Ministorum Pulpit/ hover Podium project showcase
So over the past few days in prelude to another conversion project and to get familiar with a new medium (milliput) I created a neat display addition to my ministorum/sisters of battle collection that may well see action as a terrain piece rather then as an army unit.
while this is not the ministorum pulpit project i have been planning for use with the old arch confessor model this certainly does suit him, so i scored the arch confessor model last year of ebay and as he was painted stripping him and repainting him is of severe low priority dispite the white not looking overly great
front view
side view
back view
so while this model is currently in the complete pile there are things that i will do to it down the track including adding a host of purity seals and other icons to it as well as adding grav panel details under it but given that this was a debug project for me junith eritia and also that i am moving in a couple of weeks (after this post goes live) I am not up for doing to much more to it for awhile (additions might just go into the “for a rainy day” pile
so this project wasn’t actually hinted at at all prior to doing it which is why it may come as a surprise to any others whom follow me
thanks for reading
Chiurgeon Quenn Malcavor – things can proceed as planned
i now have everything i need let the building commence so i will share more on this project very soon![DSCN9203[1].JPG](https://sisterlilia.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/dscn92031.jpg?w=950)
Conversion built Sister of battle “wave 2” update
nov/dec
so as the year draws to a close, the new release of the sisters of battle next year gets closer and my having to move house putting a dampener on the hobby fire i am faced with two choices:
- keep conversion building sisters till the new models come out and supersede my conversions (but generally not care because conversion building is where the sisters of battle have always been at for me!)
- finish existing projects then change hobby gears
so with my conversion built sisters of battle my two main focuses are:
- finish existing projects:
– so that means my crusaders, serephim bolster squad, crusader shield captain, repressor upgrade sets, incomplete models - build afew choice things then call it quits on my infantry units
so those choice things are:
– 5 woman celestian squad (based partly on the old codex art and the gunner from the exorcist)
– 4 bolter sisters to act as a bolster for squads that might need them
– matron Angelica of the order of our sacred blade (whom will use the rules for Junith Eruita) and will get a custom scratch build floating chariot like the one the offical model has but that i aim to build this year
– Cannoness with combi plasma and power sword: built from a gemini sister (since i never use celestine’s bodyguard and at some point i want to overhaul the celestine model i have to give her a scythe
– Zerephim squad (close combat serephim all with bolt pistols and power swords) built the same way i did my serephim (actually i am likely to do them using left over models that would have other wise formed a 5 model serephim bolster squad
– Epherial stern:
so i will be using a gemini as the base model for this with copious amounts of greenstuff and maybe some replicated parts
– Triumphrant of Katherine (why wait for new models when i can conversion build my own for a fraction of the price to as glorious results
– exorcists (so this won’t happen this year due to my needing some spare rhino tanks to do it and my budget being stretched to breaking point) but i do aim to conversion build my own exorcists that will be inspired off the new model
– ministorum priests (preachers, missionaries and index priests
*note that my recent scratch build post still applies*
january:
so January is going to be instead focused both on getting my space cleaned up and cleared out for moving. at the same time i will be procuring and stockpiling guardsman (cadian blister kits mainly) along with working on sculpting new bases for my sisters of battle. I pretty much feel like my guard army are completely neglected and that they deserve some love after spending two years or so mostly on conversion intensive sisters of battle. so I aim to get my guard up to what i deem proper minimum fighting strength
current scratch build plans nov 2019
so as the year draws to a close and my own lack of ability to meet my own aspirations (isn’t battling ones own inner demons fun) hits home and with that home also now being quite temporary (since i now have to move early in the new year) i am raining things in a bit (well alot)
so first up army additions:
2nd Valdor Tank Hunter:
so above you see an older pic of valdor one well what i am planning on doing with valdor 2 is a mirror of my first tank (so sponson will be on the left of the track the cannon on the right of the hull and so on)
so after a game a little while back against knights where Saint Ian in shadow sword config really did it’s job well my mind was drawn to the shadowsword’s slightly smaller but still quite effective cousin which in 8th ed isn’t as utterly horrible and option as it was in 7th (the rules for the valdor were terrible under the imperial armour apoc book though i hear it got better in ia 2 th ed version) so i am now resuming construction on it, one track was sitting aside waiting to become something for who knows how many years (and house moves)
so yes ages ago I thought “oh it would be cool if i had valdors that mirrored each other” and that thought has been in the back of my head for a long time
Vigilus flyer:
so at this point part of me is convinced this thing is actually an imperial navy vessel though it could be a drop keep (mentioned in the white dwarf that had the blood ravens rules in it) but i do want to give building one of these another crack if i get the chance this year
sister of battle pulpit lectern (well this will be mostly sculpted but it still counts for it) the model i am inspired by was in an image revealed on a warhammer store facebook page before the page deleted the picture
wargaming terrain:
so here is where things will get interesting. so other then the jungle terrain dollar store video tutorial the main terrain pieces i want to set up are all inspired by either battle missions i want to play or thematic takes on terrain piece to tie them into different factions. so why not start at the biggest
- ministorum priory:
so in white dwarf there were missions for the sisters of battle and one of these was to defend a priory or similar style of religious position (think a much much smaller version of sanctury 101 for you hammer and anvil fans) this will be an ambitious build to a degree as a want to make the sections for it modular so that i can store them easily and re use them in different configurations with other terrain - holy ruins:
so in 6th ed codex there was a battle mission to defend a shrine from heretical forces and i want to build a shrine that will feature an old statuette that i have of an angel though the statue is modeled without her having arms or a head but she would be perfect as the centerpiece for the shrine - ministorum armoured shrine containers
so in numerous 40k stories i have seen tell of guardsmen praying at shrines in the back of tanks, in tents and other places but why wouldn’t the imperium make armoured shrines built in customized containers that could survive transport and hopefully the warzone. this one will be an interesting one for me to do as i want to try drafting it digitally and printing out the master template and essentially making it a paper and clear plastic kit with that is designed to work with icons from 40k scenery (like an aquila with a loud hailer or statuette off a building kit - gothic barricade/defense line walls: why not continue the gothic theme further (though i am still struggling to work out the best way to achive a stainglass look on plastic at 28mm scale though i did see a youtuber use sharpie
- ruined Aquila terrain piece
- gothic building ruins
so the other purpose for these terrain builds is so that i can display my sisters of battle with appropriate terrain in videos
non ministorum related:
scrap to terrain videos:
- foam tower bunker
- foam fortress gate and gate house
- tape roll bunkers
- cardboard buildings
- foam hills and rocks
Shield Captain Arctoria Von Malcavor – progress
so the model progresses. I was hesitant to show it without any paint on it but now the base paints are down I here is how the model looks pre shield (i still need to draft that out
okay so at this stage the model still isn’t glued down to the base as i want to get most of it’s paint job done first then i will glue it down and maybe re wash the base again.
here is the model with it’s sword.
so at present i am having a serious issue with my runefang steel not working properly when i try to paint with it (and i suspect the issue is due to how gw paint pots seem designed to not seal properly after opened which may have resulted in it semi splitting. hopefully the removal of the layer of caked on paint around the back of the rim will help keep the seal tighter though) which is why i painted the sword a golden bronze that almost looks rusted from this angle
so for those wondering here is a tutorial i recorded on the base as i worked on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8TWySxE7WU&t=3s
anyway that is all for now on this model
Metal Cannoness OOP unboxing and *reposed* showcase
So here she stands! I still need to work out a name for her but that happens
So in part because i didn’t like her sword raised and in part because i normally pose like this with my eviscerator i figured why not repose her to have her sword like this. i also wanted a barebones dirt cheap cannoness to play the role of support hero to use mid to rear lines. well thats all for now
Militaris monday 12st oct and upcoming projects
okay so while I showed some pictures of things in my last post here is how my ministorum army as a whole is coming along:
but that isn’t the only thing that is coming together. So in the lead up to my birthday in December i am gathering together components to do a number of conversion builds for my birthday:
- Chiurgeon Quenn Malcavor:
so i have now got on order one of the medicae servitors from the sector imperialis objectives set to convert into one of his medicae servitors.
i am debating about simply buying the sector imperialis set to get his second servitor as i will be using an altered version of the death korps of krieg quartermaster rules for him and indeed i am quite tempted to use the krieg rules for my hektarian pdf instead of the steel legion rules.
