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).