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Very nice work Ezki.

Cheers,

CB

Wow, that’s a really noticeable improvement in the 3 years, definitely on the skin. It’s the tiger print tabard that wins it for me though! Have fun with the Chaos Cult leader!

Big level up! I personally prefer the black background. Great painting!

Wow, that is a great jump in a mere three years. Not that the first model was bad, but the jump in detail is amazing.

Thank you for the comments and compliments guys!
And I agree, the difference between the two models is quite big. It's really encouraging!


Finished painting the Chaos Cult leader.



I used few of the same techniques with this one as I used with the Escher leader.
This time though, I went on a bit quicker and the end result is a bit rougher. Painting two miniatures in a row with the same standard is a bit too exhausting.
Especially the blacks are really slow to do.

I wanted to play around with the contrast of cold and warm colors on the cloak. I quite like the effect, even if the colors are not "very chaos".

He's now ready to lead his cultist gangers into the deeps of the underhive!

Love the rust on the shotgun. He has a bit of a Lex Luthor look.

He looks cool, I like the non-chaos look of his cloak. It kinda looks like he’s killed his Commissar and nabbed his jacket.

I agree that the colors of the cloak look good. The warm and cool contrast draws the eye into the face and torso. Nice work.

Rusty Shotgun

The skin of your Escher leader is ace. The abs are nice, but the facial scar is what sells it all for me.

Cloak has great depth and love the gradient on the inside! And having a hook on a chainsword is just plain nasty

Took me a while to catch up and leave a comment, but you've done some great work! Love all the conversions and your Escher leader in particular is excellent along with the Krieg HWT!

Your cult leader looks good too, the black jacket is very well done!

Great leader there Ezki.

Cheers,

CB

Damn, that guy turned out crisp!
Love the character and the attitude

Thank you for all the comments and compliments guys!

youwashock wrote:He has a bit of a Lex Luthor look.

Did not even think about that, but now as you've said it, I agree

gobert wrote:He looks cool, I like the non-chaos look of his cloak. It kinda looks like he’s killed his Commissar and nabbed his jacket.

Nice idea! Thought about him being a former soldier of the guard, but I like that.
A former squad or platoon leader, encouraged by the whispers of one of the chaos gods (not yet sure which one) to shoot his commissar in the back of the head. With the help of his new 'friend', he ended up somewhere in Necromunda and managed to find a group of lunatics whom he leads down to the underhive in the name of Chaos.

DJJazzyJeff: Glad you like 'em! The scar was a bit of a lucky shot, but turned out pretty well in the end.

Viterbi: Thank you! Chaos requires some extra nastiness

Tyranid Horde: Glad you stopped by! Thanks!

Captain Brown: Thanks Captain!

Mothsniper: Thanks! The head swap did more to the character I initially thought.


The progress on the rest of the Chaos gang has been really slow. I thought I would get most of the regular gangers done in a few sessions.
Been working on them for quite a while and they still have a bit left to do. One of the culprits has been Wasteland 3, which have sucked quite a chunk of my freetime

Regardless, the painting itself has been slow, once again.
I started batch painting the bunch in order to get them done quickly, but soon realized that the cultists are all very different and have a lot of different kind of details.
This led me going back and forth with the same colors again and again, always forgetting that one small detail here and there.
I should have separated all the models into smaller groups (with similar details and color palette), and work my way one group at a time.

The fact that I had to do some more green stuffing and two of the models needed some re adjusting of their arms and legs (still unattached) did not help.

But then again, I'm not in a hurry. I just start to lose the fight against my patience when a project drags for too long

Here's a quick sneak peek to the gangers. Still needing some work:




After seeing Gobert's chaos cultists, I could not get the green hair color out of my head.
So I had to loan that idea


On a bit different note:
Got to introduce two players from our Mordheim group to the wonderful world of Necromunda. They really enjoyed the demo games and said they would like to give it another go.

Also got to play my second 9th edition 40k game.
2000pts of Eldar versus Slaanesh, a classic match up. Never have played against a full slaanesh list before, so it was a lot of fun.
I decided to go with a bit fluffier "Eldar citizen" list, with a lot's of guardians and Dire Avengers supported by two Wraithlords and a couple of serpents. Usually I go full mech, so this was a fun change.
Never have I played a game that was this close: even with the new secondary objectives, the game ended in a tie. It was impossible predict the winner during the game either.
One of the best games I've played so far over the years!

A few pictures in the spoilers:



Thanks for looking!
Hoping to get the gangers done soon. Will be away once again for the weekend, but hopefully the next week at the latest.

That's a super fluffy match-up, and wonderful to see so many shades of pink and purple on the table!

Yeah, that looks like a very pretty game. Lovely models all around. Big, big fan of the heavy stubber gal.

