NWG Series, Part Three - Board Building

So here we are for part three of the NWG Series I'm going to show you the WIP display board that I'm building for the army.

Last week I put up the list and details of the models that I needed to get sorted. I have now managed to get all of the toys built and equipped with all the appropriate wargear, I'll detail this in a later post, for now it's the board.

As you may have seen from part 1, I had some scrawled ideas of what the board would look like.

The original plan.

As you can see I wanted to get all the squads in front of the pods being addressed by the Librarians. The usual board size is around 2" x 2". I got some MDF cut and had some expanded polystyrene lying around.

I started by assembling the wooden base.

The base

 I test fitted the polystyrene and then trimmed it to fit in snugly.

Polystrene test fit

I then used my specially crafted foamboard template to measure out the spacing of the pods on the polystyrene.

Foamboard sizer.

Measuring the spacing for the pods

 I then got all the toys together and made sure I could fit them all on with sufficient space.

Planning out the troop layout

After drawing out the shapes I then went at it with a hot wire cutter.

Cutting out the edges

Cutting out the pod holes

Some progress

 Once everything was cut out I fitted it into the wooden base.

Polystyrene nested in the frame

The next step is to texture the board with some pre formed plasticard that I have lying about and get the rest of it painted up all nice looking.

NWG Series, Part Two - The list

Welcome back to the NWG Series, time for part two.

Last time I hinted at something involving drop pods and left a few of my mad scrawlings up on the blog for your viewing pleasure.

I suppose it’s time to explain the some of my schemes, I’m going to be entering the 40K tournament, which has a 1650pts limit and rewards you for playing with new toys, conversions and the like.

I’ve opted to bring a list that involves drop pods, 9 of them.

Heres a quick list run down:

Dark Angels

Librarian, level 1 (Divination)

Tactical Squad, Melta, Drop Pod

Tactical Squad, Melta, Drop Pod

Tactical Squad, Melta, Drop Pod

Veteran Squad, Melta, 3x Combi-Melta, Drop Pod

Veteran Squad, Plasma, 3x Combi-Plasma, Drop Pod

Veteran Squad, Plasma, 3x Combi-Plasma, Drop Pod

Space Wolves

Rune Priest, Jaws, Hurricane

Rune Priest, Jaws, Lightning

6 Wolf Guard, 2x Combi-Melta, 3x Combi-Flamer, 1xTerminator w/ H.Flamer, Drop Pod

8 Grey Hunters, Melta, Banner, Drop Pod

8 Grey Hunters, Melta, Banner, Drop Pod

So as you can see I’m going to be needing:

9 Drop Pods

6 Melta Guns

2 Plasma Guns

5 Combi-Meltas

6 Combi-Plasmas

3 Combi-Flamers

1 Terminator

3 Libbys/Priests

6 Sgts

26 Marines

Pretty much all of this needs to be built and painted from nothing, I think I have about 20 Marines, 3 Special weapons undercoated and 1 Libby/Priest model actually painted.

1 model out of 64 completed!

It's a few boxes.

The most daunting thing is likely the 9 Pods, as they’ve a lot of different bits, I’ve spent the last week cleaning them up.

These are the large components

Thanks very much to Ian of Mad Eye Miniatures / The HobbyShack for getting these toys to me in such short order, what a gent, ply him with your business!

Now how am I going to get 9 pods painted? Well I’m going to cheat of course, using Army Painter sprays to take care of the grunt work of base coating both exteriors and interiors.

 

All the rest of the sprues

 

Obligatory crotch shot of just some of the plastic bits.

Progress overall has been slow but I have most of my materials now and I’m working on getting things moving, I’m sure once I get into the swing of things we should see more solid progress and a bit more dedication on my part.

Until next time!

Lots of Rubbish

                                

NWG Series, the beginning.

It’s been ages since I updated the blog because I've been busy playing toys and going on holiday and generally being busy with things that aren't writing walls of text about toy soldiers.

