D'awww gak! Love me some MkVIII power armour .

Plenty of chapters to go at with those shoulder pads.

Also, will you be keeping the dreadnought as a Blackshield per the box set fluff, or making him chapter specific?

Love the fact that they are putting so many chapters in the boxes. With the blackshields you can do some fun stuff like chipping away at the shoulder pad to reveal a color of the former chapter or chapter symbol

Hot damn those Deathwatch minis are cool.

EDC

@AOV: Had not even considered a chapter for the Dread...I will rustle through my bits box and see what suitable chapter icons I have knocking around.

@Ustrello: I really like your chipping away idea, just a hint of colour could suggest any number of chapters.

I really have to pick up my game and get to some painting, but not today me and the Missus are off to a nice hotel to mark our 10 year anniversary (not marriage, that is not our kind of thing), then onto a meal and a gig. But the plan is currently Shattered Dominion board/ Stormcasts and something from Death Masque.

I have got the last of the Deathwatch made up though:









I love those mauls and storm shields, add in the shotguns from the Kill Team and you have a great Arbites feel to the miniatures.

Ouch, those Vanguard should kick some ass with that array of large blunt instruments at their disposal! Cool stuff!

Love those maces . Look forward to hearing about some violent battles with those fellas.

Nice builds T. Love those tower shields and the godhammers are awesome. The power mauls from the kit.......bother me. Not sure why. The flanges (?) just look a little plain I think. Makes me think of some cooking implement. May convert mine of engrave a design into them when I do them. I watched an unbxing on YouTube last night- sprrruueees!!!! So much sprueage!!!!!

 Januine wrote:
Nice builds T. Love those tower shields and the godhammers are awesome. The power mauls from the kit.......bother me. Not sure why. The flanges (?) just look a little plain I think. Makes me think of some cooking implement. May convert mine of engrave a design into them when I do them. I watched an unbxing on YouTube last night- sprrruueees!!!! So much sprueage!!!!!

I think they're more concerned with hitting something til it dies, than decor, Jan .

No way!!!! I think they're actually the deathwatch house cooks!!! All the other stuff has so much nice detail and shiny, I think the mauls just miss that. It really is an awesome box though eh. So. Much. Shiny!!!!

A year after buying the thing I have finally completed the AOS Starter set. I did this by painting the 3 Prosecutors with Celestial Hammers:



So here is the Stormcast Eternal Faction:



And the Khorne Bloodbound:



And altogether:









Am really happy with them overall, to add to my Stormcasts I have the Start collecting set, a Lord Castellant and Knight Venator. Bloodbound wise I have some mighty skullcrushers, dragon ogres and a Slaughterpriest.

As for the rest of the day I will be painting a further two Realm of Battle boards up. Thanks for looking.

Wowzers, you've done some really fancy stuff lately, really excited for the deathwatch stuff

Aye, good stuff, well done on getting the full set painted! They look awesome!

Lovely Stormhost there, Thraxas I should really finish mine...

Damn fine job there!

Cheers gents, what with anniversaries and holidays it feels like August has not been a productive month so I need to pick up the pace soon. I got my first Death Masque miniature done, a Kill Team sergeant with combi-melta and Xenophase blade. I really enjoyed painting him but the fine (well not so fine with my clunky brush work) edge highlights with fenris grey are a bit labour intensive. But he is done, and thankfully they are a small and elite army...or at least they are meant to be.










Who wore it better?



I have also got most of the work on the Arcanabulum ROB tile as well, a sepia wash was my friend when going the metals. Just a few drybrushes and flocking to go.



Thanks for looking.

The highlights might have taken a while, but they're worth it, he looks awesome! That board section is epic too.

Hm I like the blue edge highlights and welcome to the black armor club it is a gakky one to be apart of I can tell you that

That board section looking fantastic!! Really epic stuff. Great work on the DW too. Still waiting on my box ><

Awesome work on those Deathwatch dudes. Such great models, I love the mauls they have.

EDC

Thank you very much gents, it really is quiet on the forum at the moment, was shocked that this thread was still on the first page.

@Ustrello: How many black marines have you painted in this year alone? Enough to give any sane person a nervous twitch!

Have got the Venerable Dread done, I love my dreads so this one was a joy to do. I still have the Lascannon and assault cannon alternative armaments to paint but the plasma cannon is done. Any naming suggestions? My Marine names are always awful.









Like all of my miniatures he looks better from a distance:



With his Deathwatch brethren (on a wip board)



And a little work to do over the next few days:



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Thank you for looking.

Great work T. you're tearing through the DW and they're looking very tasty indeed

How about Edaar Stonehand for your dreadnought?

Thought I'd commented on the Dread yesterday, but apparently not. He looks fantastic, the silver arm really pops with the blue tint and ties into the CF pad nicely.

Are you painting these DW from a silver undercoat?

Nice work on the dreary, he looks ace.

EDC

Great job on the AoS set, and Death Masque seems to be going the same awesome way

Also forgot to mention- that Arcanubulum looks pretty fantastic!

Thanks gents, Edarr Stonehand it is AOV, a really cool name. For those that play 40k more than me are we seeing more Dreads as a result of the extra attack they got in the Vanilla codex and then the various FAQs? I do hope so.

@Para. My lazy way is black basecoat, silver and gold in relevant places then a black wash. Thereafter I fill in the gaps. Now that I think about it it is probably an odd way of going about it.

@EDC: Do you have a blog? you are a welcome commentator on the blogs but I do not recall seeing any of your work.

@Oddball: Thank you, assuming your geo locator is correct may I applaud you on being based in an awesome country.

I have made further progress today but autumn seems to be drawing in already and the light is fading earlier and earlier, so pictures tomorrow if time allows.

Also I was asked today to participate in my local gw's Armies on parade..but forgot to ask what it involved. Any ideas???

