Craftworld Saim-Hann update

Now that the hobby juices is flowing, things are really starting to roll.

1. Base coated with fotress grey and then sprayed black on the stripes area.


2. Proceed to mask the area where i want the black stripes to be.
The way to go to get symmetrical lines are to cut and join them like i've done before applying to the model. That way you're sure to get perfect angles for all the ships. It's not hard work but not easy either. Results though are going to be worth it ;)


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3. All masking is done except for the command dragonship which will have opposite colors; similar to my jetbike seer council. Tonite i'll apply another coat of fotress grey to get rid of the black colours before starting on the gorgeous blood red!!! Have i mentioned that i just love red??


ps: sorry about the quality of the pics. Taken with my handphone camera. Will buy a digi-cam after getting this month's pay.

Cheers all.

The Wild Host warps to Bangkok

Well i guess most of you already know this but to those who don't, i'm now based in Bangkok for the next 12 months. Its part of my company's Inter Company Transfer (ICT) program. I arrived here on the 2th of April and haven't done any hobbying since. Its been difficult to find the interest to start. My fault entirely.

But now that the spark is there i need to ride it all the way. While the iron is hot and all that. Plus i do need to get some new models done for the Legio birthday bash. And with that i present to you.......

My modest hobby table which i really need to keep clean unless i want to end up paying for it when i end my term. I really really miss my hobby room in Malaysia...sigh. Anyways, as you can see, I've finally started to basecoat the eldar cruisers. Which for me is a huge step already. So let's hope i can keep the ball rolling.

And another thing, if any of you guys are planning on going to bangkok please give me a heads up :)

Craftworld Saim-Hann

The next project on the 'yet to be bought' hobby table are these craftworld eldar vessels. Its a 2K list with 3 dragonships, 5 wraithships n 8 shadowhunters. These are amazing models and captures the eldar look very nicely in my opinion. Of course i'm going to have it done in Saim-hann colours.


The dragonship is slightly larger than the wraithship but has only 1 sail on top.

The wraithship has 2 sails, 1 on top and another ant the bottom. Looks nicer me thinks.

The casting quality by GW is actually quite good. I do hope i can do them justice. Will be my entry for Legio's birthday bash and also for the gothicomp.

Battlefleet Vigilance

I've finally completed painting all my vessels. So without further ado, I present to you the ships of Battlefleet Vigilance.


A very big thank you to Jeff for teaching me how to drybrush.

Many thanks to Iqbal for taking all these nice pics of my ships.

Battlefleet Vigilance : Part 3 @ i need to buy a good camera

I had wanted to wait till i got really good clear pictures of my vessels before posting it but a very close friend offered some sound and sage advise. So until i do manage to get better pictures, hopefully with me being able to purchase a better digi camera, here are some of my work in progress pictures. Some are not the final finish. Hopefully i can post them up by this weekend.

The vessel that i'm second most proud of - the Ibnu Saladin. I am just so proud of the name i've given to it. I just love the sound of it and its proud noble bearing. Ibnu Saladin. My converted emperor class battleship, which will also be my flagship. Since this pic, i've painted blue lines on the ordnance bays to give it a bit of flavour.


Some vessels flying in formation, showing off Legio's super awesome bfg table painted by the talented Mr. Lim Soo Jinn.

And finally, Firestorm escort class Elineyes Squadron navigating through some dangerous asteroid fields. Don't you just love those cool bases!!!

Ave Legio.

Battlefleet Vigilance : Part 2

Now that we've built our vessel we need to paint it. I admit i'm a sucker for GW standard paint schemes. They're usually very nice schemes, easily identifiable to other players, as a painter you already know how it will turn out into plus you don't have to crack your head thinking one up. I know it's the lazy way out but i do love owning models which looks nice and people can easily relate to. Hence the Saim-Hann scheme for my eldar. The Wow Factor in a sense.

Thus for Battlefleet Vigilance led by Solar Admiral Karl Donitz, we will wear the Gothic segmentum approved paint scheme.

Start with a basecoat of black for the hull and fortress grey for the prow. All this is using airbrush.

Next paint the prow skull white. I did around 5 layers to get really white color as i want the prow to be the highlight point of vessels.

Then it's drybrushing snot green on the hull. This is the first time that i've actually tried drybrushing on a large scale and i must say that it's very easy. Very quick to do the whole model and results looks great.


From this i went to the prow. To achieve good gold trimming i laid down a layer of vomit brown before applying shining gold. Drybrush the engines boltgun metal and a few other parts and we're done.


"Weapons officer, Give me firing solutions"

Battlefleet Vigilance

A while back i posted that i was undecided on whether to get the Aeronautica Imperialis air combat rule book from Forge World or start Battlefleet Gothic, well two very close friends helped push me in the right direction.

Its Battlefleet Gothic.

The best thing about BFG is that the Rulebook and other supplementary materials are available for free download on the GW site. So if you're just a bit interested to know how the game plays, have a look.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat1290319&categoryId=1100007&section=&aId=4300022

Ok on to the good stuff. I decided to go Imperial for my bfg fleet. Why not Eldar? To be honest, the design of their ships were not what i expected Eldar vessels to look like. They're nice in a way but it gets taking use to. Maybe my next buy.

Every budding Solar Admiral worth their salt will start with getting cruisers. They're the workhouse in any imperial fleet. They're also the only imperial model that's made of plastic. So at around Rm60 you get two cruisers which you can built into the many variants available to the imperial.The cruisers come in a generic GW box with enough parts to build 2 cruisers. No instructions are given but i believe none are required since assembly is very easy.

The one drawback is that GW does not provide enough weapons bay parts to built 2 of the same type of variants except the Lunar and the Dictator. Which means you cannot build 2 Dominator or Gothic variants with a single box of cruisers. Not good so careful fleet list building is required before you start assembling them. Well, you can temporarily glue the weapons bay perhaps by using white glue or just blue tac. This would allow you to change the variants of the vessels if you want to try how each classes work without having to spend as much.


Parts all cut and cleaned. As you can see, there's no possibility that you can go wrong with the assembly. You have the 2 halves of the hull, wing part, engines and bridge which is standard for all vessel variants. You are provided with a few options for masts.

Now comes the hard part of choosing which variant you want to build. The pic above shows the dictator class which has an ordnance bay behind the front gun batteries. Your vessel selection will determine your prow weapon. Depending on vessel variants, you either get a prow ram or the nova cannon. The dictator above has a ram. Next step is assembly. Like i said, easy and straight forward.

You cruiser should look like this. Now isn't that a sight to behold!!!


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