The future is blue

Tzeentch would be proud of today's post! I have completed this lovely model to represent my Lord of Change, Rhatoth the Wise. The model is Creature Caster's Vulture Daemon, and it's a lovely sculpt. 

I went for the same blue as for my other Tzeentch daemons (see below), but I tried something different for the base. After it went well on my Sentinel, I decided to try some more water effects with the Vallejo substance. It came out well, and Rhatoth is standing on a neat little island. It did mean that I couldn't paint the rim blue (it didn't look right), and so I painted it with steel legion drab instead.

Another successfully painted model! I can't wait to see him stomping across the battlefield.

 

Here is Rhatoth with fellow Lord of Change, Culbiurus, and Daemon Prince Hebas. They make a lovely, colourful bunch!

I want to be like you

Continuing to feed my love of retro chaplains is this wonderful old model. I thought long and hard about what chapter to make them, and eventually decided to make them a Dark Angels model, and try to recreate the colour scheme used for my Interrogator-Chaplain, Karstark. After all, ever Interrogator-Chaplain needs a friend.

Chaplain Bellus came out quite well, and he fits rather nicely into the Dark Angels, and looks excellent alongside his buddy, Karstark.

The Interrogator-Chaplain (right) is one of my favourite GW models. I like it so much, I'm tempted to buy a second just to have fun painting it again!

 

Out of Production

Today's first model is an absolute classic model. This is a lovely old Space Marine Librarian, whom I've painted in the colour scheme of the Angels Sanguine, a Blood Angels successor chapter.Usually, librarians would be painted in blue with chapter specific pauldrons, but, given the distinctiveness of the Angels Sanguine colour scheme, I decided instead to use those colours on his armour and paint the power plant (backpack) blue. He still has the classic purple that I always use for force swords. I'm sure he'll see some tabletop use alongside my army of OOP Blood Angels!

As a bonus, here is another model I finished this week. This is a very old model that I bought from somewhere - I have no idea where - and has been sitting around unpainted. She had two pistols, and I've removed the right hand and replaced with a Sisters of Battle right hand. I also gave her a sword on her back, again from the Sisters of Battle. I'll field her as a death cult assassin on the tabletop. Not my best ever paintjob, but to be honest, I was just in a groove and wanted to get her done. I might touch her up at a later date.

 

Very Quick Death from the Skies

As they say, an army is never actually finished. Thus it is with my Necrons. I came across this Doomscythe on eBay and being built but unpainted and rather cheap, I decided it was a bargain that would really add something to my Necron army. Up to this point, it had no aerial firepower, so a Doomscythe would be useful. Little was I to know that a week later, I'd come across a rare copy of Stormcloud Attack in the local game store and I'd end up with two Doomscythes! I haven't built the second one yet. That box also came with a T'au aircraft, which I'll build first, so I'll have the two aircraft built for the game (this one here being the second). I'll either build the second Doomscythe or sell it, depending on how I feel about painting a second one. To be honest, it was quite hard to paint. It had a lot of highlights of long, straight edges, and I find that difficult. Still, the model is done now and it looks lovely. 

I experimented with a different colour background for my image today. What do you think? Does it complement the model well?