I had mostly finished building my converted Stegadon a few months ago, just before the Adepticon/Dreadball/Blood Bowl frenzy overtook me. Now I’m starting to get planning about OFCC in June, and really want to play with the Engine+Carny dino list in their 2800 team tournament!
Since these are draft photos, they won’t be using any of the photography techniques I want to apply to the final images. 😛
The completely assembled Engine.
I’ve built the steg so that it disassembles really nice, for a few reasons. Partially because I’ve built a giant howdah and will need to fit it into a case somehow! And partially so that if I want to play with a regular Ancient Steg (or regular Steg, if they get ok in the next book) that I have that option.
The howdah is built from pieces of baked sculpey shaped into carved stone blocks, as well as the top piece of the Empire Hurricanum. I tried to use more from the Hurricanum, but it’s just such a ridiculous model and so huge compared to the smaller steg that I had to break it down to just the middle bit.
Each of the skinks has pin-wires glued to their feet so they can be removed easily.
The priest is the skink chief model that is holding a heart in one hand, and I gave him a staff to make him more priestly. I love most of the chief models, and it’s sad that they aren’t viable in the army! He’s had a bit of the same mummified wrappings that the Temple Guard have – as the favoured priest, he was buried with the Pahaux slann and his bodyguard upon the slann’s death.
All the bits laid out. Left to right: Howdah back, 4 skinks, priest, howdah front, steg ceremonial plate and the steg itself.
A closer look at the howdah back bit.
Also have 4 more temple guard to paint, and 2 Dreadball teams lined up. I bought Dreadball Veermyn at Adepticon and I’m stoked to try to play with them!
2 Comments
kellykim
May 5, 2013 at 10:17 pmGames of Fantasy and 40k are getting a bit nuts now, what with all the oversized plastic kits. I haven’t been playing much for a few years now, but it seems that everyone’s army now has at least one, if not two or more gigantic models. Not necessarily a bad thing… It’s just that as an old skool gamer, it’s going to take me awhile to get used to it.
rythos42
May 6, 2013 at 1:02 amIt does take a bit, and from what I understand (“game” is not my strong area), it skews the meta quite a bit such that cannons are a no-brainer option in most armies.
My plan is to have the steg and the carny in 2800 such that any cannons will have to choose carefully, and hopefully I get to keep something fun. >.>