The Sons of Prospero Go To War! [EMBER RETURNS!!]

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**Ynneadwraith**

Very nice

I like the baroque look of the Custodes. How do they compare size-wise with a normal Marine?

**CREEEEEEEEED**

How's the wolf boy going?

**EmberlordofFire8**

Update on the Space Pupper:

I had to mix my own Dawnstone with abbadon black and ceramics white, so its not perfect, but ehh.

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And the next update:

**EmberlordofFire8**

I am almost done with Geigor.

Yes, I am much better at painting grey. Yes, I cant paint red very well. No, I will not change my army to Space Wolves. The KSons are staying.

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Also a comparison pic for Ynneadwraith

Custodes, here with Sergeant Don't-Mess-With-Me.

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Geigor is done! Pics are here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/719460.page#9248458

Now back to KSons. I wont be able to paint next weekend (I'm in france) but the weekend after that will hopefully see me finish the ZM board and Support Squad.

**Ynneadwraith**

Thabks dude

i was slightly concerned that they might look small compared to my truesxale marines but no worries now

As for painting reds, have you tried a brown wash like Reikland Fleshade? I've found that with a re-highlight of the original colour looks pretty sweet

**WarbossDakka**

Geigor looks awesome man. If you could fit the pupil in he'd be perfect!

**EmberlordofFire8**

I thought I share my overall progress here:

Geigor, the most recent Marine I've painted, is on the left. On the right is the first marine I built and painted. That was roughly 3 years ago, so Ive made some progress at least

I also change my KSons painting method slightly, I now undercoat with Mephiston Red Spray, THEN glaze with watered-down Mephiston Red, THEN do an all-over Agrax Earthshade wash. After that Evil Sunz Scarlet and Fire Dragon Bright.

**Ynneadwraith**

Love 'first vs latest' mini comparisons

it's great to look back and see how far you've come.

Saying that, the banner on your first Marine's really not bad

**EmberlordofFire8**

My FW stuff finally arrived! (Sons torsos/MK IV heads)

So I decided to build Tolbek!

His right arm, legs and backpack are from BaC, his head is a MK IV KSons one, as is the torso. His left arm and shoulder pads are Rubric Marine ones, and the eye on his backpack is from the Rubric Marine sorcerer staff. I also gave him a book from a GK banner and a knife from the WE glade guard box. Oh, and a Vanguard Vet chainsword.

Next up are the rest of the seekers!

Ember

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Finished up the seekers!

Sergeant with Artificer armour and power fist:

Seeker with Bolter

He has defiantly just spotted something and is figuring out how he will kill it.

Seeker with Combi Melta

And one with Combi Plasma

**ThisUsernameIsRandom**

Test, please ignore!

**EmberlordofFire8**

I have started work on the first of the two tac blobs!

Those KSons upgrade bits are addicting, Ive already used 5 heads and 3 torsos in the last few hours.

**EmberlordofFire8**

I started painting my support squad:

**WarbossDakka**

Don't you love it when the FW stuff arrives.The red's looking good too!

**EmberlordofFire8**

A question for you guys: I kinda want to do another character conversion for my army. Id like to do one of these. Which one of these should I do?

Chaplain: I guess? Doesn't seem too KSons-y to me...
Master of Signals: Good in-game, and Id Kina like to see a psychic MoS
Legion Champion: THIS could be awesome (read: Biomancy!!). Aaaand fluffy.
Viligator: Also kinda fluffy, especially with Amon and the KSons scout-things
Another Librarian: Why not?
Forge Lord: Not TOO fluffy, but ok. Also a potential cheese king (I wrote something about him on the KSons tactics thread)
Siege Breaker: Again, not fluffy.
Primus Medica: Fluffy-ish, plus useful on the battlefield
Moritat: Nerfed to death, but I like them. Also fluffy.
Delegatus: serves no real purpose. No idea why id do him...
Legion Praevian: I don't have any robots (YET!!!! -Ember'sInnerForgeworldLover) so doesn't have any purpose.

Please help guys!

Ember

**WarbossDakka**

Psychic MoS sounds pretty awesome. I'd go with that.

