Epic Sin Eaters Chaos Space Marines: Recon

Sin Eater space marine Bike unit

Sin Eaters space marine Land Speeders

Sin Eaters space marine Land Speeders

Epic Sin Eaters Chaos Space Marines: Elites

Sin Eater marines in tactical dreadnought "Terminator" armour

In the WH40k universe it doesnt get much more elite than these guys.  Even in this scale these guys are fun to play simply because of the disproportionate presence that they have on the battlefield.

Sin Eater Land Raider battle tanks

Sin Eater Land Raider battle tanks

Sin Eater space marine Dreadnoughts

Epic Sin Eaters Chaos Space Marines: Armour

Sin Eater Vindicator siege tanks

More Epic Sin Eaters.  This time its some of the armoured elements.

Sin Eater Whirlind artillery support vehicles

Sin Eater Whirlwind artillery support vehicles

Sin Eater Hunter anti-aircraft support vehicle

Epic Sin Eaters Chaos Space Marines: Command & Troops

Sin Eater Command Squad and Rhino transport plus Sin Eater Terminator Squad with Terminator Chaplain. The wrecked Rhino on the right is an objective marker

 

My Chaos Space Marine Chapter is the Sin Eaters.  I put together a large 40k army of Sin Eaters from ’99 to ’02 or so.   They were pretty nicely painted and I won a few prizes for them as a result.   I will be putting up some photos of those guys at a later date.

To complement my 40k Sin Eaters I put together an Epic (6mm) Sin Eater force in ’04.  I am a big fan of the look of games played in this scale: it gives a better impression of large battles than 28mm and allows for a very grand perspective.  Adeptus Titanicus was my first GW game and as a result I have a soft spot for the scale.

The Sin Eaters were always played as a Nurgle force, even though I used a lot of Imperial marine pieces when putting them together in both scales.  As a result you will see some rather theatrical wear and tear effects on these miniatures, in keeping with the Nurglesque corruption motif.

Sin Eater Tactical marines in MK7 "Aquila" armour

Sin Eater Tactical marines in MK6 "Corvus" armour

Sin Eater Rhino transport pool

Sin Eater Devastator marines in MK6 "Corvus" armour

Sin Eater Razorback transport pool

Rat(tle) Rustlers

I played some more Mutants and Death Ray Guns in early August.  One of the basic scenarios in the game involves some post-apocalyptic cattle rustling.  Although I dont have any two headed calf figures lying around I do have a whole heap of giant rats, quite a few of whom are mutated with extra tails, scales etc.  They seemed like worthy livestock for the rather lethal and very bleak environment that the MDRG folks exist in: just the kind of place where people fight over the right to eat mutant rats.  The photos are a bit shoddy, just snaps taken as the game was underway.

Giant Mutant Rats: Post Apocalyptic Cattle

 

Post-Apocalyptic Cattle Rustlers A

Post-Apocalyptic Cattle Rustlers B

The game table was set up with four areas of terrain (some radioactive rock piles and some mutant vegetation) plus the cattle compound in the centre.  Both forces ran full tilt towards the compound in the early part of the game.

The rustlers close in on dinner.

 

Leroy and Seamus grab a rat each under direct orders from Dr Fossey. The topmost corner of the pen in the shot is where Leroy zapped the enemy assassin with a Death Ray Gun. All that remained was the echo of her dying shriek and a barbeque smell.

 

Lizzie and Fossey grab two more rats while under fire from the bounty hunter and mutant human shaman.

The game worked aout as a bit of a walkover for side A.  That said, it involved lots of laughs, helped along by the entertainingly ludicrous scenario and background.

Last Night on Earth: Growing Hunger

After painting up the survivors and zombies from Last Night on Earth I started on the figures in the first supplement, Growing Hunger.  I was a little dissatisfied with the effect generated by dipping the figures from the original game after only a base coat.  From there on I started to shade and highlight some of the figures a little more before painting them and that continues right up to the figures that I am currently painting. 

Although I still painted the Growing Hunger figures very quickly I spent a fraction more time on them than I did on the base game guys.

