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Pious Palatine






Looking good!

As a slight side note, are all bikes meant to be on those medium oval bases now?

EDC
   
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A Protoss colony world

@Justaerin: Thanks! The helmet is actually the Tzeentch-themed one from the Chaos Space Marines box. I thought it would be appropriate for a sorcerer, so I'm glad you think it works!

@EDC: Thanks! Officially, you can put any model on any reasonable base, but most bikes come with the long narrow ovals like most of my Ravenwing are on. I used these oval ones because I just happened to have a bunch of them left over from buying some variety base packs (each pack came with 3 50mm round bases, 20 32mm round bases, and 5 of these ovals). They look better on the Chaos bikes I think, mainly due to the fact that there are spikes sticking out on the sides of the bikes. Most new bike kits do come with the oval bases now, though (like the Deathwatch bikers).

Yes, everyone, I'm still alive, you can quit worrying about me now! I've just been really busy with RL stuff (I know, same old excuse, right?) including a recent 40k tourney, the very one for which I had to prepare those Sorcerers I've been working on. In the last couple of days, I haven't made much progress due to ol' Nurgle deciding to slap an even worse cold on me than before. My throat was so sore yesterday I almost couldn't swallow without excruciating pain, and my head felt like someone hit it with a hammer, yet still I went ahead and went to work. Probably a mistake, but I can't afford to lose the hours right now. Thankfully I've recovered from it mostly as of when I'm writing this, so I should be able to get back to my painting. I have managed to get a few models assembled, though.

As for the sorcerers, here's what they look like right now:

As you can see, they are assembled, but they still need a few highlights and finishing touches, plus the bases. I do plan to finish them completely before I touch anything else.

The Tau Riptide is going to be put into a holding pattern for now. After I finish the Sorcerers, I'm going to go full into painting my Dark Angels stuff. For the March painting challenge, which will be Space Marines, I'm going to assemble and paint the 30th anniversary Imperial Space Marine in Dark Angels colors. I'll be doing other DA stuff at the same time, so it'll work out well.

The plan for painting my Battle Company will be to paint a squad, and then paint their corresponding transport, and repeat for each squad. I'll throw any characters into that mix as needed. Problem is, I'm still waiting on 4 Drop Pods from my friend. I've still got a couple of squads and a couple of Razorbacks to assemble, so there's time before I really need those pods. My goal is to have the army ready to play with by July if possible. We'll see if it works out that way. It'll be a serious test of my painting speed and dedication, as slogging through all those Power Armor guys is going to be rough. Maybe I'll do a couple of Tau models or something in there to break it up a bit.

I mentioned that I played in that tourney with my Cabal list. Here's a small summary of how it went:
My list:
Spoiler:

Detachment 1: Combined Arms Detachment (Khorne Daemonkin)
HQ:
Chaos Lord: Juggernaut, Aura of Dark Glory, Power Fist, Kor'lath, The Axe of Ruin)
Troops:
8 man Cultists
8 man Cultists
Fast Attack:
Heldrake: Baleflamer
1 Spawn
Lord of War:
Chaos Knight Paladin of Khorne: Dirge Caster
Detachment 2: Gorepack formation
Chaos Bikers: 2x Meltagun, Combi-melta, Melta Bombs
Chaos Bikers: 2x Meltagun, Combi-melta, Melta Bombs
14 Flesh Hounds
Detachment 3: Cyclopia Cabal formation
3 Sorcerers, each with Mastery Level 3, Bike, Spell Familiar, and free Veterans of the Long War

Game 1 was against a Space Marine list, specifically Iron Hands in a Fist of Medusa Strike Force. He had a tooled up Smashfether in a deathstar of Command Squad bikers, as well as a 4 Gravcannon Dev Squad with an attached Cataphractii Captain. There was also a Librarius Conclave in the mix, making the psychic potential of each list nearly equal. I played somewhat foolishly, running my deathstar up the middle, casting my Invis on the Knight instead of the Deathstar (I was afraid that his three Melta Tac Squads would just pod in next to it and kill it turn 1). Probably a mistake. My opponent just focused down most of my flesh hounds on turn 1. I ran what was left of the unit into his Grav devastators, killing most of that unit. My Knight bravely attacked his command squad, and after a few turns managed to stomp out Smashfether and his friends to a man, although the Knight was down to 1 hullpoint left. Of course, by then it was turn 5 and I was way down in Maelstrom points. I could have tied the game up had I moved a summoned unit of Hounds to the other side of the board and taken the Emperor's Will objective there, but like a fool I didn't see that opportunity and moved them the other way instead for a possible turn 5 assault (that ended up not mattering anyway), costing me the game. I need to quit getting tunnel vision and think about the big picture in these games.

