Mike's Terrain

So I've been looking into creating my own terrain. I've searched all around an finally found trees suitable and cheap. I've asked the red shirts how they make their terrain and they base theirs on some sort of board that they get at Home Depot so if it's cheap I'll probably get it.

I guess home depot also sells plywood in 8'x4' sections as a standard. I figure cut it into 2'x 4' sections and put hinges on them and I'll have myself a somewhat portable table. For grass on that table I can buy a mat from the hobby shop on grafton st where ian got his static grass.

That's also the place I bought 6 trees from for $1.85 each which is sweet since GW is $40 for a forest. They then recommended I check out Loomis and Toles for foam board which is sweet since they beat any other store by $2. They sell huge sheets for $4.85. It's so big that I made a bunker using 1/5 of the material.

Here are the trees. They are huge. That's the Nightbringer hiding behind one about to kill a space marine. I love that they will be big enough to hide tanks.

Here are pics of the bunker. I haven't glued the door on yet but it's a hatch for a Rhino. I think I'll be adding a few more things to it, mostly vehicle related. I also plan to paint it eventually.

Mike's CSM army and pics

So I bought a bunch of CSM stuff from some guy and here's what I got:

HQ:
Daemon Prince
Abaddon
Ahriman
Kharn
Typhus
Lord
Sorcerer
2 Lords on Juggernauts

Troops:
30 marines
24 Plague marines
5 Noise marines
9 Thousand Sons
40 Berzerkers
3 Rhinos

Elites:
3 Dreadnaughts
10 Terminators
5 Possessed marines

Fast Attack:
11 Bikers
7 Raptors
1 Spawn

Heavy Support:
4.5 Defilers
2 Obliterators
Land Raider
2 Greater Daemons

Old Models:
2 Predators
3 Obliterators
2 Daemon Prince
10 Daemons
5 Raptors
10 Plague marines

Mike's gaurd painted

I only have the basilisk, baneblade, and 3 guys who came with those tanks. My paint scheme is going to be based off the cadian 8th, only mine will be the cadian 517th since I love that number, that and 5. Both are prime numbers and represent my birthday May 17th. Neither tank is done yet but they are done enough to show off.

Mike Army Update

Necrons:
HQ: 2 lords, 2 Ctan, 1 destroyer lord
Elites: 10 immortals, 4 pariahs, 10 flayed ones
Troops: 80 warriors
Fast: 20 scarabs, 6 destroyers, 3 wraiths
Heavy: 3 monoliths, 3 heavy destroyers, 1 spyder

Space Marines:
HQ: Captain, Chaplain
Elites: 22 terminators, 4 dreadnaughts
Troops: 130 space marines, a bunch with weapon options
Fast: 2 land speeders, 1 attack bike, 6 bikes, 20 assault marines
Heavy: Land raider, 2 vindicators, 1whirlwind, 1 predator
Transports: drop pod, 6 rhinos, 1 razorback

CSM:
HQ: Ahirman, Tyhpus, Kharne, Abaddon, daemon prince
Elites: 10 terminators, 3 dreadnaughts
Troops: 9 thousand sons, 28 plague, 42 berzerkers, 3 noise, 30 marines
Fast: 7 raptors, 11 bikes, 1 spawn, 10 daemons
Heavy: land raider, 2 obliterators, 2 greater daemons
Transports: 2 rhinos

ME AGAIN

hey

well in case your wondering how in the holy sweet hell am i goin to paint all this stuff i got a perfect answer for you. several of the players up here are damn good painters and im far to busy to do it my self. i will paint my tanks however but im terribly slow at painting infantry. so i commissioned 3 people to paint. they themselves are 40k players and i had a lot of extra stuff so i traded it for painting. except for one who is very close to home and has a knack for painting and has offered to paint some of the models her self. it is of course my lovely Samantha. ask brad how good she can paint.

her hobby is painting and she hasnt been able to practice for a while. she offered before to paint but i thought she was high. until this christmas. i came home from brads place to find some of my models out of place as well as my paint and brushes. i was a little annoyed thinking my brother was fucking around with them (he thinks 40 k is gay but i think he is just hiding his own gayness!!). upon closer examination to my sheer amazment, one of my kasrkin sargents was full painted!!!!!! professionally painted. it was as if a gw worker had painted it. i damn near had a heart attack right there!!! she said "are you angry i painted your models?" to which i replied "ANGRY, ANGRY HELL NO I AINT ANGRY IM FUCKING EXTATIC!!!!! IM GOIN TO MARRY YOU!!!!!!!"

so now with theese new models ,most importantly the 7 kasrkin squads, she has offered and is currently painting them. and fast holy flyin frig fast!!!!!!!! i might aswell be goin backwards my friends.


IN OTHER NEWS

IM GOIN OT BE ON THIS BASE FOR A LONG WHILE. MY CONTRACT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TILL 31 MAR O9. WERE I WILL THEN SIGN A 3 YEAR CONTRACT. AND WITH THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO GET MY OWN PLACE. WHICH I WILL THEN CONVERT THE BASEMENT IN TO MY 40K/MAGIC ROOM. ASWELL I AM CURRENTLY ON MY ARMY COMMUNICATIONS COURSE. (radios) SO NO FIELD FOR A MONTH.

also i have finally found people who play APOCALYPSE. im finallyt goin to be able to bring my "IRON CHILDREN" (baneblades brad try to stay focused) to battle. and i have my second APOCALYPSE game on saturday 23 jan. hhooooooorrrraaaaahhhh

well boyz i iwll talk at yal later and keep you updated as always

peace out and all that

JMS