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Nice work! Any ideas on what direction you're going to take the Hawk Lords in as an army? I know they use a lot of fliers and do a bunch of low-altitude drops, so maybe a bunch of Assault Marines.

I do not plan on playing 40k much, if at all. So I am planning on going for a little bit of everything. The "competitive" army lists I see are so dull and full of min/max of just a few units. But, as you suggest, they are very much seen as a fast attack army so a big 10 man assault squad and maybe a 10 man (or 8 bikes and 1 attack bike squad) bike squad to go with the Stormtalon.

Also every unit will have a transport as well, but I will have to have a Vindicator as I adore the design. Jeebus after looking at that lot I had better remortgage the house!

Some really nice looking Hawk Lords there Thraxas, Tac Squad and the Company Master/Chapter Master look particularly badass
Throw in some Vanguard Veterans for some particularly bling'd assault troops


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 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I do not plan on playing 40k much, if at all. So I am planning on going for a little bit of everything. The "competitive" army lists I see are so dull and full of min/max of just a few units. But, as you suggest, they are very much seen as a fast attack army so a big 10 man assault squad and maybe a 10 man (or 8 bikes and 1 attack bike squad) bike squad to go with the Stormtalon.

Also every unit will have a transport as well, but I will have to have a Vindicator as I adore the design. Jeebus after looking at that lot I had better remortgage the house!

You could get the eagle head from the Shrine of the Aquila for some bling and maybe have the Demolisher cannon barrel poking out of it lol

Speaking of Vindicators.. could look at getting this Deimos pattern one from Forgeworld. Looks sufficiently brutal for Space Marines I feel.

I like that, it is nice and chunky. Sadly (well not really) the missus has already treated me to a "normal" Vindicator.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I like that, it is nice and chunky. Sadly (well not really) the missus has already treated me to a "normal" Vindicator.

Well if you're doing Iron Warriors, you'll need more siege weaponry...

More progress on my Hawk Lords:

Captain:





Did a Rhino for the Tactical Squad:





And finished a Vindicator:







And also a squad of Scouts with Sniper rifles, quite happy with how this lot turned out:





Their Camo Cloaks:



And group shot of the army, I think this may be hitting 1000pts



Also what is on the WIP bench?

Well the Dark Vengeance Terminators, but also want to finish my Malifaux Ortego Posse, watch out for "Papa Loco", he is a bit dangerous:



Also I badly need to get my Deadzone mojo back, I want to get everything painted before I consider buying any Asterians or Forge Fathers.

Adios

Nice work!

You've been really cranking away at those Marines! I like the purple, your painting methods translate really well to the GW stuff.

Your Malifaux is still my favorite though, the models have a lot of character, and you bring it out well!

Man your turnover is ridiculous, nice work!

Thank you Sirs.

@Chemical Cutthroat: I think because a Malifaux crew is relatively small, and (mostly) individual sculpts I take a bit more time and care in painting, that and the sculpts/plastics are just so good that I want to do them justice.

Just a few WIP pictures, now undercoated and ready to go is the Malifaux mercenary Killjoy, he is available to any faction that you want. Plenty of people have broken his spindly chain hook, I intend not to:



WIP Assault squad, these were black undercoat, Xereus Purple layer, then a Genestealer Purple drybrush (very lightly) followed by a Druchii Violet Wash:



The same on the Terminators:

Hello people, have nailed Killjoy. Am very happy with how he has turned out:



Flattering rear shot:



And scale shot:



Have also made progress with my Latigo Posse.

Papa Loco is done, but for the life of me I cannot get a decent close up photo of him.

Nino is done too:



Group shots of the nearly complete Posse:





Last to be done is Francisco and his big huge Sombrero:



Then after that I plan to do Hannah in her big mechanical suit, here is the suit sans Hannah:



And scale shot vs and Enforcer:

Nice work once more!

Yep good stuff! I like the Killjoy especially, somehow dirty yet cleanly painted at the same time, it looks good. And the cleaver, iconic sharpened space over the rust, which also looks dirty, yet clean. Nice work

Thank you as ever gentlemen. Had quite the hobby mojo today, so managed to get a battlezone done that has been on the shelf for months just looking at me. I have also had my Gencon order from Wyrd arrive on tuesday so have made and based the following:

Hannah (the Big Mechanical bot based person seen in my previous post).
Gencon Exclusive "Bad Teddy".
"Hide and Seek" new Dreamer Crew, this is plastic and has:
The Dreamer
Lord Chompy Bits
Copellius
3 Daydreams
3 Alps (do not know what an Alp is look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp_(folklore)

Anyway onto the battlezone:





Standoff



I may do a group shot of all my Deadzone terrain soon as well, just 2 more battlezones done and that is my terrain painted.

I like the BZ, very interesting shapes to play around.

First thing, love the purple space marines. Nice, clean paint job. Big fan.

Also always good to see other peoples battle zones. Gives me more ideas for mine!

