AdMech: Inspiration: Official GW Adeptus Mechanicus models!

I'm so excited about the up-coming official GW release of Adeptus Mechanicus skitarii! The new models really capture the feel of the tech-guard end of the skitarii spectrum, in my mind. They're very different from the skitarii found in Titanicus (who were almost feral - with tattoos, totems, and so on, and were the guys I was emulating with my ork-based conversions), but they really match up to the guys from Dark Apostle and lots of other sources. And match well to lots of fan-made converted Skitarii.

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AdMech: Converting & Painting: Baron Galfridas de Nordcote, Converted Imperial Knight

My converted Imperial Knight, Baron Galfridas de Nordcote, is now all painted. Here he is with his smaller cousins:

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AdMech: Converting: Imperial Knight converted to Knight Baron

Baron Galfridas de Nordcote, along with the rest of House Nordcote:

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AdMech: Converting & Painting: My AdMech Army So Far

Not updated in ages - sorry! I love the Adeptus Mechanicus! There are so many really cool converted armies of them out there, with such strong themes. Mine's not really one of them, it's more of a random collection of pieces that I've made over 5 years or so. But it's kept me entertained! Next I want to add the new GW Knight Titans (if they do make them!), all the lovely Forgeworld pieces, and I have a set of Skullz models sitting around waiting to be painted. Then an armies on parade board... There's always something new to add! All the photos are on Flickr here The whole army:
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AdMech: Converting: Knight Warden

The Warden is my third Knight. Wardens are heavy support Knights, crewed by semi-retired veterans, which are only used in the direst of circumstances. The Epic models were very varied, but Warden 1 is probably the most famous: overlapping armour plates, stubby arms with gatling cannons, carapace mounted missile launcher.

AdMech: Converting: Knight Lancer

And here's the second Knight. This guy is a Lancer, a fast scout Knight armed with a battlecannon and a power lance. I wanted to keep some unifying elements (sentinel head, loin-banner, colour scheme), but shake things up and make it clearly a different type of Knight. And as it's meant to be a scout I wanted it more stream-lined and lanky...

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AdMech: Converting & Painting: Knight Paladin

I'm currently preparing my Adeptus Mechanicus army for Armies on Parade. And I wanted some big impressive eye-catching centrepieces - I wanted Knights!

Step 1 was to do some research (you can tell I'm a librarian in real life, right?) So I devoured the original fluff and scoured the internet to see how other people had converted their Knights, and gathered all my findings and links into the uber-post here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=248882

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AdMech: Converting & Painting: Armies on Parade

Hello, world. It's been a while!

I'm currently revamping my Adeptus Mechanicus army, preparing for Armies on Parade.

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AdMech: Inspiration: Asymmetrical Xeno

I've just found a very nice "Cult of the Dragon" AdMech army.

Made mostly by mixing Iron Brotherhood and Necron Warrior parts, it's a very dark and evil looking force. Marvellous!

Check it out here: http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?p=111032

Original post here: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/12/just-found-very-nice-cult-of-dragon.html

AdMech: Converting & Painting: Avatar of the Machine God

The Nightbringer has long been one of my favourite GW models, and I've been dying for an excuse to buy him. Now that I'm playing Adeptus Mechanicus, and in our campaign I've been siding with the Necrons, this seemed the perfect time...

Full Post & Pics: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/07/converting-painting-avatar.html

AdMech: Battle Report: 1,500 pts vs Necrons

This was the biggest battle I've yet played with my Adeptus Mechanicus, pulling them all together for a 1,500 pt game- once again using Codex: Space Wolves. I was playing against Deke, a GW Oxford staff member. He's got a Necron army, and for this game we were road-testing some unofficial Oxford house rules for the Necrons. The main changes were that Gauss weapons were Rending but a bit more short-ranged, Lords were WS & BS 5, and Wraiths had Power Weapons. Plus there were points increases and so on, but that gives you the basic idea!

Army List, Battle Report & Pic: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/battle-report-1500-pts-vs-necrons.html

AdMech: Inspiration: MrManson

I've been pondering making a Kaban Machine at some point in the future, so was crawling the internet looking to see if anyone else had made one. And I stumbled across a beautiful Dark Mechanicus army made by a chap called MrManson.

Full post & link: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/inspiration-mrmanson.html

AdMech: Army List: CSM 1,500 pts

Thus far my Adeptus Mechanicus been pretending to be Space Wolves, with a mix of Grey Hunters and Long Fangs. But I'm currently building a Nightbringer conversion and some assault praetorians- once they're done, I'd like to try out Chaos Space Marines. Here's a quick 1,500 pts list I worked out.

Army List: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/army-list-csm-1500-pts.html

AdMech: Battle Report: 1500 pts Doubles vs Chaos Space Marines (loss)

So, part 2 of GW Oxford's campaign. 1,500 pts per side, in pairs (so 750pts per player). Once again the Adeptus Mechanicus were Space Wolves, paired with Uncle Rich's Deathwing. This time, we were up against the Iron Warrior Chaos Space Marines.

Battle Report & Army Lists: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/battle-report-1500-pts-doubles-vs-chaos.html

AdMech: Inspiration: Work In Progress Forum

The Work In Progress forum http://z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php is one of the best-kept 40k secrets on the web, an elite group of mind-blowingly cool convert-a-holics and scratch-builders.

Full post: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/inspiration-work-in-progress-forum.html.

AdMech: Converting & Painting: My Army

Here are some pictures of all my converted and painted Adeptus Mechanicus models from GW Oxford's cabinet nicely laid out on their pretty cityscape board. This is probably about 1,200 pts, possibly 1,500 pts if I put in Wolf Guard and upgraded my Rune Priest & Iron Priests. In my complete model collection I've also got an additional Praetorian Protector and Praetorian Support squad, plus I'm working on my first Praetorian Assault squad (to be Blood Claws) and my Avatar of the Machine God (C'tan / Daemon Prince). Once the Assault squad is complete I'll be up to about 2,000 pts, hurrah!

Pics: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/converting-painting-my-army.html

AdMech: Inspiration: OddJob

Inspiration: OddJob

I'm working on making a converted C'tan-as-Omnissiah model. Whilst searching for cool pictures of other C'tan conversions, I discovered OddJob's AdMech. And by the Omnissiah they're awesome!

Full post & link: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/inspiration-oddjob.html

AdMech: Converting & Painting: Techpriests

I couldn't really run an Adeptus Mechanicus army without some Techpriest / Techmarine / Iron Priest equivalents... So here they are! One is the classic Techmarine, the other is the excellent Imperial Guard Techpriest, and they're accompanied by converted servitors.

Full post & pics: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/converting-painting-techpriests.html

AdMech: Battle Report: 1500 pts Doubles vs Orks (loss)

GW Oxford has been having a campaign recently. Most of us have been playing in doubles, 750pts per player so 1500pts per side. I've been using my Adeptus Mechanicus as Space Wolves, paired with my old friend "Uncle Rich" and his Deathwing Terminator Army.

Battle Report & Army Lists: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/battle-report-1500-pts-doubles-vs-orks.html

AdMech: Converting & Painting: My army in GW Oxford's cabinet

I won a painting competition at GW Oxford with my Technomagi Aether-Adept (best Over-14s Single Minature). Which was a surprise! I so didn't expect to win that I left the model behind and wandered off for a few hours, missing the actual competition... Luckily it was decided by voting not any actual guage of quality, and mine was the most converted model so impressed the most people! Some of the staff then said I could put my whole army in their store Cabinet. Woo :)

Pics: http://admech.blogspot.com/2010/06/converting-painting-cabinet.html