Epic to 40 K Size Comparison

For those people not familar with Epic scale miniatures they are tiny. Here is a 6 mm scale marine on a normal 28 mm scale Marines base. This is even a Black Reach marine who are a tiny bit smaller than normal multi part marines. While this comparison is interesting I am more interested in how different models compare in the same scale.


Here is a normal marine and dreadnought. You can see the marine is about half as tall and the significantly less wide fitting 2 marines just across the torso.


This is a Conqueror Battle robot and a marine in 6 mm. I do not have an 6 mm dreads and am thinking about using my 10 conquerors as them. The scale actually looks pretty good. They are about twice as tall as the marines just not as wide. I probably will not use very many dreads since they cause problems with many units transport options. Normal space marine formations all come with included Rhinos but adding a dread slows the whole group down. Might work with either a Drop pod or Thunderhawk strike force though.

So what do you think. Does this robot look Dreadnought enough to use?

Blood Bowl: Innsmouth Eagles

Newest edition to my Blood Bowl teams is a Frogman team made by Rolljordan but I got it through Impact! Miniatures. This is the 18 piece Team set. The design scheme is pretty prehistoric and brutal with bones added onto help with hitting people and pretty rough loincloth style uniforms.

First thing I noticed was that the metal was really soft. I had a lot of problems getting them to stick in the bases by bending the tabs so I glued some of them in. Of course soft metal can be good since you have a reduced chance of breaking the pieces.

Team starts with 4 blitzers. 2 Each in 2 different positions. They are slightly bigger than the lineman to help not their positions but coloring the base edges red might be helpful.

4 Catcher also in 2 groups of 2. They are pretty slim and have pretty obvious catcher movements.


8 Different Linefrogs. I sort of wonder why 8 different linefrogs while only 2 different blitzers and catchers who are the ones who really matter to the team. These 8 figures are really 3 sets of 2 with slight changes and then 2 other ones.

Here is the big guy, a big toad with prehensile tongue. Need to keep this family friendly so no jokes please. I got him on a 25 mm base but he is pretty forward heavy so I will need to add some weight to that base.


The Coach. He certainly looks like he means business in the stern way.

Team looks pretty nice. Not sure when I will get them in a game. I have a few more league games this season with my Chaos team and will probably hold them for next season to see if I can get them going a little better.

Epic: Terminator Formation

So my Epic Project is now started. First thing I did was rebase and remove mold lines from my 1 unit of terminators. I used the 4 bases I got in my character back. I plan on keeping the Tactical and Devastator squads on their 20 by 20 bases but these guys are just to tightly packed on those. I am going to have to make bases for my assault marines and bikes still.

I am going to start with just 1 unit of termis for now since that is what I have and still need to get Thunderhawks and Thunderbolts to round out the aerospace part of the army.

I decided to go with a Chaplain in this formation since it is a pretty standard upgrade to try to win those assaults. These guys are going next to basing for a mix of sand and rocks.

Playscape Phase 2

My Mom and her friend Ray came out again to help me with the play structure I am building. You really need 3 people for these parts so it is a great help. It was also very windy but we were able to lift the 2 roof sections on during brief moments of calm air. It started to get dark and stormy looking but we were able to also get the swing beam up before the weather really turned to rain last night.


Now I just need to finish it by adding all the fun things now that the frame is done.

Epic: Space Marine Character Pack

As the first part of my Epic project I ordered the space marine character pack to add to my 20 year old battle company. Being out of Epic for 20 years I had no idea what came in the pack so I asked GW what was actually in the pack and they did not have a real answer. I was wondering since they wanted 20 dollars for it and only showed like 13 models. I got a proper and correct answer from the nice folks on warseer in the Epic section. Since my internet searches did not yield many good images of what is in it I am posting its contents here now that it has arrived.


So to start you get 4 bases, 4 bikes, and 19 infantry models. So 23 Models total.

Here we have Techmarine, Apothecary, Chapter Master, Servitor, Epistolary, and Chapter Banner Marine.

Captain with Cape, Metal version of old plastic captain (I use these as sergeants currently), Jump Pack Captain, Terminator Captain, and Company Banner Marine.

