Marine commander

...now available in Eagle Warriors colours!...

Apols for the distinct lack of posts of late folks - Christmas, holidays, and playing fetch with a puppy all play havoc with the painting time. Anyway, back now and here we go with the next addition to the Eagle Warriors - the mighty Captain Castus (no idea where the name came from, it just fit nicely on his banner - I'm trying to avoid googling it in case it turns out that it means "dried poop" in latin or something...)

I'm continuing with a clean-ish look for this army (no battle-damage or mud anywhere on these polishy polishy shiny shiny Astartes, oh no sir, they'll kick ass and look good doing it, thankyouverymuch). However... taking on feedback about basing my models from learned denizens of the internet, I did invest in a bit of rubble for Castus to stand on. I think it's an improvement, and probably worth going back to the previous models at some point to add a few bits to homogenise the look of the whole force. As ever, comments and suggestions gratefully accepted.

Free Magnets!!!

Yeah, that's right - free magnets.

A company called "First 4 Magnets" in the UK is giving away magnets in return for modellers sending in pictures of the projects that they use them in. Got my confirmation email back today, so it looks like they still have some left guys. I presume this is probably restricted to the UK, but worth a try if you magnetise your models. Here's the link with all the details:

http://www.first4magnets.com/model-makers-magnets-133-c.asp

Happy modelling!

BTW - no update for a while as I've been building the imperial sector buildings - more Eagle Warriors to come soon...

New Dark Eldar

I guess these guys are going to be flavour of the month for a while - good job they look rather fantastic...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=13000003a

Scroll down to see pics of the new line of Dark Eldar - all sleek and evil looking. Oh dear, add this to the Orks, Marines and Craftworld Eldar that I'm already working on, along with the Chaos Space Marines and Demons that I'm jealously ogling and this is a recipe for bank-account-collapse... help!

Eagle warriors terminator

I've been eager to get around to these guys because I've always thought that space marine terminators were the coolest models ever. I've still got the original metal terminator squad and a couple with cyclone missile launchers that I've stripped of my old Blood Angels paintjob, might give them a new look some day, for old times' sake. So here he is, the first Eagle Warriors termie from the Black Reach set:

I've noticed that a lot of colour schemes for these guys use contrasting colours for the helmets, so I thought I'd pick out the helmet in the same red that I use for the marines' bolters. Ooh! and I almost forgot - here's the moulded shoulder pad, done from an impression of a standard marine shoulder icon:

Sergeant

Phew! - glad I finally got this one finished, he's been languishing on the painting table for ages. So the Tac squad now finally has a sergeant - just the missile launcher to finish and then we're done, yay!

I tried taking the pic outdoors this time - dodgy background I know, but the colours end up looking a lot closer to reality - shame we only get 3 sunny days a year here...

Tactical marines

Progress!
Here are the latest additions to the Eagle Warriors - part of the Black Reach tactical squad



...just a couple more to go then I can get started on those terminators.

Goodbye old chum

Sad news I'm afraid. We lost one of our dogs to cancer. He was a friendly, patient and gentle giant, far superior in character to many humans I know, and he leaves behind a hole in our lives that will be impossible to fill. Thankfully he was not in any pain.