The Daemon's Claw

I have been having fun painting my terrain for AOS spearhead. I got to use a range of my favourite techniques and some experiments. The terrain got painted with a selection of grey tones, dry brushed onto the undercoat. The wood is a coat of Gagrax sewer with some brown sand highlights. The metal is Vallejo Bronze. Then everything got a dark green-brown oil wash. This got wiped off most of the stonework, creating some more contrast in the shadows. This also tinted things a bit green I recently got a bottle of plage bearer flesh from Scott at Kapiti Hobbies. I ran a wash of this around the bottom of the pieces to strengthen the idea of moss or damp or slime corrupting the stone. For the warpstone elements I painted them flourescent yellow and then gave them a good coat of Karandras green contrast. This allows the yellow to show through at the thinnest points. Overall I'm quite pleased with how these items are turning out.  

For a second game I took out the Plague Marines using the newly released rules from the starter set. The rules for Plague Marines are heavily tailored to the models that come in the boxed set rather than the boxed set of models that make up the 40K range.  There are several models that you can use in 40k that are not covered in the Kill Team rules. Unlike other teams, the Plague Marines can only field one warrior. Here is the group of marines on the left. The Psycher had managed to draw LOS onto the bomb squig and zapped it down to one wound and a poison token. The Heavy Gunner is waiting to see if we can draw some of the commandos close enough to give a good acid bath to. Here is the other half of the team waiting with the patience of a spreading infection to take their turn. The Ork Sniper dashed up onto the building. A second ork is hiding behind the scrap pile. The marine heavy gunner lurched forwards and splashed acid on the stabber boy over the scrap pile. A second Ork arrive...

Chris O'Neil organised an introduction to Kill Team event. There was one day for introductory games and a second day for more competitive games. I went down to introduce some new players to Kill team and hopefully give them a good time. The first game was introducing Finubar to Kill Team, he used my Arbites team made up of Judge Dredd models and I used my Scout team made from Rogue Trooper models. Here are a bunch of guys hiding behind a ruin. More Souther troopers led by a GI. Rogue hopped up on the ladder and hosed down the area shooting up some of the Judges hiding behind light cover. Wallace the wobot has covered the central objective making it harder for me to score. Its distracting when a wobot is trying to sell you a slice on Wenslydale cheese. I built up a nice little firebase on the roof of this building. Some anti sniper fire was exchanged with the Justice Department long gunner. The Scout hunter is ready with 3 APL to swing down off the roof and stab someone. The scout t...

 I have been enjoying painting some Plague Marines and support units. The release of the Plague Marine Kill Team, I needed a champion with Plasma Pistol and Plague sword. So I painted this model from the boxed set I got a while back. I painted the cloak in imitation of a stained burial shroud. Here are the Death Shroud Terminators. I experimented with painting the scythes as dark and rusted and then using a bright silver on the edges. This is where the edges would be worn from impacting enemies armour and flesh. I got inspired by Cult of Paint's turorial on painting Plague Marines He used a stipple technique to build up layers of colours and texture. I tried this on a couple of models. Here is the armour texture built up of three layers of green speckles I then used pinks as a contrast for the flesh and worms. Here is the Icon Bearer in front of some of my Warhammer Spearhead terrain. I tried the technique on a Mephitic Blight Hauler. I made a shade wash from greens and sepia to sh...

 The Warlords got in a night of gaming on the 23rd. Aiden had organised the 40k event, so I introduced him to Kill team. We played Angles of Death vs Legionaries according to the meta chasers that's two power factions. I'm not sure whether a meta chaser is like an ambulance chaser but just more. I was still fresh from using Death Guard, so I took an all Nurgle marked team. I had an Aspiring Champion with bolt pistol and power sword. A heavy gunner with Missile launcher, a Gunner with Melta gun, an Icon Bearer with Bolt gun, a Balefire Acolyte and a Butcher.  The Balefire Acolyte climbed up and Soul Drained one of the Howling Griffons. They had, Intercessor sergeant with plasma pistol, the Eliminator Sniper, intercessor gunner, assault intercessor grenadier and a couple of intercessors. The Acolyte took damage from the return fire. The gunner and champion are waiting behind the door for it to be an objective scoring turn. On the other flank the intercessor sergeant, grenadier, ...

After two wins my third game was against the Necrons. There were none of the classic, Warriors, Immortals or Destroyers in this list. The Necrons, got the first turn and their big scout walker moved forwards, The Plague Marines attacked it. I forgot the grenade stratagem when I first attacked. Some additional mortal wounds might have been critical. This was a big attritional battle, all the plague marines were incapacitated. The Walker got down to 1 wound at least once The terminators are occupying the middle as usual. Here are the Necrons, a leader, some Lich Guard, some jump pack guard and some jetbikes. The Blight Drone moved up to attack on the other side, it was squirting some Necrons. Here is a view from the side The entire Necron Army moves to attack the drone,  The Necrons finish the drone off in combat. The drone then explodes and showers then in daemonic ichor The Blightlord terminators arrive and kill off the Necron Walker. The Necrons move to cover the objectives on tha...