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As you probably know, I'm a fan of the color swap! Those are coming along really well. Those different arms look awesome, I like them a lot. And I think the banner looks great - goes really well with the unit itself.

@Ramos & Tangent - Seems colour swap is the winner then with a mighty two votes

Made the mistake of going to GW yesterday, they happened to have the official herald on disc, and I was planning on getting it at some point anyway sooo...



There's more cleaning to do on him yet, but there was no way in hell I was leaving him with a finecast staff, after what happened with the changeling. Also seems I've modelled my other heralds for disadvantage currently, I just assumed they'd be on one of the taller flight stands with them using the big flying base. A nice break from daemonettes again, still waiting on bits for the cultists though as some of them are apparently out of stock.

Started painting the extra bits on the command groups, at least they weren't a pain to blend in, golds still need more coats of brighter notes, and I'm not sure what to do with the tongue on the big instrument, there was a little bit of me tempted to do it in silver but maybe that's more of a daft reference than a good paint choice. I just worry it doesn't look great being the same colour as the upper, I could also just remove it like I did with the smaller instruments.



Now that the colour swap is definitely a go for the Alluress, what do you think to using the aquamarine/teal for the hair and claws etc? I grabbed the colours as I was planning on using them on the mounts (for the mane and claws etc) for the seekers when I get round to them but I think they work pretty well alongside the rest of the scheme as it stands.

Wow, looks awesome! I think using teal for the hair and claws and stuff would work great. You'd be able to pick her out from the crowd when she's at the table, and you're looking top-down.

Hey, that giant bottle of Vallejo primer... is that airbrushable straight from the bottle?

It is indeed airbrushable from the bottle, one of the main attractions of it, I've not used a spray can primer since I started using it, just make sure you shake it well first as you can see it settles.

What's the product number on the front? 74.something.

That would be 74.601 if it's not already too late for that to be useful

Just noticed that if I want to do six squad leaders I'd need to buy two more daemonettes, I never thought I'd be considering getting more of the damned things, so might just stick to four as when am I ever going to take more than four units, hell two maybe three would probably do it.

Gotta say
I love seeing people who are clearly enjoying the creative end of the hobby. Your burgle GS blight drown is awesome. In fact, most of the conversions that i see here are really well done. I also really liked your portaglyph and your freehand slanneesh banner.
Great work.

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
That would be 74.601 if it's not already too late for that to be useful

Thanks!

@Sennacherib - Thanks, that's very much appreciated, I'll have to get the GS drone finished so I can start on #3!

@ Tangent - No probs, you'll have to let me know how you get on with it if you get some.

Rest of the bits for the cultists arrived, though I've just spotted one that needs a little bit of GS, (fortunately it's hidden in the photo).



Started plans for the next two squads utilising the witch elves I got with the cauldron of blood, which I'll probably combine with some empire flagellants to make slaanesh cultists.

I'm also giving serious thought to just rebooting the blog as a whole to include some of the fluff I've started writing, might help to clean up the long load times on earlier pages too by circumventing them entirely unless people want to go look at this older blog. Then again with the gardening season starting again I've already started planning that as well (everything hurts from lazy winter stuff). It's basically a theme of the final Black Crusade, every horror from the past is coming back, and if it's chaotic chances are it's coming for you, (allows me to add fun things like knights of blood with blood angel rules or skyrars dark wolves to the theme as a whole). Annnnnyway time to go buy more gravel

Hahaha man, I gotta say, the head on the guy second from the left on the bottom picture looks hilarious. You definitely need to take a closeup shot of that guy.

Ask and ye shall receive! I'm not sure I was going for hilarious on all of them but I was also quite amused by that fella there's definitely more to be done on his neck too by the looks of it, shouldn't be too hard with a knife and a tiny bit of GS.

Oh man, that's great. Close up, his head doesn't look THAT gigantic as it does in the further away pic.

Yeah the helmet sure does make it look larger from a distance.

Sooo to make cultists from fantasy models, just add shooters! The plan is to use the central models for the cultist champions, with a sort of pseudo lieutenant in the group with the flagellants, pair on the left have masks, pair on the right don't just so I remember which goes with which.



Since the Blight Drone was brought up I saw it sitting on the shelf unfinished and decided that just wouldn't do at all, therefore I present the pre-paint drone, I think it's good for priming now. Managed to stab myself through my nail straight into my finger while doing the chopper blades so that's it's first blood sacrifice.



