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Cheers for the recap! Your 30k events are always filled with cool armies, a pleasure to see photos of. Bummer about all the short games, but glad to hear you enjoyed all the same

- Salvage

Sounds like there's some good learning points there for the organisers - not sure how hard it would be to do a printed sheet per table per round with the special rules on, for instance.

Your army looked good, as do the pictures of the others armies you showed.

Some absolutely stunning stuff here, Arbitor. Stunning models!

Dysartes wrote:Sounds like there's some good learning points there for the organisers - not sure how hard it would be to do a printed sheet per table per round with the special rules on, for instance.

Your army looked good, as do the pictures of the others armies you showed.

Yeah, or even just updating it on a projection / whiteboard would be fine. I'll suggest that to them next time, as I can happily provide them with projectors!

Boss Salvage wrote:Cheers for the recap! Your 30k events are always filled with cool armies, a pleasure to see photos of. Bummer about all the short games, but glad to hear you enjoyed all the same

- Salvage

Thanks! Yeah, the event was actually really fun, but it was annoying that I never really got to finish a game. I'm thinking of dong a bit of updating to the Noise Marine army at the start of this blog, to turn them into a 30k army - probably just do some new EC shoulder pads and paint up a mk4 tactical squad, but enough so that I have a relatively elite army next time a tournament comes up!

I've started a second batch of Word Bearers to up them to a full HH force - maybe I should start a separate PLOG for them as they're not PINK?

i've assembled, pre-shaded and coloured them all in clear red, just starting on the details. Shoulder pads and backpacks are done separately in grey.

First, some Gal Vorbak, and the two Blade Slaves to accompany Zardu:



Then, a squad of 10 Assault Marines with some modern backpacks I had spare.


Support from 5 rotor cannons and 7 missile launchers



Five more old-school Terminators, embiggened with a big of grey knight and anvil bionic arms.


And finally, three third-party jet bikes I've had lying around for years..

Looking forward to seeing you paint these guys, the Gal Vorbak look like lovely models.

Did you intentionally prime those red? I have come to hate red undercoats, especially metallic red ones (flea market purchases). Can't wait to see those finished!


Ember

Those are coming along beautifully AI.

I'm mid-house move at the moment, so sorry for all the delays.

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
Did you intentionally prime those red? I have come to hate red undercoats, especially metallic red ones (flea market purchases). Can't wait to see those finished!

They're not metallic - just very glossy at the moment!

They're primed black, then airbrushed through a few shades of grey up to white. Then two coats of clear red (Minitaire Ghost Tint Bloody Red) to 'colour' the pre-shading. The clear paint leaves them really glossy, but once they've been detailed and washed, I'll use matt varnish to remove the glossiness.

FINALLY got some of the Word Bearers finished. Here are Zardu Layak and his newly-completed Blade Slaves, and the squad of Gal Vorbak.

There are actually a fair few more ready to go, I'm just waiting to put transfers on them!

Awesome! Love the grittyness of them, and I can just imagine the prophet dude bellowing out Chaotic sermons like a baptist priest as he strides through the maelstrom of war

What kits do they use? Specifically that last guy pointing his bolt pistol mid-lunge.

Really nice work on those models Arbitorlan. Man do they fit the part!

I had forgotten about this blog. Great work the Gal Vorbak, now I can send corax to kill them

Im not sure I like the bases, maybe a darker wash on them or something...

These certainly look the part! Suitably twisted and daemon-wracked. Well done.

What's the difference between Blade Slaves and Gal Vorbak then?

Thanks everyone! I was moving house over Xmas so I've just finally managed to get everything out of storage and functional again - feels good to be back in geek action....

Ynneadwraith wrote:Awesome! Love the grittyness of them, and I can just imagine the prophet dude bellowing out Chaotic sermons like a baptist priest as he strides through the maelstrom of war

What kits do they use? Specifically that last guy pointing his bolt pistol mid-lunge.

These are just the standard kits - FW Gal Vorbak and the Zardu Layak / Blade Slaes kit. Weirdly, for me, there aren't any conversions!

angelofvengeance wrote:What's the difference between Blade Slaves and Gal Vorbak then?

Gal Vorbal are meant to be the first Possessed - they're quite terrifying S5 T5 2W combat monsters which tend to be an auto-include in a Word Bearers list. Zardu is a special daemonoligist character and the blade slaves are his bodyguard - enslaved to Daemon a weapons which make them like crazy 3W Gal Vorbak...

Word Bearers need Chaplains! Introducing Kor Blimey, Scion of the White Chapel.

Azkaellon wings/pack, OOP Wolf Guard Axe arm, CSM torso, Anvil legs.

Very cool ! That is a fitting look for a holy man, not featuring the dirty side of corruption, but undoubtedly hateful.

