She's got legs.....

 ....with apologies to ZZ Top. 

This week's a bit of a miscellany TBH. I decided to take a break from the SB French for a week and do some other stuff. 

Some things for my Imperial Guard

GW have recently released a new Codex for Imperial Knights which will allow me to drop a single Freeblade into my Imperial Guard army while remaining being Imperial Guard and getting all the rules and benefits that come with that.  

I'm also going to have a dig through my medieval transfers folder and see if I can come up with a sort of munging of the GW transfers to create a cool coat of arms. I've got an idea to lay some transfers over some other ones which might be quite intriguing. The other interesting thought is that three Armiger Freeblades will also work for this same rule, meaning a) I need another Armiger and b) I need to repaint and remark the other two. That should be quite doable and quite fun I think. 

Secondly, I painted something I've been meaning to do for a while. YARRICK! 

 I recently enjoyed the novelisations of Yarrick's career from Black Library so figured it was time he got done. This is one of those models that while my nostalgia for the original cast is significant, the 2nd edition of this model is SO good that I had to do this one. It is Finecast but is surprisingly not terrible and it's painted up very pleasingly. I have most of a squad of Stormtroopers to do (once some parts arrive...) that will escort him into combat.

An extra 1/3-of-a-platoon-a-month

With the reappearance of the Mid-war Monsters range in v4 Flames of War I have managed to pick up an extra pair of Semovente 75/34s. Many moons ago, the 75/34 box was the only way I managed to get some Semoventes for my MW Italians and since v4 allows 6 in a platoon, I've been jonesing to find 2 more so LO! 

It seemed like a chuckle, given the massive hatch, to put extra crew in it. I figure a commander and a spotter for the one time I'm going to use them as a six gun artillery battery...

Next Time

I'll keep working on my Knight. The midsection comes next and the massive roof plate which will be that same bone colour I think. I've also got a practice game of Flames for our club convention in a few weeks lined up which I'll try and batrep. I could do the scheduled Silver Bayonet game but blogger Pooch has started that narrative and my my, it's quite good!