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Nurgley stuff is sooo good, and the Wolves are great. Might sound strange but I like the banner bearer, his face actually looks like he has been out in the cold.

Ulric and Njal are looking pimp! Arjac's flesh tones and the shading on his face look great too

Great work on those Wolves, Nerdy. Hopefully you get to smack them around a bit soon!

Hey everybody! I have a boring grey update for you I just wanted to show you my progress on the build for my upcoming Minotaus army and a little update on Belisarius as well as a bit of terrain I finished after I found it in a drawer

So anyway here's a little run through, first my Terminator Chaplain I scored.

Ivanus Enkomi Head Chaplain of the Minotaurs, he can be fielded with a power sword/fist and a jump pack so I thought he would be fun to run with an assault squad I do need a jump pack for him but I can't find one of the older ones that have the jets on each side like the HH ones? any ideas?

I also finally got hold of these models and as is normal for me I removed one of the heads (the dead dudes skull) and added a suitably pained expression one instead!


The Command squad I built for the Fists now are going to destroy in the name of the Minotaurs, I also added some appropriate Bull horns on my chapter champion!


Ten man assault squad

cobbled together a dev squad with 4 missile launchers hope they'll be useful?

Sniper scouts (they were rescue models so a bit rough)

Still trying to work out if I should attack the Tac squad pads and cut them off with clippers? so i can add Minotaurs pads?

Boom Boom car.



Now here's Gits' stuff I was offered Celestine to keep but after a review from a mate of mine who played against her and said she was a pain in the ass I just HAD to paint her for him


and Belisarius CAAAWWWWWLLLLL



And the terrain from the old Battle for Macragge scrubs up well






Phew! a lot of not much but i'd love some talky talk so i can reply when I'm free at work tomorrow?

Lovely stuff all round! The Wolves are looking mean as anything and the Mino builds are ace.

Minotaurs are looking great Nerdy. Very characterful. Love the casualty bases too. I can't wait to see what you do with Celestine!

If you have one, the jump packs from the Sang Guard would look cool on ol' Ivan.

Very nice builds. I think you should caption your work...
Your HG marine in the terrain saying " I took this down with my power fist. I'm that good!"

lol must have been a low flying lander Solar! if he was an Angry Marine I'd understand.......

Whaley, I think the mk4 packs would look good but I'm doubtful it would work with his helmet crest? I had a Dark Furies pack I tried and it sort of hits the back of his head :-( I was looking at the MaxMini ones but I'm not really wanting to spend that much..... yet.

i've got some more to assemble for my Minotaurs but I'm going slow with them, namely another 2 Tac squads, 2 Rhinos and i'm waiting on some FW bits and some things in the post then i'll go go Gadget assembly arms....

Let me know if you need something. I have a tremendous assortment of bits now.

Well I may need a jump pack but i'll let you know, you've already been more than generous with your gift of what shall be called Big Nasty! (that's not as dirty as it sounds guys...)

I also really need to get back to painting faces again! looking at how nice the HG face is and compared to some of my latest ones I feel i'm slipping a bit. but I need some fresh blood so to speak, anyone got any examples of cool expression filled bare heads I can spend way too much money to buy?

Every time I catch up on your blog there is all this painting goodness going on. Your Howling Griffin is so good, should just put that in all your posts somewhere ;-).

Damn that's a lot of painted minis you've churned out! All lovely stuff but the Nurgle fellow with the bloody mass of tentacles spilling out of him was a highlight!

Yorkright wrote:
Every time I catch up on your blog there is all this painting goodness going on. Your Howling Griffin is so good, should just put that in all your posts somewhere ;-).

I thought the same, Yorkright . He can be your consistent scale comparison mini!

Great looking builds, Damo. Cawl and the crashed Aquila also look fantastic.

@ Ritides my best mini pales in comparison to Nerdys stuff, but it does give me incentive to try harder! Perhaps he should send me the HG model so I can put it in all my photos... ;-P

Moar finished model and more work in progress and more assembled Minotaurs! and I think you'll find that Howling Griffon is indeed already well placed throughout my posts as a scale measure and all round random dude

But today lets see what my rendition of Belisarius Cawl looks like! he was very fiddly but a very rewarding model, lots of metals that look very spindly and prehensile are a good match with some really nice red robes that sort of jump out at you and then his face sort of hidden but still very important to his overall feel.

Also today I started Celestine and her ladies, wanted a slightly different look to her than I have seen, still Celestine but a little more 'Damofied' so darker and a little more baroque and her wings on the jump pack are surging with energy.

and lastly my Mino scouts have new heads I bought! really crisp and clean sculpts from a place on FB and I assembled what is now one of my favorite kits! plastic Tartaros terminators are the bomb!









and now Celestine and her bodyguards!




Scouts with rebreather heads, I think they look good and still look marine.




and these beautiful Terminators one with a bearded head from the same seller as the scouts. I also have ANOTHER squad on it's way of Tartaros so they'll most likely be Storm Bolter and fist guys? but i'm open to thoughts?

Love those head swaps, really nice. the old boy looks amazing bud, really beautiful work. And I really love what your doing with Celestine. Asalways a pleasure visiting this blog.

That's an amazing Belisarius. Lovely work!

Ahh yes a whole PILE of great stuff as 'uhge. Those bronzes and ancient metals are a sight to see, youve got a real handle on working with that kind of aesthetic. And you sir have done what i cannot, and that is paint those damn terrain pieces from Macragge. Those look fantastic!! So much hobby here all the time. Makes me feel lazy...

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Cawl looks fantastic Damo, really like the way you went to black on his robes.

Ladies are looking good so far, am interested to see what you do with those wings.

OMG! you just get more awesomer at conversion and paint work each time Damo!

Thanks guys, I'll get a pic of the Triumverate when i'm done, so Greyfax, Cawl and Celestine, i've kept them with similar aesthetic and palette so they'll be unmistakable! not that a flying lady in golden armour, a giant robotic humanoid and a lady who looks like a witch hunter would be hard to identify!

Celestine and guards should be done this week too if I can get some time before work each day

Belisarius looks sooo good, well done!!

Thanks RiTides! when am I getting some more of your models to play with dude? :-)

I'm sending you them this week! (and actually part is already en route )

Could be a pretty decent week for me! there's a good chance that Celestine and friends will be finished before the end of the week and my mate Cam, wants to have a game of 40K! so he's hopefully coming over friday to move the table into a usable space and then back Sat for a game of my Orks against his Nurgle army (I just painted) should make for some sweet pictures I won't do a bat-rep since i'm not great with rules so I'll grab some snapshots of momentous occasions

I'm also waiting on a bunch of CD's from ebay and this is good because I just love listening to music and painting for hours........ which will be helpful as I need to finish off the Reaver titan and wave 2 of Nurgle.....

Yeah, but the artists are such potty mouths!

They still make CD's?

The red on Cawl is magnificent. It's such a deep and perfect execution of he mechanicum red. Have seen few that come close to that. Is he a pain in the proverbial model to assemble?