It's an ambulance

Yep, Gorefest got it right (Tol - you already knew!), it's my chimera ambulance. I've added the stretchers now and it's pretty clear what it is. The stretchers are just cut down cocktail sticks with baby wipes wrapped around them.

Ambulances hold a special place in my heart as I served as a medic in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). Here's a few pics just of some of the ambulances that have been in service in the British army in the past decade. First off, we have the old long wheel base Land Rover 3/4 tonne ambulance. I learned to drive in one of these.

 

Next up we have the larger 1 tonnes Land Rover. I actually did my civilian test in one of these as the 3/4 tonne was off road one the day of the test. The lady examiner was very impressed if you know what I mean ;-)

The FV 432 - an all round apc which serves as everything from a command vehicle to a mortar platform. Seriously fun to drive.

 

 

FV-104 - Samaritan

 

 

 

 

 

 Finally. we have the Swedish import, the Viking.

Check out the stowage on the FV 432 (the second one)

That's enough of the pics, I hope you liked my little homage to Brit army ambulances. I'm off to get my own painted up.

Can you guess what this is?

I picked up a "painted" chimera in a trade at my local club. It was a bit damaged, it had lost it's lasguns and the turret wasn't quite right. So I wondered what else it could be used for and an idea popped into my head. I've done a bit of work on it, just a little more to do.

I've filed off the turret mount and lasguns mounts, added a vent, stowage, antenna, search light, tow hooks and stowage hoops. I've got a little more work to do on it, but it's 95% there. So, can you guess what this is going to be?

Work continues on my autocannon squad, they're almost done now, just got to do their black armour and I'll be starting on the lascannon squad. Going on campaign continues to grow, although I'm needing pics of campaign maps, so if any of you can help, drop me a line.

The break is over!

Well, my self enforced painting break is over, it's only been two weeks but I'm feeling refreshed and gagging to pick up my paintbrush and get stuck in. I've got a few things that I want to get finished. I've got two heavy weapon squads and a ten man squad to finish 2nd platoon and then an executioner to finish my armoured company. I've also go a few other bits and bobs to do as well. To be honest, I'll be glad to get some hobby content on the blog as well as these past two weeks have been a bit filler'ish.


Going on Campaign is going well, it's got 34 followers so far with the help of Drax and Ron - thanks guys. I'm just hoping the Bols guys left the three month rule slide for the project, so I can get it listed on the Alliance. On Bols, my nids made it as the Pic of the Day today, and it's generated quite a few comments.

Right I'm off to do a couple hours painting and then, depending on how the old grey matter is, I might even get another page done for GoC.

My latest madness

Well, with my forced break from painting, I've been busy on my latest project. It's a living rulebook and source guide for campaigning in 40k. I've already got quite a bit done and would love your input.

Going on Campaign

It's a long term project, so hopefully it'll grow into something special with your help over time. If you want to swap links on blogrolls, drop me a line with your address and I'll get it added.

Remembrance Sunday

We will remember them.

BUGS!!!!!

When I first got back in to the hobby 7 years ago, it was by painting a genestealer I found whilst looking for a cable for the tv. At the time, everything was piled in a small box room along with all the other stuff that just didn't fit in our tiny house. Some more digging found the rest of the squad and some paint. One year later I had this.

I played Tyranids for quite a while and just loved the hoard approach. The entire force is made up of .....

3 Hive Tyrants

3 Tyrant guard

11 Warriors

36 Genestealers

120 Hormaguants

54 Guants

6 Ravenors

3 Zoanthropes

3 Carnifexes

2 Biovores

Red White Terror

Lictor

6 Ripper swarms

Scythed Hierodule

Barded Hierodule

Giving a grand total of 7000pts 'ish. Here's some close ups ...

And finally, here's the one and only model my wife has painted. She did it in an hour and it's her first time painting. Doesn't it gut you when the wife is a better painter than you and has no interest whatsoever in painting any more.

October Parade Ground recruits

This is the first of a regular monthly feature where I'll showcase this months additions to The Parade Ground bloglist. So here's this months recruits fresh on the parade ground.

Imperial Armour - an excellent blog full of Guard and FoW stuff. Check out his troopers, they're really life like and very well painted.

WH40K Imperial Naval Infantry - a project blog based on the Imperial Navy, it's got some excellent concepts, can't wait to see how they turn out.

Tiberius Prime - a brand new blogger with some classic mini's. Go visit, leave him some comments, we all needed a bit of encouragement when we first started (Thanks Drax/Ron)

Why I will never have money - if tournaments and guard are your thing, then I'd check out NemFX's blog.

A Canadian in space - a brilliant blog full of WWI guard conversion goodness. Well worth checking out.

XIIIe Regiment de Cadia - an excellent blog full of guard and inquisition conversions. Full of gothic conversion goodness.

First rank - Fire - a blog about putting together an Imperial Navy masterclass army by two gamers. Looks
promising.

Black/Red painting studio - a painting studio blog that's got some excellent guard stuff. Check out the objective markers.

That's it for October guys, remember, if you run a guard blog or know one that isn't listed on The Parade Ground bloglist, then drop me a line or just comment on this post, and I'll get it added. As it's Halloween, I'll leave you with a few pics.