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Thanks Cam! Your DG look suitably disgusting as well

Mort is getting there man, aha Close games are the best games. I really need to start playing again, kinda miss it

Completely agree STG, game came down to the roll of two dice and it could have gone either way, can't get much closer than that!

Good progress is being made on Mortarion, have got a big chunk of everything done now. Just a bit more to do on wings, doing eyes and a few other detailing bits.

I'm loving how he is coming along!



Next update should have him completed!

Thanks for reading.

I also love how he is coming along!

Hi fellow dakkaites!

I am very proud to show off my latest completed project, Mortarion, Death Guard Primarch.

Really stoked with how he has turned out, and looking forward to getting him onto the table in the not too distant future, when I do I'll do up a battle report for his first offical painted outing on the table

Anyway, here is the photos:









Thanks for reading!

Hey looks stunning!

Coming from someone with a high level of painting ability like yourself Knightley that means a lot! Thanks.

Fantastic. He looks amazing bud, nice and gribbly in the right places, wonderful colour choices, all comes together beautifully. Top notch work sir.

:O nice! mart is looking good, nice one.
EDIT: noticed i spelt Mort wrong but mart sounds cool, 'marty' herald of Nurgle, destroyer of worlds... lol

Thank you Cam and STG!

And Marty sounds like some ordinary average guy, then this shows up!

Evening all,

First up, the game I played last week I used a Carnifex with 4x devourers w/ brainleech worms and enhanced senses... it was unpainted and it did a lot of work, and was a contender for MVP, so I figured it could get the next paintjob, plus I haven't painted any hive fleet Ngaro for a while, so thought it was about time!

WIP1: It is magnetised, weapons will be done in a batch later.



Also played a game against Knightley yesterday.

Cult of the Red Savior vs Necrons 1500pts, The Scouring, Frontline assault deployment.

I got first turn and got ready to alpha strike the blobs of warriors to try and whittle them down... I proceeded to then roll ALOT of ones... so much for alpha strike, ah well got some genestealers in reserve , keep them off for a while.

Then Knightley's Necrons tried to capitalise on my dice fails, and he didn't do much better, although he did get the chimera, but all that did was annoy the passengers!

From there charges were made from necrons, the cult met the charge and a bloody melee ensued for a good chunk of game in middle of table...

However, the thing that tipped the balance was a ambushing 20 man unit of genestealers (I have never run a squad this big as I was worried that they would get blasted off the table) the proceeded to takeout a ghost ark in one round of combat, then they killed some destroyers on their way across the board to the melee that was STILL going in the middle:

Knightley fell back from combat so he could do some overwatch...

How will it go?



Well, the Rockgrinder did the first charge and survived the overwatch... so everything else was free to get in...

This happened:



This was end of turn five, we rolled and the game continued, and basically all that happened was another warrior blob took vengeance on the stealer squad and blew all but two of them off the table, which is exactly what I was worried about taking a big blob of them, however in this game they did a lot of work for me and were the difference....

11-3 win thanks to 3 squads of neophytes just babysitting points lobbing grenades ineffectually at things.

Thanks Knightley for the great game! We both learned a lot and I look forward to next game.

Wonderful batrep, awesome game by the sound of it. Stealers were pretty effective, as you would expect to be honest. Thanks for sharing, great read.

It was a good game, I learned a ton from it, specially with objective placement!

Carnifex looking solid as well

Hi Dakka,

So a few pages back I got a unbuilt carnifex in a trade but it didn't have a base so it hasn't had much happen since being built.... however I got given a custom resin base by a guy I know as an experiment to see how his product goes. I painted it and the fex up and came up with this:



Carnifex #2 is all complete now, except arms obviously as they are magnetised and I'll be doing a big batch paint of a heap of magnetised arms soon. The photo isn't the greatest either as we had stormy weather over the last few days and the light levels were really low so doesn't show the colour depth on the chest or eyes for example... I promise it looks better in real life haha.

Another thing I did was do a dark grey around the bottom of the base.... I've realised that my bases are pure red, so thought I'd try a bit of contrast which I think works well so I'll go back and paint all the rims of existing models the same colour.... what do you guys think?

