From MarkO - Epic Orks and Guard (112 Points)

Epic Armageddon is a 6mm Scifi game (originally by Games Workshop) now grown by an international community of players, with a central resource site at www.net-armageddon.org.

There's plenty of game reports on my Hordes of the Things blog.

In recent years several 6mm Sci-fi companies have produced figures that make great units for the game, and mean that new players can get started easily. The following are 'Defeat in Detail Skinnerz', that I am using as Orks for Epic Armageddon. 

These trucks are probably my favourite of the Skinnerz models so far. They come in packs of 4 with 4 different tops and 4 different wheel bases, so mixing them up you get 16 different ramshackle trucks.

For all these models I went with simple painting scheme. Undercoat black. Drybrush gunmetal, and then drybrush some silver. Paint some red bits, paint some white bits. Paint the crew and then wash the whole thing with Dark Tone ink from Army Painter. Pretty quick, which is what I want when I'm painting a lot of them!

I might add some brown wash later to rust up bits of them, as I notice the metal looks pretty pristine in these photos!

Next are Flame Vectors.

Huge fuel tank and flamethrower on tracks, what could go wrong?

And then super-heavies. Beasts (Battlefortresses) in the back row and Gunwagons in the front. I took the turrets off the Gunwagons and stuck them on the Beasts, and the top hatch from the Beasts and stuck them on the Gunwagons. Because I want to use the Gunwagons as Battlewagons (transports).

Here's all the Skinnerz (Orks) painted so far.

 And lastly some Novan Light Walkers, that I will use as Sentinels with my Imperial Guard.

So that's 44 x 6mm vehicles, and 4 x super-heavy vehicles (which I'm guessing are the equivalent in size/scale to 3 normal vehicles in terms of points). So 112 points for the overall challenge and also for the 6mm Sci fi subchallenge!

Wow, that is an 'Epic' load of stuff!

(Crickets...)

Ahem, sorry, I'll move along now... 

Wonderful work Mark! I like seeing figures from different manufacturers being used for the game. These are brilliant. The Army Painter dip method really does a nice job on these castings, and I'm sure helps keep the process moving along at a brisk rate. Very nice indeed.

112 Points. A great debut to this year's Challenge.