In Game 2, I faced a Tau list with a Riptide Wing, a Stormsurge, a Ranged Support Cadre, and a Mark'O with some drones, as well as two single dual Fusion Crisis suits. This game saw me get annihilated badly, as again I just ran the deathstar up the middle and tried using my Shroud of Deceit power on stuff. I actually managed to make the Stormsurge kill some of his Broadsides with that power, but by then he'd already used the D missiles and taken my Knight down to 1 hullpoint. In that turn, I also, after completing the shooting attack with the Surge, forgot to cast any more of my powers (doh! ), which left my deathstar wide open. My opponent wiped it out completely in his next turn, including the Bloodthirster I got from the Axe of Ruin. He also managed to polish off the Knight. I managed to summon another Bloodthirster with my Blood Tithe points, and through sheer luck he survived to kill one Riptide in CC, but died the next turn. We ran out of time at the end of turn 5, but if the game had gone on I would have been tabled. Lesson learned from this one: DON'T FORGET TO CAST YOUR BUFFS! Although to be fair I didn't roll well on the psychic power tables to begin with.

Game 3 was against a Ravenwing list with a very new player. He had 3 flyers (but oddly enough not the formation, which he said he'd had some bad luck with on reserve rolls in the past), and a bunch of small units of bikers, as well as the Support Squadron. I really made good use of Shroud of Deceit in this one. I didn't kill much thanks to all that rerollable jinking (as a Ravenwing man myself I knew how nice that was!) but I did keep forcing the Support Squadron and other stuff to jink, which just nerfed his shooting. In CC, he really had trouble hurting my Knight and deathstar. I ended up winning quite handily, although my Knight was down to 1 hullpoint. My Deathstar had only lost 4 dogs, which was very telling of how little he was able to do to it. It was nice to run into someone else who played the Sons of the Lion, though, and I encouraged him to keep playing them. It really was just a bad matchup for him, and he played right into my hands a couple of times (like Scouting forward and letting me get off a couple of early charges), but I think he'll get better as he plays more.

At the end of the tournament, one of my friends gave me a couple of things that he was trying to just get rid of because he was cleaning house in preparation for moving. One of those things was a Circle Orboros battlegroup for Hordes (as in Warmachine/Hordes). I had been eyeballing that game for a while, and while I'm not going to commit to investing heavily in it, I have to say I like the models a lot! I may paint them to break up all the Dark Angels, as they'll be refreshing and different (living creatures as opposed to Space Marines and tanks). The 4 models in the set are Kaya the Wildborne, two Argus warbeasts, and a Feral Warpwolf heavy warbeast. Look forward to some pics of those models in the future!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Sounds like you had a good time at the tourney despite a couple of bad match ups. That Tau game sounds rough!

Did the bike sorcerers (looking good btw) join the lord/dogs?

EDC
   
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Macragge

Cool batrep. nice to hear your minis are hitting the table. Did I understand correctly that you can take a knight alongside chaos now?

   
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Sorry about the losses man, but still sounds like fun! WarmaHordes seems like a fun game, but I don't know anyone who plays it right now. Looking forward to those models soon!

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@EDC: I always have a good time at tournaments. I never do that well, but that's partly due to my local meta being really brutal. Several of the players were using lists they intend to take to Adepticon next month, so...yeah. The Tau game was the roughest of the three by far. It really was just a bad matchup for my list unless I had rolled Invisibility. If I'd gotten Invis off, I'd have been fine, but as it was, even though I actually siezed the initiative, I really had no chance. As to your other question, yes, the sorcerers run along with the dogs and Juggerlord. That's how that unit operates: the Sorcerers cast spells, the Chaos Lord takes challenges, and the dogs are there for wound saturation and meat shields.

@brush: Thanks! Yes, the Forge World Chaos Knights can go alongside Chaos, and if the Chaos Knight is aligned with Khorne it can be taken in a Khorne Daemonkin detachment (gaining Blood for the Blood God). You can also take a Renegade Knight in its own detachment alongside any Chaos army. My Knight is not technically from Forge World, but I painted it up with Khorne markings to go with my Daemonkin, and I use the FW datasheet.

