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AVE DOMINUS NOX, ladies and gentlemen

I've been a long time collector and gamer in Warhammer40k universe and decided to join DakkaDakka to share my work with others. Some of you may remember my thread on the Bolter and Chainsword forum, but I believe most of you don't know me. So little a bit about myself: I am a passionate collector of Night Lords since 2011. My main area of operations is converting and painting (not that much into playing, just fun and friendly gaming). Currently I have collection of about 5k fully painted and converted. This will be my WIP thread here, where I will post my projects and finished stuff from time to time, hopefully on a regular basis.

But we are here for miniatures, aren't we? Here are some of my old miniatures:

2011:






2012:




2013:





2014:




2015:



Finally the projects I've painted this year:




And my latest project, a Chaos Warsmith - an attempt to build something different than the original model:






Thank you for stopping by, I hope you will enjoy the stuff

Nice collection there DarkVen.

Although good from the start, I can see how you've improved since 2011.

I like that you're not afraid to hand paint details. All of those lightning effects must have taken forever!

I was too scared to hand paint my own chapter icon, so made one from green stuff and took a cast of it, so I could reproduce! You've done it on 'hard mode'

Very nice collection of Night Lords.and other Choas bits, great to see how your skills have improved and you've refined your style.

EDC

Thank you for your replies guys! Sadly, I wasn't updating this thread for more than a half a year I believe. I hope to make more frequent updates, I promise.
I hope this thread won't get closed and I won't get banned for bringing back a thread with no replies for such a long time, since I couldn't find the forum rules...

Now, something new I've painted in 2016:

Lucius:



And a few old school raptors:

AVE DOMINUS NOX, ladies and gents.

Hey guys. It's been a while since my last update – to be fair, I went to a hospital for almost two months, without any possibility to do my stuff with miniatures obviously. The only thing I was able to do is to take failure-badge after failing CoC, but I guess I wouldn't have completed it either way... I am still recovering now, but broken was my body, not the spirit. A man always remembers his debts. Thus shall I continue my timeless and always inconstant efforts to convert and to paint...

First of all, let me look back at what has been made the last year:


13 models in total – not much obviously, yet there were some notable milestones.

First of all, I've painted all the cult characters for my collection, which was the first achievement for me to get in 2016. I am pretty satisfied with the paint job, yet right after I was done GW released the new versions of Khârn and Ahriman, which I absolutely adore... of well, I think I'll buy and paint them some time soon just for my collection. But these timeless classics will always have their honorable place in my army and can always find a spot on the table.

Next achievement was my first big project – the Warsmith under the alias of "Tarantula". For me personally it was a comeback to conversion table of some sorts, not only literally, but more of a spiritual kind. I consider this miniature to be the creator and the engineer behind all the new stuff to come, which will consist of various conversions, my personal interpretations of the classic GW's designs and other heretech. At the same time, it was a new step for me: the conversion itself barely has any solid parts which were not cut, sculpted or modified in any way to fit the leading "vibe" of that particular character.

And the third thing was, in fact, the classic metal raptor squad. I've already payed homage to the sculpt of these, and the only thing I could do was to give them the best paint job I could. It took it's time – somewhat two months to be exact, which indirectly influenced my productivity the last year. But I don't regret it, as these ones have one of the finest paintjobs in my army, if I say so myself. Another positive thing is, I've remembered how to paint the entire squads of models, tried a few new painting recipies which I consider now to use further and in the end the overall quality of my work just got a level higher.

And – to some more reminescence. Here is a shot of my entire painted collection so far, starting way back in 2011:





According to the last codex (which I believe is of the 6th edition) it is 110 models which sum up into 5724 points in total. Now there are obviously much more efficient hobbyists out there, and I cannot say I've used every opportunity to do stuff in the recent 5+ years. I also believe that this is not the most brilliant collection of all, all in terms of gaming, fluff and models. Yet it is the greatest achievement of my work and as downsides, it has it's own upsides – it is fully-converted and has it's fair share of tales to tell. Now I consider it to be somewhat a starting point from where I am going to go in future.

I also brought something relatively new – concepts of my coming Obliterator cult:




Now.
I have a few "debts" quote-unquote which I want to finish first. I remember one of my old vows (a believe to Brother Jim) about compiling a full tutorial on how I paint Night Lords, which I'm going to work on when I get to the daemon prince – so, around April I hope have it done and posted.

The next project after obliterators will be something very special: a unit of chosen ones. Honestly I can't wait to share my ideas with you guys (and I already have with some of you msn-wink.gif ), but it'll have to wait until I finish oblits, so I don't get off the tracks here.
As of this blog, I will try to be more consistent and frequent with updates: more WIPs, more paintjobs, more fluff, some sneak-peeks here and there. I myself love to read consistent and frequently updated threads with nice finished products, so I'll try to turn this into one this year.

Cheers,
DV

Good Lord this is an impressive body of work

Really nice paint, and so many little plastic serial killers! It's beautiful. Ave Dominus Nox indeed!

Love the sketches as well. They're really really cool

Looking forward to what's coming!