2009 December | Broken Paintbrush

Dec 30 2009

A Year in Review

After reading through December’s White Dwarf article about GW’s year in review I was inspired to look back on what I had accomplished this year.

January	The 14th Grand Company blog is started The Iron Warriors are started: Baneblade Dreadnaught Land Raider Captain Nestryx Raptors
February	Must have slept through this month!
March	The scratch built titan is started The Basilisk company is finished
April	Defilier Terminators A little progress on the titan Chaos Space Marine Squad
May	Another CSM troop squad done Three weeks in the hospital for appendicitis
June	The traitor guard army begins with Platoon Command The Warsmith is started My first 40k tourny, taking 2nd place
July	The Warsmith is painted The Traitor Guard grows with Platoon with lascannon support Seattle hits 90+ degree temperatures and I learn how to paint in the heat
August	Another platoon finished I join A Tale of Even More Painters and 73rd encourages many to finish those projects The Company command is finished and the traitor guard is a legit army A Leman Russ appears as the first traitor tank A bit more work on the titan And two sentinels are also added to the traitors
September	The Scout Sentinels are finished A missile launcher squad is also finished
October	I try something new and paint up a Tau Shas’O
November	I finish my side track with the Tau with another battle suite Two Banewolves join the Traitor legions Attend Tanksgiving at the local GW with 800 tanks, creatures and super heavies (26 from the 14th alone!)
December	A Leman Russ Demolisher is finished

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Dec 6 2009

Another Tank Swells the Ranks – ToEMP #8 Done

I have just finished another tank to my growing horde of traitor guard. This one is the dreaded Leman Russ Demolisher with sponsoon plasma cannons. Indeed it is a pricy tank, but when it lets loose, it is sure worth it. Thanks to the Lumbering Behemoth rule it can move 6″ and still fire off the demolisher and a plasma cannon, ensuring the destruction of any squad unlucky enough to get in its way.

The demolisher cannon is a kit bash using the Banehammer cannon that I didn’t use for my Baneblade. I had 4 Leman Russ kits, a built Leman Russ and an old built Leman Russ demolisher so I decided to build my own demolisher cannons to create two full squads of tanks, one of the traditional LR and another of demolishers (the other 4 tanks are built and painting has started so watch for them!)

Every weapon on the tank is AP2, ensuring that anything that the tank hits will not get a armor save.