From MikeF - Horus Heresy Militia Tanks - 85 points

 One of my ongoing projects is my Imperial Guard / Traitor Militia for Horus Heresy. It's a simple olive green paint job that goes on quick and looks decent. Late last year I painted up some Alternative Armies Ion Age Retained Knights to represent Rogue Trader humans in power armor to be used for the Age of Darkness H H rule set.  I decided they needed some transports, so dug out some old rhinos and gave them a 30k makeover with bits from Blood & Skulls Industry. The rhinos are about 20 years old and were originally for my Salamanders Army. They were then repainted and then stripped. As such, they were in rough shape. Here are some work in progress pictures.

The resin parts come in several pieces and you have to saw off the Rhino exhaust pipes to fit the new bits on. It was actually pretty easy, so long as you have a small saw. Here are the completed rhinos:

28mm Infantry is for scale only

The Eye of Horus displayed prominently.

I also picked up the new plastic Land Raider Proteus for Horus Heresy and painted it up for the command squad. I went light on the upgrades as this army is lucky Horus gave them a Land Raider at all!

 

4 x 28mm vehicles for 80 Points

I also added up my total points to date and I should be at 410 including the above submission. Not sure where those extra 140 points came from, but I fear someone else may have been shorted.

Not sure if I'll get a final entry done in time, but I'll do my best.

Thanks for visiting.

Fantastic looking AFV's for your Militia, your men must be honoured by the Warmaster's generosity in granting them a Land Raider.

Miles has only been absent for a day and already there are claims of points irregularities and abuse of the system. Luckily for you, Miles didn't pick just any old minion to cover his shift, he picked me! After a thorough search of the Spreadsheet of Doom, I managed to track down the culprit, assign the points to their rightful owner and wrap things up with a neat little bow on them for Miles upon his return from the financial frontlines. It looks like another minion entered the wrong number into the spreadsheet and you were awarded the points by mistake. As a reward for your honesty, I have added a few bonus points to your total. 

- StuartL

From Steve K. Ravenguard Reinforcements. 80 Points

 Converting and sculpting stuff takes ages. It is also hard. These are things ive found out over the last few weeks. 

So ive been busy adding to my Ravenguard collection for the Horus Heresy, as some may know, the models from forge world are insanely expensive, hence the need to buy some greenstuff and try my hand at making my own.

First up were 5 Mor Deythan. These are a specialist infiltration and sniper unit unique to the Ravenguard.  I have made my own weapons for these guys out of 3 seperate kits, and made the cloaks from greenstuff.

Once painted up I think ive just about got away with it!

I needed another character for my force, so created a |Legion Vigilator (master Sniper). Again, kitbashed, converted and a cloak made from greenstuff.

Again, once painted, I think he came out ok. Im not 100% happy with his camo cloak but... well it'll do.

Next up some vehicles.

The Rhino APC. always a bit of a classic design, I had to include at least one in my force. 

in the picture below im using therapy putty as a mask for applying the white through an airbrush. It actually worked too!

I had great fun painting this one up, dont get me wrong, it took bloody ages but i enjoyed it non the less. ive learned lots about weathering recently, and although not perfect, its great trying new things like this.

The Sicaran

A beast of a tank. loved painting and weathering this one too. I even went so far as to magnetise the hatches and weapon sponsons, so I can change the weapon loadout.

Oh, and ive reached 2000 points for my HH force too!

So in total ive done:

6x 32mm figs

2x large vehicles

 Anyway, thats me for another update. I hope you are all well, now I must paint these Picts.....

Steve

Great looking Ravenguard, and amazing conversions. Congratulations on hitting the 2000 point mark with your army, that's enough to game with and gives you a solid core to build on should you want to add more later. 

I'm a sucker for the Heresy, and so I'm going to award some bonus points for the greenstuff work you did.

