A few bits of scatter terrain

These are, I believe, the last few bits of terrain that I have that have not been painted. The barrels were 3d printed and came along with the wrecked Rhino that I painted up a while back and the other bits came with all the pipe work in the Mantic Terrain Crate I brought ages ago. The only reason they didn't get painted up with the rest is because I lost them somewhere in my stuff and only found them recently. I'm sure that there are still several of the boxes from the GW containers pack floating around somewhere that need Painting but I have no idea where they are.

All the bits that needed painting

Two small generator things and a terminal for the small pipework.

Basic barrels, with equally basic paint scheme. 

Quick but effective

 These pieces are the last of my terrain that needs painting that I am aware of, like I said above, I'm sure there are other little bits around but don't know where. Its good to finally have all the terrain painted and ready for the tabletop. 

Dagr Ormr Drop Force Photos

This force, while it might look quite significant is the smallest of my three guard forces, sitting at a whiskers under 1600 points. There is however a plan in motion that will see this force rise to around 2500 and very similar in points to the other two guard armies. 
 

The three commanders, Tempestor Prime Agnarr, Inquisitor Tamhas and General Conner, standing with their respective command units 

General Conner and the Hildasay PDF units

The 2ic, Tempestor Prime Muninn and Tempestor Prime Agnarr with their command squads

The Dagr Ormr forces

Inquisitor Tamhas and his attendant Ogryn Bodyguard

While I can't technically field all of this lot at once, it's nice to have options.

The Hildasay PDF in al their glory.

The Commissar, as yet unnamed but he definitely needs a name. #one of the best sculpts I own.

As I said this force is not quite complete, for that I need another 20 or so scions and 90 conscripts. So just a couple of additions!

Finished terrain

So my plans for getting the kids to paint up my terrain for me sort of worked, they did Paint up some of them but I had to finish them off. Well I say had to, I didn't have to, I just wanted to actually get them finished in a reasonable amount of time. 

The barricades, 

These are painted very simply, as is most of the parts I painted. Dry brush boltgun metal (or lead belcher as it's called these days) over black primer, with some red highlights, mostly the Ork plane parts.

Planes and lightbulbs. Thought about OSL, then decided I'm not that skilled \ bothered

Rubble piles, with a couple of extra colours for details

Nice, simple but effective.

The platforms and rubble pile.

The platforms are a bit useless in my view but easy enough to build and paint. The rubble pile.was painted by my daughter with some addition by myself, mainly painting the tools in the tool box silver, as I though it looked better that way. This is the only bit that I have changed on all the models that they painted.

Ok, now for the Ork's amongst you, there are building in the next two pictures, it's just there very camouflaged.

Honestly, my daughter painted these purple, not because of any desire to make sneaky Ork building but because she likes purple. The red is there because her brother told her she needed to paint the Ork symbols red. 

My oil Derek, basic paint scheme again but with the red Ork symbols and a bit of bronze in there for some details. You can't see very clearly in the pictures but the lights in they eyes of the big Ork symbols is actually painted yellow to look like a proper light.

These were painted up by son and are very shiny, so classically Orkish as well. Again red symbols and even a few little details such as pipe work.

 One thing I forgot to photograph or mention, are the small bridge sections. I painted these up as well and you can just see them on the edges of the photos of the fort sections. Both fairly simple but with some basic wood effect on the planks that make up the middle sections. I'd doesn't look very good i the pictures but it's quite nice in hand.

New guard rumours

 

Just a quick post to mention all the new Guard rumour's that are floating around, specifically a certain picture that many people have seen. Unfortunately I have yet to see this photo, despite much searching and scouring through various threads and websites. Hopefully it will surface soon and we'll all get to see, because I am very interested in seeing. So far though I am not overly excited, as most of the units that have been mentioned I have no plans on buying. they all sound very nice and there has been a few mentions around that the new Kasrkins might actually be a new bespoke kill team rather than a general 40k unit, which if that's true, that will be very interesting and definitely something I will be looking at purchasing. 

The main thing for me about all this is that the main units that I would be very interested in buying have not been mentioned yet, so I'll have to keep my ear to the ground a little longer to see if anything crops up. 

All these new rumours and pictures do give me some hope that the codex isn't quite as far away as I had feared, maybe its only a couple of months away rather than the very end of the year! I'm still inclined to think its going to be September or October before we get it, but time will tell and with the speed of the last couple of codex releases hopefully I am wrong.