Crimson Fist Terminator Squad

I have finished painting my Crimson Fist Terminator Squad. These guys, like most of my Crimson Fist army, have been sitting around unpainted for some while. The sergeant was built before I even started this army. I would guess he is a couple of years old. Finally they are all painted!

The sergeant misplaced his power weapon so indtead he ripped a lampost out from the ground and wields that as his close combat weapon instead!!

Nurgle Rhino

I have finished painting my Nurgle infested rhino for my Plague Marine Squad. The giant Nurgle symbol on top was made with bases and spikes from the chaos vehicle ram. This idea was not mine, I saw someone else had done something similar on another website just cannot find the link at the moment. I just need some skulls or something to add to the centre of the bases.

The Rhino was painted the same was as the Plague Marines. I've used green stuff in various places as well as the Forgeworld Death Guard doors.

Duke Sliscus Conversion

As you can see I've not posted much at all this month. This is not because I've not been painting, in fact painting too much has been the cause of lack of posts. I am in the middle of painting too much at the moment so instead of getting one unit, character or vehicle completed I have 3 half finished. Despite not liking to post half finished miniatures I thought I would share my converted Dark Eldar character Duke Sliscus. He's almost finished and for now I'm going to leave his base untouched.

The conversion is quite simple. I've used parts from the Dark Elves Black Corsairs and parts from the Dark Eldar Kabalite Warriors set. As his rules allows so much change to your army I thought it would be cool to have him in a pose which suggests he is standing back watching his army fight, waiting for his moment to strike, like the Yakuza guy in the Simpsons. The only video for that reference I could find was in Spanish, forgiveness please.

On to the Duke!



Watch this space over the next couple of weeks. I am currently working on a Nurgle Rhino for my Plagues Marines, a Crimson Fist Terminator squad and even more Plague Marines will follow.

Scyrak Is Finished!

I've mainly been working on painting Scyrak over the last week. He is now finally done. He's been very enjoyable to paint and I've learnt how to improve painting flesh and the red and gold armour has came out very well in my opinion.

Plague Marine Squad

I have been busy painting the first of my Plague Marine squads this week. I'm still not 100% sure what colour to paint their eyes.

Hellions Killing Guardsmen!

The DE bandwagon is one I said I wouldn't jump on. Well after reading the codex I took a running jump! Although much painting wont be done until the majority of my Chaos Space Marines are built and painted, I couldn't resist building this squad.

Hellion 1





Hellion 2





Hellion 3





Hellion 4





Helliarch

Scyrak The Slaughterer

When I saw the new FW Huron model I couldn't resist using his awesome lightning claw on a model. At the same time I bought it I also had a Lord Zufor model so I combined the two with a few extra bits to come up with a badass looking Khorne Terminator lord that I can use Abaddons rules for. After failing to think of a decent name for him I decided he would represent an equally badass World Eaters Lord called Scyrak The Slaughterer!

Plague Marine Test Scheme

I'm still about and I've been coming up with a scheme for my Plague Marines and Nurgle bikers. I have settled on this scheme:



This isn't the best photo but I will get better ones when I paint the squad up. The recipe for this paint scheme is very simple. I started with an undercoat of Skull White. When this wasy dry I applied a heavy wash of Game Color Sepia Ink. When that was dry I did the same with Game Color Dark Green Ink over the whole model apart from the boltgun. I wanted the tubing to look like maggots so they were painted with Bleached Bone. The metal was painted with Boltgun Metal and washed with Black Wash. It's as simple as that.

Bookmarks for your Black Library

I have started to read quite a few Black Library books recently and will soon start getting into the Horus Heresy series. The one thing I have been lacking is any decent bookmarks. I usually just use a piece of card but I thought i'd go for something nice. I thought it would be cool if I had some with the art of fantasy and 40k so I decided to make my own.

I started by finding a few images I like and then resized them to a reasonable bookmark size and printed them out.



For the reverse of the bookmarks I just found a random pattern but you could use other images if you have the time to line them up.



Then to protect the bookmarks I sent them through my laminator.



One they were laminated I cut them to size and there you have it. Some simple and very awesome looking bookmarks for your black library books.

