Some scenery

Posted today are some images of a couple of scenery pieces; one each for my two gaming boards. One board is set up as an Imperial city covered in snow and the other is a desert board that represents the homeworld of the Bloodstorm, Bohemus.

The first piece of scenery is the one I'm most proud of, and this is a little diorama piece showing a girl scavenging materials from the wreckage of a Land Raider and placing the materials into a cart. The base is plasticard and the Land Raider is a the middle section of an actual LR model (you'll see what I did with the rest of it soon). I can't remember what range the girl is from but it's obviously not GW. I'm quite pleased with the composition and the paintjob on the LR. The aim of this piece was to show a snapshot of life on an Imperial world that has been destroyed by war.

The second piece is for the world of Bohemus, and represents a temple built by the cultists. The model is a plasticard kit that I have embellished with chaos iconography. It's not a big temple - I think of it as something built in one of the smaller settlements of the planet, perhaps by an apostle who went out to convert inhabitants to the worship of Khorne. I have plans for more scenery for Bohemus, so watch this space!

 

Carnifex

I've been slowly painting up the models for my partner's Tyranid swarm, and this was the latest, fun model from the pile - a Carnifex eating a Black Legion marine!

I also painted five gargoyles. As you can see, purple has now become a part of the colour scheme.

Chaos update

The most important model in this post is the Daemon Engine, Zničeni. This is made from a variety of parts, including Blood Slaughterer, Maulerfiend and Verminlord parts. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and now it's mounted on a base that includes a skeleton from  https://tabletop-art.de .

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This Kairic Acolyte model is one that I saw and just liked the look of, so what the hell, I bought it and painted it. I added a gun to the belt to give it a 40k vibe and I plan to use it as a sorceror or cult leader in the Champions of Plufestea army.

Next up are some models for my burgeoning Black Legion force - a dark apostle and a tactical squad. The dark apostle has been slightly converted, with an alternate mace. The tactical squad was not built by me - I found this squad on eBay for a very cheap price and was impressed by the conversions - the marines have less squat poses than normal and the berzerker parts have had the icons of Khorne removed. They're very good, and I hope I've done them justice with my paintjob!

The last two models are two new additions to The Unknown. These converted poxwalkers will represent zombie cult leaders who receive orders from Lord Knar and use them to direct the zombies (if such a thing is possible...)

 

Imperial update

Hey readers, I haven't posted in a while (despite working on many models) because my computer was down. But now it's back, and I can post what I have been working on recently. First, I'll post the Imperial models.

I created a Dark Angels rhino with Forge World doors to transport the tactical squad into battle:

 

I wanted to add some scouts to the army. I really wanted some sniper scouts (and I have one already). I was looking around on eBay for some second metal snipers when I came across a sprue of scouts going cheap. I bought them, but it wasn't until I went to build them that I realised they were the scouts from the Landspeeder Storm kit! This was a bit of a problem as these models are meant to crouch and hang onto a landspeeder, not stand up on a base. With some kitbashing using catachan legs, I managed to build five them, adding a metal close combat scout as a sergeant. Now I think I have a very unique looking Dark Angel scout squad!

Next up was the final model from the Dark Vengeance set, Captain Balthasar. Not much to say about this model - you've all seen it! Funnily enough, I ended up painting the cloak the same as in the Codex even though I wasn't looking at the Codex at the time. I wonder if it was in my memory somewhere!

My final Imperial model for the day is a kitbashed Grey Knight Brotherhood Champion. I haven't added to Grey Knights force for a while, and looking through the Codex, I liked the look of a Brotherhood Champion. I picked up parts as time went by, gradually finding things that fitted the look of a BC until I eventually had all the parts. So here he is - Brother Romulus, with storm bolter and force sword.