Leviathan Dreadnought

Today's mini is a humble Leviathan Dreadnought. This is one of the Forge World ones, which I bought just before the plastic one came out (haha!) I think my paintjob is not one of the best I've done, but it looks okay, and sometimes when you're building an army, as I am doing for the Minotaurs, you just have to accept when something is done and move onto the next model. I am pleased with the pose, however, making use of an old basing piece, in the form of the crushed dreadnought arm, to add some dynamism to the pose. Once painted, I added a few decals - there is a veterans symbol on the left shoulder - and gave him a suitably Greek name, Phemius, and he is done and ready for battle.

 

I also wanted to mention that my bitz business has now moved onto its own website, at https://voidrabbit.co.uk/ . There is a large selection of bitz, and there is a flat rate of postage of £3.65, no matter how much you buy. 

Not 300, but 10, though they are space marines!

It's been a while (again!) It's been a busy summer, with my partner and I getting married, taking a honeymoon in Scotland and doing all the stuff associated with setting up a life together. I've also been migrating my bitz store from ebay to a website, which should improve my business considerable. Check it out at https://voidrabbit.co.uk, where you can buy bitz from many Warhammer and specialist games kits, bases, and in the future, 3D printables. It's now up and running and you should be able to make purchases (do use the contact form if you encounter any problems!)

That said, I have managed to make a little bit of progress on models, and below is the latest finished squad. This squad of Vanguard Veterans significantly beefs up the Minotaurs force, which is now looking like a solid force. The colour scheme of these was the same as for previous units, so there isn't anything new going on here, but I do like the conversions I did here: there's a nice variety to the models.

Things are starting to calm down a bit in my life, so hopefully I will have more time to paint in the coming days, but... we'll see!

 

I ain't afraid of no tyranids...

Today's post is a squad of Tyrannic War Veterans! Four are from the Tyrannic War Veterans set sold by GW, and the sergeant is a metal Sternguard Veteran. These were nice to paint, and all the little details such as the Ultra symbols and purity seals were fun to pick out.

The banner is a freehand design and this is probably the best freehand I have done so far. Since it went well, I will likely do some more freehand in future!

 

We are Lyubay

 Today is an update for one of the key units for the Wings of Vrayax, which is the Civillian Militia. These count as conscripts for the purposes of 40k gameplay, but the models are a wonderful assortment, mostly coming from the French Resistance from Atlantic Games.

The squad has expanded with an extra eight models, taking the total to 19 models. 

 I added some more flowers, but this time I cut them in half, as the flower tufts are really big and the models are small.

You keep what you kill.

 Recently I posted my Blade mini, and I mentioned that I had a Riddick model too. Well here he is!

He was a little harder to get right, as he has so much black on him. I decided to add a little colour by painting the highlights on his clothes in red. 

Not much else to say, except this is a very cool mini!

Camo is for wimps

 Today's model is a nice blue Chimera for my Cadians. I am enjoying painting my Cadians in a non-camo colour scheme. It's bright and fun, and it's made very easy, thanks to the Macragge blue spray that GW produces!

 

Tree? I am no tree.

Today's model is the wonderful Ent who helps Merry and Pippin escape the Uruk-Hai, Treebeard.

Whilst the majority of the minis in my Middle Earth collection are the ones my friend gave me, I decided that each army needed a centrepiece model. I already have the Balrog for the side of Evil, but nothing for the Free Peoples. Hence Treebeard! It was really refreshing to be painting a model that is entirely natural surfaces like bark and leaves. I tried to use a few different colours layered up on the bark so the model has some depth. I then added a different coloured highlight on his face and beard so it stood out a little.

I painted Merry and Pippin separately and had to stick them to cocktail sticks to hold them because they are so tiny! I did my best to bring out the details on the Hobbits, but they are so small that it was very difficult. In the end, the model looks very cool and I reckon he will look excellent on the battlefield, towering over the enemy Orcs!