Chaos Terminators

Nothing special here really, just a squad of Chaos Terminators. The champion has a combi-plasma from the Forgeworld Tartaros Terminators kit.

Chaos Space Marine Chosen and Khorne Berserkers

I recently purchased a laminated poster to use as a backdrop for photographing miniatures. The first couple of squads I've used it on are these are some Chosen from the Dark Vengeance set and a converted squad of Khorne Berserkers.

The Khorne Berserkers were made by using the Forgeworld Wolrd Eaters conversion parts and chainaxes as well as legs from the Space Marine Assault Squad. Every model has a trophy rack which are from various chaos kits and I've also used a couple of heads from some Khorne Character models from Warhammer Fantasy range.

Converted Chaos Helbrute

With the recent release of the Dark Vengeance boxed set I converted up a Helbrute to look more unique from the one in the box. I used the Butcher Cannon from a Forgeworld Decimator to represent a reaper autocannon. I also used tentacles from the Chaos Spawn boxed set to replace the horns and spikes. Lastly I used the head from a possessed model.

Long Overdue Update!

I can't believe it's been nearly 2 months since my last update. Hobby time hasn't been very productive lately in regards to finished models but I do have a few on the go. In the meantime here is the Apothecary for my Grey Knights.

Grey Knights Dreadnought

I'm currently working on a small 'Draigowing' Grey Knights army. This is the first model from that army. A venerable dreadnought.

Orc Warbus

No photo this time. Instead I treat you to a video of the latest miniature I painted. This is an Orc Warbus from Puppetswar.eu.

Huron Blackheart

Kindly given to me by one of my gaming group buddies, this is the finecast version of Huron Blackheart. Again I've tried more non metallic golds and silvers on his armour. I'm fairly happy with the results and overall I am happy with the paint job. The only downside is that I lost his thumb!



I know I've been very quiet on the blog lately but I have been painting a lot. I have some Custodes part painted, some Pink Horrors for my Daemons which are nearly finished and I have finished my Nurgle Bikes for my Chaos army.

Painted Custodes Dreadnought

My Custodes Dreadnought is now painted and can take his place alongside the Dreadknight.

Painted Custodes Dreadknight

I have finished painting my dreadknight for my Custodes army. Not a lot to say really. There's a lot of silver and gold so it wasn't the most exciting mini I've ever painted but i'm happy with the outcome.

 

Armour Right Through The Ages

Here's my maybe a bit expensive, and probably unlikely in fluff terms, Sternguard squad. They are made of each armour mark of Space Marine from MKI to MKVIII. The MKVIII is probably the most interesting as there isn't really much parts available for this armour type. I used the shoulder pads from the company champion in the command squad set to match the MKVIII photo from Imperial Armour 10 as well as the well known MKVIII torso from the tactical squad. The metal parts on the MKVII and MKVIII marine are from the Crimson fist conversion set with the exception of the metal boltgun. Of course MKII - MK-VI armour types are from Forgeworld and the MKI is from the armour through the ages set.

Black Legion Chaos Lord

I've always liked this Chaos Lord model since GW released it many years ago. I can still remember when it first came out and there were several different awesome looking painted versions in White Dwarf. I used to own this model years ago but sold it along with most of my old Chaos army from 3rd Edition. Now that I'm back collecting chaos again I knew I had to buy him again so I soon went to eBay and picked up a nice unpainted metal version for cheap. He's not available in finecast as I write this and to be honest I doubt he ever will be.

Onto the model itself. I painting him in my armies colours, which as you can see they are Black Legion. I've tried to use NMM here on the gold and silver. I'm still learning this very tricky technique but I find on small amounts of metal such as on this model you can just about get away with not being very good. It's hard to see from this image but there is quite a bit of battle damage on the marine helmets and little bits and pieces on the chaos lord too. This was done by painting the battle damaged areas silver before they have the basecoat then carefully scraping away the paint from the base coat where you want the damage to be.

I'm Back! Custodes Dreadknight

So I'm finally back. Although not fully set up for painting or gaming just yet I have began building again and my first creation is this Dreadknight for my Custodes army.

Battlefoam Charity Auction

Battlefoam are auctioning off a Pack 432 bag with a full foam load out on eBay for charity. Make sure you check it out and spread the word.

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Slight Hiatus

There wont be much in the way of wargaming for me over the next few weeks. I'm currently renovating my new house so my free time will be very limited, especially when trying to run Bitzbox and Wargamer's World at the same time!

Sisters of Silence

Along with my Custodes, I want a small squad of Sisters of Silence which I plan to use as Death Cult Assassins. I found a tutorial on the Interwebs which showed a really neat way of making easy Sisters of Silence.

What I've used here is the mouthpiece from an old Dark Eldar warrior and turned it upside down for the bottom of the helmets, the top half of the head is also a dark eldar warrior, as is the torso. The legs are from the new Dark Eldar Wyches. All the weapons are from the empire range, mostly the Empire Militia. The little bolt pistols are from the rogue trader space marines. I still need to touch up the GS work.

Dipping Tyranids

You remember a few months ago I did an article on quickly painting Nids with washes. Well I've tried another method for the first time now which is dipping. If you've never come across dipping before, you basically paint the basecoat colours of the model then dip them in a dipping solution. In this case it's Army Painters Quick Shade.

Here are the results:





I'm not a huge fan of this method but it does look quite nice on the bleached bone. Certainly useful for painting up a load of bugs quickly.

Look Big Daddy, There's Regular Daddy

I've seen a couple of conversions floating about the Internet of Ork Meganobz being converted up like the Big Daddy from the Bioshock series of games. I had to make my own and have so far made and painted two out of the three I plan to make.



These are actually quite simple conversions. They use the Ork Meganobz body and right arm. The head is made from a part from The Empire Mortar and a Chaos Space Marine Vehicle Searchlight. The other arm is from a plastic ork nob and uses the Drill from the Killa Kan box.

Nurgle's Rot

So I've pretty much finished my other plague marine squad now. The bikers are also 50% done and I will finish them off when I finish off a couple of other models I'm working on.





I am undecided what to do with the banner at the moment. I would love to have some sort of free hand design on there. I may give it a go in the near future!

Vindicare Assassin Conversion

For my Custodes Army I will be offering some fire support from a Vindicare Assassin. A good friend of mine was kind enough to give me one as a reward for helping him out with some web design so I got to work on him to give him a scenic base and a new pose.

The other 3 Noise Marines

My squad of 6 Noise Marines and Rhino is now complete with the addition of these 3 bad boys. I must say I didn't enjoy painting these 3 as much as the first 3 and it shows in the quality. At some point I may go back to these and touch them up with more highlights and detail but for now I will leave them how they are.