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I don't think anyone would be interested to see that...

Kia Ora!

These squads are looking pimpnickle. I love the black and red - nice strong angry military colours...it's a shame a particularly cranky Austrian with a bad moustache ruined it's popularity some 60 years ago. bastard.

Hey one quick q.



Who is this? As in the metal figurine - imperial *blank*? I needs him, or one like him.

BTW the pig iron heads come up a treat on kasrkins, yeah?

Kia Ora!

Yeah I'm a big fan of the ol' black and red I figure when your fightin' the demon you've got to take on the aspect of the demon.

The figure is the commander from the old metal Cadian Command set and you definitely need him for your gang he'd be perfect.

LOL, yeah the pig iron heads are great though I havn't had the stainless steel balls to cut off the head off a kasrkin yet , these PI heads are all on cadians

I might have to 'steal' this colour scheme

Black and red looks good but i'm gonna have to find a way to vary it so it doesn't look the same...

edit: Actually, i think black armour, red shoulders and khaki colours for the cloth has potential. maybe red on the bit of cloth that is just around the waist too to break it up.

I've often considered doing a black and grey tiger stripe camo on the red but I kind of like the "dress uniform" look that they have going on now

Love the army

BLACKHAND wrote:I've often considered doing a black and grey tiger stripe camo on the red but I kind of like the "dress uniform" look that they have going on now

I had a camo army before, and i've found greys to be cool for a while, but i eventually got bored and craved some colour, so i went off camo and onto brighter colours, like red.

Ya monster! You condemned Saint Celestine to everlasting unlife!
Me likey. >

And your Telion conversion is a simple, but nonetheless very effective one. It's hardly believable what a mere paintjob can do!

@kravus - thanks man!

@kasrkin Jack - My last army was a Tau "star wars stormtrooper" themed army in almost all white so this army is positively dull compared to that, part of the reasaon I lke it so much.

@rogan - Thanks, the celestine always gets a lot of attention when I take it to club day, nothing like corrupting beautiful ladies and who knew telion was a good model huh?

Cheers
BLACKHAND

FrantzFanon wrote:LOL Although with cloak he does look like a bride coming down the aisle with the little kids holding up her long dress.

I like the implied symbolism: This ground is so tainted by heretical/impure evil such that my cloak must not drag upon it...

Very fitting for such an army...

So ever since the new skaven models came out last year I have had the urge to build a skaven "counts as" IG army (horde army with low armour) to this end I even bought one of their character models, Queek Headtaker. I have since come to my senses and realised how much it would cost to buy basically an entire skaven force AND the parts to convert them to 40k, probably a s**tload of kroot parts.

I then had vague thoughts of doing queek up as a death cult assasin for my DH but he got shelved in favour of other projects.

Lately though I have been enjoying reading archibald jack's and Acidwap's blogs about their necromunda gangs

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/279777.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/283412.page

thanks to these blogs I am now keeping in mind Necromunda when converting and painting my guard and GK....dont worry I am going somewhere with this.

The last peice of the puzzle is Korf's awesome rogue trader gang here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/284914.page

seeing his gang full of kroot and scratchbuilt xenos made me dust off the queek model and get convertin!

Though I do have thoughts of using him in necromunda at the moment I don't have anyone to play with so I have armed him as a "counts as" marbo for use in my Guard army or a henchman in my DH. anyway on to the pics



So obviously I carved of the chaos symbols his head crest , trophy rack and the swarm of rats at his feet. I swapped his warpick out for a ork slugga to represent marbo's ripper gun but left his original sword cause..well cause its cool.









I think marbo's rules work with him quite well, poisonous blades, venomous bullets, hiding and skulking, hitting and then running general rat-like behaviour...course I now have to convince my guard and DH to accept a filthy xenos into their ranks.....


....speaking of my guard I have written up a IG list with little or no inquisitors or GK and am using my inquisitorial stormtroopers as elite guard stormtroopers (obviously) and in my regimental command squad. Unfortunately ther is no place for a single model heavy bolter in a guard army so I decided to make a large base that can accept smaller bases on it so that I can use my heavy bolter trooper and here it is...









C&C welcome as always!

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Nice idea with the base.
I don't like the Ork gun on the Skaven though. It's just too, well, orky. I'm not sure what else you could use though.

Your work looks AMAZING! I may have to re-think my army choice lol!

@anung un rama - I know its orky but I thought a ripper gun wouls be chunkier than a bolter for some reason, happily when I cut the axe off his hand I left a stub that fitted into the slugga so I can replace it with something else quite easily.

tony_nids_10 - thanks man I'm glad you like my work, My advice is if you have already started nids stick to them , nothing worse than starting 2 or 3 armies and never finishing any of them

Cheers
BLackhand

Nice Celestine conversion and lovely army

True, half started projects drive me insane. I think I'm going to start an article or something to show my progress step by step.

