Servitors of the Unnamed Chapter - Space Marines, Gene-Stealers, Necrons

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**Oldmanronald**

My New Lamps

A few weeks ago, I bought two new lamps for my work area. I bought the first and then realized that I wanted one with a magnifying glass so I bought another one. I have discovered that I like having the two lamps in my work area. The one that looks like a toilet seat has the magnifying glass.

The Two New Lamps in My Workspace

I always like to see pictures of an artist’s workspace. It appeal to my inner voyeur.

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Hellblaster with Standard Plasma Incinerator

I built a squad of five Hellblasters with the standard Plasma Incinerator. I will probably get another set and run them as a squad of ten. As a model, I think I like the heavy slightly better, but I think the standard will be more useful in actual games.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

The model is grubby. I like my models to look like they have been in combat for a while. This is one of my grubbiest models and it looks like the paint on his power armor is wearing off. His eyes are a little too big. The light reflection from his plasma gun isn’t quite right.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left Rear View

I messed up on the reflection from the plasma incinerator. The bluish white is in the wrong place. It should be on the upper surface of his arm, not the side.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Right View

Actually, I do like the look of the standard plasma incinerator.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Rear View

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Second Hellblaster with Standard Plasma Incinerator

Second Hellblaster with Standard Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

This is one of my favorite of the Hellblasters. I like his face.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Right Side View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Front View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left Side View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Right Rear View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Rear View

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Third Hellblaster with Standard Plasma Incinerator

The third Hellblaster has the big bird skull at his feet.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator –Front View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left View

His eyes are weird.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Right Front View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

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Fourth Hellblaster with Standard Plasma Incinerator

The fourth Hellblaster has the big Orc skull at his feet.

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator –Right Front View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Right View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left Front View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Left Rear View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Rear View

Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerator – Right Rear View

There are actually five Hellblaster with Plasma Incinerators. I only show pictures for four. I deleted all my out of focus pictures and may have deleted one model. Or I counted two models as one.

**Oldmanronald**

Assassins

I finally finished four assassins, two Eversors and two Culexuses, at least for taking pictures. Here they are standing on a moon of a distant gas giant.

Four Assassins

**Oldmanronald**

The Eversor Assassin

The Eversor Assassins were fun to paint. I am not sure that I am finished and I am not sure that I will use them in a game. I may make a Callidus Assassin to freeze up command points.

Eversor Assassin - Front View

Notice that the needle on his executioner pistol is broken. I may replace it with a steel needle or pin but that does get a little more dangerous to game with.

Eversor Assassin – Right Side View

Eversor Assassin – Left Side View

Eversor Assassin – Rear View

He looks happy in his work.

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The Other Eversor Assassin

Eversor Assassin –Left Side View

The needle on his Executionor Pistol has not broken off yet. It will. I love the hypodermic syringe fingers on the left hand.

Eversor Assassin –Right Side View

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The Culexus Assassin

I need something to shut down Psykers. I don’t really use Psykers because I haven’t really mastered that part of the game. (Actually I have mastered very little of the actual game.) So since I don’t use them, I may use this Culexus Assassins to neutralize the psykic threat.

Culexus Assassin – Left Side View

I thought these were pretty weird looking models and I wasn’t sure I liked them. At first, I liked the Eversor models better. Now that I have them painted up, however, I really like these models. This model takes advantage of five techniques that I am using that are fun. The first is the camouflage pattern on the uniform. This really fits assassins and especially this model. The second is the use of black and gray basecoats to have dark and light areas on the models. This is especially good for the Culexus Assassin with its dark body and bright head and grenades. The third is bases which include pigments. The fourth is the used of metallic paint. I have been experimenting with metallic paints. The fifth is use of fluorescent paints and bright colors high intensity paints for highlights and light sources.

Culexus Assassin – Front View

This view shows the use of bright colors and lights, the clear reds on the hand grenades and the light on his weird eyepiece on his head. This is the ugly faced model.

Culexus Assassin –Rear View

Culexus Assassin – Right Side View

These view shows a little of the effect of the metallic paint. I actually blend and layer the metallic paints. The base coat is laid down with tinny tin which is a dark brownish metallic. This makes a nice shadow for all the metallic surfaces.

Culexus Assassin with Tinny Tin Base Coat

I used gunmetal blue on the animus speculum as the main color and then used it blended with silver for the nightlights. I also added a little high intensity blue paints to enhance the gunmetal blue. I did the same with some of the other metal surface, blending the steels paints and silver and then covering them with fluorescent washes.

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The Smiling Culexus Assassin

The smiling Culexus Assassin is one of my favorites. In part, it is because the model is fun and really lends itself to the techniques I have been working with. This front view shows the use of the high intensity colors on the red hand grenades and the fluorescent green paint to make parts of the model pop.

