Black Legion Chosen

These have been sitting on my shelf for a while, but they're finally done. I was supposed to painting a Lord of Skulls, but that's a lot of work and so I took a break to finish these Chosen. They came out quite nicely, and I am particularly pleased with the face of Champion Ahrurus. I also thought it would be a nice touch to represent the four Chaos Gods by painting the tabards in appropriate colours.

Additionally, I have improved my photography, so hopefully, these pictures are nicer to look at than previous pictures!

 In addition, as an extra special treat, here's a work-in-progress shot of a Kytan:

 

Back into the Red

You'd be forgiven for thinking I had moved on from painting Khornate models, with all the variety in the last few weeks. Fear not though - I am still very much a worshipper at the Skull Throne! Here is something that took a while to get painted, but I am very happy with! Havocs for the Bloodstorm, on 32mm bases, and carrying reaper autocannons. The cannons came from Kromlech.

And as if by magic, the Divine Exorcists saw this expansion of the Bloodstorm firepower and decided they needed more firepower of their own, so they built a Stormhawk Interceptor! This was a lot of fun to build and paint, since it's my first ever flyer! Making the base was interesting - I drew round the transparent part without sticking it down, then avoided putting any sand or paint on that section, allowing me to cement the transparent part to the base once the base was painted. I heard that superglue ruins the finish of the transparent plastic, so I wanted to make sure I could use poly cement (which requires a clean surface to work).

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Plenty of green

Today's post is very green! I have an Ork (an Ork? Yes! An Ork!) and some tyranids.

The Ork, a Nob, is first. I painted this model up as part of campaign to raise awareness of Orks. It originated here, on Dakkadakka.com: CLICK HERE . To cut a long story short, Games Workshop revealed they don't have enough Orks to field a 4000pt studio army, so one Ork fan decided to start a campaign to send GW some Orks to help out. I found the concept of fans sending GW their own product hilarious, and decided to pitch in, so bought a Nob and painted it up as quickly as I could. As a consequence, it's the not the neatest mini I've ever painted, but hopefully I'll see it again in a some sort of groupshot of the minis that have been sent to GW - I really hope GW acknowledge the campaign in some capacity!

The second shot is of some more termagants for Peter's army. They're identical to the last set, but I thought I'd post them anyway, since any progress is worthy of acknowledgement! I've nearly finished the 'tyranid swarm' box that Peter bought, and so perhaps in the not too distant future, he'll feel inclined to add to the army with some more monstrous creatures (there's only so many gaunts I can paint!)

Damned in Black

My Black Legion contingent seems to be coming along well, such that I decided it was time for a family photo. Don't they all look happy together, heading off to slay the false emperor!

The most recent addition is a squad of bikers, painted to a modest standard. I bought these second hand, with the idea of using them as a retinue for Doomrider, but they're just not Slaaneshi enough. might just field Doomrider on his own (yes, with the old rules!)

Prior to the bikers, I finished up this combat squad. The squad is made up of classic metal marines and the new plastic snapfit marines, with a champion who has a head from Wargame Exclusive.

 


They will soon be joined by this predator. I almost went and bought a predator kit, before I remembered I had these classic predator parts in a box somewhere. With a bit of filing and trimming, I managed to make everything fit on a modern rhino chassis, and it looks really good! Can't wait to paint this (as soon as it stops snowing and I can spray it)!

Some future plans that I came up with this week include doubling up my gaming board to apocalypse size (since I have such large armies!) and making a large factory terrain piece out of a computer case. Stay tuned!

You win some, you lose some

Today, the Champions of Plufestea gained a vehicle and lost a vehicle: the one they gained is the huge Disilluminator. I constructed this machine, the personal transport of Lord Kellus, out of an old, heavily Chaos-ified Land Raider. I cut the centre section out (and this became this diorama scenery piece) and joined the front and rear back together with much bodging and green-stuffing. I then added the chassis from an old rhino, the head from a Knight Titan, two predator turrets and various other parts to create this mad machine! 

The paint isn't very smooth, because the original model had very thick and lumpy paint, and even though I used paint stripper to try and remove it, it was a long, arduous process to remove even one layer of paint, and eventually it looked smooth to the naked eye (which turned out to be an error). I actually started this project a long time ago - way back in 2016, I think - so it is a product of my old self, and I would probably make it very differently nowadays. I did make some recent modifications though, such as adding the pipes made with my green stuff roller.  

I spent a long time painting it, and save for a few touch ups, I feel I cannot make it look better, mainly due to the rough surface, but it's good enough. Sometimes you have to accept that a project is done and move onto the next thing (and I certainly have enough 'next things' to keep me going!)

The daemon engine that has been lost is the Forgefiend The Tormentor. If you see the original paint job, you can see why I repainted this model:

Oh dear, it's bad, isn't it! Look at the trim, and the flesh! Dear, O dear. So I decided to repaint it in the colours of the Black Legion and try to do this model some sort of justice! Here it is:

Much better, I hope you agree! Phew!

Today, I also finished a small terrain piece: a radar dish:

Until next week! Happy hobbying!

Why do you need so many books?

Just a short update here: Two more ye olde metal models: an Ordo Malleus Acolyte and a Librarian.

First, the Acolyte: 

 I'm quite pleased with colours on this one, and I know people appreciate my 'text squiggles', so here you go! I'm gradually painting up a few inquistorial models, with no real plan, so at some point I'll post them all together and perhaps they'll look like a unit. I quite the like the Blanche-esque idea of warbands with no unifying look other than lots of scrolls, censers and books, so fingers crossed they turn out well.

Secondly, we have a second Librarian for the Divine Exorcists. This is Avides, a veteran of many wars and slayer of daemons:

The blue is a bit more vivid in the photos - I tried to correct it, but the iPhone just has a weird thing with blue. The base colour is a ultramarine blue.
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Our number is legion...

Okay, it's not quite a legion yet, but I finally have finished some Necrons! Yes! Imean 'beep'! I have coveted an army of these shiny warriors for a while now, probably since I used them in Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, and finally I can say I have completed some. First up, a mighty leader, carrier of a Staff of Light, leading the warriors of living metal to sew death among the stars...

I've had the metal model for a while (many years, in fact), having bought it second hand, already badly painted, and I just touched it up and put it my display case. But now, I have given this Lord a proper paintjob and a sturdy, minimalist base. They currently have no name, nor a dynasty, but I'll get working on that...

Next is a group of Warriors:

These were also second hand, but I repainted and rebased them. I'm not too bothered about having second hand models, since Necrons aren't the kind of army that demand you convert them. Sixteen warriors here, awakened from their long slumber...

Along with some Immortals. These are by far my favourite Necron models. I love the look of their huge gauss blasters, and the way they represent the character of the Necrons even more strongly than the Warriors, slowly stalking across the landscape, firing precisely but without mercy.

I'm very pleased with the green connecting pipes and the glow of the gauss energy. I have more models on the way -  a monolith, and the contents of a start collecting box - more Warriors, an Overlord and a Triarch Stalker. Until next week!