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Nicely done. I like the lord quite well for having a somewhat subdued scheme. I might suggest putting a green or perhaps blue wash on the cloak to help blend the shading a bit more. The transition from white/green to black is a little jarring.

Lovely work!! I'm biased though, I have a thing for the legion

Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more from you.

Boss_Salvage and Holycrusader, cheers guys.

Wehrkind, thank you for your constructive comment! I'll try not to make this sound like an excuse but it's the flash on the camera that makes the cloak look like it's blended to white. In reality the lightest colour is Goblin Green with a smidge of Skull White added in. The subdued effect however is mainly down to the Foundation Paints, which I think am starting to like more than the original line of colours now.

migsula, all I can say is thanks for being one of the main inspirations for making me painting these most slippery of superhumans. Keep up your astounding work too please.
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As I said last time I would get some photos of currently painted things up, here's a good cross-representation of the state of things Renegade:

Infantry:
(Currently 20 painted and 10 more in the works to bolster the main squads to 15)




Autocannon:






Hopefully, these photos will reveal some of the little details I like to paint on, such as the checker patterns (kill markings) and single Chaos arrow (to represent their path to "liberation")

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I have a week off starting in several days time, so I'll give you a low-down of what I want to get done in that time:

To finish painting (~75% done):
~ 10 Renegades
~ Renegade Leman Russ Battle Tank

Ready for undercoating:
~ 10 Alpha Legion CSM
~ 10 The Purge CSM
~ Alpha Legion Defiler

A bit more modelling needed:
~ 14 Nurglesque Mutants

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Now I've hit you with pictures and talked of things to come I can blather on a bit more about the thought process behind the force (more specifically the Renegades).

I only recently got around to getting my hands on the 40K rulebook as well as the Apocalypse expansion. Now before you all say "well about time", I found a really interesting nugget of information on page 171 of the Apocalypse book* about the Alpha Legion manipulating disgruntled Loyalist guardsmen into outright rebellion without the whole "WOOCHAOSSPIKESANDTENTACLESEVERYWHERE" thing.

(*reference - Roek Ghulclaw and the Guns of Freedom)

I think that's the direction I wanted to go in with my Renegades right from the start, blindly and naively following in the name of "liberation".

Leaving on that, I await all your nice comments.
Feral

Always good to see Lost and Damned

I'm surprised that GW hasn't made an official Lost and the damned codex. it would be a great army. Nice chaos lord by the way.

nice work! though im not sure i like the checks. they seem to look wrong on the imperial models.

"The Purge"? Who are those guys?

namegoeshere and FlammingGaunt, cheers.

bottbott, it's more of a thrown back to my days painting old-school style Red Corsairs. (Example Picture) I needed something to break up all the bright red.

Malika2, have a link:

The Purge

In a nutshell, they're genocidal Nurgle Renegades. I wanted to try and recreate the green used in that shoulder pad diagram (I'm thinking a couple of layers of Snot Green stippled over Chaos Black) more than the example model shown on that page. I'd figured that the Alpha Legion wouldn't actually be anything apart from Undivided, so some allies would fit both the fluff and the "combined arms" warband feel.

Back again with another update! I've slowly started working on the next part of my Alpha Legion, so here's the first two members of the ten-man squad:

Aspiring Champion:


(I used a helmet from the Chaos Terminator Lord sprue, because I think it looks awesome!)

Meltagunner 1:


I've also decided to dig up my old Epic stuff, and paint up a small Alpha legion army to go alongside their 28mm brethren.

Infantry Stand:


(I actually have four of these painted so far, but the accursed camera refused to take a decent picture of them altogether. Oh well, four down, eight more (plus four Havoc stands) to go for now)

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On other news, I've got some of the new Imperial Guard stuff winging my way with my preorder, as well as some Inquisitor stuff (ooh fancy ).

That, and I've started to basecoat a Defiler. Good times.

Keepin' it sneaky like
Feral

Looking good there!

Those epic CSMs are awesome!

Looking forward to the Defiler to!

Thanks for the nice comments WarpWhisperer!

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Anywho a nice short update, I received my Imperial Guard goodies a week or so back so I've been busy assembling my Platoon Command and my first Armoured Sentinel too.

Hey look, something new painted too!

*EDIT* - better picture in next update!

Sometime down the line I'm going to be adding another platoon, only this time using the Forge World Chaos kits and go all out on some Special Character count-as

Nice! I'm also playing with the new plastics. New model releases are always a nice boost for ongoing projects.

I love the colors on your CSMs. I think I have to steal that shaved down Cadian helmet idea... those look great!

These look great is the red stippling meant to represent blood and if it is wheres the chain-axe wielding nutters?

migsula, that is very true - nothing better then some new shiny goodies to kickstart the old painting.

nemissary, be my guest and use the idea. It certainly wasn't mine and I certain I won't be the last either.

Llamahead, I'm still working out the reasoning behind the red in my mind but I think it is more of a representation of blood than drenching everything in the stuff - that would be a bit too extreme for mere misguided mortals.

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An update, with vaguely decent pictures too!

