Med Tour 2014

Every Med Tour starts with a fully loaded minis case. And what better case than the Apocalypse limited edition ?

I had a shock when I arrived at Perpignan. I had a 17°C when I leaved Savenay, and a 37°C, 10 hours later at Perpignan.

First players arrived friday, we took time to eat and discuss before playin'

First Day...

Med Tour is a two day meeting where we come to play at Warhammer 40,000 the Apocalypse way. And when you say Apocalyspe, you mean... Lords Of War !

Haridan's in town, and it's hungry !

Nothing can replace a Harridan's "Good morning !" smile when you arrive on your first day table. This very well painted organic flyer comes from an army named "My little Forest Animals". So cute...

The All new painted mini malediction strikes again ! Every unit of my 3k DA army, fresly painted, doesn't stay more than two rounds on the table !

Even the Land Raider, painted a long time ago, didn't escape this malediction !

The game was one of a kind: Nids everywhere, Terminators falling from the sky, and Chaos Gods laughing hard. Our Astartes and Mecanicum alliance couldn't resist the Great Devorer and Chaos Space Marines alliance.

To win or to loose, what's the matter ? We played, had a good time and took great pictures. An apocalypse game is made to see great armies have great battles on great tables.

The Med Tour is also having a BBQ with friends, to take time to discuss about our Holly Hobby and everything that happened during last year.

Second Day...

A croissant, a coffee and 'ere we go !.

This time, it's desparate times : we decided to have a mirror alliance on both sides. An astartes, a Nurgle Marine, a Khorne Marine and a Necron players will fight.

I decided to keep only one terminator squad in reserves and place all the other squads on the table.

Apocalypse isn't only a big fight. It's a wonderful huge fight with huge armies, huge Lords of War and themed armies. 

You'll see a 7 Nurgle Chaos terminators squad and a Khorne demon possessed dreadnought fall from the sky... Right in the back of your previously decimated terminator squad !

An Apocalypse game allows players to create crazy armies. Like a Nurgle army based on the sacred number 7, or an all Forge World Mecanicum army.

All you need is time and motivation.

Deathwing command squad

Last squad for my 3k Dark Angels apocaypse army: Belial's command squad.

Belial and its command squad.

This squad is the final step in a long time project, started in semtember 2013. All the bitz I needed to create this squad took me years to get.

Bases come from Dragon Forge Miniatures, shoulders pads from Scibor Miniatures and all the minis are based on the Deathwing knights squad box.

Belial's equipped with Canis Wolfborn's lightning claws and a Chaos Space Marines Terminator Lord cape. Its base was realised with a Gales Workshop Cities of death floor and a lion head I founded at Scibor Miniatures.

Deathwing command squad - WiP 4

Last but not least, Belial's my 36th terminator...

My terminator time will soon be finished, and these are good news.

Belial's bodyguards, a.k.a. the Lion's wings.

I gave them a symetry in their shoulders pads : they keep the angel on Belial's side and offer their ennemies the lion's anger.

First try with lights and shadows.

Not satisfied with the result.

Deathwing squad command - WiP 2

Banner, Medic and Champion ? Check.
Belial and it's guards ? To be done.

I'm only three terminators to the cherry on the cake, aka Hellhammer. [insert happy smile]

Deathwing squad command - WiP 1

Back to terminators...

I'm not finished yet wih terminators ! I need to have the last terminators sqaud painted. And this one is Belial's Command Squad. It will be an all shiny full options squad.

On the left, Belial and its two bodyguards. Belial is equipped with lightning claws "voluntary" offered by a Space Wolf. His cape was took on the fresh slain body of a terminator chaos Lord.  His bodyguards will have a small cape, and their shoulders pads are specials.

On the right, we have the banner, Chapter Champion and the apothicary. Special shoulders pad are used too, to show this squad is different. 

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP 3)

The army's going on pretty well. Three  terminators each couting ten models are ready to fight. The all new Venerable dreadnought's done and battle damaged.

I need to paint Belial and it's command squad to complete the army.

Then it's cherry on the cake time with the Hellhammer.

Dark Angels Vénérable Dread - WiP 5

One week before deadline !

Body : check

Weapons : check

Base : check

Banner : WiP

Not bad. Still have all the weathring and battle damages to do but it's all good.

Dark Angels Vénérable Dread - WiP 4

Still working on the Venerable. I need to finish it before april.

All three weapons are prepared. Because they have different shapes, I prepared all three different hoods for the left arm.

And when all these weapons are finished, I'll have the banner.

Dark Angels Venerable Dreadnought - WiP 3

Dark Angels Venerable Dreanought - WiP

Still working on the Venerable Dreadnought.

Base and body are done, but still needs weathering and battle damages.

Arm and guns are ready for paint. Even if I'll only use the heavy plasma, i'll paint the other options now, while I'm in the mood for it.

The banner will have to wait, I don't find the good colors.

Dark Angels Venerable Dreadnought - WiP 2

After a quick presentation in january, the Venerable Dreadnought is back for paint step.

Dark Angels Dreanought painting WiP

After almost a year painting Terminators, Terminators and... Terminators, it's a bit hard to find my marks with a vehicule. This is why I have another dreadnought, Ironclad model, on the workbench.

I'll have to make it double to finish it before the end of march.

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP 2)

Time to check the Dark Angel Apocalypse ary project.

