2nd Bolt thrower

Finally managed to finish my second marine bolt battery. It´s been pretty busy with both work and with my sons hobbies so I´ve been strugling to fnd time for painting. Thankfully wife let´s me have my painting stuff speard out on a table and not making me put them away when I´m not using them. That means that if I can sometimes find just some 10 or 15 minutes of freetime I try to use it on minis. I know it´s not much but it´s enough to keep my projects going on. Even if the pace is slow.

I´ve sometimes wondered why the unit is called bolt battery when there is just one piece of artillery in it? Now that I have two machines they make up a section and if I could come up with another two then all four together would form a battery.

I´m going to mount the bolt thrower on a 50x50 base but I don´t have one at the moment. Now I´m one horse and it´s rider short of having my army ready for game agains dwarves on 8th july. I´ll be posting the army list and a group photo of the army before that.

Six months

Hello everybody!


This blog has now been running for six months and I´m pretty pleased with how it´s been doing. Writing this it has had 2849 views and has 5 followers. I´ve written 34 entries this included and by far the most polular has been the battle report from the game between my high elves and my friend´s dwarfs. Switching to writing in english brought much more views than just keeping the blog to finnish readers.


So what next? This so far six months long journey back to 3rd edition WFB has been a fruitfull one. I´ve found wonderful blogs and met fellow oldhammerers online. Just one game played so far but two has been arranged for next july. I have a lot of things on my to-be-painted list and after adding so more elements to my high elf force I intend to start building an orc army. I have a busy summer coming up but I try to keep updating my blog at least twice a month. By the time this blog is 1 year old I´d like to have reached 10000 views mark and have doubled the number of followers.


The picture is pretty bad but here´s how my high elf army look today:

Some scouts, a bolt thrower, ship company, guards and wardancers in the front. Merchant company,

shore riders, a spectre and a wizard on the back. Hoping to add some archers in near future.

I´m working on a second bolt thrower that will give some more hard

hitting long range firepower to the army. 

Painting the second bolt thrower I noticed a small difference between the models.

I don´t know if the one on the left is a miscast or if the ornament has been filed down by

the previous owner. Or if there really is two different versions of this machine.

Here´s a elf job lot I managed to grab from a finnish net auction. I´m hoping to get the chariot painted during

this summer but on my scale it´s a big model with a lot of paint work to do.

The guy from whom I bought the chariot threw in these nice gobbo wolfriders for no extra cost.

Now I just need to find some wolves for them to ride.