I'm making a smallish (2000 pts) Pre-Heresy Night Lord Army and will be posting updates here.

So far I've got a Terminator armoured Praetor with a skull on chain and trophy head (trophies of judgment) and a basic Legionnaire in mk 3 armour



I started on the Praetor as a test model and was very happy with how dark the model turned out, the only problems being the red on the volkite being over saturated and not being able to decide on a colour for his Paragon Blade, though I am pleased with the cool purple that is in the pictures.







Next is the Legionnaire; depsite looking rather ordinary he's going to be part of a Terror squad all equipped with Volkite chargers (have yet to arrive hence the missing gun), as such I'm going to try and have skulls and heads hanging off of them and will try and do something with each helmet to inspire fear (his is bone coloured to resemble a skull with painted on blood coming from the eyes); might try and do a skull on some lighting on others. etc... The legion symbol is pretty basic freehand and could be better, but I didn't want to kill myself doing it another 29 times so I'm not going back to make it super detailed or tidy it up. Finally I didn't do any white highlights on where the lightning joins up, just keeping it simple for my basic troopers.







I have been thinking on the rivets though; I've been leaving them blue to save time, but should I go back on paint them silver?

They look very nice. You could go either way on the rivets. Was the armour painted before or after it was assembled?

 Azazelx wrote:
They look very nice. You could go either way on the rivets. Was the armour painted before or after it was assembled?

It was painted after; for curze and sevetar I'm going to do it in pieces, especially since they have cloaks. The normal guys are fine enough as long as I leave the guns off, since either its more gold/bronze work or space for lightning/other freehand

Those are some darn fancy lightning bolts.

 Matthew wrote:
Those are some darn fancy lightning bolts.

Thanks

The praetor's lightning is definitely more elaborate and closer together so it looks like sheets of lightning, while the legionnaire's is more spread out. The technique is really easy though, you just have to paint an irregular line on an angle, really just make sure it's not too straight and there's no blobs. I found it way easier to the legionnaire keeping that in mind

They are looking really nice, your lightning is excellent.

 GiraffeX wrote:
They are looking really nice, your lightning is excellent.

Thank you kind sir

I finished my second Legionnaire, unfortunately it was getting darker and my lighting is bad so the pictures are a bit darker than I'd like, so I may retake them tomorrow. In the meantime here he is; I'm still trying to get good bitz for trophies so at the moment I'm just using skulls on chain again. For his helmet I was too lazy to go with a couple of ideas I had, so I painted "teeth" on to look like some sort of monster, honestly I'm probably going to steal as many ideas from ADBs series and the HH books as I can for easy helmet designs






Fun fact: before I wash the armour down with black they look almost ultramarine-esq lol

Update:Re did the pictures of the second Legionnaire and am almost done the third one, more pictures tomorrow

Finally was able to update with the third marine; unlike the previous two, he has the symbol on his chest piece while having the legion number replacing the usual one on his left shoulder pad. Like a lot of the freehanded legion symbols, this one is fairly quick and dirty; not going for anything too intricate or time consuming






I also took a group shot of the three power armoured marines and I have to say, I'm really liking how they've turned out so far and am really excited to paint more.



Something I've been thinking about is making thin bits of "flayed skin" out of greenstuff to put on some of their shoulder pads to change things up from hanging skulls, maybe cut the tips off of spikes to use as "anchors" for it, what do you guys think?

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
They look very nice. You could go either way on the rivets. Was the armour painted before or after it was assembled?

It was painted after; for curze and sevetar I'm going to do it in pieces, especially since they have cloaks. The normal guys are fine enough as long as I leave the guns off, since either its more gold/bronze work or space for lightning/other freehand

No, I mean "in character" for that marine in your fiction. If the armour was painted after assembly, then blue works. If the armour plates were painted before assembly, then go for shiny rivets (added to hold together the already-painted armour plates).

And your growing squad is looking sweet!

The flayed skin would look great and if your army is set after isstvan v then some loyist helmets dangeling would look cool.

Nice work. What are you thinking of doing for basing?

Looking great and lightning is perfect

Azazelx wrote:

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
They look very nice. You could go either way on the rivets. Was the armour painted before or after it was assembled?

It was painted after; for curze and sevetar I'm going to do it in pieces, especially since they have cloaks. The normal guys are fine enough as long as I leave the guns off, since either its more gold/bronze work or space for lightning/other freehand

No, I mean "in character" for that marine in your fiction. If the armour was painted after assembly, then blue works. If the armour plates were painted before assembly, then go for shiny rivets (added to hold together the already-painted armour plates).

And your growing squad is looking sweet!

Ohhhhhh, that makes a lot of sense hahah. From what I remember of power armour delivery, its usually shipped flat grey from mars/ the mechanicum and then its painted by the legion (deliverance lost), so there wouldn't be rivets painted silver. I might try it out on the last model I paint just to see how it looks though. Also thank you

e.earnshaw wrote:The flayed skin would look great and if your army is set after isstvan v then some loyist helmets dangeling would look cool.

Yea I wanted them to be traitors (going to have curze and sev) to balance my raven guard, but I've considered leaving off the helmets for a couple pf reasons. First one is that I'd like option to play alongside friends who are doing loyalist armies. Second one being that the only pre-heresy helmets i have are mkIII (that I need for my guys) and mkVI (that I need for my raven guard lol). It would be weird to have a lot of the same two types of helmet, especially since the Night Lords only really fought the Dark Angels after Isstvan

Zuul wrote:Nice work. What are you thinking of doing for basing?

Probably just stirland mud so it will match my chaos and raven guard's basing scheme

dubovac wrote:Looking great and lightning is perfect

Thanks very much I wish I had enough bitz to pull off what you've done for your night lords

Unfortunately I'm going to be busy with a paper and some personal stuff so I might not get the chance to paint up my next legionnaire until after the weekend

So the Xyphon rules dropped and having recently played against my buddy's Scorpius and Thudd gun I'm really thinking of getting one for the Night Lords; they'll need something for ranged AT and it would compliment my force fairly well. However instead of dropping 80 GBP on it i'll probably use the thing everyone says GW ripped it off from; the BSG Viper



It's sleeker and longer, but so similar it shouldn't really be a problem; i'd just have to add lascannons and rockets and then paint it up all grim and dark, thoughts?

I like the idea but I would switch out the wings...then again, Night lords being all sleek and sneaky, it just might work

 Gordon Shumway wrote:
I like the idea but I would switch out the wings...then again, Night lords being all sleek and sneaky, it just might work

Yea the wings definitely are more streamlined and would be usually an issue if the fuselage(?) wasn't such a clear echo and if there were any weapons mounted on them. As it stands they're all hull mounted and with the longer body it should make up for the lack of width.

