Raise the Banner

An impromptu hobby session tonight led me to painting up a banner for my rogue trader. In a previous post (https://lasgunsandroses.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/kitbash-corner-colour-sergeant-kell/) I had put together a banner bearer to represent Colour Sergeant Kell when I intended to run the rogue trader as a ‘counts as’ Creed. Plans change and Kell fell by the wayside as …

Sight beyond sight – Astropaths

To provide some psychic support, two Astropaths have joined the Imperial Guard force. I’ve never really had the opportunity to play with psykers before, so these two space wizards should be some fun laying down powers to bolster my troops or reveal enemy combatants. The one on the left was a kitbash using a GW …

Twenty year old advice from the Overfiend…

As part of developing the fluff (I’m reticent to use the more modern ‘lore’) behind my Imperial Guard regiment, I’ve been re-reading some old Chapter Approved tomes from the early Noughties. Primarily I was looking up the old Armageddon Ork Hunter regiments, as that was a theme I was loosely drawing on for my veterans …

Making a scene

My #NewYearNewArmy this time round is what is often referred to as ‘the third army’ i.e. terrain. I was given the Killzone: Munitorum Hub for Christmas by my long suffering wife, which has supplied me with a bit of terrain to build and also a nice cardboard mat which connects (on one side at least) …

Starting a Narrative Campaign

Full of New Year vigour, I’m going to attempt to get more gaming done this year, which is a pretty low bar given how much was done last year, but never mind that. I prefer my games to have some form of a narrative element, and like most wargamers I dream of the ‘Campaign’, that …

Hobby New Year!

Welcome one and all to that most productive of days! The day when promises are made as to the wondrous achievements expected over the next year. Today I’ve been reviewing the progress made over the last year in getting the troops ready for battle, as well as catching up on other’s efforts. This is my …

Harker’s Heavy Bolter Sings…

Okay, so when I said I’d finished the Guard paint queue I was fibbing a little. There was one unit left: my version of Sergeant ‘Stonetooth’ Harker. Made from a Chaos cultist and a Bretonnian head, the heavy stubber was cut down to form a heavy bolter, and a space marine bolt round was added …

More auxilia join the army

Finishing up the Guard paint queue are these five. In the front row are Rein and Raus from Blackstone Fortress, with Espern Locarno the navigator from the same on the rear left. I’ll probably use the navigator as an astropath, rather than the special character. Another commissar has been assigned to ensure that the troops …

He drew first blood…

It was the 5th February 2020 and I was perusing the GW website, blissfully unaware of the gathering clouds that would herald the arrival of that horseman Pestilence. Looking through the Imperial Guard section I was somewhat disheartened to see that the models had not really seen an update since the early 2000’s and was …

Nearly New Year, Same Army – Servitors

Another squad done; this time some servitors to help the Tech-priest enginseer out. These ones were built from a couple of genestealer cult models and two chaos cultists. Armed with a plasma cannon and a multi-melta, the two gun servitors are accompanied by a simple servo arm equipped servitor and a combat servitor. I went …