It started in september, with this :

Many empty bases, ans a Heavy tank to paint.

Cherry on the cake, all painted minis, except the LRC, need a refresh !

February, here I am...

A new dreadnought and a new Belial added to the "to do (army) list".

But I already painted half the army.

So, to anybody who wants to start such a project : don't give up. Never. 

Angel's Wrath squad

Finished!  I managed to find the force to finish this third terminators squad. Since April 2013, I painted nothing else but termis. Time to have a break, isn't it ?

Ready to fight !

The squad counts 5 Thunder Hammers, three "tactical" terminators and two Heavy Plasma carriers. Each squad member carries a shield. A Storm Shield  for those equipped with a Thunder Hammer, a shoulder shield for the others.

Dark Angels Venerable Dreadnought - WiP 1

Let's have a break, one more time, and have a little talk about the Venerable Dreadnought, in this 3k Apocalypse army.

The initial project was to create a greenstuff banner and to place it on the white metal handle.

Then I letted the project rest and putted myself in the terminators painting work.

While having a break with the Angel's Wrath, I resumed my work on the banner, and the base.

Time missing to work properly, I decided to use the banner provided with the Deathwing Knights.

Magnet, plastic bitz, a piece of paper clip et voila !

The greenstuff banner will be used for another dreadnought.

To be continued ...

Angel's Wrath squad - WiP 1

More terminators for 2014...

Angel's Wrath squad, WiP

I'm working on the third terminators squad. These are equipped with 5 thunderhammers, three vanilla marines and 2 heavy plasma canons.

Preparing an apocalypse army (WiP)

Let's make an assessment of my Apocalypse Dark Angels army project.

I had the idea to assemble this army while I came back from the Med Tour 2013. After such a 40k Apocalyspe orgy, the motivation is high and it my head's full of army projects. Reality comes soon enough to breack your dreams... And you'll feel like  jackass one year after, because you don't have new minis to show at your buddies.

This is why after two Med Tour editions, I decided it was time for me to come back with an all new army, created for this event. The success of such a project requires a preparation without fault. Although time appears very broad, Murphy's law will be able to add you his batch of unforeseen. This is why you have to be realistic and establish a planning with your mind, and not your heart.

As you can see above, the army is almost half done. Two of  three squads are finished and the third one is quite advanced. Planning's good, but I had some bad surprises. Like November when I did not paint. At all.

Preparing all the minis took a month, Hellhammer not included. It was already prepared.

Even if some terminators were already painted, count one month by squad. I'm taking again all the minis to standardize the colors.
The Dreadnought will take one complete month. The banner is not ready yet and that will add to the painting time.
The Hellhammer will take two good months. It's a big vehicule and I want to take my time.

I everything goes, I'll be done with the armie's painting in June.

Xenos slayers squad

Finally ! I'm done with the second terminator squad, for my 3k Dark Angels army.

Xenos, come get some...

I'm proud of this squad. Clearly, they are made for the close combat. Five lightning claws terminators, two heavy flammers and three baseic termis.

The sergeant is equipped with lightning claws issued from the terminator Chaos HQ. And the ork head on its base is here to remind us how they got their name. Five terminators from this squad killed more than 40 orks during a game.

Xenos slayers squad - WiP 3

This week-end was familly only. I conld'n paint, but my moto is "Familly first, Hobby second". My son and daughter are only 10 and 10, and I know they'll go away son enough...

Xenos Slayers squad WiP

Unfortunatly, I couldn't finish the sergeant...

FWD XXVII

After a long period, I'm back to the French Waaagh Day. I came with my five years old Dark Angels army. No new unit, I have enough work with the Med Tour preparation.

We had many tables and armies, but one table caught my attention. It represents a Necrontyr invasion on an Eldar world. Impressive.

I played two games during this FWDay. Not bad, when you know this week-end isn't a tournament. It allows us to meet IRL after six month on the mailing list.


First game : Order vs Chaos
 - Order : Imperials Fists (Le VIeux), Black Templars (Wernher) et Dark Angels (Aarghal).
 - Chaos : World Eaters, Word Bearers and Khorne deamons.

3k points on each side. It's gonna hurt !

Vindicator, pre-Heresy Ironclad and Rhino. Wanna get some ?

 For the first time since I painted it, I saw my VIndicator on the table for more than one and a half turn.

We had a pre-Heresy Adpetus Mecanicus robots unit.

 Second game : back to basics !

 - Space Marines : Red Hunters (Franssoué), Black Templars (Wernher) and Dark Angels (Aarghal).

 - Orks : Blood Axes (Larg), orks (Tarpan) and... orks (El Grot).

So many orks, so few Space Marines

 There where so many Orks minis on the table, we had a childish smile on our faces.

Looted Leman Russ, a real piece of work.

 Blood Axes looted a Leman Russ, and painted it's front face in Bad Moon colors.

BBQ anybody ?

Kommandos' weapons are painted in green camo with black stripes. Devil's in details.

Xenos slayers squad - WiP 2

Slowly, I climb my way to the finish line. Painting a 3k army is a long time job, but it's worth the time and work !

Xenos Slayer squad. There's only one terminator to finish, and I'll have the sergeant in my hands !

Xenos slayers squad - WiP

I'm late to post, and I feel bad at it. Good news are : problems can't stop the painting process !

The Xenos Slayers squad counts five terminators equipped qith lightning claws, three tempest bolters and two heavy flammers.