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Looking good, Roy. I like that crazy priest too. He always called out Judge Dread to me. I like some of the other priests a lot, too. THat old scavvy (or whatever he is) is cool too. The old ork arms are really skinny too. I dig that AK conversion, too, very effective.

Really jealous of the Confrontation miniature!

Some arms to consider is the old RT plastic IG arms. I have a few of those figs and I have them w/ the RT plastics, the scale really works.

The Cadian arms worked quite well once shaved down and had the greenstuff applied.

I've finished the Arch Confessor's body and just need to finish his mace. I haven't really done anything on the Scavvy.





I'm pretty impressed with the results (though not as good as the GW one but I don't have the steadiness or the patience to do all the writings and spirals).

I also started on this little substation but ran out of glue to apply the gravel etc.

The bike and sidecar turned out great, nice job there.

Always liked that archdeacon(?) model, and love the old scavvies. You took of the skinny human arms? I've always thought they were some of the best arms GW ever did, I was devastated when the bits service discontinued them. Back when they still had a bits service. Fethers.


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Arch Confessor looks lovely, well done.

Like where the sub-stations going, nice door.

The arm it came with was really thin, smaller than the Cadian and the old Ork arms - the hand flamer it was holding was tiny so I felt it was far too small. If I fish it out I might post a picture of it.

In other news, I finished the substation I was working on, very basic paint job (I just wanted it as a quick and easy piece of terrain). Unfortunately the grey I used was the one I bought by mistake and is too light . Hopefully it won't stick out on the table.

Very fun stuff. I am loving your Genestealer cult. One recommendation on the terrain. Use MDF board instead for the base. It does not warp as much and the edges are cleaner. All you head to cut it is an electric jigsaw to cut it.

I use A cheap Black and Decker and it does the job in a flash. Takes me 10-30 seconds to cut a good base.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_295343-79992-JS660++1_4294707869__?productId=3213021&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar|1&pl=1¤tURL=%3FNs%3Dp_product_qty_sales_dollar%7C1&facetInfo=

Subbed!

I wish I had space to use power tools! One of the perils of living in a flat.

Going forward though, I might start looking into using foamcore as it shouldn't warp as much and is cutable with a knife. Its also lighter than wood so easier for me to transport (I play most of my games at my work's office).

Finished the Confessor's mace, hardly the most taxing of pieces. Gonna base him once I've decided how I'll base my Cult (I'm thinking urban but topped with snow so it fits alongside my urban Guard and Snow Marines).




I'm going to go out on a limb and say its the best piece I've painted, and it didn't even take me that long to do!

Whilst I was working on a couple of other things, I found an old project I'd started roughly 10 years ago. Back in the days of 3rd edition, the Citadel Journal Cult rules included a few special characters along with a list of parts that were used to create them (this was back in the days of GW's brilliant bits service). So I ordered an Empire Light Wizard (I think), cut off his staff, sword and beard. I cobbled together a fancy looking bolt pistol but unfortunately never found a suitable top for his staff so he just sat in my bits box. I tried to make a staff for him but could never get anything to look right - until I had a wave of inspiration.

I cut off a genestealer head and claw and fiddled about with it to make an ornate decoration of the claw holding the head, attached it to a cocktail stick and stuck it on.



Now it looks a little rough at the moment but perhaps once a lick of paint is applied, I might get myself another magus or relic bearer?

Watch this space.

The priest dude has a lovely paintjob!

Like the look of your wizard conversion. I'm planning on using a really old sanctioned psyker for a magus myself.

Hi, love your genestealer cult. As all the old figgs.

I have one cult army myself what I play regulary with.

Fun to see what more people like the old army still.

Sincerely taogoli

I was starting to wonder where the 'Sky Father Cult' reference I've been using for newspapers on my 'nid / Titan diorama came from... thanks. When I get more newpapers designed, I'll post links to the images here...

Loving all the work posted so far,thanks for posting the pics.

So I finished my Relic Bearer / Magus in Training / Wizard conversion. The model was simpler than the Confessor so the end result isn't as impressive, the staff came out ok though.




Still don't know what role he'll fit in my Cult though I've potentially got myself a Primaris Psyker for my Imperial Guard.

Well, it's always useful to have a spare robed bloke with a gun and a big stick Better to have and not shoot/batter/mind-feth than to not have and die a gribbly death, as my Aunt Sally used to say. That was before her bodyguard killed her with a big stick as I recall...

Good job, and beautiful work on the confessor too

Nice terrain, though I will echo Rabid Ferret's advice and offer a couple solutions that you may find helpful.