Platoon Commander:
(new picture)


Platoon Command Medic:


I really like how the face came out on the Medic, I used to find those areas really hard to paint convincingly but I think I've nailed it now.

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Work continues steadily on the Platoon Command Squad, mostly just the skin and the Platoon Banner to do now. My Sentinel is also paint in progress, still quite a bit to do but it's looking rather good so far!

Also, I have some Epic (mostly Warmaster Daemons *) coming along in the post for me so that'll propbably kick me back into painting for that game.

*the teeny tiny Screamers are so cute, I want them now!

That be all for now,
Feral

Hah! Sorry but I love the irony of the Renegade Militia Medic.

Brilliant progress. I'm really liking the marines, as well as your aforementioned excellent guard.

sA

looking great so far , the csm lord looks really good makes me want to paint one of those .

Thank guys for the nice comments!

smiling Assassin, I'm glad you pointed out the irony of the bloody Medic because it's going to be part of the armies fluff when I get around to writing it.

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Painting has been slow due to erratic work patterns and the intensely hot waether screwing things up as well.

The Platoon Command is all but finished, just need to work on the banner and basing too.

However, my first Sentinel is done!

Armoured Sentinel:


Feral

ps. I have my Games Day UK ticket now, so if anyone wants to meet up or even play a game on the day, just give me a shout or something. (do they still have those Bring and Battle tables? I haven't been in several years!)

OK, no love for the Sentinel but I soldier on anyway.

Recently the Ammobunker is holding a "Create-A-Special-Character" competition, so here's (one of) my entries;

Captain Vorrahn:
(a Captain Al'rahem count-as)


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That's all for now, but I will post a little background text in the next few days.

Critique, comments and positive words welcome.
Feral

This is a fantastic blog. And dont worry the sentinal is beautiful. The special character s cool, but whats with his eyes. He blindfold himself cause wars too easy?

I am especially in love with the way your red looks. With the weathering. So thats blood red stippled over charadon granite?

Everything looks ace and flithy. Very good.

I think those are some really funky shades!

Great job on your stuff so far man!

I love how you've incorporated the chainsword into the arm. All your work so far has been brilliant.

I love the Captain Vorrahn

Great Blog! Can't belive I missed it first time round!

Loving the filed down Cadian heads. How long does it take to pull one of those off?

Also, loving the checks!

Nice paint jobs

I'm ashamed to admit it's been over a month since I last posted here, but I'm here to make amends. I have two weeks off now, all painting and no work make good times.

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First, some answers to responses;

karnaeya, thank you! The head is the one of the Cadian Command sprue with the visor. Whilst not my favourite in the kit, I chose it because the official Al'rahem model has shades so my count-as needed some eye protection too! As for red, correct on all accounts (it is really that easy!).

Malika2, IAmTheWalrus, ghostmaker and Sketches, cheers for the positive words. It's always appreciated.

Disjointed Entity, it's only a case of cutting it down and filing it well so it's about two to three minutes each perhaps?

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Now, I usually don't post paint-in-progress pictures because it tends to clog up a log, but here's an exception because I technically don't have anything finished to show you. (just several half-painted things)

The current PIP:



~edit~ - forgot to upload one of the photos


Yup, that's an Alpha Legion Sorcerer and the good old enigmatic Cypher.

I hope you like the scales on the Sorcerer's fist because I'm adding more to the model. The arm without the hand will eventually hold a Force Staff swing dramatically behind him. Also, I've pretty much decided upon the background behind the force and this character in particular which I shall wrote up and divulge to you good people when this guy is done. The Serpent Host shall rise!

As for Cypher, there's not much to say really at the moment. I'm using a lot of Charadon Granite mixed through to Dhenub Stone for his robes (quite pleased with them so far, needs the final highlights still though) and went for black armour instead of the more traditional dark green.

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Whilst not strictly on-topic, I have recently started up a side project for Mordheim so I hope people take a look. (I would like some critique and the attention of course.)

Have a link!

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Right, that's enough from me for now, so comments and critique appreciated as usual!
Feral

Hmmm,
Looks good to me. Don't mind me asking, but what's up with Cypher? Are you going to be using him for your army, or are you doing him just for the heck of it?

Anyways nice conversions and great work all round...

This RULES.
I love it.
All the conversions are awesome, keep it up man!

Its all looking good to me.

Thank you everyone for the positive posting, it's helped convince me to paint more for the project.

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inquisitor_lord_slade, umm both reasons? I purchased it because I love the model and the fluff behind the character. Then after purchasing the Planetstrike book and realising the Attacker can have extra Elite slots, I figure why not include him? He can also go in my Renegade Guard too!

firebat and abhorsen950, cheers guys!

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I've been continuing work on the Sorcerer and Cypher, but I thought after doing the scales on the first, I'd give a stab at some on the Defiler which sits so patiently next to my desk waiting for some paint.

So, since I've obviously decided to cast away the "no PIP pictures" rule have another PIP picture!

PIP Defiler turret:



It's not perfect but I'm going to go back and neaten it up a bit more. It also serves as practise for when I paint my Chaos Rhino for the (soon to be expanded) Possessed squad.

Anyway, keep it cool (especially in this blinding weather).
Feral