I´m back!

So basiclly it has been 1 and a half year since my last blogg here. The resaons for this is that my gaming has taken a diffrent turn since my last post. I have quit playing WHFB and stoped painting both FB and 40k.

I don´t feel like going into detail but the lack of decent players and the mentality of the company simply started to remove some of the joy with the hobby and therefore I looked at alternative systems.

On a Swedish forum I found great inspiration in Anatolis (make sure you check out his blog as well) posts were he showcased everything from regular ww2 soldiers to great two legged walkers apparently known as mechas. To say the least I was inspired and ask him if he would be kind enough to give me a demo and he did. 16 months later I have sold all my GW stuff and have collected 3 of the major 4 armies in this awesome game known as Secrets of the theird reich (known from here on as SoTR). The blog will probably mostly showcase miniatures from SoTR or SoTR related products and currently I´m building a Soviet force that hopefully will be finished in oktober.

However Mr Anatoli has been kind enough to also introduce me to This Very Ground and Malifaux (the next big project after the Soviets are done) and so this blog will most certainly also feature models and terrain for those systems.

Finally this blog will hopefully serve another purpose and that is to provide a second hand or another perspective at some of the projects and games that will be mentioned on Anatoli´s blog as he is the person I battle most of my games with.  

So this post turned out to be a wall of text. But I thought that some explaining might be called for as it was a long time since anything was posted here. Now to show you the goodness of SoTR just some random pics of my collection. 

Second hq done

So its been a while since my last update. Painting has been slow for a while and when ive gotten around to doing it ive mostly finished up some old guardsmen that needed som attention. Ive finished up my second hq (got this in the box0´guardsmen that i bought off a mate).

Medic

Officer (Not painted by me)

Vox-operator Meltagunner (Not painted by me)

Army Standard (Once again, it wasn´t me)

Ive rebased them and now i think they fit very well into my existing army. Still got one HW to do from that batch (ohh and one gaurdsman) but after that ill post a pic on a Leman Russ thats been vrying for paint for ages. Untill then..

/Cheers

Heavy weapons team complete

I bought a bunch of IG (battleforce, HQ, rattlings) of a friend this week and have therefore been busy with making them fit into my army. Rebasing is always a mess but it was ok. Didn´t cut up my fingers that bad this time :).

Yesterday i took a break from painting reggular guardsmen (got 37/60ish something done) and did a heavy weapons team instead. Not the best painting but it brings it up to an accepteble TT standard in my eyes.

Not sure when ill post another update. Ill try to make the next one a massive one with lager chunks of my army.

Cheers /Millmir

Leman Russ "Wasp" completed

What a diffrence!? After completing Doomsday (the baneblade) the last couple of days i was thinking that doing another tank would take hours and hours. What i did not take in acounnt for was the fact that the Leman is so much smaller than Doomsday made it seem like painting a regular gaurd unit in comparision.

All and all i´d say it took me 7 hours or so for putting it togther and painting it. Not to bad when just the paint took 10 hours on Doomsday...Ivé used the same style as before but made this tank a bit muddier. Reason for this is i imagine that being in the frontline explosives going of will blow up a heap of mud everywhere not just where the crew is moving.

So i was orignally going to draw a freehand pinup 1950´s girl on the side of the turret but came up with this idea that i think turned out way better than a pinup could. Thinking of keeping the insect aspect on all three Lemans.

Today i´m going to try to complete to guardsmen. Ill post again when i have a squad ready and after that ill do either a lascanon heavy weapons team or a heavy bolter and then ill move on to another tank.

Cheers /Millmir

Baneblade complete!

Finally i have completed my baneblade! It took me 3 days (or 11 hours) to complete and i must say i really think that isn´t to bad for a model of that size. I used the (citadel) spray gun to get the basecoat done and this saved me around 3-4 hours of work plus the fact that the result turned out smoother.

Again i used the method of making the crew parts muddy to get a realistic effect. Think this works really well and overall makes the tank look so much better.

So finishing this project meant i would be out of models for a bit...but this morning i got some new ones (my b-day) so i should be busy for a while...

I also finshed up a part of my anvil of doom thats been laying around for years. Just took a few moments and i think it turned out very well.

Next i shall be doing some Leman Russ tanks and ill also try to get around to rebasing some models im going to buy of a freind.

Cheers /Millmir

IG Officer done

Tried a new type of painting today! Hungover painting :).

Think my officer turned out very well dispate the fact that i wasn´t able to concetrate for any longer periods of time.

What do you think?

With this mini done i have a painted Hq and can finally start to play small games. I think the Hq group turned out very good and i think they look very nice.

Ive also made a display piece for my dwarf army. Ill post pics of it tommorow when the final glue has dried. My plan now is to get the baneblade done before thursday (my birthday) when i probbly get some more modells.

Cheers / Millmir

IG Standard

After 4 hours i finally finished the painting on my IG standard. Think he is one of the best models i have painted and i hope you agree when you take a look.

Think the flag reminds me of a power that was in WW2...No more needed to be said on that subject. Painted it somewhat like the orginal in colour scheme the obly big difference is my lighting with is painted with some gold coulor instead of bronzed flesh and white.

Enjoy, Millmir!