Dwarfs

I got a sudden crawing to paint up a bunch of dwarfs. As I've written earlier I found my box of King Alrik and his shieldbearers. They're almost done, and I'm working on pinning them together.
I finally finished and based the tall chandeliers with the caged goblins from the dwarf miners boxed set. The next plan with that boxed set is to find some way to base my grudge ponies and their miners carts.

At the moment I am working on two boxed sets of Ironbreakers; the command squad (5 minis) and the regular squad (5 minis). The idea is to make the Ironbreakers the elite forces of King Alrik, and then use Hammerers as the elite forces of the High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer.

I've aslo almost finished my model of Josef Bugman, just a few minor details left on him now.

I also started on a Bretonnian questing knight. I didn't quite like the knight himself, but I really liked the horse. So I decided to make it a test model for my comming bretonnian knights.

more Terminators

Here are 5 more terminators for my 1st company.
Four of them are from the same box of Terminators as the terminator I have posted earlier, and the one with the grey base came with an issue of White Dwarf last autumn.

Chapter Masters, Master of the Arsenal

As the Master of the Arsenal, this Chapter Master has a lot of work to do. The 2nd Ultras have been given what equipment the Ultramarines could spare, but they also need to get some spare equipment from other chapters. The Master of the Arsenal keeps track of what the 2nd Ultras have and what they have on the way from other chapters. He works closely with the Techmarines that maintain the big equipment, but also keeps control over the smaller things like blasters, chainswords and rifles.
This model originally came with a swordhand holding a sword with the tip touching the ground in front of his boots, but while cutting the pieces from the sprues I had an accident and managed to damage the sword beyond repair. So I added a chain sword instead. His helmet has black eyes as all the communications are tuned off since the helmet is in his hand.

Chapter Masters, Master of the Watch

This is the Master of the Watch, with his powershield and axe.
Not much to say about this master yet, except he has a very important positition and he takes his duties very seriously.

Chapter Masters, Master of the Recruits

The Master of the Recruits is probably the most busy of the Chapter Masters in the 2nd Ultras. The chapter has a lot of seasoned veterans, but they also rely heavily on new recruits. But because they do not have their own gene-pool and also need fighters to be battle ready as soon as possible, they need to recruit from other chapters as well. So the Master of the Recruits liasons with other chapters and makes sure that the ranks get filled with good, solid fighting marines.
If you look at his head, you'll see that he lost his left eye in battle so he has got an augmented lense implanted there. Also he's been shot in the right side of the head and has a titanium implant there.

Chapter Masters, Master of the Fleet

Here is the Master of the Fleet. The fleet of the 2nd Ultras is small, but it still packs a real punch.
The 2nd Ultras came to their new home planet with a few large cargo barges and some of the older combat ships of the Ultramarines and some ships that has been captured as spoils of war or been bought from other chapters.

Chapter masters, Commander of the Chapter

Here are the 5 masters of The Second Ultramarines, or 2nd Ultras for short. There are four chapter masters and one commander.
I chose to use the regular commander set since the fluff for the 2nd Ultras is that Marneus Calgar decided to use some of his forces to create a new chapter to be able to answer more of the assistance calls that gets to the Ultramarine HQ.
So the leader of the 2nd Ultras would naturally be a high ranking commander from the Ultramarines.

I gave him a golden helmet to raise his status above other commander figures. Each company needs to have commanders or captains in charge, so it was ok to make this point. I have planned to buy a Command Squad for him, so the banner he is carrying is his own. In worst case I'll replace it with a golden halo.

The first LandSpeeder in pictures

Here are some pictures of the infamous landspeeder I have blogged about a few times.
These pictures show the long and rocky road from the simple beginning to finished model.
I have bought another LandSpeeder, and will use all I have learned from the first one when I'll assemble that. Aslo I have some transports and other vehicles to assemble.
Without further ado, here are the pics:

Long time, no blog...

I have to admit taking "The Pledge" didn't have quite the effect I thought it would... I was sure it would make me turn out minis like crazy so that I could buy more, but it hasn't turned out quite like that.
However my local toystore that also had Citatel Games Workshop miniatures are clearing out their entire stock at 50% off. Not a lot of units for my armies really, but a litte look through their boxes made me buy a box of 5 marauder horsemen, a unit of 20 nightgoblins and a unit of 16 (i think) dwarf thunderers (or quarrelers if you prefer that configuration) adding up to the total of 41 new models.
This leaves me a lot to do if I want to get on top with the painting. But hey, I have 16 almost finished minis in the mobile workbench, and also the almost finished "landspeeder from hell" (as described thoroughly in earlier posts). Since the speeder is a lot more work, I've decided to make it count as 3 minis and why not as there are a pilot, gunner and the speeder itself.
Also while looking through the shelves I discovered a box with a dwarf king standing on a shield carried by to other dwarfs. And when I took that out of the shelf, a blister pack with Josef Bugman came out with it, so at the moment there are 4 dwarfs in the mobile workbench coming along nicely.
I've started on washing my Space Marine masters of the chapter and the big man himself, as well as my four remaining terminators. I'm also washing my champion of chaos and the evil looking chaos sorcerer and his weird looking snakey follower.
I hope to get some pictures taken in the near future of the finished minis (probably without the basing though, as that will be taken care of on thursday or friday when I have a few days off from work).

Landspeeder update #2

Could I bring my Landspeeder to the local GW store and claim that it is cursed? It surely isn't even close to my finest work! It has taught me a lot of "what not to do" tings that I will take with me into the further work on Games Workshop minis.
The first rule of building the miniatures from now on is : Don't trust the assembly manual that is provided with the box. The more expensive the set is, the more important it is to follow this simple rule!
I had planned to write something about assembling the set after building this one, but I have decided that I will wait until I have built my next landspeeder. This will be started as soon as the first is completed.
The latest bad news for this model, is that I found out that I assembled the tail backwards, so the flaps are at the front of the tail and not on the back. Also I have learned that once you have assembled the top, it gets really hard to assemble the arms on the pilot and gunner. This is a problem, since you have to connect the arms of the pilot to the equipment on the controls, so he will have to go in after the controls are assembled (and this is done when attaching the top).

The assembly is getting along, and everything that is missing now is the searchlight and "gatling gun" and the heavy bolter. These parts are assembled, but needs painting before they are added to the finished model. After that is done it is just a matter of washing the entire model.