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 brushcommando wrote:
Wow. That came out great! I'm excited to see if you make it across the finish line in time.

Assuming nothing turns up to delay me, I should get it finished. The army is done, and I've finished off the scatter terrain today, although I might add some rust, and deal with the joints on the barrels:


And the hill has been cut to shape and had a coat of filler:


It's going to get a lot of sanding tomorrow, and more filler or PVA glue to seal it. Then it's just spray painting and a small bucket of static grass!

It’s all coming together now Man Sized Target! The cathedral came out great especially with the Terminators dominating the lower ground!

Wow, the nostalgia off those Blood Angels, I may get misty eyed

The Death Company Chaplain was my favourite model as a young 'un.

gobert wrote:It’s all coming together now Man Sized Target! The cathedral came out great especially with the Terminators dominating the lower ground!

I'm pretty happy with it, it's my first 3d sculpt, so I'm mildly amazed it turned out so close to the original given it didn't take very long.

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Wow, the nostalgia off those Blood Angels, I may get misty eyed

The Death Company Chaplain was my favourite model as a young 'un.

The nostalgia of 2nd ed certainly isn't lost on me, and I hope I've done the chaplain justice.

The hill is now green and fuzzy (along with my desk because I'm messy ):



I'll try and get some decent army shots over the weekend.

So is that it then? Did you make the the deadline?

 brushcommando wrote:
So is that it then? Did you make the the deadline?

So the army and scenery is complete, I just need to get some decent photos to submit before 23:59 tomorrow to officially submit it.

I was going to take them in daylight today, however instead I spent most of the day in the loft boarding the floor, and then when it was finished it was raining, so no joy, hopefully there's some sunlight tomorrow.

Just to remind everyone this was what I'm aiming for:


And here is the (potato camera quality) best shot I've managed to get in my office so far:



The quality of the photo's not going to win any prizes (and I need a better backdrop), but I think it's pretty close to what I was aiming for.

With the Blood Angels Done that brings me up to 15/32 Combat Patrols. I'll try photographing the assassins with the Blood Angels tomorrow, and that'll bring me to the half way mark!

Amazing work recapturing the old photo! The models and terrain are spot on, that ruined church looks great, good luck in Armies on Parade!

I'd like to see all the assassins together, are you painting them in the standard styles or as a variant color scheme?

Wow. It's really cool seeing you recreate that shot almost pose for pose. Hopefully you get that ideal photography weather tomorrow.

ValhallanWinter wrote:Amazing work recapturing the old photo! The models and terrain are spot on, that ruined church looks great, good luck in Armies on Parade!

I'd like to see all the assassins together, are you painting them in the standard styles or as a variant color scheme?

So apart from chuckles here:

I've not got any of the metal assassins but now I'm really tempted to try and track them down!

brushcommando wrote:Wow. It's really cool seeing you recreate that shot almost pose for pose. Hopefully you get that ideal photography weather tomorrow.

Fingers crossed with the weather, if not I'll steal every lamp in the house and make my office bright enough!

A mild break in the oldhammer Blood Angels: the Assassins

I picked up the Van Saar Necromunda gang box a long time ago with the idea of converting them up and using them for Tau breachers (because of course I did ) . I got one done and decided I wasn't a fan, and tucked the box away on my shelf to "do something with it later". Then the rules for taking 4 assassins as a detachment came out and I thought it would be cool to run it with an inquisitor, as their personal murder troupe. However I looked at the price GW is charging for the assassins, and decided that although it's cool, I'm not spending that much on the idea. Then I realised that the "do something with it later", could well be "turn them into assassins"...

So here we go

"Operative 81": for when you absolutely need to ensure something, and everything remotely near it, is dead:



"Operative 19", "Operative 50" and "Operative 72": kitted out with woodland camo-cloaks. For when you need to ensure something far away is dead:



"Operative 2" and "Operative 5": For when you need to sneak in somewhere, before making sure something is dead:

#

"Operative 26" and "Operative <redacted>": For when you need to ensure a psyker is dead:



And the group shot:



Hopefully your regularly scheduled Oldhammer Blood Angles photos will resume tomorrow

Love the Van Saar assassins!

Makes me want to paint more Van Saar Arbites!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Love the Van Saar assassins!

Makes me want to paint more Van Saar Arbites!

Van Saar Arbites, sounds cool, have you got any images/links?

I managed to get some photos in the 15 minutes of sunshine I've had all day, and got them emailed in. I doubt I'll win anything, but I definitely won't if I don't enter it

So here are the photos:
The full army shot (side by side with the inspiration):


I'm really happy with how it's turned out. I'm no 'Eavy metal painter, and I probably should have given myself more time for the scenery, but it's pretty close, and it's done! Until I go through and add more flames/patterns/battle honours to the various marines...

