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Here we go...

Hey guys, this is my first Project Log to feature on DakkaDakka, so I can to actually contribute something to the community. The main drive behind this log is to have several armies painted up (an obvious objective )

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Now, for the little I actually have painted so far, some Traitors (of the Morlath V Liberation Front as the army will be called, or MVLF for short):



I actually have another squad similar to these painted as well, but no photo of them yet. I have another 25 of these guys to paint so I can field three full-strength units of them in-game as my Troop choices. Anyone who followed my previous stuff will notice that these were repainted from my old army, as well as all the helmets being cut down and I've changed the colour scheme slightly too.

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Anyway, that's all for now, but updates will come thick and fast when I have the free time. Do feel free to comment and ask stuff, I like that

wow i love how you made them look like traitors right off the bat with an excellent paint job without any fancy bits to make em look renegade. more pics please!

Nice job!

Thank you people, it's good to hear your positive comments enmittee and Deff Dread red Edition.

About the painting, followers of my older logs will notice they are a brighter red in comparison to their previous form, I switched from using Mechrite Red to a most delightful stippling Blood Red over Charadon Granite. As for the fatigues, I only tried using Codex Grey for those extreme highlights, and it worked much better visually to me (that pretty much inspired me to get the two half-painted squads on my painting desk finished )

Heck, because I'm so kind I'll give you a colour scheme rundown too while I'm at it:

Basecoat
Charadon Granite all over
Devlan Mud wash

Armour
Blood Red stippled on
Boltgun Metal for the worn edging

Fatigues
Adeptus Battlegrey highlight
Codex Grey extreme highlight

Flesh
Two stages of layering using Scorced Brwon and Tallarn Flesh in various amounts

Basing
Heavy wash of Scorched Brown
Overbrush Dhenub Stone
Add GW Snow Scatter

Meanwhile *fast forwarding back to the present* in the tradition of any decent project log, here's the classic desk photo shot(s):

The dirty, filthy and probably slightly possessed downstairs painting desk:


The nice clean and shiny building and modelling upstairs desk:


Beady eyes will probably spot some things that are yet to come, and some blasts from the pasts. Hey look, is that Huron Blackheart I espy there, and how about those Alpha Legion up the top being all sneaky-like?

C'est la vie and that, more pictures sometime in the future.

Those look great......I look forward to seeing more updates.

Thanks,
Rick

How long did it take you to shave down all those helmets? They look great!

i really like that stegadon! makes me wana have one to make my daemons have it for some reason. looking forward for more progress.

To answer Death By Monkeys, they take about two minutes each. It's quite simple; shave them down carefully with the knife and file down until smooth (I use both a straight file and a rounded one for this job). Painted battle damage will disguise any lumpy bits left afterwards.

Of course there's other small conversions such as the trimming off of some of the trouser pockets and shoulder pads, as well as added battle damage and sculpted sleaves. These being a repaint, most of the conversion work was done a while back.

Also, thank you Ivyoda and enmitee. (although good luck trying to work out how to make a Stegadon look vaguely daemonic )

Still, for not really having much to say and nothing to show I've succeeded in blabbering on again. Hopefully something new to show you soon, but full-time work never helps.

That is looking like a solid start. Keep up the good work.

Nice and 'dutty' guard. The pallette with the snow effect is really quite pleasing.

sA

Thank you Paul Atreides and smiling Assassin!

Anyway, I've been playing around with photo-manipulation and this is what I came up with:



I'm still getting the hang of this thing. At least you can see the red stippling effect and the highlights on the fatigues properly now.

As for progress, I have another ten of these nearly ready for batch painting, and then loads of LotR to spray-undercoat. Thankfully I have two whole days off (a rare occurance for me) to get as much done as possible.

Oh, and I got the Gaunt's Ghost omnibuses too, a damn fine read!

Till next time folks.

Thank GOD you didn't call them the Morlath I Liberation Front! (Abbreviate THAT one!)

you have a dirty mind pancake.

back on topic, they look very good. planned any mutants as conscripts?

P4NC4K3, yes I did notice that, but thanks for pointing it out

lord marcus, yes there will be Mutants, but none of this count-as nonsense. I'm using the Chaos Hordes list even if it is outdated!

