Project DeathGuard: Obliterator Conversion Pics

Finally, I have finished conversion and assembly of my 3 obliterators. These models are the first I have used greenstuff on besides just gapfilling of large models. Took me 3 days to get these models finished due to dry time of greenstuff between parts. Still I do not feel very comfortable behind the sculpting tool, but I hope to get better with some practice. Below are some pics of the models before basing and priming.

Now that these are finished, ready for paint, I am hoping to make some progress on my plague marines. I finally finished making up enough backpacks to get through my first 40+ models. So far ready for prime for this army I have Typhus, 7 PlagueBearers(Summoned Lesser Daemons), Great Unclean One(Summoned Greater Daemon), and these 3 Obliterators. I'm waiting on a Forgeworld order so I can start my terminators and dreadnought.

Blood Bowl

It's been a few years since I've had me a good game of blood bowl and low and behold their making it into a Video Game.  I'm pretty excited about this game to say the least, and sadly I didn't make it into the Beta testing.  One of my good friends did manage to get in though so after "borrowing" his laptop I plan on getting some good games in and posting my thoughts on it.  If you haven't seen it yet, check it out.  Blood bowl.

List of My Armies

Soon I am going to start posting army list summaries for some of the armies I currently own along with pics of some units or models in that army. While very few of my models are painted I do have alot built as I have more time for this than for painting. Usually I build the entire army to the point where I have pretty much all options available in codex for many varied army lists, then start building another army. I have no game stores close by and usually only play against a couple different people so I like to have everything built so I can use a different army list each time I play. Below I am just gonna list the armies I have for each game system with a model count for each. Later I will post exactly what each army consists of.

Warhammer 40,000
Imperial Guard: Catachans(200+ models)
Imperial Guard: Cadians(125+ models)
Imperial Guard: Valhallans(200+ models)
Imperial Guard: Steel Legion(125+ models)
Imperial Guard: Tanks(36 models)
Kroot Mercenaries(200+ models)
DaemonHunters(140+ models)
Witchhunters(250+ models)
Tyranids(160+ models)
Chaos: Plague Marines(100+ models)
Chaos: NightLords(80+ models)
Chaos: Red Corsairs(30+ models)
Space Marines: Crimson Fists(400+ models)
Space Orks(100+ models)

Warhammer Fantasy
Beasts of Chaos(90+ models)
Ogre Kingdoms(75+ models)
Wood Elves(100+ models)
Lizardmen(175+ models)
Orcs & Goblins(775+ models)

Blood Bowl
Norsemen
Orcs
Goblins
Dwarfs
Halflings

Necromunda
Delaque
Escher
Ratskins

Mordheim
Ostlanders
Dwarfs
Halflings
Witchhunters

With so many models to work on, I keep a detailed inventory of every model I have"in stock" so when I start enjoying a new codex or book I'm reading I can go ahead and write an army lists from the models I own and know which models I need to purchase. As you can see, having over 4000 models in my collection is a little daunting. Think about building and painting one model a day, it would take me almost 12 years to finish this. And being the fool I am, I still buy models as the new codexes come out. As for codexes and books, I also have all of them since 3rd edition(even if I have no interest in playing them), I know, ridiculous. Soon I will start posting more details for each of these armies, as well as my current project DeathGuard that will be fully logged from building and yes painting and onto the tabletop.

Imperial Guard Codex: My Tactic

The reason I started playing Warhammer 40,000 and Games Workshop games in general was because of the Imperial Guard. The plastic Catachans were my first army. After playing with them for years in different varieties, I really came to like army lists that consisted only of guardsmen. I loved playing games having 95+ models on the board in a 1000 pt game. Was also great fun when the opponent had many tailored lists and would pull the "anti-tank list" out of the bag as soon as I would say Imperial Guard. Little did they know, no tanks were going to be in the sights of their lascannons.

All-infantry guard lists, while lacking in versatility(movement, objective claiming, etc.), are very good at winning if you take target priority seriously. Target priority(as well as a good selection of weapon variations) is the key to winning with all-infantry guard armies. When beginning your shooting phase choose the next turn's most serious threat and shoot it until it disappears(using the weapons most likely to do so before resorting to less likely methods), only then do you move to the second most serious threat.