Here are some closeups of the various squads.

The Captains:


The Dreadnought:


Tactical Squad


Devastator Squad


Terminator Squad


Scout Squad


So that's my 2nd Ed Blood angles done (ish...). Back onto Combat Patrols!

Wonderful stuff, bravo!

Congrats on making the deadline!

That's an amazing bit of hobby glory, there. Well done. Huge fan of the Assassin conversions, too.

Worthy of Mike McVey himself!

Slinky wrote:Wonderful stuff, bravo!

brushcommando wrote:Congrats on making the deadline!

youwashock wrote:That's an amazing bit of hobby glory, there. Well done. Huge fan of the Assassin conversions, too.

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Worthy of Mike McVey himself!

Thanks for the kind words all!

Now that I've finished the Blood Angels I've pottered around a bit on the other projects, but nothing really worth showing off on most of them. I've got 10 Mk IV marines base coated Kantor Blue for the CSM, done some highlighting on bits of the Tyranids and got texture paint on the bases, that sort of thing.

Something that's probably more interesting (at least it is to me) is that I remembered I had a 5 man squad of thousand sons I bought to make a kill team, so I dug them out, and the remainders from my pile of sprues (which is looking much smaller due to this project) to make two 5 man squads, one with flamers and one with bolters (and a rotor cannon).

I'm going with the pre-heresy colour scheme, red, white and gold as something about the blue and yellow just doesn't do it for me, and it gives me a chance to mess with the gem paints.

Those two squads make up half a combat patrol, so I was trying to work out what I had kicking around that could help fill it out. I had used a load of kairic acolyte heads and swords previously for the Tzeentch-cast ( here back on page 4)and as it worked out cheaper to buy the full boxes than bits order the heads and weapons, I still had the bodies spare, and could probably rustle up enough heads for 10. Adding pistols from the cawdor gangers that got used in the Desert rats back on page 2 I can put together a small cultist squad.
But I still need a leader, so I had a rummage and turned up a Morghast, still on sprue. It's been done before, and hopefully I can make it look okay:


It doesn't really show up in the photo but I've swapped his face out for a Tzaangor one (that fit almost perfectly), and I added extra armour on his thighs to hopefully break up all of the bone. Now to see if I've got a sepia wash to do the bone nice and easily...

Whilst I've been thinking about my craziness with the whole "32 Combat Patrols for a knock out tournament" thing, I decided that I should probably do some form of planning, as I'm actually nearing the end of building everything I've got spare. I've gone through and planned out 32 different Combat Patrols (battlescribe has saved me so much time), mostly from what I have, but also trying to be characterful where I can.
The current breakdown is:

16 Combat Patrols fully painted

6 Combat Patrols I own all of, and are part painted or unpainted

5 Combat patrols I own part of, varying from about only missing a 2 troupe members and a solitaire for the harlequins, to owning a whole 4 Vespid for Tau...

5 Combat Patrols I own nothing for, (Imperial/Chaos Knights, Custodes, Ynnari and Farsight Enclaves)

To help me keep track of progress I made a spreadsheet. The chart below has the armies grouped by faction (Chaos, Eldar, Imperium, Space Marines and Non-Eldar Xenos).

I think it's quite interesting to see the massive differences in model count between some of the factions.

There looks to be 564 models all told in the 32 Combat Patrols, which averages out at about 18 models a force, which seems a reasonable size.
Looking at the numbers I've got 351 models Painted, leaving me with 213 to buy/paint, so if I can average 1 a day that would put me finishing on the 5th of June 2022. Even just painting the ones I have will run me through to about March...assuming I don't get side-tracked by anything else...

The Combat Patrols that I don't have the models for may change depending on what I can find cheap to fill them out (and the Custodes and Farsight/Tau one's will probably change with the new codexes), but at least this gives me an idea of where I'm at roughly.
Hopefully this will give me a bit of a kick to get some more of these finished off.

If people are interested I can post up the Army Lists, and I really need to get around to getting proper photos of the completed Combat Patrols.

You must have a lot of storage space...

 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
You must have a lot of storage space...

Not really, I just cram as much stuff as I can into my little box room

I'm lucky enough to have been able to take over the smallest bedroom (just over 7 foot square) in the house as my office and hobby room, partly as I work from home, and partly because it helps keep all my mess in one place. I've got an IKEA Klingsbo cabinet in the living room to display some models, but the rest is all in my office.