- Ministorum mobile pulpit/ salamander command pulpit
so with my putting confessor kyrinov on order as well I now have all i need (barring some miliput and maybe some details for command crew) to build a project i have wanted to do for about five or six years now. so while the priest will be standing atop a podium on the top of the salamander shouting rhetoric the commander will be below him in the command area issuing orders and coordinating forces under his command. i am a little sad that in 8th ed the salamander command isn’t a HQ choice any more but these things happen with 40k
- scratch built dune riders.
So normally i wouldn’t mention scratch builds in this section but since i did just put a pointing arm on order for the tank commander i figured it was worth mentioning. so depending on what sisters of battle releases we see in November I will be adding in more forces to my skitarii so hopefully you all will get to see my mechanicus army going somewhere, i do also have a scratch built dunecrawler under construction that is going to resemble the walking tin tanks out of iron harvest
- Shield Captain Arctoria Von Malcavor
So here are almost all of the parts i need to build my take on the named crusader from black stone fortress escalation. once i have worked out the design of the shield I will start the build (and i will record the whole thing and maybe the steps of the painting. given how much lore i have written about this character i may actually tell the lore of this character in their conversion build video. yes i did kitbash that sword
since i mentioned my terrain plans in my last post i will end this post here but i figured you all might be interested in seeing some of the stuff i will be working on for 40k over the next few months also I am in the process of planning a co-op 40k unoffical expansion that adjusts the rules from the core rules to work for players vs either a dm or npc for a game I want to record on my birthday
one conversion build tutorial I would love to do would be a carapace armoured commissar lord conversion but i lack the parts to do it but here are the parts i would need not counting greenstuff (of which i am frequently ordering)
– Lord Commissar conversion:
Militarium tempestus scion torso, tank commander legs (i think i might have a pair somewhere), cadian officer pointing arm or, Cadian tank commander head or plastic commissar head or plain female head and i sculpt the blasted hat, cadian bolt pistol outstretched arm or grenade arm and tank commander hand.
thinking about it this would be the first build using magnets in it for the arms
Sister of Battle Army Update:
So while I do intend to do a ministorum/militaris monday video this week (20th oct 2019) I figure i might as well share my progress on my sister of battle army (i will save sharing my battle experience for the militaris monday video
so I am going to break this down into force org slot sections for easy, i also am not going to show already completed units to a degree:
- Cannoness Emilia: all conversions are now done. I am however likely to keep her head bluetacked in so as to be able to remove it if we get a helmet worthy of being the “mantel of ophilia” or whatever rename i want to give it
she also saw her first game where her plasma pistol stripped off a number of wounds from a knight that would have been impossible to do if i have had have equipped her with an inferno pistol - Missionary: Elisa serenity
So with the beta codex adding back missionaries as hq options I made the decision to convert an older priest model i had converted from a frost grave miniature into a stock missionary (I hope these leader nuns get to take weapons from the melee and ranged list in the proper codex but i suspect they won’t give how few options gw had in the beta codex)
Elites:
- Crusader Squad Agis:
so some of you may remember these models from the tutorial on how i built them well here is the whole unit though I still need to fully paint them - Crusader Squad Malaric:
so with these guys I will be doing the shields differently instead of going with winged shields I will be doing more stained glass looking shields though I do not know if I will do semi transparent or but sculpt details on it to look transparent - my Sisters Dialogus:
okay so maybe i should have put these the oposite way round so i could make the meme of “you vs the person he tells you not to worry about” because my conversion looks so much better then the horrid old metal model but then i needed to faith test re-rollers
troops:
- battle sister storm bolter squad 1:
- battle sister storm bolter squad 2:
- Battle sister combi plasma/ meltagun squad:
Fast Attack:
- Dominion squad: Quinn
- Dominion Squad: Sabrina
(why not name them after a witch whom they’d immolate on sight) - Serephim Squad: Pyre
 so these are by far the most incomplete thing i am showing off but then i have 6 pairs of wings for them in the mail and will be procuring the other four later on. I also need to find more arms for them. unlike other the other two serephim squads this one will either be twin hand flamer or two bolt pistol bolster squads (depending on avalibility of hand flamers)
Heavy Support:
- Retributor squad: Zora
yep i may be the reason alot of marine players couldn’t get dreadnought heavy flamers from a particular ebay seller
Transports:
- Repressor: will of faith
so this conversion is still only in it’s early days as i am going to redesign the back bastion section and be making the front ram/siege shield to look like it is stained glass as to if i leave the thing unpainted that is another matter however
I do also intend to put out a tutorial on how to do it once it is done
anyway that is all for my sisters of battle for now but before I go I will clarify one thing. once the new sisters of battle come out i do intend to replace all of the backpacks off my current models with ones from them so as to improve the aesthetic of the models
though before i go my here are my current terrain projects i am working on (or beginning the designing for):
- discount store terrain: jungle terrain
- shield generator using a battery powered plasma ball as the center of it
- massive Gothic modular centerpiece set (which will act as a test bed for a number of Gothic terrain tutorials
- Elder Scrolls V terrain tutorial
Palatine Emilia – the blade of the emperor pt2 + mini update
okay so I have made more progress on Palatine Emilia and I figured I’d share.
