Battle Report: Astra Militarum vs. Orkz (1,000 pts)

Honoured Lord-Commander;

Submitted as requested with respect to the recent engagement with Xenos (Orkz) in the Sector Imperialis.  I trust it will be useful in the coming campaign.

The Emperor Protects,
-Col. Oak

Productivity Update #5 – Scion Construction

Hey all!

Again, another gear shift… I can’t seem to focus on any one thing.  This one was more facilitated by the fact that the World Series was into Game 7 and I find it difficult to paint and watch bases-ball at the same time.  Thus, I started building me some Scions!

Productivity Update #4 – Taurox

Hey all!

I’ve kind of shifted gears since the big Apocalypse game with the Dark Angels, and while I’m still writing up the second part of the Battle Report (I’m sure the suspense is killing you), I have some progress to show off…

Renovating My Workspace

My darling wife got me another desk to give me more surface area to work with for both my digital computation machine and plastic man assembly area.

Behold!  My workspace of old (annotated)!

1) Popcorn Machine (essential) 2) Stick of Joy 3) Monitor 4) Drybrushing Towel 5) Birthday Cards (old) 6) Pen Suppository 7) Ancient Pottery Caffeination Vessel (potential biohazard, purge with flame) 8) Whiskey, Glenfiddich, 15-year old 9) Painting Work Area 10) Bits Bin 11) Scratch-Built Ork Battlewagon (In progress for ~12 years) 11b) Brushes (paint) 12) Steamwhistle Pilsner (empty) 13) Ibanez EDA-905 5-string Bass Guitar (aka Mongoose) 14) Cort 4-string Fretless Bass Guitar (yet to earn name) 15) Notes from batreps (previous) 16) Pandora’s Cabinets (DO. NOT. OPEN.) 17) Power drill (?!) 18) Weights (2×10 lbs) 19) Dude, it’s a Dell! 20) Garbage (notice, Wyvern instruction booklet. Empty immediately.) 21) Land of mostly-empty plastic sprues 22) 2/3 of the 7th Edition Rulebook package 23) I FORGOT I HAVE A TAU ARMY!!!!

Now behold the NEUE DESK SPACE GLORY

SERIOUSLY I GOTTA TRY THIS THING OUT SOMEONE GIVE ME SOMETHING TO BUILD.

Apocalypse Battle Report: Imperial vs. Imperial (5,000 pts) [pt. 1]

Hey all!  Played around 7 turns of Apocalypse on Saturday in a garage!  It was a pretty awesome see-saw battle, it had its chills thrills…

Productivity Update #3 – Wyvern!

Hey all!

Here’s some WIP’s of the Wyvern.  I had a lot of fun inking and drybrushing today, resulting in some pretty good progress.  I won’t be embarrassed when it hits the table on Saturday.  🙂 

Productivity Update #2

Hey all!

Autocannons are largely finished (only some very minor details remaining) and so I’ve moved on to the Wyvern. 

Happy Thanksgiving Eh?

To those Canadians (including myself) a very happy Thanksgiving!

At present I’m planning ahead for FIGHTAN in an Apocalypse battle to take place this next Saturday.  It’ll be an all-Imperial rumble with Dark Angels & Astra Militarum vs. Vanilla Marines, Grey Knights and Sisters of Battle, capped out at 5,000 points per side, 2,500 points per player.  It’ll build on a Narrative that we’ve had going for a while in a series of Apoc battles.  I’m not quite sure what to expect!

I’m playing around with my lists, and regretting I don’t have more (ie-any) Deathstrikes.

Because what kind of Thanksgiving battle would it be without a pair of Thermo-Nuclear explosions?

Cheers all,

-Oak

Thanksgiving to me means whiskey and cardigans. Also, family. 🙂

Productivity Update #1

Hey all!

I’m not really one to post to help stay accountable for my painting and whatnot, but this does seem like a good way to stay on top of things without breaking the bank account (for new models).  So this might start to be a ‘thing’.  Who knows.

I painted one of the heavy weapon teams in advance of the other two teams, because I needed to stick one in my Company Command Squad.  I’m just now getting around to the other two bases.  I kind of dreaded painting these guys based on my experience with the first one… I found it hard to working around the large base.

So here’s what’s on my desk presently, and please excuse the photography.

At this point I’ve got the fatigues mostly layered up and inked, working on highlighting greens, and skin-tones. I typically go on after the fact to work on the sandbags & other details.

Red means basecoating not yet complete. Yellow in progress. Green means all aspects completed. Some vehicles have multiple variants; it should be pretty intuitive to see what variants apply to each chassis.

Battle Report: Astra Militarum vs. Space Marines (1,500 pts)

I almost forget how to write these things now!  Where to begin…?