Man-flu Painting

So this week has been a bit slow painting wise due to the dreaded man-flu that I picked up on Tuesday. I have however now finished my Khorne Daemon army by painting this Soul Grinder. The Khorne Daemons have only been painting to a tabletop standard as they have been part of my Freebootaz motivational challeneges each month so I didn't have enough time work on them as I would have liked, however as far as tabletop standards go I am really happy with these. I will most likely give the gold areas a wash at somepoint.



Also on my desk this week was my Crimson Fist Vindicator. He's seen so many battles recently but not seen a paintbrush so I thought I would treat him to a paint job. Again this paintjob is nothing special. The yellow and black stripes were done using masking tape and a few edges of yellow will need to be cleaned up. The metal areas are just boltgun metal with a black wash. The whole tank was painted with a mix of Necron Abyss and Black and highlighted with Ultramarines Blue.

Slaaneshi Daemon Prince is Complete!

He's taken just under a week to paint (I've painted very little else in this time). I'm sure on total of hours but I would guess around 10 hours which isn't too bad.



As you can see I've had a poor attempt at NMM gold on his trim. I've been studying NMM a lot recently and I'm finding the whole light sourcing difficult to grasp and my application of the colours needs some work. I'm only really happy with the gold around his crotch. Maybe one day when I really grasp it I will come back to is and make it look a lot better.





I decided to add turquoise as an additional colour to make certain areas stand out more such as the demonic face on his right hand. Bright colours such as pinks, purples and turqiouse really scream Slaanesh for me and I've made sure all are used in this model and the black areas really contrast well and will match the black armour of the Noise Marines (whcih I will make one day in the future).

Daemon Prince of Slaanesh Painting Update

I thought i'd show you where I am at painting wise with my first of my two Daemon Princes. This is the Daemon Prince of Slaanesh (yes he has lash!). So far I've only painted the skin, the teeth and basecoated some of the gold areas.

Updates at last!

It's been a while since I last posted. This was due to my painting time being used to practising NMM and a colour scheme for the bases of my Chaos Space Marine army. I have came up with a sandstone looking effect on the ruins. I am quite happy with how it's turned out and how quickly I can produce the effect.

As you can see the base below will be for my Slaaneshi Daemon Prince. Next up will be working out a colour scheme for him.

Toys for Tots Squad

Well here they are. Pretty much done now, I will be sending them off next week so may do the odd little touch ups before they go. I'm a bit disappointed they are only going to be tabletop standard. I wanted to spend more time on them but just haven't been able to find it and I really want these to get to Maldus as quick as I can incase of delays.

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch

I have now fully assembled my Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. I will make the most of him in this state as i'm sure it's only a matter of time before he falls to pieces. He is held onto the Scibor base a lot better than I had expected although I had to use a few stones to weigh down the base to stop him from tipping over. I'm very happy how he has turned out. He is pretty much how I imagined he would be when I planned to make him. I have yet to decide on a paint scheme for him and the whole army yet.

Cortez has no alibi, he's ugly

Way back in 3rd edition Captain Cortez of the Crimson Fists was a special character in the Space Marine codex, and he was also the pin up on the front cover. GW thought this was too much for a 4th Company Captain of a chapter who wasn't the Ultramarines and made one of the worst models ever to represent him. I'm normally a huge fan of GW sculpts, but what were they smoking?

That said it didn't stop be buying and painting the model..







The eagle was my first attempt at NMM, that's why it just looks yellow. I did have a go on the metal but painted over it as it looks too grey. SInce I've taken the close up photos I've noticed I really should highlight the base.

Quick and Easy Valkia The Bloody

There are many conversions of Warriors of Chaos Character, Valkia The Bloody. I have recently made my own with very little conversion work. Involved and just a handful of parts.

The model uses the body from the Witch Hunters model Celestine the Living Saint. I then beheaded her and replaced her head with a Seekers of Slaanesh Champion Head and gave her the Winged Backpack from the Chaos Space Marines Possessed as well as a shield from the chaos knights box. The spear is made from the a standard pole from the Wood Elves Glade Guard and a Bloodletter Hellblade although the spears from the Chaos Knights would also look pretty awesome. Apart from a couple of skulls I added to her base that is pretty much it. Took me just a few moments to make and only a tiny bit of green stuffing was used to cover up where her Witch Hunters symbols were on her thighs and her shoulder symbol was filed off.



