Winter is coming, time to dust off the Raven Guard!

Yello! whats poppin?

Well, I have been so distracted with Infinity that my Raven Guard have pretty much been ditched. I was looking at the pics last night and realised I had some nice Forge World stuff. Now I'm not going to lie, I watched a few 40K bat reps on Mini Wargaming last night, and, MAN, the game is SLOW, even when played at a fast pace! I hate the turn sequence, its so boring compared to the reaction based shooting in Infinity!! So the game is not drawing me in, and actually neither are the standard Marines... the models are meh compared to the magic that Corvus Belli can produce with metals. Unfortunately I'm a completionist and  I feel they are there at the back of my mind, constantly niggling me to get them done... so I think I'm going to blast on and get them shifted! I hopefully have a desert FAT mat arriving over the next week or so, so I may be able to talk someone into a game in the next month or so.

I want to try something out I saw on Beasts of  War... basically completely nicking the turn sequence off Bolt Action.You place tokens in a bag for the amount of units you have and randomly activate a unit once you have drawn it out of the bag. The units then complete the move shoot - or whatever the hell the sequences are now. I don't think it will alter the balance of the game and actually might make it more tactical. The bat reps I saw were pretty much rolling a lot of dice!! I haven't actually played since 5th ed and only tried 6th once and I found it to be totally bogged down with rules.. We shall see. 

Oh a quick tip on standard Marines, to make them look more anatomically correct use a small amount of green stuff to create a spacer for the abdomen off the legs and the same for the helmet... only needs a few mm but it takes that squashed look away... it looks better IMO...

Infinity, I'm almost fully painted and can whack paint jobs together as I need them now without to much bother. I have a Pan 0 force, but I'm going to wait until next year before I set to on that. My Combined army including the Morats can be added to and painted as and when. 

So updates soon...!

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I have been digging around my cupboard and I think I have decided, Im not going to concentrate efforts in one area, instead do a little of everything. So this week im planning to get a couple of Raven Guard donw, and some Pan Oceania glued up... thats the plan...

Some more Raven Guard... and some Infinity...

Good weekend of nerdery, got to love this bad weather!!

Pretty damn pleased with these fellas, tho I think I took the pic to close up...

Also built these fellas last night. Was supposed to do the whole starter, but I have to admit they were an F ing bull cacker of a turd to put together. The detail and proportions are awesome though, which make my rines' look a bit clumsy when put next to them...

Test game of Infinity tomorrow night cant wait!

I present Corvane Valar - Shadow Captain of 5th Company, Raven Guard

I have been busy with this guy. Basically i saw The Lord Executioner model and thought he would make an awesome lightening claw captain. My list uses Korvydae, but once I had the idea I had to build it! He is a counts as Shrike for my 5th company. There is no way I would use The Gw model, it's horrible! 

The torso is The Lord executioner, had a worry when it arrived as shoulders and arms are part of the model, but they come away easily and don't damage the model to much. That's a good thing about fine cast, if it was metal, I'm not sure I would have done it. The downside to fine cast it need a lot of tidying! It's my first experience if the stuff and am left unsure if I like it or not!

The base is still rough, the head is pinned not glued yet, and the jump pack is blu traced. Oh, yeah, the shoulder pads are the FW ravenguard ones, the lightening claws are from the new vets, the head is from the FW ravenguard upgrade and the jump pack is a Korvydae one. Pic...

    

Oh I'm still working on the tacticals, but I have some shiny resin stuff still to build!

Some more posts soon... 

More pics on the way!

Yo

I have been busy,

Pretty pleased with this guy, still got some improvents on the whites. I need to be braver with a darker shade of grey to give some it more ummph. I have actually got more to show - a whole a squad no less! I'm pleased with the flesh, it's exactly how I picture raven guard would be. My first post off an iPad, should make things easier to post! Will update tomorrow, really enjoying painting at the mo!