Closing the year 2023 with a bang

 Or actually multiple bangs as the last thing finished for this year is a lead belcher organ gun. With all sorts of things going on there has been not that much time available for hobby activities. Yet I´m happy to have painted at least something. This is one of those models that has sat for months unfinished on my painting station so getting it done was quite satisfying.

My leadbelcher model was missing it´s original wheel that I replaced with 

the ones you see here. And I had only four of the six crew models. 

That is not a problem as per army book the gun comes with three goblin strong crew.

The gun from behind. There´s a lot of details both on the carriage and the gun itself.

And the gun shield is very detailed too.

Another view from the side. Can´t remember where these replacement wheels came from.

Finally Lead belcher organ gun as represented in Army book.

Old School Rhino

 The original Imperial Guard army list published in WD109 back in january 1989 stated that "The Adeptus Mechanicus and Servitors accompanying an Imperial Guard force must be provided with sufficient vehicles to carry them". At the moment my IG army has two Adeptus Mechanicus and four servitors. I chose a rhino APC for their means of transport. It took me a while to get my hands on an original rhino and even longer to finish painting it. It sat in a locker for couple of years undercoated as I was gathering motivation/courage to finish it. My experience on painting vehicles is very limited. Anyway here it is now.

I general I´m pleased with how it turned out. Kept the paint scheme simple and in line with the rest of the army. 

2nd walking egg

 Rougly four years ago I posted an Imperial Guard sentinel I had finished painting. A couple of weeks back I managed to acquire a second walking war egg and quickly threw some paint on it. Two sentinels can be called a recon section, can´t they?

Very simple desert color scheme as with the rest of my Imperial Guard.

Desert yellow, black, leather brown and metal.

A side shot showing the pilot´s laspistol and the metal joints of the sentinel´s legs.

Gnovember is here again

 It appears that both september and orctober vent by with not much hobby activitiest around here. To kick my self out of painting stopur I started working on some Old School miniatures gnome sappers. It´s gnovember anyway.

These guys are small. I have to admit that I had some hard time with those tiny faces and some of the other details too. But they turned out good enough for my standards. These chaps will join their bearded brothers in my slowly growing gnome warband.

Epic eldar spirit host

 As mentioned ia an earlier posting I´m working on a small 2nd edition Epic eldar force along side with other hobby projects. Today I finished a spirit host for that army. A spirit host consists of a warlock, four bases of wraithguard and two squads of dreadnoughts with for dreads in each.

Baggage train group shot

 This is something I´ve been planning for a while but only now on my short vacation got around doing. That is digging out all my high elf baggage train models for a group shot and posting it here. To be honest finding everyone was a bit of a challenge. I have quite a few model cases and did not remember where most of the elves were in. Rummaging through different foam filled bags and boxes I came around miniatures I had somewhat forgotten I had. And eventually found all the elves I was looking for.

Let´s begin with a bird eye view of everyone. Four carts or wagons, sixteen individuals, a few animals, barrels, boxes and few smaller supply items.

In the left back corner an elf weapon smith can be seen holding a new part for a bolt thrower. In front of him a is a pair of merchants leading their horse away from an unlimbered cart.

An artist is about to start a new painting depicting a wounded wardancer. Next to them two youngsters are playing with their wooden swords.

A group of camp followers is spending their time reading and listening to music.

An elf lady is getting some food from a cart while a kid is threatening a goose with his bow.

Here we can see some hay being moved while another cart is getting loaded.

The hay foraging is closely watched by the army´s quartermaster. These elves are army regulars as can be told by their blue and white clothes (my high elves wear those colors). The civilian camp followers have much less uniform clothing.

As I have an elf casualty model lurking somewhere I plan on adding him and a healer of some sort to this group. And I got a tip on a nice elf bowyer model that I intend to buy in near future. So expect to see more of this baggage train in the future.

More camp followers

 As of lately I´ve been mostly painting epic scale eldar but have managed to put some paint on other stuff too. Here´s two more camp followers for high elf baggage train.

The chap on the left is a Lammings miniatures peasant with pitch fork. I chopped off the original head and replaced it with one from the old Warhammer fantasy regiments elf. I also repositioned his hands a bit.  I´ve had that other miniature for years and simply can´t remember which manufacturer made it. He represents an elf quartermaster. Here checking his files to be sure there´s enough hay collected for the army´s horses.

Eldar Phantom titan

 A friend of mine and me are planning on playing some 2nd edition Epic late this summer. He has a largeish squat force he´s had since 90´s and I´m slowly building an eldar army for the battle. I needed a center piece and what better to serve in that role than a Phantom titan.

White and red themed as all my eldar are.

Painted some vines climbing up the right side of the titan. This side

showing a power fist and a shoulder mounted las cannon.

Left side clear white with red shouder pad and weapon parts. The weapons are a tremor cannon

and a shoulder mounted missile launcher.

Epic eldar walkers

 My focus has been on expanding the high elf baggage train but I´ve managed to slap some paint on other things too. Here are some epic eldar dreadnoughts and a towering destroyer knight I finished the other day.

The middle one is in it´s original pose. The other two had their

limbs and las cannon slightly repositioned for more dynamic look.

Towering destroyer knight. Added a barrel to his right lower limb as I never understood what that stubby thing was supposed to be.

Another baggage train posting

March went by without me posting a thing. Let´s make april a bit more active month. To be honest I´ve been slowly painting a thing or two but nothing  that I felt was worth showing. My perivous posting motivated me to order some stuff from Midlam Miniatures. Here are the ones I got to build up my high elf baggage train / camp followers.

So it´s two youngsters playing and a cart with driver. As you propably

notice I swapped the drivers original head for a 80´s Fantasy regiment

elf head for him to fit in better with the rest of the camp followers.

Those new chaps will be joining this group I started a few years back.

I might have to rebase these to make them look the same.

BTW I you know good 25mm scale models for elf civilians let me know in the comments. I plan on making this group even bigger.

Baggade train upgrade

 In between painting other things I wanted to upgrade my elves baggage train a bit. It´s just a hay cart and some winged livestock this time but I´m hoping to add a few more items in the future.

Cart, goose, chicken and rooster.

Same stuff but from a bit different view.

Javelin armed high elves finished

This took longer than I planned as I almost lost motivation to finish the last two models for this unit. Anyway here´s something you don´t see every day. A ten strong unit of javelin armed high elves.

Mostly Jes Goodwin Citadel sculps. Some with small conversions as there

are not that many models with javelin around.

Far left is a Marauder elf and 2nd from left a Harlequin miniatures elf.

Simple weapon swaps here. Swords to javelins.