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No opinions on the projects, sadness. Well anyway, some WIP infantry happened!




Having played some Heresy 2.0 now, the need for basic tacticals seems timely again. I've had a bunch of cheap second hand mk III / IV marines laying around for a couple of years, now they'll get chopped up to shape (dear heavens if there wasn't a ton of mould lines on them to clean first...). The mk III seems a bit trickier to scale, but I found a good spot near the ankle and extended the thighs in the rubber tubing section so it should end up fine.

21 men waiting for their make-up sesh. I ended up sculpting some new heel armour on them as well to get it to curve right.



Reposing limbs on those ribbed legs required some violence.






"Bring your child to work", eh? The difference isn't generally this big, as the bionic leg and blutack push it up a bit, but still

Through the valley of death!

Had a nice four player bash of Titanicus for demonstration purposes. In the dead of night, amidst a fierce battle between Iron Warriors and Death Guard legions, the titans strode to duke it out properly. After the firestorms, mushroom clouds and orbital death-beams abated, the minty fresh God-Breakers were but a smouldering memory under the victorious tread of the Ashen Gods.

The most unlucky fellows on the field had to be the crew of the lone Stormhammer: imagine driving your slow juggernaut of a tank days on end to have a titan smash through the highway ramp right in front of your nose, have your treads fuse together with the asphalt as the Warlord next to you goes nuclear and end up buried under like three different titan-corpses

Loving the titan pics.

 Boringstuff wrote:
Loving the titan pics.

Thanks Boringstuff, I'll try to sneak in some more of those every now and then.

Meanwhile, I cracked open more stuff from the Age of Darkness box, this time starting with the giant pizza shovel axe man. Needless to say, that junk was right out. After a moment of deliberation, I instead made him a Moritat both for the fun factor of a loose cannon with bazillion shots and the idea of having such a bastard to lead my totally-coming-up-one-of-these-days Destroyers. Given their chunky size, didn't even have to do any real scaling work to have him be in line with the rest of the force.

Great kitbash and love the surgeries on the other marines, hack'n'slash is the motto of the day

And the poor tank crew, feeling safe in this thick armored vehicle and than have fate just laughing and throw all the stuff at it

Cheers Vi! It's a hard life out there in a tank when metal gods stomp all over the place

Paint comp next weekend, I'll try to finish the Moritat over the next couple of days.

Fun conversion for the Moritat, looking forward to paint - same goes for the biggerized dudes, curious to see paint pull the spacers together.

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Fun conversion for the Moritat, looking forward to paint - same goes for the biggerized dudes, curious to see paint pull the spacers together.

Look no further, Boss, for staff sergeant-moritat Sternberg is finished and very, very pissed. You get a rad grenade! You get a rad grenade! EVERYBODY GETS A RAD GRENADE!

 Sherrypie wrote:
You get a rad grenade! You get a rad grenade! EVERYBODY GETS A RAD GRENADE!

Lad looks great, pack integrated nicely across the 20? years of its existence.

 Boss Salvage wrote:


Lad looks great, pack integrated nicely across the 20? years of its existence.

Good question, I'm not actually sure when that double lightning claw Lord with a Jump Pack model came out. It's very likely on this millennium, but the exact year escapes me.

EDIT: the first catalogue with it is 2008, as far as I know

Haha, love the model and his "vibe". I was slightly worried that the jump pack would look too Night Lord-y, but your paint scheme ties it together nicely.

 Boringstuff wrote:
Haha, love the model and his "vibe". I was slightly worried that the jump pack would look too Night Lord-y, but your paint scheme ties it together nicely.

Cheers. It is a bit pointed, yeah, but reasonably clean of any obvious markers to particular legions. I'll probably go for something more along the lines of this old art for his squaddies down the line:

Cor aut mors! Favilla walks!

The Ashen Gods have two new engines to their ranks, as the 14th and 15th children charge forth from the painting station where they've languished for the last two years.

Flammae Aeternae, Eternal Flames, brings the heat with some casual OSL-tests. I debated adding a plume of cotton smoke to the burnt out bunker, but as of yet couldn't get it looking right.







Quies Interitus, Tranquility of Desolation, strides majestically to the ranks of other general purpose plasma + bolter 'Hounds. Never too many of those in a force.

The pose of the first warhound is niiiice. None of those awful static titans here!

 Boringstuff wrote:
The pose of the first warhound is niiiice. None of those awful static titans here!

With Twinfernoes, you're hitting that "Full Stride!" order quite often anyway, can't stand around posing when there's a lot of slamming to be done on the other side of the battlefield

Great looking pups, excellent aggro pose on the first one

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Great looking pups, excellent aggro pose on the first one

Cheers Boss. They ain't meant for peaceful parade posing

Technobarbarism of Old Earth, vol. III, painted!

The Veteran Guardsmen are a joy to play KT with, but man if it didn't feel like a slog to get them finished. I put some "good enough" tabletop slop on them on one June afternoon to have them ready for some demo games, but it took two months after that to return to them. The simple underlighting covered by translucent red was good for the first speed painting goal, but felt somewhat lacking when approached properly, sapping my motivation a bit. It happens, but at least two days of work later they are finally done and playable. Note to self, this was not a favored workflow of mine.

Anyway. The tax collecting bullies of a minor no-name warlord have come for your shoes, citizen! Cough up or prepare to get wrecked!

Extort softly and carry a big gun: plasma, flamer and grenade launcher.




Mortar spotter, melta and sniper.




The most trustworthy command group: a friendly doctor, an encouraging leader and his softspoken HR executive.




The special grunts: bossman's strong brother (known as "the Handle" for the bit he carries around, inexplicably proud of it) and the agitator, always ready to read their victims the reasons they are to be immediately de-shoefied.




The regular grunts. At the end of the day, fancy guns won't get you far without the riflemen kicking down the doors.

The annual AT mega-battle approaches, and as usual, I always have to make something new for it. So how about those Warmasters chilling in the grey mountains, then?

Excidium Ultimum (Ultimate Ruin), stride forth!





Trying out aluminum sheet banners for a change, we'll see how those fare.

Love the conversions, what a beast!

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Love the conversions, what a beast!

Ha, thanks Boss! Now it just needs a suitably impressive paintjob. So many sub-assemblies, grah...

Amazing paintjobs, but I can't imagine how do you plan to transport that last beauty XD

The aluminum banners look super cool! The details are all very impressive on that. I can't wait to see paint on it.

muette wrote:Amazing paintjobs, but I can't imagine how do you plan to transport that last beauty XD

Thank you, muette. See, the banner poles and a bunch of other body parts are all magnetized and easy to disassemble. It'll fit nice and tight in a box like all the others.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:The aluminum banners look super cool! The details are all very impressive on that. I can't wait to see paint on it.

Cheers Gwyn. Soon...

Too busy to get further on the modeling side for the moment, but at least the Warmaster is now primed.

Some Kill Team on the rad-wastes of Old Earth was had, though. The sorcerous Philosopher Kings gave them soldier boys a spanking.

Absolutely nailing the aesthetic, as always!

Now that is atmosphere you can cut with the knife! Pics look great and the game was hopefully fun too.

That is a great looking set up.

Cheers Vejut, Viterbi and bbb! Always fun to have a little KT bash