So while I painted her not long after doing the main conversion. sadly during the build i lost her detail base and haven’t been able to find it
after a few months of leaving her on the back burner in the hopes of finding her base I have elected to instead make an original base for her that will match the theme of the bases i will be doing for my sister of battle army in the future (when i have the spare resources to get a green-stuff roller. so here is is:
pardon the blurry photo of her on her base my camera was refusing to focus for me due to lighting. so here is how she looks on the base, the boltgun on the base came from the space wolf character in the horus heresy burning of prospero set (i only have him from the set as i got him to turn into a deathwatch killteam leader, sorry to anyone who got their hopes up of me doing a set review)
So the sisters of battle come out in November, we better get back character eviscerators in november, I’m rather over the downward trend of not including rules and upgrades from previous editions that 40k has been on for the last few years (since the gw/chapterhouse lawsuit battles) but then I am also not a fan of how mono build alot of gw’s kits are becoming rather needlessly (a model with only two pistol and one melee weapon options is mono build)
youtube/wordpress update:
on another note, some or many of you may have noticed I have done alot of wishlisting this year and not gotten to do much of that. when it came to videos for youtube it came down to both my mental health and my housemate deciding to play funny buggers with the our internet connection. when it came to warhammer kits it often was because of a lack of money for models. while none of these background issues are by any means over, I do have some new content incoming for youtube (including the video on this model that show’s it’s evolution from sprue parts to a completed model).
as for the gunship i started at the beginning of the year. i have honestly left off the model for the most part because i became aware i wasn’t happy at all with it’s shape and size. i do need to go back to the drawing board and make a new smaller model of the flyer using the Valkyrie as a rough guide. I still intend to do some photos with it when it happens but we’ll see if this model actually happens in plastic or if it is a background imperial navy ship as some have suggested. working on this model also cost me access to the lounge for making things due to the mess it generated
on the subject of terrain one of my mates is likely to be free enough next month for a few games so this will give me the motivation i need to get some terrain done though I also have to contend with my paxaus cosplay wishlist and that event happening the second weekend of october
anyway that’s all from me for now hopefully i haven’t bugged my wordpress followers too much this year with my wishlisting
gw terrain wishlist
so with how often i talk about scratch building my own terrain it is often overlooked that i actually would love to own afew of gw’s terrain kits from both their old and new terrain lines. so here i am going to put together a wishlist of sorts that also covers my plans for the terrain as well as what kit’s i’d love to own. so lets get started
– munitorum armoured containers:Â (atleast 5 sets)
okay so this is one of the rare instances where i actually own a set of what i am talking about. so while i do now have three containers i would love to own a whole lot more of them. on one hand i want to have the terrain to do an all gw docks for games that make things happen in a very claustrophobic feeling container yard where a xenos or chaos infestation was shipped in without the knowlage of the crew of the ships they came in on. while on the other hand i want to make a shanty town where containers have been converted into tight housing, this would be for games like necromunda or killteam
– imperial bastion: (atleast 6 sets)
so this kit has been out for years and i have seen some truely inspired conversion builds done with it both on the internet and in white dwarf and i would love to use it to make:
1: a gate house tower
2: an armoured landing pad
3: a stub bunkers
4: tall bungers
5: assorted other fortress end emplacement terrain including the feet of something massive i’ve been thinking about doing for years
– Shrine of the aquila: (atleast 4 sets)
again this is a case of having seen really cool conversions that i would love to emulate and some ideas of my own that i want to do. so i really love how tall this model is and the aquila arch asthetic so my ideas of what i want to do with it are:
1: eight sided adminastratum building
2: armoured podium tank (like the one on display at warhammer world
thank you to whoever took the original photo and posted it on the web
3: tall bridge columns
4: tank skirtings
4: armoured landing pad
– basilica administratum: 2-4 sets
1: tank skirting: so i would love to use the top railing details as dank skirting details on a baneblade of course mirrored our replicated with greenstuff
2: window sections for the upper deck on a laviathan command vehicle
3: cathedral under croft terrain for a large multi level cathedral terrain piece
4: gothic wall sections
– Manufactorum: 1 set
1: skull cog icon for the back of scratch built titans
2: terrain decals for skitarii and admech bases
3: details for a mostly scratch built sicaran forge shrine
– sanctum imperialis: atleast 1
1: bunker door
2: tank skirtings
3: walkway railings
4: wall edgings for buildings
5: basing details for knights or large admech vehicles
6: laviathan details
– sector mechanicus alchomite stack: 1 set
1: super heavy laser tank main barrel:
so i want to do a more imperial version of the cyclops to count as a super heavy laser tank either for my hektarian mining guild or as an unearthed relic on hektari 3
2: knight titan gun arm (one of the forgeworld varients that i want to conversion build
3: industrial terrain
4: reactor
– sector imperialis objectives: 1 – 4 sets
1: medicae servitors: (so honestly i am going to buy the servitor part separately from the set so i can add a whole lot into my collection for a reasonable price
2: munitions for on a land hauler trailer
3: mobile comm unit
4: inquisitorial transport decorations (the bomb and the containment cell
5: the computer unit will be used on a transport vehicle
6: escape pod will be used as either an objective, as part of a diorama (with one of the rogue trader kill team soldiers holding his position against a hoard of oncoming enemies) or both
– techtonic fragdrill: atleast 1
1: so i want to turn the big drill into either a termite assault drill and the small drill into a hades breaching drill unless it is too small then turn the small drill into a vehicle accessory
2: the launching frame i would turn into cat walk terrain
– skyshield landing pad 1 to 2
1: armoured landing platform
2: large battlefield center piece landing pad and rock fortress like seen in older white dwarf issue 342
– thermatic plasma regulators: 2 sets
1: plasma blast gun for plasma cannon take on the imperial cyclops
2: titan or knight titan arm cannon
3: terrain though i am more likely to scratch build something similar that fills the role and has lights in it
so for the most part while i like some of the new terrain from gw i find most their older stuff to be cooler for the most part
Palatine Emilia – the blade of the emperor
So a few weeks back i got the preview model for the sister of battle range, here is the unboxing video:
so like i may have mentioned in the video I planned on converting her into an eviscerator palatine. well today i am one step closer to that goal with her main structural work being done. now i need to debate on whether to give her a custom cape and what gun to give her. I also need to add some details onto her evicerator as it feels a bit too plain for a field lieutenant
 I am also likely to mount one of the stacks of candles on her backpack.
I will show more on her once i have more done and once her whole conversion is done i am going to be putting up a build video of the whole process (that will act as sort of a tutorial for making eviscerators prior to a more dedicated one when i get around to buying empire flagrants)
and here she is primed. I will be sharing a pic of her later on once i have finished her paint job (the hair and makeup on the head are being tricky
*edit: future lilia here i have updated the video link sorry to anyone who wanted to watch the video but didn’t find it linked (coppa meant i had to repost a lot of my stuff on youtube with age warning in it or risk offending the us government
Sisters of battle army additions: may
okay so in part to help motivate me to make them I figure i might as well share what models i am going to be working on this month ahead of taking the army to the field in a bigger way then before.
okay so due to budget issues an an emotional and productivity blow that happened as a result of my working on the gunship in a space i share with my house mate I have hardly managed to get much done on my sister of battle army so far this year although i will not sell short what i have done, the army is at base core strength (though a few models need heads and/or backpacks) which means from here i can build them up into the main path-lines i want to take it.
