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The belon tames the butterfly for a day
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About the Project
Woke up this morning and decided I'm gonna kick the hobby butterfly in the nuts and complete a project for dungeonalia today. Looked up at the pile of potential and decided that the futuristic dungeon crawler space hulk needed some tlc. I got the Box of the shelf blew of the dust then realised most of the models had been used on other projects, never fear the bits box was to the rescue so I cobbled together the bits I needed to make the set complete by this evening.
Related Game: Space Hulk
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
Related Contest: Dungeonalia 2023
This Project is Completed
11 o clock am
The game originally had 10 x terminators and 20 x genestealers.Hunted out the models that I needed from various boxes of toot.
Rebased the little dudes onto original sized bases so they fit on the board squares.
12.14 making a terminator captain.
Thought it would be cool idea to convert the captain so he has a power sword.Cut off his powerfist with snippers leaving a big gouge in his leg.
Never fear as purity seals quick and easily cover a huge amount of sins.
Bam ? Made the purity seal from two slithers of card and a blob of green stuff.
Found some metal terminator bits whilst looking for a power sword so that's the 2nd captain sorted.
Making the purity seal from card strips
A blob of greenstuff was then added as well as a cool tilting shield that I found
Swish new sword and a greenstuff elbow1.30 everyone is built and based, but first time for a coffee.
For the bases I went with good old sand I know bits of metal and mesh would make more sense but with my self imposed time limit I'm going with space rocks1.30 time to choose some colours
The base for the genestealers is kantor blue the fleshy bits ended up as deamonette hide as the other paint was solid.
Howling griffons are my chapter of choice so went with Averland sunset and mephiston redWas going to use the v2 speed paints but did not have the colours I needed so went with good old gw base paints as they will give a great coverage that should only need one coat and will also act as the base coat saving some time.
5 pm
The genestealers now have kantor blue carapace purple wormy bits and corax whit claws along with mephaston red wiggly tongues. The bases are painted dark grey6.45
The marines are now painted in quarters, weapons and other metal parts are dark grey and bases are also grey. The power swords have a coat of vallejo ultramarine blue and the eyes are vallejo electric blue.7.15 drybrush everything bleached bone
Everything gets a drybrush of off Wightto add some highlites before splashing army painter strong tone on everything
7.50
Remembered I had some griffon transfers from another project so added them to the marines.Whilst that was all drying everyone’s base rim was painted black, the marines transfers were covered in satin varnish. Then left to dry.
8.41 pm the end is in sight
Everyone gets a wash of army painter strong tone mixed with about a third water. Just have to wait for it to dry now10.53 bam
Space bugs are dry and ak ultra matt varnished
Marine squad one, matt varnish on the body's and gloss on the weapons
Marine squad 2
First attempt at mission 1for a few years
The squad lined up in the boarding torpedo. Sergent first followed by a standard terminator then the flamer followed by 2 more standard terminators
The mission is to flame the room with the red cross
The first turn starts well by drawing 5 cp, the sergeant opens the door and moves forward taking his free shot immediately jamming his storm bolter so I use a cp to unjam him allowing him to move forward again destroying the door with his free shot. Marine 2 moves up to cover the door to the right as scans show signs of movement in that direction. The rest of the squad moves up behind the sergent
The genestealers gain a blip and they all begin to move forward but try to stay out if sight
Turn 2 . The marine covering the flank opens the door and enters over watch, the other members of the squad move on towards the target keeping an eye out for the aliens appearing on the auspex trackers. The genstealers gain another blip, then reveal the blips in the room and charge down the marine on overwatch. He despatches one alien before his bolter jams the other three aliens swarm in but do not have enough points to attack.
Doh!! The beginning of turn 3 does not look great 
Bam ? the jammed marine cooly unjams his bolter and fires sustained shots into the aliens bearing down on him turning each one into a foul stain in the corridor. The sergeant was not so lucky. Forgetting to go on over watch the genestealers swarm down towards him. With no cps left all he can do is watch as they scuttle closer at unnatural speed. 
"Game over man" the sergeant fought valiantly drawing the first combat before being struck down, leaving the marine with the flamer un protected. With the loss of the flamer the mission was over before it even begun.Bam ? mission complete.
I’m very happy with how the project went especially in my self imposed time limit.
I’m pleasently surprised I managed to paint it all and get a quick game in all in a single day.
It’s definatly cooler playing the game fully painted, even if I did loose.
This project brought back loads of memories of me and my big brother battling over space hulks and hive worlds during the summer holidays in my aunt and uncles attic. I was in control of the alien genestealers and my big bro controlled the marines, hopefully now its all painted we will get a game in one day in the future.
I suppose next I have to clean up the genestealer and deathwing expansion….. but that’s for another day.