As for the third Drone I'm thinking of basing it off of this piece of art from IA:7, the only problem is I have no idea how I'm going to do those engines, tried googling around and even ordered some rotors from zinge but they're nowhere near big enough.

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
Managed to stab myself through my nail straight into my finger while doing the chopper blades so that's it's first blood sacrifice.

Ugh oh god! I just cringed. THROUGH the nail?!

Good idea with the cultists. Yeah, now that you mention it, I guess you can turn just about any fantasy model into a cultist... are those witch elves?

 Tangent wrote:

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
Managed to stab myself through my nail straight into my finger while doing the chopper blades so that's it's first blood sacrifice.

Ugh oh god! I just cringed. THROUGH the nail?!

Good idea with the cultists. Yeah, now that you mention it, I guess you can turn just about any fantasy model into a cultist... are those witch elves?

Yeah through the nail, it kind of hurts but I've seen worse thanks to this forum. Those are indeed witch elves, I got the blood throne for my birthday a while back, and out of it I got those four to use as cultists, an avatar I'm going to use when I do Eldar, and a daemon prince I'm writing a back story for, as well as lots of lovely conversion bits for slaanesh bikes etc.

You, sir, have a hell of a lot of projects on the go. Beautiful work though, really enjoyed looking through this thread.

@Retrogamer - Thanks, it's a bit of a problem I can't deny it, if anything this update just reinforces it!

Sooo I've decided to put the daemonettes on hold for a little bit, I can feel the creeping edges of burnout doing all the cloth again (at least I'm half way with the purple basecoat), and I've not actually got enough bases to finish them if I did get them all done anyway (need like 80 scibor bases to do it and that won't come cheap).

I've certainly got enough other stuff to paint right now for a scene change, and I've managed to add to the back catalogue thanks to a quick visit to the FLGS on thursday. Yeah I totally needed more projects to finish right, so now I've got two Juggerlords and a spare Juggernaut I will be buying a finecast skulltaker for, just so it's easier to melt him into a riding position, they are of course only WIP at the minute.

First up (and the reason I bought the kit at all), is the lord with axe of blinding fury, because he's a fun unit to play with from the one game I proxied the build, it was also a great excuse to make use of an old metal model I otherwise might have just left on the shelf. Cloak I nearly had to cut through to get it to bend at all, the axe is just fantastic for the AoBF, massive with an angry daemon face on the blade.



Then since I had a spare juggernaut from the box I figured why not double the fun and do a second lord with a slightly more conventional general lord build (PF/LC), the amount of bits I have left over from the kit is just staggering and they're all very pretty for use in future khornate pieces. Think I'm going to run a piece of chain through the powerfist to give this one reins.



Then a third jugger nicely ready for skulltaker to take (who knows maybe it'll be good in the next codex if the option doesn't disappear).

Wow man, those are pretty good. I like looking at models and envisioning them looking awesome fully painted, and I definitely did that with these.

Nice stuff! I've always wanted to convert a unit of khorne berzerkers on juggernauts. A few editions ago it was possible to field whole units of aspiring champions on mounts. I was tempted at the time, but lacked the resources to get it done. The unit would've cost more than 1000 points for just 8 models, but that wasn't (and really never is with me) the point. Just the sheer ridiculousness of a unit like that had tempted me. I still pine about it sometimes. Sigh. Good work, man. Subbed.

Nice work.
Im glad that the forces of burgle are getting their due. Love the picture/drawing of the blight drone. Haven't seen that confirmation. I might have to try my hand at sculpting one of those too. Seems like the rotor should be fairly easy t construct with plasticard.

@Tangent - Thanks, fingers crossed on getting them painted sooner rather than later, really enjoying a change from painting the nettes as you'll see in a minute

@Warboss - Thanks, I was foolishly playing Daemonhunters back then (assuming I'm going back far enough), thanks to a friend going 50/50 on an army to try and get me into the game, so I mostly missed the true glory days of chaos. Sounds like it would be a hell of a sight, I'd mention the codex daemons bloodcrushers but not sure they deserve the name anymore. At least Juggerlords are one khorne unit that can still really bring the pain, even if they're not in a big group.

@Senna - Nurgle is getting more love today, started painting drone #2, the drone pics are all shamelessly 'borrowed' from IA:7 if you're looking for more inspiration and have the book. I've always had trouble trying to build that style of rotor, never comes out right when I've attempted it in the past, doesn't seem like there's a tutorial out there for what I'm doing wrong either!

