First November update

Since last time I have finally gotten around to finish the last models of my Leagues of Votann intro box that was released when the Leagues came to 40K. Now I have 3 Hernkyn Pioneers on their magna-coil bikes ready to prime and paint. I look forward to this as I think they will look good on the tabletop.

I have also built the mini of the month for November from the Warhammer store, a Hernkyn Yaegir (basically the same dude as the ones on the bikes except that he is on foot). So while at the Wahammer store I ordered a box with 10 Yaegirs to add to my army.

I also bougth a Hekaton Landfortress. This is the biggest transport for the Votann and I plan to build that next.

The Fortified Manor is built and is right now waiting for better weather to be primed along with lots of other miniatures.

I have not yet decided on how I want to do the setup, as I am not a big fan of how some of the fences go together, but I plan to get more of these as I would liike to have other buildings (certainly an Inn and maybe another chapel) and some more towers, so then I will get more fences. I already have a plan for some of the walls that come in this set and an Inn I plan to build, but there will be plenty of fences to go around. I would like to use the wall with gates as pictured on the box art (but I will not glue it on, just put it in place when dispalying as it will surely break in transport if glued) and wen I get more fences with other sets I would like to use the brick fences on both sides. I will see next time I sit down how tight they fit together and decide if they sould be glued in to 90 degres fence or a square or just left as stand alone pieces and placed down for display. 

The walls from futures sets I would like to add together back to back to make a fenced in Inn.

I have done some meassurements and it looks like it could be done. 

All in all I am quite happy with the way this Manor ended up even though the instructions made me assemble the tower wrong so that the fix between the tower and the building didn't fit as snug against the tower as I would have liked. I had to us quit a lot of greenstuff in the gaps. I am not great with that, and it didn't help that my greenstuff is getting old and a little dry. But I hope it will look quite ok after I paint it up. I don't think this will be somethng people notice on a causal look, but I would not put the building on an Armies of Parade board. But it will be great for games and display.

October roundup

October has just passed over to November, and it is time for an update.

Warhammer usually calles October for Orktober, and I had planned to do more painting on my Stompa, but that did not happen. But still I have managed to do a little Ork stuff. I have built the newest Big Mek model and he is ready for priming. I have also made two boxes of Ork Boyz (giving me twenty Boyz and two Nobs). I wanted to do a little of all on my Boyz, so I made six of them with two handed big shootas, two with the rocket gun, two with what I would call the machine gun (heavy stubber?) and the rest with guns and any sort of stabba. Most of them got swords or big crude knives, but two of them got the heads with long hair and I gave them axes to give them a more barbarian look. If I buy another box of Boyz I might make four more with the big guns and also see if I can make a Nob with a weapon like that to have a unit full. 

I have also ordered the last two Megatrakk Scrapjets I need to finish my Top Gear team that I have wanted to make for the longest time. James May, Richard hammond and Jeremy Clarksoin in Ork shapes. If I remember right there are not too many ways to build that model, but maybe I can add some spare parts here or there to make them a little different, and I am sure I can do a headswap or something for the driver. I am sure I can find some pilot heads that will fit this purpose.

I have also built and primed the Kasrkin special model that was a Warhammer + subscription mini if I remember it correctly. I hope I can use him as an offices for my Special Forces. Also I have started to assemble the Killteam box with Kasrkin troops. I have built two out of ten so far, the sergeant and the medic.

The miniature of the month for November is a Hernkyn Yaegir, and if they have them in the Warhammer store already I will get one tomorrow as I have to go there to collect my finished model for last month, a Chaos Warrior that I built and painted up in October. I had lot of fun painting up the warrior, except i had problems withe the pot of Balthazar Gold that was thick and lumpy so I didn't get the best result with it.
I have lots of ideas to build and paint my chaos warriors and I have decided I will mke the Khorn, Nurgle and Slaanesh warriors with contrast paint over a silver coating. Then the warriors that used to be called "chaos Unlimited" but now might be the Slaves to darkness in the Age of Sigmar range. The Chaos warriors wil be used both for Age of Sigmar but also for The Old World for the ones that are built on square bases. I will paint them up the same way though.