So far as I know, AoP is simply an up-to 2x2" board on which a collection of minis (usually an army, but I've seen it done with 2 as a kind of large diorama) so in theory you could enter just by taking one of your RoB sections and sticking some terrain and minis on it... Or go all out and make a custom terrain set themed around one of your armies.

Or use it as an excuse to start working on a new one... I mean, a Harlequin-themed board could be all kinds of awesome!

I am possibly going to sell on my Harlequins, with the exception of the Death Jester as I just have too much unpainted stuff. But thanks for the armies on parade info Para.

Got my Kill Team today, apologies for the dank photos but it is a very overcast day today:





Iron Hand/Black Consul: (The Minotaur and Novamarine came out a bit blurry)



Kill Team Vincet:

They're looking cracking, the armour really pops!

Lovely stuff here, Thraxas. You've really nailed it with the eye lenses, and I really like the xenophase blade.

Sweet stuff Thraxas. They're looking well tidy. My (preordered) DM box finally arrived today!! Waheeyyy - sprue overload!!!!

Have made progress with another two ROB boards done, meaning that I now have a fully painted 4 by 4 gaming board:





As a fan of NJPW (New Japan Pro Wrestling) I get a kick out of this:









The Deathwatch make planet fall to "investigate" a Xenos site:



Thanks for looking.

Good stuff, Thraxas . Get some scenery on it

Awesome job with the board and death watch!

Sweet sweet stuff. Love that board with all the cogs and clocks n like. You did a phenomenal job. Deathwatch are looking damn fine too.

Have managed to finish off Watch Captain Artemis, I am a big fan of this miniature:













Here he is with his friends:



As ever, thanks for looking. I am also sad to announce that I had a delivery of more Deathwatch this morning. Namely 2 Kill teams, a terminator squad, terminator captain and whatever the other HQ is called. It is a hard life.

Lol. Going full deathwatch eh?

Captain A is looking superb! One of your best Marines yet!

I certainly am AOV, I am also considering a foot slogging kill team all armed with Lightning Claws just for fun. I certainly plan an all shotgun wielding team as well.

@Para: Thanks mate, I am pretty happy with him and was worried that the photographs did not do him justice. Such a cool miniature.

Fancy fancy Stuff lately, very impressive marines and table.

Had a nice day yesterday constructing a few Deathwatch characters, two more Kill teams and some Terminators. I think I will get another Kill team to round my squads off as:

Squad with bolters and power weapons.
Heavy weapon squad.
Special weapon squad (grav?Melta? plasma?)
and my favourites the shotgun squad.

Here are the Watch Captain and Terminator Captain:



Just a simple head swap on the Termy captain:



Terminator Squad:



I kitbashed a couple of meltafists, the chainfist arms are perfect for this, add in a melta pistol/combi melta bit and you are golden:



My shotgun squad, the sgt has a power fist to deal with any troublemakers:







Infernus heavy bolter and frag cannon:



I used the sternguard sprue to make a heavy flamer:



Finally a stalker pattern bolter and a grav gun using betrayal at calth mk IV arms:



I just have to finish off one last ROB tile for the tale of painters this month, so I had better get to it. Thanks for looking.

Got the Shattered Dominion Realm Of Battle board done, am very happy with it overall:






Of course it is not truly complete until some terrain and painted miniatures is on it, so here a combined Deathwatch, Blood Angel and Assassin army face an Alpha Legion force fresh from the Eye Of Terror:









I am just 4 miniatures off 200 for the year so I hope to get those done in a few days, no idea which ones though. Who knows where the muse may take me.

Thanks for looking.

Nice work buddy! Those Deathwatch look awesome!

Splendid stuff, the board looks amazing and the Deathwatch have some great poses among them!

Very cool. The DearhWatch shotguns look super cool.

Excellent work on the table too, it looks great, and all the better with some awesome minis on.

To answer your question, I did once start a plog, but haven't updated it for at least a couple of years. I'm tempted to take another stab at a plog as I'm taking part in a Tale of Many Gamers at my local club, so I've just started a KDK amy and will be finishing the first 500 pts this week.

EDC

T - this is all looking absolutely fantastic. The board, the DW... Cracking stuff

Thank you very much gents, I am quite surprised at how the 40k stuff fits in with the board, the next project is to find a permanent home for it and to get some more terrain for it. I have a Garden of More to paint up but some more trees and future based stuff is certainly on the horizon.

@EDC: Go for it, a Tale of Gamers project should be a great motivator.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:


@EDC: Go for it, a Tale of Gamers project should be a great motivator.

Seconded! Git 'er done EDC!

A very lovely board. Nice work!

Thank you Warboss Dakka, I am very happy with it. Made a bit more Deathwatch progress today, in the form of Deathwatch Terminator Captain Sabrael of the Blood Angels. He is the stock miniature with the BA type head from the Kill team sprue. I have wanted to paint this miniature for ages, and luckily you no longer have to go the £40+ ebay route to get one.














As ever, thanks for looking.

Nice job on that Terminator Captain.

Great great stuff fella.

Cheers gents, am currently working on the Watch master, it is then onto the SLAUGHTERBLADE PRIESTMODE or some Deathwatch Terminators, am a bit gutted though as I have just found a spare Termie weapon sprue so could have added another assault cannon and more meltafists to the squad.

Very neat highlights, well done.

As for those Terminators, hack the arms off! More Assault Cannons the better!

So much goodness! The Deathwatch look awesome to a man. Even looking at the unpainted builds they look cool - and so the painted ones really rock. The RoB board looks great, and going back a little the finished AoS starter factions looked fantastic as well. You've really been on fire lately!

These guys look awesome mate. It's almost making me want to go out and buy shed loads of deathwatch marines :S

Good to see you back for a bit Az, and some very kind words. Hope you feel better and are back in the swing of things as soon as possible. Thanks Lord Borak, good forum name as well (I assume it is not your birth one?).

