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Magnificent paint jobs.

I'll echo that sentiment, those are some terrific paint jobs!

Good looking Kroot. Easier to appreciate them with a single colour background, though

Great looking Kroot team! Is that the BSF model I see as the leader?

 tauist wrote:
Great looking Kroot team! Is that the BSF model I see as the leader?

I think it is, I would recognize his snazzy little cape thing anywhere.

Finally finished my starting Spec Ops campaign team, including three extra CSM I immediately added to the roster.






It was so much fun modelling and painting these guys, I got to practice a lot of techniques that I've been avoiding for a long time and I'm very happy with how they turned out. I still have a few operatives I'd like to add to the roster, but for now the project is more or less complete.

Now there is an angry mob if there ever was one! Good work.

Repainting a bunch of my infiltrators and intercessors for my Minotaurs (and some orlocks too!). There was something wrong with the agrax wash effect and they looked greasy, oily and way too shiny instead of darkened and matt.

Go the infiltrators sorted, have 7 intercessors to tidy.

More Unification Wars madness, to be played as a Harlequin team.

The Dancing Circuit of the Church of the Ravenous Spark, M29, dancing on the glowing ashes of Old Earth. Before their eventual demise before the Thunder Legions, their arcane mastery over reality-bending quantum field technologies was feared far and wide amongst the warlords of the era.

Holy moly, those are gorgeous.

 Cheex wrote:
Holy moly, those are gorgeous.

Thanks Cheex, fun to make as well

Another fine jengi duking it out in Underkontula

Really like the conversions and your unique painting style.

 tauist wrote:
Another fine jengi duking it out in Underkontula

Really like the conversions and your unique painting style.

With this basing style, they should really be fighting over the far future version of Hiekkaharju ("Sand Esker", another suburb)

And thanks, #NoModelUnconverted represent.

Technobarbarism of Old Earth, vol. III, painted!

The Veteran Guardsmen are a joy to play KT with, but man if it didn't feel like a slog to get them finished. I put some "good enough" tabletop slop on them on one June afternoon to have them ready for some demo games, but it took two months after that to return to them. The simple underlighting covered by translucent red was good for the first speed painting goal, but felt somewhat lacking when approached properly, sapping my motivation a bit. It happens, but at least two days of work later they are finally done and playable. Note to self, this was not a favored workflow of mine.

Anyway. The tax collecting bullies of a minor no-name warlord have come for your shoes, citizen! Cough up or prepare to get wrecked!

Extort softly and carry a big gun: plasma, flamer and grenade launcher.




Mortar spotter, melta and sniper.




The most trustworthy command group: a friendly doctor, an encouraging leader and his softspoken HR executive.




The special grunts: bossman's strong brother (known as "the Handle" for the bit he carries around, inexplicably proud of it) and the agitator, always ready to read their victims the reasons they are to be immediately de-shoefied.




The regular grunts. At the end of the day, fancy guns won't get you far without the riflemen kicking down the doors.

Another badass team! schweet

 tauist wrote:
Another badass team! schweet

Cheers tauist

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We do not build
We do not liberate
We are but ghosts
Memories of the Old Night

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Kill Team M29, Revenant Legion done! Let loose the angelic cannibals of the IX!



The commander requires your attention, don't lose your head!







Fire support requires occasional aiming.




Phosphex and assorted grenade-shaped treats for everyone!




Some proper dakka is needed even in the rad-wastes.




Sons of the Angel, knowingly or not, murderers one and all.





With bolt and blade, no mutant shall threaten the nascent Imperium ever again.

For my first Kill Team I decided to go for something simple:






Next one is going to be the Blooded for a total change of playstyle

Love the White Scars! Must have taken a while to paint.

SamusDrake wrote:
Love the White Scars! Must have taken a while to paint.

Thanks! After quite a few big projects completed purely with Contrast speedpainting I wanted something more involved for a change a tiny project like a Kill Team is perfect for this, and the next one (the Blooded) is going to be done with a similar approach.

First I need to finish a set of jungle terrain for KT, that I've been working on for some time.

Well, this year has been a bit of a disappointment on the painting front. Not much progress, but there has not been much purchasing progress either. This lack of progress has been driven by me completing my "Pile of Shame" a few years ago, and not deciding what project I want to finish for this year. This process has been made a bit more complicated as my local gaming group has been on a bender playing Games Workshops' Kill Team.

I stopped playing Warhammer 40K at the tail end of 6th edition or so. I think 5th was my personal Peak edition, and I mostly kept up with GW via Specialist Games. In the Kirby years, when they decided to focus only on their core games I completely lost interest in them. They lured me back in for a few teams and the core game with Blood Bowl when they decided to turn back to creating games at Games Workshop. However, they had not managed to lure me in with other games or take more of my money. I was still, semi-interested in their lore and being able to create land, sea, and air campaigns within that lore but was content with my own head canon and using the rules I wanted to play in that world.

Last year, I spent a decent amount of time trying to put together a local game group. I was actually fairly successful, with Castles in the Sky being the go to game. However, that plateaued and the group wanted to attract new members. From there, Kill Team was determined to be the way forward and for the most part it has worked to grow the group and stabilize attendance. To support that effort, I purchased a Corsair Kill Team and have learned the basic rules and have been playing and doing y part to draw in more players ever since.



However, I am personally not keen on chasing the GW dragon so am pretty happy to use my old GW models in new ways. I have used Orks, Eldar Craftworld, Imperial Guard, and Space Marine Kill Teams with my old models. Kill Team is probably my most played game in 2023 so far. However, I wanted to try something a bit different and new. Plus, I really wanted something to paint!

Then, one day when I was organizing my game room I came across an ancient discovery. All the way back from 1988, I found the old Eldar Harlequins. I had probably picked up and painted this set in late 1989, and it showed! Here are some samples of the original paint jobs.



I figured in 2023 I could maybe do a bit better. Therefore, I set about getting them ready for a new coat of paint.

You can see the process and how they turned out on the Blood and Spectacles Blog if you are so inclined:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/07/on-painting-desk-back-to-80s.html

You tease, E, driving traffic to your blog like a sneaky git

Finally they're suitably colourful, now.

Yeah, but.... that back banner though.....

These are such cool models, EasyE, it's great that you are giving them a new life And don't worry about their rules in KT, the general ones may be tricky, but on the other hand the operatives themselves are mostly uncomplicated and come in just a few variants. Btw, my friend, who plays Harlequins also uses these vintage models, they are still awesome ! Here is a photo of his team: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=553050203678887&set=a.404842478499661


I, on the other hand, have managed to finally finished a longer project - a full KT jungle board. I am really happy with th result!
Just some staged photos for now, tomorrow the first game on this board:

Lovely!

Nice board. You were much more restrained on trees than I would have been!


and that Great Harlequin model..... wow!

My new Slaaneshi Blooded. I think my WYSIWYG turned out ok, despite numerous conversions.

Yeah, it's easy to see which roles the models have. Very clean visuals altogether, too.

Also a nice and lush board, Cyel!

 Sherrypie wrote:
Yeah, it's easy to see which roles the models have. Very clean visuals altogether, too.

Also a nice and lush board, Cyel!

Thanks! The size of Kill Team certainly makes such projects less daunting.

Why is there so little discussion about Kill Team on Dakka?

Here in Poland it is extremely popular, far more than any other non-main GW game and on a similar level to AoS. But hardly anybody talks about it on Dakka.