Finally got a chance to sit down and get some paint on this card stock Warhammer 40k vehicle.  The Devil Dog is a modified Chimera that mounts a melta-cannon and big fuel tanks instead of 10 scared and about to die Guardsmen.  This one is table-quality – you can...

God bless the wargaming community.  They’ve come through in a pinch once again. First, let me explain in 40k-ese: A Devil Dog is basically a Chimera with a melta-cannon and power plant in place of a squad compartment.  It fills a Fast Attack slot and serves a dual role...

Over the last three weeks: The big work project blew up into 60 work weeks (brutal but we need the money, see below) Our sole vehicle broke down (still waiting) My daughter went in for an 18 hour surgery to fix some heavy duty back problems (she’s creaky, but...

As mentioned in the last post – the MDF board cutoffs make a great “clipboard” for the ship’s registers.  Each of these boards is just a bit bigger than 5-inches by 7-inches – perfect for printing the ship records. Ten players, ten boards.  We divvied up the ships to...

Productive weekend this weekend....

Frankly, I didn’t have enough foam to build a second capital ship.  So this foot-shaped beast is the strongest in either this force or the human force.  Instead of building two nearly identical fleets, I plan on making this ship and the escorts strong for the bio-fleet than for team human....

Slightly bigger, slightly badder, here is the meat and muscle of the bio-fleet.  The first two shots are of ships where the plastic domes popped off when the foam expanded.  I went with it – just painted them up as if it was still in place.  The one of...

The paint jobs are all complete.  Like the hit-mongering whore that I am, I’ll be breaking up the shots into multiple blog posts.  So let’s kick things off with the escort class ships.  A better man than I (gunga din) would have sat down with his bits and his...

Quick thought for the day.  Here’s a comparison of the bio-ships (which really need a better name) to human ships of comparable scale. Capitol Frigate Escort No fighters yet.  We need to assemble those for both forces yet....

Continuing on with the bio-ship construction, we’ve got paint on the field – paint which illustrates why you have to let these ships dry before you paint them – especially if you stick extra doo-dads into the foam. Whoops. Painted too soon.  Didn’t put foam on top of the...