Got my Watch Master Leonarex Coragus of the Ultramarines painted up. I am very happy with him but the photos are a bit poor and do not really do him justice, that happens sometimes. But here he is:














Cheers.

Cracking job on the Watch Master there matey . Only thing that lets it down is him being an ultramarine :-P

Fantastic stuff! That's a worthy job on an awesome model, the cape is superb!

Wow, you've really been on a roll lately. You did a great job on that realm of battle board. Don't see too many of those painted.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Cracking job on the Watch Master there matey . Only thing that lets it down is him being an ultramarine :-P

Exalted

Nice job. The drybrushing on his cloak. Wouldnt of ever thoughtof doing that - but it does give it a really materially (that's a word dammit!!) feel and look to it. nice one T

Squall! Seems like ages since you have been on the P and M blogs, how are you Sir? We need to see more of your work, your Genestealer cult looked great.

Cheers for all the positive remarks, check out LDP's Watch Master for some true art, he has done a glorious job.

The reason he is an Ultramarine is very long, complicated and involved... well it isn't really. Ultrasmurfs were the only transfer I have that is small enough to fit

I did a minor revisit on the Watch Master as I was not entirely happy with the definition on his face, so a Carroburg Crimson wash sorted that out and I am a lot happier with it:





I have also gotten the SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE done, here he is with his smaller Exalted Deathbringer brother. The light here is a bit poor so I will take more, and hopefully better, pictures later:



Thanks for looking.

Yup, that wash has made the face much better. I approve

Yeah, definitely adds more character! The SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE looks great too!

I made a minor miscalculation about the amount of miniatures I have painted thus far this year so it turns out that the SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE is number 200. The second 100 of the year came about a bit slower than I would have liked but I am still happy with my progress. I am certainly painting more than I am buying, although the Deathwatch release did not help that, so here are the better pictures. I really like his rusty, but still sharp blade. Typhus corrosion made that a lot easier. The only modification I made was removing the daft skull on his back, it is a bit of a liability and looks destined to break off anyway.









Here is to the next 100.

Nice work with the Slaughterpriest here, Thraxas! Looking like quite the menacing fellow! I quite like the bruised flesh you've done around some of the "gifts" from Khorne.

Fanfreakingtastic stuff sir! I really like the latest deathwatch characters but that board, and all of the stuff on it together.. excellent progress

Always love seeing your painted minis!
They're great, don't stop!

You are too kind fellas, are you back UK side now Zam? How was your experience in the States?

One of the fun things about the blog is compiling the group shots, so here are my second 100 for the year:



(Doh, noticed my BA Chaplain in the pic, he should not be there).

I like the variety there, mainly it is 40K but you have some AOS and GoA. But certainly a lot of different stuff compared to my first 100 for the year. All told there are:

Blood Angels
Deathwatch
Chaos Cultists
Alpha Legion
Knights (Boba Fett Knight and one from House Hawkshroud).
Genestealer Cult
Algoryn
Ghar
Concord
Stormcast Eternals
Khorne Bloodbound

Here is my first 100 for context:



And some close ups:









Tally Ho!

Well done sir! What do you reckon you'll have by the end of the year?

Very nice stuff all around! I really enjoyed those Death Watch builds. Nice and fancy without feeling too busy.

Yeah, I'm back in the UK now! My time was great, both working and travelling. Glad to be back to the hobby. I played 2 games of The Ninth Age today, and I'm psyched to play more T9A. 40k less so, I've kind of gone off it, a little. Just looking at the releases recently it feels a lot like space-marine-hammer. Just very samey - not helped by the fact that my friend and T9A opponent today bought the new chaos psychic cards and was dissappointed when they were the same as the space marine ones. I'll be updating my blog shortly...

Congrats on painting another 100 models!! That is a metric sh*t-tonne of stuff to have finished in 9 months! The Alpha Legion between the scorpius and Rhino is my favourite, he looks awesome!

@WarbossDakka: I set a target of 300 for the year, so hopefully I can hit it.

Cheers Wehrkind, nice to have you pop in here. The DW are a weird kit, plenty of options but also kind of limited in terms of pose unless you are willing to get chopping bits up.

@Zambro: Glad to hear you had a great time. Aye, there are a lot of Marines. What in particular are you enjoying about the Ninth Age?

Am currently working on some Deathwatch Terminators, hopefully should have them done near the end if the week.

Awesome stuff. The Deathwatch termie captain and Watch Master look awesome!

Excellent work on the Slaughter Priest too.

I've decided I will start a plog for my take of many gamers, I've got my first 500pts done and working on the next 500pt, so I just to need get some snaps and then remember to update it. Stay tuned!

EDC

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
@Zambro: ... What in particular are you enjoying about the Ninth Age?

The fantasy genre has just recaptured my attention. I can't really pin it down to a handful of reasons, but after a 4 month break for the hobby, fantasy is where my mindset is at.
I think I'm seeing a lot of the flaws with 40k, too which is helping me to veer to fantasy. I played my first game back into 40k last night, and was miserable for 2 turns. I played deathwatch, and was like, "they can do what?", "are you sure that rhino can teleport to your general when he drop pods in?" and "everyone has special issue ammo?". There was just no semblance of the reasonable. The game picked up after the ridiculous alpha strike, and ended as a 1:1 draw, but I definately thought "WTF is this bullsh*t?" on a couple of occassions. Especially as I dont subscribe to the "newest, hottest toy" philosophy of 40k - I play an Imperial Fist CAD with libby, 20 tac marines, scouts, dread, podded IC Dread, LotD, 2 speeders, ST, 5 grav bikes, devs and 2 TFCs. Far from a ground breaking list.

