Saim Hermit

Ok...

After the demoralizing post the other day about how much I have left to do I figured I would maybe post some of the things I have complete. I will start off with my very meager Saim Hermit Army.

Weighing in at a mere 500 (492 to be exact) points it is perfect for a fun game with friends or my son...

Farseer (108)
Jetbike, Singing Spear, Guide

Guardian Jetbike Squad (152)
6 Guardians, 2 Shuriken Cannons

Guardian Jetbike Squad (152)
6 Guardians, 2 Shuriken Cannons

Vyper (70)
Starcannon, Shuriken Cannon

All Apologies

Does anyone else hear Kurt in the background...

Sorry for the lack of updates, been hectic around here as of late. This post will be a minor update for my loyal readers... I owe both of you lunch or something...

I now have enough to field 500 points of Saim-Hermit. I broke down and bought some red spray paint and some Testor's Window Tint stuff. I have the vYper (odd spelling thanks to Sherpa... I saw him do it and thought it looked cool... NINJA!) and 4 jetbikes painted up. I have 1 "Farseer" painted red and tinted, along with 8 more jetbikes.

I have the Farseer in quotes as he will not really be my farseer bu rather one of my 5 warlocks later. I did a real simple conversion and ordered up some dire avenger bits. I really liked the exarch sword, so I ordered up 5. I also got the exarch chest piece and bare head. Not sure if the warlocks are supposed to be girls or not, but I liked the look so went with the dude.

For my Farseer I plan on Ninjaing another bloggers work and copying CJ. I thought that looked really good and will make my farseer stand out... Unless of course I ever meet up with CJ at a tournie or other event :)

Now...

You may be asking yourself... "Self... What is that testor's window tint Hermit is talking about?" Well... your self could not possibly answer that question as clearly you do not know. Unless of course you know what it is, at which point your are just messing with your self...

Ahem...

The Testor's Window Tint is a really neat product that a local gamer introduced me to. It is like a spray on wash. It is getting the look that I want for my jetbikes pretty quickly. At least the base coat and saves me a lot of work.

Sorry no images today... Lazy... Will post updates of Saim-Hermit soon.

Much Improvement

Last night my son and I played a game of 40k. He was tying out his Chaos Army that we are working on for him. I am building him a Plague Marine force, based off of what is nasty and what he likes. A blending of the two that fits the way he plays. I allowed him to choose what 500 point force I was going to play. My orks with new Warboss on bike, or my Saim-Hermit. He chose Saim-Hermit.

Saim-Hermit (500ish)
Farseer on bike, Doom, Shining Spear

6 Guardian Jetbikes, 2 Shuriken Cannons

6 Guardian Jetbikes, 2 Shuriken Cannons

Vyper, Starcannon, Shuriken Cannon


Nurgle Marines(900ish)
Chaos Lord, Terminator, Mark of Nurgle, Lightning claws

6 Plague Marines, 2 Meltagun, Champion, Power Weapon, Plasma Pistol

6 Plague Marines, 2 Meltagun, Champion, Power Weapon, Plasma Pistol

6 Plague Marines, 2 Meltagun, Champion, Power Weapon, Plasma Pistol

Defiler


It was a fun game. It was a tie, more importantly my son is learning from previous games. When I field my orks against him he spreads out so that my Warboss and company can not pile into everything at once. When I play Eldar he plays close so that I can not easily pick him off.

I managed to kill the Defiler and a couple of Plague Marines.

He took my Farseer and Vyper.

He killed more points that I, but not enough for a victory. He was close though and made sure that I knew it.

Attack of the Proxidar

So here is my finest work yet. Perfectly based. Perfectly painted. I put this all together in one evening and it adds up to 2k.

I mean come on! Just look at that detail. Did you see the blending on that one Wave Serpent? Amazing! Highlights, shadows... I have simply outdone myself...

2000 Point Robotech

Ok... So this is not really Robotech. It was false advertising... When I first thought of it though I though... hey... This reminds me of that cartoon I watched as a kid with all the Zentradi. It had jetbikes, and walkers and cool flying things... yea...

So here is what crazy idea that I came up with. I love crazy lists... and this is one of them.

NEW & Improved List (I did not realize the Walker weapons would not be twin-linked... thus the change)

Autarch
Avenger Shuriken Catapult

Autarch
Avenger Shuriken Catapult

9 Dire Avengers
Exarch, Bladestorm

Wave Serpent
Twin-Linked Brightlance, Star Engines

9 Dire Avengers
Exarch, Bladestorm

Wave Serpent
Twin-Linked Brightlance, Star Engines

Vyper Squad (3)
Brightlance

Vyper Squad (3)
Starcannon

Vyper Squad (3)
Eldar Missile Launcher

War Walker Squad (3)
Eldar Missile Launcher

War Walker Squad (3)
Starcannon

War Walker Squad (3)
Scatter Laser

Did you see that? 2000 points with 9 vypers and 9 war walkers... crazy. Is it a good list? I do not know... Do I care? Nope lol

As some of you may know I love to field crazy things... This certainly qualifies... Time to start buying up some models...

Sherpa, if you are reading this... Now who seems crazier :) Great job on those trees again.

My Starter Eldar

Ok... so here is how my first 500 points of Eldar shall go down. It may not be the most tactically sound, but it is what I want to see on the table. Often times I will play an army list that is weak just because it is how I want to see it fielded. I have my lists built all the way out to my proposed 2000 list, where in theory is where I want to stop.

500 ELDAR

FARSEER [113]
Farseer ( 55), Jetbike (30), Shining Spear (3), Doom (25)

GUARDIAN JETBIKE SQUAD [152]
6 Guardians (132), 2 Shuriken Cannon (20)

GUARDIAN JETBIKE SQUAD [152]
6 Guardians (132), 2 Shuriken Cannon (20)

VYPER SQUAD [80]
Vyper (45), Star Cannon (25), Shuriken Cannon (10)


In other news. I made up some "CD" terrain this weekend to test how I liked it. I think it turned out ok. I used the wrong type of glue on a couple of them and it really stands out, but otherwise I am happy. I will create some more and perhaps even do my very first ever tutorial... Not like this simple stuff needs one... This way I feel important though :)

Saim-Hermit

I have watched too many of Fritz's videos as of late... Between him and my good blogging buddy Sherpa I just had to start my own.

At this past Hobbit RTT that I attended I really love my deffkoptas. That got me thinking... Why not do a whole army like that? hmmm...

Ravenwing? Nope

Dark Eldar? Nope (really close though)

Eldar? Nop... Yep!

Better yet... I shall run Saim-Hermit along side of WAAAGH! Hermit, and to a lesser extent my UltraHermits. I have a trend going... must keep with it.

Below you shall see how I put my meager painting skills to the eldar. I have 4 bikes on the way and just need some fantasy elf bits to convert up a seer council and start playing to do Fritz proud.