Power Armor Chaplain, Power Armor Chaplain, Terminator Chaplain, Jump Pack Chaplain

Jump Pack Librarian, 2 Power Armor Librarians, and Terminator Librarian.

Banner Bike Marine, Captain on Bike, Librarian on Bike, Chaplain on Bike.

So that is what you get. Check back later to see if I do anything with them.

Fun with GWs Free Shipping

On Monday, I talked about how GW with its low free shipping threshold combined with high product costs leads to even most single items shipping for free. So I was ordering a couple things for epic and they listed as having different lead times so I ordered them separately. They were all actually in stock and shipped out the same day from the same location. So look what showed up today. Three separate boxes each with 1 blister. My wife was very interested in why I was getting so many boxes. I am sure the mail person was not amused either but there you go. Afraid an item is back stocked. Order everything separately.

Forge World Epic Stuff

I am trying to get my old epic force into shape and I noticed that Warhound Scout Titans are pretty common in Space Marine lists so I was interested in getting some. Now the current GW ones are ugly. The versions from 20 years ago were better looking. Not sure what happened but it was certainly a step back. Forgeworld had some nice ones but they seemed to have disappeared from the online store epic area. I had heard rumors that if you call them they had like 50 in stock that they would sell. Ofcourse they do not respond to emails in a timely fashion and calling the UK for a 30 dollar order starts to add to the cost pretty quickly.

What to do? Well I searched their site for Warhound and found this link.

Warhound Titans 1

Interesting Description. The product code notes it as a Specialist games epic product and the price is exactly what the epic warhounds are so I ordered it even though they had no picture. It has shipped so we will see what I get when it shows up. They also had a Titans 2 which was listed at 88,888 pounds so a little out of my budget. This looks like a place holder in the system for an old product not currently available but interesting that it is included in the new site database.

As a test I searched for SG-EPC to see what other items were waiting for people to find that are priced at orderable values:

Gargantuan Squiggoth
Basilisk
Chimera
Chimera Heavy Bolter
Epic 40,000 Tau Broadside Battlesuits
Fire Caste Warriors
Hammerhead Railgun

People with an old catalog might be able to indentify all these pieces.

Weekend's Work

So this is what I was up to this weekend. I was building something but it had nothing to do with 28 mm miniatures. This project is supposed to take 2 people about 12 hours to do. I do not think I am going to make it in under that time limit. With spring cleaning on Saturday and this on Sunday, I was beat when I woke up this morning for work.

My Father-in-law, and my mom's friend came over on Sunday to help with the build. My mom was tasked with sorting the hardware components with my mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and loving wife were tasked with making lunch and dinner while keeping the 3 year old away from the power tools.

Here I am after about 7 hours of work on Sunday. I add more of the fencing on the deck this evening but will need help to get the roof on and the swing beam up later in the week.

GWs Free Shipping

So GW has been doing Free Shipping on orders over 15 dollars for a while. Given the cost of GW stuff pretty much every single item meets this threshild. I almost never buy anything from them directly except specialist games stuff since I can get a much better deal and support my local store by buying or order from them but they had a problem getting specialist game stuff for me. There are some online stores that still over a modest discount on specialist game stuff but you have to spend a reasonable amount to get the discount.


Currently I am working on getting my 20 year old epic space marines into a usable modern force so I am buying a couple of things over time. Here is where GWs 15 dollar or more order free shipping comes in. Each of the overpriced Epic Blisters is more than this so I ordered them each individually. They have different lead times ranging from 1 day to 3 weeks so I hope this will speed up arrival of at least 1 blister. I am sure GW will still make a nice profit on them even with individual shipping.

Hobby Time Displaced

This is a picture of my father in law and I unloading a outdoor playset for my daughter from a rented truck. 5 Boxes loaded with wooden parts to be assembled. Once I opened the boxes to check the parts they fill up my cars half of the garage. After 2 weeks of doing nothing on it due to a funeral and Easter, I had to get started so my hobby time is getting really compressed. I am trying to be better about time management to get more stuff done around the house to allow for more hobby time when I do get a chance.