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@Divine Comedy Cheers mate!

@Foxtale Yeah I painted each diamond individually, I didn't want a uniform look to them so some are larger than others and at different angles, I wanted to try capture the look of the domino field shifting and moving around.

@jelrik Thank you for your comments they're inspiring. The purple is made up of several layers of warlock purple washed with leviathan and then highlighted with a 50/50 of warlock purple and skull white.

Love the detail work on the Shadowseer, glad that you are uploading again

Malice just looks creepy...I love it!

@Vanq Yeah tried to make her eyes really dark around the edges and bright clinical white in the center. She's high on pain and combat drugs me thinks.


This image is a little blurry but heres some detailing on my second raider, the troops on board are expert slavers so they have loaded it with hooks and chains.


The second raider has a toned down and simple sail design with the all seeing eye and the cross of division.


Runes of swift death and an ankh for immortality. Yum. Oh and it looks like this raider has had a few collisions. (My guess is that it's hit the earth on a few occasions, my fellow DE Archons would agree, they like to wreck a lot.)

Best thing is because there is nothing to a Raider, they are easy to fix and get back into the air lol

Sail detail is very nice, great mix of colours...characterful as always

"You, child of the corpse god... Stand before me, let me see your face. Yes I see... you have strong will."

A tall armored form held a struggling human in a vice grip around it's throat, studying it as a subject with both interest and the stance of a predator.
Archon Cyrax K'oviac dropped the man to the floor, standing on the human's hand, pinning him.

"Their army was prepared for our arrival, it seems that some were less than subtle about their treachery. They are dead."

A second armored form had entered the room, Kanuthutet the Prophet had made his arrival, flanked by his lieutenants, Seth and Lhare. Kanuthutet moved to a small table
in the center of the room and deposited three eldar heads, their tongues cut out and their eyes removed. He offered six small round objects to the Archon on his open palms.

"That is why I sent you Kanuthutet, you do as your told. Oh and you bring me exquisite gifts too... Oh yes, these are lovely, such vibrant colours"

Cyrax rolled the crystallized eyes around in his hands, taking in every glinting detail. Traitors made great decorations. Now they would look upon him for eternity.

"Only the finest for our lord and master, dread Archon. There are around seven score slaves that I wish to offer your pick of also."

To back up his Dracon's promise, Lhare produced a bag full of enemy dog tags and piled them onto the table.

"I have no need of flesh, there are many already, I can not count them. I want their eyes. When they are taken, break them. You are dismissed from here."

The troops bowed and left the throne room. Cyrax moved to the viewing bay at the head of his quarters and gazed out into the bleakness of space, all the stars and all the lives, he could feel them. When he could no longer hear the boots of his subjects, he moved to the captive as the human struggled to stand. He offered him a hand, balancing the wounded man against his own weight, he moved the near dead captive to a lounge and lay him upon it.

"I have gazed into the dead eyes of countless mortals and seen fear, oh sweet fear. But you, you have nerve, you have resolve. I like it. I shall keep you, yes they will knit you back together... See those stars out there? They are eyes. The galaxy watches us kill and maim and rape everything and it laughs. Cegorach would find this situation amusing. Yes I can see the smile out there. There is no faith, no hope for humanity, you are all doomed like we are. We accept our fate and we bring our own upon you. Some day the universe will be destroyed and we will yet still live on. We live forever! We see all, I will see all and life will gaze upon my throne. The same throne the weakling slave has now, I will break him, I will kill him and reap him of his soul. He will join the countless, I will have his eyes and he will see my rise."

The captive stirred and dragged himself off the lounge and across the floor away from the Archon, trying desperately to block the sound of a thousand voices laughing. Manic, torturous laughter ripped through the air.

THREADOMANCY.

You all love it really.

Okay so here goes, my camera is charging for my next installment of mad max, freemen, hellion massed corsairs!

I am a week away from a BDVA and it has been a real killer to the hobby front but a necessary evil and as I am now committed to the job hunting front I now find myself with an insane amount of spare time.

So what does one evil Archon with time on his hands do? He gets busy building the rest of his real space raiding fleet so he can take apart space marines in a torture chamber.

Can you hear that? It sounds like small jet engines and crazy voices...

Sounds good to me! I'll be eagerly awaiting updates.

Woo! Good to see that your back to the hobby! I was disappointed when this blog hadnt been updated in forever.

Alright folks, I've been a busy guy completing my degree in Design and Visual arts and working my backside off to earn the dollar.

However as I was recently made redundant, I have been given the gift of time.

I've been slaughtering and enslaving the imperiums finest over the past year or so and a few of my friends have recently started the hobby.

They've said it better than I could "Ash, your miniatures are good and you're painting skills are above average. You can not teach or motivate us to paint if you don't maintain that blog of yours. You owe it."

So here you go, the first image of many, expect the full unit of scourges, finished hellions, a succubi and a lot more in the days to follow.

Well done on the wings! The coloration is subtle and clean.

Looking good! glad your back.

Godd for you, your friends taking up the hobby. most of my old gaming buddies have quitthe hobby .

@Scrazza Did they quit due to the price hikes, age or other commitments? It's a great hobby to be into with lots of support. I've had a few friends move to it from Magic The Gathering so it was a nice transition for our regular gaming group.

@Dragon Warrior Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated.


I now present Kalea The Cruel

After witnessing her skills during an arena match, Cyrax was much impressed and made his intentions more than clear that she was to accompany his Kabal on their real space raids.

She has served the Kabal as a sort of second in command, often leading the Scarab Prince Corsairs on smaller raids to recover slaves, and as her name suggests, most slaves arrive back to the ships scarred both mentally and physically from the ordeals she puts them through as the Lady of the Chains.

They look really good my only point would be that the bases look very similar to the armour that there isn't really a contrast between the two, maybe put a couple of washes on it? Other than keep doing what you're doing it looks great

Young Logan

Mixture I guess. Some out of price hikes, on of them went to the army, and the rest grew out of it.

Nice update!

Working on a venom with wych passengers and a beast master with clawed fiend