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In hindsight, that metal Hesh pattern bolter is awful. Don't like it at all. Should have just stolen the one from the plastic Ultramarine (who thankfully, doesn't have any Ultramarine bling on his weapon)

Here's a wee bit I did on one of the Dungeon Saga trolls. I've been on a bit of a painting burnout of late... just not getting much done at all.. The mould lines are such a pain in the arse on these things! I eventually just fethed it off and painted it anyway.

Nice start on the troll. I haven't even looked at the green guys from that pledge yet. As for mold lines....I'm not good enough of a painter to think they will destroy my work so most of the time if they aren't easy to get to/fix, then they get to stay.

Sweet start there fella. Pretty cracking fig

Awesome Troll, I can't wait to see it finished. Very detailed model.

Cheers for the feedback all, I was thinking about maybe painting a bit of carroburg crimson, or some thinned down BFTBG on his stone axe to give it a "recently used" look. Also, do you think I should throw in some metallics there to give it a "cobbled together" look? Or just keep it as studded leather?


Azalle- details wise, I think GW, Prodos and Minion minis do a far better job on their sculpts. Mantic stuff can be a bit rough-arsed (IMO) with some very soft details.

The one thing that catches my eye about the leather is all the pieces are the same. I see trolls and my orcs as a rabble force so when I have multiple pieces of leather next to each other I tend to break them up slightly with different shades. It's just a mental thing with me as I don't see too many leather workers who ply their trad making armor or clothes for the larger species, so if a troll, ogre or giant has leather armor I always assume that they have taken the leather from other sources (multiple human armor sets) and laced them together, Otherwise I think he's looking great.

Hmm might mix it up a bit then.

On a further note, here is why you make sure all your models are well fething clear of the spraying area.
I was painting up my Deathwatch with some chaos black spray. Then my brother wanted me to do his Tyranid broodlord, biovore and Neurothrope in mephiston red.



All 7 of the Deathwatch team guys I was priming ended up like this. Balls. Now on the one hand it does make some nice osl. But probably would've looked better after I'd finished the fething models!

Those deathwatch guys get really bloody don't they . I did a similar thing years ago with a model I really liked how I painted it. I wS taking it outside to photograph it and remembered I needed to prime something else. The light was hidden by a cloud so j went and grabbed the primer and proceeded. The wind kicked up and my nice model was too close and downwind.

Disaster averted! The red paint didn't adhere to any of the Deathwatch marines! Quick dust off with the cleaning brush sorted it right out. The Emperor Protects indeed!

I never had much luck with the Mephiston red spray, glad that you were able to avert disaster.

Apart from the mould lines how did you find the material for the DS minis? Troll looks good so far.

Hello once again! This evening I managed to get a game of Deathwatch Overkill in, cleansing the filthy Xenos as any loyal servant of the Emperor would!
I played as Kill-Team Cassius and my brother played as the Ghosar Quintus cult. For this first mission, the Deathwatch start with 4 marines of your choice. In this instance, it was Gryt(frag cannon)Sorrlock(Combi Melta)Donatus(using my DA Deathwatch bolter marine) and Cassius. My objective- To kill 25 Cultusts. The cult has to kill 2 of the Kill-Team. First turn saw me wiping the floor with the cultists, Gryt and Donatus inflicting some seriously nasty shooting with solid shot(frag cannon)Kraken and Hellfire rounds. Donatus in particular was a surgeon with the bolter, his Kraken rounds killing things on a 2+/3+. He also gets to shoot twice for both shooting phases in the deathwatch turn!

The Deathwatch deploy


The first kills..


As Kill-Team Cassius moves further into the Ghosar Quintus facility, my brother got some eye watering results with his Gambits and Ambush cards. The cultists start to surge out from the shadows to defend their home from those who would seek to harm their Four-Armed Emperor and his children. Donatus and Cassius are getting mobbed by 1st and 2nd gen cultists, backed up by Aberrants with power picks. Sorrlock and Gryt are also getting overwhelmed. I managed to kill the grenade launcher and mining laser cultists before they got a shot off, thankfully! I LOVE the frag cannon!!


With only 6 kills to go, Cassius is wounded by a lucky hit from the Aberrant's pick. But responds with a powerful couple of hits from his crozius, smashing the mutant scum into paste and firing a kraken round into the nearest cultist's face. Donatus and Sorrlock wrap up the mission nicely by killing the last handful.


You may be wondering why there's not much genestealer cult action here- I think to really make the cult effective, you're better off Lurking until the marines get close to an entry point. Otherwise, it's very much a shooting gallery. My brother's Genestealers can't really do jack at range without some heavy weapons, like a grenade launcher or mining laser. Yes, marines are pretty lethal at either close quarters or ranged combat, but you can certainly limit their firepower by bogging them down. I only really began to feel the pressure once the cultists started closing in here, by which time, I was not far from winning.

Overall though, I love this game! Just need to assemble the rest of the box set, since mission II requires all cultists, the Trysst Magus and Primus.


Oh and before I hit the hay, did a wee bit on not-Donatus' base to fit the underground mining facility theme.

Nice bat-rep! It does seem like playing the Genestealer Cult is much harder than the Marines. To be honest I am looking forward to the challenge!

