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Van Saar as 30k advanced-humans is a great idea must remember to pick some up. Sure there will be something in their kits I can half-inch for kitbashes

I STILL LIVE!!

I'm back, guys! How long has it been? 9 months? In any case, far too long...
I have decided to get my old blog back on it's feet. I'm planning on turning this one into a mixed-faction blog (sorry Thousand Sons fans...) because, in all honesty, I have been working on lots of things since my last post and only a few are Sons. However, I'm planning on posting all of my TSons progress tomorrow... that's a promise. However, there are a few other things I'd like to show off. Which brings me to my first post...

WHAT HAS EMBER BEEN DOING SINCE HE LAST POSTED?!

These guys, mostly:

Black Legion. Don't worry, I didn't start another new army (well, I did, but this isn't it ). Instead, these guys are part of a large commission I have been working on for the past couple months. These (still WIP) Chosen were the first minis I finished, but there are still a ton of minis to paint, including...


Black Legion Plague Marines! 10 of them, to be precise, but so far I only have on at this stage. The colour scheme is not entirely mine, and uses a few... kinda odd colour combos, like the grey-white bone, which still needs cleaning up. I was given the freedom to make them look more nurgle-y, so I added my own rust wash in the recesses: mourning brown, fire dragon bright, water and dishwashing soap. I also changed the red flesh to a greenish-purple (but not octarine), which I also applied to the sword. I really like washes.




On to my own stuff:



Sons of Horus! Remember that new army I mentioned? This guy is a veteran sergeant/Knight Errant, which is why he has an Oath of Moment on his leg. Which I forgot to paint


He tanked a power fist in his first game (as a unpainted model), so I modified his backpack to show this. The conversion was pretty simple, I took one of the Space Marine heroes and added plastic and FW parts until he looked suitably 30k.

Last, but certainly not least, here is another Space Marine Hero:


Can anyone guess which chapter he belongs to? I had a lot of fun painting the purple: Screamer Pink with two coats of Drucii Violet and an edge highlight of Pink Horror. I'm trying very, very hard not to make a whole army of them, but I might have to buy a few more marines to make a full squad.

That's all from me for today, but it's *far* from all my new toys I'm going to be showing off. There will be mud, chaos, deceit, horror and a distinctly rogue household... stay tuned!

Ember

Welcome back! Sometimes it is nice to take a break from painting red and look to other colours

I really like the Black Legion Plague Marines, something about them having dark armour rather than green really helps them stand out.

That's a bold looking pink marine, my guess for the chapter is that the white scars put their armour in the same cleaning vat as the blood angels so the two chapters were forced to combine into one super chapter