Got my fourth legionnaire all painted up

I was worried about tricky it would be to do a skull faced helmet, but it was really easy so I'll be using this on a few more





This last one is unfortunately out of focus, but at least you can get a good frontal view of the helmet



For my next guys I'm trying to find my greenstuff for the aforementioned flayed skin, as well as source Dark Eldar barbed chains and hooks for accessories. I also might paint one or two hands red to symboloise them being "condemned", but in the fluff that was pretty rare so, it would be one or two. Alternatively thinking of doing blood on their gauntlets to spice things up a bit.

I've also decided to go with my xiphon idea, so I'll be picking one up today from a hobby/toy shop in town (super happy I didn't have to order one). Total cost will be 45 CAD instead of 150 CAD (after conversion) and that doesnt even inculde shipping costs

Fantastic work! Love a good HH plog and this is shaping up to be a great one! Subbed!

 Paradigm wrote:
Fantastic work! Love a good HH plog and this is shaping up to be a great one! Subbed!

Thank you very much, it really means a lot Sometimes I wish there was a dedicated 30k subforum on dakka

I want to see the list for that project

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
Fantastic work! Love a good HH plog and this is shaping up to be a great one! Subbed!

Thank you very much, it really means a lot Sometimes I wish there was a dedicated 30k subforum on dakka

If you want to read through some great Night Lords wip blogs, head over to Bolter and Chainsword. There are at least four really good ones there. They might give you some good ideas. I am just getting my NL army put together and have gotten great inspiration over there.

hellpato wrote:I want to see the list for that project

For 2000 pts I'm going to have Sevetar, 3 units of 10 Terror Marines; all with volkites and sarge having chain glaive, 10 cataphractii with axes, 5 cataphractii with axes, 5 cataphractii with 4 fists and 1 chainfist on sarge, and a xiphon. That being said, 2000 is pretty much the minimum and I realllly want outriders. I can also use warp talons as night raptors if I really wanted too

Gordon Shumway wrote:

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
Fantastic work! Love a good HH plog and this is shaping up to be a great one! Subbed!

Thank you very much, it really means a lot Sometimes I wish there was a dedicated 30k subforum on dakka

If you want to read through some great Night Lords wip blogs, head over to Bolter and Chainsword. There are at least four really good ones there. They might give you some good ideas. I am just getting my NL army put together and have gotten great inspiration over there.

Thanks a lot, I'll totally check them out

Are you going to be doing ol' Conrad as well? Seems like a waste not to really.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Are you going to be doing ol' Conrad as well? Seems like a waste not to really.

Sure am However he's not in my list that I plan to use most of the time since its only 2000 and Im not sure if I can get my points up to 3k and have it be actually good things and not points filler

Can't you take some allied Knights? That'd be pretty cool.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Can't you take some allied Knights? That'd be pretty cool.

I uh, don't own any

My group is fairly 5th ed in mindset still (one detachment, no LoW, no superheavies, no formations), so even though my friend suggested me getting one on the cheap, there's really no incentive since it just becomes a giant race to the bottom; I already see enough centurions and broadsides lol.

Besides our meta discouraging them, I really don't like how knights got shoehorned into 30k so suddenly (vengeful spirit was annoying for that) and I can't really see them fitting in with the whole "terror in the populace" thing the Night Lords inspire; they'd need slow moving landers to deploy as opposed to thunderhawks/drop pods/teleportation.

If I was going to beef up the points I'd get outriders with plasma and use my warp talons as night raptors

So my forgeworld stuff came in the mail today....sadly I missed the delivery guy and they havent sorted it at the post office yet so I have to wait until Saturday to pick it up

Hopefully I'll have some more progress for you guys before then though

So here's what I've been working on; my cheap attempt to have a xiphon without spending 150$!!!






Unlike the other updates, this is still a WIP so there are more things to be down on it. Most importantly I still need to scrounge bits to actually make its missile launchers as well as dremmel out the space for a flight stand. I also need to decide on a good colour for the canopy, seeing as the method I usually do involves a lot of dark blue and I don't want it to blend right in to the hull. I also am going to highlight the connecting parts of the lighting with white as it is a larger model so there's less chance of screwing up. After that I need to do the engine glow and then do some heavy weathering/battle damage to break up the model a bit more. Hopefully that doesn't take too much time so I can get back to my infantry and away from painting vehicles lol

As for the model itself, it's a lot longer than the real model (about a stormraven in length) so it'll be much harder to hide and maneuver in game. I also made the twinlinked lascannons out of a bunch of spare dev centurion ones I had lying around since like any true forger of narrative I went for grav on all six of mine

Also things to note; I know there are mold lines and gaps and no, i don't really care

lol I do love that you're trolling the totally original fw design Not sure how to paint the canopy. I find the lascannons kinda stick out like sore thumb, I feel like you should waited a bit to paint it, add some more plating over them if possible. The lightning is looking good. You gonna do one for white scars?

 Crablezworth wrote:
lol I do love that you're trolling the totally original fw design Not sure how to paint the canopy. I find the lascannons kinda stick out like sore thumb, I feel like you should waited a bit to paint it, add some more plating over them if possible. The lightning is looking good. You gonna do one for white scars?

I went for a red for the canopy, the lascannons could be a lot more developed, however I really don't care that much about the quality of "conversion". If it is wysiwyg then it's good enough; worst case I can add to it later. And white scars....?

Loving the Xiphon. Did the canopy come opaque or did you paint it? If it were clear, I would have gone with Tamiya clear red painted on the inside.

 Gordon Shumway wrote:
Loving the Xiphon. Did the canopy come opaque or did you paint it? If it were clear, I would have gone with Tamiya clear red painted on the inside.

It did come clear but I don't have any tamiya paints; however I assembled it very limitedly, no interior detail or anything as I was planning to paint over it.

The xiphon is 90% done at this point paint wise, only the lightning highlights and engine glow left at this point, possibly will do bronze around the bits right before the side engines

I decided against the engine glow to keep the model fairly gritty so its now done! for now

I'm really pleased with how the weathering turned out and brought the model together, though I know some of my bare metal chips aren't very realistic . I also decided to splotches of weathering close to the lascannons to represent their firing affecting the paint around it.







I finally got my Forgeworld order in so I'll also be finally giving my guys their volkites as well as painting up the seargent for this squad pretty soon

Really nice work! Looks the part for a 40k dogfighter! Amazing how a paintjob can transform a model!

 Paradigm wrote:
Really nice work! Looks the part for a 40k dogfighter! Amazing how a paintjob can transform a model!

Thanks I'll admit before I primed it I was a bit doubtful about how it would turn out. I'll say it again though, that weathering really made it look better.

I have finished the seargent but light has gotten worse so I'll take pictures of him tomorrow and the rest of the demi-squad

Now it needs the pilot lettering under the canopy.

I'd vote for Captain B. Wayne as the pilot

Also will there be any tail insignia on it?bi think it could use just a tad more red, like the legion logo on the thrusters.

