Khorne Tower of Skulls Part 2

So I've done a little bit more work on this beast. The front of the tower is on as well as a few other little details such as FW brass. I'm waiting for a few more parts to arrive in the post over thenext week or so before I can make more progress.

Khorne Tower of Skulls Part 1

I've not really been in the painting mood over the last few days and felt the urge to do yet more building. Something I've wanted to make for a long time is a Khorne Tower of Skulls. I've made a small start on one. So far it's just a basic baneblade chassis with a FW Khorne Icon on the front.

On the battlefield!

You've seen all these wonderful models of mine *cough* but what about their performance on the battlefield? Well today I played a 1250 point mission with my chaos. The mission was one from the 40k radio campaign. I found the mission very enjoyable and due to my opponents really bad dice rolling, I won!

So here are some pics from the front line. The missions uses no terrain apart from the central building but we had a road which we made no use of.

My damon prince hiding behind a bastion ready to pounce.



My bikes and noise marines managed to eventually kill the assault terminators. In an epic combat that later included veterans and lasted 3 turns.



My daemon prince was definatly man of the match, killing two tactical squads in combat. That's two out of the three scoring units dealt with.



Wondering how my noise marines survived in combat against the terminators and veterans. One turn they caused 11 wounds. I saved 10!



My soul grinder is filling in as a defiler until I make one. He had great joy helping my daemon prince eat the second tactical squad.

Work on the desk

I have realised that my lack of recent progress is due to painting too many similar models and colour schemes. After painting a Nurgle Rhino and Plague Marine squad I've found it hard to start on the other Plague Marine squad and I've still got some bikers to do yet also. As far as the Crimson Fists go, I've made a start on the Sternguard sergeant but even with the Crimson Fists I need a break to avoid boredom.

I ordered Lucius the Eternal and a Slaanesh lord from GW and made my Noise Marine Champion and Noise Marine with Blastmaster out of them (I already have the Slaanesh weapons pack). Using a few other bits, including some MKV legs from Forgeworld, I made a 3rd Noise Marine. Now if you remember my chaos army list you will have known that I don't have any SOnic Weapons in my squad apart from the Doom Siren. Whilst that is true, I couldn't pass up using those awesome weapons and who knows, I might use them one day.



I recently watched all 3 Lord of the Rings films again after not seeing them for some years. Natuarally this made me want all the miniatures! I used to have some back when the films first came out but sold them. I regret that now but after looking through GWs website and almost dying from how expensive these are, I looked on eBay and managed to pick up loads of unpainted minis for a fraction of the price.

My first piece is Sauron.



I have plenty of other ideas for LOTR dioramas which I hope to make sometime in the future. In the meantime I have these guys to give me something different to paint.