Nice name, too.



Tremble in fear! The Scion of the White Chape approaches!
-Who?
Kor Blimey!

Got the transfers on his squad - 7th Assault Squad, Relic Company, Unspeaking Chapter. I had most of these parts left over so cobbled them together into a unit - Maxmini heads as usual, some 40k jump packs, Anvil Industry legs rescued from a failed project years ago and a mix of Chaos and Imperial chain swords.





And, another squad done - Heavy Support Squad with Missile Launchers. Again, I had a load of these old Missile Launchers left over from my Badab Tiger Claws army, so thought I'd put them into use.




And here's the force so far!



- Zardu Layak & Blade Slaves
- Kor Blimey - Chaplain
- Tactical Squad
- Assault Squad
- Gal Vorbak
- Terminator Squad
- Heavy Support Squad
- Deredeo Dreadnought

Love your stuff mate! The weathering looks amazing, gonna have to set some time aside to read through this from start to finish!

Thanks AW!

Next batch up - here are the last bits of infantry done and I'm ready to start on the vehicles. First, the Rotor Cannon Support Squad, using old Warzone plastic rotor cannons.



My Librarian, Hol Imoli - ready to give some extra psychic punch to the summoning part of the army



And a team of Rapiers - these are the same as my Militia ones - Mantic tracks and scratch-built centres with old Space Crusade weapons on top.




And finally, a small Sky Hunter squadron made from the Maxmini Gothic Jetbikes.

Grand work all around mate! You have a very gritty and realistic style of painting and weathering. As a fellow renegade player I tip my hat at your doings in particular!

Those jetbikes are mighty sweet and may see some use in my forces also if I can get my hands on some (will count as normal bikes in 40k games methinks).
Keep it up!

That's a good amount of high-quality work Arbitorlan, I especially like the rotor cannon squad and the jet bikes. Impressive.

 r3n3g8b0y wrote:
Grand work all around mate! You have a very gritty and realistic style of painting and weathering. As a fellow renegade player I tip my hat at your doings in particular!

Those jetbikes are mighty sweet and may see some use in my forces also if I can get my hands on some (will count as normal bikes in 40k games methinks).
Keep it up!

Thanks! The bikes would work fine as ground bikes - they're not as massive as the Scimitars (which are a good 1.5 bikes long). It's unfortunate that you can only get them direct from Maxmini though - I think they stopped shipping to distributors last year!

So, the next thing is to start work on the motor pool. Here's what I have to work with!



Ancient relics! I can't to go too tank heavy as I'm planning to use The Dark Brethren RoW a lot and it only allows one heavy support, so everything is a transport. My plan is to recondition all of them, and also make the Land Raiders into original-style Spartans where the Spartan front is magnetised.

I've started with a bit of recasting just to finish off the models. I had some missing doors. I've also cut down the spindly, circular lascannons mounts to provide a wider mounting point, since the lascannons were always very easily breakable.



For that reason, you never find enough of the original lascannons on eBay purchases like this, so I made a mould for the side ones and have constructed some extra weapons for the top hatch point. The side ones are magnetised to become 'quad' lascannons when being a Spartan. The extra too hatch weapons are swappable. On the Spartan configuration this would be twin Heavy Bolters, but the either can be used in the LR Proteus configuration.





I've also beefed up the engines and replaced the easily breakable aerial with a radar dish.



The Rhinos needed a bit of work - I've recast the pintle bolt guns to get enough, and made ends for the exhausts from plastic tubing - another thing that tends to break off.



I've also recast some assault ramps for the Spartan fronts - the only thing I had lying around was a (built) SW flyer, so that rune thingy is going to files down into a diamond-shaped Word Bearer icon!!



After another day at the geek club, I had the basic superstructures built for the Spartans.



They're pretty simple at the moment, and held in by friction, but they'll eventually be magnetised to the top hull. I need to add a ton of detail and fill all the gaps, but you can see the scale.




Rescued some old rhino parts to help fill the big empty spaces!



I've also started on a few more RT-inspired vehicles. First is this classic GRAV ATTACK!!! I'm going to build a kit that I can recast that fits perfectly on some empty deodorant bottles I got from Amazon - that way I can built loads of them!


Like the Spartans, I'm going to make mine look a little more modern, so I've raided the bits box and found a ton of useful parts.


Started out by glueing and filling on the model, but with electrical tape where the attached bits are so that I can peel them off when dry.


The turret is the back part of an old Eldar Vyper embiggened. I'll drill a point in for magnetisation for different weapon load outs.

Loving the reconstruction of those old models.

Nice stuff!

EDC

I always appreciate a good salvage project Great post, thanks for sharing the OG rebuilds.

- Salvage

You can buy empty deodorant containers on amazon? Where's the fun in that.....???