@Justaerin: Losing is part of the game, and I learned some things about how to run a deathstar unit, so I feel happy with how the tournament ended up. As for WarmaHordes, we've got a pretty good community that plays it at one of the FLGS in town, so I hope to be able to learn from them if and when I decide to take the plunge and start playing that game. I'll paint up the minis regardless, as they are just too cool to leave alone!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Work continues on the Sorcerers, just a couple of highlights and the bases to go. Meanwhile I've been assembling some stuff. I've finished assembling my second box of Devastators for my Dark Angels Battle Company:


I've also assembled the models from that Circle Battlegroup box for WarmaHordes. The models:

Kaya the Wildborne:

Okay, technically I didn't assemble her, but I trimmed all the mold lines and stuff. I'm going to paint her in parts to get at the details better.

2 Argus Light Warbeasts (sorry for blurry photo):


Feral Warpwolf Heavy Warbeast:

I had to hold this model to take the picture as the wolf would fall on his face otherwise, hence my fingertips in the shot.

I absolutely love the sculpts even if they aren't as crisp as GW's. I'm going to do the bases separately once I figure out what kind of stuff I want to do basewise.

I'm hoping to have final shots of those Chaos Sorcerers ready by the end of the month, so get ready for those. I'll also do one or two pics of all three of my Sorcerers (my whole Cyclopian Cabal). Stay tuned!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Macragge

Looking good! Still Can't wait to see the dark angels get some paint I've been thinking about outfitting my own devestator squad just like yours but I'm torn between the lascannons or the ML. What made you choose what you did?

   
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A Protoss colony world

@brush: Soon, I promise, you will see some paint go onto some Dark Angels. As for the loadout, I chose those weapons because that is what my other Devastator kit has as well. Now I have 4 Lascannons and 4 Gravcannons. I would always take a Lascannon over a ML; the Lascannon has one job that it does quite well (popping vehicles and wounding MCs from long range) whereas the ML, while cheaper, has 2 possible jobs, neither of which it does particularly well. Just my 2 cents.

@Kiln: I've been considering Blood Bowl and Gangs of Commorragh myself, as well as Silver Tower since I've got some friends who might like to play it with me. I'm afraid as far as flooding my queue goes, that ship has already sailed as I've got a ton of unpainted minis that need some work. I'm not sure I should even be thinking about GoC as I would then be tempted, perhaps overwhelmingly, to start a Dark Eldar army, and I really don't need a fourth 40k army right now, to say nothing of how bad DE are. Same reason I skipped Death Masque; don't need new armies, and the ones in the box aren't that good even if the models are.

Well, great news! I've finished the Cyclopian Cabal! Here's some pics of the last 2 Sorcerers (first one was painted a while ago and pics of just him can be found earlier in this blog):
Sorcerer 2:


Sorcerer 3


And finally, a pic of all three Sorcerers in the Cyclopia Cabal:

I feel like these turned out okay, although my freehand still sucks. I thought about drawing little glyphs and stuff on the second guy's staff, but decided against it because I wasn't sure it would look very good. Still, I'm happy with them, and they are pretty good in the game, although to maximize the formation's utility I should eventually add two more models. I might also consider adding something to indicate the spell familiars, as right now they don't necessarily look as much like Sorcerers as regular Bike Champions. For now though, I'm calling them good.

Next up will be my 30th Anniversary Imperial Space Marine, so get ready for that!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Bikes are looking good dude. I see what you mean about them not looking especially like Sorcerors, maybe books / scrolls on the back of the bike would help?

EDC
   
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That's a nifty unit.

Now showing a Harlequin Dreadnought!

Painting total as of 4/25/2024: 33 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Macragge

Cool unit! If you want glyphs and you're not averse to transfers you should check out the word bearers stuff from calth. You can probably ebay just the transfer sheet for about $5. Lots of fun little glyphs and sigils. Is your imperial space marine going to be for your dark angels or will he be a one off?

   
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A Protoss colony world

@EDC: Thanks, and good idea about the books and scrolls. I'm not looking to do it real soon as I want to move on to other projects, but I'll definitely have a look through my bits stash!

@Josh: Thank you much!

@brush: I really hate working with transfers on anything other than a flat surface. But I might look into it as a possible option. As for the Imperial Marine, he will get Dark Angels colors.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Cool stuff mate. I can see how it's tricky to make Sorcerers on bikes read as Sorcerers instead of biker champions.

Maybe to make them look a little more sorcerous break out the nihilakh oxide and flood their helmet eye sockets and breathing slits to give them some glowy effect?Maybe glowy eyes on the skulls on the bikes' fairing as well.