- Â CONFLAGRATION FORCE:
“burner babes, heretic’s bane, cleansing host” whatever you want to call them this is the ranged based build that focuses on bringing as many special and heavy weapons to cleanse the foe as possible. alot of people run this army with max number of melta dominions, twin heavy flamer repressors, celestine and whatever else they can fit in to make a battalion destachment. is sometimes backed up by heavy flamer retributors. while this list is good against some foes it is a glass cannon, it will hit hard but it can’t survive a concentrated effort remove it. I honestly rather not building my army this way, i rather survive-ability over short term gain, so i don’t entirely like this army build unless i am going against elite style armies with low numbers of multi wound units (custodes, knights, some versions of admech and space marines) - BENEDICTION HOST:
“blades for days” so this build focuses on the ministorum elements and putting the foe to the sword, flame and arco-flail. While this force has some range units, most of the force is melee orientated taking max numbers of close combat units (if possible mounted in transports) this army is both strong and weak against gun-line armies (like tau depending on build) or guard. This is the way I want to run my sister to a degree. very early on when i started collecting the faction I wanted to run a melee sister of battle army (i really hope we get melee celetians with either stormshields or a base 3+ invon save in the new range) when i started the army the first time around however i lacked the units to do a tidal wave of flails and swords, that is changing and this build is center of my desired build for the faction - SHRINE GUARD:
“gunline sisters” this build of sisters focuses on holding ground. with long range weapons and larger units of sisters infantry, while they can hold ground they can also take it. so this build in part is one i want to do, but i run into a cost wall to an extent as heavy weapons (particually space marine heavy flamer and scout heavy bolters) are either quite costly or are rare on bits and used markets, to an extent this is forcing me to look at sculpting some of these weapons but i have not actually started sculpting anything YET. also with the army mostly based around mostly large units of sisters (ten or fifteen model squads) this build is costly as it requires the parts for me to make that many sisters (or at least bolster mini squads) but i do want to do this build too - DEVINE HOST:
“angelic host, avenging angels” okay so this build is based around Celestine herself (well in my collection saint Christina) and goes off the idea of serephim as returned martyrs whom the emperor revived as lesser living saints (they can fly and have holy aura but aren’t imperial greater demons like celestine) this sub force is actually already started with my having: saint christina with gemini, two completed serephim squads and another ten woman squad underway (the first two squads are five member squads). i hope that in the new model range we get actual avenging angels or a melee equivalent of serephim
okay so with the main builds that interest me discussed time to talk about additions i will either be finishing or new ones I will be adding:
- Sanctum class gunship:
okay so I hate and loathe this blasted craft. I love it’s potential but i hate that my working on it hard core while my housemates were home in a shared space was the reason i lost access to the lounge as a semi makers space. I have been meaning to finish it and this month i intend to be the month - Death cult assassins squad 1:
so this squad until now has never seen action due to how blasted small they are (currently only at two models strong) but that all will change this month as i now have three more of the base model (witch ealves) on order to bring it up to what i deem as minimum strength (five model squads is the minimum i am willing to field when the model only has two attacks as a base) I also only have three more gasmasks from the sicarian rust stalkers left and those were a pain to procure when I last tried getting them. once i have the new three models converted up i will work out a better paint scheme that makes it look like they are wearing leather cat suits - Repressors:
okay so I am about to conversion build a repressor (and do a tutorial on the process to show how to do it) if i can procure an additional plastic rhino through trades this month or feel like turing an trackless extra armoured rhino that i turned into a vindicator back into a rhino (though i will need to scratch build a front plate or make one through greenstuff cloning), then it into a repressor i may use that as I have additional heavy flamers in bound and pretty much everything else (though i could use a skitarii pointing arm and sister of silence pointing arm
- heavy flamer retributor squads:
okay so at the moment i have one heavy flamer squad mostly pre greenstuff level conversion and i have two of the heavy flamers i need to make a second along with the torsos and legs though i need to check my arm collection - heavy bolter retributor squad 2:
so this squad has been in the works for ages but i lacked all the legs i needed for them (i have a set pose i like for heavy bolter retribs) - Crusader squad 2: so i just procured the torsos to make a new unit of them and will be doing a tutorial to match them that shows how to make a ministorum stormshield through parts replication and plasticard. now to just work out what bits i want to use for them
- new ministorum priest and dialogus: so i am going to be going back to frost grave miniatures on this one as I like some of their fantesy miniatures as a base for 40k models
- serephim squad 3:
okay so i have left off on this unit due to severe lack of parts, the most severe of which was wings. but I am now at the point with this unit where i will instead of shelving them forever will use them as a learning experience, I will be sculpting wings for them and they will be the first unit I will use miliput on as i can get a larger amount of it for the same price that i pay for green-stuff (which is admittedly low thanks to a local bits seller that is reasonable
prospective models:
- Cannoness Lilia: evicerator, inferno pistol cannoness, sacred helmet
what you honestly thought i wouldn’t make a cannoness named after me that takes cues from my new (in the works) cannoness cosplay. (more on this costume later on) - Jump Cannoness: inferno gun and power mace
also based on my cosplans though unlike the other cannoness she will be armed with a power maul, flaming torch inferno pistol (think that metal inquistor with the power sword and inferno pistol that looks like a flame cage on the end of a musket though what i will do will look more imperial gothic)
(more on this model after i have made the cosplay and more on the cosplay after it is done) - scratch built deimos rhinos that are the size of the current plastic rhino
okay so wow it looks like a lot but we’ll see. with the gunship I don’t know if i will follow up on my original plan of making three of them as i instead intend to focus my scratch building efforts on terrain and maybe some vehicles or supporting armour for my sisters
Conversion build tutorials and other videos Q2 2019 – youtube
okay so at the moment I am having major internet issues at home. so the format of them is going to change a lot. Though in part this has also coincided with me wanting to take my channel in a more creative direction. there are projects I’ve been sidelining for too long that i want to happen
wh40k / wargaming videos:
- repressor build tutorial: showing you how to draft your own templates and what parts you need and how to make it
- My thoughts on Primaris Space Marines discussion as i Conversion Building a Primaris Space Marine squad
- Hammk sentinel (once i source a size of plastic tube i need I’ll be able to start)
- parts cloning with blue and green stuff
- heavy weapons tripod scratch build tutorial
- heavy weapons carriage scratch build tutorial
- imperial guard mortar scratch build tutorial
- imperial guard autocannon scratch build tutorial
- militaris mondays (hopefully monthly)
- gothic terrain tutorial series:
– ramparts/walls (wall section, matching stairs, corner section, end section
– basic buildings
– stairwell
– catacombs
– chapel part 1: the single floor chapel (with bell tower)
– chapel part 2: undercroft/foundation block
– monastery bunkhouse and ruined house
– cathedral part 1: wall sections
– cathedral part 2: upper floors
(so with the recent fire at notre dame i may adapt the two cathedral tutorial to allow you to make that cathedral as one of the ways to assemble the terrain)
– gothic defence line
– pvc fuel pipeline modeling tutorial - upcycled terrain:
– styrene fortress
– packageing to industrial terrain
– styrene urban terrain - “Poor Hammer” wh40k on a budget discussion videos:
– getting started on the cheap
– collecting space marines on the cheap
– collecting primaris space marines on the cheap
– collecting Astra Militarium on the cheap
– collecting ministorum on the cheap
– collecting sisters of battle on the cheap
– collecting genestealer cults on the cheap (quarter 3 or 4 2019) - 40k factions: things I want to see
– sisters of battle
– ministorum
– inquisition
– adeptas arbites
– Imperial guard
– Imperial agents - gw faction ranges: what i like and what i don’t!
