Huge props to the 40k Blog and podcast communities

You guys are Awesome! I really appreciate the outpouring of support in this dark time for me. I am very touched by all the well wishes and offers to help with replacement, you have rekindled my faith in the gaming community.

Ya'll have helped me through this bleak day and gave me many chuckles to lighten my mood!

An additional big thank you to my buddy Magilla Gurilla from Tabletop War and his efforts to coordinate the replacement for the lost minis. He immediately jumped into action taking my story to our friends in the Podcast community posting a call for help on the Independent Characters and 11th Company forums. I have also gotten the support of my friends at the Gamers Lounge and Dice Like Thunder podcasts.

Looks like I will be able to recoup most of my losses in plastic through your generosity.

Again I am extremely grateful for the support.

Lucky for me I decided not to rebase the Sorcerer Xusia or the DP Titus the Butcher, so at least I am rebooting the project with two fully painted and converted leaders!

Fear not the Soul Reapers will return and sally forth from the Storm of Souls to wreak havoc on the tabletops once again! I have put too much blood, sweat and tears into the army and mini-dex to let this sort of thing derail me. I am a wargamer and that will never change.

Sometime tomorrow I will put up my plan for rebuilding the Soul Reapers.

Edit: Thanks to Menzies the artist behind the Soul Reapers for this great missing poster, that gave me a good giggle with my morning coffee!

Tragedy strikes: the Soul Reapers have been stolen!

I spent this weekend over at my buddies house building transports and finishing up the rebasing efforts on the Soul Reapers. I built and painted 55 bases and remounted all my painted models; the army was looking schweet. I was feeling very satisfied and was looking forward to a fun photo shoot to show the Soul Reapers in all the ruined temple based glory.

I had to work the graveyard shift last night, so I packed up the Reapers and headed to work. I parked as usual in the security patrolled, gated parking lot, right next to the office door and went in for my shift. We had two operators out last night so I spent the night moving pallets instead of in the office as usual.

The crew and I headed out for breakfast/lunch at the Denny's down the road round 4AM. My van and models were intact at the time, I know this cause I shuttled 6 of us.

We ate and headed back to work around 5AM. A few of us went outside for a smoke break around 8AM only to find 6 smashed windows, including the rear window of my van. My heart sunk as I stood there in the rain dreading the inevitable result.

I lost 3 just built unpainted Rhinos, 2 converted Chaos Drop Pods, 35 Basic CSM, 10 Terminators, 6 bikes, two converted Oblits and two Dreads including my FW one. The one model lost that really kills me is the finalized conversion of Warlord Krüg from the FW lord Zufor mini. Dear lord that was a lot of hours lost for a mini I will never get to paint.

I am just at a total loss, I feel sick to my stomach. I certainly did not want to start the Soul Reapers from the ground floor again. I will rebuild it, it just won't have the same feel to the army. I already have about half of the models to replace what was lost, but it will take me a while to repurchase the rest, I just don't have the disposable income I used too.

I may take a few days off from the internet, so if you don't here from me after today for a bit don't worry I will be back.

Thanks for your time,
Jim

Full frontal Space Shark: the redo

I redid Sgt Quints eyes and created a bottom row of teeth. He is still not perfect, but it is much better than the crazy eyes from the original pics.

You can see the 360 shots in the proceeding post!

Space Sharks Spec Ops Team Megalodon: Veteran Brother Sgt Quint

Just when you thought is was safe to go back into space! Sgt Quint shows up to exact the Emperors will, here he is in all his finished glory!

Overall I am quite happy with the mini, there are a few things that could have been done better. Like his eyes and the iron cross on his right shoulder pauldron. I will revisit both at a later date.

I went old school on the power sword going with colored metallics for the blade; it is the way I did them up until the mid ninety's. I think it turned out nifty, although this is the one thing I figured might get grief over.

I am very pleased with his skin tone, I had over highlighted it and thought I was done-fore. As a gamble I gave it a watered down sepia wash, then Bam, success!

I went with red for the stamps on the purity seals to give the rather drab scheme a splash of color. I left the red stripe off of the helmet, I thought it might be a bit much and detract from the camo's effect.

Team Megalodon Camo sneak peek

I decided to change main color a bit and the bramble camo from black to green. I think it has turned out pretty nice.



Here is the original from the Badab War article back in Rogue Trader days.

2nd Killzone Blitz update

This comment by Syko really hit home for me, as I have friends deployed in Afghanistan.

