Reaver Titan Tutorial: the legs

 Greetings Citizen, if you have ever dreamed of building one of the allmighty reavers, powerful machine-gods of the mechanicum, rejoice! fou our scribes have travelled to the depths of the forge world of Voss to learn the secrets of its construction from the venerable archmagos Cerverus. 

Salutacions ciutadà, si has somiat mai de construïr un dels totpoderosos reavers, poderosos déus-màquina dels mechanicum alegra't! donçs els nostres han viatjat a les profunditats del món forja de Voss per aprendre els secrets de la seva construcció del venerable arximagos Cerverus.

The first step in building your reaver is to download it's templates from the following link: http://es.scribd.com/doc/58879350/Reaver-Titan-Templates. Here you will find the measures for all the parts, but beware! because the plans are thought for paper, and you will find some problems when passing to   foamboard. Also i decided to add some changes to the plans to improve the aspect of the titan.

El primer pas per construïr el teu reaver és descarregar-se les seves plantilles del link següent: http://es.scribd.com/doc/58879350/Reaver-Titan-Templates. Aquí podràs trobar les mesures per totes les parts, peró ves amb compte! perquè els plans estan pensats pel paper i trobaràs alguns problemes al passar a cartró pedra. Alhora vaig decidir afegir alguns canvis als plànols per millorar l'aspecte del tità.

Firstly cut the foot template and start building it in 3mm foamboard. 

Primerament talles la plantilla del peu i la començes a construïr.

 The first problem that i found was in the box that houses the finger, it's too big to put all of the five boxes inside the foot. So i decided to put instead of them a foamboard plate to close the finger entrance as is shown in the pic below.

El primer problema que em vaig trobar fòu la capsa que allotja el dit, és massa gran per posar totes les cinc capses dintre del peu. Així que vaig decidir posar al seu lloc una placa de catró polma per tancar l'entrada del fit com s'aprecia a l'imatge de sota.

  It is also necessary to cut slightly inwards the left and right of each of the five "gates" that open in the exterior of the foot to fix one with the other by their sides. Above you can appreciate it.

També és necesari tallar lleugerament cap a dins la dreta i esquerra de cada una de les cinc "portes que s'obren a l'exterior del peu per fixar una amb l'altra pels seus costats. A dalt es pot observar.

 The foots finished: to add more endurance to the conjunt i added two pentagons at their base  to close them by below.

Els peus acabats: per afegir més resistència al conjunt vaig afegir dos pentàgons a la base per tancar-los des de sota.

 The fingers: you will have to deduct 6mm to the central sections of the finger to maintain sizes.

Els dits: hauràs de restar 6mm de les seccions centrals del dit per manetnir mesures.

 When putting together the fingers the result will be better if you stick all them at the same time, correcting their places to manage a perfect holding to the ground.

Quan posis els dits junts el resultat serà millor si els enganxes tots a la vegada, corretgint els seus llocs per aconseguir un suport perfecte sobre el terra.

 The next step is to build the shins. I wanted a tubular support for my legs, so I picked some medicine's tubes. But them asked for more space in the top of the shin that that shown in the template; I nedded a bigger leg, so I made four circles of  7, 8, 9 and 10 cmt with a central prisma of 4x4x10 cmt.

The medicine tubes will be linked to the hip with curd containers.

El pas següent és construïr lles canyelles. Volia un suport tubular per les meves cames, així que vaig agafar alguns tubs de medicina. Peró aquests necessitaven més espai a la part superior de la canyella, necessitava una cama més gran, així que vaig fer quatre cercles de 7, 8, 9 i 10 cmt amb un prima central de 4x4x10 cmt.

Els tubs de medicina estaran units a la cadera amb envasos de quallada.

As with the fingers you'll substract 6mm to the central sections of the prisma, deducting 3mm for each foamboard wall.

Cam amb els dits trauràs 6mm a les seccions centrals del prisma, restant 3mm per cada paret de cartró ploma.

 The finished shin.

La canyella acabada

 The third step is to build the armour. As the leg was bigger i made a bigger plate thanthat on the plan, extending it to 13 cmt of height.

El tercer pas és construïr l'armadura. Com la cama era més gran vaig fer una placa més granm que el plànol, extenent-la a 13 cmt d'alçada.

The three aquilas: pink for the torso, yellow for the legs.

Les tres aquiles: rosa pel tors i grogues per les cames. 

 When sticking the aquila and parchements to the armour, it's important to be generous with the glue to assure the best subjection of the decorations when enveloping the leg squeleton; let it  dry and then stick the armour to the leg subjecting it with rubber bands.

Quan enganxis l'aquila i els pergamins a l'armadura, és important ser generós amb la cola per assegurar la millor subjecció de les decoracions quan envoltis l'esquelet de la cama: deixa-ho assecar i llavors enganxa l'armadura a la cama aguantant-la amb gomes de pollastre.

 Experimentally i tried to curve the aquila previously, but the results where pretty much the same.

Experimentalment vaig intentar corbar l'aquila prèviament, peró els resultats eren  els mateixos.