Kenny: Bag-boy

 

Sam: Diner cook and Vietnam vet'.

 

Detective Rachelle Winters

 

Amanda: Prom Queen

 

The zombie miniatures that are supplied with Growing Hunger are called “Grave Dead” and are intended to be easily distinguishable from the guys from the original box.  In game terms they are used to represent ragers or fast zombies or highly contagious guys.  With that in mind I decided to stray a little from regular zed colour schemes.

The figures are supplied made of red plastic.  This plus the fact that when a regular zombie becomes a fast zombie in the Resident Evil games it turns reddish, grows claws and becomes known as a Crimsonhead.

Crimsonhead (image courtesy of residentevil.wikia.com)

With that in mind I decided to paint the GH zombies with a very easily distinguishable scheme for ease of ID. 

 

Grave Dead

 

In Resident Evil if these guys stick around long enough then apparently they then turn into Lickers.

Last Night on Earth: Zombies

The same learning process that was used when painting the LNoE survivors is apparent in the paint jobs on these guys.  Like the survivors I regret not spending a little more time on these figures but they still look plenty good enough to game with.

The skinny zombie with his arm by his sides (first and third in the first photo) comes from the Mall of Horror boardgame.  I swapped out half of the LNoE guys for MoH guys for game identification purposes (if there are two zombie players they split the available zombies up.  Using a different zombie figure makes it easier to tell them apart).

Zombies

 

Reanimated Corpses

 

The dead rise...

 

... and feed upon the living.

Last Night on Earth: Survivors

 

Last Night on Earth is a fun, modern horror boardgame with a zombie theme.  While it isnt a huge brain burner it isnt completely random either and it generates the “feel” of the movies that it is based on extremely well.  When the game was released some whiners gave out about the game balance making it too hard for the heroes.  That was garbage.  The game balance, although subject to the occasional blowout one way or another is actually pretty finely balanced.

A big draw of the game for me was the 14 zombie and 8 survivor miniatures that came supplied with the game.  They are roughly 28mm scale and therefore they fit in well with the rest of my figures, which was a big bonus.  They are made of a flexible plastic but they took and retained paint just fine.

Like the Descent figures, the LNoE figures are an early experiment with the dipping technique.  At the time I was experimenting to see how much of a shading effect I could get with dipping over a flat base coat.  As a result these paintjobs are pretty rudimentary.  For the purposes of playing a boardgame with however, they are fine.  If I were to paint them again now I would put a little more effort into them though.

Nurse Becky

 

Jenny: Farmers Daughter

 

Sheriff Anderson

 

Jack Anderson

 

Sally: High School Sweetheart

 

Johnny: Jock

 

Father Joseph

 

Jake: Drifter

Yakuza

 

I painted up most of these in ’06 with the intention of using them in skirmish games like Gangs of Mega City 1 and the like.  That game never got off the ground but I still like these guys.

The first batch of figures were painted mostly with drybrushing with speed in mind.  They werent dipped and details such as eyes were left pretty vague.  The drybrushing is pretty crude in places but in the interests of getting old figures painted and on the table they are fine.  I intend to use them as a group of survivors in horror games.

 

Boss Hari San

 

Hari San never goes anywhere with out "The Girls".

 

Botan

 

Aiko

 

Yoshi

 

Melon

 

The two schoolgirls were painted with a little more care.  Although they dont strictly have to be part of the Yakuza they do fit well here I think.  Their uniform scheme will be repeated on some other school themed figures that I have at some stage.  Both Z3R0 and ENF0RCERB0T are also intended to be part of the Yakuza group should the game require it. 

 

Suzi

 

Coco: wears rollerblades.

 

 

Organised Crime

Inquisitor Terminators

 

I had these figures for nearly 20 years and finally got around to painting them last year.  I painted them up for use in Space Hulk.

Inquisitor Mantable. Terminator armour armed with a combi-needler and power glove with Jokaero digital weapons.

 

Note the bionic leg.

 

Ordo Malleus Inquisitor Hugenot in terminator armour.

 

Armed with Psycannon and Force Sword