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There's been some great stuff in this thread so far. I've got another unit to add, this time a second squad of Primaris Intercessors from Dark Imperium:

More photos can be found in my blog. I'm not as satisfied with these ones as I hurried and messed some stuff up on them, but they're tabletop standard so I'll leave them as is for now.

@zergsmasher, tabletop is what I shoot for. Though I have been trying to stretch myself lately to do better, it's what I'm after in the end. Yours are looking great and would be a welcome opponent on the table .

So papa nurgle blessed me with the cold my wife had last week. So I got some paint time today as I couldn't sleep, but it was at least restful until my massive Darkness pledge arrived . I finished my stretch goal Dragon, though I might touch up the spikes on his back later.

Im particularly happy with how his eyes turned out. I wanted them to stand out from the model.

Plus the orange is going to be a spot color that appears on some of my characters in this samurai collection.
I also got the six mounted samurai that I picked up assembled and primed, so stretch stretch goal is on the way.

Five more Chaos Thugs:


More here.

In 8th edition, this guy is a unit.

I've mainly been doing stuff with Space Wolves style Primaris, but a somewhat guilty conscience made me go back and complete a squad of Guard (rescued in 'interesting' condition from ebay) as well as a couple of commissars all to a basic but serviceable (i.e. get 'em on the table) standard. Although looking at the picture I'm going to have to change the lady commissar's base to a GW one- I used Mantic as I couldn't find any GW ones, and it didn't look too out of place to the eye. Photo says otherwise though...



Wolf Style Reivers. I know the heads in the set seem to be kind of a love/hate thing and I have to say, I love them. For use on my Khorne guys. Still, the benefit of this project is that I can use wolves heads instead, port the Reiver heads over to my Khorne Bezerkers, and borrow the current heads off those (Marauder Horsemen heads) to use as Blood Claw heads or something.



And finally, I messed around with the Hellblaster squad as well. First go at using an airbrush to do a plasma glow. I'm sure I'll get better with practice. I had an idea that I was going to use all the wolves heads with hairstyles too 'wacky' to use elsewhere for the Hellblasters, on the basis that you probably need to be a little unhinged to lug those weapons around, but some of them are just too wacky even for that. Just realised that I haven't tidied up the areas where I put the custom decals on them. I'll have to go back to that (my record this month is less than stellar, I know)

I really do like those SW Primaris you are putting out!

 Slinky wrote:
I really do like those SW Primaris you are putting out!

Thank you- I'm having a lot of fun doing them and they are actually really quick to do as well. Getting the chance to try out/practice a lot of new stuff with them as well, including: basecoating infantry sized models with an airbrush (ok, they are rather large infantry sized figures, but I'm working my way down); using crackle medium to make ice effects; freehand tattoos; making my own transfers; plasma effects. I quite fancy making a diorama with them at some point (actually, I really fancy doing a diorama full stop, but space is becoming an issue)

Your making me like the primaries marines more and more. They are a good design and a nice update to the old models, but I dislike how many of the old figs I have that are now outdated no matter what they are saying.

I bought, primed and finished Chobei (Robin Hood type samurai figure) for Test of Honour yesterday. He comes with 10 ashigaru which will soon be assembled and painted up.

This is me if I was a samurai....overweight

I also made a terrain piece that's finished, a shrine built on a CD, which I've been doing a lot of for different things.


Also working on some bamboo woods as terrain, still in progress.

 Theophony wrote:
Your making me like the primaries marines more and more. They are a good design and a nice update to the old models, but I dislike how many of the old figs I have that are now outdated no matter what they are saying.

I didn't play 40k between 1997 and 2017 and had no loyalists left (although I have bought some chaos and Xenos stuff in that time) so for me the Primaris are a nice up to date range to come back to and I don't really have any investment in the older marines. It's easy for me as a result and a nice modern starting point but I think I would definitely be more sour about it if I had been collecting marines all that time, so I can respect that others may not like them so much.

 Theophony wrote:


I bought, primed and finished Chobei (Robin Hood type samurai figure) for Test of Honour yesterday. He comes with 10 ashigaru which will soon be assembled and painted up.

This is me if I was a samurai....overweight

I also made a terrain piece that's finished, a shrine built on a CD, which I've been doing a lot of for different things.


Also working on some bamboo woods as terrain, still in progress.

Lovely stuff here- the thematic scenery is really nice.

Wow, some pretty cool stuff keeps showing up whenever I turn my back to this thread. Keep it up, guys!