 Add two circles to the top and bottom of the leg to make it easier to link with the other parts.

Afegeix dos cercles a dalt i baix de la cama per facilitar l'unió amb les altres parts.

Magos Cerverus inspects the finished legs. note the flaming eagle head, the symbol of my own titan legion: the LEGIO AQUILARUM.

El Magos Cerverus inspecciona les cames acabades. Fixeu-vos en el cap flamejant de l'àliga, el símbol de la meva pròpia legió de titans: la LEGIO AQUILARUM

The bombing of Galway

It's a cloudy day in the Black and Tans's station in Galway, nothing seems unusal for the british forces, and the men go on their business as usual. But Capitain Sagnier and his men are unaware that a column of IRA rifles has surrounded their position moving under cover. Mc Cormak, the republican leader plans to put a bomb into the station and after it blows up launch the assault and finish off the survivors.

 The black an tans'll have to spot the bomber wo starts the game in the cottage at the backgroud, and prevent him from reaching the station before the bomb explodes. The bomb has a timing dice, the IRA decided to put the clock to five turns. 

Game played with a world aflame rulebook.

 A view of the british car park: two vans and one austin armoured car.

 And so the game begins, the armoured car starts moving in patrol.

 The  bomber runs and hides behind a close

 Two soldiers advance to inspect a nearby hill in search of irishs

 Without being spotted the bomber places his charge against the wall

 But seems to have some armoured problems. The Austin spots him and sounds the alarm!

 The IRA shows amongst the confusion.

 To the terror of the patrollers

 A lone irishman tries to put the austin out of action with a  Molotov, but misses.

 Everyone to the windows!

 Shots fall from everywhere into the station, even an irish mortar starts to roar

Putting out of action a lightmachine gun an the royal mortar. 

 the british player decides to move the austin into cover

 and finish off the bomber

 his men try to kill the irishs, but they are in good cover behind the hill and the forest and a 6+ is need to take casualties

 Sadly, the machine gun has no such limitations, killing on 5+, and in a single turn kills half of a IRA unit after avoiding a second molotov.

 But finally the clock rings!

 And blows half of the station alongside with four black an tans including both the two unit's leaders, the morale will resent seriously for that.

 At last an irish scores a hit and the austin burns, a lone member of the crew makes his way out but is killed by concentrated rifle fire. The british player decided not to move it and made the car a perfect target.

 Capitain Sagnier climbs upstairs and kills the remnants of the unit that has advanced boldly in order to take the austin out of action.

 The irish leader directs from safety, behind the hill and near the mortar.

 The brits suffer heavy losses, now just remain Sagnier, his aid Henry and two units reduced to one men!

 Hapily, the chance cards favour them with a disguised agent that cannot be fired from the irish side if he doesen't fire himself.

 Henry, let's run the hell out of here!

 aargh, continue without me, they have hit me in the back

 Must, reach, the, van!

 Too late!

 But the two men remaining won't surrender without a fight! one takes a van and starts to run over IRA surprised men. Meanwhile, the irishs recover a casualty thanks to Gandpa Mac Cormak's Liquor chance card!

 His mate does the same to the wheel of the other

 But their mad run is brought to an end by a hand grenade

 ... and a molotov

 Running from the flames of the molotov the last brit is shoot down by his pursuers.

So a clear irish victory, that althogut 50% of losses has captured the station with it's weapons and information and left no balck and tan alive.

An the disguised brit? Well it seems that undercover life was too much for him as he was seduced by a local girl as a result of another chance card.

Irish War of Independence

1921: two armies: the black an tans and the IRA, confronted to decide the fate of Ireland.  Will the sons of the emerld isle be capable of throwing the brits oversea or will His magesty's troops hold the island into the empire once more?

1:72 scale
The black an tans are emhar's british infantry WWI with the helmets removed and the bonets made of greenstuf. Their vans come from pegasus german trucks and the Austin armoured car of victory/pobeda. The later is an sepecialy interesting adquisition for it comes with 6 comunists of the russian civil war.
The IRA are caesar partisans.

The Host of the Kraken (1)

Dark elf army raiding from the black Ark Fortress of Pleasure

Bolt trower, Lancers and Archers (count as repeater crossboxs) from mantic miniatures. Note that the coat of arms of the Ark (a kraken) is displeyedin all the shields.

 The fortress of pleasure

Mors Sector Campaign Map

After reading some Planetary & mighty empires rulesets i decided to create my own  40K campaign Map. This map is designed to fiels a total of four armies, each one starts with a capital planet and some space to expand and develop, the idea is to confront the planets in the right with the planets in the left (two bad and good alliances) if further players want to join a capital planet and two other planets must be added in additional space. The small planets may have buildings and resources in them assigned randomly.

The movements is by warp jumps, the green lines without numbers are nexus between planets that don't affect the movement, the ones with numbers are the total of movement subtracted. Once moving ito a major planet you may decide in wich territory to deploy so protecting your own capital becomes primary strategycal need.