Terrain: Oil Drums

Hey Gang:

Sorry for the long delay. It was good to see rcar, Granta, and MS last week and get some 40K gaming in.

A couple of months ago, my kids came home with little plastic things full of gum from a kid's b-day party goodie bag. See Here:
Like me, you no doubt noticed that it is shaped awfully like a 50-gallon oil drum. So, with a little selective cutting (to get rid of the handle) and some paint, they look like this:
The Ork -- by the way -- is done by my friend, NB. This is his first experience painting figs and as you can see he is already quite proficient. He is about ready to try some more detail work -- washes, etc. But, back the drums, I think they turned out OK. I like the one on the left more than the one on the right -- more bleed through of previous colors. I was going for rusty barrel look -- you can let me know how I did.

The barrels are a tad out of scale but only a tad -- no more so than the vehicles (though in the opposite direction).

I have yet to locate the source of these plastic gum-filled terrain possibilities but another appeared in my home (again, in a goodie bag). I am trying to track down the source and when I do I will be happy to share that info or even send along a couple to you (if it turns out to be an IL thing).

Cheers,
SP

Quick battle report: Crimsom Fists vs. Necrons 650-ish; Pitched Battle

Granta 94 played a necron army, 2 squads of 12 and a lord that was very heavily kitted out: resurrection orb & some other stuff but the former featured rather well for Granta throughout the game.

I had everything in 5 man combat squads: 1 tactical (w/rhino) 1 assault and 1 scout. The tactical squad had a missile launcher and the scout squad had a heavy bolter. My chapter master had a power weapon, master crafted bolter and all the juice you get with a chapter master.

I won deployment and initiative and went first. I chose to deep strike my assault squad so they stayed in reserve for the first round of combat. I moved the rhino around the archaic-style terrain piece toward one of Granta's squads and his lord. The scout squad used the infiltrate rule and hid in the woods 12 inches away from the other squad.

Not much happened in that first round. The second round was the most eventful for me: my assault troopers deep struck right behind one of Granta's squad. Though intended to appear behind the lord they actually shifted four inches to the left and wound up behind a squad. My gamble worked as the location for their appearance was rather close to the table edge. (See 1st two photos.)

I took out 6 (half the squad) but the res orb that the necron lord was toting about allowed two to survive the assault reducing the total dead in the squad to four. The squad was subsequently wiped out by the necrons who w/their str 5 gauss rifles just ripped through the assault marines. I went cold on the saves and this represented, for me, the beginning of the end.

This would be the full extent of the damage I would inflict against the necrons. The rest of the game saw my squads cut down entirely with the exception of a fleeing heavy bolter in the scout squad and my chapter master who failed horribly on the orbital bombardment (which went 8" wide from the intended target). After round two the dice went entirely cold.

Highlights: my epistolary librarian standing his ground against a half-squad and Granta's lord. However, Granta's lord literally vaporized the librarian; my snake eyes did not save against the two wounds and poof, gone.

rcar workbench: Cpt. Aguilar

Still need to add bits of detail to the sword and other places but this is, more or less, the finished product.

rcar workbench: crimsom fists

I'm on a bit of a tare with the space marines. I've set up a 500+ point beginning force of crimsom fists space marines. chapter master, two combat squads, a rhino, and a librarian. lean and mean.

I got the rhino and the black reach box set captain for a song on ebay and this formed the basis for the new army. Pictured here is the captain w/detail picked out on gun and face & the first drybrush.

I love blue over black: the highlights really pop & I feel the same way with layering reds. As such, this just really seemed to be the army for me. Also, you learn quite a bit working on an army for the first time, sadly from mistakes, and turning around and putting that learning to use immediately is pretty good when you are painting.

Doing some terrain a "fire base" and a ruined bldg. will post those soon.

workbench sneak peak [take 2]

Ok, here we go again... I am reposting since the previous post is illegible. The photo shows the current project I am working on. Can anyone guess what it's from?

workbench sneak peak