Baltimore Games Day 2010: The Hunt for the Red Orktoba!

This year the Ineptus Astartes asked me to paint up a 2K Valhallan Guard army for our main 40K event "The Hunt for the Red Orktoba". Well I am not a known speed painter and I only had 2 and a half months to crank out a pure infantry army. After much snarking and growling at the local battle bunker(it's true ask them!), I present my fully painted Valhallan Ice Warrior force. The force is based on the guard army of the cover of Planetstrike which featured a Valhallan army facing down an Eldar invasion. I really liked the cream colored scheme, and have attempted to copy it to my army. The army comes close to 140 models, and I was also able to talk two of my friends into loaning me the Imperial Naval support for the army.....Well here it is...finished and ready to roll out....


The Colonel and his command squad along with some Bodyguards...



1st Platoon....



2nd Platoon and Stormtrooper Support....



Sentinel Support, Valhallan Pattern with Long Barreled Lascannons


Heavy Support Gunship....


 The Red Barron flies in support of the hunt....

Alright....My Job is done....time to enjoy Gamesday! See you there....I'll post pics later! Enjoy! =)

Valkyrie Gunship

Sometimes I come across some very cool conversions at the Baltimore battle bunker. Like this one from a good friend of mine. Inspired by a WWII bomber variant, this Valkyrie has been converted to provide heavy infantry support.

With roughly 16 autocannons mounted on this monster we are talking some serious Dakka here! His rules are that all the autocannons fire, and none are twin link, just because he enjoys rolling all the dice. He is also working on rules for moving backwards, since all the cannons firing at the same time have to have some affect on motion...right? Anyways, I thought you might enjoy checking out this cool conversion....






Enjoy! ;)