My competition entry

War and Peace Games, an Australian web seller of all things War Gaming have a competition at the moment to win some credit to spend. That would be great wouldn't it, but I probably face some stiff competition no doubt. The ccategories are Space Marine (figure or vehicle) and Bolt Action WW2 28mm (figure or vehicle). I don't have any 28mm WW2 in my collection but I do have some Nurgle Chaos Space Marine toys from a few years back. It's been a long time since I looked at them and even longer since I played a game of Warhammer 40 billion. I have no intention of picking up that game again. It seemed to get more and more expensive and this was just one of the reason I lost interest. Below is my entry that I sent them. I had to dig around in my storage to find this Dreadnought. I recall getting a regular good guy space marine Dreadnought and having a lot of fun converting it. I chopped the legs off a Nurgle demon and blended him into the model. I like the way the 3 circle scab wounds turned out with a bit of oozy red gloss particularly on the banner.

It's a gruesome beast especially with that Demons guts on display.

Cheers from Brendon (The Kiwi)

Blast from the past.

Many years ago I used to play this game called Warhammer 40,000. You may have heard of it. I collected, built and painted a Traitor Imperial Guard army (The Lost and the Damned) but it also doubled as a regular Imperial Guard army. I was attracted to The Lost and the Damned because it had Mutants as a unit option. I like mutants and, have liked them since seeing them in all sorts of varieties in a comic I used to read in the 1980s. Judge Dredd and his encounters with the Atomic wasteland known as The Cursed Earth was the place to see mutants. The Cursed Earth was basically any place in the future USA that was not a walled mega-city. Anyway I found this old digital photo I captured years ago. I went to a bit of trouble with this one by sprinkling Northern Territory outback sand on black paper and including my home made crater pieces. That same sand I used as basing material and I liked the colour so much I didn't bother painting it. I may have some more pics that I took but this is one I stumbled across. The tanks of course had the mandatory chaos spikes added to give them that right 'Mad Max 2' look. It looks like the picture may have been taken by some sort of over head battle camera or satellite. It might be a good candidate image to trick up a bit in Photoshop or some such software. I don't play 40k no more and have no intentions of returning to that game.

Anyway cheers for now from Brendon (The Kiwi).