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Having counted up the minis that I had painted this month and arriving at a paltry total of 8 I kicked into a bit of a higher gear. The result is quantity over quality but it is what it is and this update more than doubles my total to 17 for the month.

The Mortal Realms partwork continues, this week issues 7 to 10 arrived so that was nice, I set about painting issues 5 and 6. (Have not done 3 and 4 yet for some reason).

First up is the exclusive model from the range Xandria Thunderbolt, who came with issue 5. I decided to continue with the grey armour and cream and red robes. Overall a good sculpt and fun to paint:





Issue 6 was the Thorns of The Briar Queen originally from Warhammer Underworlds, but I understand that her and her retinue are an option in the Nighthaunt army book. These are great, but very, very fragile. If you ever get them be very careful, the actual Briar on the Briar Queen is a liability and I assume that more will break than not. Again photographing my ghost boys is a pain, but they do look great in person. They also added 7 to my miniature total:





Macbeth:






Finally is Sergeant Jovan, the store exclusive anniversary model. So three months in and we finally have a Celestial Lion. With this one i just swapped the head as the supplied one is not to my taste, I also cut the rather obtrusive chainsword from the Orks neck as it just gets in the way of the miniature itself. This was great as it reminded me how much I love painting my Lions...so possibly more to come.









Finally i picked up a couple of Battlefield In A Box scenery pieces, as these come prepainted they are a doddle. Just glue on some static grass and tufts and they are good to go. They are sizeable for the price as well, and fit in well with any scale:





Lonely Jovan:





I am currently frantically painting up my Mordaxis Nemesis Warbringer to hopefully get him done by Tuesday for my end of the month post, we shall see.

Keep safe out there, keep and thank you for looking.

Lovely lion, as usual! Their gold looks so nice, it’s always been a colour I struggle with.

Those nighthaunts are really cool models, but I can see what you mean about the briar. It’ll probably break just from being looked at funny!

The hills and craters look cool, did you really just add a few tufts?

Love those ghosts, especially the Queen herself.

Stormcast gal looks awesome, as does the new Lion. Looking forward to the next Titan.

@Gobert: On the terrain? Yes sir, they come pre painted. The gold is pretty simple. Retrributor armour over a black undercoat. Matt aggrax and medium 50/50ish mix over the gold. Then a light dry brush of runefang steel and it is pretty much done.

@Fifty: Cheers, they really are a great little warband.

@Youwasshock: Hoping to get the Warbringer done today...have to go to bed first though.

Great stuff ListenToMeWarriors.

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks everyone, I managed to get the Warbringer done in time for my March end of month update. In the end I went for Mordaxis over Astorum,and i left the carapace quake cannon unglued so that it can be moved around... so here he is:
















I also knocked out a few of the Civitas buildings for Adeptus Titanicus, these are easy to paint but I am not adding them to my monthly total. Black undercoat then one of two colour choices:

Incubi Darkness>>Thunderhawk Blue>>Ushabti bone

Karak Stone>>Ushabti bone>>Wraithbone






I then added the relevant metallics and some contrast to colour the Karak stone buildings roofs.

So, what is the score on the doors for March?

18 miniatures painted, equalling last months total and taking me to 76 minis painted for the year.

4 Game Systems, Adeptus Titanicus, 40k, Warcry and AOS



And a close up of the bigger boys:



So now the desk is clear and another month starts tomorrow. I have no idea what it will bring, but hopefully it will be fun finding out.

Thank you for looking.

Wow ListenToMeWarriors, you are fast.

Cheers,

CB

Wonderful array of minis. Onward to more good stuff.

Great work in march, love seeing another Celestial Lion, good head swap, although I love that chainsword in the orc neck and left it on my Sgt.
Love the SCE model, I need to get a go at mine, have a little over 20 just sitting around primed.
And nice seeing those Battlefield in a Box terrain pieces, they seem really reasonable priced, will put them on my list.

Cheers gents, I have made a bit of a start on April's work. It is basically all Celestial Lions.

First up is an auto bolt rifle Intercessor squad, these are from the multi part kit unlike most of my Intercessors which are made from the easy to build Intercessor kit that I rinsed from the £1.99 issue 1 of conquest magazine which was the initial cause of this blog (apologies for that!). The squad also has an auxiliary grenade launcher:













Next up is a miniature that I made way back in October 2018, he has been sat around undercoated since then. It is my Primarised version of the once (recently beheaded by a Callidus assassin) Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions Ekene Dubaku. Game wise I guess he is a Primaris captain, hence the marking on his chest but they are not allowed a plasma pistol and power sword...so who knows?











Size comparison:





Last up is another Celestial Lion...or at least the head of one. Again the Noise Marine has been on my painting desk since the release more than a year ago and was last seen in the blog the last week of January 2019. I had fun with no pre conceived colour scheme plan for him, I just went where the brush took me.

Here he is:







Thanks for looking.

I love the eyes on the Celestial Marines, they're very piercing!

More great work ListenToMeWarriors.

Cheers,

CB

Colored metallics on the NM are too fun. Lions are beautiful, as usual. The Captain is a cool conversion with an equally sweet paintjob.

Your celestial Lions are always a joy to see. Love the illegal captain .

Cool looking Rocker-Boy

Great start to the month ListenToMeWarriors! Glad to see the captain and noise marine getting their paint on and always good to see your lions!