This is what all terrain pices should be based on:

You can get MDF board at most DIY stores (I looked this one up as a point of reference- http://www.wickes.co.uk/mdf-board-3x606x1220mm/invt/164517/). You'll likel be able to have them cust it into smaller chunks for you so you're not carrying a 4X4' sheet of board home w/ you.

Once you have it home, try any of these ideas. I've done them all, and they all worked for me.

Draw out your design w/ a permanent marker as it is easier than pencil to see.

Try using a sabre saw:

or a coping saw:

and also get a rasp file:

Use the saw to cut out your design and use the rasp file on the edges to smooth / taper it out. That's it.

I know using cardboard is easier and free, but trust me you'll be so much happier w/ a solid base and you'll likely go back and re-base your previous projects. I used to work in cardboard exclusively for years. I'm way happier now.

If you are absolutely set on still using cardboard, at very least use some putty / etc to fill in /smooth out the edges of your base. Cut cardboard looks like cut cardboard, no getting around that unless you cover it up.


The Confessor looks excellent! I'm still loving the fact you are using more 'classic' colors for your Cult.

I've invested in a large sheet of foam core to try that out as a friend of mine used it before and its quite simple to work with.

I probably will move on to wood at some point however I'm hesitant to use anything like a saw as I don't have a yard or garage to work in (I do all work on my kitchen table in a rented apartment).

As for colours - they have to be the classic colours! They're a Genestealer Cult, not a Tyranid Cult!

Well I finished my infantry squad which meant I could get round to finishing my Scavvy. I also decided to base this one:







I think that he fits the criteria of downtrodden citizen quite well (he has bags for shoes and rope for a belt!)

Unfortunatelly it might be a while before I post other Cult updates. I've still got plenty of guard to do and currently have no Cult projects on the go. Who knows though, all it may take is a watch of the Aliens movie or something and I might get back into it.

Also, when I went down to Games Day the other week, I asked Matt Ward if Genestealer Cults would be making an appearance any time soon and he said I'd be in for a long wait .

New work looks really good. Really (and I mean really) bummed to hear the Genestealer Cult isn't going to see any love in 6th Ed. I know that's not what he said directly, but I'm willing to bet that's what he meant. Gah.

I want my Cult back.

Ok so I've been painting a little too much rank and file guardsmen for my liking and the end doesn't look to be in sight soon. As this is supposed to be a Genestealer blog and I don't have many of the four armed monstrosities on here, its time to rectify that.

First off, here's the guys I'm repainting, a classic example of my painting from 10 years ago.





Progress in doing these will probably be slow as I still need to get through those guardsmen but I'm aiming on getting a batch of about five or so done.

Also, it looks like GW have taken down the painting guide that I was using. Scouring the net, I found this link that some guy posted:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/70588171/Space-Hulk-Stage-By-Stage

I took my own screengrabs to use as reference and here they are if anyone was also looking for this guide:



Also, in unrelated news, XCom is a good game.

So as usual I got distracted by stuff and never got round to doing what I had planned.

I managed to strip all my genestealers of their terrible 13 year old paintjob but that's about as far as I got with them. Most my paints got packed away over Christmas and I only cracked them out about a month or so ago and its mainly been Imperial Guard since then.

I have however managed a couple of Cult and scenery pieces and will post pictures once my camera is charged up.

I also however discovered (via the Genestealer Cult Yahoo! group) that there's a campaign on the horizon that will involve a Genestealer Cult. The campaign pack can be found here:

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m3050151a_Praedis_Zeta_rules_pack_V.1.pdf

Also, to add to my distractions, I've decided to start playing the Judge Dredd miniature game so I might start posting a few pictures relating to that too.

So things regarding the Cult have pretty much ground to a halt. I haven't painted a genestealer figure in probably around 6 months and a Games Workshop one in a similar amount of time. Factors affecting it include my 40k gaming groups shrinking, my Imperial Guard force reaching a state where I don't need that much more to it (I buy what I like the look of first and value for points second) and GW's increasingly bizarre marketing strategies.

I haven't stopped painting though so I thought I'd continue this blog on in another direction and cover all of my painting (or at least all that I can be bothered to talk about and take pictures of). I must point out though that this doesn't mark the end of the cult. I probably just need to play a game or two of Space Hulk before I want to drop everything to paint genestealers - so watch this space.

Meanwhile, I've really gotten into the Pulp Genre and bought some figures from the brilliant Pulp Figures website. These figures just ooze character and I've been looking into getting into some skirmish games (currently looking into Pulp Alley and .45 Adventure) so these seemed like a good choice.

