Hellhammer finally finished

I finally finished my hellhammer last night. I've been working on it since April, so I'm so glad it's finally done. Overall, I'm quite pleased with it. It looks a little brighter in these pictures than it does in real life. I'm hoping to revisit it once I've got up to speed on using oil paints and weathering powers. Anyway, here's the pics :-

Introducing the 2nd tank of 018 Heavy Armour Company.











I finally finished my hellhammer last night. I've been working on it since April, so I'm so glad it's finally done.

Painting Points

Another 20 points off the total, plus I've managed to pull a sly one. I had a Russ and three Chimeras which I'd bought from a friend. They were already painted and a bit bashed, I could have cleaned them up but little man took an interest, so he's been painting today and right now, his new mech guard are resting after repelling an assault by lofty, scoop and skip.

So, with these four models (40 pts) and the Hellhammer (20pts), I've taken a good chunk off the vehicle total. For those who haven't followed my painting points, the figures on the left side are how many models I have left to paint. Only once I start getting these down will I be getting more. It's basically a battle against the grey plastic crack build up.

I really can't justify getting the new demolisher or hellhound kits until I get my vehicle figures right down, so I'd better crack on.

Bits and Bobs

Hobby time is still short but I've managed to get a bit more done. First off, I've put together two more heavy weapons squads for 2nd platoon. Sorry about the pics, the light just hasn't been right today and I wanted to get something posted. I think I'm going to have to look at setting up a lightbox. Anyway, the pics .....


I've also been working on the Hellhammer. I've added a bit more detail and started working on the battle damage. I can actually see this getting finished sometime soon - phew!


I've got a quiet weekend coming this weekend, so hopefully, I'll get the Hellhammer finished for next week.

Bits and Bobs

It's been a busy couple of weeks and hobby time has been rare to find but I thought I'd do a little update on the bits and bobs I have managed to do, which in all honesty isn't much. I've put together a few extra models for 2nd platoons command squad. The signalman and standard bearer are from the new command sprue which has lots of juicy bits. The medic is a old metal one, I want to save the medic bits for a future project.

Anyway, here's the models ....


I've also been working on my hellhammer. I've only added some decals, the tracks, a vehicle identifier and cleaned up some of the overbrushing. Not much but every brush stroke gets me closer to the finished tank.


Although the hobby time has been short, I have been able to quite a bit of reading time in and I've just finished the third Gaunts Ghosts story, Necropolis based in a hive. It's cracking cityfight story and it's got me inspired to play some cityfight, the Corbanian 1st are a cityfight force after all. Time to dig out the cityfight stuff.

Bits and Bobs

Things have been progressing well on the hobby front. I've been listening to quite a bit of 40k radio recently whilst painting, for a bunch of yanks, it's not that bad. I'm quickly exhausting the previous shows, so I might have to sign up.

2nd Platoon

They're coming along nicely. I'm currently working on two squads of ten, and then the same again to round up the platoon. I don't think I'm going to add anymore heavy weapons teams as I've already got three and there's other projects I want to spend my time on.


Hellhammer

Well it's grey with blue grey stripes, and now it's the daunting battle damage brown stage, which, if you've seen my other vehicles, is going to be a mammoth job. I think this one is going to be a long term project. I'm not going to be using it much and there's plenty of other stuff that I do want to get using.


Warhammer World

I'm heading down to WW in the next couple of weeks. I'm planning to pickup a few new guard goodies but while I'm there, I thought I get some pics of the models in the mini hall. I know quite a few of you lot are Yanks or Johny Foreigners in general, so, if you'd like any pics taken of any particular forces, then let me know. I'll do my best to get what I can.

Gaming

I'm playing a good player tonight at the club with the new guard list. I've kept it as close as possible to my previous mech force. The storm troopers are now Vets in caraprace armour. The sentinels now have camo and one of the russes has Pasky commanding. I've also included Bastinion as one of the vet sgts and taken a Master of Ord. I've only got one officer and Basty who can issue orders, so I'm hoping it'll be an easy break into the orders system.

Something Big

Well, I did say I was getting a bit bored with infantry, so it's time for the big guns. I've finally undercoated my hell hammer. Now it's time to get a bucket of codex grey and a big brush.