– ministorum range (currently being edited)
– astra militarium range
– Space marines range
– blood angels range
– Dark Angels range
– Space wolves
– primaris space marine range
– adeptus mechanicus
– inquistion
– genestealer cult - hektarian thunder 40k fanfiction: introduction and chapter one
- conversion building psy beasts for sisters of silence
Cosplay:
- new sister of battle cosplay build log
- adapting seroritas concept art
- inferno pistol build log
- new chainswords build log
- Cardboard chainsword tutorial
- cardboard power sword tutorial (maybe in q3)
- prostigium protectiva build
- box hill japanese festival coverage (hopefully)
- comic con coverage
- flintlock prop builts (Kurumi’s pistols from date a live)
- britanian pistol (code geass
- cog axe tutorial
- arc pistol build (maybe a tutorial later on)
- servo harness build (maybe a tutorial
- tech priest build log
Lantern making tutorials:
- how to make a fantasy style lantern (with pattern)
- how to make creature lanterns
- how to make an eagle lantern
- how to make a stain glass lantern mace
- how to make wearable lanterns
- how to make a cosplay safe flaming torch style prop
- how to make a lantern sword
- how to make a lantern banner (Aquila lantern mk2)
- how to make a flail lantern (hanging lantern tutorial)
- how to make curved lanterns without straight sides
Misk:
- 100 subscribers video “warcant of mars” music video performed in front of the camera. wow I’ve got 119 subscribers (on youtube) at the time of writing this!
- swtor “shepard saves the republic” ep 5 – *uploaded*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXgIheNpcNI&t=3s - swtor “shepard saves the republic” ep 5.5: okay so i had stuff up and thought i was recording when i wasn’t so at some point i will be doing a catch up episode with a backup character to catch the relevent story portions. the joys of forgetting that keyboard short cuts for my recorder don’t work with the game anymore
- swtor “shepard save the republic” ep 6: will be longer then normal to make up for the shorter episode
- live channel update in my new sister of battle cosplay once i’ve got enough content together to start uploading multiple videos a week
- I am contemplating doing a giveaway on each of my platforms when that platform reaches a certain milestone:
– facebook: 500 subs, 1k subs, 2k subs
– youtube: 500 subs, 1k subs, 2k subs
– instagram: 500 subs, 1k subs, 2k subs
as to what this give away will entail it will likely entail a scratch built model or terrain from a tutorial for the wargaming side or a SMALL cosplay prop or cos photo print for the cosplay side. with my fb i will be doing fan signs when i get my new sister of battle Armour finished
okay so wow that is a lot, hopefully i can make it all happen. at present I don’t see myself doing battle reports for ages (maybe the next 6 months) I need to sort out better lighting for doing videos with. I also would love to do some mini painting vids once i get better at painting. once my internet issues are resolved I may go about doing gaming videos again too. from march onward I want to get to do atleast 1 to 2 vids a week though life circumstances may change this. my editing computer is also slowly dying sadly.
at present i am unable to do weekly gw/fw recap videos and that may be a blessing because there is alot to be salty about. additionally if i can procure the componants I want to do a hektarian engineer squad i will share how i do it and make a tutorial for conversion building a hades breaching drill once i procure the parts (i seem to be struggling to find the dozer drill from the rockgrider on ebay). I also need to do some research as I want to do two more crusader squad conversion tutorials this year (one with ALL gw parts and one with ALL third party bits) though gw may render such a conversion tutorial void with a proper crusader release. I also need to procure the biomorphas from the genestealer cult for when i start the hektarian thunder narative series as a character inspired by the model is centeral to the first few chapters atleast
some of these will carry over into into q3 but i should have some new stuff in the works for then too.
anyway thanks for reading all that. I’ll see you next time
updated 5th may 2019
Character Roster – hektarian thunder pdf characters pt:1
okay so with my decision to move the hektarian thunder series from being a narrative linked battle report series to being a narrative audio drama I am given more room to add side and main characters (though time will tell if i have as higher main character death count as game of thrones but it is guard vs orks so probably) as indeed commissar general Johnson doesn’t come into events on hektari 3 until several months or more after the roks make planet fall. though there are several named characters I am thinking of that I need to work out names for. of the named characters the first one I thought up ages ago was:
– the disgraced commissar (I still am working on a fitting name for him):
in short he was retired to hektari 3’s pdf by order of segmentum command after he executed an incompetent officer for cowardice and gross wasting of imperial resources. after taking up command of the pdf he set to work straightening them out into a force worthy of the Aquila and who were up to the task of irradicating the raiding parties that would assault the collossal greenhouses or agri farms from time to time.
he will be visually based on the old metal commissar that is armed with a boltgun and power sword from the 90s
– tank commander Kelly:
a pdf tank commander who proves her worth during the early stage of the conflict who commands a Malcador variant which is brought into service upon the arrival of the orks. (I still need to source both a malcador variant kit and parts to make her but she is a ways off happening as i need to do some research on tank combat)
– Dr Malcavor Quenn:
his previous charges were angri slave workers (most of whom were convicted criminals from hektari 2) so he adopts an intimidating aesthetic to better allow him to treat serious injuries treated and to keep minor ones to a minimum while also protecting himself from the former gangers, criminals and undesirables. Upon his section of mega greenhouse being destroyed by a rok and it’s slave workers being slaughtered he fled with a pdf squad as they fell back to the nearest command centre when planetary command started the mobilisation process and was formally inducted to treat the troops wounded fighting orks.
(I will be using the genestealer cult Biophagus model as the base and converting him to be free of xenos taint as he is no xenos infiltrator but rather a medicae trained surgeon. I will as a result likely add the xenos familiar to my dnd bits box or give him to a genestealer cult player i scored some cool bits off recently)
anyway that is all for now I still am working out much for the introduction and first part of chapter one of the story and I do plan to record it once i can work out appropriate backing sound effectsÂ
sanctury class sky fortress progess update
okay so it’s coming together though as it gets to the 60% mark with all the core structural work done and the decoration work started I need to shelve this project for a bit due to conflicting priorities. I will still be working on it abit but my next update on it will be in march, this is due to needing to knuckle down on costuming and set up two more infantry units for my sisters of battle.
anyway enough of that here is how it is going:
so eventually I will get everything done and this will look glorious. in the mean time I will have other projects to show off soon
It’s starting to take shape – Sanctum Class Sky Fortress progress
So I am not far off adding on the side wing panels on this thing though I still have alot of details to add but i can now call this 50% complete.
so much superglue has gone into this with more work yet to come but where is where it is up to and it should be done to pre painting levels by the time I next post on the matter.
so in my last post I mentioned about starting a cathedral build well I’ve changed my mind on the timeline. so once I get the gunship’s initial model set up I will be moving onto making an inferno pistol out of xpe foam, I know for a fact that I’ll have scraps and off-cuts and it will be with some of those off cuts that I will make the base Layer for the Cathedral.
so one other 40k scratch build project I will be sinking some time into will be a totally unique tank design that will initially be give me exorcist tanks till gw release a plastic one as my sisters of battle are in dire need of mid range weapons with an anti tank punch to them. I may also adapt the tank design to work for repressors. this move is in part because I am nearing my limit that I can spend in 2019 Q1 on my sisters of battle as I need to ramp up my costuming before con season starts so I can enter into comps and the like. my new sister of battle beta costume is my first priority costume wise
thanks for reading and I’ll have more for you soon
Sanctum Class Sky Fortress Update
prow decoration sourced! So while doing some parts research in a local hobby store I found the pillar of good from reaper miniatures with provides me with prow details for two models due to it being mirrored front and back:
so with it trimmed in half and trimmed down above the wings it looks like this:
so I will show more on this unit when it’s further on.
