40k - Skitarii force progress.

Force Admon-Teash-Alpha/13

The Skitarii maniples of Force Admon-Teash-Alpha/13 are the product of a generations long experiment of the Divisio Biologis, these men were born to be the finest raw materials for the Skitarii Legions available to the forces of Forgeworld Metalica.

According to legend amongst the Tech-Priest hierarchy, the Omnissiah itself specifically ordered the creation of this Force, however all is not as it seems...

A secret religion is emerging among the Skitarii, based on a strange interpretation of the Omnissiah.
Knight Crusader Chemosh is seen as a living vessel of the Omnissiah, the Skitarii have disobeyed force protocols to go to her aid in the past. Each time the unit Alpha is decommissioned, but no matter how many times the Legion is data purged, the anomaly always reemerges.

They do have their roll of honour however, in the ruins of a murdered hive city on Praxxis VII, the Legion lured an infamous Decimator daemon engine into a trap and destroyed it. 


Well, a festive Christmas period to everyone, here we are again with a Bang!

These Skitarii, of Forgeworld Metalica, have been sitting half painted for far too long, just like Knight Crusader Chemosh, these models belong to my friend. He bought them as part of the old War Convocation formation which GW made, basically it was one of each unit in the Skitarii book, a Tech-Priest Dominus and a Knight.

Skitarii Vanguard - Unit Designation Tyx-60

Skitarii Ranger - Unit Designation Lau-12

Fairly standard stuff, sticking close to the main GW scheme for the particular Forge World in question. I added the red markings to the different models as a way of breaking up the monotony of painting white coat after white coat (the amount of white i seem to paint, i should be taken away by men in white coats).

The urban bases are to match his commission painted Warhound Titan from the Legio Metalica, and the Decimator Daemon Engine referenced in the fluff is a nod to another friend who has one in his Black Legion force.

Next for this army is a couple of units of Sicarian-Infiltrators which he left with me.

I hope you have all had a good Christmas and plan for a good New Year, many projects are planned for then.


Until next time...


 - Lewis

40k - "A Knight before Christmas" event report.

No-one can deny that Imperial Knights are cool. A giant stomping robot with building levelling amounts of firepower and all the heraldry and chivalric traditions of medieval Knights, what's not to like?

Our local GW manager ran an event yesterday in order to try to gain the record for the most Imperial Knights on a 6'x4' table as possible.

There are 58 Knights of varying types there, including some Forge Ones lurking about.

Impressive photo's you have to admit.
Alas, we missed out on the record by 4 Knights, it still stands at 61.
There is always another try for the record though.


Until next time.

 - Lewis

ToH - Masahiro and Warrior Monks.

It's been a while since I posted anything about Test of Honour, the whole thing with 8th edition 40k and some Age of Sigmar seems to have distracted me from the game.

At the moment I am trying to clear various half finished projects from my painting table in order to be ready for a new project starting in January, more on that in another post.

So with no time to spare, these models were finished off ready to take the Test of Honour!

These are all the monks I require for the warband, there are the normal Ashigaru Masked Men to add yet.
Masahiro is the main character who has his own card, he is the monk at the front with the staff.
There is a group of spearmen, a lone spearman and banner bearer.

With these guys out of the way, I will concentrate on the archer multibase I want to add to the warband, then there is just a spearman multibase and a Sergeant of Archery to do.

I may add a ronin type character using a Samurai card to the warband, maybe some wandering brigand who helps the Monks out maybe?


I am hoping to get some more of these miniatures from Warlord and Perry Miniatures at some point in the future to run my own Campaign based off of the Shogun PC Game, but that is still in the embryonic planning stages if i am honest.




Until next time...


 - Lewis

40k -Knight Crusader Chemosh.

Knight Crusader Chemosh of House Raven.

A veteran Knight pilot, Mistress Chemosh has sat on her Throne Mechanicum for almost 600 years.

She has seen all, fought all, and most importantly, emerged victorious over all.
She purged the Chaos taint from the Hives of Ludia with Shell and Missile, alongside the Sorroritas of the Order of Our Martyred Lady.
Was instrumental in the destruction of a tendril of Hive Fleet Jormungandr.
The Aeldari of Craftworld Ilthansar were given cause to be wary of her after she smashed aside the "Two Brothers" - twin Wraithknights which were protecting a webway gate from being destroyed.
 Although they do not show emotion, the noospheric links of the Skitarii of Forge World Metalica buzz with extra traffic and energy when Mistress Chemosh is posted alongside them.

Most recently, she has been fighting alongside the forces of Forge World Metalica as they fight with the Crimson Fists chapter to clear sections of the Loki Sector from the Greenskin menace left over from the invasion of Rynn's World.

This is a model which has been sat on my workbench for quite some time as I just didn't know how to finish her off.

Firstly, she is not mine, I am not a professional or commission painter (I barely get enough time to finish my own projects), but the Knight was part of a Small force of Adeptus Mechaanicus I offered to paint for a friend who has vision problems when working close for periods of time.

The only brief I got was Forge World Metalica, as he has purchased a Warhound Titan already painted in their Legio colours.

Some brief research led to House Raven who are allied with the Forge World, so that was easy. Then came Dawn of War 3, with their Matriarchal Knight character who aids the Blood Ravens through the campaign, thus the short backstory was born.

One thing which typifies House Raven is Hazard Striping and Chevrons. I wanted to include these as they hark back to 2nd Edition when they were everywhere from Chainsword and Boltgun casings to Leman Russ Dozer Blades and LOTS of other things.

However, I didn't want to go overboard with them as it would make the model look too busy I thought, so a few stripes of them and the tilting shield were all.
Many of the other markings are either Adeptus Mechanicus homages or the army campaign marking which is the small red stripe on the field of white which runs down the left hand side of the model and on the tabbard between her legs.

I attempted early on to do an oil streak/heat stained effect on the Cannon barrel, but I am not happy with it as I can do it a lot better now I have had more practice at the effect. I may come back and redo the Cannon at a later date, I may not.

One thing I was keen on making sure I got was the dual colours of the Adeptus Mechanicus seals, half black and half white with a metal skull in the centre, it is such a major point of their imagery I had to make sure I got it.

The last thing was the wounded Crimson Fist on her base.
I had originally picked up the wounded Marines set from GW to make some objective markers with, however after playing about with the base for the Knight, I stumbled across the idea of having her towering protectively over the Space Marine, a very heroic image ad just the sort of thing I imagine the knight pilots doing given their background stories from their old codex.
Crimson Fists were picked because when questioned, if he ever wanted a Space Marine army, my friend would want Crimson Fists because they are badass to come back from near extinction as they do.


I am glad I have gotten this model finished, and in plenty of time for our local GW which is having a Knight event on December 23rd. They are trying to gather over 70 Knights on one table to beat the record for most in one place.


Until next time...


 - Lewis