Epic Adventures 2020 (Part I)

Something never dies. The first real miniature wargame I was into was Epic Space Marine, the 2nd edition of the game. It must have been around '91 or '92. I got the boxed game for my birthday and right away we put the Titan together and played around with that and the Rhinos, Land Raiders, Ork Battlewagons and Eldar skimmers.

Together with some friends we embarked on the journey to collect each a different army and battle it out. One friend chose the Eldar, one friend chose the forces of Chaos, I chose the Space Marines, since I already had a quite large army from the box. Eventually a 4th friend chose the Squats.

But in the end it was always the Chaos player and my Space Marines dugging it out. We only played with fully painted miniatures, so I guess it was only us who actually had painted armies.

This is how the 2nd Edition box was presented.

I had to choose a Space Marine chapter for my army. 

I really liked the Blood Angels army I saw in all the pictures and battle reports, I also liked the Ultra Marines army they used in some othe rbattle reports. 

But in the end I had also looked a lot on the older pictures of Epic miniatures and especially the cover for the 1st edition Space Marine box set caught my eye. The Dark Angels in their shiny black armor.

Add for 1st Edition and Codex Titanicus.

But I was living in the early 90s, so my Dark Angels army was mostly black with a drybrush, metal parts picked out in boltgun metal and goblin green bases. I did do a bit of random things to spice it up, but it was mostly ugly with ugly on.

A mighty Blood Angels army of yore.

Fast forward to around 2010 I got back into some Epic gaming with Dr. The Viking, from over at Dr. The Viking's Miniature Games Hell, but since he was introduced to Epic a wee bit later than me it seemed that we didn't really agree on what the game was supposed to be.

I wanted to do the Epic 2nd Edition I knew from my childhood, but we ended up doing Epic Armageddon, which I didn't really grow super fond of, and we also tried stuff like Future War Commander.

I started repainting my old forces and this time I went for those nice Blood Angels. I was doing Blood Angels in 28mm scale now too.

Some of the Blood Angels I painted around 2010

This army never got really finished and digging it out here odd 10 years later I decided to update it a bit and finish it this time too.

So now in 2020 it is time to go really back to the roots. I am going to finish a 4000pts Net Epic Gold Blood Angels army.

 4000pts: A mix of new army, old army and some second hand.

I chose my army from what I already had painted (everything will be updated though) and then I upgraded from there. Doing it the old way, taking three Marine companies and adding from there.

I picked from the Vanilla list, since we didn't use special chapter rules previously.

	#	Figures	Pts	Painted Figures
Company Cards:
Tactical Company	1	29	750	0
Devastator Company	1	29	1000	0
Battle Company	1	29	800	0
Special Cards:
Chapter Master	1	2	100	0
Chaplain	1	2	75	0
Support Cards:
Terminator Detachment	1	6	350	0
Vehicles:
Land Raiders	1	3	250	0
Predator Squadron	1	3	200	0
Vindicator Squadron	2	2 x 3	2 x 150	0
Heavy Artillery:
Whirlwind Battery	1	3	150	0
Total		112	3975	0

Some of it is more painted than other things and I might change the list over time or add additional units. I plan to end up with at least one painted unit of each of the classic choices and ignoring anything too new I don't like. And I will paint Titans (of course)

So far I hope to paint 500-1000 points pr month. Starting with the Terminator Detachment, the Land Raiders and probably som other random stuff to test the paint scheme and such

This losely follows the rules of A Get Back into the Epic 40.000 Universe ArmyChallenge™ started by Dr. The Viking. And I hope to keep up with him.

Resin Scatter Terrain (Part I)

Recently I have been painting a lot of random stuff, but not really finished anything worth posting about. Or so I thought. But one thing that might deserve a post is the random resin scatter terrain I have painted.

Over the years I have accumulated a lot of small terrain bits and pieces. But mostly it has just been lying around unpainted. So here is some of the stuff I painted recently.

Bort and the Rascals defending their desert outpost.

But it seems that Mon S'lant kicked them out.

This is just completely randomly chosen objects, so no actual plans to use them for anything really specific. I made some grafitti here and there, some tie in with our RT campaign and some is just again random.

I think a lot of this kind of stuff can bring the table to a new level. It makes settlements seem populated and can be used spice up and costumize a lot of different set-ups.

Resin pieces are mostly from Pardulon, some Fogou Models and I think there is some Ainsty Castings too...

Rogue Trading Rejects and Outlaws

Continueing with some models for Rogue Trader. This time I have a mix of different personalities. Some painted recently and some just got their bases and paintjobs updated a bit.

In space there is a fine line between the good guys and the bad guys. So these can be outlaws in some parts of the universe or heroes in other parts.

These guys are up to no good!

Pratai Tarbh

Bounty hunter, space pirate, gun for hire, assassin, bodyguard. Anything that involves killing people. Pratai Tarbh carries a mastercrafted bolter with an extra long handle and twinlinked lasgun horns.

Reekor

This guy doesn't just stink, he reeks of death. Armed with a homemade poisoned gassing device he likes to take his victims alive, this way he can sell them as slaves later. Mini is from Krakon Games' Stargrind line.

Dr. Jarro

Dr. Jarro used to be a brilliant scientist with a brilliant brain, now he is just a brain. But luckily enough when his body collapsed in a lab accident somebody acted quickly and put his brain in a jar, later attaching it to a robotic body. Unfortunately the process has now made him a mad scientist instead of a brilliant one. Mini is from Black Cat Bases.

Bort

Bort used to manufacture licence plates, but one day he got tired with the routine and just took off into the ash wastes.

Space Police Agents and Ork Weirdboy

This time I have a mix of some old and some new. I repainted an Ork Weirdboy and I slightly updated a couple of Four A Miniatures (I believe another company bought the rights to these, I thought it was Macrocosm, but could not find them on their page). Also there is a dog.

The Four A guys are painted in mostly blue and white colours, which is the universal colours of police types, so they are a couple of rogue space police/enforcers, travelling around with their dog and apparently arresting Ork Weirdboys.

"Hands up you scum!"

Weirdboy

The Weirdboy doesn't have a name like the other guys, he is going to be part of my Ork forces, for now they are still a nameless bunch of raiders.

I was searching for this Weirdboy for quite some time and when I finally got it I painted it right away. It was already painted and I decided to paint on top of the existing paintjob as a guide/inspiration when I made his colours fit my Ork gang.

Original paintjob

Side by side

Okking

Once a cop, always a cop. He used to be a big shot crime investigator on Earth, but his drinking problems got him discharged with disgrace. Now he is a low life copper hunting down trouble in the far reaches of the known Universe.

Sams Eye

Sams Eye is not really called Sams Eye, but everybody has been calling him that since he was stationed on the far away outpost moon Sams Eye. Now he is just known as the Copper from Sams Eye.

Gut

Gut is a good dog. Friendly and happy. Sometimes he eats out the guts of outlaws too.