Hobby update

So, I got a couple gifts from my brother which will help me expand my armor contingent.  Namely 2 Forge World Vanquisher turrets!  On the left is the Ryza pattern turret and on the right is the Gryphonne IV pattern turret, all nice and fresh in the bag.

Here they are all laid out.  The quality on these two is pretty great, the only issue is the barrel on the Ryza turret.  I can't wait to work on these.  I am getting the hulls from a friend of mine who is selling off his guard. I will probably use those turrets to make some sort of defensive positions of some sort.  These two tanks will be grouped up with the Destroyer to be a tank hunting squadron and will be my third Russ hulled squadron.  Another thing that makes me happy.  More armor to throw at the foes of mankind.

A note from a hobby I am just beginning, I also got this just today, it's a Horizon Hobby Super Cub!  This will be my first RC airplane.  It's a trainer and came with everything you need and I cannot wait to go fly it.  Eventually I will be able to upgrade it to have ailerons and go with 4 channel control.  But for now I must learn.  I may plaint it in some form of WH40k theme.  Nice matte gray, some Aquilas etc.

Lastly another hobby of mine, I recently redecorated my aquarium.  Really like the way it turned out, so just enjoy that there.

Tournament Tomorrow

So, tomorrow I will be heading to Rochester and Millennium Games to have some fun playing in the monthly 40k tournament.  It's been quite a while since I was last able to attend one and I am greatly looking forward to it.  The format is sort of weird, you have one main army list of 1350 points and then 2 side boards of 500 points each.  You only use one of these at a time so the games will be 1850pts.  I have a rather large amount of my models painted so I was not worried about having to paint too much in the 3 days I had to prepare.  I ended up having to paint one of my Chimeras and rebase my squad of psykers and a few mixed leftover troopers who were passed over in the first go.

Wednesday I painted on the camo scheme and did all the black metal bits and dry-brushing.  Yesterday I did all the details; view-ports, weapons, slogans, emblems and decals.  Today I did all of the weathering; scratches, battle damage, and pigment dusting.  I also did the rebasing which was required while the matte varnish dried.

Overall I am very happy with how this model turned out,  I was able to match the camo scheme of my other Chimera pretty well and still had all the required colors.  I'm just glad I took the time a few weeks ago to airbrush all my unpainted vehicles base color.

So here are some pictures of Chimera No. 144 'Iron Duke.'  The first shows the model with the Forge World armor upgrade.

The next is without the extra armor.  It's just magnetized and pops on and off really easy.  I put little tabs of paper on the magnets of the extra armor so that they don't scratch the paint off of those drilled into the Chimera's Hull.

Lastly here's a shot of the troops taking to the field, 2350 points barely fits onto my display and my Vendetta is absent from this shot, though it is in the list.

Let's hope the Emperor provides.

PanzerJäger

What's this? You're ruining a perfectly good Leman Russ?

Well no, not exactly.  The basement we game in is full of models, I mean full.  There are thousands of them all over the place down there on the tables, on shelves, on the floor.  It's complete madness.

So there was this Leman Russ hull just sitting there unused and $12 later it was mine.  I always wanted to make a Destroyer tank hunter and figured this would be my best chance.  After a couple of nights of building this is where I am.  Still some wet milliput to dry and a bunch of sanding to do today.

Need a gun-shield and plenty of greeblies and bits here and there.Some stowage, maybe some ablative armor panels.
Stay tuned.