From IannickM : Ultramarines at Millsy's Millpond (60 points)

When I first saw the different locations on the map, Millsy's Millpond was high on my list. I'm a nostalgia junkie, and so the idea of painting some old school figure seemed like an obvious stop for me! My first idea was to paint up some classic Oldhammer chaos champions or Ral Partha, but like it happens so often in this challenge my path got diverted. I've been furiously painting some Epic lately and I didn't want to divert my momentum. Luckily, Games Workshop has been at it for a long time and so was Epic, before its untimely demise.

The first wargame *battle* I played was the original Space Marine. Me and my brother got the boxset I believe for Christmas. We already had Warhammer but other than a few skirmishes (we were poor and building armies took forever when you could afford two blisters a month!) never played a big game. This bothered my father and he went to the game store and asked the guys for something "we could play straight out of the box". What we got was Space Marine, a massive box with LOTS of figures and terrain.

The game was great value, and to this day the figures hold up very well. So why not paint some for Millsy's pond? And I know the man is a big fan of Epic, so I'm sure he approves.

As I mentioned in my last post I've been working on an Emperor's Children force to face John's Blood Angels, but I've also been collecting a second force to paint a loyalist side to my traitors. The goal is to have two playable forces, as I'd like to surprise my brother with a classic game when he comes back from Japan, where he's been living for the last few years.

And so here's my first stab at the Emperor's finest, and my brother's favourite, the good ol' Ultramarines.

We start with a classic, with 4 Rhino armoured transport.

These are the original plastic tanks from the 1989 boxset. And when I say original, I mean original, i.e. the plastic tanks I got when I was 10! One of them was already painted an horrible yellow and since stripping these plastics is a real pain I just undercoated over the original paint job. The details were a bit softer but now its not noticeable.

Then 5 Contemptor Dreadnoughts, once again the classic plastic sculpts from way back. To be honest I'm not sure when these guys were released. Early 90s I would assume. They aged gracefully, and were an absolute joy to paint, with crisp details.

And here's the tiny gang together. These are more of a test run if you will, as I intend to go back to my traitors in anticipation of my upcoming game. But I'm happy I found my blue recipe and my colour scheme for the upcoming project.

 So...

• 4 Epic Rhinos : 8 pts
• 5 Epic Dreadnoughts : 5 pts
• Millsy's pond : 30 pts
• Bonus point for figures pre-1990 (1989, thats cutting it close!) : 10pts

Total : 53 points

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By Paul

The Blessed God Emperor of Terra approves both your game choice and your army selection. Your faith is strong and with these excellent warriors of humanity you can purge Xenos and Heretic alike!

Ahem. Sorry about that. I 'kinda' like Epic too. I still have my original Dark Angels force from 1992. It now takes up an entire moving carton actually.

I also love the background story behind it - I'm awarding bonus points for Gamer dad awesomeness. Please pass them on with a big thumbs up!  60 points 

From ByronM: Last Post, finishing up odds and ends (99 Points)

Well, here it is one last post for the year.  This post makes up the last few pieces that I was able to finish of in the last few days so that I didn't have some half done figures kicking around until next year. 

First up I have a unit of Primaris Space Marines with Hellblaster plasma guns.  While the Primaris marines are pretty terrible in game, I really like the armour and size of them.  I just wish they would have made them replacement marines rather than ret-conning the fluff after all these years.  Oh well, I just use them as plasma gun armed marines anyway.

They are done up as Dark Angels as they are my favourite chapter (even though they have sucked since 3rd edition).

Next up is a trio of rhinos for my 30k Death Guard force.  I have had these kicking around for the last few challenges and never quite get around to them.  While my Death Guard are tough, they really shouldn't have to walk into battle any more, so I finally got around to giving them some rides!

Last up are two Kingdom Death survivors.  One is in Lion armour which is one of my favourite armour sets for looks.  I think you can see why.  Although the set doesn't have the same attraction on male figures. 

