Gun Bunny Three

Bunny number 3 received the same Blaster/Gunner leg combo as Bunny 2, here is the result.

Bunny Three

Although currently modelled as a Gunner, the more static of the three bunnies, may well endup as Thor's Blaster. Below are the 3 Bunnies.

The 3 Bunnies

Gun Bunny Two

I mentioned earlier in the blog I was holding off on further Gun Bunny production until I got hold of a pair of legs form the Grundback Blaster. Fortunately I was able to trade a pair of Blaster legs for a pair of Gunner legs at my gaming group. The difference between the two sets of legs is high-lighted below. The Blaster legs (top in the photo below) are longer as they are straighter than the bent Gunner legs.

I'm not interested in using the Blaster legs as a pait, but rather use a Blaster/Gunner leg combo to generate some more dynamic poses.

Blaster and Gunner Legs

The second Gunner uses the longer blaster leg to hold it higher off the ground and the bent leg, cocked in a running pose leading to a more interesting pose. I have to admit, as with the Driller, the Privateer Press Forums gave me the idea for this.

Gun Bunny Two

Forge Guard Resumes

I made a start on the Forge Guard as soon as they arrived many moons ago, before the Toy Soldier '09 Cryx painting panic. So now, after completing some of the more larger Searforge models I've got the Forge Guard out again and resumed work. I've got a Full Unit of 10 to do, each will be cleaned in detergent and based

on a scenic bases to keep the theme going. There will be quite alot af drilling involved so it might be some time before I post a picture of the finished unit.

Forge Guard Bits

After about a week the built unit can be seen below, as before everyone gets mounted on a scenic base.

Forge Guard on Scenic Bases

Wroughthammer Rockram

One of the major draws to the Searforge is to superb models, in particular the Heavy Jacks, I love them which is way they both feature in my list. The Driller belongs to Gorten but Thor will be having some fun with the Rockram.

Wroughthammer Rockram Bits

Once again everything was cleaned in detergent and the flash removed. I slightly modified the gun arm, although I'm not really sure it added that much to the pose as I could not quite get the postioning I wanted but I'm still very pleased with the way it turned out.

Wroughthammer Rockram

List Modification

Following a chat with a couple of members at the club I've made a minor modification to the list I plan to build.

The original list is as follows:-

Gorten -7

- Driller 6

- Gunner 3

- Gunner 3

- Ogrun Bokur 3

Thor 2

- Wroughthammer Rockram 8

- Blaster 3

- Ogrun Bokur 3

Lord Rock Bottom 2

Full Unit of Forge Guard 8

34 points

I like the list, it ticks my boxes for having a bit of everything, but I hate having that missing point. In MKI a few points short was not really an issue but even one seems a big waste in MKII.

So options:

a) Drop Rockbottom and give Gorten a third Gunner

b) Drop Rockbottom and give the Leader of the Forge Guard a Bokur

c) Drop Rockbottom, have a min unit of Forge Guard and add a min Unit of Highsheilds.

Either way it looks as if Rockbottom is for the chop, he is really in the list to help infantry with CMD checks (as a Cryx player I take fearless for granted), add an additional spray template, and (hopefully) look cool if my conversion idea goes to plan.

Option c, I'm not keen on, this is from a model building and painting perpective as I'll have to put together and paint 2 full units of infantry (I like working on full units all at once) which is going to be time intensive.

Option a, would be the simplest, as the Gunner is likely to be already available, however it was pointed out to me that an extra Gunner assigned to Gorten would add to the strain on his Focus.

Option b, is the one I'm leaning towards. As I love the idea of converting 3 Blighted Ogrun into Bokur.

Option b is the one I finally settled on, as Lord Rockbottom usefulness is really limited in the list and the Bokurs will still lay the smack down in MKII.

So the list now looks as follows:-

Gorten -7

- Driller 6

- Gunner 3

- Gunner 3

- Ogrun Bokur 3

Thor 2

- Rockram 8

- Gunner or Blaster 3

- Ogrun Bokur 3

Full Unit of Forge Guard 8

- Ogrun Bokur 3

35 points

As the army grows beyind this limit I think Rockbottom will still be making an appearance, as I still would like to do the conversion I have planned for him.

Thor Steinhammer

Due to being somewhat undecided as to the colour of the rest of the Driller, I've moved model production up a gear and have decided to pay some attention to Thor. I should be aiming to complete the complement of gunners from the Battle Box, but want to use some legs from the Blaster to give them some more interesting poses. So, in the mean time I'll be looking at Thor and then possibly the Rockram. Thor gets built I decided to lose the flame affair coming from his blow torch. Next up will be Thor's pet Rockram.

Thor Steinhammer Bits

Thor Steinhammer on Scenic Base

Driller Metallics

I mentioned earlier in the blog that I had blown a load of money on some new paints. Well the paints came from Foundry (http://www.wargamesfoundry.com/main.asp), I've not used them before but am very impressed. Particularly with the Burnished Copper set, excellent. The Foundry Paint System give you a pot of your base colour and a pot each of premixed shade and highlight. Its a little more expensive but worth the investment. Below is the Driller with all the metallics finished.

Driller and the Metallics

For the silvers I used Metal 35B as a base, inked with Black wash 47B, the spiral of the drill was given a futher coat of Chainmail 35A, then heavily dry brushed with Metal 35B, then a final lighter dry brush with Spearpoint 35C. The Copper parts were based in Burnished Copper 43B, shaded with Burnished Copper shade 43A, highlighted with Burnished Copper light 43C then washed with Copper Wash 47A.

Undercoating

Gorten and the Driller see some paint at last.

Gorten Undercoated

Driller Undercoated

Gun Bunnies

Next comes the Gun Bunnies, the battle box has 3 Grundback Gunners all of which I plan to field in my list. As before, I've cleaned the metal parts and the resin base in detergent. Below are the bits required for a single Gunner.

Gun Bunny Bits

Grundback Gunner