Ghemehaal Annihilation video recap

Yesterday's hobby nite was truly FUN!!!

That was the best campaign experience ever in my life :)

I can't give away too much ..... you'll just have to wait for the video recap.

On that note I'd just like to give a big shout out to the awesome forgemaster Jeff the man Brooks. His videos for the campaign recap are truly the best there is out there. Without a shadow of a doubt.Great production and superb narration.

Let me share with you his production for Turn 1 and 2.





A big thank you to all those who showed up to make the night awesome!!!

Company HQ completed

My Company HQ is done :D !!!

I've included 3 bazooka teams for the HQ. In an all infantry list having extra anti tank elements is always prudent in my experience.

Next up is 1st platoon.

Currahee!!!

101st Airborne Division - Screaming Eagles

This post is dedicated to Hong Yip aka Cookie Yip.

Was in painting limbo until last Friday night. Started after I had completed painting my 2k points angels sanguine for the Ghemehaal campaign in September. Took a break for a while. Then had this over-whelming desire to paint but just didn't know what to paint. Worse was i couldn't find inspiration to paint anything.

Painted a test model emperor's children. Project for next year.

Painted the ancient stegadon. Lost interest.

Painted a DIY marine chapter. Lost interest.

Bought a dark eldar reaver and just completed one rider. Started on his bike but lost interest.

That was until Yip showed up at hobby night with his FOW US paratroopers company box set :)

Saturday morning, ransacked my hobby room to find these guys. In a forgotten box, in a very dark corner.

These are my US para models done in 2007. Wow...that's nearly 4 years ago....

They were my very first FOW infantry unit and i was new to the hobby :) Ugly bases huh...

Well, its Oct 2011 now. I've been in the hobby for some time now. A little bit wiser and learnt some skills along the way.

Had some spare models and ...

I give you Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles. This is the test model for the command squad led by none other than the legendary Lt Spears.

Yip - check out those unit patches on the left shoulders hehe.

Had so much fun painting these models!! Now i need to do a major de-base and paint removal project and start getting the 1st platoon done. Thanks again Yip. Hope this encourages you to paint up your paras :)

Let's set the military exercise date for end December...let's make it 6th January Hobby night :)

Curahhee !!!

101st Airborne Division - Screaming Eagles

This post is dedicated to Hong Yip aka Cookie Yip.

Was in painting limbo until last Friday night. Started after I had completed/fully painted my 2k points angels sanguine for the Ghemehaal campaign in September. Took a break for a while. Then had this over-whelming desire to paint but just didn't know what to paint. Worse was i couldn't find inspiration to paint anything.

Painted a test model emperor's children. Project for next year.

This post is dedicated to Hong Yip aka Cookie Yip.

Was in painting limbo until last Friday night. Started after I had completed/fully painted my 2k points angels sanguine for the Ghemehaal campaign in September. Took a break for a while. Then had this over-whelming desire to paint but just didn't know what to paint. Worse was i couldn't find inspiration to paint anything.

Painted a test model emperor's children. Project for next year.

Painted the ancient stegadon. Lost interest.

Painted a DIY marine chapter. Lost interest.

Bought a dark eldar reaver and just completed one rider. Started on his bike but lost interest.

That was until Yip showed up at hobby night with his FOW US paratroopers company box set :)

Saturday morning, ransacked my hobby room to find these guys. In a forgotten box, in a very dark corner.

These are my US para models done in 2007. Wow...that's nearly 4 years ago....

They were my very first FOW infantry unit and i was new to the hobby :) Ugly bases huh...

Well, its Oct 2011 now. I've been in the hobby for some time now. A little bit wiser and learnt some skills along the way.

Had some spare models and ...

I give you Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Infantry, US Paratoopers. This is the test model for the command squad led by none other than the legendary Lt Spears.

Yip - check out those unit patches on the left shoulders hehe.

