Fun In A New Scale. For Me Anyway

Being a child of the, ahem!, 70s, I used to have loads of Airfix soldiers both 1/72 and 1/35 scale.

Fortunately, over the years, Airfix has seen fit to re-issue loads of my childhood favourites. These have mostly been sitting around as part of the nostalgia-but-I-will-paint-them-one-day pile.

What didn't help was Hobbycraft doing a 25% off the Airfix Overlord set. Tie that in with an upcoming house move and the removal from the loft of some kits I already had, I've diverted slightly to an Airfix stream.

Below is the Overlord set coastal battery along with the Amera produced base and two of the tanks.

This bottom pair of photos show the gun emplacement and the other coastal battery that my dad bought but never finished back in 1994 when these kits had a release as part of D-Day 50.

More to follow as I show progress with these kits, the old pontoon bridge set and my move into painting up the 1/35 scale re-issues. I've started on British and German infantry.

New Side Project: The Crimson Fists

 OK. I was weak but in my defence, Wicor Models of Portchester, were selling Armageddon for £166

Although I had am Ork army in the past, I'm not too bothered about those but I decided to go with Crimson Fists for this particular batch of Space Marines.

I've gone a little 2nd Ed for the Librarian. A lighter blue armour using Thousand Sons Blee with Kantor Blue for the shoulder pads and a nive yellow for the robes. I need to go back and research what symbol goes on the robes once I decide if I'm going for Lexicanium, Codicier or Epistolary for the Librarian's rank.

I'm deciding whether or not to go for white helmets for the Vanguard. Yes, I should but...

We'll see.

We All Like Praetorians Don't We.

 Courtesy of Victoria Lamb of Victoria Miniatures, Object Source Lighting painting and purveyor of many a not-Praetorian morsels of miniature goodness fame cpmes the latest Kickstarter campaign.

Grimdark Empire

Grimdark Empire. Miniature STL Files by Victoria Lamb — Kickstarter

If you like Praetorians and Mordians, consider investing in all of the stls will that will be available by the end of the campaign. The camaign includes male and female versions of Firing Line and standard squads as well as heavy weapons and command models stls.

If you are UK based and don't have a printer, consider Kirton Games. I've used them for many a 3d print project and Rob, one of the owners, is also a Praetorian gamer by the handle of Col. Gravis.

Kirton Games

Printed versions of some of the models are available from the Victoria Miniatures store:

GRIMDARK EMPIRE – Victoria Miniatures

Enjoy!

The Damned As They Stand

I've mentioned before that the arrival of The Damned reinvigorated me back into some building and painting following a long work-enforced break from indulging.

What we see in the following photos is the current end state for now as I look into re-indulging in 40K Imperial Guard and maybe some Space Marines.

I do have some built but unpainted models but, for now, they have been pushed down the priority order a bit.

First up, The Boss /Anarch,/ Great Warmongerr// Le Grand Fromage/ The Highest Poobah/ Devastating Endbringer* (delete as appropriate) I have to give some thought as to what form his Command Squad or bodyguard will take but for now, he's nails enough to look out for himself.

Then again, maybe I could add another couple of sorcerors to give him a psyker back up.

I've already covered the rest of these units in progress posts so there isn't much else to add. Wargames Atlantic have smashed this project out of the park and, purely my opinion, I could have enjoyed the variety just as much if I'd gone for a smaller Kickstarter buy in. Basically you have a rules agnostic set of models that can likely supplement or proxy for all manner of games systems ranging form a 40K Siege of Vraks style heretics army to some spicy models for Stargrave.

Apologies for the spartan desk, that's all I have available in my workplace accommodation. I also have quite a spicy house move coming up so more detailed photography could be delayed for a while.



 

More Generically Heretical Infantry

Must give them a name. 'Generically Heretical' is a bit vague.

That's now twenty of these in total with some heavy weapons to follow. After that, time to build some Command for them. I have Brutes available but I'm still leaning towards keeping them for The Damned.

They should be able to have beast handler re-enforcements though.

Back to the painting table before I build more though.










 

More of The Damned Hit The Front Line

Another twenty complete. Once I'm back home again and have time, I'll muster up everything that has been painted for a nice group photo.

 

Ventrillian Noble Reinforcements

As the Armageddon Battalion box included Cadian infantry, I've added another squad to my Ventrillian Nobles. This should keep me away from a Vostroyan MTO. If I could resist those models twenty years ago, I can resist them now.

Pistolier heads give me enough craziness for my Imperial Guard for now. Plus, there is a new Victoria Lamb dress uniform Kickstarter coming up.