So as I mentioned drone #2 painting is underway!

Painting on the drone is further along, I'm holding off on calling it finished though because of a few things, one is the new lense colour, I've always somewhat regretted my green OSL as it doesn't exactly 'pop' against a dark green scheme. Thought I'd try orange as I'd heard of a few people using it, still not sure to be honest. I've also not applied the usual gloss varnish to the slime at the moment, wanted to see what it looked like without it but I'm very tempted to put it on again. Also noticed a couple of patches of the skin that need a bit more touching up, but yeah any ideas or comments on the above or even stuff I've not thought of would be much appreciated.



Now to decide what to do next, feeling a lot more enthusiastic now I've put the daemonettes on hold

Nice work on the second blight drone. Love the dissolving guardsmen at the base. Nice touch. So you are making the roters from scratch?

Very inspirational work. I too feel like the OSL might be interpreted as rust given the model you have chosen to make. looking at all this wonderful Nurgle love inspires me to try my hand at building one too!

nice work.

I think the orange OSL is bright enough to not look like rust, and I actually like it. A lot of times, OSL doesn't look like OSL, but I think this definitely does. In terms of color, I'm not sure what else you could use other than orange. Blue wouldn't look right... maybe red? But I think orange would look better than red.

@Senna - I'll give the rotors a go, I've kind of had the start of drone three for a while as I've been putting all the spare greenstuff into a roughly dronish shape for a while now so there's at least a skeleton to work with. Hopefully the final stages of painting make it clear the orange is OSL especially as the actual rust is all textured.

@Tangent - Thanks bud, think I'll definitely be giving it a go on further models I found a few plague marines I never finalised hiding behind my PC monitor so maybe I could do it on them, this is what happens when you move house and don't put things away properly

So I think I'll call the second blight drone done for now with the final alterations, I darkened it a bit more and adjusted the slime pool as the previous drone was a lot darker in tone.






As for what I'm working on next I've gone a little bit flyer mad, the heldrake is up on the 'to do' bench. I had to start by removing it from how I originally had it posed, the left wing was far too close to the ground and it was causing problems on tables that weren't completely flat. I also finished greenstuffing in the original flight stand hole. I guess this also confirms my black legion basing theme as 'crumbling imperium', not sure what else to put on the base, I could have a victim for the advancing chosen though that might be a bit cliche, or maybe barrels etc, could even just leave it as it is and add foliage of some form once the paint is on.

So it would seem I don't actually have the black primer I wanted to use for the heldrake, so I've had to pop it on hold till I can get some in, might not be for a little bit as we're trying to have a lean month in light of a little bit of overspending lately .

Therefore instead of just stopping I've started cracking on with other bits, made the bases for the two juggerlords and greenstuffed any gaps I hadn't done on them up till now, got to wait for the sculptable water effects to set before I can prime them. Thought it would be worth doing a base for the one spawn I have sitting around waiting to be painted too seeing as it will inevitably end up in a unit with one of the juggerlords.



Then on to one of my favourite things to do screamer scheme discs, so much for herald #2 being lightly glued on so I could remove him to paint, he wouldn't budge so I'm going to have to do it as one piece, fortunately herald #3 was much easier to shift.





Quick update done, time to get back to painting gold on the herald.

Man, I like all your screamer stuff man, I like all the blending. Do you cover up any parts of a model when you highlight with the lighter blues, or do you just angle the airbrush directionally so you don't hit anything you don't want to?

For general screamer style blending there's no covering of anything, just careful control with the flow and direction of spray.

Actually on that note I'm so glad I went for the Iwata, just finished doing the robes on the herald and it hasn't messed up any of the other paint, very precise bit of kit I'd definitely recommend one.

Quick update time again!



Herald is coming along gradually, leaning towards green for the gems, and possibly for some OSL coming from the eye of the staff, had to repaint the book twice as I tried it in different colours and nothing came out that well till I decided 'hey it's part of the disc lets try that', torn between leaving the eyes as black 'gems' or doing them in the yellow of the general screamer eyes.

More speedy updating!



Built the base for the herald, painting in progress now, managed to drill too far into the heralds disc so now I've got a minor repair to do to that too

Also primed and prepped the base for the juggerlords as well as a blue horror I had left over from the chariot kit, think he'll go nicely on the base for the screamer style disc herald once that's further along, feeling rather productive for some reason.