Now for something different, Alpha Legion!

Possessed Champion:


Possessed 1 of 4:


(two down, three to go)

Reminds me, I've got a few Chaos Marines stands in the same colours I painted for Epic, must get those finished sometime.

*EDIT*
Screw it, I have a tester model to show you! (took less than an hour altogether to paint)

Mutant:




(one down, fourteen to go..)

Comments and criticism appreciated.

Looking good, man! I really like the shaved down helmets on the traitor guard and the alpha legion guys are excellent!

Those Possessed look sick! Not sure how i feel about the mutant but i cant put my finger on whats bothering me.

Mister Feral wrote:P4NC4KE, yes I did notice that, but thanks for pointing it out

P4NC4KE?!?!?! Who is this P4NC4KE? I will kill him and feast on his batter for daring to steal the title of me, the great P4NC4K3!

Nice job. I like it.

I knew you were going to do Alpha Legion! Kick ass...it was worth the wait! Show us the rest of your Traitor Guard army!

why does everyone paint traitors red
cool mutie btw

kl they are lookin great

Always good to see more Alpha Legion; you've done a very good job there; the freehand work is especially brilliant.

Thank you Cadaver, FearPeteySodes, captain.gordino, the assasin of night and WarpWhisperer!

P4NC4K3, yes how could I make such a mistake?

Malika2, I'm glad to see a follower of my old stuff return, and yes I did stay true to my word with the promise of doing Alpha Legion. More pictures of the Traitor Guard will come when I get the chance.

typhus, probably why most Traitor Guard armies are red is because of the Eye of Terror codex (Nurgle bless it) and the effectiveness of the colour scheme. That and I like red and black.

Unfortunately I have no new things to show you, only the news that I've purchased the rest of the stuff needed for the 1500 point army;

2 boxes of Chaos Space Marines (ten models each, one Nurgle and one Undivided unit)
CSM Terminator Lord

For the Nurgle-marked unit, I'm going to go big on the Splinter Cell triple-eye lenses (like the Nurgle Champion's head on the sprue), a bit of stretched skin and a tiny Nurgling here or there for variety too. (For my Aspiring Champion, I want to try a sculpt a Nurgling reaching up to tug on the Champion's leg like a little child trying to get attention. I think it'll look cool anyway )

I've also assembled my Chaos Lord, the kit was a delight to work with (whch is great considering my choice of Apocalypse army expansion planned for next month. Biggest hint ever ) As for his pose, but he's striding over the spiky rock with a sweeping motion of his Lightning Claws. I think because I used the bare head I'm going to paint a little serpent tattoo across his eye too. This model is going to be a real treat to paint I think.

However, I won't be painting any of the new Alpha Legion stuff until I've assembled everything and finished painting another 25 Traitors and their Leman Russ. Time is certainly of the essence!

Till next time, where I'll probably actually have something new painted, and maybe less words too.

Behold! I broke my word and caved in to painting my Chaos Lord:



*EDIT* New photo added, hopefully better quality.

Bah, I was going to ramble on about how it was to paint him, but I'm too tired to care ATM so I'll leave for tomorrow as well

Comments are cool and all that constructive shindig.

Those traitor IG are lookin' good. Great weathering effects.

The Lord looks fantastic!

What's with this "red and black are traitor guard!" nonsence?! My loyalists are red and black! They're Ophelian! (see WH "Order of Our Martyred Lady")

Anyway, absolutly stunning work! You need a paid vacation or something so you can bless the gaming tables with the finished product!

- Human, thanks for the compliment. The weathering is simply Boltgun Metal over Charadon Granite.

BDJV, nice to see you here sir! *tips imaginary hat*

Illeix, funny you suggest I take a holday because I booked a week off soon just for that purpose. I'm going to be painting like mad all week and still getting paid, classy

Anyway, I took more and hopefully better pictures of the Chaos Lord:




Yep, I'm happy with that now it's done and dusted.

Great color on the Alphas, and while the lord is well done I like the possessed a lot - interesting modeling plus sweet paint

- Salvage

Nice stuff here