The Order of the Dragon's Blood?

Hello,

I am looking for a new name for my Space Marine Chapter. Formerly it was called the Emperor's Dragons but I have already found 2 other people who also have chapters called the same. Both have done theirs in Black as the base color where I went with red. I have decided to give my Chapter a new name. I am currently working with The Order of the Dragon's Blood or simply Blood Dragons. Please comment on what you think about the new name. If you have any legitimate suggestions please put them in comments as well. :) (I was also thinking about "Fire Dragons" but I think that may already be in use)

RGH

HOBBY UPDATE

I have been working on finishing up the Tac squads for the BD.

Here are the 1st and 4th squads.

1st squad

4th squad

KATO SIKARIUS

I have decided to try Cato Sicarius in my army. I bought the model and after a close examination I discovered that he is covered in Ultra Marine symbols. This was not going to work. Something had to be done. so out came the hobby tools and after a lot of work most of the Omegas were gone.



Cato's Backpack was right out! It is covered in symbols. I went with a Space wolf backpack (The one with the wolf head tied to the back.) I added some horns to it making it look more like a Dragon's skull. I think it came out pretty good.



I went for my standard Red Paint scheme instead of the Gold armor I normally use for leader types. The cloak is done more like my my space wolves rather than my normal dragon colors. it makes a nice contrast.




The Gold was done with Tin Bitz, Shining Gold with Dwarf Bronze highlights.
Leather was done with Dark Flesh, Verman Brown and Snakebite leather.
Red is too dificult to describe here. ;)


Here is the finished model.




Army List Idea.

I call it Assault/Suppression

Check it out...




Enjoy

RGH

The last few days

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Hello all,

The last few days have been interesting at the house of the RGH. The wife and I decided to get a cat. She is pretty cool. I can't belive my wife talked me into getting another Titan!



After talking to Mrs. GH It was decided that I should get the spare room for my Hobby stuff. This was no mean feat. She was using it for a home office for work and for her artistic outlet Writing. (I am trying to convince her to write a series of short stories on this Blog. No luck so far)
Instead she decided to turn the living room into her office. The dining room (my old hobby room is now the TV room.

This last weekend was spent making it a reality. We moved furniture and my hobby stuff around for over 10 hours on Saturday and spent Sunday getting ready to bring the cat home.

Cat really likes the new Digs.

Needless to say my hobby work has been put on hold. When I get back into it I plan the following projects

• Cato Sicarius (Conversion to Ordo Drakonis formerly Emperor's Dragons)
  
• Last 10 Tac Marines for Ordo Drakonis
• The Rest of the Warboss's fleet for FSA
• Waywatchers (Wood Elves) for the Wife
  

I will post Pictures when I get things back in order

Later

RGH

WANT

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/EMPIRE-MARIENBURG-CLASS-LAND-SHIP.html

This thing is insane!

That translates into 185.00 American (Not counting shipping)

RGH

Gray Knights on the way- Time to go to work!!!

The Gray Knights are up for Pre-Order

Codex Gray Knights

Nemesis Dreadknight



Lord Kaldor Draigo



It looks like they are getting the Storm Raven Too.

Rock on!!!

RGH

Dogs of War Online And Warpstoned

Dogs of war Used without permission

Check out these Blogs and Forums recently recommended.

DOW online is the source of the current Army Builder files for the "Dogs of war" army list
This is a great site as far as forums go.

Look for the interesting Alternate Warhammer fantasy lists! Nippon and Amazons just to name two.

Very cool stuff...

Warpstoned is a new Blog for Skaven that my son found. He informed me that it is interesting. It seems to be a chronicle of a skaven army in progress.

Take a look


RGH

Wargames Update 2/21/2011

Hello All!

Sorry for such a long delay. Real life has a nasty habit of Kicking you when your down and my life is no exception. 2011 is gearing up to be a challenge in both gaming, Hobby and that other stuff that I do between them.

All is not hardship though...

I have managed to paint over 100 miniatures since January 1st. Most of these are of the Micro scale and Starship scale variety. I did get a Rhino painted for my SM army but I don't have a pic for it yet.
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Last Saturday I got a Chance to play a large Warhammer Fantasy game (3K points a side) Ogre Kingdoms & Empire (1500 each) vs. Skaven: We played at the secret hideout of the "Warboss"

The game only went a few turns with the OK and Empire on top. It really could have gone ether way if the game had continued.

None of that really mattered... The best part of the day was the hanging around with the gang and getting a chance to see the new hideout. It didn't hurt that I also got to eat one of the BEST lasagna dinners I have ever had!

The Battlefield from the game

THANK YOU Mama Warboss!
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Well that is enough of that...

Here is what I am sure everyone is waiting for------------The Pictures!

Lets start with the Starships

Here are 2 of the ships I recently did for my Full Thrust (Good Guy) Fleet


Left: Galactics Battleship by Studio Bergstrom Right: converted (With Tau Bits) Republic Cruiser by AMT/ERTL

Here are some of the Bad Guy Ships


Andrayada: Varkator by Dark Realm Miniatures

3 Wasp class Frigates and a Sword of Retribution Battleship by Studio Bergstrom

Now on to the War Machines (Not the Game ;p)

Battle Mechs

Growing up Battletech was one of my favorite games and one of my earliest forays into miniature war gaming. Over the years I have collected a good amount of Battle Mech miniatures. I have not actually played the game in over a decade but it still hols a place in my gaming heart. When I discovered that i could us my mech collection in other games like Dirtside 2 and Ogre miniatures I got so excited that I stripped and repainted the entire collection. so here they are...

Battle Master, Griffin, Marauder, Hunchback
Stinger, Blackjack, Phoenix Hawk, Locust
Atlas, Archer, Atlas, Bombardier (Completed in 2010)
Locust, Locust, Valkyrie, Valkyrie (Completed in 2010)
Hunchback, Panther, Warhammer, Catapult
(The 79th AU) Hatamoto-Chi, Griffin, Crusader, Zeus
Catapult, Crusader, Panther, Rifleman
Vector (Mekton RPG)

Star fighters and Aerospace fighters

Here is a collection of ships I intend to use in Dirtside 2 as attack fighters and in Full thrust and fighter groups...

Ships from Traveler and B5 Wars. (I have no idea what the one on the far left is from)

VTOL
For use with Dirtside 2 as transports and attack craft

Dark Realm Miniatures - Humans: Lance

TANKS TANKS TANKS

I am a tread head at heart so her are my tanks on parade

Dark Realm Miniatures - Humans: Rampart


I hope you have enjoyed the latest projects from my workshop.

As always let me know what you think.

Later

RGH

Pic Update (Commissions)

Hi All,

Just a quick update to let everyone take a look at some of the commission work I am doing.
The pics are not as good as I hoped but you will get the idea.

Enjoy

Firestorm Armada:


Relthoza (For use with Full Thrust)



Terran (For use with Full Thrust)




BattleTech (For Use with Dirt side II)

The Entire Lance with Command Vehicle




Mad Dog and Command Vehicle



Fire Moth (Dasher)



Nova Cat (BattleMech)



Warhawk (Masakari)



Some of my friends and I have started looking for non GW games on the Micro Armor scale to get that big battle fix. The rules for Dirtside II and Full Thrust are FANTASTIC and FREE!

Enjoy

RGH