A step closer to having a maniple

The robot rules in the Compendium book state that robots are usually organized into maniples of four machines and an adeptus mechanicus technician. And it also says that it´s unusual to have different types of robot in a maniple but weapon variations are more common.

The prices for Imperial robot at ebay are quite... horrendous. I don´t think I´ll even be able to have a four model strong maniple of robots of same type. I was happy to have a single robot and when I was offered another one for very good price, I immediately grabbed it even if it was of different type than the first one I had.

 Here´s the new one. It´s a Castellan class general purpose combat and assault robot.

I tried to do my version of this paint scheme. Didn´t dare to try the chess board -thingie on the arms and power gloves. Those striped legs were hard enough for me.

Right side view. 

And left side too.

Finally the newcomer with the Conqueror class one I painted earlier.

And their squat adeptus mechanicus caretaker.

My hobby year 2019

Looking back to 2019 I seen Imperial Guard. A suprisingly large force of Imperial Guard. Even as I´ve never been a 40K guy I ended up painting more than 100 IG models.

This is how it all begun. Inspired by a desert themed Only war campaing I was playing with my mates I wanted to try how old plastic guardsmen would look like in desert uniforms.

I was pleased with the speed painting method and soon had my first tactical squad completed.

Then I sort of got carried away by IG and after completing 1st tactical platoon I knew I had to do more.

The next squad finished was these bald gentelemen of the penal battallion. Monopose with plastic arms and las guns. Not much variety there.

And as those penitents have explosive collars I needed someone to rig those. Here´s an adeptus mechanicus with his three servitors. The servitors are Confrontation tech gangers with some modernish Tau parts.

Another model that needs that adeptus mechanicus is this human bomb aka redeemed sinner. Not very politically correct model that one.

For 2nd tactical platoon I wanted some variation for heavy weapons and chose heavy bolters and multi meltas instead of normal grenade launchers and las cannons.

2nd platoon with it´s two squads and the command section.

Some support weapons were painted too:
 

 A tarantula

 Land speeder

 Conqueror robot with it´s squat adeptus mechanicus care taker.

A walking egg

Back to infantry:

Here´s something I´m pretty proud of. A jump pack equipped assault platoon. Well, it´s just a single squad and a command section but still counts as a platoon.

 A trio of officers.

 A commissar

 Sanctioned psyker and a servitor

 A commissar and a penitent

Commissar on a motor cycle

No old school IG force would be complete without some abhumans:

 Ratling snipers

Ogryn squad

The few fantasy models painted last year were mostly green skins:

Snots, goblins, orc

 Some Rugluds´ chaps

 Goblin chariot

Chaos goblin. My Oldhammer forum Legacy 2019 participant.

A nurglesque chaos warrior

I made a few piece of scenery too. That´s something that I haven´t done in years.

I had tha chance to play only a single game of 3rd WFB during 2019. Enjoyed it even though my green skins were soundly beaten by dwarfs.

 Orcs and goblins advance

 Bolt throwers try to provide some support

 Dwarfs in strong position

Gobbos take on hammerers - and eventually lose

These guys were the ones to start 2019. By that time my blog had 50000 hits.

Proto guardian, champion, heavy weapon

When this space elf ended the year there were circa 68000 hits. For a mediocre painter and blogger 18000 hits / year is pretty good imo.

So all together circa 130 models painted, five pieces of scenery done and a single game of WFB played. Not a bad year.

Something different

Orctober is over and it´s gnovember time. But I´ve not started this month with gnomes but something that I´ve never painted before - RT era Eldar. I´ve had these models for some time now but I finally found myself the inspiration to do something about them. Here are the first two that I´ve completed.

 

RT401 Space elf and a spirit warrior (eldar war robot).

 From a bit different angle showing spirit warrior´s power glove with shuriken catapult.

 Note the crossbow-like shuriken catapult.

My favorite part of this model is the pointy helmet hanging on his back.

I think I´ll set myself to paint a kill team of a sort. I do have a few eldar models there but I´m going to need so more infantry to make it a decent sized team.