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Excellent.

I have a feeling you will easily achieve your usual level of epicness with this one.

Solar_lion wrote:Excellent.

Gracias!

Heretic Tom wrote:I have a feeling you will easily achieve your usual level of epicness with this one.

Thanks! I will surely try.

And a quick update to the base - fits way better now. Looks more natural. Primed it earlier (black) and the polyacrylic is drying on the plinths. Will post pics of those soon. Priming the Imperial Space Marine soon - going to work to white up from black, probably warm tones (brown->bone->white) like I did with the Degallio Imperial Knight. I think warm tones will work, even with it being green too. Though I am not sure just yet... might have to just see the paints together to get a feel for it.

No news. Life has been immensely in the way of my hobby. The only thing I have had on my mind lately is Kill Team and have been thinking now might be a chance to do a fun Emperor's Children army. Saw a list that just screamed "this would be fun to model and paint!"

Crimson Slaughter (Detachment gains Fear)
Elites:
(6) Noise Marines
3x Sonic Blasters
Sonic Blaster w/ CCW (Reaping Volley)
Sonic Blaster w/ CCW (PE)
Blast Master (FNP)
Champ w/ Meltabombs, CCW (Leader)
Rhino
[200]
*** Potentially drop Meltabombs for Dirge Caster ***

I would use FW Kakaphoni for the basic dudes, strapping CCWs to waists where needed. A Deimos Rhino - because go big or go home. Plus, Eidolon with a normal base and using the Noise Champ upgrade backpack to serve as my Champion.

Expensive as hell, right!? Would be GORGEOUS!

Confirmed.... Marines Malevolent are Chaos Marines!

On an aside, damn... I kinda love that old school whimsy.

Finished! This is my donation to the annual "War for Tots" Charity Auction. My LGS has done it for many years and I always try to put in something. Last year was the Ork Painboy. This year is a Mentors Chapter Imperial Space Marine! Hope it fetches some good money and finds a good home!

Nice. Hope it raises a decent amount for charity!

The Mentors scheme looks great.

EDC

Great job! Love the design of the base and all, really gives it some character.

evildrcheese wrote:Nice. Hope it raises a decent amount for charity!

The Mentors scheme looks great.

EDC

Heretic Tom wrote:Great job! Love the design of the base and all, really gives it some character.

Thanks guys! I love the Mentors. Going to add them to whatever 40k Marine Chapter(s) I wind up doing post-8th edition.

It proved surprisingly easy to paint. Just did the green, putty over it after it was dry, and did the white. Thought for sure it would be harder, but it wasn't! I figure I will do at least one Dev Squad with some new pattern of Grav to test and my own personal Imperial Space Marine as well. I mean, I got the decals, so why not?!

Awesome display. Love the mentor Marine!

 Solar_lion wrote:
Awesome display. Love the mentor Marine!

Thanks! It was really fun to do, surprisingly. Can't wait to do more of them!

Not at all tooting my own horn, but am legit in shock! Going to buy myself a drink to celebrate. 8.8 is the highest rating my Knight has been at and of all my submissions to CMON, it is the highest (I took down the others as they were old as hell!).

Just figured I would share. I never expected it to get that close to a 9!

Annnnnnnnnd as a way to ease back into 40k and have a quick pick-up force I can take with me easily, I am officially making an Emperor's Children (Noise Marine) Kill Team. Should be a nice, fun project where I can try to push my paint skills back up a bit. I got kinda slack lately for lack of motivation. Hopefully, this picks me up a bit!

Here is the list:
Crimson Slaughter - Army gains Fear
Elites:
(6) Noise Marines
3x Sonic Blasters
Sonic Blaster w/ CCW (Reaping Volley)
Sonic Blaster w/ CCW (PE)
Blast Master (FNP)
Champ w/ Meltabombs, CCW (Leader)
Rhino
[200]

Debating on Meltabombs going in favor of a Dirge Caster.

Only 7 total models on the table, but I think it has some umph and will have a ton of character!

Forge World is killing me. I have SEVEN Knights, at least, who need iconography before I will even START the project (yes, I am that anal about it).

SIGH.

Maybe by next September...

Me too, though I have 5 currently. I do like the new knight.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Me too, though I have 5 currently. I do like the new knight.

Oh yea, I am getting the Acastus for House Vyronii for sure. I am guessing, like the Atropos, it will be a 0-1 include in a Questoris list. It is a BEAST, but I expect it to be expensive in points (and money).

Just wish that they would get my decals out so I can do it before I die of old age. Somehow, the Custodes sheet is out and the Space Wolves. Their book hasn't come out yet... and here I am, waiting on decals from a book that came out in Nov 2014.

Holy crap... it has been TWO YEARS since the release of HH Conquest. And still no decals for all but Makabius?! Come on, FW, that is nuts!

Couldn't you make your own, or pay someone to do so? Might cost more, but at least you'd have em.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Couldn't you make your own, or pay someone to do so? Might cost more, but at least you'd have em.

In theory, yes. Fallout does custom decals for like $40 a sheet or so (about double the cost of FW). The issue is that I can't get high-res images of the Vyronii iconography. FW just does such a great job. I have waited over a year now, what is a few more quarters? Besides, I am planning a cross-country move at the start of Q2 2017, so it might even be best for me to wait and do it once I am settled into my new digs.

Don't worry, I have projects for the interim. The Skullfiend Tribe, while on hold due to zero motivation, will get painted before too long. And I am trying to get funds for a World Eater army.

Plus I have that Emperor's Children Noise Marine Kill Team, too. That should be ordered shortly and will be a nice distraction as I wait for my Godeaters to get their decals!