Syko said...

Just so you know, KillZone has been getting a ton of play here at Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan. On Saturday we had 4 tables going with games in the campaign I'm running. Great times with a great game.

I am truly honored and happy that you guys are enjoying Killzone! It is awesome to give you guys a game that you can enjoy in your down time. I pray that you all make it home safe.

Ron is giving Killzone a permanent link on From the Warp under FTW Member projects

JabberJabber posted a fun little battle report on Warpstone Flux

Counterfett posted his Chaos Marine team on All things Fett

Papa JJ shows off his outstanding Rogue Trader themed team on Dice Rolla

Elburn talks about making a Death Watch Killteam for Killzone over on the Painting Sanctuary

Finally, my buddies over on Dice Like Thunder mention the Blitz on Episode 104

Killzone Special Operations Group: Red Water

I've decided to combine Killzone with the Badab War stroyline.

Here is the list and ideas behind the Space Sharks SOG Red Water: Team Megalodon.



This whole group will be decked out in Badab War Camo, with a slight revision to the scheme.

Here is the 250 point list for team Megalodon:

Team Leader
Sternguard Vet Sgt Brother Quint
Bolter, Power Weapon, close combat accessory, Refractor field.

Sternguard Vet Brother Hooper
close combat accessory, Medipack

Sternguard Vet Brother Taylor
close combat accessory

Tactical Marine Sgt Brother Brody
Bolt pistol, Power Weapon,

Tactical Marine Brother Vaughn
Heavy Bolter, suspensors, shooting Rending

Tactical Marine Brother Riley
Plasma Gun, master crafted

Tactical Marine Brother Blane
Bolter, close combat accessory


Here is the model for Vet Brother Sgt Quint.

The first Blitz update!

Killzone around the interwebs:

A Gentleman's Ones introduces his Ork Special Operations Group.

Sons of Taurus talks team ideas

All things Fett talks Killzone and promises more updates!

Warpstoneflux is going to do a battle report.

World of Wonder says Everyone needs to start somewhere!

Brent on Strictly Average shows us his Chaos Marine Spec ops Group.

Blood of Kittens interviews me about Killzone.

Bell of Lost Souls Killzone coverage.

I'll be back around 3PM PST with the plans for Spec Ops Group: Red Water; Team Megalodon. So check back then!

Welcome to the beginning of the Killzone Blitz!

I decided to make today 10/10/10 the beginning of a Revolution. It has already begun, it will happen in small increments. The goal is to slowly shift the paradigm and create a golden age for homebrew rules and content on the 40k gaming tables around the globe.

The creative gamers in the 40k community deserve representation at the major events just as much as the competitive guys do. Thankfully Adepticon is all about the community at large and have given Killzone a platform to preform at. We will have Three events over the weekend, which is pretty stellar!

It is time for us to have a voice. I wish that someday we have the similar problems as the competitive guys do; like the whole Comp, no Comp debate. These mainstream players have no idea how nice they have it.

I want to thank the Guys at Dice like Thunder and Bell of Lost Souls for keeping the homebrew mindset alive.

So today is the Beginning of Killzone Week here on Galaxy in Flames. I will be posting lots of kool stuff in the coming hours and days, so keep an eye out!

I'll be back in a couple of hours to post some more Killzone content!

Ultramarines trailer 2

We finally know who they are fighting, Chaos Marines FTW! I shall rejoice with every blue armored death!

I don't care what the naysayers are griping about, I think the movie looks fantastic! I cannot wait until November!

Soul Reapers new basing theme

I have been debating what theme I have wanted to have for the bases of the Soul Reapers. I new I wanted some ancient ruins in the theme, but I also like the idea of a rocky mountainous theme too. So it has been a struggle. I did order a smattering of Dragonforge bases, and they are fantastic. I just took a major hit to my disposable income with my new job and it will just cost more than I am willing to spend on bases to outfit 2/3rds of the force with them.

So I have decided to make my own custom bases combining both themes, using plasticard and cork for rocks. (I was already using some cork on my bases.)

The over arcing theme of the bases will be fighting over some lost city hidden in a forgotten mountain rage somewhere on the Eastern Fringe. Which fits the search for the Artifacts of Salmora background of the Warband.

Here are the unpainted Gore Daemons on the first examples of the new basing. I think they will work great, they are just a little labor intensive to build.




One of the Gore Daemons carries the Icon of Salmora a powerful artifact that will be added to the next update of the mini-dex.