The other is in a Gorm armour set, complete with a axe and knuckle shield.  This guy we affectionately call the Gimp.  Again, I think you can see why.

These items add a bit to my points totals, but I still didn't hit my goal. However, while I did not meet my 2000 point goal this year, I am still pretty happy with everything that I did get done. 

Thanks to everyone for all the great pictures to look at over the winter, all the inspiration for next year, and the growing list of new projects to start (you all may be hearing from the wife about that last part!). 

The Challenge really is the best part of the hobby year, so let's all give Curt and the Minions a big hand for running this wild and crazy event!

And with that, I am out!

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Thank you for the kind words Byron, much appreciated. You're treating us to a great assortment of models as you bow out. The Primaris Marines and Rhinos are excellent (really like that green and cream livery on the vehicles), but I have to say that my favourites are the two Kingdom Death survivors. The gal in the white lion 'armour' looks very comfy (if a tad exposed in a few places) whereas Millsy, er, the Gimp, not as much (probably the cold zippers). I'm sure they will be welcome additions to you next KD campaign.

- Curt

From GregB - Epic 30k Armoured Vehicles (34 Points)

A potpurri of Epic 30k armour

More Epic 30k material for this submission - a mix of vehicles, ranging from APCs to some super-heavy tanks.

Up first are two more Rhino APCs from the XIV Legion, the "Death Guard". They missed the deadline for the last batch, so I'm tucking them in this week. These two models are old, original plastics from the 90s...I'm still always impressed at how well the detail has held up on these little guys. 

Now we are getting a little heavier, three Land Raiders, the "Proteus" variant, from the VII Legion, the "Imperial Fists" - Tamsin's favourite, I'm sure, with all the yellow :)  These tanks are the mainstays of any Space Marine armoured force - hitting hard while carrying troops in (relative) safety.

Up next is a battery of Whirlwind tanks - "Scorpius" pattern.  These are multiple-rocket-launcher style artillery weapons which the Marines use to shower their opponents with scary, guided HE shells. There is one battery for the Imperial Fists.

And another Whirlwind battery, this one for the XVI Legion, the "Sons of Horus".

Now we move up to some super-heavy tanks.  This is a Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer, a sort of Jagdtiger of the Space Marine Legions.  This is a very heavy, scary laser array mounted on an extra-large and extra-armoured Land Raider chassis.  Fitting for the setting, the weapon can have serious side effects on its own vehicle...but I'm sure those are "isolated incidents", right?

The scariest is saved for last.  Getting run over by Land Raiders, hit by rockets from Whilrwinds and zapped by the Cerberus is bad enough - but when a Space Marine Legion commander is really pissed, he sends a few of these things forward - Fellblade super-heavy tanks.  Armed and armoured to end-of-days levels, these thing obliterate the enemy at any range.

If you are curious, see this link to check out one of these things I painted up in 28mm scale...it's a bonkers model.  Also, you can see most of these tanks (as well as figures I have painted so far in the Challenge) in action with the Fawcett Avenue Conscripts this week over on our blog at this link - it was fun to get all of these models out for a spin with the group. Unfortunately Horus' plans to obtain some lethal virus artillery shells war orphan charity supplies were thwarted, but I'm sure the XVIth Legion will be back at it again before long...

This submission has 11 6mm vehicles, and three 6mm "super-heavy" vehicles that I am hoping count for two vehicles each, for a hopeful total of 30 points. I have a lot more Epic stuff in the pending line for my painting desk, but now that I'm choking on the dust of others in my side duels, it's time to crank the scale-o-meter back to 28mm, I think...hopefully will have some of that to share next week!

These are brilliant Greg. My favorites are still the Imperial Fists in their yellow livery - they're so badass they smirk at dull pan-tone colours, much less camo.

I know some of the early models are old GW stock, but what about these whacky variants and monster tanks you've been showing us?  Are these from another company or GW as well?

By my math this puts this at 34 points, well done Greg!