That viper conversion is coming along beautifully. I really like the canopy paint job.

Theophony wrote:Now it needs the pilot lettering under the canopy.

I'd vote for Captain B. Wayne as the pilot

Also will there be any tail insignia on it?bi think it could use just a tad more red, like the legion logo on the thrusters.

I was considering something for the tail but i didn't really know what to do, maybe the legion symbol from a sideview instead? I might also do the legion number on one of the thrusters

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:That viper conversion is coming along beautifully. I really like the canopy paint job.

Thanks Just need the missiles and its all done. The canopy idea is more to avoid the classic gemstone effect with the lines representing the glare; I just did khorne red and then mixed washed it to get it dark and then mixed it with spacewolf grey for the pink

How about Captain W. Adama?

 RaptorusRex wrote:
How about Captain W. Adama?

Sadly I don't really get that joke

However, as promised I have my 5 terror squad guys (terrorizers?) done and equipped with volkites



For the seargent (actually called a headsman I think) I used some chain glaives from Anvil Industries for his nostraman chain glaive. At first I was worried about the size as it looks a bit small compared to regular chain weapons, but having seen Sevetar's its a lot more in line with his so there shouldn't be a problem.

As to his paint job itself; for his helmet I did a "bloody handprint" on the faceplate, though it can be tricky to make out the detail clearly (one still gets the impression of blood on his faceplate though so I think it works). I actually did less lightning on him compared to his friends, however I thought that with the bloodied glaive there might be too many details so I erred on the side of caution.






Hopefully have more progress soon on the army!

The paintjob on the xiphon is awesome, still not liking the lascannon placement. U need a flight stand cuz I got an extra one? The terror squad rocks, the anvil bit works pergectly.

Nah, got a spare base already, just need to dremmel a proper slot

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
Nah, got a spare base already, just need to dremmel a proper slot

Talk to karl, I think he might have something like a dremel.

The Xiphon looks very nice, fits in well with the night Lords nice and sleek.

Crablezworth wrote:

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
Nah, got a spare base already, just need to dremmel a proper slot

Talk to karl, I think he might have something like a dremel.

So does challoner

GiraffeX wrote:The Xiphon looks very nice, fits in well with the night Lords nice and sleek.

Yea I thought it was pretty good for them, was going to call it a "Nostramo" pattern xiphon :p

They look really good! The Viper also looks the part. Your paintwork on these guys is very impressive - and looks far better on these models then it does on standard CSM.

Cool squad. Any thoughts on a basing scheme yet?

Azazelx wrote:They look really good! The Viper also looks the part. Your paintwork on these guys is very impressive - and looks far better on these models then it does on standard CSM.

Thank you

Paradigm wrote:Cool squad. Any thoughts on a basing scheme yet?

Ugh, I want to go with stirland mud, but sevetar is on an installation/space ship base and curze is on ruins. It'll look weird no matter what

I'm sorry I haven't updated in a bit, but it was because I was busy working on the First Captain himself; Sevetar the Condemned. I finally got a good lamp so I can paint well at night, which is good However its really hot so paint dries really fast, also it makes all my pictures yellow :( I might retake them later because I'm not a fan of my models in a 70s porn movie lol






Sev had a ton of detail and I painted him completely unassembled so I didn't miss anything, especially with all the nooks and crannies that's on this model. Because of this I didn't do as much lightning on him as I did on everyone else, but I might go back and do some on his left vambrace and greave. I also chose to do the skull on his right shoulder in bronze because in ADBs series he says the Atremntar (first company) have bronze lion heads on their shoulder guards and this looked bestial and feline so I decided it would be a more realistic version since the DAs have 'the lion' so a skull version would be better

I'm also really liking how he likes with the rest of my Terror squad so far



Although sometimes he gets challenged by fools

So I was pretty unhappy with a) the yellow tint to my photos of Sevetar and b) some details on him so I reshot him after tweaking some things.







I changed his helmet wings from red to bronze, his left elbow guard and leg..squares(?) to bronze as well. This really helped to break up the model more and tone down the red. Additionally, I darkened his hands so they wouldn't be overpowering and added more lightning

He looks fantastic! Great stuff!

 Paradigm wrote:
He looks fantastic! Great stuff!

Thanks My buddy is pushing me to paint Curze, but I reallllly need to get back on track with the normal guys; he comes last lol

Sevetar is lookin way better now. Urban basing man, I'm tellin ya, it will look sick.

Your Sevetar and Xiphon are drop dead gorgeous, nice.

Great painting on the Viper and Sevetar

Thanks all, should have my 6th duder done today

Finsihed my 5th normal guy for the terror squad (so 6 in total)






I painted his hands red as the fluff in Massacre says that terror squads are often filled with the condemned; the chain on his wrist also symbolizes his punishment while the tears are supposed to be ironic, his design was in place before he was marked with the red hands

So I realized I havent been updating this thread lately (been almost a month to be honest), but that doesnt mean I havent been painting!

The last 4 members of the terror squad pre-volkite:











and then the last 5 with volkites






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Then I did my first squad of cataphractii with 4 power fists and a chain fist on the seargent



























And a shot of the full squad:



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And finally what I finished today, my sicaran with lascannons







I decided to to all energy except the volkite purple; matches the sword and is less harsh than the red.

Sorry for the wall of pictures, but more to come soon (when I restock on black wash)

These guys (and the Sicarian) look great! Man, I really need to get the fantasy figures finished and off my desk so I can paint some Marines again!

 Azazelx wrote:
These guys (and the Sicarian) look great! Man, I really need to get the fantasy figures finished and off my desk so I can paint some Marines again!

Thanks

I'm using them as chaos in a game today so hopefully I'll get some pictures of the army as a whole at the moment

Looking great! Love the axe slung at that Marine's hip, it's touches like that which really make a mini!

latest look at the army.








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Great looking army. I was wondering how much in points is this army worth? I am highly tempted with 30k but for now its a bit too costly for me.

I love how you made that Xiphon, brilliant! I totally went out and did the same thing! Great painting and modeling all around!

The Sicaran is looking excellent. I didn't associate your user name with Mr Crablezworth, I thought it was familiar, it all fits in now where I've seen your avatar before.

I'm now off the the batrep section to see if you guys have this one up yet, I love your batreps.

 GiraffeX wrote:
The Sicaran is looking excellent. I didn't associate your user name with Mr Crablezworth, I thought it was familiar, it all fits in now where I've seen your avatar before.

I'm now off the the batrep section to see if you guys have this one up yet, I love your batreps.

Sadly not batrep for this one, but there's pics from the game in the lcbr thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/450/439793.page

Really nice work. Love the glow / energy coil on the las cannons... gives me all kinds of ideas. Consider me subbed!

Dude, these guys look AMAZING. Literally the only thing I could recommend is redoing the bloody painting and stuff with a coat of Blood for the Blood God technical paint to make it look wet, and a little richer.