Had so much fun painting these models!! Now i need to do a major de-base and paint removal project and start getting the 1st platoon done. Thanks again Yip. Hope this encourages you to paint up your paras :)

Let's set the military exercise date for end December...let's make it 6th January Hobby night :)

Curahhee !!! 3 miles up 3 miles down. Haiyooooo silver!!!

Painted the ancient stegadon. Lost interest.

Painted a DIY marine chapter. Lost interest.

Bought a dark eldar reaver and just completed one rider. Started on his bike but lost interest.

That was until Yip showed up at hobby night with his FOW US paratroopers company box set :)

Saturday morning, ransacked my hobby room to find these guys. In a forgotten box, in a very dark corner.

These are my US para models done in 2007. Wow...that's nearly 4 years ago....

They were my very first FOW infantry unit and i was new to the hobby :) Ugly bases huh...

Well, its Oct 2011 now. I've been in the hobby for some time now. A little bit wiser and learnt some skills along the way.

Had some spare models and ...

I give you Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Infantry, US Paratoopers. This is the test model for the command squad led by none other than the legendary Lt Spears.

Yip - check out those unit patches on the left shoulders hehe.

Had so much fun painting these models!! Now i need to do a major de-base and paint removal project and start getting the 1st platoon done. Thanks again Yip. Hope this encourages you to paint up your paras :)

Let's set the military exercise date for end December...let's make it 6th January Hobby night :)

Curahhee !!!

Ghemehaal : Annihilation week 2

We completed week 2 of the campaign last friday night and let me just say that it was a most awesome hobby night!!!

I won't go into much details because there's a much better way of doing it ;)

It will be something like this :)



You guys will not want to miss the next installment!!! Jeff has really raised the bar for this campaign and i'm glad to be sharing in the experience.
Thanks dude. You really are a rock star!!!

Speaking of experience, hobby night was again another blast. Beside continuing with the campaign we also had a visitor from Singapore, Nicholas. He's planning some really cool stuff for the hobby scene there and we look forward to supporting and taking part in your events :)
Thanks for coming and checking us out man!!

We also had Hong Yip and his friend Conteng (is this the right spelling dude...). Conteng isn't a gamer yet but we hope to change that soon!!!

Yip brought his spanking brand new still in plastic FOW US Paratroopers company box set. Dude....thanks!! You're a real inspiration!! I know what i'll be painting for the next few months now. Look out for the next post coz it'll be in dedication to you man!!!

Alvin made a welcome appearance :). Well....unwelcome since he played for the chaos forces ... hahaha Just kidding bro. Hope to see you as a regular again ;)

I'll leave you guys with this pic :)
Won't comment much but i hope i don't make a real jack-fruit of myself :P

Good fun again!!! Can't wait for next hobby night!!!

Have a good week everyone !!!

My 3rd generation bases

After completing two 40k army, I'm ready to start a new one....actually am dying to start painting something. Since this will be my 3rd army, naturally I'll want it to be better painted than the pervious ones. I haven't decided on which army to start yet although i did buy a box of reavers...they're just too cool!! I'm waiting to see the necron codex and models line up before deciding.

But it will be between dark eldar and necrons....depending on which will be the cheesiest.

One thing I do want to improve on is my bases.

I present to you exhibit A circa 2009, Base Mk1

Being my very first army i went with the basics. Sand, small rocks and statci grass. Basic, simple but time consuming in my opinion. Looking back...not bad for a first try.

Exhibit B Circa 2010, Base Mk 2.

I wanted to create a forgeworld effect with the most minimal effort = lazy. Yes, i admit I was lazy and then and wanted something easy and quick. having little inspiration at that time i was satisfied with it. Should have done more.

Exhibit C circa now, Base Mk3.

I still want a simple to produce base but something nicer. So combining what i learnt from my previous attempts and using materials still available to me, this is what i came up with. Going for the ruined city look. What do you think?

Now i need to decide on which army to collect and start painting again :)

In the meantime, this is what i'm working on. Though i'm finding very hard to find inspiration to paint it. Painting without a purpose seems soulless.