I like the idea alot, DH armies are quite hard to do

Ok a bit of background for my next conversion. The town where I live has only one model shop and the owner only ever buys in the same basic stock month after month which drives us crazy. This week I had to go to our largest city for business and was able to sneak away early and visit the closest GW store not looking for anything in particular but definitely wanting to buy something!

As GW no longer stock Stormtrooper special weapons I bought a blister of Cadian special weapons intending to add some GS carapace armour and use them in my stormtrooper squads, pics when I get to them.

I still felt the itch to buy lead ( you all know what I mean ) and as I looked around I remembered a thread I read the other day about the idea of GK librarians and chaplains. While I agreed with the comments that even the lowest Power Armoured GK is the equal of any marine librarian ( minus 95% of the coolest power !) I felt that there was no reason that GK don't deserve their own chaplains and so I bought the awesome Marine Chaplain in Terminator armour!.

Happily I have some extra GK termie arms left lyng around and I after a bit of chopping and grinding I had a loose shoulder pad and a chaplain arm with no shoulderpad as in these pics....





Don't worry I plan to use the incinirator on my dreadnaught CCW anyhow after a bunch of greenstuffing and pinning I had a workable arm...





I realise that I won't be able to use him as a chaplain and will just run him as a vanilla GK termie but who knows maybe GW will add some flavour units to the incredibly bland stew that is the Grey Knights?

C&C is welcome as I feel he needs more but am not sure where to go with him , my main issue is that his stormbolter is different to the normal GK wrist mounted one but I could probably live with it, another issue is the shoulder pad on the right arm didn't cast well and looks a bt munched and I am thinking of carving off the entire rim this will also make it roughly the same size as the GK shoulderpad on the left arm as well, what do you think?

Cheers
BLACKHAND

Looking swish BH.

So I had a spare couple of hours while my fiance watches desperate housewives ( thank christ for that program or I would never get any painting time!) and I made a start to my Termie Chaplain. I decided to go with a classic scheme with more muted gunmetal then gold to tie it closer to the GK that he'll me rollin with. I havn't decided yet whether I will paint his whole left arm gunmetal as he could be mistaken for Deathwatch though I found on the 40k wiki that GK used to be black and silver before they went to the silver and gold livery that they have now, which helps explain my black armoured brother-captain ( he's been around so long he still has the old school armour). So here are the pics!









I've only basecoated the arms so far but I got pretty far on the torso, I just have red highlights and text on the parchment to go, LOVE washes

Edit: Oh and don't worry the left arm isn't attached yet I wouldn't leave it with a huge gap between it and the torso!

Lookin good, Blackhand. I like the variety of models you use to make the inquisitors.

Thanks alexwars1 and Foxphoenix it's alway good to hear positive feedback!

So I have had the chance to finish the chaplain to tabletop standard and I'll probably leave it at that I just have the base to do and I'm gonna do something a bit more than my usual gravel, maybe find some broken statue or something it has to match my ashwaste them though. I've also got to find a GK termie shield for his left shoulder but I think I might be able to convince a friend to part with one of his ( right andyfish?)
Here are some pics of the final product.





I could probably do another wash and highlight but we move house in 2 days and need to pack up my painting desk and puter

C&C welcome as always!

Cheers,
BLACKHAND

Personally, I think he's not Grey Knighty enough. He's still a Chaplain, I know, but I think he should have more than just other shoulder pads. How about some sort of Nemesis/Crozius Kombi-Weapon?

Anung Un Rama wrote:Personally, I think he's not Grey Knighty enough. He's still a Chaplain, I know, but I think he should have more than just other shoulder pads. How about some sort of Nemesis/Crozius Kombi-Weapon?

This.

Make the Crozius the hilt of a nemesis sword. THAT would be awesome and fit both chaplains and greyknights.

Cheers guys, the nemsis/crozius combo sounds like a plan, do you think I will need to change the paintjob to go more GK?

I was also thinking about converting his right arm to have a wrist mounted stormbolter GK style what do we think?

A wrist-mounted Stormbolter would also help quite a bit with that model. Tha Paintjob I'm not so sure, but that's mostly because I'm not a big fan of the shiney chrome knights in general.

Yeah same, I do my GK with a drybrush of gunmetal over black , I don't leave brush marks or anything but I also try and leave it as dull as possible. I think the paintjob can stay as is since chaplains are black armoured anyway but I will definitely try and find a right hand that is empty and a stormbolter to build into his wrist armour.

Might be a while as I received the models I'm gonna convert up to rough riders and I need to get them done for a tourment coming up in a month.

How about a Crozius AND a Nemesis weapon?

Also, a thought just occured to me: aren't all Grey Knights Psykers? How can there be a Psyker Chaplain? Isn't that against the rules or something? ^^

Erm, I have been living under a rock. And I love this character - who is it?

And secondly, where do you get all these cool toys? Kinda tempted to hop a flight and steal your moving truck. How'd the move go?

Archibald Jack wrote:

Erm, I have been living under a rock. And I love this character - who is it?

THat is Forge World's Inquisitor Solomon Lok. And the sword he normally has is horribly brittle.