Starting young...

Here's son James, concentrating on getting a 'Nuln Oil' wash on his Deathskull grot tank. I managed to secure 8 but he was so desperate to add to his small but growing armies, he persuaded me to hand one over. What the hell, the Deathskulls would've nicked it anyway!

Dark and bloody times

Just got an email back from Forge world; 'there are no plans to produce either shoulder pads or doors for the carcharodons in the near future. This might change in the future'.

That's pretty sad news to my ears, what say the rest of you mysterious and enigmatic brethren get on to them and get this changed? Our loyalist brother Minotaurs are getting plenty of attention at the minute, even the secessionist Astral Claws have had their turn, so how about the carcharodons?

For my part I shall not rest until we receive our ancient armour!

carcharodon carcharias out

Contemptor and rhino

Finally got around to getting more paint onto the contemptor, some work on it's base and managed to get a razorback built, painted and weathered. The dreadnought is such a joy to pose and paint, I use it as a treat when the more mundane painting starts taking it's toll.

As you can see I'm a firm fan of heavy, heavy weathering; these guys have been in the field for centuries not weeks, apart from keeping them running there's no time to clean them up. My eventual goal will be to have a number of rhinos in various states, as the Carcharodons don't appear to have the ability to produce these, so scavenge what they can from the field of battle. In that case I expect that they would respray (or is it strip down) to the grey.

Still got another contemptor to finish, Tyberos is still in bits, and a stack of razorbacks to build, plus whatever Santa brings (armoured proteus perhaps), so I'm off to break out the brushes.

carcharodon carcharias out

Kill team

I know it's been a dogs age since I've posted, but life just gets in the way. That and I had to build my 1750pt BT army for the Throne of Skulls in October, so the contemptors continue to gather dust.

I love the idea of a carcharodon kill team (and a Black Templar one if I'm honest), anyone got any suggestions on what to take, go fluffy or serious I'm happy with either! Just fancy getting creative with the scalpel and brushes...

Carcharodons (still using my BT as counts as)
Termies with thunder hammers? Lightning Claws?
I'll get to use Tyberos - nice!

Gotta love GW

No really, I was lucky enough to receive the beginnings of a Dark Eldar army from relatives, however, after reading the codex, and checking out the forums, they really don't suit my playing style (see previous post), so I asked the local store if I can swap these around.

So long as they are unopened and sellable, no worries, so I've ditched the warriors, wyches and ravager and picked up 3 drop pods for the Templars. Sweet. Next week I'll be using those instead of Coke cans*

*other beverages are also available

carcharodon carcharias out

EPIC fail - lol

Played my 3rd game last night, same opponent, same army list, and to quote Mr Henry Ford; "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." I play aggressively (not me personally, I don't growl or get all up in your face), regardless of the mission, the opponent, the time of day etc, etc.

Last night for example,  5 x Templars, 1 with a melta gun, jump out of a drop pod in front of a completely unscathed ork horde, needless to say with an average 30 dice coming my way (per unit) they didn't last long. Rinse and repeat with 3 other identical units. 2 of my 3 dreadnoughts fared better, one taking out a trukk and the other holding down a unit of ork nobz bikerz. At the end of turn 3 (took us 2 hilarious hours to get that far), we called it quits as he had 5 kill points to my 1, and I had yet to get the last dreadnought in pod on the table along with 2 other Crusader squads in their pods.

Our post game chat led me to the above epiphany, and I'm really looking forward to playing my DEFENSIVE drop pod army in a less attacking format next week. Yes, I know the clue is in the title blah, blah, blah. A big thanks to Marshal Laeroth over at http://www.implausiblenature.net for his ever useful advice and the army list itself - well worth checking out.

From the Carcharodons point of view, another week goes by with little progress on Contemptor 2, but let's see what the weekend throws at me, and I'll take some WIP pics on Sunday night.

Until then, brushes wet, dice rolls high
carcharodon carcharias out

Daemon Day

A huge thank you to all who helped make Daemon day such an amazing day, attendees from Jersey, Norway and Estonia made my 50 mile trip seem like a walk in the park.

The event was well attended, I have to admit I was quite insular and spent more time on my own min, and what I wanted to learn rather than look around and see what everyone else was up to.

When I did rear my ugly head, there were some amazing pieces, a lot being worked on for the upcoming Games Day, and the ones brought in by the 'teachers' were mind blowingly good. Actually getting to pick up and see the detail on Ali McVey's and Tommie Soule's work in particular was inspiring rather than intimidating, which was the first of many revelations on the day.

There was no structure to the day, you brought in what you were working on and they helped you with a particular technique, this worked really well, and I think that everyone got the one-to-one attention they wanted.