Author: Felix

Ork Kommando with Big Shoota

At GamesDay 2006 I purchased a box of Ork Kommandos. I got the Kommando with Big Shoota to add to the force. I put the whole model together. I added some slate to the base.

The next stage was to give the model a black undercoat. I then gave the model a drybrush of Tin Bitz.

Ork Kommando with Big Shoota

More photographs of the model from the workbench, as well as the GW painted version.

 

 

Land Raider MkIIb

The Mark IIb Land Raider Phobos is one of the earliest marks of the standard pattern of Land Raider, and it still bears similarities to both the Land Raider Proteus and the Spartan Assault Tank that served as the models for the design.

Land Raider MkIIb

The Mark IIb Land Raider Phobos is the only pattern of the standard Land Raider Phobos that uses the older armoured sponsons, as they do not allow the weapons they hold to fully rotate. This pattern of Land Raider is mostly extinct within Space Marine Armouries, having been replaced with newer marks and patterns of the standard Land Raider Phobos. However, some Chapters may still possess one or two as treasured relics of their ancient past.

The Land Raider MkIIb is probably my favourite Land Raider variant. I do have one of them in my collection. I knew that if I was going to get a Land Raider it would have to be the Forgeworld MkIIB Land Raider. I did get one in the end at GamesDay 2006. Sadly it was recently retired from the range. I wrote up some reflections on my MkIIB Land Raider, on the current state of the painting and what I needed to do next. In the end I went down a different route.

Grey Knights in Terminator Armour

I had both a Grey Knights Terminator with Psycannon and a regular Grey Knights Terminator. These were metal models, which went together very easily.

I gave them both a black undercoat.

…and then I lost interest. However I have got them out of storage recently. As you can see the models have suffered by being in storage and there are parts of the models where the undercoat has been worn away. I don’t think though I will redo the undercoat at this stage. I am thinking about painting them with Leadbelcher, but I may need to get a new can of spray as my current can doesn’t seem to be doing the trick at the moment.

More photographs of both models from the workbench.

Malcador Infernus

Malcador Infernus

The Malcador Infernus is a variant of the venerable Malcador Assault Tank design. It is not widely used by Imperial armed forces at the present time and is in fact little known even within the Imperial military. In many regions of the Imperium, the Malcador passed out of common service many millennia ago. The few Malcadors that remain in the Emperor of Mankind’s service have been relegated to the Departmento Munitorum’s strategic reserve, to the arsenals of second-line Planetary Defence Forces or are maintained in active service only by a few units of the Imperial Guard due to ancient tradition. The Malcador Infernus variant has been mostly replaced by the faster and more reliable Hellhound in front-line Imperial Guard regiments. The Infernus is armed with a massive, vehicle-sized Flamer known as an Inferno Gun.

More photographs of the Malcador Infernus.

Grey Knights Librarian in Terminator Armour

In 2007 I purchased the new Space Marine Librarian in Terminator armour as I really did like the model and for me would certainly fit into my Grey Knights army with all the books and purity seals.

Obviously at £8 I thought it was quite expensive for a single model at the time, but then when has Games Workshop even made “cheap” models. Of course today the plastic Librarian in Terminator Armour is slightly more costly at £26.

Nice model and nice that all the weapon options are included. The model comprises three castings, once I had put these together I gave the model a black undercoat.

I then started painting the armour, using Leadbelcher…

…and then I lost interest. However I have got it out of storage recently. As you can see the model has suffered by being in storage and there are parts of the model where the undercoat has been worn away. I don’t think though I will redo the undercoat at this stage, especially as I had already started painting the armour.

Space Marine Librarian in Terminator armour

Junkers Ju-52

The Ju52 was the last in a series of corrugated metal-skinned Junkers aircraft. The first aircraft, fitted with a single engine, flew in October 1930. The first three-engined version, the Ju52/3m, flew in April 1932.

Junkers Ju-52

This Junkers Ju-52 on display at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels was built for the Portuguese Air Force in 1937 and originally flew with the serial 109, later changed to 6309. Retired in 1972 and stored in Lisbon for the Portuguese Air Force museum until shipped to Belgium in 1985 for restoration to fly by the SABENA Old Timers. This was abandoned and the aircraft went on permanent display at the museum.

Stormboyz Nob

One of my Ork units I do like are my Stormboyz. Games Workshop did produce a metal Stormboyz Nob, however it was only available by mail order and not from their shops. So when I was up in Nottingham back in the day I did get the Stormboyz Nob when I visited Warhammer World.

At this point the model is constructed and has been given a black undercoat.

Stormboyz Nob

As you can see the model has suffered by being in storage and there are parts of the model where the undercoat has been worn away. I don’t think though I will redo the undercoat at this stage.

Stormboyz Nob

The parts went together very easily. The only exception was the model was too heavy for the slottabase (and the tab was on the thin side). So I decided to use a resin piece from my Urban Basing Kit and use a 40mm round base instead of the supplied 20mm base.

Here are some photographs of the model building and painting process until now.