Damn mate, you can paint lightning better than anyone i have seen! Kick ass.

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
I'm making a smallish (2000 pts) Pre-Heresy Night Lord Army and will be posting updates here.

So far I've got a Terminator armoured Praetor with a skull on chain and trophy head (trophies of judgment) and a basic Legionnaire in mk 3 armour



I started on the Praetor as a test model and was very happy with how dark the model turned out, the only problems being the red on the volkite being over saturated and not being able to decide on a colour for his Paragon Blade, though I am pleased with the cool purple that is in the pictures.







Next is the Legionnaire; depsite looking rather ordinary he's going to be part of a Terror squad all equipped with Volkite chargers (have yet to arrive hence the missing gun), as such I'm going to try and have skulls and heads hanging off of them and will try and do something with each helmet to inspire fear (his is bone coloured to resemble a skull with painted on blood coming from the eyes); might try and do a skull on some lighting on others. etc... The legion symbol is pretty basic freehand and could be better, but I didn't want to kill myself doing it another 29 times so I'm not going back to make it super detailed or tidy it up. Finally I didn't do any white highlights on where the lightning joins up, just keeping it simple for my basic troopers.







I have been thinking on the rivets though; I've been leaving them blue to save time, but should I go back on paint them silver?

Nice. It looks like that guy is playing the air guitar . Great paint job!

dubovac wrote:Great looking army. I was wondering how much in points is this army worth? I am highly tempted with 30k but for now its a bit too costly for me.

Currently I have 1950 fully painted, though its not a legal list yet. Total I have 3500; another 20 volkite guys, 15 terminators with axes, curze. Thanks a ton for the compliment

Heliodore wrote:I love how you made that Xiphon, brilliant! I totally went out and did the same thing! Great painting and modeling all around!

Hahaha, yea the joke is that its the "real" xiphon model as the official one took so many queues from the Viper

GiraffeX wrote:The Sicaran is looking excellent. I didn't associate your user name with Mr Crablezworth, I thought it was familiar, it all fits in now where I've seen your avatar before. I'm now off the the batrep section to see if you guys have this one up yet, I love your batreps.

Yea usually my Raven Guard are what he's playing against if I'm in a bat rep, since we do fully painted I haven't had a chance to use my Night Lords yet. Sadly we power through our 30k games so quickly we forget to get the camera :(

Gitsplitta wrote:Really nice work. Love the glow / energy coil on the las cannons... gives me all kinds of ideas. Consider me subbed!

That's a real honour coming from you, thanks so much. I find that it looks good enough to forgive poor transitions, which is great because I'm really trying not to get stuck on time consuming details/techniques

Kepora wrote:Dude, these guys look AMAZING. Literally the only thing I could recommend is redoing the bloody painting and stuff with a coat of Blood for the Blood God technical paint to make it look wet, and a little richer.

Thanks a lot I actually am not the biggest fan of the gloss bloods because it can get too overpowering and I'm not the best at realistic blood to start. I try and keep my "actual" blood pretty muted and use it more as an interesting detail. Plus they're killing thin-blooded mortals, its allowed to be watery

kardosdarkforge wrote:Damn mate, you can paint lightning better than anyone i have seen! Kick ass.

Thanks a lot for the compliment It's all about the squiggly lines, no straight ones!

Nice. It looks like that guy is playing the air guitar . Great paint job!

Hahah, thanks. If I ever do noisemarines to use in 40k I can make them all play air guitar

You are a great painter,my only advice,or remind in your case probably,to never forget the base,use the wheel!

Colour wheels never hurt

Sometimes I find that using complementary colours is too...obvious? Idk, its a bit hard to explain but it feels almost over used. I prefer to go with more of an analogous slant to my Night Lords (blues and purples) and use the red and bronze for contrast and to break the models up.

Looking at the attributes of each colour is pretty funny in this context; here's a couple of pictures (raining outside so used my desk lamp for a yellow tinged light source) of a trust worthy, stable and tranquil model :





Other than tweaking the corpse and the blood still the model is done. I had my second attempt of making flayed skin; some on his left leg and on his right ...chest area? Because of the pose of the arm the bundle of skulls couldn't be placed so i madea ragged strip of flayed skin to cover up the holes for the intended bit.

I'll try and have better pictures up soon, but witcher 3 and rain might have something to say about that

Fantastic looking army, will be looking at this closely. And great choice of avatar btw.

Loving the dread!

Thanks guys and here's the better pictures:

That dread looks amazing. Wonderfully light touch on the lightening and the skin covering the right shoulder is very well done.

The dread is looking very nice, I think the blood needs to look a bit fresher in places either by adding some gloss or Blood for the Blood God.

Thanks guys

I agree that the blood needs more tweaking; I usually try and keep it subtle specifically because it looks bad en masse if its all flat

Excellent! Few things in 40k are cooler than a nicely painted Dreadnought!

The dread rocks, my friend. Very nice work!

Thanks all, compliments and feedback are always appreciated.

Going to add a bit of gloss to the blood to break up the flatness of it, hope it doesnt look too weird compared with the rest of my stuff.

I also finally got the first power axe terminator painted up

I'd try the gloss on a test piece first before you go ahead and apply it to a mini just to make sure you like it. Its not always easy to see how the mini looks your end, cameras can be funny things.

Looks great! I'd maybe have gone for red on the bolter casing for contrast, but it looks fine as is!

That or some faded brass fitting on the storm bolter, to tie it in more with the rest of the Terminator Armour. He's coming along great, though!

 Azazelx wrote:
That or some faded brass fitting on the storm bolter, to tie it in more with the rest of the Terminator Armour. He's coming along great, though!

I may very well do this, thanks for the idea

In other news: while I haven't actually gotten any models finished, I have put some more work into curze's armour. I initially was planning on just doing some line highlights, but it turned very quickly into blending

Because of this its going to take a while as 1. my light theory is pretty bad 2. there's a lot of armour... which results in a very long time for me to be satisfied with a segment. For my work today it was mainly struggling with his chest and left leg until deciding just to block out areas with the lighter colour; as a result there are some areas that look nicer and some that look fairly rough (I may have even missed a part with the lighter blue too), but its still a long ways off.

I can't wait till you finish painting curze so I can photoshop him sliding down various surfaces

Or playing twister

First Legionnaire of the second squad done. I picked up some Blood for the Blood God and its excellent; I've touched up all my previous models with it. I've also started making a ton of guys with their CCWs, which will be mixed into every squad to keep things interesting (I did forget to trim off the chaos symbols though :? )

He's awesome!

Fantastic painting as usual, keep it up. And that skin on the shoulder pad looks a fine fresh cut. Amazing what people do with chainsaws these days...

Paradigm wrote:He's awesome!

