Epic Armageddon: the first 10,000 points

A few years back, I picked up a couple lots of Epic Steel Legion models from various sources for cheap. I found myself the (at the time) not-so-proud owner of a couple of forgeworld models, and a ton of infantry and armor.

The casts were kind of poor, and I had never messed with the scale at all. It seemed to lack details, and ended up sitting on the shelves for months (maybe years, it's hard to remember).

I piddled with them a little, but they mostly sat unused until I was asked to actually play a game (please note that this trend continues with my nearly 1000 point Soviet Flames of War army, that I still haven't played a single game with) by a fellow compatriot of this blog. I think his excitement was contagious, and I ended up getting really amped up about the 6mm scale and tactical aspect of GW's Epic game.

Since then, a lot of things have gotten kicked into high gear for me, but I've tried to make painting models a priority for me lately, and have been quite prolific.

So, I wanted to document my work towards my first 10,000 points of epic, that I plan to have done sometime before the end of the year. I really have grown to quickly like the scale of the models, and the ease in which they paint up.

For this army, I'm not going for ultra-detailed, but rather "completed". I'm doing a very quick 2 color grey drybrush over black primer, and then throwing on some details. I am generally painting up a unit a night on average, with weekends seeing a bit more completed.

The titan is of the War Griffon Legio, and the rest of my army is a standard Steel Legion force.

I'm currently at a little bit above 3000, with another 4000 or so partially or nearly completed... Here are the first glimpses.

In progress shot of warhound for scale comparison. This model was very poorly casted. I turned it into some battle damage

My first completed superheavy company, also from Forgeworld, and also poor casts. Some of the details were completely washed out. I have another Shadowsword company that i'm working on that started out in much better shape.

...ready at a signal to issue forth like black ants going to war...

I dedicated a small amount of time every night this past week to working on my ever-growing Epic Black Legion (I know, I know...about 3 years too late...although the Epic Armageddon Living Rulebook was finally updated this past October!). At this point I am attempting to finish up a series of test models in hopes of refining my techniques and thus speeding up the overall process.

Black Legion Rhino

Black Legion Land Raider

Daemonettes of Slaanesh

Daemonettes of Slaanesh

Lesser Daemonic Packs

Khorne Berzerkers

My name is Daemon: for we are many.

I had a classic hobby freak-out the other week. I took stock of the myriad of projects I have laying about the basement and was overcome with a sense of buried dread. Something...anything...must get completed soon or nothing ever will. After years of collecting shiny objects I find myself neck deep in 7-8 major projects, having only made any considerable headway on my Epic Blood Angels (a strong 10,000 points that have no opponents!). With a renewed sense of urgency, I dedicated myself to a few hours of painting each and every day this week. These are the results so far:

Flamers of Tzeentch - Epic: Black Legion

The Black Legion will someday be the complementary army to my Blood Angels and hopefully allow me to run a massive story-driven campaign utilizing a majority of the my Epic models and terrain. The Flamers of Tzeentch join my Bloodletters and Plaguebearers on their crusade to consume to the soul of Lemartes and his followers. Endless amounts of infantry and armor are slated to go under the brush in the months to come...and I desperately need Chaos War Engines and Titans! Get in touch if you have anything you are willing to part with.

Preacher - Legends of the Old West

Gunfighter - Legends of the Old West

I recently purchased a ton of Black Scorpion Tombstone miniatures for use in my Deadlands RPG as well as in Legends of the Old West. These miniatures are fantastic - hands down some of the best sculpts from this genre to date. The scale is really more like 30-32mm which makes them difficult to mix with other ranges like 500 Nations or the Foundry line, but the quality and breadth of the range stand on its own. Technically I completed these a few weeks ago...but I thought I'd post them here to remind me I still have about 35 more gunfighters primed and ready for paint...

Onward to Valhalla!

Epicly Epic!

I recently finished my Epic: Armageddon Blood Angels army - 10,000 points in all! I still have a little finishing work to complete, but I couldn’t resist getting started on the complimentary force…Abaddon’s Black Legion. I’ll detail my Blood Angels force as well as my ruined city table in future posts, but for now, here are a few work-in-progress photos of my Black Crusade.

Bloodletters

Chaos Space Marines with Autocannon

Plaguebearers

Bloodletters en masse

The end goal will be to produce two opposing forces (roughly 10,000 points each) and construct a series of thematic scenarios that will tell the tale of an embattled Imperial city. My current progress looks something like this:

• Blood Angels: 10,000 points - COMPLETED
• Imperial Titan Legion/Navy - In progress (40%)
• Black Legion: 10,000 points - In progress (5%)
• Chaos Titan Legion - In progress (0%)
• Chaos Navy - COMPLETED
• Terrain/City - COMPLETED
• Scenarios/Background - In progress
  

Completed Epic Table

Still a ton of work ahead of me - but I can honestly see the light at the end of the tunnel. One of the great things about Epic is how satisfying it is to paint entire units in a single sitting. At this pace - I just might complete this project before the next re-release of the game!