Meanwhile I'll just leave this here:

I'm calling him done at this point partly because I just want to move on with my Dark Imperium stuff. As always the camera was not kind to my slightly sloppy painting. It's good tabletop standard, so I'm definitely satisfied. More pics can be found in my P&M blog.

To continue with my Test of Honour range I built and painted up some buildings.

Still painting rocks to hold the roofs down......it's a thing.....really.

And still to come...

Won't take long to paint. Now I always thought these were red, but I was reading and one of the sites say they are orange . Has anyone seen real life ones and are they more orange or red? Or are they the old blood angel orange?

Torii are traditionally bright red. Here is the Japanese Wikipedia page with some photographic examples. Note that some are plain wood, and others are concrete. You have a lot of options.

Here are some Slaves To Darkness-era Chaos Knights:


More here.

Great stuff here guys - I've commented in people's individual threads already, so I'll just compliment Taaloc individually here on the great looking guard (even moreso if they're "rescue" models) and lovely looking Primaris Wolfy McWolves.

Got some stuff for September finally photographed.

Will painted. Not that interesting and slightly subpar cast.
Basic Zombies

Archers

and a pair of lady NPCs



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Excellent stuff by the way guys.

@Azazelx Thanks very much! Running out of steam with them, mainly because I'm pretty much out of wolf bits, Having a go at learning to sculpt fur, though.

In the meantime, got a Redemptor Dreadnought ready (ish):

That SW Redemptor is AWESOME! Really great use of SW bits to make the model unique!

Great stuff Taaloc!

Great work everyone .

That Dreadnought looks fantastic, all the emblems really look designed for it. Just enough rounded edges to match the roundedness of the dread. Color is also gorgeous .

I still have so much zombicide Black Plague to paint and I just received massive darkness, and they want me to finalize my green horde pledge . Yours are looking great and really fit the dark theme well.

I'm going to try and clear a table in the basement to set up my painted for the month and all my terrain I built this month. Possibly pics early in the morning.

Yeah Theophony I'm in the same boat and Massive Darkness was why I selected this rather than Spaceships. I'm probably not going to get it finished by the end of the challenge as well.....
Equally Red Cap Rodney enters the fray

Completing my September pledge.

Just managed to sneak this in before the end of the month.

Nice iron warrior predator , is the transfer on the side of it custom or forgeworld?

Great job on the zombicide. I should buy some of the crows, but that is so far back burner now it's not even funny .

Well as I said I'd try and get a group shot I just grabbed everything and threw it on a board. Closer pics in my thread.



Also while technically not done and not even a model I took about an hour this morning and chopped up some pvc pipe (1" pipe cut to 2.5" lengths) and glued them together.

I always hated having to pick up a dozen dropper bottles to find the color I was looking for. I could have put a drop on each tip, but that looks messy.

I'm thinking of shooting the whole thing with black spray paint which would help it blend into my paint desk better. It only has 31 spaces (about a quarter of my dropper bottles), so I will need to build this up/out more.

Thanks

All the transfers are from the FW sheet.

Might have to nick that idea Theophony. Great Predator Manalishi!

You guys are smashing it! That's a lot of survivors, Llamahead. Very, very respectable for a month! I haven't even opened anything past the base game of Black Plague, let alone painted any of it yet, and yeah, giant boxes of Massive Darkness moved into the shed and Green Tide (Green Horde?) just paid for. Ouch!

Love the Redemptor Dread, Taaloc. Your Wolves are really sweet. Have you thought of checking in the Swap Shop to see if people have any Space Wolf bits to spare? Given what GW pack onto a sprue, there must be a ton of unused bits floating about out there.

Predator looks ace, Manalishi. I keep meaning to finish some armour for my IW but I keep getting distracted by more infantry.

And for my own final contribution to September:



Some more pics here.

Lots of inspiration in this thread. The Dread and Predator have turned out great.

Here's everything I have done in Septemger:


More photos here.

Here's my latest finished work, the squad of Hellblasters from Dark Imperium:

More pics can be found in my P&M blog. I hope to have much more to show this month; at least the Primaris Ancient and perhaps some Death Guard stuff as well. We'll see how much I can get done.

The Chaos theme continues, this time with Beastmen:


More here.

Another model finished, the Primaris Ancient:

That's the last of my Dark Imperium Primaris Marines. More pics of this model, and a group shot of all of my Dark Imperium Marines, can be found in my P&M blog.

Another hero-is-also-a-unit from me today:



This is Nârik Dreygur, an Iron Warrior named character from 30k who I'll also (mostly) be using as an Exalted Champion in 40k. More pics here

Here are some more beastmen:



More here.