Epic Whirlwind Blister

As part of my on going series of showing exact contents of my epic stuff as I get it I have for you today the Epic Spacemarine Whirlwinds and Hunters. If you are unfamiliar with Epic, Hunters are Anti Armor missile units for the marines since all armies need air defense. They can also fire their missiles as anti armor units. They are generally added as upgrades to other units to allow you to spread anti air across the board.

GW is nice enough to provide in this set 4 tanks and 8 turrets with 4 whirlwind and 4 hunter turrets.

So I assembled the 4 whirlwinds on the included rhinos.

Here is a close up. The details are not bad but I have notice consistent rough areas on the these rhinos so maybe the molds are getting worn.

This is what I am going to do with the Hunter turrets. Attach them to some of my old rhinos since I have a good number, 32 I think.

Assembled Epic Vindicators

I got my Epic Vindicators assembled. These are old models that I talked about getting off of ebay in an early post. I did not use one of the Dozer Blades and also modified the pintle mounted stormbolter on one so it did not stick out so far. I cannot do much about how out of scale the storm bolter looks though but it looks that way on the 40K verison like this also.

Vindicators are not highly in demand do to their formation usage and cost but GROOV3R at Bell of Lost Souls has some ideas about improving marine tank usage compared to the Thunderhawk strike forces that current are the preferred builds for Marines.

I planned on spending last night working on taking mold likes of 6 mm marines but was interrupted to provide tech support for my wife's new phone. She is a more dedicated blogger than I so got a text and data plan and needed me to set up mobile twitter for her.

Forgeworld Warhounds

So my Forgeworld Warhound Titans arrived. Ofcourse these are Epic scale. I would not dare buy 2 40K scale ones given my lack of painting abilities. I talked about how to find these on the forgeworld website in another post since they do not show up unless you know what to do. While like all things Epic they are pretty pricey for the amount of product you get this is sort of canceled by the fact that 20 dollars worth of marines is like half an army. These Forgeworld Titans are also cheaper than the less interesting looking GW one since you get 2 in the pack.

They are Lucius Wolf Patterns with Plasma Blastguns and Vulcan Megabolters which is the standard warhound weapons in Epic Armageddon Lists. Titan Legion lists exist which have other options but these are still the weapons available for Allied Titans for NetEA Approved Tournament style games.

Components for 2 identical titans.

Here is the top front of the carapace. Detailing looks pretty good.

Back of the carapace. I like the ad mech logos on the sides.

Wolf Warhound Head.

Front of Leg with armor plating and some pistons.

More nice looking pistons on the back of the leg.

Plasma Blastgun with what looks like some sort of sighting array on the top.

Bottom of Plasma Blastgun. Looks like structural reinforcement.

The vulcan megabolter. This is probably the part of the kit that I would be least happy with. This looks very much like a stormbolter. There do not seems to be rotary barrels like you see at the 40K scale.

Other than that it seems to be a pretty good kit. Need to wash it up and take it outside for mold lines cleaning as I do not want the dust around my daughter.

Epic 40K: Attack of the Beakies

More on my current Epic fascination. Just a little system variety to try to keep things fresh after the disappointment of the Nid Codex. I am working on getting my infantry together. These are all old models who pretty much had nothing done to then other than clipping of the sprue and inserting into the 20 by 20 mm square bases. The current base standard is 40 by 10 but GW wants like 9 dollars for 16 bases while you can get like 32 bases plus all the marines to fill them for 20 dollars. I am working on rebasing the assault marines since they are just to compacted on the 20 by 20 s with some home built verisons. We will see how that goes.

Since Epic is a more abstract game I set up my units as such. Every other Tactical unit has a sergeant but none have any heavy weapon models. So Tacticals are either just 5 normal marines, or 4 normal marines and the helmetless sergeant. Every devastator unit has 1 heavy weapon model. Should make it pretty easy to identify who is who without using up all 20 of my heavy weapon models since I have a ton of normal marines to spread them out in. In my original space marine game different unit types were identified by different base colors so I have a ton of the same normal marine from that.

The interesting thing is other than the rhino not shown what is pictured above comes out to 2600 points so probably more infantry than I would use in most games since the standard games are 3-5K and you need war engines and aircraft and all the other things in a balanced list. This pile here only represents about 40% of my space marine infantry, but is what I am dedicating to this force made up of all beakies except for the officers.



Close up of Devastator Unit. All Beakies, all the time.

Epic Mark III Vindicator

Recently picked up a pack of Vindicators for my fledgling Space Marine Epic Armageddon force. Vindicators are not very popular in marine lists it seems so they were pretty cheap coming in at like 8 dollars in blister with shipping.

I only got 3 tanks so I cannot form them into a formation of 4 but can attach them to some other units like landraiders or devastators if I feel like or I might just model them up as part of the larger display force. In Epic these are MkIII vindicators but would be called MkI in 40K styling. The older styling fits in nicely with the Heresy era other components.

Each of the three comes with slightly different hulls through the placement of gear on the model.

Similarly they have different side options. Mixing sides and hulls would give you lots of options for slight variance if you had many of these compared to the cookie cutter nature of the current models.

All also have different blades and top accessories. I hate the scale of that stormbolter and will probably cut it off and remount it centered on top of the hatch.

Single Chaos Warrior Player in Blister?

So about a month and a half ago I ordered 2 blood bowl items from GW Direct. I got a vampire team booster to fill out that roster to 16 players and a single chaos warrior to finish my Nurgle team. The price is just outrageous but I did not feel like camping ebay for one or buying a larger set and selling the pieces. Previously when I ordered single players they were as bits and shipped in a little baggie. This guy they actually packaged into a lonesome looking blister.


Nothing really interesting but it just surprised me when I opened the box. This might be better in case a customer orders something like this to a store but never picks it up.

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.