Oh, and am still on the hunt for a Lucius Warhound too - I want a Warp Runners Titan to accompany Vyronii to war eventually.

So yea, not hurting for projects, amirite?!

The War for Tots is over and my donation to the Charity Auction has sold! It went to a local (who I think actually won the whole tourney too!) for $105!

I was very proud! Glad to see the Mentors Chapter Marine get a new home and always glad to know money went to Toys for Tots. Given the fact I am relocating next year, this may well be my last one - so I am glad I went out with a bang!

Congrats on a good show and for a good cause.

Great model, glad you were able to raise money for a good cause. Hopefully you find something like that in your new local.

Solar_lion wrote:Congrats on a good show and for a good cause.

Thanks!

whalemusic360 wrote:Great model, glad you were able to raise money for a good cause. Hopefully you find something like that in your new local.

Thanks! If they don't have one where I wind up, I will just start up a West Coast War for Tots. I had actually always hoped it would catch on elsewhere. Plus, Foodhammer too!

Everyone I met when I went out West seemed very nice, so I am hopeful. Definitely feels weird though, since I have been going to my local shop for 10 years now and it is like a second home!

Booked a commission for Q1 2017!

Cerastus Knight Castigator and an Imperial Knight fully magnetized.

Also, the Imperial Knight will feature the poseable legs from Souldark! (Getting a set or two for myself, too!)

They will be done up in Hawkshroud colors! YELLOW! One of my fav colors.

To push myself on this project, I want to try making good rippling water effects to show these guys are plodding across a ruined cityscape where pipes have burst!

Anyhow, just excited so I figured I would post about it.

Started in on some Blood Bowl teams. My custom human team will be the Death Dealers - white with black stripes and maybe gold accents. Skull icons for their team, instead of the usual stuff. The Orc team I am a bit stuck on, might just go for the Gouged Eye, but I am considering other options still. Hard to beat red armor with black accents though, though I did consider a yellow and purple option too.

Built the teams and started doing the bases up with Black Lava Paste from Liquitex. That stuff is solid gold! I will be priming it and painting it a bit muddy, then adding grass on top with white lines after that. Should look decent... I hope.

Anyhow, also managed to FINALLY get a chance to work on those busts I got like forever ago. Remember those? If you do, good on you. I forgot about them mostly as I tucked them into a bits box and they hadn't seen the light of day for ages.

I cut up Jackson and started gluing on bits and stuff. Working on making him an inquisitor or something. Not sure what to do with it, but I might paint it like a statue and give it to my LGS for terrain or something. No idea!

For my Kill Team, I wanted a more unique Rhino so I went for the Deimos. Well.... that wasn't quite Chaos-y, enough, so I got these too:



Hope they add to the brutal look. Also contemplating trophies... notably draped skin with greenstuff, if i can manage it. Otherwise, I might add some spikes per usual Chaos flair.

Also, ordered these for my Deimos Rhino and future projects (like my World Eaters dream army... sigh).



Going to be picking up a Death Guard decal sheet for my Blood Bowl Human team - the DEATH DEALERS! Going to use the crossed scythes and hourglass for them instead of just skulls. Plus, it lets me have the option to do a Death Guard army, if I want someday. Unlikely, but I am so committed to the idea of my BB team, its worth it.

Ordered the Triumvirate so I can officially run Cawl in my yet-to-be-started War Convocation - which has entirely been purchased at this point and it is shameful I haven't even started building it yet!

The Legs are from ComeradeQuiche (look him up on IG) and distributed by SoulDark. Poseable Knight legs! One set for a client, two for me - likely one for my Questoris army and one for my House Raven Knight to accompany Metalica.

Also, for that Kill Team, I want to make a display board with dead Ultramarines and some busted statuary and look what I found at a thrift shop and was given FOR FREE! Busted them up carefully and filled with miliput that will be sanded to look more like a broken statue. Should make my board suitably creepy. Now I am on the hunt for a baroque / rococo picture frame that will fit about a 9x12 piece of board. I think that would be pretty cool.

Anyhow, not pictured was some more work on the now year-long commission for a friend. Seriously, with life being so rough this last year or so, he has been patient and kind to let me take my time and not rush through what amounts to the last of his Blood Angel army (that I have painted over the course of about 5 years now!).

Next update, hopefully, will be build/sub-assembly shots of the House Hawkshroud Imperial Knights - a magnetized normal Knight and a Castigator. Very excited to be painting Knights again and this is my first foray into the Cerastus chassis!

Cool.stuff. Interested in seeing what you do with the poseable knight legs.

EDC

Here are some shots of what I am working on!

Castigator is primed and in sub-assembles/pieces for painting (not actually attached to base, nor is the torso attached yet). Bases ready to be painted - doing water effects in them! Should be fun. Poseable legs are posed. They were tough to work with, but are nicely cast and a good time-saver for those of us without modelling abilities (I suck at that sorta stuff!).

Also, while cutting some ferrous tacks I use for magnetizing Knights, I managed to bust one of my old, trusty rusty clippers. :( I had that one for 4+ years. This is why I always have two on hand, because I was always paranoid this would happen. The other pair is over 5 years old... so that paranoia probably wasn't well-founded.

EDIT:

Also! My Noise Marine Kill Team is VERY close to being started. Waiting on some of Machinator's spikes to arrive for my Deimos Rhino (to make it suitably evil). Keep an eye (ear?) out for this stuff soon too!

Tough Break......ok..bad pun.

Like the pose able legs. I be tempted to get another knight just so I can do something unique.

Looking forward to a Cawl paint up. Definitely an amazing sculpt.