Pre-Heresy Night Lords Jump-Pack Army Project Log

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**Dannyrevv**

Proiteus wrote:The 1st Night Lord
Well here's the painted model, I'm very happy with how the blending came out but feel I need to work on my metal work. Looks like I'll be ordering those parts this weekend.

I'd love to know where you got the skull helmet from, awesome work all around!

**Flidais**

Dannyrevv wrote:
Proiteus wrote:The 1st Night Lord
Well here's the painted model, I'm very happy with how the blending came out but feel I need to work on my metal work. Looks like I'll be ordering those parts this weekend.

I'd love to know where you got the skull helmet from, awesome work all around!

Its from chapter house studios it's a chaplain helmet they make

**whalemusic360**

If your going to quote the question, please cut the pic out of it.

I think the teleporter idea could work, but they need some bat wings to make those not in the know believe the were "flying" with such speed as to be invisible.

**Yggdrasil**

Hi Proiteus,

I think that "teleporter" pack thing is becoming a bit "cheap" to me...

Teleporters in the 40k era (and in the 30k as well) are supposed to be massive, ancient, somewhat unreliable artifacts from the Age of Technology...

Grey Knights, shrouded as they are in mystery, have access to portable versions of them, due to their "elite of the elite" status, and the efforts made by the Imperium to grant them such an equipment.

If the Night Lords had had access to such a technology in the Pre-Heresy Era, for a whole Legion's assault elements, it would remove the "precious & scarce" feature of those personal teleporters...

And, from another point of view, I think the Night Lords would prefer the whining of jumppacks to cause terror in their foes' hearts, to a somewhat less noisy teleportation...

Lastly, I find the look is awesome with those pre-heresy packs, it does make them stand out from conventional assault troops! (Have you thought of the new FW kits? - expensive, but perhaps of a better quality?)

But that's just my opinion, I can understand it being way easier to buy than Pre-heresy jump packs!

**moonshine**

I dount they would use the teleporters even if they were easily available. Night lords are hunters and there is no hunt if you just beam down next to your victim. And also night lords are fast moving so once they are down on the planet and footslogging they loose thar aswell.

The whole idea of the night lords is to be seen and to scare the crap out of a civilaisation before and invasion and to keep imperial law through fear, to me I think they chose jumpacks because then it is essentially saying "No matter how fast you run, we will find you"

**40k Ninja**

Looks cool. I like the skull on the model.

**Miss Dee**

done the Teleporter back pack.....

**tipios**

I like the sound of that idea, and would be very original

I like the GK models alot, would you use the GKs, or just convert standard CMS?

**Proiteus**

ANOTHER PROJECT HAS FALLEN!!!
Well what I thought would be an fun project has turned into a bit of a nightmare, finding decent looking jump backs is hard. I wasn’t too pleased with the look of the chapterhouse one especially given the amount of filing and trimming required. Forge world is far to expensive and maxmini hasn’t released the better looking ones yet.
I also need to consider that GW won’t let me use them at Throne Of Skulls due to large non GW jump back and helmet and I’m not to keen on having 2 armies I can’t use at Warhammer World.
The teleporter packs were the last chance of this project working out as they would be cheap, look good and not cause problems with GW staff. But Moonshine makes a good point…

moonshine wrote:I dount they would use the teleporters even if they were easily available. Night lords are hunters and there is no hunt if you just beam down next to your victim. And also night lords are fast moving so once they are down on the planet and footslogging they loose thar aswell.

So because of all these issues I’ve been forced to drop yet another project! Sorry Guys

Like the Kroggs I had considered returning to this project afterwards but Games Workshop’s attitude towards the hobby plus their constant price rises is putting me off the hobby. Therefore it is very likely that The Scarab Occult project will be my last. However there is a slim chance I might still get behind the teleporting space marine army concept

Also if anyone is interested in buying the 55 custom made shoulder pads send me a pm, thou it will pain me to part with them.

**psnmario**

Proiteus wrote:
The Shoulder Pad Crisis Continued
The biggest issue of this army is the shoulder pads costing £15/$25 for 10, which is very expensive considering this army is going to include 3 devastator squads with the FW pre-heresy missile launchers.

Luckily I was able to contact a fellow modeller who refused to re-cast GW ones but agreed to sculpt 5 pre-heresy designs and cast 60 of them for £65/$100. He just emailed me with pictures of this
rough version (see attachment), which is very good for a quick job.

However I’m now unsure which to use; his version or the official GW ones!
The thing is I've ditched the idea of having 3 devastators so I'm already saving some cash because I no longer require 12 pre-heresy missile launchers. Plus a friend told me he's got some old night lords models I can have.

However I know the ones that he’ll make for casting will be of a lot better in quality, plus cheaper in the long run. The biggest issue is the fact I’m having assistance with the army, which in previous projects has caused me nothing but grief. Despite tournament judges being okay which the knowledge of someone else doing the green stuff work on one of my units I was labelled a cheater by some players. It’s because of this I’m reluctant to take his offer.

What do you guys think?

awesome! How did you do the wings?

**Medium of Death**

Could you not cast up the old metal Raptor jump packs?

Why GW stepped away from the design perplexes me.

**Theophony**

psnmario wrote:
Proiteus wrote:
The Shoulder Pad Crisis Continued
The biggest issue of this army is the shoulder pads costing £15/$25 for 10, which is very expensive considering this army is going to include 3 devastator squads with the FW pre-heresy missile launchers.

Luckily I was able to contact a fellow modeller who refused to re-cast GW ones but agreed to sculpt 5 pre-heresy designs and cast 60 of them for £65/$100. He just emailed me with pictures of this
rough version (see attachment), which is very good for a quick job.

However I’m now unsure which to use; his version or the official GW ones!
The thing is I've ditched the idea of having 3 devastators so I'm already saving some cash because I no longer require 12 pre-heresy missile launchers. Plus a friend told me he's got some old night lords models I can have.

However I know the ones that he’ll make for casting will be of a lot better in quality, plus cheaper in the long run. The biggest issue is the fact I’m having assistance with the army, which in previous projects has caused me nothing but grief. Despite tournament judges being okay which the knowledge of someone else doing the green stuff work on one of my units I was labelled a cheater by some players. It’s because of this I’m reluctant to take his offer.

What do you guys think?

awesome! How did you do the wings?

I get your new around here, but you pulled up a 3+ year old thread

**RiTides**

Since the OP posted that they aren't going to continue with the project, and the thread is several years old, I'll lock it up (if it needs to be reopened for any reason, please PM me).