KernelTerror wrote:Fantastic painting as usual, keep it up. And that skin on the shoulder pad looks a fine fresh cut. Amazing what people do with chainsaws these days...

Thanks guys, means a lot and what can I say? they must be very experienced with removing people's skin

I'll try and get shots of the updated blood effects tomorrow or so

Glad to see you've finally come around. I knew you would eventually.

Hes looking great, nice to see you picked up the blood for the blood god its a great paint.

Looks great.

Great work. Those NL heads are also pretty sweet!

Thanks everyone for the encouragement

I got some pictures of the updated blood effect:




















After updating Sevetar I noticed I'd painted part of his red cloak as flesh so I have to go back and fix it at some point. also the reason he's missing his dagger is it started to bend and I found a better hand (right handed beckoning) from the new Dev kit that will be going on him instead

Also finished the 3rd and 4th guys of the second squad today (minus the details on the legion symbol) so here's some more lightning and gore

Great work!

Heh, you were so stubborn about Blood for the Blood God when I brought it up, and now you can't get enough of it, can you?

But in all seriousness, your Night Lords are arguably some of the best I've ever seen. Keep up the work, man.

Paradigm wrote:Great work!

Thanks

Kepora wrote:Heh, you were so stubborn about Blood for the Blood God when I brought it up, and now you can't get enough of it, can you?

But in all seriousness, your Night Lords are arguably some of the best I've ever seen. Keep up the work, man.

Oh I know, I'm really appreciating the irony; the fact that it was always out of stock should have been a hint though

Thanks for all the feedback and compliments guys, I always appreciate it, even more so after the Blood for the Blood God thing lol

Here's some pictures Crablezworth took after our game on Saturday; most you guys have seen before, but there are some new models in there

That... is a very frightening bunch my friend. Excellent work!

Most intimidating Night Lords I've seen. *shiver*

Awesome ensemble!

Fantastic work! That Contemptor is particularly nice/nasty, and the new skull-headed squad also look pretty evil as well. It's been really great to see these guys take form from the start. Kick arse!

Gitsplitta wrote:That... is a very frightening bunch my friend. Excellent work!

Fifty wrote:Most intimidating Night Lords I've seen. *shiver*

Paradigm wrote:Awesome ensemble!

Azazelx wrote:Fantastic work! That Contemptor is particularly nice/nasty, and the new skull-headed squad also look pretty evil as well. It's been really great to see these guys take form from the start. Kick arse!

Thanks for all the support guys, just reading this made me prime up the rest of a unit of Cataphractii.

The raptor weapons and NL heads really help squads look evil, but I'll be mixing all the CCW guys with the other volkite guys to keep things nice and well rounded per squad

So not quite my squad of terminators, though they are nearing completion (you can see one of them on my key board )





My contemptor needed a ride to get within melee range so I decided to paint the Lucius Pod I got off of Crablezworth as Night Lords.

Termis should be done by tomorrow

Looking good! Are you going to leave the Aquila on there or replace it with a winged skull or something? Have they released the Brass Etch for NL yet?

They sadly haven't made brass etched for them yet, but I'll probably leave the eagles on regardless; they're meant to be played pre or post heresy and I figure the aquila is scorched/damaged enough to be considered desecrated

That's gruesome bunch, alright...


Pod looks great.

The corpse being dragged around by the dread is fantastic. Ick, but fantastic.

These look amazing. I almost pulled the trigger on Night Lords when Curze came out.

Thanks all, terminators just need freehand and details on the leather to be finished.

As for curze I wish he had talons instead of predator claws. Still need to finish him too :p

The Lucius Pod looks very nice, just the right amount of weathering.

I guess I'm never getting my pod back now

Well you can, just for 80$

Curze

Very nice, he looks really bad ass with those bloodied claws.

It looks much better than the fw paintjob, wicked awesome.

Very nice. I understand that he's the best there is at what he does - but what he does isn't very nice.

Awesome! Just awesome!

Very nicely done.

night haunter

Hot damn those night lords are looking great

He needs lightning

Not enough surface area

Awesome work on Curze and crew.

Just I case you missed it the black library has had some free (yes free) night lords stories this week. Red has copied it over into the black library thread in news and rumors. It's Horus Heresy era night lords dealing with Istavan IV dropsite. Actually one story broken up into five snippets, but it has all the gang in it.

Yea I've read the first three so far, quite enjoyable

I agree that it needs lightning, but you are right. There is very little surface area. May I suggest painting it on the knee pads and possibly the forearms. Not a lot of it mind, maybe a thin line or two per area. Just a suggestion.

Overall, the model looks great. Love the cloak.

Night Haunter looks fantastic. I especially love his cloak. There is a tiny bit of gold crept onto a blue area on his chest that bugs me though. Could his hair have a bit more highlighting? That sounds like more criticism than praise, but it is not meant to be - it is fantastic.

Does the Xyphon have a baby impaled on its base? You sick feth. I love it.

The marines look great. I particularly like their weapons and the red effect.

Everything about the Dread is great. The gore is awesome and the skulls look great.

Brilliant photoshoot ! Do you have more power armored psychos coming your way ?

Haunter looks really good. The army shots are especially impressive, though. It's been a real treat to see these guys develop over the last couple of months.

Awesome and gruesome in equal measure.

That impaled baby is really f'ed up . Almost too offensive; which is suitable for a force of the Nigh Lords.

Nice to see these dudes all wrapped up!
Spotless job on 'em, and Curze's skin cloak really impresses

Only one question. Is that an IMPALED baby?! I guess it's never too far for Night Lords...

I like the photoshoot backdrop, simple and effective. But i feel the entire model/army would benefit from a colder tonal photography. Seeing back pics as well, i assume this is your liking/style, but i feel it obscures some details you've spent time on

Other than that, keep them coming!

 ciuncky wrote:
I like the photoshoot backdrop, simple and effective. But i feel the entire model/army would benefit from a colder tonal photography. Seeing back pics as well, i assume this is your liking/style, but i feel it obscures some details you've spent time on

I would agree on the colder tone, I try not to change the colour setting on the camera because it's also used to shoot video and our lighting is a mix of warm and cool so we get a bit of a gradient across the table from edge to edge and shooting into the walls gives off a nice setting sun look. You can see in the 4th pic it's far less yellow, that unit was at the far right end of the table closer to fluorescent lights.

But yeah I definitely agree , for the night lords a cooler tone would look much better. Skimask is currently paintig up some armoured forge world monstrosity I believe so we'll have a chance to try lighting them a bit cooler.

Fifty wrote:Night Haunter looks fantastic. I especially love his cloak. There is a tiny bit of gold crept onto a blue area on his chest that bugs me though. Could his hair have a bit more highlighting? That sounds like more criticism than praise, but it is not meant to be - it is fantastic.

Does the Xyphon have a baby impaled on its base? You sick feth. I love it.