Transfers and sigils on their legs perhaps, so it's more of a cylinder you're applying them to rather than a painful shape like a shoulderpad? And the bikes themselves!

Also, books and scrolls and such on the tails of the bikes is a great idea as well.

Or going over their horns with silver, then staining them with a Blue or Green or Purple Wash. Maybe the same for their backpack vents (or just in silver/gunmetal) - little things like that to distinguish them from your normal Black Legion guys. Again, you could also do that to the bike exhausts.


   
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A Protoss colony world

@Azazelx: Those are all good suggestions. I'm not too worried about them standing out from my Black Legion models because they are my only Black Legion models. They do stand out from my Daemonkin models (which are red). I appreciate the feedback!

I've gotten all the basecoating done for the Imperial Marine now:

I should be able to knock him out this month with no problem at all, leaving plenty of time to take care of other Dark Angels models.

Now, since the second year of Paradigm's Unofficial Painting Challenges has been completed, I'll review what all I painted for them:

March 2016: Space Marines
My entry: None
I was going to enter some Dark Angels Devastators, but I lost motivation near the end. Those same models are still unfinished, but are next in line to be finished for my Battle Company project.

April 2016: The Relic
My entry: Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain on bike
For this challenge, I ended up painting one of the most useful models in my collection. He makes it into nearly every Ravenwing list I write because he's that powerful, especially in a Ravenwing Command Squad.
Spoiler:




May 2016: Everyday Heroes
My entry: Chaos Cultists
I painted my CCW and pistol armed Cultists for this challenge, minus their Champion. I painted 9 models and picked the 5 that I think turned out the best for the challenge. This was my first time using Blood for the Blood God technical paint, and my only concern was that I didn't use enough of it.
Spoiler:






June 2016: Mighty Heroes and Nefarious Villains
My entry: Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage
This month was the ultimate challenge for me: make one of the best sculpts GW has ever produced look good. I feel like I accomplished it despite what the votes showed in the challenge. This model may be my best work ever; I am very proud of it.
Spoiler:






July 2016: Unleash the Beast
My entry: Dreadball Xtreme Free Agents: Avaran Treebeast and Vlorox Spinpede
Doing these models was really just kind of a cop out for me. I feel like they turned out ok, but I really should have done more models, or harder ones, or something. I just wasn't feeling it in July.
Spoiler:










August 2016: Death From The Skies
My entry: Deathwatch Overkill Jump Pack Marines
I was one of four people who painted these two models in August, and mine were not the best, although I'm happy with them! They were super fun to paint! I just need to go back and paint the rest of the Marines from that box now.
Spoiler:






September 2016: It's A Kind Of Magic
My entry: Black Legion Sorcerer on bike
I originally intended to paint all three Sorcerers for my Cyclopian Cabal, but ended up only doing the one. He turned out okay, and I've recently gone back and done the other two as can be seen at the top of this page in my blog.
Spoiler:








October 2016: Something Wicked This Way Comes!
My entry: Kroot Carnivores
I went back to the Tau for this challenge, and Kroot fit the theme reasonably well due to their fluff (habit of eating their victims after a battle). I feel like they turned out good, but I need to paint the rest of them instead of just these four models.
Spoiler:






November 2016: Heavy Metal!
My entry: Blood Ravens Centurion Devastators
Thanks to a conveniently-timed sale at my FLGS, I picked up a box of Centurions. This challenge gave me a reason to get them painted quickly. I feel like they are among my best work, and they were really fun to paint! Plus, I love the models despite how everyone on the internet says they're ugly.
Spoiler:






December 2016: Open Challenge
My entry: Dreadball Xtreme Sponsor "The Warden"
This is another challenge where I switched what I was painting to something easier for sake of time. I feel like I did well on the model, my original entry, a Toughest Girls of the Galaxy model that was going to be an Inquisitor, would have been better, although harder to make look good.
Spoiler:


January 2017: Rogues and Scoundrels
My entry: Chaos Space Marines
These guys were fun to paint, but they were not easy. Chaos models tend to have a lot of fiddly detail (all that trim, for example), but they look good when painted. I probably could have done better, but I'm satisfied with the results.
Spoiler:










February 2017: We Have the Technology
My entry: None
I was going to paint my Tau Riptide battlesuit, but I ended up painting my last two Chaos Sorcerers instead, which did not fit the theme for the challenge at all. I needed the Sorcerers for a tournament though, so I made the right decision. The Riptide will have to wait for its turn.

