Epic Dark Angels Loaner Army

          Epic Armageddon is a gaming system hanging on by the community. I have started a Dark Angels army to use as a teaching and loaner army. The drop pods paint up nicely.

          I have molded up the GW drop pods. They want a retarded amount of coin for 2. I poured out the bottom. Assemble the top part and poured each one separately. By using a Smooth On rubber that stretches 250% before tearing and then having very thin wall to the mold. They pop right out.
           Yeah, Yeah the rules do say one drop pod per detachment. Our house rules are 1 pod for every 2 stands. It does clog up the board but we think it represents the drop pods far better.

28mm Roman Auxilia

          Finally. The last 9 Auxilia are finished. That completes 3 battle groups of  19 plus 7 command minis. Two spears to glue on. Here they are resting in the foam waiting to be shipped.

Thursday Night gaming

          Another game of Net EA. This time Pat and his wife popped by and my wife's mother was over. Freddie showed up also. In all my years of playing I never had no chics ask me nothing about any game. Both the girls were interested in how the game was played.
         Julia only speaks Spanish, I don't, and all the rules are in English. She seemed to understand enough to get through an activation. Pat's wife did want to throw any dice, but seemed to show a lot of interest.

          This is the first time we have fought solely over/in a city. I used model train railroad bed foam stuff for the roads. I did have enough FW roads. They are almost impossible to find. The buildings are mostly FW, JR, or Gamecraft.

          We played the Total War City fight scenario.  It can be found on TacCom here; http://www.taccmd.tacticalwargames.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21344 Only change being the deployment zones. We choose the corner set up as my dining room table is too narrow. Looking back, 3000 point is way to big for that table. Also the river was a bad idea. It completely limited our tactical movement.
          I deployed on the Church side. Freddie took the other with his Fists. I played BAs with the stormravens. Once again the stormravens failed to activate the first two turns. My death company failed every saving throw. That ensured Pat an easy win when Fred had to leave. 3 to 2.

          There are only 2 pictures. Both of the table set up before deployment. This is because we were smacking glasses early. One day we will get a proper battle report.

Ahhhh Cardhu!

          Cardhu is one of my all time favorites. There were years when I could not get any.  I had to bring back as much as I could carry from London. Once we moved to the Hudson Valley, I can't go any where without tripping over a bottle.

Pat carried over a bottle of Bruichladdich "Rock." Never heard of it before, nor seen it. It's not bad. I don't think I would ever buy a bottle.  The finish is very fruity. It's just not my kind of favor.

Stormravens

           Progress. Highlighting weapons and engines. Plus I changed the shade of darker red. The 3rd in the detachment is coming along. I have been chipping away at these while my 28mm dry.

          Also I finally got to prime up the last two detachments for the Space Wolves. These are the second run at them. The first where porked by humidity during priming. I tried to clean them, purple power, simple green, gas. Nothing would get the primer out of the smallest details.

They are GW plastic, metal, and characters with customer SW termies from England.

Heating Oil

          Our hot water was coming off the boiler. We use heating oil. Ha Ha Rugs.

          We now have electric hot water. I didn't have a an existing water heater. It was crazy easy to install. Even hacking my way thru the wallboard.
          I cut out the oil boiler. Shark bites were used to cap it off. I did not have to run all new Cu. Only 5 feet, in the wall and down to an existing line. Then I covered all the hot water lines in foam.

What saved me flat out is shark bites. They are the balls. You only need to cut out 17mm of an existing pipe and have a little flex. Shark bites are reusable. If you mess up they pop right back off. They cost a mint, but with the frequency water heaters fail and the fact I keep getting older shark bites are well worth it.

Stormravens

          My A.D.D. is in full swing. I mount the Stormravens. Then started picking out the details. Just using a darker red was not bring out the fine details of the mini. I choose to go old school, back to the days of the BAs with yellow weapons and black panels.
          I was having a bad chipping problem. All those square, sharp edges were getting chipped some how. So I polyurethane the mothers. I will have to spray a matte finish on them before I can continue.

Thursday Night gaming

Canceled! I got stuck at work until 7:30. Only thing to do is drink scotch and block in some Auxilia.