Dreadtober - Build week

I joined the Dreadtober challenge hosted by https://brokenpaintbrush.com/
It seemed like a perfect challenge for me since I have four Dreads that has been ignored for too long. So I will join up with two participants, one Death Company Furioso and one heavy equipped with a twin-linked lascannon.
This week I picked them up and prepped a little bit, made the base for the heavy and glued some pieces together.

I also managed to prime them, but I had all my masking tape in the other house so I could not prime the black parts on the heavy dread.

This coming week they are supposed to have all the main areas painted.

E Tenebrae Lux II - Done for me

My contribution to the Blood Angel's sub-forum is now done.
Four characters: Commander Dante, Corbulo, a Reclusiarch and Mephiston.

Basing will be done later as I am saving up a bunch of miniatures to do at one go.

First projects for 2011 started

The first house project for the year has started, our office/hobby room is getting a face lift and some needed storage space.
We will put up some cabinets and shelves where we can put some things away, hidden behind some doors instead of being spread all over the desk. The old desk has been given away to my wife's brother, in it's place we will build a long desk along one of the walls with space for two instead of a big, curved desk taking half of the room.

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On the miniature front, I have cleaned up and put together my Honour Guard, a squad of Vanguard Veterans, another Dreadnought, a Sanguinary Guard and some bikes. I have also converted some Melta guns from Bolters/Infernus Pistols.
On the way to finishing those 1000 points, I am trying out some NMM and glazing technique on my Librarian that I found on Youtube.

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From Miniature gaming

Tried to practice some steel NMM on a horse's ass. I am not sure if I got the shine correct, maybe the colors should have been switched. I also made some misstakes with the highlight (too much and thick paint in the bristles).

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Death Company, a Rhino chassi and a Bat Rep

Had a game a few weeks ago so I needed to paint up my Death Company for that.
They are just primed and base coated with a simple wash of Payne's Grey, so quite a basic painting so far.

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One of my Razorbacks got some base coating done and an assault cannon mounted. I bought the Dark Angels Ravenwing box, a really nice buy for any marine player. Lots and lots of bitz!

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The list I used versus my friend's ork horde was as follows:
1000p
HQ
Reclusiarch 130p

Elites
Sanguinary Priest 50p
Sanguinary Priest 50p

Furioso Dread 150p
Heavy Flamer
Frag Cannon
Extra Armor

Troops
5 man Death Company 195p
3 Bolters
1 PW
1 PF
Razorback

10 man Tactical 265p
Melta Bombs
Flamer + ML
Razorback + TL Assault Cannon

5 man Assault Squad 155p
Melta Gun
PF
Razorback

My friend had one blob of sluggas (with Mad Dok), one blob of shootas, two deff dreads, 3 deffkoptas and a bunch of lootas (11 or something). Of course, I forgot to bring my camera so no photos from the game.

We rolled for the mission and came up with Dawn of War, annihilation, with the orks going first. The orks started with the two blobs up the middle, ready to charge me.
I put my tacticals behind their Razorback ready to shoot the oncoming green skins and my assault squad deployed in their Razorback in the other end of the table, ready to zoom away.

My memory is a bit clouded in some parts but the battle went something like this.

Turn 1
As predicted, the orks ran towards my lines in their turn.
In my turn, I rolled up the assault squad in cover to be able to shoot the heavy bolter on the orks. We forgot to apply the night fighting rules and I fired away with everything on the orks. The tacticals managed to down zero orks, alot thanks to FNP, while the assault cannon on the Razorback chewed away two hooligans (if my memory serves me correct).

