Thunderhawk - Soon to be a Heresy Blood Angels Thunderhawk...

So this happened today. Got a good deal on it from a friend and it's assembled. Will eventually be a ride for my Blood Angels. Heck, most of them can fit in it. Thought. Whoever assembled it did an ok job, but it still needs plenty of love. The Space Penis Cannon fell off on the ride home, and now I know whether he pinned anything or not. On the bright side that gave me the idea to replace the Space Penis with a Turbolaser. Also, the nose heavy bolters are derpy as all getout. I'm thinking I'll replace them with mk II landraider sponsons so it looks more like the new Thunderhawk master. Mk. III crew, obviously. Assorted Aquillas gotta go. Taking off refueling probe because it's just going to break off anyway. Also does anyone know what the deal with the angled fins above the main wings is? They don't make a whole lot of sense. Are they an artifact of the insane old metal version where they perhaps served as structural supports? They look like they are intented to move. I guess I can deal with them. I think I would like to at least change the orientation of the Las Cannons. Landing gear are down. Should I leave them as is or put them up and mount it on a big weighted flying base?

It will definitely be a few months before I event start this! 

Hey look at me, I took some mediocre photos and put them on the interwebs! 1500 points of Heresy Blood Angels 5th company. Land Raiders and stuff to come.

NOVA Open Charity Auction - Mechanicum Vultarax Stratos

Time for another Nova Charity Raffle! I teamed up with Dave Taylor to create two Horus Heresy armies for this year's raffles. Dave headed up a team painting this beautiful Sons of Horus army and he wrangled me into overseeing the team that painted this Mechanicum Army. I agreed under the condition that I could paint a Vultarax Stratos, because it is such a cool model. Big thanks to Dave, all the painters and the Nova Charity Foundation crew. Looking forward to breaking our record and raising lots of bucks. There are lots of other things in this year's raffles too, so check them out! Looking forward to seeing everyone at NoVa for beer, dice and Heresy!

NoVa Open Charity Auction: Ork Fighta

Hey Blog, long time no see. Time for another NoVa Charity Auction. Here is an Ork Fighta-Bommer/Dakka Smakker/Uruk-hai Space Nazi Blastamathing. It's yellow! It's part of an army being raffled off to benefit Doctors Without Borders.

Buy some tickets here. Or just live your life as a thoughtful, empathetic human being and treat others with kindness, that works for me too!

Alpha Legion Secret Recipe - 11 Herbs and Spices

I've had a lot of folks asking me lately for a step-by-step on how I painted my Alpha Legion. I posted this on the Heresy 30K forums a couple years ago, here is is again. It probably isn't as thorough as it could be but you are a bright bunch, you'll figure it out. You are welcome to copy my paint scheme exactly if you really want, but I think you will enjoy yourself more if you take bits and pieces from different sources, mutate them, and create your own look. Stealing plus changing equals creating.

2015 NoVA Open Charity Auction

Hey Guys,
Please support The NoVa Open Charity Auction if you can spare a buck or two. It features the work of many fantastic painters like Celso Méndez J, Dave Taylor, Justin McCoy and John Stiening. It is also your chance to win a model painted by me, so now is your chance Dad!

Tickets can be found here: http://novaopenfoundation.org/?tcp_product_category=raffle

Blog posts featuring each of the units in the armies can be found here:
http://novacf.blogspot.com

Old Line Massacre 2015

I hosted the second annual Old Line Massacre Horus Heresy in Maryland last weekend and it was a great weekend for all. Saturday was a 1000-1850-2150 point escalation campaign put together by me and Sunday was a day of Tactical Strike gaming run by my friends Ty and Jake. Thanks to everyone who attended! Here are The Scenarios and a whole bunch of photos.

Saturday Scenario Packet
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbQUkc_CyyzbXlSczhxTXJTcmM/view?usp=sharing

Xenos Weapon Cards (everyone got one between games two and three)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbQUkc_CyyzbVY5TXllNHBNamM/view?usp=sharing

Temporary Tattoos

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbQUkc_CyyzV212RXpTMzJDRWs/view?usp=sharing