Soooo, time for another update. Not as much as I wanted to show, but I had some serious commission work this weekend so couldn't paint much.
But first, some history
Way back in the mists of time, I was a beardless young pup and my cousin introduced me to the wonderful world of toy soldiers. My first White Dwarf was issue 188, the Tyranid launch issue, but it also included a rather evocative battle report. Featuring lots of titans and gargants, I was enthralled at the scale and visuals of the game (of course, being an idiot, I thought the models were 28mm, so boggled at how you painted titans at that scale, look how far we have come, where the titan is now a feature of 40K tables the land over
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Anyway, the Orks and their crazy clan format really tickled me and I was convinced I was going to collect a clan based Epic army (once I'd seen the models in my local GW (Bath, back when it was on upper borough walls). Sadly, after one box of Orks and some Gutrippers, GW pulled support of the game
So, here we are, twenty one years later. I worked for GW for a few years, through the re-issue as Epic Armageddon, and played a bit of Epic 40K. But I never really painted as much as I wanted to.
The plan going forward is to paint up as many clans and card formations as I can get my grubby mits on. While I will mostly play E:A when I get the chance (I've never actually played the Space Marine era, blasphemy I know) , I want my force to be comprised of clan cards because it looks cool.
Obviously I am starting with Evil Sunz as I love them (I do occasionally ride bikes, though not fast as I don't heal when I fall on my head) but I plan to do a mixed army of Goffs, Moons and Sunz, though hope to get all six basic clan cards painted at least plus what support I can.
If anyone has any old Ork models they are not wanting, I am always on the look out. I'm keeping a close eye on fleabay, but prices are off the chain at the moment, though I have picked up a few bargains here and there. In particular I am really after the tanks, especially the Goff and Sunz ones.
So, here is the new stuff anyway.
Evil Sunz Biker. I'm going to add some banners once I get some new drillbits, my .5mm broke a while ago
Here is the family shot so far.
Here is the Kult Of Speed card. As you can see I am missing two buggies at the moment. If anyone has two going spare (and a single wartrak too) I'd be open to discussion.
I was pretty happy to find a classic metal wartrak and two bikers in an ebay auction I had picked up a few years ago (its where the dreads came from, and there are a couple more exciting bits for the future), and I'm pretty pleased with how that stand came out. They are far more detailed than the plastics (who knew?) I love the Nob's hat.
Final shots for today, some basic boyz from my Deathskulll mob. I've nearly finished the rest of the boyz, but still plenty to go.
So, that's it for today, thanks for reading and hopefully there will be some more bikerz by the end of the week.
Cheers
Jon.