**Ynneadwraith**

My votes go for the MoS and the Legion Champion

specifically the latter (I'm picturing a KSons Emperor's Champion with a massive 2-handed Khopesh).

**EmberlordofFire8**

I realized that a ML 1 Champ with a force stave and biomamcy (for Uron Arm) attacks at WS 6, STR 8! That is, I also found these combinations

Potential KSons Cheese Combinations.

Master of Signals.....135p
Mastery lv. 1 (telekinesis)
Artificer armour
Refractor Field
Force Axe
-Raptora

Any power is good.

Legion Champion.....125p
Mastery Lv. 1
Refractor Field
MC Force Stave
Artificer Armour
-Pavonii

IRON ARM!!

Forge Lord.....145p
Mastery Lv. 1
MC Force Axe
Rad grenades
Boarding Shield
-Pavonii

Enfeeble for him, coupled with Rad Grenades.

I was also wondering if anyone wanted to see my Raven Guard army (minus the vindicator and Drop Pods, those are still being painted).

**EmberlordofFire8**

I wrote my own Narrative Campaign (inspired by miniwargaming's many campaigns) and thought id share it here!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/722035.page#9280987

Check it out! (Please comment on THAT thread, not here)

Ember

**nurgle5**

Nice blog, mixing bits from the Thousand Sons kit into the MKIII looks very nice!

EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
I am almost done with Geigor.

Yes, I am much better at painting grey. Yes, I cant paint red very well. No, I will not change my army to Space Wolves. The KSons are staying.

How'd you do the base on the right there? Looks very cool.

**EmberlordofFire8**

I stuck bits of sprue down and then covered the whole thing with PVA. I then dumped it in my Base Box (Mostly sand, plaster chips, small rocks, gravel, dried PVA, sprue clippings, grass tuffs, clump foliage, even a few melts guns and CSM bolters). I then spray painted it Chaos Black and dry brushed over it, followed by Agrelllan Earth in patches and BFTBG/ Nurgles Rot.

**EmberlordofFire8**

I have started painting Ahriman (again!!)

**WarbossDakka**

It's been a while now, and I still love that sculpt. It'll be nice to see your take on it.

**Solar_lion**

Your Reds are improving.. good show so far!

**EmberlordofFire8**

Another WIP Ahriman pic:

Yes, I did spill some Agrax Earthshade

Now, I am also posting this to ask you guys something. What should I do for the next Unofficial Painting Comp? The theme is "Primal", so no KSons, but I have a few other ideas:

1: https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99070207002_CairnWraithNEW01.jpg
Dark Mechanicum Tech-priest with this as a base.

2: Some kind of Space Wolf

3: ORKS!

**CREEEEEEEEED**

Out of the three, the wolf is the most 'primal' but the Dark Mechanicum tech priest is what I wanna see the most. And I have spilt more pots of paint than I want to think about.

**EmberlordofFire8**

More progress has been made.

**Solar_lion**

Looking good.. making me want to paint him out of my box set.

**EmberlordofFire8**

I decided to use some of y unpainted BaC minis for the tactical squads, so I was left with a few extra MK IIIs. Heres what I did with one:

Easy conversion, his bolt pistol was given an Ork bayonet and I used a bolter magazine to make it look special (Its an Archaeotech pistol, after all). His banner is half a Plague Monk stave with scrolls from the same box, as is the censer (cut off from a plague monk flail).

I also decided to use Ahriman's bas for Tolbek, and build a new one for Ahriman.

More work will be done today, and I'll hopefully purchase my Cairn Wraith (for the Tech Priest) later today or tomorrow.

Ember

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Update!

**EmberlordofFire8**

Ohhhhkay. I went and purchased my cairn wraith and have spent the last few hours getting this together:

I swear GW actually has evil spirits haunting these things. I does NOT want to stay on ANY base, and nothing seems to stick to it. Sigh...

**Ynneadwraith**

Ooh nice! There's so much potential for grimdark gribblies with the Cairn Wraith. I love the tube coming out of the skull's mouth idea