Turn 2
In the next turn, the lootas entered the playing field, running for some ruins up on a hill in the orks right side of the table. The shootas and sluggas rushed closer to me and assaulted the Razorback belonging to the tactical squad (closest target for them and that is the way we interpreted the rage rule). They punched the Razorback in the front so it became a nice terrain piece.
In my turn the dread came on to the table, so I put him behind the Razorback, facing the shoota boys who were coming close to the tactical squad.
The DC-squad and the assault squad stayed in their Razorbacks, the assault squad popping smoke to get some
cover from the lootas who would probably start firing next turn.
In my shooting, it was time to try out the frag cannon and heavy flamer! The dread managed to kill about 10 orks in the shooting and then prepared to assault the shoota blob.
The tactical squad assaulted the sluggas, but didnt manage to kill that many thanks to the Dok's feel no pain. Damn they are hard to kill! In the counter assault, the tactical squad lost seven guys (I think) and fled the field.
The dread rushed into the shootas and killed off a few, the remaining orks panicked and got smashed up.

Turn 3
His deff dread entered the board, walking and running towards me. The deff koptas came in on his left flank and fired on my dreadnought, doing nothing.
The Razorback with the assault squad got immobilized from loota-fire in the middle of the field. The assault squad jumped out in cover, waiting for the deff dread...
My DC-Razorback drove towards the deff koptas and unloaded its payload of very, very angry marines. They shot at the deff koptas, taking off one wound on one of them.
I don't remember the order of things with the sluggas and my Furioso, but they ended up in close combat, with my dread killing their Dok (no more FNP!).

Turn 4
The orks got the second deff dread on the table, walking towards my immobilized Razorback in the middle.
Now the ork player made a grave misstake: standing still with the koptas, firing their rokkits instead of running away! They killed one death company marine, but the yummy target for the DC-squad is still there.
Lootas fired from the ruins, doing nothing to the Razorback. The bunch of sluggas and my Furioso pretty much danced the night away, with the orks just glancing the dreads AV13 and the dread killing a maximum of two orks per round of close combat. *yawn*
In my turn, the assault squad ran towards the deff dred, time to smash up some metal! They fired their melta gun, but no effect and then prepared to assault.
My black bunch of anger rushed up to the deff koptas, to put some hurt on them. They killed two koptas and the last one retreated. It was still the closest target, so the death company ran after them.

Turn 5
The lootas and the deff dread fired on the assault squad in the open, killing one brave marine.
The deff koptas ran off the table, scratching up one KP for me and making the DC squad turn around towards the bunch of sluggas.
I took some pot shots with the DC Razorback and the assault squad moved towards the deff dread but the game ended here.

4-2 in KP for me if we calculated it correct. He lost his Dok, one squad of shootas, one formation of deff koptas and one dread. I lost one squad of tacticals and one Sanguinary priest. I am not sure if the dedicated transport counts as one KP, then it would be 4-3 instead.

Lessons learned:
Don't stand to close to the table edge, even marines can wet their pants and run off the table.
Be more aggressive! Put those assault squads in close combat, especially versus things like lootas.
Use the fast army I have at my disposal, they can move from one end to the other very quickly.
Templates versus blobs of non armored targets are very nice.

TV-room and some angels

During the summer it has been quite hectic, we have been working a lot to get the company started and prepare for Parisa's parents.

Some stuffs has happend at home though.
The "Persian room" has turned in to a more swedified tv-room.

From Rödeby 2010

From Rödeby 2010

My Flesh Tearers got them selves a Furioso Drednaught with a frag cannon (chopped up the multi-melta).

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And some more assault marines and my death company is getting some color too.

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From Miniature gaming

From Miniature gaming

I got a new air brush as a gift from Parisa's mom, but I have not yet tested it. I need to buy some more paint and some hose connections since the old ones did not fit.

Blood Angels Dreadnaught 2

Finally got some time and a mood for some painting.
Fixed up some details on the Dred (hoses, pipes, skulls and so on), so next step will be some washing.

Blood Angels Dreadnaught 1

My dred is coming to life, almost done with the base coating.
Got some metal parts and some hoses left to coat up, thinking of going blue for the hoses.

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I also carved away the tactical markings on the right shoulder pads on some of my marines from the AOBR-box. Wasn't as difficult as i thought it would be, just a matter of taking it easy and having a sharp knife. Hopefully I will have time to base coat them tomorrow.
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