Mechanicus Tank - WIP

 A couple of pictures of the work in progress Adeptus Mechanicus tank. 

I need to add a bit more to the right side of the turret. 

Morts

Started some new stuff

So what I have stuck together some of the Blackstone Fortress minis - I thought I should do some of the base baddies first. So 7 traitor guard (half the number in the box), 4  spindle drone things and 4 strange wandering monsters (ur-ghouls).

The plan is to undercoat and paint this lot before starting on the adventurers and more of the baddies (beastmen and the negrovolt lunatics).

I also put together my Meng Char B1 kit so I can pimp it out into a Mechanicus tank.

The tank looks good size wise - and went to together very well for a no glue kit. The trouble with converting stuff is that it slows down any painting ... although I haven’t been able to undercoat anything else at the moment due to the cold snap. 

Morts

Another year down - a bit of a milestone.

Well it is that time of year where my birthday occurs - due to the Covid-19 lockdown no usual trip down to the Ocean City for a games show .... however I did get some gaming goodies. 

First up Raiders of the North Sea, from my older brother. 

According to DK, this is a good game so I am looking forward to playing it. It appears to be a placement and management game - with vikings. 

The gaming gang clubbed together and got me 

Now this looks interesting - one as a dungeon/space hulk crawl in its own right and as the miniature can be used in Kill Team (already printed off the stats and rules). Of course there are 44 minis to paint - so to paint those in a reasonable amount of time will be a challenge. I would like to try by my next birthday at least... so about a year. 

Of course typically I had just found a couple of old Confrontation Wolfen Devourers which had been sitting around for years on the “ready to paint” shelf. 

Base coat and wash. 

Flesh done - still work in progress. Going to finish these before starting on the Blackstone Fortress miniatures. I also have the box of minis ready to undercoat ....

Morts

Hit the target! Now more work to do.

 So I managed to complete my target of finishing off the last of the Cossacks. 

So painted with a blue/yellow scheme if I want to use them as light cavalry for Maurice imagi-nations campaigns using the GNW forces as a base.

Of course now I have this lot to base up as well before they can visit a table of battle. Whenever I get around to organising one of those ... with a new kitchen going in soon, me thinks this might be later.  

Morts

Target for the end of January

So I have managed to paint another unit of Russian dragoons - the last one huzzar!

Which means my target is to finish the last of the Cossacks, before the month is out. These Cossacks might be used as auxiliaries for the Swedes as historically a number did, partially leading Charles XII more south and the disaster at Poltava. 

Why all this re-interest in 18th Century Russian, well initially it was to get the off the painting table (because I haven’t undercoated anything due to it being too cold to use the sprays outside) and then because I have been watching Catherine the Great (with Helen Mirren) and “The Great” (a not very historical take on Catherine’s early life in Russia). I have to say I enjoyed the Helen Mirren series - classic period drama stuff, but I am also enjoying the “The Great” - although some of the changes they have made do grate a bit with my inner pedantry. 

I am also quite enjoying painting the 15mm figures again (which is just as well as I have some WWII to start in that scale). 

Morts 

A little more progress in the Age of Reason

Well I’ve been into work as the internet is so poor at home - no furlough for me ... sometimes think it would be nice. Work is actually quite intense online, but I have managed to complete another unit of Dragoons for my Russian GNW army. 

I have done an ok paint job for the Tschernigovski regiment. I now have one more unit of dragoons to go and the historical Russians are completed (after 30 or so years of being on or off the painting table). 

On other matters I am very tempted by a Kickstarter for Dwarf cavalry (by the same people who did the Hobgoblins I haven’t painted yet) ...  which then lead me to consider the old Grenadier minis Dwarfs mounted on bears. I will try and hold off as I thought I’d finish off the Dwarf forces. 

Stay safe  

Morts

Happy New Year and something painted

Well it’s been a little busy around here recently, what with yet another COVID  lockdown in the UK ..... unfortunately I am still having to go to work so nothing has really changed for me, in fact my work load has increased so I haven’t had much time to paint.

But I have painted a small unit of Cossacks and a Hetman for the Russian Great Northern War army - not the best I’ve ever done, but done nevertheless. A another group of Cossacks to go and a couple of dragoon units next. 

Still waiting for it to warm up a bit for some spray paint undercoating outside. 

Morts