mostly been to Caledonian Uprising 4

Well this last weekend I went to Caledonian uprising 4 run by Tim King in Stockport and by all accounts I had a whale of a time, not much success on the gaming front though (I finished bottom half way down in the 70's) but I did manage to pick up a tasty bit of glassware coming 2nd in the painting competition (very surprised, after only qualifying for best army when they raised the number of nominations from 10 to 14 and only slipping in as the 13th nomination).  The overall standard of the painting was really rather awesome and below I've put some shots of the armies on display over the weekend for folk to enjoy.

Once again I'm under no illusions that my army was really painted all that well, but people seemed to like the work and effort I put into collecting the old rogue trader marines and restoring them to their former glory, it looks like the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia carried me through where skill and talent would never have carried me once again... Enjoy.

The trophy 

My Marines 

Jeroen Janssen Guard 

Tim Smith Whitescars

Daniel Eatch Eldar

Michael Bolton  chaos marines

Duncan Brown Tau-necron

Phil Dobson BloodRavens (edit got it wrong)

Paul Scot Nurgle

Tom Adriany Demons

1st place Gary Marsh chaos marines

His greater Demon

Iain Miller Chaos marines

Geoff Hamilton Nurgle

John Swallows Tau

Well just so you can see my painting hasn't stopped here's the latest additions to the rogue marines, Captain Cheese Hammer(i had a problem with the spray undercoat so the finish is very rough but He'll do for now.

Next on the hit list 

Be back soon...

Dave 

mostly not been painting but gaming instead.

Well the painting has slowed down a bit as I've been playing games and attending tournaments. I managed to pick up a best army award at the Woking Weirdboyz 1850 at the start of the month and while this was generally unexpected it's given me hope that I'll get a nomination in January at my next tourney.  Trying to refine my list for Jans tourney has meant that rather than painting much new stuff I've been touching up and swapping arms on my rogue trader marines.  But here's some of teh stuff I have managed to put brush to model with...

freehand skulls 

A tyranid prime 

My nice best army trophy

Just finished a few Raveners so added in an edit 

more squats I'm slowly working on (Thrudd the barbarian too) 

That's it for now but more over xmas I hope 

Be back soon...

This week I have mostly been finishing my army for the woking weirdboys 1850

Well this last week I've been finishing off my army for the woking weirdboys 1850 pts tourney at the end of this month. It's a Rogue trader spacemarine army that I've been working on for the last years or so and to be honest its starting to get a bit out of hand ( I keep buying more stuff on ebay) but its coming to the end and the weird boys will be the armies first proper outing.

below is the finished 1850 army.  I finished the squats and sternguard this week lets hope they do themselves proud on the field of battle...

Wish me luck and be back soon...

this week i have mostly been painting a random series of things...

Well i was away for a while but now been back a week now and have been painting furiously trying to get my RTB01 army finished for the woking weird boys tourney at the end of the month, however... I keep geting distracted and painting random things. so enjoy some shots of some of the random things i've mostley been painting.

First off we have the crashed imperial lander scenery i bought of eBay for a few quid, always wanted one of these it's an awesome piece of scenery.

 I had to flock the edges with light green static grass, it's a bit light but matches my gaming table so it's the only option. 

I did manage to get my RTB01 stern guard started and almost finished, I batch painted them which I find a bit boring but it's the quickest way to get things done.

I also managed to convert and paint a doom, I used  the head armour from a mawlok along with the body from an old ravenor and some left over spines from the trygon. the head was made from a warrior and bit of green stuff.  I was quite pleased with the results.

Last we have the drilling machine i bought to use as transport for the squats 

Any way that's all for this week stay classy people, 

Be back soon...