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Perhaps the corner of the mouth rather than the eye sockets?

Agree, skulls for teeth would look better I think. Glowing eyes are a must.

Thanks for the ideas guys, I'll make some changes!
Today was a busy chaos building day...

First, some EC characters and the last of my 30k Ursurax (Possessed).


Next, 6 30k mechanicum guys who will be standing is as my Obliterators. Couldn't find the bases so I had to order some new ones. Bending the tentacles was the best part!


I picked up two scarecrows to replace the two that are missing from my demon army. They aren't exactly the same but they're easily close enough. If I paint them in the same colors... everyone will assume they were part of the original build.


Lastly, I snagged this guy used. In the Halloween list he'll be playing the part of Cerberus... in the army he'll be the flesh hound character Karanak. I'm going to re-paint him in more natural colors so he fits the rest of his pack of wolves.


With a bit of luck I might get some painting in this week!

Cerberus (Karanak) done!

That's a spicy meatball ... Or 3 very cool

Thanks graven. It's a pretty mild paint job compared to what you usually see on him, but I wanted to make him look relatively consistent with the wolves that he's running with.

I love the toned-down Karanak. Honestly, he would still fit in a Khorne army like that!

All caught up!

So much to comment on. The batreps were an enjoying read and it's cool to see you having fun. Most recently, huge results on the Bloodthirster and accompanying friends. The color scheme is excellent and not one I've seen on Daemons before. Its an interesting and very well executed contrast to the classic red / brass / black. This looks more primal, bestial, wild.

Hoping all is well with you and yours.

Nice work on the Cerberus! Really love the pumpkin tree on the previous page as well

Thank you one and all!

Some new entries for the EC army. These were painted by Solar_lion and based by myself. Possessed and Usurax acting as Possessed along with a Maulerfiend!

I picked up 5 more of the actual Possessed, decently painted at a reasonable price. I'm going to tweak the paint jobs so they match SL's a little better, then I'll have a full squad of 10. Grabbed 5 more warp talons so I can fill that squad out as well. On the demon side I found an exalted flamer (ghost) and a fun excuse to use my blobby FW Corbax Utterblight fig (mutated Tetsuo from "Akira"). Unfortunately there aren't 40k rules for Corbax that I can find on Battlescribe... but I can probably use him as a GUO or demon prince.

Had the last game of the summer with Solar_lion. His marines finally got the drop on my Emperor's Children army. 2000 points, we're using the card deck for this game as I'm really done with Nephalim.

Deployment: SL has dread heavy, heavy weapon filled army. I have a mish-mosh of whatever is painted.


Some closeups of marine goodness.




My lines before they get cut to pieces by SL's opening volley.


Looking fierce.



SL puts on his "war face", anticipating the slaughter to come!


I only have a couple of units that survive to contact... one of which is my Master of Executions who manages to kill a couple of marines before being gunned down.


SL's army cleans up what's left pretty handily.

Funny how some games just go like that. An extra lucky opening volley and the mopping up is all she wrote. Nice looking armies though. Beautiful stuff. I àm thinking of going dread heavy with my wolf army, though my son is edging around being interested in a black templar army and might go that route. Last of the summer looked like fun, roll on the Autumn campaign!

WOW! I love the glowing eyes on those Warp Talons. The Gargoyle aesthetic is great!

Camkierhi wrote:Funny how some games just go like that. An extra lucky opening volley and the mopping up is all she wrote. Nice looking armies though. Beautiful stuff. I àm thinking of going dread heavy with my wolf army, though my son is edging around being interested in a black templar army and might go that route. Last of the summer looked like fun, roll on the Autumn campaign!

SL and I have always fancied dreads. Harkens back to our early 40k days when there were no tracked or wheeled vehicles and dreads and terminators ruled the table.

The Red Hobbit wrote:WOW! I love the glowing eyes on those Warp Talons. The Gargoyle aesthetic is great!

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Well then... let's have some more!


These will be my oblits, now properly based with a bit of cork to get them to an appropriate size. SL gets to paint these... not as EC but as Dark Mechanicum.

Tournament last weekend! 1000 pts... tiny tables... multiple first turn charges possible for anyone who wanted them (not me). I did a lot better than I thought, topping the 1 win, 2 losses group in points. Played my AdMech but a more standard list than I usually do. Turned out to be pretty resilient.

Game 1 vs Night Lords... lost 90 (max) to 60pts, but I still scored a lot. I'm not sure I managed to go first in any of the games.


Cavalry screening to slow opponent's advance.


Skitarii standing up to a champion. You really don't want to charge into the overwatch this group puts out.



Game 2 vs Khorne demons.


I think this is only turn 2... we hit each other pretty hard, but I had the momentum and... the models... he was down to his bloodthirster. Still scared the crap outta me though.


Everything is throwing everything they have at him.