Additionally with my crusader squad soon to become a ten model unit that will be riding in their own transport, my cannoness is going to need a new bodyguard to accompany her, (and soon a dialogus and maybe a hospitelia) in an immolator so while at the hobby store i discovered “Almaran the Gold Paladin” and while the model it’s self is kinda meh it’s sword and shield are awesome (I will still modify the base model and add it into my dnd collection).
so I will be procuring two more of this model to cut the swords and shields off for a new 3 model crusader bodyguard unit this crusader unit however will be modelled to look like my battle sisters (without backpacks but will gain capes) in the event we get celestians with storm shields (or at-least combat shields) and the whole burning power sword look works well) for the moment I will be dubbing the unit “Celestian protectorates” unless gw actually gives celestians a shield option
here is what the sword and shield look like off the model
okay so that’s all for now
Sanctum Class sky fortress prototype scratch build progress update
Okay so since there is some interest in this project I figure I might as well show my progress on this glorious project. So the main structure is near complete and I am up to setting up with the base for all the detailing. so with out further a due HERE IT IS!
yep it isn’t quite as impressive as i hoped too but then it is only 40% of the way there and I will be making better versions based on this.
one last thing. when this model is finished I will be taking a very similar photo to this:
it is no secret that i am inspired by the codex art of Valkyrie gunship in it’s entry in the dex. Anyway thanks for your time! I will have more to show later on in the month so till then I’ll have to say good bye for now
MY New Support Palatine marches forth
okay so the wait is finally over! I can now show off my new support palatine. 2019 sisters additions wave 1 is coming along strong (man things will get confusing when gw release their offical sisters) anyway this model is a back field leader that will be co-ordinating my heavy weapons particularly my retributors but maybe my exorcists too (once i add afew to my collection but damn if exorcists are way too over priced at 100 aud each with no option of a stockist discount due to them being web store exclusives)Â sadly the book of saint lucious won’t work with vessel of the emperor’s will but that just gives me more reason to castle my fire support units up
anyway here is the unboxing:
2019 (conversion built) sisters of battle: first wave
okay so this month is going to see afew additions to my army:
– first of which is a new serephim squad which is about 70% completed at the time of posting:
SQUAD WINTRE:
wow was doing some of their conversion fun as i had to swap out some of the feet and get them to stay attached to the rock on their base all without pinning (which i would do if i had the tools and materials. I am now completely out of inferno pistols which is a little annoying as inferno pistols are the best armament for serephim as hand flamers are still a little underwhelming.
Also I will sometime next week have a new serephim conversion tutorial video appearing on my youtube channel (and shared here) which I am recording as i do these models.
one thing i must say about my serephim is i am really liking how dynamic they are.
– support palatine (I still need to work out a name i like for her
so with my sisters of battle army expanding I find my sisters in need of palatines to lead them and so i finally took the plunge on a model I’ve been wanting to get! the “Bernadette, Mother Superior” from Trollz under the bridge. I will also have recorded a product review on this model though i still need to edit the video together. once it is up i will further update this post with a photo of the model and the video link.
the below picture is a product photo of the model. 
– 1 sister of battle five woman squad equipped with storm bolters:
because I mean one why not the SB is one of my favorite guns as is attested but the fact it is my favorite armament to take with my sister of battle cosplay (other then my more recently added eviscerator which isn’t con trading floor friendly due to being about 2 meters long)
but this edition storm bolters got the buff they truly deserved with the weapon becoming rapid fire 2 instead of assault 2 like in previous editions and the new “blessed bolts” stratagm makes it ap neg 2 and damage 2 which i can attest to being quite useful from my last game.
– 1 five member heavy bolter retributor squad:
honestly there is no reason not to take heavy bolter retributors especially with good they are though that being said if sisters get autocannons this year i will be extatic as for dealing with tougher enemies autocannons are often a better choice.
– 1 preacher and dialogas (converted from the sigilist and apprentice from frost grave miniatures and a conversion tutorial for making both will be done in it’s own vid
– 3 conversion built repressors (dependant on my coming by used or cheap rhinos)
so i will after the first one see about both making a tutorial and sharing the patterns for the pieces
– 2 new serephim squads: both will have four hand flamers.
eventually i want to make all these squads 10 members strong but their starting strength will be five models, in part my local meta is low toughness hoard filled so i plan to use larger units of serephim as hoard burners or line breakers who further an opening for others to push through
– evicerator cannoness with inferno pistol. I will need to conversion build this model
PROPS:
so my new additions are not limited to 40k for once. I will likely be doing build log videos on these new additions.
This month i will be adding:
– a decorated chainsword (as seen in the warhammer community art release for the new sisters minis that may be coming out this year). because sometimes i want to take a chainsword with me that ins’t two meters long and so i can go sister superior armament when needed
– a Meltagun: yep the special weapons holy trinity will finally be completed in my armoury and i will give a special video when all three are done talking about each as well as a build log for the melta (and it may not be the only meltagun i make this year but that would be telling
– an Inferno pistol: “SO YOU LIKE IT HOT HERETIC!? I’LL SHOW YOU HOT!”
I have been meaning to add this into my armoury for ages and what better armament for a palatine then one of these.
– SACRED BOOK: so with a photo i have planned I will need to have an opened book like the cannoness has.
– Crescent rose: so the first non 40k thing on this list and one that has been along time coming. sadly due to technical limitations my first crecent rose won’t transform but a future version will. hopefully I’ll get to doing this later this month or in feb
– Boltguns, Bolt pistols and a heavy flamers: all of these are for others and i will cover that more in a future post or more likely a youtube video
anyway that’s all for now. I am still yet to record the narration and do some of the editing for “shepard saves the republic ep4 ” star wars the old republic playthrough vid but honestly i am debating about canceling the series so i can just play the storyline without having to worry about editing it all
Bits and Kits Wish-list
so since i put this down in the comments section on a post over on facebook i figured I’d also put this here. basically I have a huge set of warhammer bits wishlists each per a factions some to bolster the existing factions others to start whole new factions:
- adepta seroritas/adeptus ministorum:
– 100 legs and torsos from the dark eldar kit,
– several large packets of greenstuff,
– 16 dreadnaught heavy flamers,
– 40 sticks of bluestuff (to replicated helmets and backpacks in greater numbers)
– 40 space marine storm bolters
– over 100 robed skitarii rifle arms,
– 20 skitarii pistol arms,
– 30 skitarii close combat weapon arms,
– 1 space marine assualt marine evicerator,
– 16 mk 4 meltaguns,
– 16 of the resin space marine sternguard heavy bolters or 16 scout marine heavy bolters,
– Ardanna, Pillar of the Faith and Arthenya VI, The Archpapess from raging heroes.
– 200 28 mm plain bases,
– 8+ rhino kits,
– 10 skitarii iron strider belistarii gunner arm pairs,
– 4 horus heresy rhino pintle heavy flamers.
– 8 penitent engines,
– 30 packets of the wargaming exclusive sisters heads,
– 30 legs + torsos and feathered wings from dark eldar scourges.
