Nuclear Renaissance - Rogue Cop and MRP Interceptor.

"Oh what a day, what a lovely day!" - Nux the half life War boy.

So for starters... Yes I went and saw Fury road. Some people are massive fanboys for marvel, or star wars or Star Trek etc etc but the mad max trilogy is prehaps my favourite series of films, I am well known to bore all my friends with my evangelical love of mad max 2 'the road warrior'.

As a massive fan  I was definitely apprehensive pre viewing, despite the amazing trailers and rave reviews....I had high hopes and low expectations, after all for every Star Trek there's a robocop (damn you) and was worried that any calibre of movie might fail to live up to of 20years of febrile daydreaming what another mad max film might actually consist of.

Thankfully I enjoyed it very much, it was, in a word, relentless, a superb tour de force for the skill and craft of both George Miller and the stuntman and a great action movie in its own right. I would thoroughly recommend it.

Even my other half, who only likes Christmas films and romantic comedies and is well known for falling asleep in the cinema stayed wide awake (it was VERY loud) and confessed to actually quite enjoying it!

not to say I don't have a couple of minor quibbles, but mostly the kind that would be completely irrelevant to all but the most hardened fan...

Anyways I was inspired to finish up the reinforcements for the 'road warriors' gang. 'Rogue Cop' and the MRP interceptor. Here is a shot of the car in the first movie I took my inspiration from.

The basis for the car was a cheap 1:43 mk1 ford Capri off eBay, which has a very similar shape to the Australian cars. It does however look tiny lined up next to the mustang!

It received a similar treatment to the pursuit car with rear fuel tanks (guard flamer backpack) mesh side windows, a top rail made from RT era rhino bumper and part of a G.I joe's radio as a siren. The front splitter was cut from a guard dozen blade just like the mustang.

Unlike the mustang I decided to beef up the tiny wheels and give it more of a drag/muscle car stance.

The front pair are small Lego wheels tucked up into the arches, the floorpan was cut out at the rear to accommodate a big pair of Lego rear wheels in a 'tubbed' drag racing fashion.

The hood blower is actually the centre piece of an old metal dark elder hellion skyboard with some green stuffed piping to hide where I cut the wings off.

Rogue cop is a miniature from a discontinued line 'bitume future shock' it had some cool if very dated in today's time minis, some of which are still available from prince August. 

Unfortunately not this chap, I found him on eBay and snapped him up, he was missing the rifle barrel which was fixed with a laspistol muzzle, and I added an guard ammo pack to disguise an ugly part of the sculpt / cast at the rear that makes his backside look really weird and ill defined!

I'm pretty pleased with this pairing, he still fits in with 'Road judge' whilst looking a little more worn down and road weary, a man with perhaps more in common with the road crazy gangers he hunts than his own colleagues in the force.

Anyway thanks for visiting and hopefully another update in less than a month this time!

Tyrant's Legion objective marker and army update

There's not been much hobby activity at all from me over the last month.

I won't bore anyone with the mundanities save to say more pressing concerns have kept me from any hobby time.

However I have spent a little time cobbling together an objective marker for my tyrants legion.

Wine bottle foil, cocktail sticks, greenstuff and a few broken bits and bobs later and I have a rather battle scarred standard of the IV Demi legion.

The Latin reads 'invictus ferociter' roughly translating as 'invincible defiance' 

At the base is an eviscerated Fire Hawks space marine, waiting for my Corpse taker to plunder his Gene seed!

Although rather crude it was a fun little thing to knock up and will look cool as an objective marker for my army to defend or recover... 'The relic' anyone?

I also acquired and painted the final two rogue trader guardsmen necessary to complete my mandatory 20 strong Auxillia unit, this gives me a FOC legal skirmish force at an approximately 750pt level.

The HQ choices consist of a pair of centurions, one with power axe and meltabombs (warlord) the other with a power fist and storm Bolter.

Elites are a five strong squad of Retaliators including melta gunner and power axe, and a corpse taker apothecary with two Servitors.

Taking up a fast attack slot is a single deep striking sentry gun with a multimelta.

Troops are taken care of by the compulsory twenty strong unit of auxilia, up gunned with a pair of heavy stubbers, and a fifteen strong cohort of space marines with missile launcher, heavy bolter, meltagun and combi melta.

I have about 280pts to spend to get the army up to a 1000pt level and I'm thinking of a single tank as a centrepiece, possibly a thunderer or medusa, plus some more 'human' infantry, as the army's a bit space marine heavy to fit with the background at this point in my opinion.

Any ideas?

Thanks for looking....hopefully not so long till my next update!

Warp Fiends - Slaaneshi Sorcerer

Got my Sorcerer painted up. Pretty pleased with how he turned out in the end.

The disparity of bits used definitely makes him a tad 'incoherant' looking as a mini but if anyone can get away with it surely it's a Warp twisted magician?
A heavy coat of nuln oil certainly helped to disguise many a hobby sin.

Might have to make him my Warlord!

I think will run him as a level 3 psyker with mark of slaanesh (rolling once on telepathy and twice on slaanesh), spell familiar for the excellent rerolls,  An aura of dark glory (5++) force stave and combi bolter.