Ork Trukks
I purchased these from Fabrice Tran (France) in late 2013. Whenever I need to learn a technique on my armies I stare at these and try and replicate. You can find additional pictures of these models on Fabrice’s website. His commissions are spendy, but beautiful, and he’s won 7 golden demons from 2002 – 2012!
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Ork Deffkoptas
I purchased these from Fabrice Tran (France) in late 2013. Whenever I need to learn a technique on my armies I stare at these and try and replicate. You can find additional pictures of these models on Fabrice’s website. His commissions are spendy, but beautiful, and he’s won 7 golden demons from 2002 – 2012!
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Ork Dakka Jet
I purchased these from Fabrice Tran (France) in late 2013. Whenever I need to learn a technique on my armies I stare at these and try and replicate. You can find additional pictures of these models on Fabrice’s website. His commissions are spendy, but beautiful, and he’s won 7 golden demons from 2002 – 2012!
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Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard Leman Russ Tanks
10 Leman Russ tanks.
Turrets:
- 4 turrets with battle cannons
- 1 turret with a vanquisher cannon.
- 5 turrets magnetized main weapons.
- 4 turrets have magnetized commander hatches.
Hulls
- 7 hulls have sponsons. 3 do not.
- All Sponson and hull mounted weapons are magnetized.
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Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard Vendetta
Pics of two vandettas with the ForgeWorld lascannons / radar dome and ForgeWorld decals.
Applying the wing decals was a nightmare, probably would have been about the same amount of work to mask / paint the wings than to do the decals, but I’m happy with the result.
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Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard Bastions
I painted these up years ago, finally photographed them with my new setup.
I also have the Aegis Defense Lines, Quad Guns, and an additional coms relay & and Icarus Lascannon painted up (not pictured)
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3T Studios Terrain Collection
Best terrain maker I’ve seen is 3T-Studios.
I’ve been collecting some of the terrain for a few years, and finally got around to photographing it.
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Las Vegas Open (LVO) Friendly Tournament
I finally went to my first ‘national’ level tournament.
The Las Vegas Open!
Summary:
- I’m a total scrub at W40K games, only playing a few games a year
- I spend 99% of my energy on the hobby/painting side
- I only played 3 of the 4 games in the friendly tournament (the blending class overlapped game 3).
- Of the 3 games I played, I went 0/3!
- I played Eldar twice and Chaos Demons once.
Game 1: Chaos Demos – Shaun
- FateWeaver
- ~14 Chariots of Tzeentch
- I couldn’t get past the Jink Saves. Chaos can re-roll ones, and the Jink save was a 3up (night fight) and then a 4up… So each wound only had a 33% chance of landing, and each Chariot is both a armor 12 vehicle AND a multi-would model. Without ignore cover, I just couldn’t land any significant wounds.
Game 2: Eldar – Noah
- Farseer
- Warp Spiders
- 2x Wave Serpents
- Jet Bikes
- Eldar Scorpion Type II (super heavy)
- Super fun game. Noah is super cool, we we’re having beers, joking around, and had a great game. While I lost, I (barely) took out the Scorpion, and I ALMOST took out the Wraight Knight (got him down to 1 wound) right before the knight laid the assault beat down on my plasma-cutioner and punisher Leman Russ squadron.
Game 4: Eldar – Todd from TableWar
- Farseer
- Wraith Knight
- Wraith Guard with Warlocks
- Jet Bikes
- 2x Wave Serpents
- I couldn’t get past any saves. I think I removed maybe 3 wraithguard and 2 jetbikes by the bottom of turn 4. I still learned a lot… I definitely have to tweak my list!
My thoughts (as a total n00b, what I learned):
- Competitive W40K comes completely down to ‘dice management.’ Minimizing the incoming dice is the primary tactic I didn’t have a good answer to.Especially games 1 (Chaos demons Jinking like crazy) and 4 (Eldar with 3+ armor & invulnerable saves). Even though I was throwing a high volume of attacks/hits/wounds out with my gun line, all of those wounds were ignored one way or another (Jinks, cover saves, armor saves, invulnerable saves, many with re-rolls). These lists are all about ‘mitigating’ incoming dice.
- I don’t really enjoy games where my opponent is so effective at mitigating almost all of my dice… so I need to either build answers to this into my list or stop playing and just go 100% hobby.
And my ‘Dwarf Face’ from the faces and eyes class. Lyn from metalhead minis, thanks for a great class, I learned a ton!
All in all, LVO was great fun. It’s a well run tournament in a great location. I hope to go again next year.
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Imperial Knights of house Taranis
I finally got around to finishing and photographing my three knight titans! This is also my first serious attempt at weathering with powders. I’d get it looking exactly how I wanted it…then I’d seal it and the weathering would disappear. I built up 3 layers of weathering powders which made the bright white decals look gorgeous in my opinion, sealed everything up, then added a final thin layer of powder to get a dusty look. Just scratching the surface on weathering, so much to learn.