Cheers everyone, I am just glad to have made and painted Dubaku. He is a huge part of Celestial Lion lore and by far their biggest named character. Not *legally* being able to use him in game is annoying, but the whole no model no rules thing is all a bit odd. Surely a power sword and plasma pistol is not regarded as a game breaking combo?

Anyway, here is a bit of Dubaku's lore:

"He was one of the few survivors in his Chapter after they suffered horrific losses during the campaign against the Ork hordes of Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka in the Third War for Armageddon. Dubaku later took command of the remnants of the Celestial Lions and led them to battle, along with the Black Templars and Armageddon Steel Legion, against the Ork forces of Warlord Thogfang in the Mannheim Gap. In the hard pressed battle that followed, Dubaku killed the Warlord and afterwards, he was selected by Black Templars High Marshal Helbrecht to become the new Chapter Master of the surviving Celestial Lions forces. As a sign of honor, Halbrecht gave him an ancient suit of Power Armour dating back to the Great Crusade.

A century after the formation of the Great Rift, Dubaku had risen to become the de facto warlord of Elara's Veil and held a huge amount of respect from the Emperor's Spears. During a conclave with the Spears Chapter aboard the Strike Cruiser Hex, he announced his plans to abandon Elysium IX in the face of a massive Exilarchy fleet. After convincing the Emperor's Spears of his plan he was suddenly decapitated by a Callidus Assassin who had hidden as Kartash Avik, a Chapter Serf of Amadeus Kaias Incarius from the Mentor Legion. It is heavily implied that Dubaku's assassination was a result of the Lions old feud with the Inquisition."

Damn the Inquisition.

Tonight I started work on a unit of 3 Eliminators with Las Fusiks and am also looking at starting work on the Invictor Tactical Warsuit.

Thanks for looking.

It's great seeing more of your lions and nice work on the Dubaku conversion. That's an custodes warden body, right? The pelt really makes the miniature!
I'm also in love with the noise marine. I don't like the official paintjob, but all those contrast colors over metallics are just amazing!

That is a brilliant conversion on the Chapter Master, absolutely oozes presence and gravitas. Wonderful paintwork too.

Really love the work on the Lions mate, and that Noise Marine is gorgeous as well. Great colours.

I haven't seen much Adeptus Titanicus stuff around - the terrain is very impressive, makes me want to get the game!

The Lions are looking really sweet - I love the blue helmets and piercing eyes especially

Cheers everyone.

@Viterbi: The body is from Captain General Trajann Valoris, one of the few Custodes named characters.

@Para: Cheers Para, hope you are well.

@Tzurk: By all accounts Adeptus titanicus plays really well, so it may be worth a look.

@Slinky: It is a great colour scheme, I love it.

The grind continues. I have made more progress on my Celestial Lions with two more units completed.

First up is the Invictus warsuit. I was on the fence when this model came out but really enjoy it in person. The idea of a stealth dreadnought is obviously daft, but it is what it is and anything with a heavy bolter as a sidearm has to be good right? I went with the Twin ironhail autocannon over the flamer for that lovely extra dakka, so here he is:















Sadly I lost the larger antennae when a filthy xenos (one of my cats, Alvin) bit it off. Serves me right for sorting my models out on the floor, but i do not feel that it really hurts the model.

The second unit I completed was a unit of Eliminators with Las Fusils. Obviously stealth marines in gold armour is a bit of a stretch again but I think they have come out well. Nothing too elaborate for the camo, but it does the job:













Finally are issues 3 and 10 of Mortal Realms in the form of 4 ETB Glaivewraith stalkers and a banshee. Nothing too exciting here, and difficult to photograph but they are done. They really do look a lot better in person though:









So next up???

I have started work on another Chaos Knight for house Herpetrax and the legs are done:



Thanks for looking.

Nice! I like the colour choices on the invictus - not all-over gold, but enough to know it's part of the chapter.

Stomp stomp stomp, I do love big robots.

The fusiliers look sweet, and the Banshee came out great.

The notion of a stealth dread is even more ridiculous than stealth space marines. The Heavy Bolter as a side arm wins it for me though! That and your celestial lions scheme of course!

The new ghosties look good, I really like the simple colour scheme you and a few others have going on.

The new knight (full sized I presume) looks great, but your rate of progress is astounding! Others take months to do a knight and you’ll probably smash it by the end of the week!

Love seeing the invictor in your scheme. One of my favorite models of the new Phobos range, because it's exactly the right amount of silly
Other stuff in this update looks great, love seeing more of the knight, I still have one on sprue, but shy away from building it, because I hate magnetizing. Will you magnetize or use a single weapon setup?

More wonderfully painted models ListenToMeWarriors.

Cheers,

CB

Love the red-headed banshee!

I'm really liking that Stormcast color scheme! And the Celestial Lions look wonderful!

Got my next House Herpetrax Chaos Knight done on Wednesday, this time a Knight Despoiler with rapid fire battle cannon, gatling cannon and ironstorm(?) rocket pod. The weapons are not magnetised but the legs and body are for ease of transport. Pretty happy with him and that now means i probably have a 1000pt painted Chaos Knight army:



















I also got a nice little hobby delivery this morning in the form of some Unsullied Swordsmen for my Targaryen's in ASOIAF. Dark Sword and CMON continue to impress with the sculpts in this range even if the distribution and association with Asmodee seems to be hampering its growth:









Thanks for looking.