons. I would already have many more if they were cast in metal ;(

After working with My Wyches i decided to base them on winter bases finished with frozen grass in form of grass tuft. Its first time i used them, but they will be staple of my basing techniques in the future. They add much life to a base which in return make miniature four limbed snake man look alive :)

After some bloging brake but not hobby break Ive finished my DV cultist squad to tabletop level. I will return to add some finishing touches, especially to their leader (Hasselfresian himself - I have to admit that i stolen this idea from Warseer ), but i consider them table worthy now and what is most important based. Those are gorgeously made models, and acquired quite large number as base to conversions (I don't play 40K, but i have 2 full troop choices of them now and will get some more :)

I will post follow up on them when i finish Hasslefreesian Leader

Here is secretly made photo of Sinister Duchess dealing with loathsome snake man..

Who is she and why she is dealing with such blasphemous Xenos villain ?

Mordheim band semi finished

Ive managed to finish my Mordheim characters, and repaint grunt miniatures. Those are minis Ive got by accident so I don't have any real purpose or plans for them. When Ive been buying Necromunda terrain, seller asked if i wouldn't want to get his Mordheim terrain too, I wanted and i get them was a freebie (with skaven band both from starter set).

I decided to repaint (or paint in case of pistolier and fencer heroes) them just to paint something different. They are little candy for my tasted but i like them overall. Now i have to get some close combat guys to finish the band.

As with many of my miniatures they lack bases.. I completely don't have idea for them, so they will wait until I will get next warband and share base style with them..

And Ive almost finished my first group of cultist. I like the mini a lot so Ive decided to make first group of them 100% original minis, as given in DV set.
So next time there will be cult

Meanwhile on Bulanda 2

Some of you may remember my blog post from long ago about toys Ive bought to fuel my gaming. Well I managed to finish next two. So without many words behold two armored personal carriers of Procyon 24th.
As they are basically WAB 4x4  they will work in AK47 and few modern scenarios too.
Those two from the top :

Now they looks like that (sorry for dark photo but I wanted them to look natural so light is natural too):

First one is stock with only radio antenna added.

Second one has few stowage and lines added.

Here they are with size comparison soldiers of Bulanda (Snakemen from CMG, GZG NI as Procyon 24th, Felid from Khurasan and Rebel Titan marine)

And Action shot:

Embroidered fabric first try in Mordheim

My first try in embroidered fabric look, I am not to happy with the result, but Ive got whole Mordheim mercenary group and I intend to try and develop it a little on rest of the heroes miniatures. (His boots are greenstuff obviously - Its 100% standard mini but i felt that he need better boots to go with such lavish  coat so they are added as an afterthought ) I will post rest of the band in different stages of repainting (Ive bought them painted as extras in terrain package)

DV Chosen

Ive finished (almost :) First model after 3 test cultist from great Dark Vengeance set. Those chosen are best plastic models Ive seen from GW. They are on par with classic 2 edition character model, and beat metal/finecast models in detail and execution (and of course they are plastic so they are convertable and non toxic :)

Without further writing:

Orange pad is waiting for personal icon, I am leaning to classic citadel tree design, but I haven't decided yet. Rest of the squad will have white stripes like on his power fist.

those are his first two colleagues still in WIP but in finishing stages, two more need more work.

here is he leading unit of suicide cultist.

Ive decided to paint heretic priest for my WIP unit of traitorous slaneshian unit [Here is example of WIP] - although he is still WIP i think that general styling wil stay the same I will only finish him and touch the details and pattern where its sloppy.
And realized that it could look much more interesting in cultist tartan pattern [visible above] but inverted (as cultist are much darker colour than my traitor guard unit).

So Ive decided to try and add pattern to them too and make it element that will spine whole chaos force.

And finally Slaeshian priest with DV cultists..