Drilling the Barrel!

 

I've always been in two minds about drilled barrels but now I've got a little hobby drill I'm sold on it and think it finishes off the mini perfectly.

I got a great little hobby drill of Amazon for around a fiver which came with 48 bits:

Wish I had got one sooner! Now all I need to do is go back over all my Blood Angels and drill their barrels! Not sure if I should do my Necrons but we shall see!

Necrons - My Entire Army

Still in lockdown, still busy with xmas coming up so I thought I would share my entire Necrons, thoughts?

• • Configuration

    • Dynasty Choice

      Selections: Dynasty: Sautekh

  • HQ

    • Illuminor Szeras [8 PL, 160pts]

      Selections: Eldritch Lance, Impaling Legs

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    • Lord [5 PL, 100pts]

      Selections: Resurrection Orb, Staff of Light

    • Overlord [6 PL, 100pts]

      • Tachyon Arrow and Hyperphase Glaive

        Selections: Hyperphase Glaive, Tachyon Arrow

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    • Overlord [6 PL, 125pts]

      Selections: Resurrection Orb, Voidblade

    • Plasmancer [4 PL, 70pts]

      Selections: Plasmic Lance

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    • Royal Warden [4 PL, 75pts]

      Selections: Relic Gauss Blaster

    • Royal Warden [4 PL, 75pts]

      Selections: Relic Gauss Blaster

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    • Skorpekh Lord [7 PL, 130pts]

      Selections: Enmitic Annihilator, Flensing Claw, Hyperphase Harvester

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  • Troops

    • Immortals [4 PL, 85pts]

      Selections: Gauss Blaster, 5x Immortal

    • Necron Warriors [12 PL, 156pts]

      • 12x Necron Warrior (Gauss Flayer)

        Selections: 12x Gauss Flayer

    • Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]

      • 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Flayer)

        Selections: 10x Gauss Flayer

    • Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]

      • 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Reaper)

        Selections: 10x Gauss Reaper

    • Necron Warriors [6 PL, 130pts]

      • 10x Necron Warrior (Gauss Reaper)

        Selections: 10x Gauss Reaper

  • Elites

    • C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer [18 PL, 350pts]

      Selections: Power of the C'tan: Antimatter Meteor, Power of the C'tan: Gaze of Death, Scythe of the Nightbringer

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    • Canoptek Reanimator [6 PL, 110pts]

      Selections: 2x Atomiser Beam, Reanimator's Claws

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    • Cryptothralls [2 PL, 40pts]

      • 2x Cryptothrall

        Selections: 2x Scouring Eye, 2x Scythed Limbs

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    • Deathmarks [4 PL, 90pts]

      • 5x Deathmark

        Selections: 5x Synaptic Disintegrator

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    • Skorpekh Destroyers [5 PL, 105pts]

      • Skorpekh Destroyer (Reap-Blade)

        Selections: Hyperphase Reap-Blade

      • 2x Skorpekh Destroyer (Thresher)

        Selections: 2x Hyperphase Threshers

  • Fast Attack

    • Canoptek Scarab Swarms [2 PL, 45pts]

      • 3x Canoptek Scarab Swarm

        Selections: 3x Feeder Mandibles

    • Canoptek Scarab Swarms [2 PL, 45pts]

      • 3x Canoptek Scarab Swarm

        Selections: 3x Feeder Mandibles

    • Canoptek Scarab Swarms [2 PL, 45pts]

      • 3x Canoptek Scarab Swarm

        Selections: 3x Feeder Mandibles

    • Canoptek Scarab Swarms [2 PL, 45pts]

      • 3x Canoptek Scarab Swarm

        Selections: 3x Feeder Mandibles

  • Heavy Support

    • Annihilation Barge [6 PL, 125pts]

      Selections: Gauss Cannon, Twin Tesla Destructor

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    • Doomsday Ark [10 PL, 190pts]

      Selections: Doomsday Cannon, 2x Gauss Flayer Array

  • Flyer

    • Doom Scythe [10 PL, 200pts]

      Selections: Heavy Death Ray, Twin Tesla Destructor

  • Lord of War

    • The Silent King [23 PL, 3CP, 450pts]

      • Szarekh

        Selections: Sceptre of Eternal Glory, Scythe of Dust, Staff of Stars

      • 2x Triarchal Menhir

        Selections: 2x Annihilator Beam

      • Warlord

        Selections: Warlord Trait (Szarekhan): The Triarch's Will

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Total: [166 PL, 3CP, 3,216pts]

It's nearly xmas!

 Christmas is around the corner but my wife should note that it's not December yet so you can't put the decorations up! She will though lol

Games Workshop are bringing a bunch of new stuff out just in time for the festive season as revealed over on the Warhammer Community website. As previously mentioned, this includes the new the BattleForce box sets:

Not only that, it also includes the new Blood Angels Codex Supplement (yay!), Blood Angels Dice (yay!), Blood Angels Datacards (yay!) and the Blood Angels Combat Patrol box (Dear Santa....):

Not only that, there is also a newDeath Company Intercessor kit and a Assault Intercessor kit:

And it just keeps coming, as the new Gladiator Implusor is also going on pre-order along with all of the above!

