40K Khorne World Eaters Daemon Engines

         I could not even begin to tell you what half of these things are. More so exactly what they are meant to be. Some where between Ork, Medieval, Dwarf, & Steam Punk technology, and some thing to put more skulls on.

        30 years later GW shits something that is a properly developed idea and is little scary. A dark mech blending of flesh, tech, and warp to create a monstrous insane killing thing. With no God Dam Skulls! I am printing up a bunch of these beasts. Then failure.

Blood Reaper. 
     Another GW concept born from heavy drug use. Either the drugs were use in the design or both in the design and approval process. A cross between steam punk and heavy metal. It is not terrifying. I can't even say what it is meant to be. It is cover in skulls.
     Once again it appears to be powered be a steam boiler. It has wooden wheels again. Or solid metal wheels. They are too small and narrow to support the weight. The massive exhaust stacks are for burning wood? The piston driven arms are to articulate or absorb the recoil from the weapon, and external hoses. Its terrible! What else can you say?
         I got a set of 6 from the primarch load sale. List as pro painted, not so much. Nor did they match. I took the best looking one and repainted them all to match.

Lord of Battle

        Yet again a lost design concept. An ancient Bull God propelled by a track system which is pushing giant scrap metal wheels. There are motorcycle type exhaust pipes one top of the track system, but nothing or no combustable engine. It is an Ork or Dwarf steam punk design feature. The weapons are piston recoil controlled? Massive non-collapsable hoses every where. There are giant hydraulic pistons in back that do what exactly? Nothing representing of flesh and metal infused with a demon. And there are skulls every where.

        Another Primarch load sale item. Each where 50% less than eBay prices. So a two for 1 deal, sort of. I painted them to match the Blood Reapers. The bases will all get done at the same time. I won't be copying the original Blood Reaper bases.

        Forge World originals. I had only 5 for some reason. The come in packs of 3. One has to be lost somewhere. I got another FW single from the Primarch load sale. Then quickly lost that one. Dumb, dumber, and taking pills to be more extra dummy.
        There is a lot going on with these fighters. Overly detailed. I tried to slick it down some.

Photon S LCD issues

          I got my Photon in mid-May. It has been running non stop since arrival. About a 1000hrs and 1.5 liters or resin. The FEP screen was replaced around 600 hrs. 

          First problem was a failed print which cover the build area, like the entire LCD went active. Next some items on the plate half printed. Then nothing printed. Troubleshooting led to this

          The LCD fails the exposure test. As you can see the LCD is putting out, just not the pattern for the test. I ordered a new LCD and put in a service request with AnyCubic as I am under warranty.

          The line look like a connection problem. I opened it up and went to check the cable. AnyCubic looks to have had connection problems in the past. Every connection is hot glued in place. The ribbon cable for the LCD is 3M taped in 3 places.
         After unplugging and reconnecting everything. It pasted a screen test on the bench. I put it back together and moved over to the printing station. Then tried to get a picture of a passing test. Failure again.

        So now I am thinking; 1.) a bad cable 2.) a grounding issue 3.) shit design

But I have stopped, as I am under warranty. Waiting on AnyCubic to reply.

Update

        My thinking was wrong. It is heat related. The printer has sat off for >24hrs. After doing nothing, only turning it on, the exposure test passes. Continues to pass. I am going to upgrade the cool fan.

Horus Heresy World Eaters "left overs"

        Left overs. The things I did not want to finish. They remained in my travel kit, never seeing and love.

          It is a beast. Have no idea what it is called. It does not fit together very well. One side was warped beyond repair. I have another copy and it is the same. I did lose whatever weapon system goes on top. This one is a skinner original.

        I may need a detachment of assault marines for IWC. I printed up two groups. One in Mark III armor and current raptor dudes. The Mark III were scaled down from 8 to 6mm. The raptors were scaled down from 28mm.

       Mine don't look as cool as these dudes. The printed versions are not any where close to as nice as  China Forge. I will have to get some china forge assault marines.

        The demons came out great. These are not great. They will be place holders until something better is found. Maybe the raptors will work. They will be next.

30K Horus Heresy World Eaters Demons part II

        I should be done with Demons. Last 10 stands and greater demon are completed.

        The greater demon is not GW. Their demons look terrible. I don't know where this dude came from. I think he is 10 or 15mm scale. I curved up a base so the damage point die would travel around with the great demon. Nothing looks like cheating, like moving die counter around.

16 stands of blood letters.

Blood Thirster greater demon.

French World Eaters Vs Sisters 3500 point

Sisters 2 - World Eaters 1

Blitz & TSNP  to  BTS

        Another practice game for the 2020 IWC. I need practice games. The list needs to be razor sharp. The list turn in deadline is August.
         The EU has shut out US visitors for plague numbers. We are still 4 months away. Hopefully they will be allowing US visitors by then?