Plus, with T9A, the game is totally different. In 40k, you just dakka stuff until it's taken off the table. T9A is a lot more cerebral. You know that in a straight up fight, you're not going to win against that combat block. You need to think a turn or two ahead and get flank attacks and out maneouver their army. Its a little more meaty. It also helps that it's a relatively new game, and gets frequent updates (v1.1 for brb and all army books was released a week or two ago). It has the support to constantly be ontop of OP stuff, not let power creep kick in and all the books are roughly on the same level (with one or two slightly ahead or behind).

I didn't realise I'd write (or bash 40k) so much - just sharing some thoughts.

Does not seem like bashing to me, just reasonable and fair musings on the state of 40k as a game. If some sort of reasonable balance could be found it would be one hell of a game, as it is if you are into competing at the game (not for me) there are only a handful of builds that are viable.

Anyway have had a bit of activity over the past few days, got three of my Terminators done:













I also revisited my Hawk Lords. I have come to the conclusion of mothballing them, so decided to repaint them and fit them into my Deathwatch and Blood Angels armies. Thus I have repainted my AOBR Dread for my Deathwatch, I did a weapon swap and used the Lascannon from the Venerable Dread kit:

The old one:



The new one:





I did the same for a Rhino as well:








And here is my army as it stands:



Thanks for looking.

Shame about the Hawk Lords. I quite liked them, mate! Still, you now have the beginning of a Watch Company

Those Termies look mint! Great highlighting done.

The repurposed vehicles do look much better as well. The Deathwatch are sizing up nicely!

Amazing stuff!

Deathwatch are looking ace! Shame to see the Hawk Lords go, they were an awesome force, but they repainted nicely as boys in black!

Having both BA and Deathwatch made the Hawk Lords rather redundant. As it is I only have a Tactical, assault and Terminator squad left for them infantry wise, the rest will get repainted. The main source of guilt are the Captain and Libby that Para painted up for me a few months back...I will find a home for them amongst my armies though.

Repaints are looking awesome, makes sense to port them over into your DW if you feel they're redundant as a force.

EDC

Have got the final two members of my Deathwatch Terminator squad done, a Space Wolf with Cyclone Missile Launcher and a Salamander with Storm Bolter and meltafist:







And the squad:







With all the Genestealer Cult hype going on I have started work on the first of my DW:Overkill hybrids, 2 down with 10 to go, apologies for the poor pictures but their hunched pose does not aid good photographs:









Thanks for looking.

Black highlights are great.

I don't really like the cultists as a model, but they've been done very nicely. Purple seems to suit them well.

Great work.

The deathwatch stuff looks great.

Very nice. I really like the colour scheme for the cultists. The pale skin and purple jumpsuits works really well.

EDC

Hello there, has been a quiet-ish week or so hobby wise but I have been managing to keep my oar in. Have made a bit more progress with my GSC from Dwathwatch: Overkill and have got the final four 3rd/4th Gens (or Neophytes) done. Apologies for the poor picture but the light here is shocking and it really does not do the painting justice:



That means that my current painted GSC looks like this, with just 10 Hybrids to go:



I also accidentally bought two boxes of these:



Those combined with my Overkill minis, and 8 Genestealers I have knocking around (which luckily means I can have one 10 gribbly unit or two 5 gribbly units) and possibly a couple of transports means that I will have a 1000 point GSC army.

As ever, thanks for looking.

I accidentally buy models all the time too

It's an expensive habit

That's a nice force coming together there, and you're really soldiering on with it!

I'm on the edge of accidentally buying a box of those guys too, though I'd be converting them to make a Blanchetastic Necromunda-style hive gang... Really great minis, though, I look forward to seeing what kind of builds you come up with from the box!

Nice force of heretics just waiting to be purged by the IoM .

Will you be investing in any AM or Cult vehicles as well? If you have the stealers from Deathstorm still, you could use them to build The First Cursed formation

@WarbossDakka: I would only be spending it on booze otherwise so it is a win for my health!

@Para: They will be ideal for that, the intended use of the kit is that torsos fit specific legs but a bit of cutting should sort that. The last two Blanchitsus in White Dwarf have been stellar.

@Aov: The 8 stealers from Death storm are added to the two from Overkill to make a unit of 10, I may move to 20 though.

I definitely foresee a few Goliath's in my future.

Nice group of GSC. A cool force is taking shape.

EDC

Hello there. Between work, a trip to the coast for a music festival and life in general I have not been visiting the forums much lately but have managed to keep some progress up.

On the purchase front I have 2 Goliath's and the Armoured Claw (Chimera and 10 Imperial Guard Cultists) on order, probably here by either saturday or monday. That will give me 46 Neophyte Hybrids, I plan on using some of the minis from the Goliath kit to round it up to a cool 50 Neopyhtes.

Anyway the progress. I got 4 Acolyte Hybrids done, added to my previous 2 that creates a unit of 6. (Apologies for the photography, but I just cannot seem to get good shots with Xenomorphs)







I also gotten a further 4 Purestrains done:





Here with added Deathwatch Overkill Purestrain for a legal unit:



Finally here are a few of the builds from my Neophyte boxes:







So all I have left GSC from the Overkill box is 6 Acolytes, I will probably do them after I have painted the last of my Purestrains.

Thanks for looking.

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Intresting colour schemes for the Genestealers. The smooth highlights are great.

Great stuff. You were far more restrained than I was when those boxes went up for preorder

They cult is looking great so far

How many did you go for? I have seen talk of 150+ minis for a 1500_1850 point army. That is a lot of painting.

Looking awesome, great color scheme. I also love the repaints you did for your DW force.

Got the last of my 4 Purestrains done, here they are on the hunt:





And here is the army so far:



I have also started on my next unit of Neophytes, here is the icon bearer:



And 4 other WIP Neophytes:



I love these minis. Laying down a basecoat, giving them a wash and then highlighting is enough to show off the greatness of the sculpts and fitting enough for what is basically a horde army.

