Hobby progress 30th June 2017

A lot has gone on since the last post
Sorted out some where to live with a possible game room in the offering
Tonight's update


Today's update is the last of my deathwatch and dreadnoughts as in 8th they will have toughness, I've been putting off for a while now as a had a great game of 30k the other day and had other bits ahead of them in the que
- note to self - get more organised -

Hobby progress 26th April 2017

Some dreadnoughts for the deathwatch this time and I think possibly the first time I have made a box dreadnought model ever

Hobby progress 23rd April 2017

Back on to the death watch to finish them off and have a slight break from the sight of mk3 marines
On the building table now is a black star flyer

Hobby progress 18th April 2017

Bit of change from a week of alpha legion and getting around to finishing off the deathwatch I have with me and a standard rhino with some really nice forgeworld doors and front place

Hobby progress 9th April 2017

More bikes today
Finishing off the ten of them
Few more bits and the army is close to getting finished

Hobby progress 8th April 2017

More fast moving assault marines for my death company and more vanguard vets
All armed with a big mix of power weapons as axes and fists, and the more of a punch as well. Thunder hammers with storm shields

Hobby progress 6th April 2017

Time for some fast moving progress....


I know, don't quit my day job
Today has been about 4 bikers armed with power weapons
2 power swords & 2 power axes taken from the vanguard veterans and assault marines spure

Hobby progress 5th April 2017

First real progress of April and it's back into deathwatch for me.
6 vanguard vets all armed with lightening claws and storm shields because at the same points as power swords who would ever take one when you can a lightening claw which has shred

Hobby progress 1st April 2017

Time for to get ready to go back to work for six weeks and plenty of hobby is coming with me
90 mk3 Alpha legion guys and a whole load of death watch 😀

Hobby progress 14th March 2017

A quick update for the Deathwatch

Deathwatch Terminators

Now this is another part of the army you can really use every little bit the GW and FW range to customise all your guys.

The kits I have used are:

1. Forge world Black Templars upgrade kit with the truly awesome storm shields

2. FW BT shoulder pads 

3. FW Minotaur shoulder pads 

4. FW Imperial fists shoulder pads 

5. Dark Angels Deathwing terminator squad box set 

6. Space wolves terminator squad - the belt fed assault Cannon is great in this set 

7. Normal SM terminator close combat squads

8. Normal SM terminator squad 

The only problem with the more you get you find you don't have any death watch shoulder pads for them, this is where I had to turn to eBay for some of the upgrade sprues as I didn't get the death watch terminator box set 

Current Deathwatch list

How I'm currently running my Deathwatch at an 1850 list

+++ DW 1850 +++

+ Command +

Watch Master with Clavis, Guardian Spear and Iron Halo

+ Core +

Watch Company

Rules: Decapitation Doctrine – This is sometime forgotten by people, I’ve started to use a small card system making sure I remember this. This doctrine always everything, let’s say that again, everything to re-roll any failed to wound and failed armour pen rolls for attacks made by the non-vehicle models from the watch company that targets  an enemy unit that includes a warlord, a psyker or IC, this is MASSIVE and in my top 5 rules from this codex. As you start to get a lot of units in the game nowadays that have characters mixed in with each other.

Watch Captain with Melta Bombs, Artificer Armour, Bolt Pistol & Xenophase Blade

Aquila Kill Team

Librarian -Mastery Level 1, Melta Bombs

2x Terminator with Lightning Claws

3x Veterans with Boltgun and Chainsword

2x Veterans with Deathwatch Frag Cannon

Rhino

Furor Kill Team

Librarian with Mastery Level 1, Auspex & Melta Bombs

2x Terminator Cyclone Missile Launcher, Power Fist, Storm Bolter

3x Veterans with Boltgun and Chainsword

2x Veterans with Infernus Heavy Bolter

Furor Kill Team

Librarian with mastery Level 1 and Auspex

2x Terminator with Assault Cannon & Power Fist

3x Veterans with Boltgun and Chainsword

2x Veterans with Deathwatch Frag Cannon

Veteran Squad

5x Veterans with Chainsword & Stalker Pattern Bolter

5x Veterans with Deathwatch Shotguns

Rhino

This squad gets split in two using the normal marine rules

+ Auxiliary +

Corvus Blackstar with Blackstar Cluster Launcher, Ceramite Plating, Four Stormstrike Missles and Infernum Halo Launcher, Twin Linked Assault Cannon]

The corvus is where I put the small 5 man squad with shotguns in and then they fly around and jump out to shotgun people in the face when they least expect it

Deathwatch - Troops

This is where this army changes and breaks the mould from the normal space marine armies, instead of being made from just a single chapter, they call brothers from every chapter to form the squads known as 'kill teams'
These bespoke teams are aimed at only one thing and that is killing the alien.
For mine I have had to change the kit that GW produced because of the slight oversight in what is such a beautiful kit. In the kit it comes with swords looking for like power swords than the close combat weapons it says they have in the rules. Some people may confuse these two and think they whole squads have power weapons when they don't. so a lot of chopping later and a few assault squads that are now running more flamers than before and I have managed to get

The sprues you get so much in terms of weapons. But I love the two most valuable choices, the dreaded deathwatch frag cannon (sorry Blood Angels ours is better) and the super combo of heavy flamer and heavy assault bolter - the Infernus heavy bolter. But its not heavy but an assault weapon.
Then one of the crazy things about the veteran squads is, you can take 4 of heavy weapons in one squad. Not just these but a lot of the others that are available to normal marine armies, such as:

1. Heavy Bolter
2. Heavy Flamer
3. Missile launcher - can be upgraded again to take flakk missiles
4. Infernus heavy bolter
5. Frag cannon


So here are some of my squads I have worked on, enjoy

The lovely frag cannons 

Sniper squad

Squads of normal vets

A couple of vets using forge world parts from the 40K upgrade kit

Shotguns, planning on building more of these guys

Squad using chain axes and some forge world shoulder pads

Deathwatch - HQ

So first real post about my armies and how they are coming on, mainly to get motivation for myself to get on and cut the number of boxes and sprues I have.
I have always loved the idea of deathwatch and once the box set came out, I was sold and pre ordered one and had a massive smile when the full codex came out.
I have just over 2K points and I have mixed in some forge world parts and kits.
I manage to photograph the models before they went off to get painted

So Hq
The HQ models are a big mix of every random model from my bits box meaning with a quick couple of forge world parts, I had some nice HQ choices