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watching this space

Looks Awesome!

Yep, I'll be watching too. Looks like a promising project.

Well here's the test model, just practicing blending and lightning effects. Though it looks rough in places I'm sure with a bit of practice I'll get better at it. Thats why I think I'll start with the devastator's standard bolter armed marines and do the actual assault marines later. I'm just glad I'm using skull helmets blending helmets is hard. Also note how well the base contrasted the model.

Looking good, how about night lord runes on the chainswords?

Looking really good Proiteus, bases are indeed fantastic with the marine.

Are these going to represent the night lords before they turned against the emperor? Then if I recall right they aren't suposed to have lightning on their armour. Since the lightning is actually real energy that's pulsating around their armour. This is at least what I've learned from the fluff when I started my NL back in the day (my first army!). But I can be mistaken. Would love to hear what you got fluff whise on this cause I think I need an update on that.

Rose_Mountainz wrote:Are these going to represent the night lords before they turned against the emperor? Then if I recall right they aren't suposed to have lightning on their armour. Since the lightning is actually real energy that's pulsating around their armour. This is at least what I've learned from the fluff when I started my NL back in the day (my first army!). But I can be mistaken. Would love to hear what you got fluff whise on this cause I think I need an update on that.

index astartes seems to disagree with you as the lighting is shown to be painted on before they went over to the warmaster

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:

Rose_Mountainz wrote:Are these going to represent the night lords before they turned against the emperor? Then if I recall right they aren't suposed to have lightning on their armour. Since the lightning is actually real energy that's pulsating around their armour. This is at least what I've learned from the fluff when I started my NL back in the day (my first army!). But I can be mistaken. Would love to hear what you got fluff whise on this cause I think I need an update on that.

index astartes seems to disagree with you as the lighting is shown to be painted on before they went over to the warmaster

Cheers dude. My knowledge of their fluff is a bit dusty and old. Thanks for the information!

just wanna say... awesome idea! loving it
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i like this model alot especialy the base

Can't go wrong with Night Lords! Bloody snow bases could give a nice contrast to the Night Lords too.
And if you havn't, pick up the Soul Hunter novel, awesome novel.

We Come For You!

Consdering that i've just started on some pre-heresy Night Lords myself, colour me interested.

Also, this might already have been covered (in which case we can establish I can't read), but how did you paint the first mini?

Ave Dominus Nox.

i love the test model, knowing your other blogs, im sure this one will be great!

Night Lord Update
I had planned to arm the marines with pre-heresy weapons but since I’m forced to buy the £15 kit to get the shoulder pads along with those out-dated heads, I’m forced to make sacrifices moneywise, so no pre-heresy devastators. I’ve tried looking up the shoulder pads on eBay but only found the outdated curved ones which won’t look right for pre-heresy, plus I know I don’t have the skills required to paint the night lords symbol on the shoulder pads.



Another small change is that I’m thinking of dropping the expensive and very suicidal honor guard for 2 pairs of multi-melta attack bikes. Thou I’m unsure if attack bikes were around in the Horus Heresy.
I was going to use this awesome conversion I found on warseer but then realised that my 2 squadrons would cost over £100!



Looks like it’s time to hit the drawing board.

You could always try and build your own Jetbikes. Check out the link in one of my previous posts. The guy made some awesome (corrupt) Pre-Heresy NL Jetbikes then mount meltas on them.

that is an awesome jetbike!

Attack bikes were around, seen them in the collected visions book

MajorTom11 wrote:Proteius, I see your name, click, and always love what I see.

I couldn't have said it better.

I have only lurked so far, but I won't resist commenting this time...

The snow bases are so great!!! They make me want to try and do some!!

Also your fluff reasons for choosing the Night Lords are quite good, and they fit most of the BA aspects, so that's a nice idea!!!

Too bad for the Sang. Guard, I was already eager to see how you would've pulled it out... And assault bikes don't fly!

By far Night Lords are my favorite Legion and I'm very excited to see how this project turns out. The snow base is a perfect fit for a contrast to the dark armour. Cant wait to see more.

I hate you Proteius! This makes me want to do a World Eater Pre-heresy army!

In all seriousness man you are an inspiration in the hobby. Your stuff was a great intro into getting me to do my admech and I really enjoy the stuff you put out. Keep it up man. There are never enough dudes like you in our hobby

Fluff: If my memory serves me, only the Emperors Children were allowed to have the imperial eagle on their armour.

Otherwise looking really great.
Looking forward to seeing more!

Spot on but its a winged skull.

Touché... but still

Looks cool. Night lords are pretty cool.

ADVICE NEEDED FOR THE HARD CHOICES?
I’ve now settled on a list that features 3 lots of 5 ML devastators supporting 2 10 man assault squads and sanguinary guard with librarian and priests leading the way.

However money wise this army is a nightmare as both the FW pre-heresy weapons and shoulder pads are expensive to buy!

I’ve considered many cheaper alternatives. First is using remote havoc launcher turrets for missile launchers but the pre-heresy weapons look so much better overall and add to the army‘s theme.

Second was the shoulder pads; if sold alone they’d be priced at £5 but because they come with those silly looking outdated heads their £15. I’ve requested that Chapterhouse studios make some pre-heresy pads for me, they replied that while the shoulder pads would be 50p each the cost to make the original and cast would be £70 overall, so it isn’t much different from buying directly for GW.

I know I don't have the skills to paint such detailed symbol so another option would be to commission someone to paint on the symbols for me, but I went down that path with some minor green stuff work in a past project and got a lot of grief from those who knew about the outside help!

So I ask for advice on what to do about these two key components for my army?

huh, that is an interesting issue.

maybe buy a few, and then mold them.. ? that could savve you a ton of money.

Shoulder pads : couldn't you use some plastic components from the Vampire Counts range?

Missile Launcher : if you could find some of these on e-bay, maybe it wouldn't cost that much, while keeping the overall look of the pre-heresy ML... Not that easy though...



I'm sorry, these ideas are far from perfect, but it's all I could think of for now...

Vampire Counts Grave guard shields for storm/combat shields.

Lennysmash wrote:Vampire Counts Grave guard shields for storm/combat shields.

Already shorted, the shoulder pads are the real problem and at this rate with each squad going to cost about £50 I might be forced to drop this project before it begins!

Too bad someone already doing pre-heresy emperor's children at my local GW the drugged up assault troopers would suit them. I could also change to thousand sons but I'm sick of painting red.