Smiling Culexus Assassin – Front View

Smiling Culexus Assassin – Left Side View

Smiling Culexus Assassin – Right Side View

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Skitarii Vanguard

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Right Side View

I am getting a little tired of painting space marines so I am branching out. Several years ago, I purchased two boxes of Skitarii infantry. I started building them the way I built old space marines which is to ignore the instructions which were not very good anyway and just build them. The space marine parts are all interchangeable with the legs, tarsals, arms, and heads easily fitting each other. This is not true of Games Workshop’s later models. The instructions have improved and most of the parts are not easily interchangeable. So I built an army of Skitarii legs and started putting on the great coats without matching them to the legs and found that these parts are not all interchangeable. So I stopped working on them with the models from one box only partly built.

For NOVA 2018, however, I signed up for the Narrative Recon Patrol which has a two hundred point limit. After playing with some possible army lists I decided to build the other box of Skitarii infantry. This time I followed the instructions. I am pleased with the results. These models are really fun to paint.

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Front View

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Rear View

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Left Side View

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Building the Skitarii

These are some of my pictures showing the Skitarii as I painted them. The first is the models with just the black gray basecoat.

Skitarii models with Black/Gray Base Coat.

Since the view of these models is from the front, the models look gray.

Skitarii with Transuranic Arquebus

Notice how much darker these models look. It is the lighting. The base coats is a mixture of black and white but the black just looks like shadows.

Skitarii Vanguard with Enhanced Data-tether - Front View

**tarar2d2**

I am utterly enthralled by your work. Your use of transfers is amazing, and makes your miniatures really come to life. I don't think I've ever seen miniatures represent 40k artwork as well as these guys, with an amazing amount of expression and feeling coming from each model. Keep up the great work! (also I might steal the whole transfer thing you've got going on here

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**Oldmanronald**

tarar2d2 wrote:
I am utterly enthralled by your work. Your use of transfers is amazing, and makes your miniatures really come to life. I don't think I've ever seen miniatures represent 40k artwork as well as these guys, with an amazing amount of expression and feeling coming from each model. Keep up the great work! (also I might steal the whole transfer thing you've got going on here )

Thank you for your kind remarks. I appreciate the compliment especially after looking at your Adeptus Custodes. I also admire your work. You do wonderful faces and I love how each character has a individual personality. I like the falcon. It looks like it is from the old bretonnian knights. These are some of my favorite bits. “Good Artists copy. Great Artists Steal.” Pablo Picasso.

**Oldmanronald**

Building the Skitarii – Camouflage and Tinny Tin Undercoats

These pictures show the tinny tin undercoat for the metallic surfaces. This base coat gives depth to the upper layers of metal.

Skitarii Vanguard with Enhanced Data-tether with Tinny Tin Base Coat

Skitarii with Transuranic Arquebus with Tinny Tin Base Coat

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Skitarii Vanguard Alpha

Skitarii Vanguard Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Front View

Skitarii infantry is fun to paint. The camouflage pattern on the great coats matches these models to my already built armies. The models have armor which really allows me to play with my metallic paints. The models have glowing parts such as lenses and glowing weapons that work with fluorescent paints. The best part is the dirt and mud and rust using pigments and pastels to give contrast between the dull and shiny parts.

Skitarii Vanguard Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Left Front View

This has a nice view of the Taser Goad and the dirt on the bottom of the great coat. It also shows the details of the arc pistol with its glow and reflection.

Skitarii Vanguard Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Rear View

Skitarii Vanguard Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Right Front View

Skitarii Vanguard Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Right Side View

This has a nice view of the purity seals which are also fun to work with.

Skitarii Vanguard Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Left Side View

This view shows the skull decal covered with dirt. I often apply the decals and either highlight it with fluorescent magenta or cover it with a pigment or wash. Here I did both fluorescent highlight on the roses and dirt covering a portion of the skull.

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Dirt

Skitarii Vanguard with Dirty Base and Great Coat – Left Front View

Look at the dirt on the model’s base, feet, and the bottom of the great coat.

I have been working with pigments and some pigment fixer that I bought from Secret Weapon Miniatures. I had taken a class on pigments from Justin McCoy, founder of Secret Weapon Miniatures, and found it a great way to weather my models and especially my bases.

Then I found an old baby food jar of pastel grinds that I had kept from a pastel class that I took years ago. Pastels are basically pigments in a stick form that are painted on a rough sandpaper like surface. The rough surface grinds down the pastels holding the pigment in the sandpaper but giving off a lot of grinds. I collected my grinds in that baby food jar. Since pastels are all different colors and since all colors mixed together are brown, the grinds look like dirt.

Baby Food Jar full of Pastel Grinds next to a Jar of Pigment Fixer

In the above picture, the pastel grinds have been poured on a base. Notice that the grinds are dirty looking and of different sizes.

Adding Pigment Fixer to Pastel Grinds on Base

After pouring on the grinds, I added the pigment fixer to the pastel grinds to hold them in place and poured on more grinds to fill in any gaps. Actually, I held the bristles of an cheap brush filled with the pigment fixer next to the pastel grinds on the base and allowed the capillary effect to pull the liquid pigment fixer into the grinds. The pastel grinds make great dirt. I added a little green pigment over the dirt to make it appear like the dirt is mossy or covered with grass. I also splattered grinds against the feet and bottom of the coats of the models with the excess pastel grime in my paint brush to give those coats and feet a dirty look.