Daemon Prince update: I attached his other front arm. Then he fell of my desk and now has no arms. They wilkl be reattached when he is mounted to a base :(

Of White and Washes

I love the Citadel washes from GW. They are a great improvment from the old inks they produced and can be used for various effects to make an average painter like myself look better than I really am. This little guide will show one method to do just that as well as paint lots of models very quickly.

It all comes down to starting with a white undercoat. You need it to be a smooth as possible for the best results. I used the GW skull white spray paint for the models shown here and must admit the undercoat could have been better had I had more time and better conditions to do these with.

The four Tyranid models below have all been undercoated white and then had 3 layers of different GW inks applied to them to paint their skin tone. The top model's use Leviathan Purple and Ogryn Flesh and the bottom two use Baal Red and Thraka Green. You can use more or less layers to get darker or lighter shades. I am going to use the purple and blue colour scheme to paint my newly aquired Trygon.



Just by applying laters of GW washes over white can produce some really good results and not just for Tyranids either. This space marines armour from my Spartan Space Marine Army has had 3 layers of Sepia wash over his armour to give it that tan colour.



Using the washes in this way gives you automatic shading for your armour or alien skin which means you can paint that Tyranid horde a lot quicker and still maintain a very good table top standard.

Daemon Prince II Update

Here's an update for my second Daemon Prince. I have added the Griffin Wings, and Lord of Change right arm to the High Elf Dragon body, tail and head. I have replaced his back feet with the talons from the Griffin and also added green stuff feathers to his back legs. I am awaiting my staff arm from eBay and base from Scibor so in the meantime all I can do is the green stuff work on his head which involves filling in the gaps and making a beak.

Daemon Prince Mash Up... Init?

So you've seen my first Daemon Prince built so what about the second? I am using a lot of bases from Scibor Miniatures for this army and this is a fantastic base that I am using for this guy.

I thought it would be cool to have him leaping off the ruins much like the High Elf Dragon so I decided that I shall use this model as the base. I didn't know what to use for the wings and then last week I saw the Griffon from the Island of Blood boxed set and thought that would be perfect! Add the claws from this model and it's all coming together nicely. I also have parts from The Lord of Change that I could use. Below are my collection of bits so far.



Since gathering these parts I can see that the head from the lord of change is way too small so this head from the High Elf Dragon will be a good alternative. I will test my green stuff skills by scultping a beak and also I will sculpt some feathers on to the model. I am now waiting for the Lord of Changes staff to arrive from eBay and I will have every piece I need.

More updates will come once I start building this bad boy.

Crimson Fist Assault Terminators

I've finshed the first two Assault Terminators for my Crimson Fist army. The rest of the squad will have pairs of lightning claws.

Toys for Tots Update

I have pretty much finished the first 3 miniatures from the command squad. I will go back to add a few more highlights at some point as I'm not really happy with these at the moment. As i'm working with a deadline I will now get the other 3 painted up first and then work on the Razorback before I do the extra highlights just to make sure I have them at tabletop standard at least before the deadline.

Nurgle Up Those Marines

As you know by now I love Forgeworld models and the Death Guard upgrade is awesome. The only drawback is that you do not get backpacks, legs and arms and the Chaos Space Marine plastics can look quite bare compared to the forgeworld parts so you end up with a model with highly detail parts and bare parts. There are several methods you can do to make the plastic parts more interesting and Nurgle-esc.

Guitar String
Guitar string can be used to add random pipes sticking out from your marines. They can be tricky to bend so I have not used a lot. I plan to paint the tubing on my Plague Marines to look like maggots.





Green Stuff
You can go nuts with green stuff for Plague Marines. You can create rotting armour, boils and even guts without even needing to be a green stuff expert. I can barely fill gaps with the stuff but when it comes to Nurgle I can just stretch it and poke it until I get something that looks very effective.



Drilling and Carving
This method I have used more than the other two as it is quicker and easier and still gives great results. Just by drilling holes and carving away at the armour with a hobby knife gives you nice holes in the armour that represent Nurgles rot or acid corroding the armour away. The same method can also be used for bullet holes and battle damage.



I hope these simple methods have given you some ideas if you plan to make your own Death Guard Plague Marines using the lovely Forgeworld parts. Below is the full 7 man squad.