Epic a la 1992!!

I thought I'd spoil you all with two posts in two days, I'm such a great guy!

Today my best mate popped round for a catch up and a game of second edition Space Marine (EPIC). So after the obligatory McDonalds breakfast we set down to some old school gaming. We played our battle on a 5' by 4' table set up with a green felt battle mat, lichen and some retro epic buildings.

I won't go into too much detail about this game's set up rules as I covered these in my first epic post last October (worth a read if your new to the 1992 rule set).

First of all we started by choosing our armies to an agreed points value (2600); this is done by selecting cards which represent units (companies or detachments) and contain the details for the relevant troops and the number of models required. It also has the information for how many casualties this formation can take before it is broken, as victory points are awarded for breaking opposing units this is vital info.

My selection was as follows:

A chaplain to lead the force; this character gives all nearby troops a bonus in close combat so he'll be pretty handy as a force multiplier later in the game.

Big Green Land Raider rolls off a 1989 Forge World's production line!

Hello retro fans.

Well due to work commitments my blog and my gaming have been on the back burner for a while; but I have finally got the chance to finish of my Rogue Trader Land Raider for my Old School Salamanders army. This is a project that I have been working on for some time. 

Firstly I decided to give the tank an 80s style hand painted banner. Given that this beast will be transporting my Terminators into the thick of it I thought I would stick with a traditional stone Crux Terminatus on a black background. Once again the graph paper was an invaluable tool for the banner....

Unfortunately the original banner pole was absent from this damaged eBay acquisition and so a normal sewing pin was fielded as a replacement to which the banner was affixed with PVA glue...

Battle at the River Simba

After a few weeks of modelling articles I decided it was time to take my troops to battle once again for a bit of second edition goodness.

My beautiful girlfriend the formidable Inquisitor Athena was my opponent this time around. She would command a force of Crimson Fists (the inquisitor would  herself be controlling things from orbit and wouldn't be on the battlefield) whilst I would head a force of Rogue Trader era Salamanders.

The battlefield would be made of tradition retro war games scenery supplements with a 'Pegasus Models River' with a rather nifty bridge that was actually bought from the fish tank section of my local pet shop!

The battling forces would be identical each consisting of one Captain with a Bolter and Power Axe; two five man tactical squads with bolters; one five man assault squad with bolt pistols and one five man terminator squad with storm bolters (I still like to keep things simple weapon-wise while we get used to the rules.

Rogue Trader Predator....Complete!!!!!!!!

Well following on from yesterday's post I decided to crack on with the predators flags/ banners so that it was ready to roll across the fields of the forty-first millennium (but the 1989 version of the far future!)

First things first I decided that as my rhinos had square banners I would differentiate the predator by giving it triangular ones. With this in mind I then plotted the outline on graph paper (this is a god send for accuracy, especially with double sided banners).

I then blocked in the main colour which would be yellow...

Once this was done I just added some simple symbols freehand (no transfers in 1987) in black and highlighted the edges with a lighter yellow....

Rogue Trader Predator!

So after I finished the Land Speeder a couple of weeks ago I decided to crack on with my Rogue Trader Predator Tank that is destined to join my Salamanders Army.

This morning I finished off the lights/lamps, tracks and guns....

I decided to go for a gold finish on the weapons barrels to provide a good spot colour and a fairly calm yellow for the lamps; toned down with a brown wash.