I've found over the years that I need to try and keep things organised (not necessarily neat), or I'll get frustrated.
I've got one of the 5x5 Kallax's from IKEA that takes up most of one wall, and fitted 8 glass shelves to further divide the units in half, and then crammed them full of models. There's just enough room at the end to fit a KR case, and I've got 5 of them down the end to hold models, but most of mine live on display.
To give you an idea of how crammed they are:

And for those interested in what's on them, from left to right:
On upper glass shelves:

Inquisitor warband, assassins and some trolls hiding in the back

WHFB Chaos army

HH Death guard army

Misc WIP bits that I'm trying to clear for when I finish more combat patrols

On upper white shelving

Renegade guard army

Goblin sky pirate army (Counts as Khardrons and Stormcast)

Space Wolves and Emperor's children Combat Patrols

More misc stuff, including some finished that don't fit elsewhere

On the lower glass shelves:

Dark Angels 4th Company, All Primaris (A full company without dreads just fits in 33cm x 38cm)

Ad mech and Wych Cult Combat Patrol (minus a raider)

Renegade Sisters of Battle and Deathwatch armies

AOS Death Army (based on Bretonnians)

On the lower white shelves:

Eldar and Sisters Of Battle Combat Patrols

Blood Angels army

2 Necron Combat Patrols, World Eaters Combat Patrol, Grey Knights combat patrol, and the eversor assassin.

A gap for my "WIP tray" which currently looks like this:

I've got three of the tubs for the Kallax, one with 40k sprues/bits, one AOS bits, and one other hobby stuff such as basing bits. Another one of the Kallax spaces is dedicated to GW codexes/rulebooks. And there is one for "Random hobby stuff that doesn't have a home right now, which is currently full of dice, static grass (which should go in the basing tub), transfers, and other bits. So just over half the Kallax is GW stuff, although it occasionally spreads a bit before I tidy it back up.
I've got one of the GW "Citadel Hobby Project Box" to store my paint and tools that lives under my desk during the work day, and helps keep me somewhat organised in painting. I actually quite like the paint racks that it holds as I can set it up with my paints for a particular project (like the Blood Angels), and just need to grab that rack out to start painting.
There's just enough room at the end of the Kallax to fit a KR case lying down, so I've got a small stack of them down the end to hold models, but most of my models live on display (and get dusty).

 ManSizedTarget wrote:

Just to remind everyone this was what I'm aiming for:


And here is the (potato camera quality) best shot I've managed to get in my office so far:



The quality of the photo's not going to win any prizes (and I need a better backdrop), but I think it's pretty close to what I was aiming for.

With the Blood Angels Done that brings me up to 15/32 Combat Patrols. I'll try photographing the assassins with the Blood Angels tomorrow, and that'll bring me to the half way mark!

That's super cool!

The only way I can think of to make it even cooler would be to get all 2nd Ed models and the same models that were in those boxes with the same loadouts. A true recreation, but that starts getting expensive quick. Nice job on the old scouts btw, those are very rare if hardly seeing them for sale is any indication.

I like the pre-heresy scheme on the new thousands sons models. I agree it makes for a better scheme than the blue/turquoise and yellow one. Of course I play Ultramarines, so it could be that I just don't like people encroaching on our turf in terms of color schemes...

Goblin Sky Pirates would have been so much better than Dwarf ones...

The setup is cool. If I had to work in a room with hobby stuff tho, I'd never get any work done.

SergentSilver wrote:

 ManSizedTarget wrote:

Just to remind everyone this was what I'm aiming for: <snip>

That's super cool!

The only way I can think of to make it even cooler would be to get all 2nd Ed models and the same models that were in those boxes with the same loadouts. A true recreation, but that starts getting expensive quick. Nice job on the old scouts btw, those are very rare if hardly seeing them for sale is any indication.

Yeah, I looked at trying to get the exact models, but didn't want to spend that much so it was more a matter of getting what was close enough and was cheap. I think it worked out well enough. I didn't pay more than current retail for the equivalent units, as I kept an eye for things mislabelled, or in one case just listed as "Warhammer" with no description.

brushcommando wrote:I like the pre-heresy scheme on the new thousands sons models. I agree it makes for a better scheme than the blue/turquoise and yellow one. Of course I play Ultramarines, so it could be that I just don't like people encroaching on our turf in terms of color schemes...

Funnily enough I don't mind the blue and yellow in Ultramarines, and I'm tempted to do an old school paintjob of bright blue and yellow when I get around to their Combat Patrol...

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Goblin Sky Pirates would have been so much better than Dwarf ones...

The setup is cool. If I had to work in a room with hobby stuff tho, I'd never get any work done.

