Pre-Heresy Stormbirds Courtesy of Burger King!

While doing my month end inventory I happened to glance over at the new G.I. Joe kids meal toys and instantly found what I had been dreaming of for weeks... a suitable looking base for an epic pre heresy stormbird. I purchased 10 of these for $10.00 a very good deal.

I will fill in the big gaps and screw holes and add more detail to these using plasticard. I will probabley increase the size of the rotatable wing engines as well to look more like the old epic picture. After that I will smooth down the edges where the two halves of the toy meet, paint it red, and then slap some pre heresy Thousand Sons iconography on them. After that I will have to come up with some rules unless anyone else has some already to go?

I love Burger King!!!

Lets Play Epic on the computer!

I love the Bell of Lost Souls blog! It inspired me to do all of the pre heresy stuff I am doing currently. Today I saw an engine they had a link to that allows people to play Epic over the internet! this is good stuff.

Here is a screen shot of some terrain and units they have that I just threw on the board. It runs on something called a vassal engine. It is sweet non the less...

Pre Heresy EPIC Thousand Sons

Well after scouring through my friends epic collection and buying an old Epic Space Marine set, I have enough stuff to build a pre heresy Thousand Sons army. All the marines are the older style MK VI armour, the vehicles are old school, and I even found the old style dreadnolughts. It is going to be a fantastic army to see on the table... The pictures below show the assembled army so far... and this is only about half of what I have now! MWAhahahaaaaa!!!

There is actually two armies in Progress in this picture. The First is of course the Thousand Sons. The Second is the Burning Stars Titan Legion. I plan to find more Battle Titans, robots, Knight Titans, and Superheavies to complete the Burning Stars Titan Legion.




An overview shot of the army so far. In the front row you can see two Terminator detachments and Magnus the Red's personal unit in the center. In the Back is the Imperator Titan.




Four Tactical Detachments

Four Devastator Detachments

Old School Dreadnoughts with 4 assault units behind

Four Legio Ceybernetica Robot Maniples and Tech Priests.

Land Speeders at the foot of the Imperator Titan

Whirlwinds... and old enough model

A few knights for the Burning Stars Titan Legion

Pre Heresy Thousand Sons

Well... after along time away from my site alot has changed. I wanted to do an Imperial Fist pre heresy style army and made quite a bit of stuff up for it. However, I also wanted to do an Epic and BFG army for them as well.

Since I already Play Space Wolves and the Thousand Sons, adding yet another project into the mix seemed, in the end, to be a bad idea. Especially because I would like to get something completed. Having three armies to work on on all three game levels became to much of a hassle.

The stuff I have made up for the imperial fists will be easily converted into the Thousand Sons. I have a BFG fleet I can use to represent the earlier class ships, I have plenty of pre heresy epic style models, and as it turns out I have the same for the Space Wolves as well.

Thus, The Imperial Fist plans have been scratched... I am not to sad since I have been enthralled by the Thousand Sons and Space Wolves for years so this will be good me thinks.

Here is the first proto-type paint scheme for the Thousand Son's pre heresy era BFG fleet. All that is missing is the Thousand Sons insignia and the Scarab banner I will add to the antennas.

Pre - Heresy Dreadnought

I have changed my plans and will not be doing a Space Wolves Pre - Heresy Army. Instead, I will be creating a pre-heresy Imperial Fists army. I have not given up on the Space Wolves that are my favorite army. But as their rules will not be updated for another year and a half I will not waste time making stuff that will likely be redundant in the next Codex.

Thus, onward to the Imperial Fists. During the Great Crusade the use of Dreadnoughts was limited due to their not being really that many mortally wounded heroes laying around to stick into dreadnoughts. For some reason you had to be really cool to be kept alive in an armoured hospital gurney.

Anyway, here is the start of what will be an Iron Clad Dreadnought for the Pre-Heresy Imperial Fists.

Mark II Crusader Armour... Work in Progress.

The Next Phase in the Pre Heresy Modeling Project.... Mark II Crusader Armour. I really like how this one has turned out and is so far my second favorite, next to the Justaerian Terminator. I will put more pictures up later of the finished suit and the redone Mark IV and V suits.

Rivets are cool.

I went and purchased a 1/16th inch hole punch from Hobby Lobby's scrapbook section. This little hole punch has already been employed in making hundreds of tiny rivets for my marine army :0

Here is a picture of the Justaerian Terminator again, but now with rivets!!! Huzaah!

Mark III Iron Armour for the Pre-Heresy Project

Here are some pictures of the Mark III Iron Armour Suit I have been working on for the last two days. Overall I am pleased and cant wait to get the hole punch I need to start putting rivets on all the pre heresy projects. Tomorrow I will be starting the Mark II Crusader Suit... Hopefully I can find some more Kneadatite since the Crusader suit needs alot of attention...

Pre - Heresy Jet Bike Update.

Had a peer, Wenemun from Work in Progress, give me some inspiration for the front of my jet bike and this is how it looks now... Enjoy.

Pre - Heresy Space Marine Jet Bike

A teaser look at the next project for the pre heresy army... a space marine jet bike :)

Battlefleet Gothic: Orks vs Thousand Sons... One Point Slug Fest Victory!

The last BFG game me and Churoc played resulted in an ork victory. However, the Thousand Sons came back and scraped out a very narrow victory against the rampaging fleet of Churoc Faar.

With the outcome uncertain for both fleets late in the game, the Thousand Sons managed to get behind the Ork fleet and forced them to withdraw. After calculating Vp's the Orks actually won the game by one victory point. However, the Orks lost the game in the campaing sense of things since they left the zone to be controlled by the Thousand Sons.

If Churoc Faar would have stuck around for a few more turns her would have lost a great portion of his fleet to the prow lances of the Thousand Sons...

Tomorrow... the rematch!

Justaerian Terminator Update

After a few weeks of settling in and unpacking I finally decided to pull out the pre heresy stuff and finish it. I have searched far and wide to gather the needed armour types and vehicle designs.

I have made mark 4-6 armour and have the plans to make mark 1-3. I have jetbikes, an old land speeder or two, and have plasticard plans, from a Yahoo site, for a mark one Land Raider and all rhino hull tanks. All that is missing at the moment is an old dreadnought and some robots, these I will have to scratch build.

Before we moved from our beloved Texas to Utah I was working on a Justearian Terminator squad. Last nigght I decided to pull out the Terminators and finish them. The latest simple conversion was taking two old style bolters and constructing a combi bolter. I am pretty pleased with the gun since it lacks the sleak look of the new storm bolter.

The next step will be to all some rivets to the armour, make the studded roman leather strips which will hang from the waist and from the shoulder guards, and make the tassle flowing on the top. Below is a picture of the new combi bolter conversion as well as a picture of the Justearian Terminator look I am shooting for.

BFG: Orks vs Thousand Sons... Ork Victory.

During the time I spent at Churoc's home we played other games as well. We played Dark Heresy a couple of times but my favorite games were the two Battlefleet Gothic games we played.

Here are some pictures of the first skirmish between Churoc's Ork scouting fleet and my own scout fleet...

The battle occured on the outskirts of the Pyric III system and both fleets were sent to investigate a space hulk moving towards the inner system. The Space Hulk moved each turn across the board, something I forgot about late in the game, and would suck ships into low orbit.