A bit more progress, I decided to use a darker more military type grey for this Battlezone. I wanted it to look like a more official and well looked at military unit:







Helfather vs a Reb:



I also did a couple of barricades, these are dull so I have added some Mawbeasts and a Plague Terraton for interest:



I have also started a bit of work on Hannah and the new Lord Chompy Bits, very early days on these ones:

Simple Ironbreaker coat, a wash with Army Painter Strong Tone (watered down) then some Loren Green with a green wash. My question is do I add any rust to any of the "interior" skeleton?



Rear:



Lord Chompy bits, just a basecoat, a few highlights and a purple wash thus far:



Also for the Dreamer crew I have finished the 3 daydreams, these are manifestations of the Dreamers mind and so I went to town on the colours a bit:







and all 3 together:



Adios.

I think I have to hate you a bit (in the nicest way possible) for having the early release Malifaux stuff, but damn, the new Lord Chompy looks truly nightmarish! Nice work on the DZ stuff too!

Lord ChompyBits looks incredibly badass!

This stuff is great looking! I especially like the little dream guys.

Awesome stuff as usual! LCB is pretty frightening, and I really like your style of constructing BZ terrain.

Thank you for all the feedback, have been on more of a Malifaux splurge this week. Especially the 50mm beasties.

First is Hannah, Freikorps Archivist. She will fit in well with my Rail Crew.I wanted an almost Spitfire like green for her, and I think it went quite well:









Also did Miss Ery, the Gencon release Teddy:



And have also started work on Miss Terious, an old Gencon exclusive. She counts as a Guild Guard so fits in with either Lady Justice or my Ortega crew:



Have also done my first Alp for my Dreamer crew, I wanted a kind of greyscale nighmareish affect so there is very limited colour on him:



And finally for the Dreamer I have finished Lord Chompy Bits the 2nd:



Here he is with the old metal Dreamer and the old metal LCB on the left, he may be on some sort of steroids:



Inspired by Grimdork and the tightening of his hobby belt I think my next post will be a big ol' list of the things I have to paint up until December and the inevitable next influx of goodness. Adios.

Chompybitz II looks immensely badass! Seeing some Daemon Prince potential there!

Wow excellent work as usual I dunno about how out-front Hannah is, looks really vulnerable like that, but you've done a good job painting her and that's what's important

The rest look great too. LCB is quite scary though the original is almost more frightening in some ways. Good you have both

GrimDork wrote: I dunno about how out-front Hannah is, looks really vulnerable like that, but you've done a good job painting her and that's what's important

Welcome to Malifaux, please leave your sense of practicality at the door.

Yeah, I never get the 'dangling from the front of a mech' idea. But the model itself is really damn cool, and the paintjob is well done chief.

That Hannah of the Freikorps model kinda reminds me of this..


Handyman from BioShock Infinite

Huh now I kind of want to play that game (got it with xcom but never played) just so I can shoot that dude in his unarmored head. Unless he isn't an enemy, then I guess I'll let it slide.

 GrimDork wrote:
Huh now I kind of want to play that game (got it with xcom but never played) just so I can shoot that dude in his unarmored head. Unless he isn't an enemy, then I guess I'll let it slide.

They're enemies. Gotta move around a lot when fighting em too. The heart is the weak spot. Just be prepared for a WTF? when you finish it. I didn't get it at all.

I like that a lot, I need a new FPS in my life, has anyone given Destiny a go yet? Never played XCOM either and I see a lot about it.

Aside from that, are you a fan of long, boring lists? If so today is your lucky day!


Given motivation by Grim in his excellent blog I am going to reduce my hobby spend in the run-up to Christmas and am aiming to get as much as possible painted up. So for the 3 game systems I currently have models for here is my full "to do" list.

Deadzone: 55 models total.

Boomer (1)
Freya (1)
Enforcers (9 troops, 1 burst laser) (10). (5 done)
Zombies (5).
Marauders (11)

(2 Rippers / 2 Mawbeasts/5 Commandos / 2 Snipers.)


Rebs (27)

( 6 troopers /1 commander/ 2 terratons/2grogan/6 yndij/2 sorak/ 2 drones /2 Zee/1 Judwan Medic/1 Kraaw/ T-K Zero team).

Malifaux 17 models total.

Dreamer Crew (4)
(Dreamer/Coppelius/2 Alps)

McMourning Crew (7)
(McMourning/2 nurses/1 Flesh Construct/ 1 Canine Remains/ 1 Zombie Chihuahua/1 Sebastien)

Desperate Mercenaries (2)
Izamu The Armour (1)
Vanessa (1)
Hans (1)
Miss Terious (1)

Warhammer 40k 71 models total

Space Marines (25)

Terminator Squad (5)
Assault Squad (5)
Bike Squad (3)
Tactical Squad (10)
Captain (1)
Librarian (1)

Iron Warriors (46)

Hellbrute (1)
Lord (1)
Tactical Squad (10, but 2 done so 8)
Chosen Squad (7)
Cultists (30, but 1 done so 29)#

Dull eh?

So in total that is 143 miniatures, no time frame to get them done but I want to get as much done as possible before Christmas without hurting the quality.

So if anybody wants to see anything in particular painted just request it, and I will see what I can do.

Until next time...