The Colonel

I’ve painted a couple of Catachan special characters for use with this army: Sly Marbo and Sergeant Harker. It was time to complete the trio with Colonel ‘Iron Hand’ Straken. I originally wanted to base this one on a chaos cultist champion from the Dark Vengeance box, inspired by a conversion I saw on the …

Starhammer 40Krave

I like a skirmish game, particularly one that involves an intrepid band of warriors smashing into a different flavour of intrepid warriors, so I finally picked up Stargrave yesterday. I’ve had a brief glance at the book, and am liking what I’m seeing so far but haven’t really delved into the minutia of gameplay. That …

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 …

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 …

Diana’s Riggers

Last post before Christmas! I’ve been a bit more motivated for the last week or so, and have finally slapped some paint on the Escher gang. Back in the 3rd edition Codex Armageddon, you could take Hive Gang Militia for a planetary defence force based army. These women were conscripted and placed with the 9th …

For the Emperor? A Rogue Trader Crusade Order of Battle

Here is my Rogue Trader Crusade list, ready to set forth into the unknown and remind the xenos species that their stuff actually belongs to the Imperium (for a modest finders fee of course…). Here are the models I have ready (mostly) for a 50 power level initial crusade force. Leading the expedition is an …

Support staff and bodyguard

Managed to get a bit of painting in between bouts of illness. First up, I changed out the power fist on the Scions sergeant for a power sword, and cut down the box operators back pack to add a bedroll(?). I’d originally built these as the Drop Force Imperator set up, but they will now …

Officers’ Mess – 2 HQ and an Elite

I’ve managed another couple of units over the last two days. First we have a company commander. He is a Major with overall command of A company. His command squad has been built and is awaiting priming. Next we have another company commander (on the left) and his command squad. This Captain has command of …

#NewYearNewArmy? – part 11… – Troops

Hmmm, not sure if I can get away with that title at this point, but the post is part of the project I kicked off at the beginning of the year. I haven’t touched anything 40k related since about April for a few reasons- partly other projects that I’ve posted up either here or on …

Back in Black (and green)

I don’t usually post work in progress shots, but as there has been very little progress in the last month I’m making an exception. Having been very distracted from 40k with a return to RPG campaign building it’s high time my rogue trader got some more painted troops. I still need to have at least …