The marines look great. I particularly like their weapons and the red effect.

Everything about the Dread is great. The gore is awesome and the skulls look great.

Hey yea, I've fixed the gold on blue area for his chest since then, but unfortunately wasn't able to spot it before photos were taken As for his hair its supposed to look very lusterless and lank, he can't be rocking any highlights lol

KernelTerror wrote:Brilliant photoshoot ! Do you have more power armored psychos coming your way ?

I sure do, well a bunch of the guys in the photos still need details done on them, so they'll be more spiffy soon (as well as 5 more guys who need to be built)

Azazelx wrote:Haunter looks really good. The army shots are especially impressive, though. It's been a real treat to see these guys develop over the last couple of months.

Thank you sir

Zywus wrote:Awesome and gruesome in equal measure.

That impaled baby is really f'ed up . Almost too offensive; which is suitable for a force of the Nigh Lords.

All for that shock value

ciuncky wrote:Nice to see these dudes all wrapped up!
Spotless job on 'em, and Curze's skin cloak really impresses

Only one question. Is that an IMPALED baby?! I guess it's never too far for Night Lords...

I like the photoshoot backdrop, simple and effective. But i feel the entire model/army would benefit from a colder tonal photography. Seeing back pics as well, i assume this is your liking/style, but i feel it obscures some details you've spent time on

Other than that, keep them coming!

It sure is and thanks for the compliments. For the photography I'll defer to Crablezworth's expertise, i do what he says when it comes to pictures lol

Excellent photos of a beautifully painted army. Just love the shot of the dread in the pod... just looks so intimidating.

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So it's been a very long time since I've updated (or even hobbied) this thread. Right now I've finished all the pseudo finished guys from the last photos, as well as doing purple gemstones on all the models with lightning-and-orb chest plates. However, my favorites are the three above as I really like how the terror markings turned out, though I'm sure I've seen it before on the internet (probably on Bolter and Chainsword to be honest); still have to think up markings for 4 more guys.

Hopefully I'll soon have a few terminators done soon

I love that contemptor tossing away the corpse. This new model looks great too.

Brilliant to see the Night Lords back ! The body count and the torture knifes on the plasma gun fellas are very nice touches. It will be very interesting to see terminators too...

Cool Night Lords. Very thematic. Consider me subbed.

EDC

Good stuff on the new additions!

Very pleased to see you back in the swing of things.

Wow, thanks everyone for the kind words and support, means a lot to me.

And here's another update!

Not much, but some power axe terminators that rode the hobby wave












This squad is going to have black shoulders and so far I'm really digging the results

Sick, keep'm comin!

So Ive had these old raptors for a while and have started painting one of them now, only problem is my lack of black and silver paint, black wash and glue. This means I just have the main body painted right now, but I need help on the scheme for this one.





As you can see there's a lotttttt of red and bronze; while I do like the bronze, I'm thinking of making the red tabard black when I get the paint. I'm thinking maybe once I do that, the blood effects will pop more. Really appreciate some suggestions on this one

It looks sick! I love the old raptors.

SuuuUUuuuuuuUuUuuuuuuuUUUUuuuuuuUUUUuuuUUUuuuUUUuuUUuubbed! Just breezed through your blog and its great! Almost makes me want to get some :p I've always loved that sevatar model...

 lipsdapips wrote:
SuuuUUuuuuuuUuUuuuuuuuUUUUuuuuuuUUUUuuuUUUuuuUUUuuUUuubbed! Just breezed through your blog and its great! Almost makes me want to get some :p I've always loved that sevatar model...

Thanks dude! Your ultras look sick

As for progress, I've done another raptor up and some detail on the dread.

Wish the freehand could have been a tad more crisp, but it was frustrating enough already with the bolts getting in the way. Other than that I thought it was cool, nox means night in latin, but also was how the romans renamed the Greek primoridal goddess of night Nyx. The dread has been pretty godly so I think it's appropriate



Raptor was super cool too, its the first time I painted the older metal versions and they have a ton of character; this guy even came with flayed skin! I made his eyes bleeding ala Bleeding Eyes/Lucoryphus. Original, I know.







Still have to decide how to paint the fire

Woah! That raptor model takes me back - you're totally right, super characteristic and fits the night lords of course. Digging the use of latin on the dread too.

 lipsdapips wrote:
Woah! That raptor model takes me back - you're totally right, super characteristic and fits the night lords of course. Digging the use of latin on the dread too.

I'd like to rock some of the "nostraman" whos alphabet was made on B&C, but I really need a new detail brush first.

Also did a red version of the newer terror marks, I really like how they just completely change the model

Very nice stuff. The old Raptors are awesome.

EDC

Thanks!

I agree they're awesome, though I do love the current ones too. They're going to be delayed a bit as I do some Terminator bases up for my game tomorrow

Finally finished these guys up finally, will probably have to do actual highlights on these guys' blue armour as its so smooth



Still have another 10 to do up and a 5 man support squad on top of that to get through my Betrayal at Calth stuff

Your night lords look epic! Love your work!

The gold shoulder pad is a great way to make your vets stand out, not seen often on NLs, looks fantastic

Looking really good!

 Master Azalle wrote:
Your night lords look epic! Love your work!

The gold shoulder pad is a great way to make your vets stand out, not seen often on NLs, looks fantastic

Not to mention the fact that it explains what they do with all the gold teeth they kick out of peoples faces .

These continue to be stunners, My favorite version of Night Lords that I've seen painted up

Agreed - the gold armour sections look outstanding (in both senses of the word!)

Master Azalle wrote:Your night lords look epic! Love your work!

The gold shoulder pad is a great way to make your vets stand out, not seen often on NLs, looks fantastic

Thanks for stopping by and commenting

Paradigm wrote:Looking really good!

Thanks

Theophony wrote:

 Master Azalle wrote:
Your night lords look epic! Love your work!

The gold shoulder pad is a great way to make your vets stand out, not seen often on NLs, looks fantastic

Not to mention the fact that it explains what they do with all the gold teeth they kick out of peoples faces .

These continue to be stunners, My favorite version of Night Lords that I've seen painted up

Always a fan of the curb stomp

Azazelx wrote:Agreed - the gold armour sections look outstanding (in both senses of the word!)

Hahah Thanks

Glad about all the feedback about the pads, though I did darken them a bit to make them more bronze, also did all the faceplates bone coloured as I felt I was losing a lot of the detail

I like the bone facemasks, and the darker bronze color works as well. Really nice job on the helmet crest too.

Yep, both the bone and the slightly darker bronze go well with the blue armour and each other.

Thanks guys, I'm glad everyone likes the tweaks as much as I do

Here's what I'll be busting out tomorrow

Thats a nice ride for the boys

That is one awesome flying pieces of death!

