A monstrous servant of Khorne

Oh my... has this taken a long time! For someone who paints so fast, painting this Kytan has been an incredibly slow process! The earliest picture I can find of this is from December 2017, where the model was partly built: that means this has taken three years to finish! Now, before you think I painted it very slowly, let me say that it for most of that time, it sat on the shelf unpainted while I worked on other models. Only recently did I actually start painting it. Still, three years is definitely a record for a finished model of mine. 

I converted the Kytan somewhat, mounting a cannon on the shoulder, changing the faceplate, and, most strikingly, adding the Imperial Knight gauntlet that holds a doomed Ultramarine. Or is it the Kytan that is doomed? 

The model is painted in the colour scheme of the Hounds of Abaddon. I decided I wanted to paint it with less red than my Lord of Skulls, partly because I've painted a lot of red in my life, and partly to provide a bit of variety among the Chaos horde I have assembled.

 

Here it is with the other Hounds of Abaddon models: a squad of Berzerkers, a Warpsmith and a winged Chaos Lord.

Psychic powers and a laser gun!

Two posts in two weeks! This is starting to look like my blog again! Today I bring you Ulanya Tremayne, who is added to the Wings of Vrayax force. She is a another model by Artel W: can you tell that I like their miniatures? She's a psyker who's also pretty handy with a laspistol. I love the clothes on her: the flowing half-skirt, the embellishment on the fabric, and the huge... collar? I'm not sure what the word for that garment is, so if anyone can tell me, please leave a comment! All these elements add up to a unique model and one that (with her new paintjob) fits in well with the rest of the army. I have some more models for the army on my shelf, waiting to be painted, so expect more sometime soon, although there are some space marines and a land raider on my desk right now, so you'll see them first! I also have a big model to show you. It's finished, but it's too big for the lightbox and I'm trying to get a good series of pictures of it. It's the weekend tomorrow, and should be sunny, so hopefully I can get some pictures of it and post them next week. Can you guess what it'll be? 

Have a nice week!

 

Deadly assassin

Wow, it's been quite a while since I last posted! Sorry about that. I often have emotional problems in winter and find it hard to keep my hobbies going. I do also sometimes have periods where Warhammer doesn't interest me much and I tend to put it aside until the desire comes back. 

But come back it has, and I have once again started building and painting. There is a difficult period here, because I'm a little rusty after such a break, and it takes a while to get used to painting again. The first model to be completed is this wonderful model by Artel W, and she will be an assassin in my Minotaurs army. Artel W have made a really nice model here. I love the pose, I love her hair, and i love the way her belt hangs low on one hip, like a Wild West gunslinger!

Her name was chosen by my girlfriend, who thought the poisoned gauntlet was reminiscent of a scorpion, and therefore suggested Chelicerata, which is the name for a group of animals that includes, among others: scorpions, spiders and horsehoe crabs.

Here she is alongside two Minotaurs marines, so you can see that she fits in well, having her own look, but with red and a little bronze to tie her to the rest of the army. 

 

Note that you can click/tap on the images to see a bigger version.

Erm... a horse?

A space marine on a horse! There's no real reason for this except that I had this metal horse laying around and wanted to do something with it. With 40k, there isn't much opportunity to work with horses, especially now that rough riders have been removed from the Astra Militarum Codex. So the idea of a space marine captain on a horse is interesting, I think! The legs are from the Space Wolf thunderwolf kit, and the head is from the space wolves pack kit. There are other parts from custodes and Forge World kits. For the base, I created the rocks using resin in a temporary mould.

I've painted him as a captain of the Knights of Blood, a Blood Angels successor chapter who have been declared renegade.

 

Order of the Hammer

This post sees me show off three new models. These are three henchmen for Inquisitor Coteaz. Two are some models I found on eBay, from another manufacturer (the ones either side of Coteaz), and an old metal GW model, on the far right. They are based on the road base to match Coteaz and the other models in this warband.

These models are very nice. They are clearly sculpted to blend in with the 40k universe, and make  excellent aides. One is carrying an ornate bolter and wears a pseudo-catholic headpiece: the other has a bionic arm and carries some sort of barrel or bomb. They are certainly unique. The other model is a classic astropath model. 

 

 

Since they are part of Coteaz's warband,  let's see them all together:

Vroom vroom

This week, I have finished a Black Legion Rhino! This is my second one, and it looks slightly different to the first - it's good to avoid identical miniatures, even with vehicles. Very easy to paint, it's one of those miniatures that's make me think, "why didn't I paint this earlier, instead of leaving it on the shelf for months?"

Well, it's done now!

 

 

 

 

 

Here it is alongside my existing rhino!

Zoom Zoom

Hey folks! I am feeling enthusiastic about miniatures again. My mental state has been strange over the last few weeks, and I haven't had a lot of interest in miniatures. I suppose my mind has mostly been full of other hobbies, which is fine, but sometimes I look at my unpainted minis shelf and feel sad that I don't have the enthusiasm to paint them! 

But it now feels like the enthusiasm is coming back and I spent a solid chunk of time painting this Stormhawk Interceptor. I already had the model, painted up in the Divine Exorcists scheme, and so I've redone it to fit in with the new Minotaurs army. 

Amusingly, I thought I had finished and set it up to take photos. When I looked at them, I realised I hadn't repainted the base! The original was dark grey or black ash waste, and so I had to take it back to the painting desk and give it the proper Minotaurs colours! Now it is done! 

It's a nice aircraft - I think it's one of the better designs of aircraft that GW produces: it looks very fast and aggressive. 

Hopefully I will be uploading some more pictures over the next few weeks. I have some more models in progress on my desk, so those models are looking up at me expectantly, waiting for their fresh coats of paint!