So next update should have Carnifex #3 complete as he went on "pause" while I finished #2 hehe.

Found this photo in my phone from the game against Knightley the other day and thought it looked cool.... like the Eldar objective is distorting the area.



Thanks for reading!

the 'fex looks sufficiently beastly to me. I'm a fan of your carapace scheme and the gloopy look of its body. Your base scheme is good and the grey works surprisingly well considering how unorthodox it is as a colour for your bases. Would a graveyard earth-esque base rim contrast the red enough? Something towards the greener and bluer side of the brown spectrum (I think the modern paint equivalent might be baneblade brown or something similar)?

As always its morbidly fascinating seeing other players battling it out on Knightley's table! I believe we played a day apart from each other last week.

"fex" is looking fantastic, love the scheme, base really matches it up well.

Love the fuzzy pic too, nice to see something different. Thanks for sharing.

fex looking cool! are you going to paint its eyes? would really make it look mean if you did

Thats a really awesome picture! and I dread taking on dakka fexes after that last "patch"

Hey all,

LDP - I was thinking a brown of some type might be better, I like your idea of a cooler brown too, I might try it on the next one and see how it comes out. And yes talking with Knightley I was in the day after you to play against him

Cam - Yeah the picture was different that's why I thought I'd share it. Wonder how I did it haha.

STG - the eyes have been painted, they are purple in line with the rest of the hive. However it's not showing up at all in this photo

Knightley - 24x S6 shots? What's scary about that? And that's vanilla dakka hehe

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone has had a good productive hobby week, I know I have!

So first up I completed the third (and last for now) Carnifex... once again the weather is really cloudy at taking this photo so it is really muted colour wise and can't see the purple in the eyes etc. I've also experimented with Brown around the rim of the base... I don't think I'll stick with it, think I'm leaning towards leaving them as red for now hehe.



Next up, I've got one of the original metal broodlords from 4th edition... and he has been left behind somewhat in the coolness factor. I got hold of some hero bases from GW and decided to do this for him to stand upon:




I took one of the 40mm size ones, grabbed a spare space hulk genestealer and cut the back of it down so I could stuff it in the pipe, I also had a spare tyranid/cult symbol which I glued over the top of the aquila that is on the platform. I also made one up for the Lich Knig model that Knightley painted up for me, and it will be painted up like he is standing on an icy platform... this is what it kind of looks like with them standing on it:



So, will clean up lines and get the bases painted up so I can actually attach the models properly in the near future,

Cheers for reading.

Looking amazing!

really like that base for the broodlord, looks cool man.
I do agree though, the black rims look much better with your current basing scheme. probably something to do with contrast, idk i'm not arty lol

Knightley - Thanks mate, have to try and do the Lich King justice!

STG - Heh, agree it's probably a contrast thing with the colours where the brown compliments, the dark colours contrast or something

I think you should go with goblin green for the bases.

Love those bases you have just done. Awesome work.

Hi all,

Cam - A goblin green could be cool, I will give it a go on another model to see how it looks.

Started work on my second hive tyrant, and got the base coats all down.



Also went and bought myself the new start collecting tyranids set which has the last Broodlord that I don't own. So now I have all four... obviously going to put the little guy on the right on the better base.



Thanks for stopping by.

There is scale creep right there, though got to say they are all fantastic models. Wish I had all 4. Is the nid box worth it to an existing collection.

mate you're churning stuff out! making loads of progress pretty quickly

Aw, a brood of broodlords. The oldest one might be the tiniest but its also the only one who wants a good hug.

They look so cool... aaaaaand do work on the battlefield

Cam - Heh yeah I thought it was interesting seeing them in a line up. The new start collecting box has been good for me as I wanted the latest broodlord, and it came with Mawloc which I don't have and some more genestealers, which are always useful.

STG - Thanks, am in a campaign at local gaming shop at the moment and we get battle requisition points for painting and building models which we can spend on certain perks so it has been good motivation.

Amazingturtles - I've always liked his pose, either wants hugs or "come at me bro"

Knightley - I'm starting to think a bunch of them running around would be more effective than the big bugs in the HQ space.