I look forward to shooting it out of the sky

Don't take this as being rude (as you so far better than I,) but, the flyer's base is bleak. Which I understand the whole scorched earth concept but, if you have the bits for 1-2 marines you could always have them patrolling the dust beneath your flier. Even walking on a skull or two.

Just a suggestion sir, love that bird and your army as always.

Theophony wrote:Thats a nice ride for the boys

Nothing but style for them

Paradigm wrote:That is one awesome flying pieces of death!

We'll see how well it does tomorrow

Crablezworth wrote:I look forward to shooting it out of the sky

feth you

Stormwall wrote:Don't take this as being rude (as you so far better than I,) but, the flyer's base is bleak. Which I understand the whole scorched earth concept but, if you have the bits for 1-2 marines you could always have them patrolling the dust beneath your flier. Even walking on a skull or two.

Just a suggestion sir, love that bird and your army as always.

I always appreciate feedback

Its an interesting idea but I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass for a couple of reasons. First is that resin dudes are expensive and I'd rather have them as game models than parts of a base Second is that in game you can move friendly models onto a flyer's base, so its actually best to have no topography on the base to maximize potential space. Third is that its my Xiphon's base from a couple of pages back and that it sits a bit lower on the stand in comparison and it takes away some of the negative space because of that

Its been a while with no updates, mainly because I've been doing commission work and have had little time for my own stuff, but here's what I've managed to sneak in.

Fully built 5 man plasma support squad, I used them in a game last week where they held down the fort from outriders and a flamer support squad so they deserve a paintjob soon.



And because of the upcoming Heresy tournament I'll be co-running (and playing in) in march, more terminators, tho still half assembled/painted currently. Planning on giving them powerfists, but not sure if combi weapons and/or plasma blaster for ranged.

Go for chainfists, no point not going for broke. It's about the same as giving vets meltabombs.

Problem is actually needing chainfists on the models as opposed to melta bombs

Multiple chainfist swings vs single meltabomb swings? Yeah, chainfists. Plus it seems more like the Night Lords' style.

Very nice. The termies are going to look sweeet when done.

EDC

 Kepora wrote:
Multiple chainfist swings vs single meltabomb swings? Yeah, chainfists. Plus it seems more like the Night Lords' style.

Thats not quite it. Its pfists vs chain fists when I don't have chain fists and they're a bit harder to get

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:

 Kepora wrote:
Multiple chainfist swings vs single meltabomb swings? Yeah, chainfists. Plus it seems more like the Night Lords' style.

Thats not quite it. Its pfists vs chain fists when I don't have chain fists and they're a bit harder to get

Chainfists still. Just add 'em as you get 'em.

Unfortunately we play with only fully painted and built, so its down to how fast I want to use another 5 terminators really lol

Power fists then, and add the chainsaw blades on later.

 Azazelx wrote:
Power fists then, and add the chainsaw blades on later.

What Kepora said.

Chain fists, for Cataphracti at least, aren't power fists with an under slung chain blade; the hand is quite normal sized. Now that wouldn't necessarily be a problem if I didn't have any Cataphracti chainfists already, but I do and I'm not big on having 2 different things represent 1 weapon on the same model

Not a lot of progress on here, what with all the Mechanicum painting I've been doing, but I have made some progress.

First off is the Plasma Support squad is 90% done, I need to make the bases actually look impressive and blend the plasma, but are good to go other than that. I used all the heads with down slanted grills on these guys to give them more of a menacing appearance compared to the bolter wielding mk IV guys, but kept the white faceplate theme going.







I also have a normal apothecary awaiting paint

Is it a normal apothecary though? Or is it soul hunter?

Plasma support squad is looking cool so far. The white faceplate looks great.

EDC

Crablezworth wrote:Is it a normal apothecary though? Or is it soul hunter?

Nah, Soul Hunter sucks as an Apothecary.

evildrcheese wrote:Plasma support squad is looking cool so far. The white faceplate looks great.

EDC

Thanks dude I was thinking of changing them further down the line into normal terror markings, but I haven't really decided yet

Finally made more progress on my army after a bunch commission work and running a tournament but I'm really excited about a Herald I'm converting from one of the Age of Sigmar Khorne Guys.






More pics soon

Glad to see you back at it, I love your take on the night lords. The helmet on this guy just isn't doing it for me for some reason though. It could just be the color difference between it and the plastic though.

I think it's because Marine helmets tend to sit lower because of the bulk of the armour. They also tend to look lower again because of the bulk of the backpacks. The AoS Khorne Dudes are pretty bulky as well which makes the FW helmet look a bit smaller.

Theophony wrote:Glad to see you back at it, I love your take on the night lords. The helmet on this guy just isn't doing it for me for some reason though. It could just be the color difference between it and the plastic though.

Azazelx wrote:I think it's because Marine helmets tend to sit lower because of the bulk of the armour. They also tend to look lower again because of the bulk of the backpacks. The AoS Khorne Dudes are pretty bulky as well which makes the FW helmet look a bit smaller.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I agree the head isn't quite the same as it is on a marine, probably because this guy's neck is crazy thick lol. Definitely will be looking to see what I can do to mitigate that

Awesome looking herald. Nice idea for a conversion.

EDC

Sounds like Heresy, but you could drill out the bottom of the helmet and then crack it slightly apart like he was wearing it then grew ginormous.

evildrcheese wrote:Awesome looking herald. Nice idea for a conversion.

EDC

Thanks man

Theophony wrote:Sounds like Heresy, but you could drill out the bottom of the helmet and then crack it slightly apart like he was wearing it then grew ginormous.

Crablezworth suggested sneaking in another shoulder pad and a backpack; I'll see if the additions help balance out the model somewhat. If not then maybe I'll try an Iron Armour head, but I want to stay away from mutation as much as possible

I'm working on an aos conversion right now as well and you'd be amazed what just a shoulder pad and backpack can do to help the imagination along.


Think of what kharn would look like if he didn't have at least one pad and the backpack. He'd look weird. If you can't fit a pad on the banner arm, you coud leave it as is and just see what a backpack looks like. I'd probably suggest cutting up his should and putting a marine pad over the aos one.

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Here's some progress; I added a pack and a chaos knight pad to make his head look more proportional. Painting wise I'm treating myself to a little blending work and higher detail than usual which should really help make this guy into a center piece.

Looks so much better with those additions .

Boy, does the paint make a huge difference... Love that blue.

I think this is the first time Ive really looked through your thread. My loss, your doing a great job on these guys. I really like your Fire Raptor.

Herald is 90% done, only needs the base now. I really din't do that much lightning on him compared to my normal models, but theres enough contrast on the blue to not need it imo.

Theophony wrote:Looks so much better with those additions .

Definitely more proportional

Gitsplitta wrote:Boy, does the paint make a huge difference... Love that blue.

Thanks Its been super fun to paint

40kFSU wrote:I think this is the first time Ive really looked through your thread. My loss, your doing a great job on these guys. I really like your Fire Raptor.

