First two up

Mechanicus heavy infantry rolling in. Just love tracked units, and these new ones from Anvil Industry are just great - some of the best. I think it works really well with those big guns and the smaller backpack. I also changed the heads, using the Blightwheel ones instead, more characterful I think.

Sagittarii mock-up

First mock-up of my planned Sagittarii, and actually first post with some real work this year, not impressed by that - feeling the mojo returning though.
As soon as I saw these new tracked units, by Anvil Industry, I knew they were just right for this unit. The plan is that this is the general look, different arms, or perhaps appendages is a more correct term, will be added for variety. The torso and powerplant are also AI, the gun is GW grey knight something, and the head is from Steam and Aether.

......the artist formerly known as The Forge

Quite a few changes here today. As well as a good overhaul I decided to give the blog a new name - same as the URL, makes everything more easy I think, as well as getting the name more into line with what I actually do here. I was kind of getting a little tired of the old look - thought I could somehow do better. So expect a few changes over the next couple of days, as I play around. Please let me hear your thoughts, likes, dislikes and ideas.

Cheers
Manus

High Hopes

Are we getting an official codex: Adeptus Mechanicus? Well one can only hope, and I guess signs in weather, tea-leafs and intestines of little animals has never looked more like it. Loads of AdMech minis from FW during the last year (for 30K I know), the new GW Knight, new leaked pics and teasers from FW, info that the new Knight codex does not hold AdMech units Faeit 212 and a binary message at the back of White Dwarf saying "Omnissiah be Praise".
Honestly I see why people are getting worked up, one must admit it does look like a lot of hints in the direction of AdMech. One can only hope, it would be cool finally to get it. Miniatures of the line could truly be awesome, though I must admit that I have not been blown away by the FW ones so far. Do I believe it will happen? Not sure really, though I have enough doubt/faith to put the building of my skitarii on hold until I see if GW will release some usable models.

Anvil Industry's Gun Tractor

Having recently taken part in Anvil Industry's kickstarter for Afterlife, I received my miniatures the other day. The one bit I was looking forward to with most anticipation was the gun tractor. And as always when it's stuff from AI I was not disappointed. Very cool looking, ripe with detail, free of bubbles and mistakes, very little flash and moldlines - great job as always Joel. It comes with several very usable weapons, which you can turn 360, no need for glue to stick the weapons there, which mean you can switch them around as much as you like.

I also thought I'd put it next to another new tracked unit, previously reviewed here - this one is much smaller though. And luckily so, as the big one is an artillery piece and this one is more your average trooper carrying a big gun. Of cause I have no intention of using it as described, and I just received another batch of bits from AI to make it just perfect, hopefully I'll get some time during the next few days to play around.

Size of the beast

Yay - just saw on the GW website that they changed the size of their Knight to 6" instead of 8". Pew - had me worried there for a second, would be quite difficult to add that much extra size to the Leviathan. 1½" on the other hand is just a fun challenge, that I'll be looking forward to. A bit of extra spine and a litte extra armour plating should easily give me an extra 1", which should fine together with the GW one. Hurray!!!

Knights!!!

Though being working on the DreamForge Leviathan to use as knights, I'm really impressed with these and just need to have at least one once they show up. I can even work them both easily into my army - and what is all that talk about a codex as well. I've been out of town for a few days, and the world's gone nuts.

More parts coming together

Well happy holidays to you all. As most of us I guess, family has been the priority the last few days, and possibly the next few ones as well. Despite the lack of hobby time, this giant has grown a bit.

Guess this should keep the enemy busy!

In a slow, but none the less forward moving process the Knight is coming together. Take a look at the size of this gun - yasis, gonna make some holes yes?

Seriously huge!!!

I got something wicked out of a box yesterday - the DF Leviathan Crusader, 15mm style. First I was a bit taken aback with how many components there was in the box, but the "how to build" works really well. Now I just can't get over how cool I think it is, that some of the parts are actually held together by metal screws and that so many parts are actually moving.
Managed only to get the one leg done yesterday, but I got you a scaleshot to show how huge this thing is going to be. Really looking forward to get some more work done on this. I think I'll just do this pretty much out of the box, to get acquainted with the model, and then convert the arse out of the next one.