W.A. Rorie's Gaming Blog: Badab Campaign

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Upcoming Projects #1

So I thought I create a list of Upcoming Projects I have running through my head.

Age of Sigmar

So I am slowly devilling into AoS. I will be building an Army of Stormcast Eternals based around the Dominion models and Ven Brecht's Black Watch. The Dominion models I am getting in trade so it works out for me.

40K

Drukhari/ Cult of Strife-
I still need the codex and cards and I have the Drukhari half of Piety and Pain to build plus, 3 more Reaver jet bikes and Druzhar to build. Maybe a few more things here and there and the army will be done....once painted. Built models are primed and need gloss coat and armor color airbrushed. I highly doubt I'll ever play this army. Smallest Army I own

Adepta Sororitas/ Order of the Valorous Heart-
I have lots to build still. And a few things to purchase Need to highlight armor and prep for color layers. One of the armies that will always be expanding.

Grey Knights/ 7th Brotherhood-
Lots more to build, lots more to paint, and lot to convert. The more I think of about this army the more I wished I had more Daemon opponents. By far the largest of my Armies and oddly enough the most completed models and is actually playable.

Adeptus Astartes/ Raptors Kill Team 7-
Part of my Bolter & Chainsword vow. I need to build and complete the last few members. I may slowly continue working on them but it is highly doubtful. I am just not a fan of the direction GW is taking Space Marines. Or I am just bitter Scouts are an elite choice.

Necromunda

Redemptionist-
The Necromunda gang I always wanted to play but didn't get to cause our games would end before the rules were released. House of Faith being released will see me converting Cawdor to the Redemptionist Crusade.

Friday, February 26, 2021

Kill Team Friday Post

Tomorrow Pre-Orders Go Live for

With that I'm looking at my Team 7 Raptors Kill Team for the Back to Badab Campaign on Bolter and Chainsword.

Back to Badab Kill Team - Raptors Team 7

Sternguard Sgt "Topkick" Lynch- Specialism-Leader, Special issue Bolter, Chainsword
Sgt "Slaphammer" Fairchild- Specialism- Comms, bolter auspex
Brother "Bulleteer" Chang- bolter
Brother "Deathblow" Cray- Specialism- Heavy, heavy bolter
Brother ""Dead Eye" Cash- scout, sniper rifle

I have plans to build the next 5 Members of the team

Vanguard Sgt "Backlash" Slayton- Specialism- Combat (some games)*-2 Lightning Claws
Veteran Brother "Arclight" Dane- plasma gun, chainsword
Veteran Brother Blaze- Special Issue bolter
Veteran Brother "Wraparound" Callahan- Bolter, Chainsword
Brother "Cyberjack" Rhodes and Brother "Bolo Round" MacNamara- Shotgun

* depending on games/ opponent, I can rotate specialist depending on mood or situation. Realistically my 3 Specialist would be Cray, Cash and Slayton but I really like the Comms ability so Fairchild is going to have to take one of those spots.

There are some touch ups and little things I want to do still, such as giving them warpaint like they had in the comics.

Arclight Dane

Backlash Slayton

Bulleteer Chang

Dead Eye Cash

Deathblow Cray

Slaphammer Fairchild

Topkick Lynch

Wraparound Callahan

If I build the 5 extra men, I'll be at 10 models. So I thnk I would add Scout Gunner with Heavy Bolter as "Bad Moon' Diaz, Company Veteran "Wraparound" Callahan. That makes 12 members of Team 7. To hit the 20 I think I would add Inquistor Eisehorn as Director Miles Craven and I think I would do Internal Operations Black Razors as Scouts with bolters (5 man), Sgt Bolt pistol and Chainsword, and Scout with a missile launcher

Monday, February 1, 2021

Maniac Monday #17- Air Superiorty!

Another weekend over and done with. At least this week was a four day weekend for me. Thursday I spent waiting for locksmith and Heating Repair companies. Thursday evening I began working on a new project for my Grey Knights. I was able to order some spray paints for GW (leadbelcher) so I am waiting for those to arrive in 3 weeks time (Yeah ground shipping..)

Friday, Hit the gym for an hour or so, bought groceries and meet my Friend Entropmancer at the local warhammer store between our houses. I needed to meet up with him to give him his Dreampod 9 Heavy Gear Southern Army Starter from our group order. Also one of the other guys in our group had bought a ton of primaris stuff from me, so I dropped that off too, plus all my Imperial Fist/ Crimson Fist bits too. While at the GW Store, I picked up 1 can leadbecher, 1 can Wraithbone, 1 can Chaos black, and 1 can Zandri Dust. Then to the Parents, I went, to build their chicken coop. 1 hr and 45 minutes later I was on the way home. I found more primaris stuff and 3 Elysian Drop Sentinels, all unbuilt.

When I got home, I fired up the Wood Pellet grill to make dinner. Ribeyes, mushrooms, baked potatoes and brussel sprouts. After dinner the GF and I cleaned up the house a little in preparation of out furniture delivery. I posted up the Priamris stuff to my local group and got a buyer. I posted the 3 Sentinels on Ebay and proceeded to continue cleaning for a bit. Within a few hours they had sold. I did some work on the new project then went to bed.

Saturday morning I got up and went to play paintball with my teammates and to celebrate our late Teammate Rudy's Birthday (he would have been 41 on 1/31). Furniture delivery did not go as planned. We were expecting a recliner one of our 2 couches and king bed. No couches were delivered. the GF and I then ran to pick our new bed frames and found out one of the ones I ordered that was listed "In Stock" was not actually in stock and would not be until June 2021.....and of course it was the King Bed frame not the full. I cancelled my order for that frame and bought another frame from a store across the street for less and was what I actually wanted (no wheels). Then the GF and I met up with my nieces and sister and did some shopping with them. We arrived back home had dinner cleaned up a little bit and washed the new bedding for the new bed. Once that was done we made the bed and called it a day.

