Legion Of Caliban

The mighty spacemarine Captain Korgan Balestrong was the leader of the Second founding Chapter the Void Rangers, sucessors to son's of Huron. When his primarch rebelled he followed the path set before him leading his brothers to many distinguiushed victories. But he secretely had always held reservations regarding the killing of innocents, for he was a principled man. Yet inpsite of his space marine brothers and initiation, he always held close ties to his clan from the Planet Illium of the Galactic south. It was during the crusade to reclaim Illium from the Angels of Absolution that he was forever changed. Laying siege to last three hives on the planet the Void Rangers had nearly completed their conquest when the angels of absolution negotiated a hostage release as tactic to buy more time for reinforcements to arrive. Marching entire clans out of the Hive, the clan of Korgan was, marched from the Hive gate to the defensive lines of the Void Rnagers. Suddenly thunderhawks a...

Well my last campaign was a so so event, a major learning experience, and this time around I've made it so that I won't being directly participating. But with the new gaming club a little understocked I've decided to contribute in a major way. Terrain! So one thing we really need is a jungle terrain theme. So here's my efforts at that. All of these peices have a steel washer affixed to the underside. I am considering that this could then be affixed magnetically to the base using magnetic strips, which will help to keep them together. I also needed something like an evil shrine to be the site of some cultist worship. That is all carved from pink foam except for the skull which is a cardboard skull from a halloween sale a michaels hobby and craft store. I need to paint it up but it should have some nice jungle features added to it. Lastly I've been getting a kind of generatorum complex together using humus containers and hot glue and sequins...

So in the immortal words of Adam Sandler... What the hell happened to me? Well there haven't been many developments in 40k lately since playing against and losing  to eldar really sapped my playing mojo. but just because I haven't been playing doesn't mean i haven't been busy... The majority of my time has been spent building terrain. So will start with the WIP.

Been working on the terrain for the home table and made some progress on the aquision of a KDK army. The cohort of the ninth gate. Its gonna take a while to work through this. terminators, 20 cultists, chosen (counts as possessed, still thinking about some conversions) and 8 bloodletters. Was thinking of making this building a chapel. or impressive imperial admin building. i tried putting a little battlement on the outer roof but it needs more pizzaz. i did carve the imperial eagle head that is kind of acting as a gargoyle.

So i have some new terrain projects up and running. First up is the one i've made the most progress on the Hydrostation Powerdam, or the latin equivalent of that phrase. I have always been inspired by this project on warseer, and the acid dam from the 6th ed rule book.

Aboard their spacehulk the Oblivion Scream, there is a host of demonkin, bloodsworn brothers, known as the brotherhood of the Ninth Gate. Their grand mission is to carve a bloody swath across the galaxy so great that the demons of khorne may bathe in the blood oceans, and skull moons shall orbit the sites of predations. Herein lie the cronicles of their misdeeds and terrible crimes of depavity and bloodshed. In honor of the esteemed Dr. Hemlock i give you a little mood setting music with an apt title,

While the Dark Angels are always the champions of humanity the threat to humanity is everchanging and ever present. I have decided that I need a badguy army and I am encouraged by the new demonkin rules and picked up a demon army here are some WIP pics.

All this campaign and battle report stuff has got me a little burned out so I started working on these guys and my table terrain in order to recover from burnout. I have been planning to try to work on an Azreal - Ezekiel command - squad drop pod bomb. I combined a sternguard and dark angels vets box.  in the background is the company banner , a termie librarian, and termie chaplian.  Front Row: 4th Company Veterans Back Row: Interregator Chaplain Virilius, Librarian Aggripus, and Brother Bethor, holding the Company Banner  Here we see some deatil shots of Brother Bethor in conversation with other members of the Inner Circle, Turmiel, Azreal, and Chaplain Pious. I'll post up more progress as this project develops.

I was thinking that it might be useful to be able to describe things/battles based on more than just their orientation to the hive cities. So these maps serve to give a sense of the names of some of the  geography of the locations around the world map.

Here is the nearly finished Castellum Stronghold. The turret mounts aren't finished yet but the whole thing is a lot less pink so thats an improvement. Here is the overview of the entire thing.

Heres the newest progress on the Castellum Stronghold. I hope to start painting this week.

There's been quite a bit of progress since the last update. I cleared off the sand that had covered the terrain boards and coated them with primer. One of the mistakes that I made was that I only placed glue on the underside of the table squares, then i primed the table grey. Unfortunately the surface layer of sand was still too loose so I added another PVA/elmers glue layer. Table before adding more glue to the surface, but after priming.

After aborting a campaign that I had tried to initiate earlier this year, events have conspired to make it possible again. I reworked the map and since I don't have the planetary empires stuff I thought it would be good to set out my own world map. Here it is. Northern Continent of Umbral with the countries of Phobosia (red), and Terras (blue). Southern Continent of Umbral with the coutries of Mellaj(green), and Alta (white).

Been putting a lot of work in on the table. I have been able to plaster over the hill and a couple other surfaces to give a rocky effect, once its painted. Bark embedded in the plaster to give a rock effect.

Currently while on the job hunt I've been working on developing my own realm of battle board and castellum stronghold. I haven't made much progress on the apocalypse battle report yet but perhaps that's next up. Early Castellum stronghold.

Final painting vow complete. Whew. Everything submitted could probably use some touchups, but I feel like they can be prettied up later. First a group shot. Command Squad Company Master Deathwing Knights

Hey so I was working on the model for the company master and after some edits to the extras I threw on the model I have started painting him. Here's where I am so far. All extras are magnetized so i can change his arms/weapon loadout in the future. The Jump pack and cape are also magnetized.

So I've been producing a lot of painting recently for a communal painting competition on the Bolter and Chainsword forum. This will be my final vow for the competition 5 man Deathwing command squad, 5 man Deathwing Knights, and I decided I needed a real new Company Master model for Indomiel (essentially the Captain of the 4th company).  So here's the initial models. Here is the terminator portion of the vow, the DWK are still on sprues. Here we have Indomiel, Co. Master of the 4th company. The arms are magnetized, and I was thinking about magnetizing the jump pack. This loadout gives Idomiel 5 attacks on the charge and the chance to swing at initive 5 with strength 4 and shred, or Init 1 and strength 8. I've also modeled him with a displacer field (3++), the cloak of heros (shrouding while solo, and 5+FNP), and an iron halo. May need to edit him a little bit and remove the Icon on his jump pack. I used the legs from the ravenwing biker sergent. Unfortunately they...

So here's something I've been working on over the past few weeks. I finally feel that it has come to completion. First we have a group shot.

Another thing I've been working on has been the walls of the Rasputin Forge compound. There are eight identical sections. Inside there will be the refinery entrance, the generator relay and the generator control node. Here are the walls them selves.