So since the last time I've gone ahead and actually placed in two tournaments, the first being Skibbcon, which is a team based event centered around getting really drunk and maybe playing toys, this event I won with my team mate Matt. It used three lists that were determined randomly prior to each game and the players were also switched about – Lists for this event are here, we went with bikes, all the bikes.

The second was a solo affair, Brocon, this was based in the University of Limerick and was the hottest tournament in the history of being really hot and sweaty, it really was warm. I took along Sisters of Battle with a fairly comedic list including 3 units of 3 Penitent Engines as well as some Space Wolves in Drop Pods. I finished up in 3rd place and secured my place as the best Sisters of Battle player in Ireland. List can be found here.

The next Tournament that is coming up is NWG, its more about the toys, modeling and painting. The games happen but aren't super competitive. The event will be using 1650 points of 40k and encourages displays, themes and using things that you haven’t before. It’s a great thing to motivate people to paint toys and try different things, also spend lots of money on more toys.

In my genius, or possibly madness, I've decided to have a totally new army with its own display board and a bunch of other stuff that I probably don’t have time for. I won’t spoil everything just yet but leave you with my concept sketches and try and update the blog once a week with my progress, welcome to the NWG series.

I’ll give you a hint, it involves Drop Pods!

Dark Angels? Bandwagon, yes.

Now this is me, jumping on a Band Wagon, big style.

It's not a Wagon but it's for a band! (I'm off to see Maiden at Donnington this year)

After having a leaf through a Codex t'other day and seeing how pretty it is and talking to Caolán over at Skibb Wargamers I decided that I would, in my head, imagine myself a list.

Now the lovely thing about Dark Angels has always been the Death/Raven Wing aspect of things and has always appealed to me. Now I've got some Terminators already, some from Space Hulk and some I got assembled and painted to be allied Blood Angels

Libby has a Storm Shield and a Bolter, suck it.

I also have a load of old school Terminators, in a vat of Dettol somewhere, I'm talking Mk 1 Space Hulk Old, they can be augmented with Shields and hammers, was thinking these.

Picture from http://gardenninjastudios.blogspot.ie/

So anyway, I came up with a little list that uses some Terminators and some zippy bikes. 

+ HQ + (215pts)
* Azrael, Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angles, Keeper of the Truth (215pts)

+ Troops+ (795pts)
* Deathwing Terminator Squad (265pts)
* Deathwing Terminator Sgt
Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
* Deathwing Terminator Special Weapon
Cyclone Missile Launcher & Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
* 3x Deathwing Terminators
Storm Bolter and Power Sword, 2x Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield

* Deathwing Terminator Squad (265pts)
* Deathwing Terminator Sgt
Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
* Deathwing Terminator Special Weapon
Cyclone Missile Launcher & Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
* 3x Deathwing Terminators
Storm Bolter and Power Sword, 2x Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield

* Deathwing Terminator Squad (265pts)
* Deathwing Terminator Sgt
Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
* Deathwing Terminator Special Weapon
Cyclone Missile Launcher & Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield
* 3x Deathwing Terminators
Storm Bolter and Power Sword, 2x Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield

+ Fast Attack + (420pts)
* Ravenwing Black Knights (210pts)
* 4x Black Knights
1x Ravenwing Grenade Launcher
* Ravenwing Huntmaster
Corvus Hammer

* Ravenwing Black Knights (210pts)
* 4x Black Knights
1x Ravenwing Grenade Launcher
* Ravenwing Huntmaster
Corvus Hammer

Imperial Guard 5th Ed (2009) (Allied Detachment) Selections:

+ HQ + (50pts)* Company Command Squad (50pts)

+ Troops + (240pts)
* Infantry Platoon (240pts)
* Infantry Squad
Lascannon

* Infantry Squad
Lascannon

* Infantry Squad
Lascannon

* Platoon Command Squad

+ Fast Attack + (130pts)* Vendetta Gunship Squadron (130pts)
* Vendetta
2 Twin-linked Lascannons


Now I would need to buy a few bits, and a big box of Bikes, but it looks like a fun list, now to order a metal Azrael before they f(uck)inecast him up.