– 10 packets of chaos cultists, 10 militarium tempestus torsos, 10 shields from the Aviriel Tellerion models (reaper miniatures) (to make crusaders)
– 2 house cowdar boxes to convert into arco flagrants,
– 2 wych elves boxes, 20 sacarian rust stalkers gasmasks and swords
– 2 sets of the sigilist and aprentice from frost grave miniatures,
– adeptas seroritas vehicle front plates and doors from shapeways
– 10 sets of vehicle headlights from blood and skulls,
– 4 metal celetines (to become statues),
– 15 3rd party repentia (either wargaming exclusive or raging heroes)
– cobblestone greenstuff press (so i can rebase the entire army on cobblestone bases, hense why i need more bases too)
– 20 immolator dozerblades (some are needed for vehicles but more are needed for buildings
– old necromunda wall sections plus (so i can make a chapel)
– a plain rhino frontplate (so i can finish off my command immolator)
– 3 wargaming exclusive small missile launcher turrets (so i can set up counts as exorcists
– cobble stone greenstuff press
– corrigated wire greenstuff roller
- my imperial guard list is even bigger and this is just pure guard:
– 24 packs of the 5 model cadian bolster packs,
– 3 cadian infantry squads,
– 5 company command squad kits,
– 18 additional cadian legs and torsos,
– 3 heavy weapons squad boxes,
– 60 large bases for heavy weapons teams,
– 20 packets of the pickleprick helmets with gasmasks from victoria miniatures, – roman headplue things packet from secret weapon miniatures,
– 5 heavy mortars from victoria miniatures.
– 6 sentinal leg sets and space marine bike core sections with handelbars + 3 sentinel heavy flamers (to make more rider sentinels
– 5 space marine dreadnaught legs, plasticard and clear plastic, plastic card tubing and retanglar tubing (one size that can slot leman russ sponsons in it) to make hammk sentinels
– 30 space marine plasma pistols,
– 7 leman russ demolisher kits with 9 additional demolisher cannons and and additional 6 executioner plasma cannons (to kitbash into other leman russ varient guns so i can interchange the turrets as i need them),
– 6 chimera kits without their weapons mounted,
– 2 retro hellhounds,
– 6 basalisk turret sections or 6 whole basalisk kits,
– the tracks and running gear from 2 shadowswords (i need this for a laviathan command vehicle)
– 1 taurox,
– 4 leman russ hulls + large wheels and plasticard,
– 9 space marine scout biker legs and riding arms, 10 militarium tempestus torsos, skitarii vanguard helmets.
– 2 boxes of orgrs with cannons and 2 boxes of the other ogres from warhammer fantesy,
– 2 retro leman russ exterminators without their hull weapon glued in or equiped with lascannon + modern leman russ sponsons with swapable guns (to count as lr anihlators),
– death corps commissar x2,
– trolls under the bridge commissar x2)
– 4 plastic commissars,
– 40+ of the chaos cultist that wear a tattered uniform and have a gasmask from the cultist kit/dark vengance,
– enough copies of my template for the sides of malcador tracks printed out to scale on thick card to provide the tracks for 9 malcador varients.
– 3 hydry/wyvan kits (that will be converted to be enclosed)
- inquistion wishlist:
– grey knights grand master kit
– 45 cadian legs and torso
– 45 cadian heavy weapons team heads
– 20 militarium tempestus hotshot lasgun arms and backpacks
– 6Â militarium tempestus grenade launchers (to be converted into hotshot rotary volley guns)
– 5 space marine meltaguns
– 20 additional miltiarium tempestus packpacks
– greenstuff, plastic tubing
– militarium tempestus close combat and pistol arms x4
– 2 boxes of house deleique to become accolytes
– 10 betrayal at calth plasma guns
– 2 boxes of house esher with extra knives and knife arms to become deathcult assassins
– 6 taurox prime kits
– landraider crusader kit plus 4 sets of baneblade sponson heavy bolters (to become an inquisition Prometheus
– 3 necromancer models from warhammer fantesy to become tech priest weaponsmiths (non xenos answer to jerico weapon smiths)
– 3 valkries - sisters of silence (will often be teamed up with inquistion)
– 3 boxes of sisters of silence
– 5 extra sister of silence flamers
– 60 sister of silence heads (or bold with poneytail female heads and i will make the masks myself
– 45 sister of silence legs and torsos
– house orlock powerfist
– 5 rhinos
– 5 sister of silence rhino iconography (front plate, doors and icons) from shapeways
– 7 packets of hellcats from reaper miniatures
– 20 cord claws from skitarii sacarians kit
– lots of greenstuff
– packet of bluestuff
- solar auxilia: (okay so you all know I’d love to start having an army of these guys that i custom convert but well i lack the budget to do them)
– horus heresy core rules
solar auxilia armylist book
horus heresy burning of prospero book
– 70 + militarium tempestus torso (or eagle torsos from victoria miniatures)
– 70 dress arm pairs (victoria miniatures)
– 70+ skitarii vanguard helmets
– 70 catachan legs
– 2 leman russ hulls with tracks (to convert into aurox transports)
– 3 Jack “Captain Blood” Meinhardt from artel w miniatures to use as commanders
– 10 flamers (victoria miniatures flamers)
– 10 volkrite guns (victoria miniatures plasma rifles
– 3 to 9 track sections off the kataphron battle servitors (to use as the base for rapier lasers
– 9 leman russ demolisher turrets to mount custom crew on
– baneblade kit, plasticard, 9 leman russ, heavy bolters (will become a variable kit and get scratch built stormhammer bits)
– my malcador track templates printed to scale onto thick cardboard x 28 per left side and 28 per right side i mean or someone could just give me (5 dracosan, 3 malcadors with spare demolisher cannons and twin las turret cannons, 3 malcador infernus, 3 minotaurs) but i love scratch building, a crap ton of varying sizes of plastic tubing, 1cm thick foamcore - space marines: (blood ravens chapter)
– codex space marines (likely we’ll get a new one in 2019
– space marine half of first strike
– space marine half of dark imperium or the smaller equivilent
– 3x tactical squads
– 2x devastator squads
– 20 assault marines
– 2 storm talons
– 2 dark talons (to convert into stormhalk interceptors)
– 3 land raiders (to build as all codex option land raiders)
– one landraider to convert into an archilies
– 1 pack of sanquinary guard (to convert into vanguard veterans)
– 1 pack of death company to convert into sternguard
– 1 pack of sternguard to make into a command squad and provide bits to other units
– 5 drop pods
– 6 landspeeders (my only landspeeders are pretty wrecked and i love the ls)
– 2 dark angels landspeeders to modify into something to count as the javlin landspeeder (and provide their shrines for the sisters of battle)
– furioso dreadnaught kit to both provide parts for a libarian dreadnaughts but also for chaplain dread conversions
– 6 razorbacks to become both rhinos and base hulls for different variants of the mk2 rhino ranging from rhinos up to predators and whirlwinds and the anti air tanks
– iron hands upgrades to make tech marines with
– 1 greyknights power armoured box to make a libarian squad with
– 1 storm raven gunship
– 1 storm raven gunship (to convert into a storm eagle)
– 1 storm raven gunship (to convert into a fire raptor)
– 3 contemptor dreadnoughts to be built or converted to be mortis variant
– 1 redemptor dreadnought (to convert into a laviathan dreadnought)
– landraider kit and blood and skulls external tracks (to convert it into a typhon)
– landraider kit and blood and skulls external tracks and 8 imperial guard lascannons if they are longer then normal landraider lascannons (to convert it into a spartan)
- mechanicum:
– adeptus mechanicus
– skulls tech priests (when ever i can find them)
– 50 skitarii legs, torsos and backpacks
– 30 ranger heads
– 20 victoria miniatures heads
– 3 dunecrawlers
– 3 dune crawler leg sections
– 8 dunestrider kits (to become 5 dragoons and 3 iron striders
– 6 warjacks (yep why not avoid spending 100 aud a kit and go for a 3rd party option)
– 3 boxes of rust stalkers (loadouts to be decided
- questor imperialis:
– 1 knight paladin (kit) (built as a paladin)
– 1 knight warden (kit) (build as a galliant)
– 1 knight paladin (kit) (build as a crusader using left over bits
– 1 knight paladin (kit) (being heavily converted to become a knight lancer as a conversion experiement to determine viability for conversion building the fw patterns of knights)
– 1 knight dominus castalan (will get it’s plasma cannon remade with light up wire and have lit eyes and lit volcano cannon)
– 2 halverine
– 2 warglaves
each knight will get led eyes unless i buy a second hand one that such an intensive job becomes impossible due to previous owner gluing carapace on
- star wars legion galactic marines:
– core game set (imperial half)
– x5 snow trooper box
– admiral veers (to have rules for and to use in tight rules situations)
– 2x atst
– 2x scout bikers - star wars legion rahm kohta milita:
– core game set (rebel half)
– rebel fleet or ground troopers
– 3 atrt walkers
– snowspeeder
well that’s all for now anyway but i am sure more will be thought up later on
SISTERS OF BATTLE (Beta codex) recounted battle report
well my sisters took the fight to some heretical marines. acting on rumors of heresy the order of the celestial blade deployed to a remote planet and sought a relic (the objective of the game) that contained the information on whom the heretics were. when their reached the field of battle they encountered a contingent of the dark angels whom raised their guns at the daughters of the emperor.