I still have my pastels sticks and am thinking of how I could use them for miniature gaming. I don’t think I can use them on individual models but I could use them on bases, displays, and playing surfaces especially if the pastel pigment are held by some type of pigment fixer, either spray or liquid.

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Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver

Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver – Right Side View

Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver – Rear View

Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver – Left Rear Side View

Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver – Right Front View

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Second Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver

Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver – Right Side View

Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver – Rear View

Skitarii Vanguard with Plasma Caliver – Left Side View

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Second Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Right Front View

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Rear View

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Left View

Skitarii Vanguard with Radium Carbine – Right Front View

The left foot is pinned to the base since the right foot is raised and not supporting the model.

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Skitarii Vanguard with Enhanced Data-tether

Skitarii Vanguard with Enhanced Data-tether – Front View

He also has a radium carbine.

Skitarii Vanguard with Enhanced Data-tether – Right View

Skitarii Vanguard with Enhanced Data-tether – Rear View

I have done very little customizing of these models. Still, I cut off the regular antenna and added a longer antenna made of piano wire with a skull head form the skull package I have. It is less breakable and longer.

Skitarii Vanguard with Enhanced Data-tether – Left Front View

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Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle - Right Side View

Like the Vanguard, the Skitarii Rangers are fun to paint. It is especially fun to do the trim on the Galvanic Rifles. My understanding is that the Ranger and Vanguard are some of the best infantry in the 8th Edition but that cheap hoard infantry is even better for board control and in the 8th, good infantry dies about as fast as cheap infantry. The Skitarii also suffer because for some reason, Ad Mech has no vehicles. For recon patrol missions of 200 points, however, good leg infantry may be very effective. We shall see.

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle - Front Side View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle – Left Side View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle – Left Rear View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle – Right Rear View

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Second Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle - Right Side View

Skitarii Rangers look so much alike I had to put these images side by side with the prior post to make sure that I wasn't posting the same model twice. This second Skitarii Rangel is almost identical to the first Skitarii Range I posted a few days ago. These are like some of those kids puzzles where you have to find a difference. One has a purity seal, the other does not. One has the skull a little bit closer to his feet and a lump of dirt.

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle - Right Rear View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle - Rear View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle – Left Rear View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle – Left Front View

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Third Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle - Right Side View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle - Left Side View

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Skitarii Ranger Alpha

Skitarii Ranger Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Front View

His arc pistol did not turn out as nice as the one for the Skitarii Vanguard Alpha. I suspect, however, that I will not play him and use the Skitarii Ranger with the Omnispex as my Alpha. I am cutting back on the ranger and Vanguard squads to include a couple of Sicarian Infiltrators. Infiltrators look fun to make and should add a little more mobility to the recon patrol.

Skitarii Ranger Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad – Right Front View

This picture is taken from a lousy angle. The arc pistol is blocking his face. It does show the dirt on his great coat.

Skitarii Ranger Alpha with Arc Pistol and Taser Goad –Rear View

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Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus

I made two Skitarii Rangers, each with an arguebus. I think they are neat but I will probably only use one in my recon patrol since the arguebus takes up too many points and I can field a Sicarian infiltrator for less than an arquebus. Still, this weapon is too neat to not take. This was a fun model to paint.

Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus – Right Side View

The support pole for the arquebus was made from piano wire so that the model is a little less breakable.

Piano Wire bent to create a support pole for the Transuranic Arguebus

Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus – Front View

Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus – Left Front View

I used the half face for my Arguebus gunners because I like to paint faces. Notice that this model is bent in a somewhat awkward position which is why I will probably use the other gunner rather than this one.

Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus – Right Rear View

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Second Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus

Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus – Right Rear View

Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus – Front View

Not all of my pictures are great. This one is too far away.

Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Arquebus – Left Rear View

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Skitarii Ranger with Transuranic Omnispex

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle and Transuranic Omnispex – Front View

This model shows the metallic paints and the florescent paints to help the model glow.

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle and Transuranic Omnispex – Right Side View

This picture shows the detail of the galvanic rifle. The metallic parts are painted with shades of gunmetal blue and brass over a tinny tin base. The stock of the rifle is a sepia wash over the gray and black base coat. The next picture shows the metallic parts of the model painted with tinny tin base before adding the other metallic paints.

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle and Transuranic Omnispex – Tinny Tin Base Coat

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle and Transuranic Omnispex – Rear View

Skitarii Ranger with Galvanic Rifle and Transuranic Omnispex – Left Side View

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Skitarii Ranger Sniper Team with Transuranic Arquebusses

Skitarii Ranger Sniper Team with Twin Transuranic Arquebusses

The idea of two arquebusses sniping together has appeal. But it may be too pricey for a 200 point recon squad game.

Skitarii Ranger Sniper Team with Omnispex and Twin Transuranic Arquebusses

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Callidus Assassin

With her ability to muck up enemy kill points, the Callidus Assassin may be worth taking. This was an okay model to build and was somewhat fun to paint. Maybe because she is so skinny, I had trouble focusing on her when I took her picture so I only got one picture of her.

Callidus Assassin