Thanks for looking.

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You're totally right about that. No point spending ages on cheap troops. Even with minimal highlight they still look really good.

My thoughts exactly Warboss. My supply drop of 2 Goliath's and the Armoured Claw came on Monday, so I have had a bit of a build.

I got my first Goliath done, this is a cracking kit:







One of the benefits of the crew is turning them into regular infantry, I will be adding 4 to the Overkill Neophytes for a unit of 20 (units of 5/10/20 for me only please, none of this odd or none round number business):





My Chimera:



Finally my favourite experience has been using the much maligned Cadian kit with the upgrade sprue and Neophytes shotgun/bits to form a cool unit:











As ever, thanks for looking.

Cool stuff Thraxas! Love that Goliath . Will you be making the other into the Rockgrinder variant or will you be using the Chimera as your "heavy" transport?

Those Neophyte Cadians look awesome

I think I am going to go for another Goliath as the 6 man transport capacity of the RockGrinder restricts you to running Acolytes in it and I am more about the Neophytes. That said the grinder dozer on the RockGrinder is just soooooo cool looking.

You've been busy. I love the new Goliath, much like everyone else on the planet It's too bad that the Rockgrinder has such a bad transport capacity, it's one of the turn off points off the model. Is there any way to magnetize the Rockgrinder shield itself?

Like that new Goliath. Wanted to get one but my flgs was totally sold out before they even arrived o.O got a skit starter box instead ! Miss painting admech lol

Nice progress. The neophyte with the banner is particularly cool.

EDC

I was meant to be painting Neophytes but accidentally painted two transports instead, namely a Chimera and a Goliath:





















Thanks for looking.

Nice stuff. The windows are very effective!

Excellent stuff, I like the colour panels on the Chimera, they do a good job of making it's allegiance obvious!

The Goliath looks amazing in that navy blue! Wow!

Sweet sweet job. Great job on those transports - they look cracking

Love the Goliath, any chance you would be willing to share what colours/recipe you used to get the blue looking like that? I reckon it looks awesome!

Great work in here, subscribed

Nice work on the vehicles. I like the use of the coloured panels, really helps tie it in with the cult dudes.

I think you'll need to talk me through how you 'accidentally' painted vehicles over infantry

EDC

Cheers everyone, I am very happy with them as well.

@Mad, thank you very much. The colours are.

Black base coat
Incubi Darkness
Thunder hawk blue dry brush on the raised edges.
50/50 Thunder hawk blue and bone edge highlights and on the rivets.
Finally weather as desire.

The colour is actually the colour I use on the Neophytes clothing that is not purple or leather, so it further ties them together.

@EDC: It all stems from my main painting philosophy, the bigger it is the easier it is to paint.

Thanks for the colour scheme, much appreciated.

I have made a nice bit of progress with my GSC Neophytes over the past few days, in addition to the icon bearer I have finished off the other ten members of the squad:



Seismic Cannon:



Heavy Stubber:



The full 10 man squad, with leader, icon, Seismic Cannon, Heavy Stubber and 2 flamers:



I am also going to implement a numbering system on my transports using IG (or Astra Militarum if you are that way inclined):



Have also done a rough and ready test on my first Cadian cult member:



Thanks for looking.

238 Miniatures painted this year.

Cracking stuff, the Neophytes look great and that Cadian definitely fits in. I'd love GW to do some more simple upgrade frames for that kit, like Renegade Guard regiments, Tau Gue'vesa and even just other IG regiments, as the GS one makes them look so much better than regular Cadians.

The shotgun Cadian looks all kinds of badass! I think the number on the Goliath looks great too but painting thin scratches of that base blue will make it look even better in my opinion.

I think you've got the skin down well. I like the veins on the head, it's a good counter choice of colour.

Done and done Bottle, and as you say it does look better. Have made a bit more progress on the Cadian Neophyte squad. 5 down with 5 to go, it also means that I have done 31 of my 50 Neophytes, they are not as much of a slog as I feared. After the other 5 are done I am going to tackle a vehicle that game wise you could seemingly defeat with popcorn...the trusty Sentinel.

One of the advantages of close up photographs is using them as little previews to see where minor touch ups are needed, the odd refinement of highlights here etc. So in the following pictures I note a few minor issues which will be sorted on my next visit to the painting table.


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Looking great!

Nice choice of colours for the neophytes as well.

Really love what you're doing here, that 'cadian' unit is going to look great! GW have really found a new lease of life for that old kit people pretty much hated hey...

As someone else said, the wndows on your goliath look great too.

The more I look at the GSC stuff, the more I'm tempted to kitbash it with AdMech to do a Forgeworld chaos cult army..!

Yeah, they've got enough different colours and details on them that it won't get boring quickly. Spreading them out seems like the best course of action, and seperating them with vehicles and HQs.

The Goliath looks great. I especially like the subtle weathering you've done around the edges. I bought one the other day and intend on painting it soon!

Cheers everyone.

@Squall: I like the Goliath as as STC vehicle for Hive and industrial areas, I like that there are no explicit Cult markings on it. It would easily be a great bit of scenery or an objective for games such as TNT.

Got the rest of the Neophyte squad done, this takes me to 36 Neophytes painted thus far. I really need to get to work on more Acolytes as they seem to be the bread and butter of the list, it is just I far prefer the Neo miniatures:





I also managed to paint up an armoured Sentinel, the Autocannon at heavy 3 is really useful given the poor ballistic skill of 3.





I also got the statue from the Honoured Imperium done. It is nothing special, just it has been near the painting station for ages.





I need a bit more work on the plinth:



Finally a command Chimera for my Magus or Primus:



I will have a go at painting my other Goliath and Chimera today, thanks for looking.

