Vendetta conversion

Not exactly ground-breaking I know, but here's how I do them.  For the fuselage las-cannon I start by inserting a piece of plasticard from the rear of the cowling, which then gets a 6-mm disk magnet green stuffed to it.

Steel Legion-ish

A couple of weeks ago, I saw that another blogger had posted pics of my great coats under the heading of Steel Legion.  While I'm always flattered to see my noticed by someone else, my great coats aren't really Steel Legionish.  So, it got me to thinking, how I would go getting the feel of the Steel Legion from plastics, if not exactly duplicating the actual Steel Legion metals..

Space Wolves Dropping In

The Drop Pod is one of my favorite models; when GW starting making them in plastic I was thrilled since I didn't see myself dropping the money to buy a significant number of Forge World DP's.  I love the interior detail of these models so it's a shame when I see folks gluing the doors shut because they don't want to take on painting the interior.  But actually, painting the interior is pretty easy if you plan ahead.

Even More Greatcoats

I decided to add 2 squads to my Greatcoat platoon, nothing really ground-breaking, adding flamers to the basic infantry squads.   With 6th ed adding grenade throwing to the mix I also added a grenade chucking lasman to the mix, also a guy with a Necromunda lasgun for variety:

So currently here's the whole platoon:  4 squads, platoon command squad with meltas and a special weapons squad with meltas. 

Future plans include adding heavy weapons, either missile launchers or autocannons

Blood Angels Fans May Wish to Look Away

Not my work, but I wanted to share this:  at my FLGS, a young Blood Angels player had for months been putting a half-painted Storm Raven on the table.  Finally, one of the regulars at the shop decided that he couldn't take it any longer and offered to paint it.  He decided that Death Company black would be cool with red outlines -- kind of an homage to the 'A-Team' van.  But he exacted a price, a price some may find too high to bear.  That price is revealed after the jump...

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Battlescribe Updated

Battlescribe has just been updated to work with allies.  What is Battlescribe?  It's the roster building software that I'm currently using.  I switched over to Battlescribe about a year or so ago because it offered an Android app.  Cool thing about it is that it runs on Apple/Windows/Linux as well as IOS and Android and the price is right -- FREE.   Like most Droid apps, the free version includes ads, the pay version drops the ads.   Also the data and roster files are completely interchangeable across platforms, so I can easily build a roster on my PC then transfer it to my Android tablet for use at my FLGS.  The user community also seems to be pretty good at keeping the data files up to date when new codices drop.