        Kal brought out a turned up Sisters list to punish my current thought train. And punish me he did. I was grossly out activated. At the end of turn 1,  I watched 7 activations go off back to back.      
       A good testing. As I will surely see pop corn lists and be out activated in some games. I sit currently at 11 activations. We spoke afterwards about trimming the fat, getting activations in without giving up threat flexibility, and some turn 1 activation cutting.

My List
Berzerkers, LoW, Rhinos, Stalker            400 (BTS)
Berzerkers, Icon Bear                               300
Berzerkers, DreadClaw, Icon Bearer        350
Terminators, Icon Bearer, Demon Prince 400
Terminators, Icon Bearer                          225
Predators, +2                                             275
Cannons of Khrone                                   325
Demons (8)                                               175
Demons (8)                                               175
Greater Demon                                         200
Hell Blade                                                200
Hell Talon                                                 225
SpaceCraft                                                200

Kal's list

Objectives And Garrisons
         This was error number one. I placed the objectives too tightly packed for an opponent that out numbered me. This naturely created a concentration of force. I would have been enveloped, if not for the board edge. My objectives should have been spread out.

 Turn 1
         I held the Space craft, DreadClaw, and both terminator detachments for turn 2. Kal had filled his deployment zone. There was not a target of opportunity that was survivable for the Terminators.
         I should have taken the smaller Terminator detachment and teleported onto the right flank. The summoned demons would become an independent formation (french rule), boosted activations and soaked up an overwatch garrison.

The RF garrison moved up and the predators broke them. This set the Predators up for a turn two engagement.

 Kal's air wing splashed my bombers and picked on the garrisoned Berserkers. My fighters laid blast markers on the right flank garrisoned detachment.

End of turn 1

 Turn 2
         The dice flipped on me. Orbital bomb hits 8 stands and kills one! Detachment after detachment saw next to no saves.

Turn 3

 Kal breaks the Cannons and secures Blitz.

 My BTS takes a beating fails to activate, fails to save Blitz, but takes T&H away.

 The terminators also fail denied TSPN.

end of the game

Sisters 2  -  World Eaters 1

Blitz & TSNP  to  BTS

2020 Yearly Plans and Goals half year report

Paint, Sell, and stop buying collections or armies.

        **** No buying terrain. Only painting what I have.
        **** No buy armies or collections.
        **** Sell off the dust collecting items

         Well I bought a Salamander army. Other than that, I have stayed true.

Year's Goals

Build a Wargaming Table    Completed

       I have the plans, the space, and only time is needed. This will be the largest draw on time this year. First the rug will have to be removed. Then the floor tiled. Because once it is built what do I do with it? Finally build a 7 x 5 table that is splittable into 2.5 x 7, with storage.

****Two wooden drafting tables were secured and converted into a gaming table. The table is 6 x 5 feet. (7 feet would not fit in the current location. That location will change in the second half of the year.) Along the sides rails were built to hold the Geo-Hex in place. Storage has been added under the table.

Host Games    Completed

        Host games at the house. GM a game or two at Fall In, FoF and Warmaster/Hail Caesar ancients

****In house games are being hosted and new players inducted. No Con games GM-ed due to the plague

Paint 1100+ Minis
        This year I want to beat last year's record of 1100+ painted. There were large chunks of last year where nothing got done. If I use my time more wisely, the amount minis and armies I can get done? The speed painting skills have improved. This should be easy.

**** Greater than 700 have been painted to date. I should be able to complete the goal by 31Dec.

3D printing    Completed

       Sell the current printers. Replace the filament printer with a Prussia. Begin to print off terrain. Replace the SLR printer with something that does not eat consumables.

**** Both printers were sold off. The money from the sale more than covered the purchase of a Photon S. I have been printing dudes since it arrived.

Tables

       Completely rebuild the spare GW table. I want to create a custom river GW board.

**** In process

       Rehab the GW FW city fight board. It has taken a beating both the board and the buildings. I will need to make one custom tile. Then link up all the roads with each tile. The buildings will get insert bases for the gaps between the roads. The buildings themselves will get all the chips repaired.

****In process

       Build a Sengoku table.

       Start to build fences from ACW.

Painting Project Priority

1.) 10mm Ancients
2.) 15mm ACW
3.) Samurai

**** A large number of Ancients were painted.
****15mm ACW was to start in the second half of the year. That will be delayed as I paint Sallies and World Eaters for IWC in France.
**** No Samurai minis were done. Only a few terrain pieces.

Secondary projects
Warmaster Chaos
20mm Modern
20mm Sudan Anglo-Egyptain

****
I will be selling the Chaos army. It will never see the table.
A shit ton of 20mm Moderns were painted. Most the buildings were rehab and vehicles were added.
Only the slave market minis were painted.