Sunday I got up made breakfast and packaged up the 3 Sentienls to drop off at the 24 USPS location. My GF and left the house to go have lunch with Rudy's widow, his daughter, and our friend Doug to celebrate Rudy's birthday. It was good seeing them. After lunch the GF and I went back home. we decided while I was smoking ribs that we would just sit around and relax. I resumed working on the my new project and before I knew it, the Grey Knights New Stormhawk Interceptor was completed.

Not sure what I will start next week. But I need to put the stormbolters on my terminator squad still.

Monday, July 6, 2020

Manic Monday #4

So my work schedule has me doing 40 hrs really quickly with 3 12 hr shifts Monday to Wednesday and a 4 hr filler shift early Thursday morning (1:45 am to 5:45am). So I normally go home nap Thursday morning then go out and buy groceries for the week and go visit my parents. Well this past week I did not have to come in Thursday morning and got to my parents earlier. While there I airbrushed my first wash for the Predator, Scout Bikes, and Land Speeders and I started looking at my unbuilt pile of shame I had stored there. I jokingly told a friend I probably have enought to make a 3 army of stuff after assigning the models to Raptors and Black Templars. I am pretty sure I could build an Imperial Fists army pretty easy with the amount of models unbuilt I have....Like why do I have 20 Hell Blasters or 12 Inceptors. But that has to wait unitl I finish the current project: Grey Knights and Raptors.

With 9e approaching quickly I have shifted from working on my Grey Knights to more of my Raptors. I really dont want to have to build that many terminators. I probably have almost 30 terminators for my Grey Knight unbuilt. Plus I thought painting individual heradly was bad....nope just tedious. I knew what the worst part of the hobby was but man did it suck. More on this later. Plus until we see the adjusted Power Levels and Points the Grey Knights are severly lacking compared to every other army. My 25 Power Level relates to 365 pts, Brotherhood Champion, 2 5 man strike squads and an apothecary terminator. But if you compare it to my Raptors at 25 Power Level/ 506 points and 527 points respectively with the main core being phobos captain, infiltrator squad, and scout squad and either scout bike squad and Predator for the 527 pt list or having 3 suppressors , 3 eliminators, and Imperial Space Marine for 506 pts. Yeah Power Level and Grey Knights are way off.

So with me having the extra time off, and my normal duties done I started back up working on my "Back to Badab" Kill Team. when I last left them I was not far off from completion. Just a few more highlights, bases and they were done. Missing Slings for the Sniper Rifle and Comms Sgt's bolter.

So then I started the project I've been dreading........DECALS.

After a few hours I was able to complete the Decaling task.....for now.

Light Industries Decals were used for some of the Raptor logos and Tactical markings. Chapter Customizer (Follow the Chapter Customizer link at the bottom of Fallout Hobbies' page) for Smaller Raptor Logos and Comamnd Staff Decals. Ginfritter Gnomish Workshop for Company and Squad number markings. And Finally some GW decals were used for command and squad desgination markings. Micro sol and Micro set were a life saver. Decaling SUCKS.

After completing this task, I finished the hobby weekend by building the last 2 Suppressors completing the Vangaurd Section of Shadowspear and then built 5 incursors from a box I am Splitting with a friend.

And I ordered more decals but this time from the Mighty Brush. And since Objective counters are on 40mm bases and I have no clue where my land Speeder bases are, I ordered more bases and stands for them.

Monday, June 29, 2020

Manic Monday #3- Massive Raptors Update

The Raptors Chapter has been a long time Favorite of mine since I saw them while playing the Fire Warrior Game. One of the reasons I love them is the their paint scheme and use of Camo. Some of my favorite miniatures where the pewter scouts from years past. I still have a lot of them but I may use them for another army where they will look better.

So Years ago I built a Scout Army and painted them OD Green. After a while I sold them. I regretted selling them as there was alot of cool conversions and scenic forest bases. It was a fun army but I had an eye on something else.

Fast forward a few years ago, I was thinking of building an Arbites army and had a bunch of plastic scouts boxes sitting around. And Betrayl of Calth came out. So I threw my hat in the ring to try and build Emperors Children. Eventually that fade went away and I saw all my scouts. I decided to rebuild my Scout Army as offically Raptors and begin toiling away. At the start of 8th Edition I got to play for the first time since mid way through 6th edition. It was small 750 pt game of My Crimson Fists vs my friends Dark Angels. I ended up winning barely. The next time I would play would be my Raptors 10th Co in a mini Campaign for My Gaming Group. While going 1-1-1 was not the start I was going for it I did field a painted army that drew alot of attention from other people in the store and was deemed the most difficult army to deal with. I continued working on my Raptors and eventually burned out. I found The Mighty Brush and was amazed at Luther's Raptor army.

Looking over at my models I was embrassed and felt like I was using a Big Crayon to paint with. And honestly I quit on myself and painting. Occassionaly I would pick up the brush to paint something here or there but just did not have my heart in it. The past few months have been tough, lost few friends to death last year, my GF's dad passed, and then Covid Hit......

My GF suggested that I work on some models as stress relief. I resumed working on my Grey Knights cause they had most of their stuff built. While painting I got back into the Bolter and Chainsword Ravenspire group as they are Best Group of individuals on there. I entered 3 painting Challenges on the B&C and currently sitting at 2 of the 3 completed

Lockdown Painitng Challenge