Ash waste nomads vs delaque campaign gang fight scenario

Absolute carnage in the underhive this week as S and myself face off against each other in a rather boring scenario but the game was anything but that.A short ten minute video battle report is the result for your viewing pleasure :)

Necromunda Spyrers, Nomads and Platformer set review

Hello all, Happy Thursday, S here and i'm on holidaaaay. A few things to show in today's post that may be of some interest. Not sure if I mentioned before but I bought this terrain set called Platformer construction set and I've been busy putting it together but more on that later.

First, Allan's projects. I decided to paint these Spyrers I have, to introduce into campaigns that i'm playing with S and George. With the background of the Spyrers being from the upper levels of the Hive and completely alien to the underhive and its inhabitants, I felt they should be painted to reflect the difference in wealth and status. At one end of the spectrum you have the Nomads who live outside of the hive, scavanging, robbing convoys and looking very grungy. I felt the natural way to go with the Spyrers was to be bold coloured, affluent looking and shiney.


This guy is a Malcadon as is the blue guy. They both have claws and webspinners and can move at a alarming speed. In a campaign the Spyrers can choose different winning conditions, one of which is that they have to kill as many people as there are members of their own gang before they can return to the lofty luxury of the Spyre. Sounds kind of easy but with so few members the odds are evened, maybe even against them and death of a Spyrer can not be compensated by buying other members.

 The guy below is a Orrus equipt with bolt launchers and powerful fists.

I know I have blogged to death about the Nomads but I find them so interesting. I found a cheap way of making them because as you all know they have been discontinued for quite some time. With a box of Cadian guardsmen, I chop off the head and replace it with the Maximini resin gas mask head I bought in Ebay and then make a hooded cloak out of green stuff. Here is a freshly converted and base coated guy.

Here is another fully painted one. He is holding an Imperial Guard Lasgun which some may find a bit unconventional but I believe my Nomads rob enough PDF convoys to have aquired some lol

Platformer review
S here again :) I'm going to post a little review of this construction set I bought online. I found a lot of images of really cool looking terrain made using this set, so many that it had me phoning up every gaming shop I could find to see if they had any. Due to some stupid issues between manufacturers there are not many around. I bought the last 3 boxes from one shop somewhere in Northern England and to be honest they have been sitting under my bed for sometime after a shocking surprise at the level of work that goes into constructing them. Conquering this constuction set makes me feel ridiculously accomplished like I should be getting some minor award in engineering or construction......I feel like I could add this to my CV haha anyways a few Ps and Cs

Cons:
-Comes in a LOT of bits.
-Requires a lot of patience.
-Requires a lot of mundane tidying with plastic cutters once taken off of sprue.
-You WILL need the instruction manual (which I hate).
-The plastic is a bit brittle you will need to be more slightly gentle than with GW terrain.
-generally fiddly

Pros:
-Is to 28mm model scale.
-Once you figure out how to use the different connectors, the possibilities of shape and size are only limited to the bits you have.What I mean is that you can make multi level sturctures with as much or little cover, with as many nooks and crannies and corners to hide around as you want.
-Most (like 90%) of the pieces click together to provide very sturdy hold without glue, you will occasionally find a piece that will click together but not as firmly as others.
- It's Cheap as chips, each box cost me 6.95.
-Unlike some terrain sets that are made to build one stucture unless you have the imagination and skills to convert,  the platformer set has no boundries you could use 50 boxes to make enough terrain for a whole gaming board

Here is a little preview, this piece I am making is nooooo where near complete. Do you like my organisation of the bits?

Ash Waste Nomad Heavy with Long Rifle

Hope you like it! still doin my lazy paint jobs but i'm gettin a bit better at lenses and stuff...... slowly slowly does it lol

Fully painted Tyranid shrike and more..

S here again, on a roll it seems with the posting ^_^ Without futher ado..

 

 

 

On another note, I know I said some time ago that I was crap at painting faces and would therefore be staying away from space marines  but....i've changed my mind. I plan to start collecting the Flesh Tearers chapter of Space Marines!! Actually I knew a while back that I wouldn't be keeping to that statement and have been researching chapers for a lil bit. I will still be playing as and collecting more Nids in the immediate future because I  have a lot of work to do creating an army list and reading up on space marine rules *GULP*

 Above pic from www.gamesworkshop.com


A couple of pics from our weekend game of necromunda. Spot the bridge to nowhere haha I was playing as Cawdor temporarily while waiting for new bases for my Delaque that I managed to melt....long story.

 

Allan's beautifully painted gang takes an ass whooping before beating me down.

Lastest Nomad ganger conversion. Armed with boltgun and a very fetching green stuff hooded top :D

Sneak peak of 1st completed nid shrike & more ashwaste nomads

Hi all!
S here hoping you all are having a great weekend. I started painting one of my shrikes early this afternoon thinking that I could finish it in good time and take some good pics with the great light of today but alas I ended up getting less and less relaxed as I noticed the light gradually started to fade.

I started seeing the task I set myself turn from abc to the chinese alphabet as I kept finding flaws and general unfinishedness...I still hesitate to call it finshed as it stands but I wanted to share the one decent picture I took and promise to post a BUNCH tommorow when I have time on my side (and the sun doesn't seem to me like it's darting across the sky...pffft stupid sun)

Below are a few more pictures of Allan's Ashwaste nomads. I think this guy he converted looks awesome. He found some really great gas mask heads on Ebay and practically made the guy from bits and bobs of other models. He made the the hood and back pack on this heavy out of green stuff and the last pic is of the 1st leader/ganger from his Cawdor gang which he has just started painting.

two more nomads complete

I won't be using either of these guys to start the campaign this weekend but i recieved the bits i ordered in the mail today and couldn't resist building them both. I have built a heavy with autopistol and heavy bolter out of 3rd party 28mm scale head and chaos space marine arms and heavy bolter space marine torso and the rest is mostly green stuff.

I'm really happy with how this mini came out in the end cept the arms look to space marineeee for my liking other than that he looks cool i like how the hood turned out well atleast how it looks from the front lol

The second nomad i built is a ganger with lasgun, he is not so cool looking. The head and torso are that of a chaos renegade from forgeworld and the legs and right arm are from the original plastic orlock gangers you got from the necromunda box set. However the left arm is a chaos space marine arm and bits of greenstuff  a real crappy part of an otherwise smoove conversion I will file it down before i prime the model.

I'll probably post again tommorow about what I don't know yet, all I really care about right now blog wise is doing some more video battle reports but this time for necromunda. However never fear 40k is way too important to us at FdMIni painting to forget about, but it is good to keep things fresh for the community and ourselves thanks for reading.