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Little WIP update. Trying to get a squad of ten built for a painting contest. These two are coming along nicely:



Parts used: Chaos Space Marine head & pauldrons & backpack & pouch, Chaos Mutant head, Berserker torso, Marauder banner, Raptor & Death Company swords, Mk IV bodies & pouches & pauldrons, Terminator scrolls, Warpsmith bolt pistol, Chosen backpack

In other news, I'm preparing for Death From The Skies games by spending my birthday money on a Hellblade Interceptor. No point bring forward gunship project until we have total air superiority

Contentless-news update: Victor won the August painting contest in Games Workshop Nottingham

In second place was an amazing World Eaters squad, so Choas really won this one

Lovely work on the word bearers, my favourite Legion by far. Looking forward to seeing more work.

They are indeed... the red looks great!

Great job! Victor looks fantastic!

OK, gang, after the armour was painted I looked at this guy and decided a dark skintone was perfect for him. But it's tricky to make his smog mask's leather straps stand out. I'm not sure about the edge highlight; on paper, it's the way to go, but in practice I'm not sure. Anyone got any feedback & suggestions?

I think the highlight looks fine as is. If you wanted more depth to it you could build the highlight up from a darker grey to an almost-white spot at the crown, lots of work for a small bit of detail though. Alternatively I've experimented with using glazes on a single high contrast edge highlight with some success. You do the highlight then apply a thin glaze to almost the entire highlight but leave one high spot un-touched. Then once that dries apply a second coat this time sticking closer to where you want your highlights to be even more toned down. You can keep this process up to have the illusion of depth to your highlight values without actually having to use or blend multiple colours. It's not perfect but it's easy and not very time consuming.

The model looks great though, fantastic work.

I think you'd be better off with a light brown rather than black. It would make his skin color jump out a bit more to the eye too I think.

Nice work on the banner dude so far.

EDC

Aaaand they're done! I took the suggestion - echoed in various places - to use tan colours on the leather straps, and I like the result. It matches my existing palette, as well.









A handy little utility unit that can hold an objective, be a nuisance with six S7 shots, and fit in a Rhino. A Power Axe means that if the Champion is compelled to Challenge an enemy sergeant, he's got a good chance of killing them if they don't do him in first.

Clean and badass looking squad, well done !

Great work! Love the Ultramarine banner!

Those are gorgeous, I love them.

Remember the Land Raider I started on? It's back in the tank yard!





We've got the daemonic critters all finished. The tracks have been sanitised of Cadavist iconography. The spikes are working well and will be finished off when I don't need to handle it so much. The banners are magnetised to function as HP markers. The passenger will be digging his way out the machine's guts.

Crazy good!

This is a great plog. The effort on the LR is amazing.

Great work done so far on the Raider.

That LR is looking magnificent, can't wait to see that painted up!

EDC

Looks great Lindsay, as always.

Bit more work done on Land Raider. Weapon mount's starting to take shape. It's coloured differently in the centre as I'm using Milliput as a filler.

Awesome green stuff work on the landraider, how are you going to paint the fleshier bits? same as the armour on the marines or something different.
The standard marines look great too, especially the banner bearer

I got my first battle in! This was my army list:

Chaos Sorcerer - Lv 3 Biomancy, Terminator, Spell Familiar, Power Sword, VOTLW

4 Terminators: Combi Melta, Lightning Claw, Power Fist, 3 Combi Plasma, VOTLW
- Land Raider: Daemonic, Dirge Caster

10 Cultists: Shotgun, Stubber, Autoguns

10 Marines: Autocannon, Plasma, Combi Plasma, Power Weapon, VOTLW

Nurgle Obliterator

5 Warp Talons: Slaaneshi, VOTLW

Helbrute Mayhem pack: 3 Helbrutes - Twin Flamerfists, Missiles & Reaper Autocannon, Twin Lascannon

Playing for Kill Points, and due to a miscount on my part I set my 1500 against 1750 of AM. Whoops! On turn one, a Grav Cannon Immobilised my Land Raider. Nooo! But it didn't, as daemonic forces conspired to bend the rules of physics. Bwahaha! It raced forward and the Terminators leapt out, emptied their Combi-Weapons into the Kataphron line, and got Endurance cast on them. They tanked a huge amount of firepower with their 2+, 5++ and 4+ FNP! Second turn, my Helbrutes failed to arrive (despite a re-roll from my Warlord), and the Terminators & Warp Talons killed everyone within reach. My LR took the Str10 weapon off a Dunecrawler, reducing it to a desperate charge (that my Sorcerer evaded then pulled apart with Iron Arm). Turn 3 the Helbrutes arrive and cause a little damage... an error of judgement meant I exposed the rear armour of Victor to a lot of Str 4 Rapid Fire. He got Wrecked. The store was soon to close and we had to wind up, so on a 4KP draw my Sorcerer charged his general. But his casting rolls were off, and I forgot about Spell Familiar, and he got killed by a Power Axe whilst failing to do enough to finish off his opponent. 6-4 loss this time :(

On the bright side, we have some Khornate Possessed ready to run amok:









And, wouldn't you know it, there's a Formation that makes them real tasty as well. Bonus!

Sounds like you had a decent battle.

Possessed are looking real cool.

EDC

World Bearer possessed best possessed!

Red and silver are exactly the right colours for these models.

Yep, the red is nicely vivid. Well done.

Air support incoming!









Always begin your air game by securing aerial superiority. And the Hell Blade's six twin-linked S7 Rending up their exhaust gets the message across

That's really nice Lindsay, great looking model.

One of my favourite Chaos models, looks great.

How'd you stick it on the base?

Wow! The possessed are looking real good, and that hells blade is definitely a force to be reckoned with! More madam, more!