Meat for the beast... and I'm not talking about the bloodthirster!


The skitarii get hit hard, but survive and fall back onto an objective. The rust stalkers charge forward and take the final wound from the demon. Won 83 to 37ish.



Game 3 vs Necrons. Nice balanced army... handed me my *ss. Lost 90 to thirty-something. I took out the elites but the warriors just mowed me down. He got first turn and just crippled me in his first shooting phase.


Thanks for looking!

Well done! I think. At least it sounds like you had fun. Looks like you had some tough opponents.

@Cam: Thanks. Yeah, some good local players around. Good painters too if they bother to do it.


So... I've made some decisions about moving forward with some armies... and have been busy.

#1) Have engaged a young local to paint up the Iyanden army I've always wanted. I'm his first commission & have been helping along with techniques and such. He's been very excited and at the rate he's going I may have something playable very soon.

#2) Have decided to farm out my EC as I just can't paint up to the standard that I set years ago any more & that I think the army deserves. Nerdfest is going to help me out with that... so I've been building like mad over the past couple of days. I'm sending him basically everything... so I have a lot of building in front of me. But, here's what I've got so far.

Characters... 30k and 40k: Some will end up counting as sergeants, other characters or whatever.


Cacaphjoni / Noise Marines: These are just the heavy weapons of which I can only use a couple in 40k. I love the figures though so screw it.


Phoenix Terminators: One of the blessings of the Chaos Space Marine codex is that it doesn't make any difference how your terminators are equipped... they all count as having the same stuff. Love these models and I can use them! I scratch built all the storm bolters out of my stock of the original plastic bolt guns.


Tartaros Pattern Terminators: Always wanted a bunch of termies but never got my act together. I'll probably use these as the free "accursed weapon" and combi-bolter... but there are scattered power fists and chain fists if I want to pay for them.


Right now I'm in the process of building a horde of regular marines from the original 30k boxed set. Then a character, then the bikes... then who knows?

That is a lot of building! Beautiful work. Look forward to Nerdys touch.

Do Chaos termis not get options anymore? Wild.

@whalemusic360: Well, I oversimplified a bit. There are choices in guns and CC weapons (chainfists and powerfists vs. an "accursed weapon")... but frankly on a point-basis... the base (free) combi-bolter and accursed weapon are extremely efficient. The tartaros termies have plenty of chainfists and power fists... so I could actually pay for them and use them if I wanted.

More building...

Enough tacticals to give me 2 full squads of 10. (useable in either 30k or 40k)


Enough meltas to bring my 30k tactical support squad up to full (10).


Couple of flamers and a defiant sergeant.


Praetor in terminator armor.


Two cobbled-together Noise Marines with heavy sonic weapons (the name of which I forget). These are made with really old true-scale marines made by a third party that I picked up years ago. They are big boys! (note the cut-down base on the one)

Praetor is impressive, all looking great.

You HAVE been a busy chap!

The noise marines were a good blend of old and new. Loved it. With a good paint job this should be a striking army. Thanks for the post!

Camkierhi wrote:Praetor is impressive, all looking great.

Thanks Cam. Nothing really creative... but hours and hours of work!

inmygravenimage wrote:You HAVE been a busy chap!

You set the bar my friend... It's far from your output but at least I can hold my head up a little. Actually I've been going kinda banannas just pouring through my Heresy miniatures and building everything I can find... weather I have a use for it or not!

MeatShield wrote:The noise marines were a good blend of old and new. Loved it. With a good paint job this should be a striking army. Thanks for the post!

Thanks MeatShield. I love the way the heads and poses turned out... they look very much like metal rockers to me... singing and banging out chords. They are huge though.

To illustrate the above... here's a pic of the original plastic Heresy marine (left), the ForgeWord noise marine (middle), and my cobbled together guy with the heavy weapon and de-elevated base (right). Note the original (different) head. I switched heads with a style that didn't project height as much as the crest did and am very happy with the result.

Well done conversion. Fits well. Looks the part. Excellent job.

Thanks Cam... they'll do.

First... a little more building from me. 8 standard 30k bolter marines (not pictured) and a fancy EC Contemptor (which was originally a loyalist character I believe).



Next, and far more importantly... my last batch of stuff came back from Nerdfest09! Super excited about it all. He effectively finished off my AdMech force and gave me two, stunningly beautiful characters for my Emperor's Children. Thanks Nerdy, I love them! The photos really don't do the models justice.

Fulgrim:



Abbadon:

Wow. Great nerdy work as ever. Dread looks fun too!

Indeed graven... indeed. Nerdfest is a master!

More grist for the Nerdy mill. A mix of characters and specials. Probably won't be able to field any of them... but I don't care. I want them painted! (they can always be squad champions, etc. I do love the way the FW 30k figures look.

Palatine Blades!