NZ40Kabal- the Doom Legion

Hello everyone  Well, looking back it's been a month since I posted last. I've had a few life events drop on my normal posting day which distracted me, but a fair bit has been happening.  Let's start with painting progress  Next weekend I'll be attending my first big event in a while, New Zealand Team Championship (NZTC). My list went through a bunch of variations, but the list I finally landed on was, naturally, not finished. So I started off with, not painting that: Bikes, as not seen in the tournament list After that, I kicked into the list, starting off with the infantry that I needed, 4 servitors and 10 Incursors At the time, I only had one Techmarine undercoated, so I painted him as part of the batch, just in case I was running out of time later: I actually got through that faster than expected, but the last models I needed hadn't shown up, so I made the call to use the time rather than wait for a larger batch. S...

  A plan generations a fortnight in the making Hi everyone    Well it has been a fairly eventful (pun intended) fortnight. I finished off all the models required for my army for Lakes of Blood, the event I participated in down in Rotorua, New Zealand. Lakes of Blood break down  Dave ran a wonderful event and I managed to do better than I expected. Given that this would be the first time I used this style of list my stretch goal was to win 3 of the 5 games. I managed to win those three games on day one (and then fail miserably day 2).   My list was: ++Battalion Detachment 0CP  (Astra Militarum)  [1320pts]++ Regimental Doctrine:  133 rd  Lambdan Lions   +HQ+ Tempestor Prime [40pts, -2CP]: Power Fist, Tempestus Command Rod Warlord Stratagem: Progeny of conflict  (Keys to the Armoury) Relic (The Laurels (Yanny) of command)   Tempestor Prime [40pts]: Power Fist, Tempestus Command Rod   +TROO...

Hey everyone, welcome back  Well as you can see from the top image, 3rd company crossed the finish line this week. But that's not where I'm starting off, because before I could finish them off, I had a tournament to prep for. This started as a doubles event, the initial plan was for me to provide the guns, had he was the push. So first up was more attack bikes to get done: This bought me up to 10 completed attack bikes, more than the 9 I was running, so I switched over to the transfers, first up the land speeders: At the same time I was working on the bases for the attack bikes, but I also added 3rd companies bases in to the mix as well. I finished up the bases and transfers for the attack bikes around the same time: I was feeling good, a couple more transfers to finish, and the army was ready, when COVID struck again. This time, a bunch of the teams lost players, and we suddenly pivoted to a friendly/compe...

  A descent into madness. Last year a mate of mine Mark started a massive hobby project and ever since there has been a little itch that has needed to be scratched. I also wanted a big project to work on, but the big question is, what? (I mean also why? Why on earth do you want to do this to yourself?) I had always liked the look of Kasrkin and I was forced to buy a few taurox to convert into goliath rockgrinders for a tournament for my GSC army. I magnetised the taurox grinders and had my first models. Now to decide on what the big project should be? A full regiment of Kasrkin looked like a good challenge so I came up with a plan to do this: I picked up a few boxes of Kasrkin and worked out a paint scheme that I was happy with. I needed something that I could do pretty quickly (as the regiment will end up being 510 models), that also looked good. I had tried using contrast paints before with varying levels of success and decided to give them another try for a practice model....

Hey everyone, welcome back.  Life caught up on me over the last couple of weeks, and I may have forgotten to post! I started off the month with a plan to go heavy into transfers and bases, so I continued on with 3rd company: Then somewhere in the middle of all this, distractions happened. Firstly, a solution to the shelving and display arrived! The top image shows the whole collection, but the chapter now has it's own location. I still want to light and paint the shelves at some point: The next distraction was slightly smaller. One of our local stores was doing a clear out of MacFarlane toys, and I couldn't resist a hellblaster.  Definitely glad I don't have to free hand 1000 chapter symbols... Throughout all this I've been discussing lists for an upcoming team event. My initial nomination from the team was for Harlequins, but post the nerfs, and with me not having the right models for t...