Trophy time!

 So yeah, this happened!

Granted it was only a 12 player 1000 point tournament that the organisers run on day two for the less competitively minded and new players, but three Deathwatch boxnoughts brought it home. Ok, two really as one of them couldn't hit a barn door even if you painted it pink and stuck it right under his sensors! But I'll gomon to that later. For now, I'll just go sit in the corner and stare lovingly at my trophy!

Blog update

 So it's been a while since I've posted but fear not! I have been busy in the back ground, modelling and painting. 

It has been a busy few months with the wee one, working and dealing with life in general, so I haven't had a great deal of time to sort out pictures and get posts written. However, things have settled down a bit now and I'm finding some more time to blog. I have been getting painting done of an evening, half and hours here and there but it means that models have been moving along.

Also, it's that time of year again, when me and a few.other brave souls venture across the seas to the Northern Invasion tournament. I'll have a few posts up with a couple of warm up games and list considerations, plus the actual tournament itself, as it's literally hours away when this post goes live!

Hopefully, if all goes to plan, I will have a number of posts up soon leading to the run up to Christmas. 

A new recruit

So the blog has been a bit slow recently, and for good reason! The family and I had been sat at my mother in-laws house for several weeks, awaiting the arrival of the latest recruit. Naturally, the wee fella decided to take his time and arrived 15 days late! The NHS may not be the most efficient service around but when it comes to the maternity care we have received, they have always been excellent, and this time was no different. 

Anyway, we arrived down on the 8th June, and we headed back on the 6th August! Partly to see family but partly as the ferries are useless and we couldn't actually get a berth!

I have been busy building and painting WW2 Italians and have some Krieg models bashed together but finding time proved challenging! I will try to get something up and hopefully normal service will resume at some point soon but it most likely won't be for a couple of weeks yet.

Les Grognards

So in my quest to collect them all, all the guard that is, I have purchased some more Les Grognards from Wargames Atlantic for conversion in to DKoK command squads, heavy weapons and engineers

 I plan on getting hold of a box of DKoK Command Squad, Engineers and also a Heavy Weapons Squad and using the extra bits to build more squads. 

Looking through the various bits in the command squad I think this will be the hardest one to bash together as it’s designed to build only a limited number of models, although I think there will be several bits that can be used to build at least two, if not three additional models (using Les Grognards bodies)

The heavy weapons squads will be a little easier, while there will only be enough bits in the box to build three weapons platforms, it should be easy to convert up three more from the heavy weapon options in the Les Grognards box. The will also be bits left over from the Les Grognards box to build three more heavy weapons teams, built as mortars (played as cadian HWTs) to add some extra support.

The Engineers is actually going to be the easiest to convert up. The box contains enough weapons to build five models with club and pistols or 5 with shotguns plus a remote mine, flamer and Sgt, also with several options. This means that the box can build at least 13 models, possibly 16, so it should be easy to build three 5 man squads with the bits in the box and Les Grognards bodies. With a few extra bits, building a couple of remote mine operators and flamers will.also be fairly easy. 

I have yet to get the DKoK boxes but I'm hopeful to grab them soon, although given current event, it might not be as soon as I would like.