I've stuck to the gangster ones for now and here's some of the pieces that I've painted and taken photos of using my phone camera (as my other camera never seems to be charged when I need it).













If you're interested in Pulp stuff, I'm attempting to blog about it, Here.

I've still got a few more Pulp Figures on my painting level that I've just undercoated but I'm currently working on an American, 1930s office building and, after being influenced by my friend Tom's project of repainting his Heroclix Here, I'm currently repainting the Elektra Heroclix (I wanted to start with a character I wouldn't care about if I messed up).

Finally, I've started shifting to the Vallejo Model Colour paint range of which the website Encycolorpedia is very useful as if you pass it in a colour (in hex rgb format) it lists many matching paint ranges, including the Vallejo paints.

Hopefully with my blog now being a bit wider in scope I may do some more posting.

Until then...

And here's Elektra:



The Heroclix figures aren't actually that bad sculpts. I think the simple paint job they come with makes them look not as good.

Unfortunately too, they seem to be just over 28mm in scale.

Last night I also finished the 2nd floor of my office block so in a few days I might have the finished article to show.

Outstanding work

Superb (said in 1920s gangster voice).

They are great - real good paintjobs for such simple minis. I highly recommend vallejo also - 90% of what I use is vallejo.

I've done a few more pieces. As usual, please excuse the camera quality as I haven't got round to finding a solution to my camera problem.

I'll start things off though with Spider-man's greatest nemesis (excluding Doctor Doom obviously) - The Shocker.



Another, simple Heroclix repaint.

On the pulp side of things, I've finished a building and a couple more characters:



The building is one of the Sarissa Precision City Block pieces which is a really nice kit.




I also watched the Rocketeer on TV.

Well I found some time to work on painting some 40k. Its not Genestealer Cult but its a start:



Old style Storm Troopers to be used as Veterans in my Imperial Guard force. I've got 20 of these to paint up, 10 as Red Berets (Paratroopers) and 10 as Green Berets (Commandos). I'll try to equip them as best I can for their role too (i.e. the green berets have closer ranged weapons due to them most likely to infiltrate).

I've got a bastion on the go too (though I've been working on that on and off for a few years now) as well as some more Pulp stuff which I'll post if I get any more time.

As per usual, I got distracted and went off on a tangent to paint other things.

The number of painted Storm Troopers now totals a mighty: 2.

The past few months has seen me paint up a few bits an pieces, an Imperial Guard Mortar squad, a few gangsters and started work on a Valkyrie (I always seem to find painting vehicles a chore).

However, I then went and watched the new X-Men film and caught the superhero bug and decided to do some related painting. So here is...


Spider-Woman



I can't make any promises about what I'll paint next or even when I'll post a picture of it, but watch this space!

Good to see you still around Roy, even if you're not progressing with the cult

Time for more (non-Cult related) painting.

I've gone into more detail about things on my blog (http://cultoftheskyfather.blogspot.co.uk/) but I'll cover some of the basics here.

Warning: this is a lot of images. If I get too many complaints, I can put them in a spoiler tag.
















I mainly use Vallejo paints, as I transition away from the Citadel paints. Though I still use some of the Citadel stuff along with some Army Painted washes (and black).

The shift is mainly for monetary reasons and that Vallejo seem to have a lot more shades (and I absolutely HATE having to mix paint). This did cause some confusion though as Vallejo have two different shades of red, both called red...

I know lots of people hate painting yellow, but I didn't have that many issues with it (I use the Citadel base yellow which is quite well at covering). My biggest issue was my lack of steady hand and managing to get black flicks over the finished yellow.

There's more Heroclix on my painting table (including a Sentinel) but with the recent release of Space Hulk, it might inspire me to go back to my set from 2009 and finally get around to painting it...

Heading back to 40k and something closer the Cult - a bald guy. Though this bald chap is more likely to be found on the opposing side of the battlefield as he's an Imperial Enforcer. The Forge World Event Figure from 2012 to be precise.

I bought this guy back when I attended Games Day. I really like the Adeptus Arbites so picked him up purely to paint. Unfortunately he sat in his packet in a box until a few months ago when I decided to paint him and his trusty hound.






(I need to get a better set up for taking photographs).

Very little shading was done on the Enforcer as the carapace, under shirt, and trousers were painted purely via highlights, whilst the hound involved a series of brown washes.

This was probably the first time I've highlighted black and not found the ordeal to be a pain.

I also have started work on the Space Marine Sergeant / Captain that was the event exclusive figure at that year's Games Day, but I've only painted his armour, so he's a long way from completion.