So, this time around I did 10/12 challenges, which is an improvement over last year's 9. Maybe this year I can do all of them. I'm not going to sweat it though, as I'm trying to concentrate on my Dark Angels right now, so if I don't have time to switch to another army's model for the challenge, I'll probably just skip it. The challenges are fun, though, so I do highly recommend them. Paradigm is a really nice guy and leaves the challenges very open as far as the themes go.

That's all for now, hopefully I'll have more to show soon!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Nice summery for the year. Lots of diverse stuff.

Hard to choose a favorite. The ‘thirster is good, but I like the deathwatch. Even something about the cents strikes a chord. Solid entries all around.

   
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A Protoss colony world

@Nevelon: Thanks! It was fun to put together that yearly review. It reminded me of all the fun I had doing the challenges.

Finally back with a progress update. I got the Imperial Marine shaded and have now brightened up the armor, as well as drybrushing some metallic areas with Necron Compound. Here's my latest WIP photo:

Still a bit more work to do on this guy. A couple of drybrush edge highlights (first with Warpstone Glow, then Moot Green for the extreme highlights) and some touchups in spot areas, plus the base, and I can call this guy done.

I've also been assembling yet another Razorback for my battle company:

I feel like I could assemble a Rhino chassis in my sleep these days. Tedious work, but necessary. All the work will pay off in the end, though, so I'll keep on keeping on.

More to come, so stay tuned!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Coming along very nicely, mate!

   
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@Azazelx: Thanks!

Here it is, the finished Imperial Space Marine, my entry in the March Unofficial Painting Challenge:


I think he turned out reasonably well. I'm not entirely happy with the edge highlights; I probably should have made them less subtle as in some of these pics you can't even see them. I think my freehand chapter symbol turned out better than some of my previous freehand work, which is nice. Maybe I'm finally learning how do to that better. Feel free to vote for these images in the Dakka gallery!

In other news, I've finished assembling that Razorback:

Just one more of these things to go. I'll put together some other stuff first.

I've also gone and done it: I preordered the Triumvirate of the Primarch from my FLGS and picked it up yesterday. Here's the photographic evidence:

I'm looking forward to building and painting these models. I did buy the book as well. I intend to go back and get the other two Gathering Storm books as well as the Triumvirate of the Imperium models at some point. I'll skip the Triumvirate of Ynnead models even though they are cool as I don't play Eldar and have no intention of starting them anytime soon. I've actually already begun putting the Triumvirate models together, starting with Grand Master Voldus:

This is my first Grey Knight model, and although his in-game rules and stats are kind of meh for his cost, I may use him in casual games just for the fun of it! I do intend to pick up a few Grey Knights at some point just to run the formation from Imperial Agents, so maybe I'll wait to paint this guy until then.

Next up on my painting desk will be the Devastator squad that I started painting a year ago and never finished.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Nice work on the Anniversary Marine. I like the subtle edge highlighting-- I've never been a big fan of the almost-white lines you see on so many models these days.

Now showing a Harlequin Dreadnought!

Painting total as of 4/25/2024: 33 plus a set of modular spaceship terrain

Painting total for 2023: 79 plus 28 Battlemechs and a Dragon-Balrog

 
   
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Agreed - nice work on the anniversary marine. Your freehand is definitely improving! There's a little trick I use to get sharp edges on things like the wings you've got there. Once you've done the lines that you've got there, go over the ends of the lines with your base colour which will sharpen those corners right up.

A little jealous on the Triumvirate of the Primarch. I'm going to have to grab all three Triumvirate sets soon, if I can find them for a decent price!

   
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@Josh: Thanks very much! I try to keep edge highlighting fairly subtle because I too think many models have too much.

@Azazelx: Thanks! I actually did cover some of my mistakes with the freehand with the original base color. I got kind of lazy with the ones that I thought were "good enough" and it shows a bit. Also, you should definitely consider getting the Triumvirate sets, as the models are full of detail and look amazing when painted well. I just don't want to think about how much they probably cost where you live...

Short update today. I've finished all the pre-painting assembly I'm going to do on the Triumvirate models. Here's a pic of Cypher and the Primarch:

I left Cypher's left arm off (and the part of the cloak that it's attached to) so that when I paint him I can get to the chest area. On Guilliman, I kept the halo and heads separate, and the body is not glued to the base yet, again in order to reach details better. The base will be much easier to paint without him standing on it for sure. I went ahead and put both heads together because I can't decide which one I want to use. I think I can make the face look less stupid than the example one on the box, but if not I'll have the helmeted one as a backup. Maybe I'll make them swappable.