To some this may seem like a boring way to play, just throwing volley after volley of shots across the table, but seeing a fully painted all-infantry guard army on the table is a great sight. Sure there are armies that will have a high success rate against this style of play and objective games can only be won by tabling opponents, but both can be won. With the new codex even killpoint games are not a terrible choice if you combine infantry squads.

Well those are my thoughts on how I play IG if I want to be competitive. If playing for fun I like to cook up all types of variant lists involving lots of close combat, allies(including Kroot mercs, SoB, and Daemonhunters), fully mechanized, etc.

Next time I'll post my all-infantry list I have been working up to use a couple hundred Steel Legion models I have lying around.

Playing with the Wife's Camera Pt. 2

Below are some more of the pictures I took trying to learn the process of taking good photos of miniatures. Now I can use what I have learned to show some more recent works. I hope to start painting some DeathGuard models next week if possible, trying to finalize my paint scheme on a test mini instead of just paper.

Below is a Lizardmen Skink Priest that was a test model for my still unbuilt lizardmen army.

Below is a Trollblood Trollkin Champion model I have painted for my small Hordes force.(Sadly, a game I have never played.)

Below is a Chaos Sorcerer I painted when playing a warbands campaign, which then spurred me on to build a huge Hordes of Chaos army, which has now been disbanded, split up, and sold off since the changing to Warriors of Chaos and Daemons of Chaos.

Another short post, I gotta get some work done on those Deathguard.

Playing with the Wife's Camera: Pt. 1

Last night I decided to take some pictures of some models I have painted in the past. My previous attempts at taking pictures of miniatures haven't gone well, with most be out of focus. After reading some things online and in White Dwarf I decided to try again using those techniques and the wife's camera. After she set the camera settings for me, I took lots of pictures, some of which are shown below. I will have another post with the others soon. I think they came out pretty good considering it was my first attempt, hopefully I can improve some aspects of these that I don't like.

Below is a priest with an eviscerator I painted for my Imperial Guard army several years back. I really liked this model and had to include him.

Below is a pic of the limited edition WitchHunter Inquisitor I painted when it was released many years ago.

Below is a "test model" for my Crimson Fists Army that is built and awaiting paint.

Another post will show more of the models I photographed last night. As you will see its been awhile since I have painted any models. All of my painted models are mostly test models painted several years ago for armies that I have purchased. Some of these armies are built and others lie in bags untouched. This blog is hopefully gonna change all that and push me to build, paint, then play with an army, instead of my current method of build 7500 pt army then build another huge army then another, etc. Next time some progress will be made to Project Deathguard.

DeathGuard: Expansion Thoughts

Now that the army I have been planning for years now is actually being built, I thought I would go ahead and post some of the units I intend to add to the 1500 pt list already posted.
First, I want to add more plague marines, some termies, a dread, etc. in the following forms:

Plague Marine Squad
14 Plague Marines
2 Meltaguns
Personal Icon
Champion
Powerfist

Plague Marine Squad
14 Plague Marines
2 Meltaguns
Personal Icon
Champion
Powerfist

Plague Marine Squad
14 Plague Marines
2 PlasmaGuns
Personal Icon
Champion
Powerfist

The above weapon loadout for these units can be swapped to some flamers or more plasma/melta as I do have the models already.

Terminator Squad(FW torsos)
7 Terminators
Champion
Reaper Autocannon/Powerfist
Champion
Heavy Flamer/Chainfist
Champion
Combi-Melta/Chainfist
Combi-Bolter/Powerfist
Combi-Bolter/Powerfist
Combi-Bolter/Power Weapon
Pair of Lightning Claws

Typhus(attached to Termies, deepstriking to Personal Icons)

Nurgle Dreadnought(FW)
Twin-Linked Lascannons
DCCW/Heavy Flamer

Nurgle Plague Tower(converted on Baneblade chassis)

Well, thats all the additions to this army I have planned right now, okay maybe some nurgle bikers and a nurgle defiler converted from soulgrinder, but that's it. Hopefully, this will be all so I can get back to work on my IG stuff since the new book is gonna be out very soon. Back to work, break's over.