new player enters the battle

prepare yourselves for 500pt of tau empire ready to kick some ass.

Dire Avengers WIP

So after a while I started painting minis again. I decided to finish up 500 points of Eldar before doing anything else.

Since I already own a battleforce, I will be painting that and a HQ unit to be able to hold battles with this army. I think after doing Eldar I will try and paint 500 pts of Chaos, but that will be decided later on.

With the Eldar I'm going to finish the Dire Avengers before doing the Vehicles and HQ. Since I'm doing Ulthwé craftworld, my brother had an awesome idea to paint certain parts of their armor black to keep the scheme even though the dire avengers will still be blue.

Anyways, I'm posting some pics for comments... Hoping to have something more for sunday's battle. I haven't done any touch ups on the minis, so they still have a few screw ups here and there...

Space Marine Captain

Ok I'm almost done with the AoBR Space Marines. Just a little touches and the base and space marine captain is done. So here he is. His eye was a lot smaller than the other space marines and eldar so I had to be extra careful... and retouch way too many times. If you click on the image you can see a larger version and probably see the eye haha.

Here I think it looks better, I also painted the lower part of the U on the shoulder.
The cape I thought was going to be harder but just with three tones looks passable :D
and a couple of group pictures

What do you guys think?

Battle Report ork+necron vs space marines

Ok so, here goes my first battle report. It happened last weekend so I might not remember some details.

Before I start I want to show off my new battle mat! :P I bought that and some trees and now our battles look a little bit better. Hopefully our little group might make some more for the next encounters.

Our battle was 2000 points of space marines (including a spearhead of walkers) versus 1000 points of orks and 1000 points of necrons. I used the space marines. Woroxon used the orks and Raidengard used the necrons. We decided to try another battle mission and chose surprise attack from the battle missions book. Necrons and Orks deployed on the inside, each unit 6 inches from each other. Space Marines deployed from all around and this is how it looked like:

Space Marines always go first on that mission so they had a lot of targets to choose from. After the dust settled a lot of orks died and no Necron was touched. Orks and Necrons then decided to kill space marines. A bike, dreadnought, a speeder and a bunch of terminators didn't make it to the second round.
Third round the space marines finished up most of the boys and managed to kill one necron immortal. Scarabs proceeded to finish up all the dreadnoughts.

All boys are now dead but Ork boss killed the terminators, necrons are finishing off the remaining space marines.

The end looked like this, all space marines are to be removed from the field by the end of the next turn so we decided to end it there.
Things looking grim for the last 3 space marines.
Hope you liked it