the sister’s thought they had slain the enemy’s leader during the first round of combat however after a penitent engine turned their commander to red paste (after he’d been set alight by an immolator) only for it to turn out to be a decoy as he would later emerge onto the field. as cannoness emilia led her armoured force out to destroy the enemy’s ground forces against the better advice of the matron incharge of the force. as her forces zeal cut it’s way through the enemy’s infantry in the north east corner of the battlezone living saint Christina and a squad of serephim claimed the objective to move it back to the makeshift command center that the matron had taken command of
the matron’s concerns proved valid when a whole contingent of deathwing terminators and deathwing knights teleported down lead by a terminator armoured master who drowned the serephim (whom were carrying the objective) in mass reactive bolts and molten plasma cannon fire and were martyred. then the astartes turned their fire on two battle sister squads in-front of the bunker. as the smoke cleared from the explosions of bolt rounds and Gatling spat autocannon rounds the matron spat into her vox beed for cannoness Emilia to destroy the traitors her vehicles were engaging and return while also ordering a a rhino filled with arco flagrants co-ordinated by a priest to target the enemy’s nearest terminator unit (the deathwing knights) and obliterate it. she then led her sisters in a prayer for guidance before raising her stormbolter and switching over to sanctified bolts before ordering that the sister superior of retibutor to equip similar round and then collectively raining fire down upon the terminator armoured foes felling a few. then the cacophonous sounds of a dozen mini thunderclaps heralded the death of the close combat armed terminators as they were drowned in a wave of battle frenzied cyber killing machines that were further inspired to greatness by a priest.
meenwhile in the north corner of the battlezone the pentient engine slammed into more enemy units wiping out a small squad of marines while the immolators and rhinos that were aproaching a bunker split their fire between a psyker in resliant power armour and the survivor of a small squad they had engaged on their way over (who’s remaining members had chosen to retreat toward the bunker) as the remaining marine in the squad that had been running from her immolator remained standing after his squad mate died cannoness emilia ordered her the imolator she was riding in as well as another that was next to it to ram the marine, after a moment of loud grinding sounds the gunner in the turret of the immolator confirmed that the marine was a lifeless mess under the tanks.
back at the center of the battlefield however things were still looking dire as the enemy switched their focus to the living saint and the enemy’s terminator armoured leader charged in to attack her after the two terminator squads had done their best to wipe out her bodyguards and whittle down the remaining battle sister near the objective along with harrying the retributors on the battlements. the terminator armoured leader then charged forward and attacked the living saint, though she was initally slain the emperor was with the living saint and she rose back to her feet glowing brightly with divine radiance that absolved her of her injuries.
after a voxed rebuke at the cannoness from the matron, cannoness Emilia ordered all armoured assets make full haste back to their matron to aid her, while at the same moment the arco flagrants and priest angrily charged at the second terminator squad and mauled them badly. while at the same time a very angry living saint turned her attention to the enemy terminator “hero” and drowned him in fire before slamming into him and impaling in him in the throat with her sword.
then seeing that things were falling apart the enemy terminators sought to claim the objective barrels and uncover what they were after for themselves, what they did not count on however was that the entire armoured might of cannoness emilia’s cohorts returning to take their prize from them and return it did. as the enemy stood defiantly holding “their” prize the doors of two immolators and a rhino slammed open and their ocupants disembarked before the transport themselves sped around to gain a better firing angle on the enemy.
guided by their faith in the emperor and by their faith in a powerful relic of the emperor the book of saint sabat the sisters poured a tirade of blessed bolts, sanctified promethium and thermal fire into the enemy terminators, whom all fell under such a tirade and so the enemy commander whom had chosen to hide in the east corner of the battlefield, fled the field by means of emergency teleport leaving the sisters with their prize and the remains of many martyred sisters.
So I will give my full thoughts on the new book at a later time as i still need to get in afew more games before i want to cast my opinion properly on it however i hate the fact that for the priest i had to look to the index for options. i also detest that evicerator cannonesses aren’t a thing without the index for no other reason then “because we can’t fit everything on the sprue” which is an utter cop out considering just how much THEY CAN put on sprues these days
anyway that is all for now I’ll see you all later
Arco-Flagrant conversion ideas brainstorming
okay so until now I’ve been eating into my stockpile of chaos cultists to do this but i had a sudden realization while in a game store:
HOUSE CAWDOR ARE THE PERFECT BASE!
okay so the one minor issue i can see is that their heads won’t work but i mean i was planning on replacing those and i will need to make arco-flails but that is pretty straight forward. it would also leave me with a whole lot of really cool bits including a plastic banner pole arm that i could convert into a simulacrum imperialis for my sisters of battle. additionally i would be left with one spare model by virtue of the fact the unit is a nine model squad instead of a ten model squad so that would leave me with options of making one crazy looking tech priest for my mechanicum army (each tech priest in my collection is semi unique so i am not bothered about him looking different from those around him) plus my sisters may get heavy crossbows incase we get those in the new codex
anyway that’s all for now. I will have alot more to share soon
Witch Seeker squad conversion plans
okay so with my using the flamers from the sisters of silence with my battle sisters the throught has come to me of rather then going with the standard flamer sisters, why not take direct cues from the art for the sisters of silence from the horus heresy art book “visions of heresy” which i have sitting on my shelf.
so apart from the heads making these sisters (apart from the sister superior) won’t be overly hard. the hard part will come from sourcing suitable heads and modifying the torsos to work for this design since the models have no upper back due to gw designing the models to have capes sitting there but that’s only a minor problem. the other hard part will come from sourcing flame cage that work as the base flamer here is just a cadian flamer with different flame cage on the top.
I’ll show these conversions off later on when i have something to show which might be soon or in awhile
Sister Lilia 
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