Kit review, magnetizing, adding LED lights to the Hippogriff and Centaur... also painting

I haven't bought Warhammer in a while... and of course they went ahead and released new Guard vehicles. Well here they are! 

Astra Militarum vs Tyranids, 31.08.2026

Back for revenge with the nuns, this time I changed up everything. Well, almost everything. We were too excited to start and I didn't take pictures with the deployment, so take a look at the map after round 1. I went all in with Scions, and with the Armored Infantry detachment I can redeploy 2 more squads into reserves. That means I only got Gaunt, Sly Marbo, Kroyle, a Callidus, a squad of Cadians and a random Cyclops Demolition Vehicle because of points. Everything else is Militarum Tempestus in deep strike. I also took Take and Hold disposition and fixed secondaries to destroy the Tyranid monsters.

Painting donkey cavalry as rough riders/death riders

I painted some more of these donkey riders to reach some respectable numbers in case I ever need more Guard cavalry.

Group picture with all the donkey cavalry

Painting Kriegers

With the final installment of Kriegers painted, time to consolidate the color scheme and all.

Group photo of every Krieger in blue-grey

Astra Militarum vs Tyranids, 25.08.2026

Giving my mixed list another go: tanks and scions vs Tyranid monsters. I thought I'd have an easy time, with all tanks having lethal hits against the monsters, and the scions rerolling to wound...  well, not so much.

Tyranids got first turn and took position for early Take and Hold points.

Painting Cadian command squads in the brown and black of the Carmelites

Rounding out my 3x20 squads of black-and-white Cadian shock nuns, these command squads include extra models in case of exchanging the currently useful weapon types.

Astra Militarum vs Orks, 06.08.2026

After the first three games of infantry squads dying in droves, I cooked up a list of tanks backed up deep striking Scions. Test subject: Orks! I got first turn, and I sent all 3 of my battle tanks into reserves, wanting to ambush the orks on all sides. Seeing the field clear, the boys scouted up 6".

Painting Inquisitor Kroyle

Loosely follow this excellent video by the Warhipster, at least for the mount.

Converting and painting 3d printed Escher proxies as Kasrkin and Cadian officers

The second batch of 3d printed Escher-Kasrkin also include officers: Cadian Castellans for the squads, as well as an Ursula Creed proxy. Besides the random colors, I got to experiment with transparent fabric.

Astra Militarum vs Imperial Knights, 06.07.2026

One last try of the same Grizzled Company list. The Knights played Purge the Foe. Simple list: 5 big knights and a navigator.

Astra Militarum vs Adeptus Custodes, 02.07.2026

For variety, my second game of 11th edition was... also Priority Assets vs Disruption, but this time against Custodes. I brought the same list, with infantry on the right flank ready to take the middle, and heavy hitters on the left.

Astra Militarum vs Dark Angels, 23.06.2026

11th edition starts with a paintball match between friendly imperial forces. We were pretty sure that the terrain footprints were off by a bit, but who cares. I tried a new detachment: the Grizzled Company a.k.a. "I don't like to miss". The Dark Angels brought All The Plasma Ever. Well haha, my girls are T3.

The Dark Angels played "Locate and Deny" where they place a bunch of markers in terrain. I got the opposing "Extract Relic" where I must remove the markers. We got a bit over eager - no deployment pictures. I got turn 1, so have at it!

Chaos Marines/Dark Angels vs Thousand Sons/Tyranids, 09.06.2026

For (probably?) the last game of 10th edition, we played a 2v2 scenario: The Relic. One objective in the middle, you can pick it up with infantry. The dice decided that Lion El'Jonson should ally with his Fallen sons against the Thousand Sons, who are probably controlling the Tyranids through warp-born sorcery. Deployment: Hammer and Anvil. 

We got first turn and moved up in the cover of ruins. Our opponents also surged forwards, putting 'gaunts on the Relic.

Converting and painting Palatine Guard as Death Korps of Krieg

Along with the rest of the Papal Palatine Guard, a proxy squad of Krieg infantrymen now join the army.

Chaos Marines vs Thousand Sons vs Tyranids vs Aeldari, 12.05.2026

My first game of Warhammer 40,000 since the happening, CARNAGE! a.k.a. Triumph and Treachery 40k edition. I proposed a chaos versus xenos alliance, and everybody just rolled with it.

I went first which I definitely did not want, so I hid and hoped my ally wouldn't betray me. The Tyranids went forth to assault the Thousand Sons but got a bloody nose.

The Wraithknight shot my Rhino, and left it at 1 wound.

Painting Field Ordnance - Heavy lascannons

The final missing variant of the Field Ordnance Batteries. 

Painting 3d printed Escher proxies as Kasrkin

I decided to max out my Kasrkin and obviously I continued with this project. I bought a box of 10, made an excel sheet on what I can convert and what I need. As I didn't want to buy another box of 10 to have more leftovers, I decided on hunting down some 3d proxies. Now some of these are really uncanny, out of scale, thick and so on. Whatever.

Converting and painting Palatine Guard as Krieg Combat Engineers (with mine dogs)

More Napoleonic Kriegers, this time the Combat Engineers. Instead of drones, they will use WW2 Russian mine dogs.

Converting and painting Palatine Guard as Krieg Heavy Weapons Squads

Inspired by the artillery teams, I continued to use up my Napoleonic infantry as Kriegers. 

Painting a 3d printed Culexus assassin

I hunted for an old Culexus model for a while, but I was unable to find one, so I had it 3d printed.