WH40K 2nd Edition Army Challenge II - June WIP

So Many Greens To Blend...

Well you can tell my kids got out of school two weeks ago for the summer since my blog out put suddenly dropped to nothing.  Almost all of my hobby time has been tied up in getting my painting done for the 40K2ndAC II.  Some quick pictures to show this month's entry as I worked on them over the last few weeks.

Dr The Viking will be posting the monthly summary for the project in the next few days so I won't beat him to the punch with pictures of the finished minis, but be sure to check back in a few days for pictures of everything I've painted for season two so far.  Thanks for reading and stay safe out there!

Cover Gallery - White Dwarf #134 Back Cover

 

Battle Report Incoming!

 Ready The Cardboard Bunkers And Freshly Flocked Hills!

One of the members of the 40K2ndAC community lives in my area and we are going to get together in a few weeks at a neutral venue to have our first 2nd edition game with the 1,000 points we painted for season one of the challenge.  This will be a warm up and refamiliarization game for both of us since we haven't played with the classic rules since the early 90's.  In a fun bit of bonus news, Dr The Viking is busy planting the seeds of a gaming meetup for many members of the challenge in August.  The idea is for us to all to play with our closest colleagues in the challenge but in many separate locations of the globe: Australia, Europe, Asia, and North America where the many participants of the challenge reside. More details on this global gaming meetup will appear in the future so stayed tuned to this space dear readers!

2nd Squadron, 2nd Company

 Squad Validus

Let's ignore for the moment the fact that the two flags in this picture are going in different directions, physics in the 41st millennium are weird ;-)

Roaring into battle this month are the first finished Ravenwing models I have added to my army.  Composed of the three bikes from the Dark Vengeance starter set plus an attack bike I lightly kitbashed to make it more Ravenwing.  They have been seeing a lot more use for me on the tabletop lately as my son and I play through a crusade campaign and I explore the new rules upgrades for Ravenwing in 9th addition.  These were the first unit out of the Dark Vengeance box that I painted, but do to a lack of confidence in my transfer and bannering skills I only recently fully finished them so I'll take the easy win of posting them here.  Follow along after the jump for pictures of these fast moving battle brothers of the Ravenwing...

I Expect You To Die, Mr Bond.

 

Cover Gallery - White Dwarf #134

 

Ahhhh 1991, when you didn't have to contemplate why a Dark Angels officer with Terminator honors was leading a squad of Blood Angels tactical marines on a space hulk :-)

Blood Bowl WIP III

Trolls And Orcs And Gobbos, Oh My...

My son needed a troll for his orc team so instead of ponying up $35 plus tax for GW, I dug this long forgotten chaos ogre out of my bitz box and drafted him for the cause.  With green flesh and colors that match the orc team I think it disguises the fact that this guy started life as a ogre and makes him have a passing resemblance to a troll.

These orcs were my first attempt at the classic paint it yellow then shade it green approach to orc flesh.  I really like the vibrant color and dark recesses this method produced so I will have to remember the formula when I get around to finally painting my RT orks.