Necrons on the horizon

I had planned to get the new Necron book for the sake of reading about the new fluff and units, but had never actually planned on getting any models as the army had never really appealed to me before. Funny how fate always intervenes to tempt me off the righteous path. (anyone who can see the tabs to the right can see this is not the first time) A conversation with my nephew who was after my old lizard tank (R.I.P Flick) led me to discover that he had a small necron army secreted away from years gone by. After giving it brief consideration I decided to go for it and trade the tank setup for the crons.

I won’t pick them up til Xmas, but in the meantime I wanted to mess about with some paint schemes etc and thus picked up a catacomb barge and some second hand crons from my FLGS. I wanted the scheme to be bright and bold and thus put some old metallic sprays from a DIY project to good use - chrome for the rank and file, gold for the nobility. I decided to use turquoise to mark out the dynasty and picked up some resin bases from the excellent evil mushroom games (google them – highly recommended!) to go with them. The results are below:

My main problem now is deciding on a scheme for the gauss weapons. The four possibilities are below and I would really appreciate some comments about them i.e what people prefer.
The first one is just a blue colour scheme which I initially liked but then decided wasn’t very necron-like.

This one is just the main scheme with the regular rods in place – I’m not sure whether or not to change the main gun housing colour (black?) also.

This is a mock up of the flayer style seen in the new ghost ark kit – I had planned to either acquire some spare ghost ark flayer off ebay or GS cast some in order to make things more uniform in the army.

Lastly, a simple coloured piece of wire in order to represent the flayers as they are in the Dawn of War PC game, a simple stream of energy that dissipates when the warrior is deactivated.

Opinions greatly appreciated please folks. Cheers.

Blog wars 1.5 playtest

As some of you will know, Alex (From the Fang/Kabalite) arranged a mini-tournament for himself, Matt, Dave and I last weekend down at Maelstrom. When I learned two of the three other armies were power armour (SWs/BAs) I was only too keen to get the my Eldar out of retirement (still on a power armour hiatus for the moment) and put together a list, which was as follows:

My first game was against Matt and his new Necrons, which I lost to badly. The combination of the C’tan power making all difficult terrain dangerous closed my army down and in conjunction with two of the quake staffs inflicted many casualties upon my troops just for trying to move into range to be useful. Suffice to say that by the time I was in range to do any damage my army was already below half strength and there could be only one outcome. Sadly for Matt he won on a bit of a low through bad the misfortune of performing a sweeping attack with his named Lord’s barge (Anrakyr?), only for him to roll a 1 on dangerous terrain and give away 4 kill points.

Fresh from that game, I took on newcomer Dave and his Blood Angel JP list. Not disillusioned by my initial defeat, I went on to claim 8 tournament points from Dave with the Eldar performing superbly. Dave was let down by some unlucky dice, especially on his honour guard squad, but hopefully took it as a learning experience for the main event in a few weeks time. To me it demonstrated that while the Eldar list suffers against mechanised/ranged armies, it is more than capable of cleaning up against other foot lists, which my friend Dan found out when we played a similar list Vs his Tyranids last month.

Lastly I played Alex and, though it wasn’t so much of a whitewash as my first game, I ultimately couldn’t stand up to his wolf list. For the record though, his wolf lord made an inordinate amount of 3++ saves on his last wound and his Grey hunter squad made in the region of 40 3+ saves over 3 turns of combat, only failing one. To say I was frustrated is a vast understatement, but to his credit he did give us a great day out and drive us to Maelstrom and back despite suffering some foul virus.

So big thanks to Alex, Matt and Dave and hope everyone enjoys BW2 – if not for exams I would be there too.

Dark Eldar approaching completion

So I’m nearly there with the Dark Eldar project. Everything is magnetised and based, most things are undercoated and some models have got a lick of paint on them. The colour scheme I had always planned for on them was one of black base-coat, purple edges and a purple wash all over to blend the edges and tint the black. This scheme won’t apply to every unit; namely the reavers and hellions who are going to be more flamboyant, but everything in the army will have some element of black on them. Here to illustrate the scheme are a few very early stage models and my Lelith model who is nearly finished. Comments and crits appreciated.

New blog!

Welcome! Due to the overloading of my other blog, index astartes, I have branched out and created a new blog: Codex Imperialis.

The idea is that all things pertaining to space marines shall remain in Index Astartes, while all things Imperial, Xenos and chaos shall live over at this Blog.

Over the next few months I hope to slowly get a structure in place and photos of all armies and project armies finally uploaded.

For anyone who hasn't visited Index Astartes before, I am a serial offender when it comes to putting together themed 40K armies on a budget and now am only a few armies away from having them all represented.

Please check back soon. X