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The sentinal looks awesome!

Great work on the Cultists and Hybrids, but those vehicles (including the Sentinel) really take the cake - very bloody cool.

The scratches on the Sentinel are very nice. Good job!

As mentioned above, I'm really digging the colour scheme you have on the vehicles, can't wait to see that command Chimera!

Nice work on those Neophytes, loving all the shotguns.

EDC

So much great work and so many cool models recently, it's hard to single one out for praise. Fantastic painting!!

You are all too kind. I am certainly far, far from being the best painter but I strive to improve my skills whilst also painting up armies at a relatively quick pace. Goliath #2 here takes me to 249 miniatures painted for the year, so I am on pace to hit my target of 300.

So here is Goliath #2 (number 4 on the front though )







This one has a gunner up top.


And a blurry photo with Goliath #1:



Finally an army shot of the 60 odd GSC members I have painted up:



Thanks for looking.

Your speed and consistency continues to amaze! We're both on a similar number of minis for the year, but you've managed to keep focus and quality up over coherent, consistent and practical forces while I've been all over the place, and I think that takes a lot more dedication and concentration. Really great stuff!

Wow, that certainly snuck up. 60 already?! That was damn fast. Good work.

Love those Goliath models. Nice looking army you've got there. Have you gotten a chance to try them out on the table?

My my, your cult is growing nicely, and looking great while doing it.

I'm sure it will start attracting the attention of a Deathwatch invasion soon enough... interfering Deathwatch...

Nice work on the trucks. The army shot looks wicked to a beautiful and consistent themed army.

EDC

Thank you for all the comments, it has been a while since my last update but I have not been idle.

First up is my command Chimera:









Also got the last of my Deathwatch Overkill GSC miniatures done as well as the 4 "crew" miniatures from my Goliath's to add to the 16 man Neophyte squad:




I also am preparing for updating my Iron Warriors with the minis from the Burning of Prospero so decided to paint up some Cataphractii Terminators:













And finally knocked out a few cultists as well:



That takes me to 270 for the year, onwards and upwards.

Wow! You have not been idle. Good work on the chimera. Those are one of my favorite vehicles in 40k.

Also a fan of your iron warrior termies. Good stuff overall.

The iron warrior termies are GREAT!. Love the yellow/black leather strips. And your metals are done really well too.

Termies look awesome as do the chaos cultists. Chimeras are stunning, loving the bold purple markings, very striking.

Wow, you've definitely not been lazing on the job. I really like the IW, he looks great!

Cheers everyone, I really enjoyed returning to the Iron Warriors so cannot wait to get Prospero and to get working on them. I will also revisit and rebase a lot of my old IW to bring them up to date, Marines on 25mm bases just look wrong now.

I also got my dispatch notice for a present for the Missus for Christmas, namely Mantic's The Walking Dead All Out War boxed set. She is a big fan, the IP is not my thing as I do not like horror and gore but it will be a nice change of pace. It is only 18 minis so I hope to have it painted up for her in time for Christmas. I just need to decide whether to go full colour or the black and white style of the comics. Wish me luck.

Ooh, black and white could be interesting... maybe experiment on a test mini first, but if it works, you'd have a brilliantly unique set.

Not that unique Para, seems like about half the painted minis are like that on the Walking Dead: All Out War Friendface page.

I got the game on wednesday, am pleasantly surprised by the quality of the minis in the set. A nice solid one piece miniature with good details, and the mould lines that are present are easily removed with a scraper or hobby knife. The only issue was a repeat sculpt of one of the walkers in place of another but have shockingly already got a reply from Mantic who are putting a replacement in the post. I do hope that after a number of false starts that they are getting on top of the customer service aspect of the hobby.

All told hopefully the Missus will like her present.

I have gotten my first 5 walkers done, admittedly a basic paintjob but I aim to go a bit more refined for the survivors. I also had a first stab at using Agrellan Earth for the bases.











Group hug!


And a close up of one of the bases:



Thanks for looking.

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It's such a weird paint, but the effect it gives is really good. Is that the new one or the old one (I heard they have slightly different formulas)?

Great zombies there Thraxas. Hope the missus likes her zombies and survivors .

@Warbossdakka: It is a new larger bottle, so the new formula. It is odd stuff to work with and it took a few test bases to work out how to use it effectively. That said Agrellan Earth is apparently the most temperamental of the paints to work with.

@AoV: I hope so too, the fun thing is she is paint blind given the amount of minis that I go through so has no idea what I am doing even though I am painting them under her nose

If you only just got the game Wednesday, you must've gotten really inspired to pump out that many zombies in such a short time. They look good, too. Not that I actually need more zombies, but I kind of wish I'd backed the game for them. Did they come with integral bases, or did they need mounting?

Given Mantic's previous record on Kick-starter I think that passing by on the funding was the sensible option to take Barzam. The miniatures are one piece and already moulded to the base, so an integral 25mm base. I do not know how the bases were on the Dungeon Saga minis but these bases are hollow underneath a la GW bases rather than the flat bottoms on Deadzone and the like. That certainly helps getting them painted up quickly as you need to do a little filing and scraping on mould lines and then you are good to go.

I should get a further four zombies done today so that will be half of the set done already. I should also be getting a pack of Negan, Machonne, Abraham and walker Ronnie in the post today as well. I bought this as Michonne is the better half's favourite character and they are KS unique sculpts.

Looking pretty sweet.

The second walker looks a bit like King Ezekiel though

He does actually, maybe he is a zombie version?

Anyway I completed the other 7 Walkers, that leaves the 6 Survivors up next. It was a bid odd to paint so many female figures, it just reminded me how under represented they tend to be in Wargaming.