In other news, I just played in a 40k tournament, and afterwards I picked up a bunch of stuff from a friend (the same one who gave me those Warmachine models). He's still cleaning his house in preparation to move. I gave him a bit of money this time, but he gave me a great deal. The bundle included: 5 old metal Possessed new in box, part of the plastic Possessed kit on sprue (missing one sprue), 3 Daemons kits new in box (Pink Horrors, Flamers of Tzeentch, Nurgle Herald), and Quovandius from the Inquisitor game, which I don't know much about. I also picked up the Drop Pods I needed for my Battle Company project, although I need to get with the guy I picked them up from and sort out the parts, as due to the boxes being opened I am missing a few parts (and have extras of others).

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Really likin' the Imperial marine, the freehanding is very nice. I myself need to get the ToP, but money's tight right now for me.

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Yeah, congrats on the imperial marine! Also excited to see what you do with cypher.

   
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@Justaerin: Thanks! If you do get the money, I recommend the Triumvirate sets as the models are really cool!

@brush: Thanks! I'm looking forward to painting Cypher most of all in that set, but I've got kind of a backlog so he may have to wait a while. Honestly Guilliman will probably be the first of the three to be painted.

More stuff assembled, but unfortunately nothing to report as far as painting goes. My final squad of Tactical marines is assembled:


I've also gone ahead and assembled the Herald of Nurgle from that lot of stuff my friend sold me:

This model will be tricky for me to paint, as I've never painted anything Nurgle-related before. He is low-priority though, unless he fits a monthly painting challenge theme or something.

Hopefully I'll have more interesting stuff to show soon. Next up for assembly will be some Assault Marines made from Tactical Squad parts mainly, at least for the bodies.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Good to hear your on the last squad, tac marines can get pretty monotonous when you've done 'em too long I hear. The Nurgle plaguebearer is a pretty fun model imho, and would make an excellent addition to a csm army with lots of nurgle marks and such, hope you enjoy him!

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You say that they're your final Tactical squad, but you know Cypher demands some Fallen, and Guilliman will need some Ultras...

With the Nurgle guy, take him as freedom to have fun with washes and layers and somewhat messy browns and greens. Just figure out what kind of overall look you want for/from him and go to town. Much more freeform than painting regimented marines!

   
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@EDC: Yeah, too many really. It's hard to concentrate on what I need to be working on when I've got so many other models that I can hardly wait to assemble!

@Justaerin: It's pretty monotonous and I haven't even started painting them yet. Emperor help me when it comes time for that. As for the Nurgle guy, I'm going to have to get some different paints, as I don't have many colors that would look good on him.

@Azazelx: I didn't say that it would be my last tactical squad ever, just my last for my battle company project. I'm considering eventually getting Betrayal at Calth and/or Burning of Prospero to get more guys to make Fallen or Blood Ravens out of. I don't intend to actually paint any Smurfs besides Rowboat, so he'll just lead some Blood Ravens with Ultramarines tactics. And on the Nurgle herald, what you said is exactly what I plan to do with all my Daemons. They will make a nice change of pace from the clean lines of my Marines and Tau.

Assembly update: I've put together my Command Squad, minus their Kromlech-pattern Grav Guns:

I left the guns separate so that I could get at the chest details better. On regular marines I don't really care, but since this is an elite squad I want them to look better. The guy with the banner will be my counts-as Sacred Standard bearer, and of course you all may have noticed my Apothecary on the other side. It was helpful to have a spare set of Apothecary stuff from one of my Ravenwing Black Knights kits so I didn't have to buy a SM Command Squad kit. One thing I found necessary but hated to do was cutting off the left thumbs of the guys. The Kromlech gravguns are too wide to fit in the Marines' hands otherwise, and it won't really be seen during a game though.

I also assembled my box of Flamers of Tzeentch:

These guys will be tricky, but fun to paint. I'm probably going to start a full-fledged Chaos Daemons army soon, as most of my KDK/CSM tournament lists just have not been cutting it lately. I'll probably get both the Nurgle and Tzeentch Start Collecting boxes, possibly multiples, and of course I'll have to get the new Lord of Change kit to make Kairos Fateweaver.

Here's hoping I can finally make good on my promise to get some paint going. I've just been so tired from work lately, and I really want to get everything put together so I can use it at least. Fortunately the only things I have left to assemble for my DA battle company are an Assault Squad, one more Razorback, and some Drop Pods.

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 12 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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