Yeah, it takes a lot of effort not to get distracted, but it's nice to be able to break something out on my lunch break.

For example today I decided to take photos of my Goblin Sky Pirates.
This army is from back when there was a Mixed Kharadron/Stormcast Warscroll Battalion (Aetherstrike Force). If anyone can work out how I can run it in the new rules, that would be awesome.
For the Kharadron Side There is:

Kharadron Admiral and Navigator

Three Arkanaut Companies one with Volley Guns:

One with Skypikes:

One With Light Skyhooks

Two units of Skywardens (yellow)

and Blue:

And the Endrinriggers

Backed up by a Gunhauler


On the Stormcast side there's:
Knight Venator and Knight Azyros

Stormcast Prosecutors with Celestial Hammers (or Axes...)

and two units of Stormcast Prosecutors with Stormcall Javelins



And then for allies I had three gyrocopters with steam guns:

 ManSizedTarget wrote:

SergentSilver wrote:

 ManSizedTarget wrote:

Just to remind everyone this was what I'm aiming for: <snip>

That's super cool!

The only way I can think of to make it even cooler would be to get all 2nd Ed models and the same models that were in those boxes with the same loadouts. A true recreation, but that starts getting expensive quick. Nice job on the old scouts btw, those are very rare if hardly seeing them for sale is any indication.

Yeah, I looked at trying to get the exact models, but didn't want to spend that much so it was more a matter of getting what was close enough and was cheap. I think it worked out well enough. I didn't pay more than current retail for the equivalent units, as I kept an eye for things mislabelled, or in one case just listed as "Warhammer" with no description.

That's the best way to do it! But yeah, getting those 2nd Ed terminators for a fair price is really hard. I've been lucky to collect the handful I have out of large lot buys. Still, it shouldn't be too hard to find the Meltagun special weapon guy for the Tac squad. I've managed two or three myself, but I think they're all the Damned version. Old metal shoulder carry HB are surprisingly hard to find though. It always seems to be Lascannons for some reason. Except the Damned version, then it's nothing but HB since the squad box came with one.

Age of Zogmar! Now that would've been a Stormcast army I could get behind.

Woah, you’ve been busy with posts MST! The Blood Angels came out magnificently, plenty of nostalgia and some great photos on the terrain. Deserving of an honourable mention at least on Warhammer Community?!

The display and storage area is awesome. I have grand designs for similar one day, but the diy and hobby projects lists keep growing and competing. I like the idea of a paint rack for a project, I might have to steal that to make it easier for the panthers.

Love all the character in the gobbo pirates, such a cool theme, well executed!

So not much hobby done over the last few days, but managed to get the cultists done (excluding basing, as I'm not sure what to do):

Although I might have to go back and neaten up some of the skin where the washes have leaked a bit...

To go with them I got the base coats on the daemon prince:

I'm getting some strong "Where's Wally/Waldo" vibes from him, so might need to rethink the colour scheme, although I can probably break it up with the spooky bits.

Several years ago I converted some kabalite warriors out of scourges and dark elf corsairs, although I never got around to fully painting them:


And a pair of venoms for them, which did get painted (and need dusted):

I have managed to snag the Khainite Shadowstalkers (from Warcry) for a reasonable price, and they're going to make up the rest of the Drukhari Kabal Combat Patrol.
I've converted two of them into Archons:

Partially because I hate the pose of the GW one, although the lunging "look at me, I have a sword" isn't ideal, I might see if I can carry out a leg swap before I finish painting it.
Then 5 more of them are going to make up a unit of mandrakes:

One got a simple headswap, but I think the rest fit as is. I might see if I can convert a few more into fireball slingers, but I'm not sure I've got anything in the bits box that would work

Daemon Prince is going to be awesome. Those Dark Eldar are really cool. Great job working with the other kits.

Loving how the cultists and daemon Prince are coming together. The heads on the cultists certainly fit the Tzentch theme really well.

Lovely conversions on the Dark Eldar too

Thanks all for the kind words.

So no pictures in this post, as I've just been tidying up/highlighting the daemon prince, but it threw up a question, so I thought I would ask other people's advice.

There are ethereal flames and spirits on the wings (and potentially within the stomach). What colour should I go with to work with the red/gold/bone colour scheme?
My colour theory isn't great, but If I take red as the primary, then the complementary colour would be green, so I could go for that, although if you look at the gold/bone colour as more orange than red the complementary colour is blue, which would be a nice nod to the newer Thousand Sons more.

Or I could just throw colour theory out and slap a coat of tesseract glow over it and be done

Anyone with a better grasp on colours got any thoughts?

Beware too much red and green and you'll have a Daemon Prince of Christmas...