Thanks that fire raptor got marathonned out in one day lol

Looks awesome dude

Brilliant looking miniature, working really well as a nightlord despite its khornate origins !

Thanks guys

I think I might repaint Sevetar's blue armour so it better matches with the herald and curze

So its been a while as I've been really busy, but I've recently acquired some quad launchers and just built them. I was able to curb my enthusiasm enough to remember not to glue the weapons in, leaving me the possibility of easy swaps out for any future weapons.



I also started repainting Sevetar to better match the Herald, so far I've just painted the different shades and it still all needs to be blended together.



The pictures are a bit wonky as I'm using a new camera that really underlines how bad my lighting is, tho I did try to salvage them with some editing.

Love those artillery pieces, they're going to be the bomb when painted! Sevetar is looking brutal to be sure.

Hey guys, I've been extremely busy and on top of not getting a lot done, I've forgotten to update my progress of what I did paint!

First some more progress on the thudd guns. I gave them a green glow on the barrels since the entire point is to use phosphex rounds. they still need some more work and aren't 100% yet




And the coolest thing I've painted in a while, a Leviathan dreadnought.






Since the original painting I went back and cleaned up the lightning on the leg and flayed skin, added a green glow to the phosphex launcher, changed the frag launchers to silver, and stuck it on the only 80mm base I had

Nicely done... and really gruesome too.

Sweet. You really can't go wrong with trip we quad mortors!

Nice work on the Leviathan too, especially Night Lord-ing it up.

EDC

Your lightning work is superb. The blood on the tabard an cloth looks very realistic, normally I feel blood is OTT or looks out of place, yours looks really good.

This is a great update. Quad guns look great and I really like the work you've done on the Leviathan.

Wow, another long time without any updates, I've just been so busy at work along with my usual gaming buddies that i've had less time to play, thus less motivation to get stuff painted.

Thats all changed though!

I got a bunch of of chain glaives from anvil industries, and a brand new Knight Atropos that i've been working on too. Unfortunately nothing is 100% done, the one set of raptors being around 70% tops, but its still some new stuff.








I'm painting the Knight up to be fairly neutral in loyalty, I want to be able to use it with my raven guard in the future. The scheme also kind of reflects this split loyalty; red and black for the ravens, bronze trim for the VIIIth.








Its a bit tricky to show off the entire model, but hopefully the admittedly terrible pictures give a general idea of what they look like with the two handed glaives. They're all going to look fairly similar to the more painted guys.








I decided to paint the lightning-ier trim as lightning since there's a ton of bronze details on these models and I didn't think I'd have the space to do normal amounts of it. hopefully it'll look fine when they're all finished.

This is a great update. Quad guns look great and I really like the work you've done on the Leviathan.

Thanks friend, means a lot

Your lightning work is superb. The blood on the tabard an cloth looks very realistic, normally I feel blood is OTT or looks out of place, yours looks really good.

Thanks so much Honestly I was super worried about the blood effects being OTT (you can even see me argue against using it earlier on in the thread) but I'm super pleased with the results

Sweet. You really can't go wrong with trip we quad mortors!

Nice work on the Leviathan too, especially Night Lord-ing it up.

EDC

Yea those quad mortars are broken beyond belief. Phosphex should never have been given to them lol.

Nicely done... and really gruesome too.

Thank you!

Been a while ! But great to see you back, this knight looks promising, great model indeed.

It's really cool, but because I've had the top carapace off for a while it actually looks weird when I put it on now lol

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
It's really cool, but because I've had the top carapace off for a while it actually looks weird when I put it on now lol

It looks much weirder with it off

Just love the stripes on the knight. Very old-school. Reminds me of the early marine schemes which definitely had their charm.

Crablezworth wrote:

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
It's really cool, but because I've had the top carapace off for a while it actually looks weird when I put it on now lol

It looks much weirder with it off

Maybe. I think its the way it overshadows the head that makes it look weird to me. It also might not be sitting quite right due to how the exhaust stacks are connected

Gitsplitta wrote:Just love the stripes on the knight. Very old-school. Reminds me of the early marine schemes which definitely had their charm.

Thanks! Honestly my inspiration was the 30k Dark Angels scheme, so they both definitely channel the old school paint job vibe.

Looks better with it on for sure.

Cool, the Atropos I looking awesome!

EDC

Painted the top carapace up to see how it fits. Wasn't sure if the stripe would work or not, but I really like the end result, so much so that I even think it looks less weird now. Still fairly rough so some cleanup on the red is necessary but it's coming together well now.

 evildrcheese wrote:
Cool, the Atropos I looking awesome!

EDC

Thanks man! Hope you continue to enjoy

I certainly will! The stripes on top of the carapace look awesome. I assume you masked it up to get them so straight?

EDC

Nice!

Sick! Looks awesome dude.

evildrcheese wrote:I certainly will! The stripes on top of the carapace look awesome. I assume you masked it up to get them so straight?

EDC

Actually they're just hand painted and then neatened up (mostly) with the black basecoat. I used the the rivets as a guide, but you can see where its still a bit uneven

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice!

Crablezworth wrote:Sick! Looks awesome dude.

Thanks guys!

boom shakalaka

Gorgious army and model


AVE DOMINUS NOX!!!!

Thanks Crabz! That was a pretty great first game for the knight though even it couldn't stand up to RNGesus alone

Took some more pics of it, as well as my new navigator and stuff








There's still some more detail work I want to do on it, but I couldn't be happier with how it turned out.



This is going to be my count as Navigator, as the model is too swanky to pass up and it gives a nod to Octavia and her aristocratic superiority .





Finally getting started on my outrider squad, the bikes are a pain to put together though and I want to use the GW ones so its going to be a slog to get through.

 FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:
Gorgious army and model


AVE DOMINUS NOX!!!!

Thanks friend, really means a lot

Awesome Knight there, simply superb!

Where's that Navigator from? Looks like an Anvil Industry sculpt?

It sure is, the Lucretia Chang model

The Navigator model is indeed cool. Looking forward to seeing it with some paint on.

Knight looks amazing, it it done now?

Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the bikes too.

EDC

The knight turned out beautifully. Wow.

evildrcheese wrote:The Navigator model is indeed cool. Looking forward to seeing it with some paint on.

Knight looks amazing, it it done now?

Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the bikes too.

EDC

There's a few more places where I could do some blue and I could do some detailing on the back as well, but other than that its done

Gitsplitta wrote:The knight turned out beautifully. Wow.

Thanks!

Got some Vorax to be used with a Praeviean. As with the knight I wanted to keep them neutral in terms of scheme, though they did get a good amount of blood as Vorax are described as being extremely aggressive hunter-killer units. Really like how they came out in the same black and red scheme as the knight.

They're looking really cool, the gold on the ammo feed compliments the black really well.

EDC

Thanks friend!