I need another job to go along with my day job lol Time to write that letter to Santa...

Space Wolves: Ragnar Blackmane

 

From unboxing to fully painted finished model, the other Twin is looking forward to getting this one on the battlefield! Really like what he has done with the base on this one, what do you think?

Follow up - Warhammer Primaris Invictor Tactical Warsuit - Space Wolves

 

New Tank Incoming! Space Marine Gladiator!

 

Warhammer Community is showing off a new Heavy Support for the Space Marines. This beast is coming up for pre-order in just over a week on the 28th November. It's a welcome change from the standard tanks I think and it comes with a multitude of variations on the weapons front.

Looks like tracks are a thing of the past now with all the recent tanks having the repulsor field technology. There are three variants:

• Valiant - twin las-cannon and multi-meltas
• Reaper - Twin heavy onsalught gatling cannon and twin tempest bolters
• Lancer - Lancer laser destroyer (longest range)

Unboxing Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine Heroes Series 3

 

Warhammer 40,000 - New BattleForce Boxes Incoming!

The Warhammer Community Website has been updated with a look at the brand-new Battleforce boxsets coming soon (They don't actually mention a release date but given they mention updating your xmas lists it does suggest that it's a matter of weeks).

The boxes all look great and would a great starting point for any new army:

• Space Marines: Interdiction Force
• Necrons: Eradication Legion
• Astra Militarum: Bastion Platoon
• Chaos Space Marines: Decimation Warband
• T'au Empire: Starpulse Cadre
• Tyranids: Brood Swarm

All the boxes look packed so I'm not expecting them to be cheap or at around the same price as the new Combat Patrol boxes which are £85 here from GW. I'm thinking more around the £100 mark if not more. That said, there is (as previously mentioned) a new Combat Patrol box coming for the Blood Angels but with the Battleforce boxes, I'm liking the Space Marines set over the actual Blood Angels one simply because it contains more of what I need:

Whilst Blood Angels are my main love, Necrons are my army of choice and their box holds a lot more of what I need to bolster my army:

Lychguard, Canoptek Spider, Triarch Stalker, these are all on my list to get and you can never have too many warriors right?

Necrons - DeathMarks

 

Keeping busy through Covid Lockdown with these Deathmarks. When I originally bought the immortals box I didn't fancy doing them as Deathmarks. Since 9th Edition though I've hard they are really good. Having not played them in 8th I can't really comment on the changes which are eligibly good.

Can't wait to try them out, 36" range (even though they are Heavy 1) and can teleport in. Quick paint job and they are ready, not my best work but just wanted them ready even though I got plenty of time, I'm so impatient lol.  

So what next for my Necrons? Got to be the Hexmark destroyer!

More Necrons...

 

Procrastination over, I've made a start on my outstanding Necrons. That and I've finally bought a squad of Deathmarks from the guys over at Rogue Wargaming that I'm eager to make a start on and have tabletop ready for when lockdown finally ends. Having already got a Royal warden from the Indomitus boxset, this Recruit Edition one I've done slightly different and raised him up on the base. Some last minute touch ups to do before I call him done.

Blood Bowl - The New Edition

Now I'm not a massive Blood Bowl player, I got two teams and only played a handful of times. Never played in any leagues and only used the out of the box team rules but it looks like there is going to be some massive changes with the new edition.

Like I said in a previous post the new edition looks great and I'm very tempted to get it lol Warhammer Community has recently posted another article on the teams and how some of them may change with the new edition. These changes include every team and star player in production which can be found in the new thick rule book which will be included in the game box. Much better than the magazine type booklet that came with the last edition

The Warhammer Community website also goes over the teams available in the box, the human team overview can be found here, whilst the new Ork team can be found here. Personally I'm an Ork fan, the 'umies are just too fancy for me.

There looks to be some major changes to the way the game plays, so after just getting my head around the last edition, I'm expecting another learning curve to get to know all these changes.

As a bonus though, there is some freebies at participating stores when you purchase the game.

Update:

They have now released a better look at the Necromantic Horrors team .... think I may be investing in another team soon....

Another Update:

It's now available to pre-order, quite surprised at it's price tag of £85, that's a lot of minis and content for the price when compared with the previous version.The Necromantic Horror Team: The Wolfenburg Crypt-Stealers look great as well, might have to invest in these once I've got the new Codex Supplement for Blood Angels.

Armies on Parade 2020

 I don't expect to win anything but you got to have a go right? This year is my first year so I decided to go with my Necrons as the display and decided to try and make a pyramid for them to be around as if they were first awakening from the tomb.

The build itself was made using MDF off the back of an old wardrobe, hotgun used to glue it all together and sprayed black. Finally I covered the floor area in PVA glue to fix down the black sand.

Originally, I didn't have The Silent King either, so I built an entrance which was going to serve as a portal. Having Szarekh though changed things as you really couldn't see this entrance once he was placed lol. I also got my twin to 3D print me a couple of obelisk type things to place outside the pyramid. Here's the finished submitted product, with all the excellent talent in this community I don't expect to get a look in though lol