The lady on the right was clearly at a business meeting that went VERY wrong:







Squad goals:



And the integral bases:



Am going to have to do a bit of research now on what kind of colours the Survivors wear. That takes me up to 282 minis for the year, so not long to go to hit 300.

Ew. They're in bad shape

Nice change of pace from GW sculpts.

The zombies look fantastic, mate! If you can push to 365 minis that nets you one a day :-)

Cool, gave the game a pass so its neat to see them done. Nice cultists a D tanmsasg page too!

@WarbossDakka: They certainly are, lots of bits missing and rotting flesh abounds.

@Bottle: Therein insanity lies! I think aiming for 25 a month is much more obtainable. It has been nice to see a fair amount of the grey pile disappear over the year. It also leafs to less feeling of guilt about buying new stuff.

@Grimdork. I think due to the licence that the usual Mantic KS value was not there, at £35 rrp and easily available at s
£30 or less the core set means it is easy not to have missed the KS. I think that waiting for retail is always the most sensible option as you know what you are getting.

Have managed to complete the core set for the Walking Dead with the six survivors painted up. Mantic also swiftly delivered the Walker that I was missing, so kudos to them for sorting out the mispack issue in just 7 days.

Here are Rick and Carl:



Liam and Patrick:



Sandra and Derek:



And the group together:



The completed 18 minis in the gamebox:



And with the cover on:



Finally I have the Neagan/Michonne/Abraham and Walker Ronnie booster to paint up. Admittedly the detail of the barbed wire on Neagan's baseball bat is a little soft so I will be removing it and wrapping it in proper model barbed wire.




Thanks for looking.

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Sweet. The bag of guns makes me laugh. Great work on this lot! Looking forward to the rest.

It is a nice and useful objective marker. I caved in and being an impatient man-child I presented Cindy with the starter set the other day...

Surprisingly she loved it. She has already digested the rulebook a few times and we are going to tackle the starter scenario this weekend. She is also continuously lookin at booster/expansion packs with her various favourite characters so a few of them may be in the future. It is just odd to see her interested in what has previously been my realm of interest.

Anyway I have the month to paint 12 minis for my 300 this year, that is easily obtainable so I hope to get started on that today. Hopefully number 300 will be the new Ahriman on disc.

Avance!

Still catching up on the many blogs I've been pout of touch on - The Cultist Goliaths look amazing - the dusty weathering really works against the dark paint scheme on them. Your Iron Warriors Cataphractii do the legion proud as well! I might have to knock off the pteurge scheme when I get to my own IW Terminators.

The TWD models have come up well. I'd say I regret skipping that KS, but then my trust in Mantic isn't strong, and I've not read or watched TWD yet, so the cost of the IP tax in terms of the models was a barrier more than a selling point. You've certainly made them look good, though.

Good to see you back Azazel, you have certainly been missed. Is the weight of your heavy workload now done for the year? Hope you are fully healed and get back into the hobby with your usual aplomb.

Have managed to get a little done over the past few days. First is Rick Grimes' Sheriff badge, in the game this acts as an initiative token so whoever holds it is the active player. This is a nice little upgrade of the cardboard counter in the core game. Nothing taxing here:



I have also got Michonne painted up, this is Cindy's number one favourite character so I am glad to have her done:



I also got my replacement "missing" Zombie from Mantic and have painted him up. I got him a mere week after bringing up the issue with Mantic, so hopefully they are finally on top of their customer service issues.





I also painted up the Zombie Ronnie Renton, here he is replete in his Mantic branded blue polo shirt. He looks very happy for a man whose ankle is basically hanging off:



And I also put an order in on Wednesday with Firestorm Games, based in Wales. (How to describe Wales to our friends in America and Australia? Hmmm, they are basically a much lesser Canada or New Zealand . I can say this as a Welshman myself). Was really happy with the service and delivery that arrived this morning. Moar Walking Dead:



I think the scenery pack is really useful, 4 cars (two repeated) and a multitude of barriers and objectives etc.





Finally I popped into my local GW too, All Is Dust:



I may go for an ancient looking gold scheme for these with minimal blue accents, their main scheme is a bit much for me.

Thanks for looking.

Nice work on all this Walking Dead stuff, I'm not familiar with the IP so the significance of particular models/characters goes over my head but the paintwork is great!

Nice haul of new stuff, I look forward to seeing what you (and others) can do with the Rubric kits, they look very impressive sculpts.

You caved then eh? Lol. You could go for Magnus-loyal Rubricae? Their legion paint scheme is pretty nice.

Good looking zombies!

I'm interested in seeing how you do the Thousand Sons.

The new models are very nice from GW, and I like the brighter colour scheme personally.

Very nice Mantic minis as well. The gore suits them well.

@Para: Same with me with the IP, blood and guts are not really my thing. The other half has been giving me pointers.

@AoV: Magnus loyal Rubricae sound interesting, any pointers as to what the scheme is?

@Zambro: I am thinking of ancient suits for the rubrics, but not totally sure yet.

@Warboss: I am going to construct them tomorrow, will let you know how they go. I am also considering mixing and matching them with some Mk III or IV parts.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Good to see you back Azazel, you have certainly been missed. Is the weight of your heavy workload now done for the year? Hope you are fully healed and get back into the hobby with your usual aplomb.

I've gotta say, all of that TWD stuff looks really good. Mantic have outdone themselves with the quality of these models and scenery. I order from Firestorm pretty regularly, and they're a great supplier. You've done a great job on the zombies and heroes as well - and the badge/player marker is outstanding. As for the Welsh, aside from an over-fondness for sheep (so I'm told), they're the last of the true Britons, they have those awesome names, and we'd not have Rob Brydon or Tom Jones or Gimli.

I'm really tempted by the Rubricae marines, but I'm going to hold out for some sort of army bundle box. Because I want heaps of them, do do both in blue, in red, and as mix-and-match with MKIV armour. I will gladly watch what you manage to do with them and drool from a distance.

