Recently Painted Warhammer 40K Minis

The First to Pictures posted here are both miniatures from the "Black Reach" box-set for Warhammer 40K. While I can count the number of times I've played 40K over the last 5 years on 1 hand, I still collect and paint quite a few GW minis. Mostly from Space Marines (read Black Templars) and Imperial Guard.

First we have the Space marine Commander, an extremely nice model, considering he's snap together plastic! I'm pretty happy with the paint job, although the Crosses on the shoulder pads are a bit "soft".

The second photo here is the Dreadnought from the aforementioned box-set. Again a pretty impressive model, all things considered. Once again I am also relatively happy with this paint job, but feel the Cross is a bit "soft" at the edges. I suppose I should break down and use decals, rather than try to paint such things.

Next up, we have the latest squad for my Imperial Guard Army. Nothing particularly special about these guys. Finally below we see the same squad of Guardsmen standing fast in the gaze of a terrifying Rylie-Monster! Ahhhh... Runnn Awaaaaay!

Updates and suchness

I've started painting some of my 1/2400 scale ships for Trafalgar. I began with 3 of the heavier Spanish ships, the Principe de Asturias [112 guns], the Santa Ana [112 guns], and the Rayo [100 guns]. Each ship will be based on a GW plastic cavalry. I decided to use the cavalry bases to maintain a uniform base size amongst the ships and to allow to the ships name and possibly a nation flag to be painted along one of the beveled edges of the base. I'll post some pictures once I finish them up.

I finally picked up the new imperial Guard Codex and the plastic Cadian Command set. I am looking forward to playing a game of 40k with the new codex. I'll post some pictures once I get them assembled.

I've also been thinking about picking up the Operation Damocles Initiation set for AT-43. I have been aware of the games existence for some time now, and had even thought about picking up some of the figs for 40k proxies, but i just recently stumbled across some photos of the Karman faction for the game. Apes in power armor.... need I say more.