Warhammer 30K Emperors Children

Warhammer 30K 

III LEGION

Emperors Children

Last year, my son and I decided to play some games of Killteam, but wanted to do something slightly different, so went with the idea of refighting some small skirmishes in the Horus Heresy.

Squad Sgt 

Melta Gun

Sniper, this model is a conversion using the sniper rifle from the scouts sprue.

Comms Specialist

Legionaries

Heavy weapon specialist with missile launcher

Squad champion Lykon

The full squad 

Another fun little project, i may very well expand this little force in the future, depending on what happens with the horus heresy game system.

I also aquired this model at a bring and buy for a couple of quid, i really enjoyed painting the grey armour of the space wolves and may (probably will) get a squad or too of these too.

Thanks for taking a look, whilst not really a GW player, i do enjoy painting their models, its a nice break when painting up a historical project. Anyway, until next time.

Bye for now.

Stig

A long overdue update. The Ops Room

Hello. 

Im still alive.....

Its been a long time since i updated the blog, mainly because i havent had a computer.....but also because im a bit lazy.

Anyway, i thought id do a bit of an update on whats going on here at little legions towers.

So, last summer, I decided it was time to build a gaming shed. Lots of digging of foundations ensued, my enthusiasm waned somewhat when we realised we were digging through the old Quarry road......

But we cracked on. My two sons helping and my brother directing our efforts, we eventually dug out the foundations.

once the foundations were dug, we filled the hole with gravel and sand, and compacted it with a

 whacker plate. 

Lots of timber, and the shed starts to take shape.  Layers of kingspan insulation are laid under the floor, before the concrete was poured in.

Starting to look like something!

Internally, cables were plumbed in for the electrics, and the insulation started to go into the walls and ceiling. A thick layer of kingspan, covered over with the yellow itchy stuff, which apparently helps to reduce the noise from rain etc.

Window and doors, and the roof is finished. (less guttering)

More cables and insulation....

once the cables and insulation were in place, the whole of the interior was covered in Thermowrap, the silver insulation rolls in the picture above.

Internal lighting and plasterboard, a very messy part of the whole build.

Meanwhile, ouside the soakaway was dug with channels for the drainage pipes from the gutter.

We had an idea to use bottles for some of the windows.... this involved cutting bottles in half, then taping them together forming glass "bricks".

Pretty cool.

Outside, with the drainage now in, and the gutters connected to the drainage pipes.

Internal stuff

The floor is laminate from B&Q and after an expensive trip to Ikea, I had some furniture.

These are Kallax storage cubes.

The desk is homemade from an old gaming table.

Now, with the Ops room complete, I dont know how I ever fit all my stuff into the tiny room I had in the house.

For a better look, heres a link to my youtube channel.

I hope you are all well, bye for now.

stig

Blog update

Hi people.

It's been a long time, a couple of years I think. In that time I have of course continued gaming, collecting and painting.

So what have I been up to? Why the absence of blog posts?

Well, Facebook has kind of become an easier way to share hobby stuff, and also Instagram.

I have also started my own YouTube channel.  Stig ofthe dump

I have been thinking recently though that I might revive the blog, I've got loads of stuff to post about, lots of projects completed and lots started.

Updates soon.

Stig

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Knights Templar in Basic Impetus 2

Now then,

I dont like to blow my own trumpet too much, im not the greatest of painters by any stretch but its always really nice when someone publishes a picture of your miniatures.

So Lorenzo Sartori, author of Impetvs, Baroque and now Basic Impetvs among others has just released the new rulebook.

A pic of some of my Crusaders are on page 37. Im very chuffed.

Basic Impetus

Cheers,
Steve

An update!

Now then,

Its been a while since i updated my blog, however I have been very busy painting and gaming!

So whats new?

WW2

I have finished off my first 1000 points for my late war German list for Flames of War.

Here is a few pics of what ive been doing.

 This was my first game of FOW for years, German Grenadiers vs the 51st highland division in Normandy 1944.

I think the Brits won quite convincingly!

More terrain needed to hide behind!

Also for my WW2 FOW stuff I went back to the mid war period in Russia and added a lorried Pz Grenadier platoon for my SS forces.

And for another option I have added an armoured car patrol, with a 223 command variant and 2x 222's.

Lion Rampant in 15mm

I have started a new (very small) project, the wars of the roses in 15mm for the skirmish game lion Rampant, nice and quick and only costing a few quid.

Here's what ive got done so far -

Viscount Lovell and his band of retainers.

Miniatures are peter Pig

 Lord Dacre of the South, and his retainers.

To the Strongest

I have been playing to the strongest a fair bit as well, its such a fun, easy game to play. No brain ache.. Which can only be good!

Heres a few dodgy pics of my last game using 6mm WOTR, on a small gaming board. It worked really well, however I must replace all the little beads with proper ammo markers and victory medals/coins etc....

Anyway, thats about it for now, Ill try a bit harder to keep the blog updated in future...

Cheers,
Steve