As for my work, I've still got a couple of weeks of attendance before we break for Christmas, but the endless homework and insanity is done, and what's left is largely going to be preparing things for the start of next year. I've also got some time in lieu set aside, so I'll finish a couple of days early as well and have the whole of the Christmas week to recharge and waste time with games and paint.

Aye, very happy with Firestorm and the minis and game thus far. We had a few play through of the tutorial scenarios yesterday and it was both fun and engrossing. It was weird with Cindy having no terms of reference for miniature wargames but seemed to pick up the basics well. She especially enjoyed uncovering a hockey stick and headshotting a zombie into oblivion!

I think a 1k Sons box is inevitable, so it is probably sensible to hang fire. Glad to hear that you are back in the game.

I skipped TWD game since I'm frustrated with Mantic still. I'll play KOW, but mainly with existing armies I have of ones built using other company figure . But that scenery pack might by my next Mantic purchase if I can get it from Miniaturemarket or some other discounter. I may have missed it but do the figs line up size wise with zombicide?

Great painting by the way .

@Theo: SadlyI have absolutely no context at all for the size vs Zombiecide minis, I would say that at a guess they are a similar height but are a fair bit chunkier than the CMON minis. I will fish around the facebook group to see if anyone has done any comparisons.

Have got a couple more Survivors painted up, namely Negan and Abraham. Very happy that I added proper modelling barbed wire to Lucille (Negan's baseball bat) for some added definition. The face on Abraham was a bit of a pain, a bit flat and ill defined for my painting "skills", but I am calling him done.









That takes me up to 293 minis painted for the year. And number 300 is on the horizon:



Thanks for looking.

Great stuff, the face on the first guy is excellent!

Yep, the face and clothes are very well detailed. Well done!

Cheers gents, all encouragement is appreciated.

At the start of the year I pledged to try and paint 300 miniatures over the calendar year, as it stands I am at 299. These last six minis put me on the cusp, they are all from the Prelude to Woodbury expansion from Mantic. This is a solo starter set and is really cool for a play through if you have no one to game with.

The only survivor in the pack, the Governor Brian Blake. I am really happy with the face on him but it does not seem to translate in the photos, hey ho:





And his 5 zombie opponents:



I really like the "lady" on the left, she reminds me of a character from the 80's zombie classic "They Live" which starred wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper:



I have also gotten Ahriman constructed, he is a cracking kit:





And here are minis 201 through 299. As you can see they are mainly GSC, but there is some Deatwatch, Iron Warriors and a fair bit of Walking Dead thrown in there.









Thank you for looking, now onto 300.

Damn, that's a serious bit of hobby. Especially to a great quality! I think the IWs and the Walking Dead stuff has been my favourite so far out of the 200+ lot. Lets see if Ahriman can top that...

Look forward to seeing Ahriman painted . It's nice that they've given him a Disc to fly around on. Should be much easier to get him in closer to kill things

The Walking Dead minis continue to impress! There's great variety in the zombies but they all still look coherent.

Arihman looks like a wonderful model but one that's going to be damn fiddly to paint, can't wait to see him!

Wow, awesome stuff and an incredible number of models painted in 1 year.
Cant wait for Ahriman!

Congrats on the 300 mark!

Well I'm sold on the walking dead minis. Awesome work. You made that badge look quite lovely really.

Nice work on the walking dead stuff, it's looking really good.

EDC

Great work on those TWD models. They've come up very nicely, so credit to both yourself and also Mantic for that.

Cheers gents, I am not dead. Just took a break from the blog for a bit as it can sometimes be a bit of a drag.

@Az: Have you had any of your Warpath pledge yet? How has it turned out?

I got a very nice Christmas haul, namely:

The Burning of Prospero.
Corvus Blackstar.
GSC Leman Russ
Gsc Acolytes
Acolyte Iconward
The Walking Dead Morgan, Rick on Horse and Shane boosters.


I have still been painting, mostly Walking Dead and GoA Algoryn, so here we go:

Andrea and Amy survivors, a pair of sisters. In game Andrea is very dangerous, have really enjoyed having her on my team:





Some vehicles:





Triple Zombie Action:



I love this guy:



Quadruple survivor action:



Algoryn Compression Cannon:





General Tar El Janar:



Algoryn AI Squad:



My Algoryn Army is basically finished, just need to do 5 more spotter drones:



Thanks for looking.

Fancy stuff, thanks for sharing I really like how your style looks on the TWD minis. And having your Algoryns almost done must be cool yeah? I love 'finishing' factions, whether I intend to go back or not, being done in some capacity is lovely.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Cheers gents, I am not dead. Just took a break from the blog for a bit as it can sometimes be a bit of a drag.

@Az: Have you had any of your Warpath pledge yet? How has it turned out?

I got a very nice Christmas haul, namely:

The Burning of Prospero.
Corvus Blackstar.
GSC Leman Russ
Gsc Acolytes
Acolyte Iconward
The Walking Dead Morgan, Rick on Horse and Shane boosters.


I have still been painting, mostly Walking Dead and GoA Algoryn, so here we go:

Algoryn and Walking dead stuff looks great. That's a nice solid sized army of the Algoryn. Is that a standard army, or a larger one for GoA? My WP pledge arrived in the interim, and the models seem quite nice actually. Credit to mantic on upping their game for the HIPS stuff. And only missing one bag of models this time, and it only took a few days for them to answer the follow-up email and a couple more to have them sent out, so they're in transit somewhere. I still can't really see myself backing Star Saga though since they still haven't figured out hub shipping, their expensive shipping plus 10% GST (VAT) on top of the lot which will be in place by the time they ship make backing any more of their Kickstarters cost prohibitive, especially with "Mantic risk" taken into consideration.