Glad you liked my cultists green hair! It’s looking cool on the converted gang too. The battle looks pretty awesome, I’d forgotten how cool your flyer looks!

I'm glad you decided to go with the green hair, they look good. Nice paint jobs as usual Ezki

Very nice work on the Escher leader and the cultist boss. Looking forward to rest of the gang.

Lovely work on the gangers and that looks like a fun game. Always good when it goes to the last minute and a draw seems rather fitting with these two armies. Gotta keep the grudge match alive

Appreciate the comments as always!

Viterbi: Indeed! The never ending fight between the two rivals keeps on going.


Phew!
Finally got most of the Chaos gangers done! About time I'd say.
Felt like painting them took forever. Mostly because I tried to get trough them quickly, and the project felt like dragging on forever.
Was quite a bit of fun though!

Here's the whole bunch of new gangers: 2 champions and five gangers.


Just the gangers:


Aaand the campions:



One more conversion is still on the painting table. She was left behind with the painting steps, as she required some re-gluing.


Still got a few unpainted chaos cultists and a ton of bits to make more. But I will most likely build more of them if and when we start the campaign.

Thanks for looking!

I definitely get what you mean when some painting projects feel like they're taking forever. I guess it's particularly when you're batch painting or using a technique that's quite time consuming - but the results look great. I like the green hair against purple cloth - very Joker!

Wonderful Ezki.

Great Necromunda.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Bellerophon and Captain Brown!


Finished painting the final converted cultist and almost completed another two unpainted cultists during a two our meeting yesterday.
One of the benefits of working remotely is that you can paint during the meetings, especially if you have to be present just for the sake if someone has any questions

Did the final touches and the bases for them during the evening and calling them ready.
That's all the currently assembled cultists painted and ready to go!
Always have more ideas for conversions, but that can wait so I can actually lower the pile of grey assembled models.


Anyway, here ya go:



I also wanted to take a bit better pics of the more heavily converted cultists I did during this project.
The details are probably a bit more visible painted when compared to the grey models I showed a while back.

So here are the girls that I thought might be fallen Escher gangers for example.

- The one on the left had her legs swapped to legs of an Escher ganger. The orientation of the legs follows the original cultist model, but they are bit more apart.
The head is from a Daemonette.

- The middle one was built using a Daemonette body and head, Dark Eldar Wych legs, Escher pistol arm and Chaos cultist Autogun arm. It was a really fun model to do, but positioning the legs was a nightmare. Her posture looks a bit unnatural still and she's actually walking on her toes a bit, but it's more of a concept than anything.

-The last model on the right is built using a chaos cultist robes and head, Wych Aelf (AoS) torso, Escher shotgun arms and Dark Eldar Wych legs.



The other images might be slightly NSFW (namely the model on the middle), so I spoilered them just in case:


Building these was a lot of fun. I learned however, that it's not always so easy to make natural motion or positions to the characters.
Especially when you cut their hands and legs and try to build a sensible looking model out of various bits
Kudos to all the sculpters and modellers out there!


The last one I wanted to show separately was one of the first experiments.
The original idea of using the lower body from a Wrack came from the Heavy stubber cultist I did years ago.
This guy looks quite a bit like the original cultist in the kit, but I wanted something just a little bit different. Plus I had half a dozen half cut cultists screaming on my table, so something had to be done
The seam between the body and the robes is covered (poorly) with a belt made out of greenstuff.



I will try to get a few pics out of the whole Chaos Gang during the weekend. My lightbox is too small for that kind of stuff, so I have to figure out something else.

I will be derailing from the Necromunda project a bit in order to do something a bit different and to get a suitable entry for the monthly painting contest.
I've got only a week left to take part in it, but I have noticed that the contest is a great way to finally paint some of the models I have been postponing for far too long.
It also motivates me to try new techniques and to improve my skills.
I just have to be careful if I start feeling too stressed about finishing the models for the contest in time each month. So far so good, but something I need to keep track of.
And saying it out loud (writing it down) seems help me remember

Anyhow, just a small spoiler of what's to come:




Thank you for looking!

Can’t wait to see the whole cultist gang, hopefully you get a nice sunny weekend to get the group together. It’s a lovely purple you’ve got, much warmer than my usual attempts, what colours did you use?

Can't beat that lime-green hair. They all look great. NSFW gal is an awesome model. The daemonette heads really work. Excited for whatever Eldar thing is in the future.

Great colors. The poses don't look that bad, NSFW girl is just flaunting that bum.

The cultist half cobble job turned out well.

Great work.

Cultists are looking fantastic. Really love the kitbashing with the demonette

Great work on the cultists.

Nice, I already figured out that Escher bodies and Daemonette heads fit nicely together (and adding a daemonette arm too to make them fallen), but adding wych parts too is a great idea

Of course, the daemonette Escher goes commando Lovely work all around, the colors fit them really well!