I also wondered about playing through the entire campaign but not allowing the Marine player to continue with marines that were killed in previous games. Will you be playing mission 2 soon?

 Bottle wrote:
Nice bat-rep! It does seem like playing the Genestealer Cult is much harder than the Marines. To be honest I am looking forward to the challenge!

I also wondered about playing through the entire campaign but not allowing the Marine player to continue with marines that were killed in previous games. Will you be playing mission 2 soon?

Well, to be fair in this first mission, the Astartes get to re-roll any dice that fails to score a hit in the first turn to represent that the Deathwatch team are expending lots of ammo to keep the cultists distracted from the 2nd group in mission 2, which is occurring at the same time.
Bravo team are trying to destroy the vox array, as they don't realise the enemy have brood telepathy yet.

As you go through the campaign, there are bonuses that can be carried through to the next mission. So, for this first mission, a Deathwatch victory gets no special benefits for the next mission. If the cult wins, they have a hand of 8 Broodmind cards for Mission 2, rather than 7.

Like I said, the genestealer approach is less all guns blazing and more, ambush and overwhelm, so it pays to wait and close in.

Mission 2 should be hilarious though. Delassio has the Black Rage special rule, so if he rolls doubles when using the chainsword (2A with Rend hits on 3+) he loses the flamer for the rest of the mission, but is granted 4 attacks with the chainsword. That, combined with being able to JP to Combat range will be pretty terrifying for the Cult player.

For that mission, we were using Cultists from DV mixed with a few of the 1st-4th gen cultists from DWO. They blend in pretty nicely! Just got the Trysst lads and the 20 or so cultists to assemble. I also need to paint some bits on Donatus, Suberei and Branatar before I stick them together. As well as fixing the brazier on the latter (ffs)

Looking forward to seeing the next mission.

I've been thinking about picking up the game only on ebay as I have plenty of models. It looks super fun.

Sooo. this weekend while returning home, my DWO models suffered a casualty or two in transit. Anton Delassio, the Cursed Prince- his chain sword snapped off at the crossguard, so I've had to cut the arm off. The plastic was too warped to make a clean fix, so I've found a Death Company chain sword arm that makes him look a good bit cooler!
Branatar's brazier thingy needs fixing as well since that's now become a bit wobbly! Ugh. I should really lay these models on their backs in the foam.

Before:


After
Someone's going to have a serious case of chain sword to the face...

Trying to bring back my paint mojo with some Stormcast Eternals. That Star Drake has got me champing at the bit for more. Would make for a good scrap with a Bloodthirster! Noble hero on the back of a great drake battling a big nasty daemon=legendary. Got to finish my current Stormcasts first. It has been pledged.

Anyways, my Stormcast scheme for Knights of the Aurora Chamber has changed a bit. Instead of shading the silver armour with Nuln Oil, I've used Coelia Greenshade. Gives it that nice greenish hue.I'm then going to layer up with Ironbreaker and Runefang for the highlighting.

I like that a lot AOV, gives a really nice ethereal quality to the Stormcast Eternals, seems like you could paint a fair few units quickly in that scheme as well. Hope you get over the slump soon.

Did a wee bit more- managed to get the rest of the unit primed up. Lotsa hammers.
As always, thanks for looking. Comments welcome

Managed to get 2 games of Deathwatch in today, first of which was Mission II: Vox Noctis.
For this one, you can't use the same characters as you did in the first mission as it's happening simultaneously. The Deathwatch can only field 6 so for this one I ran with Jetek Suberei, Garran Branatar, Jensus Natorian, Anton Delassio, Zameon Gydrael and Drenn Redblade.

Victory Conditions

Deathwatch: Get 4 marines to occupy all 4 of the energy cell zones at the Vox Array section.
Genestealer Cult: Kill 3 marines before they reach the Vox Array.

Board setup:


To begin with, I sent Suberei up the right flank and Delassio up the left to try and get to the other end as quickly as possible. This would mean my brother has less time to gather his strength. Delassio's jump pack allows him to move up to Combat range instead of traversing 2 zones on foot. So that's about 8" give or take. Suberei is also pretty quick on his bike and can move 4 zones in a single move. His cyber-eagle allows you to sneak a peek at 1 of the Cult player's ambush cards before you move to allow you to make a judgement on where you want to move to. (shown below)

My brother gets pretty lucky with his card draws for pretty much the entirety of this mission (bastard). Starting with Purestrains and a bucket load of cultists as well as a Magos. Though the latter didn't do very well with his Domination ability, all my team members ignored the voices in their heads and powered on through. So no reducing my marines brainless drooling genestealer prey.

In hindsight, I probably should have sent more guys with Suberei and Branatar. My brother managed to get 2 mining lasers on one of his ambush reveals, and the extra firepower wouldn't have gone amiss! Picking your characters is pretty important. Grytt's frag cannon was sorely missed for this mission!
After some frustratingly bad shooting from me, I managed to press on and close in on the target. Suberei blasts to the other end of the map and activates the teleport beacon allowing Branatar's slow arse to catch up (he can only move 1 zone at a time, but can fire both his flamer and the meltagun in each Deathwatch shooting phase!)
Again, I suffer some really crappy dice rolls and struggle to kill that fething Magos. His psychic shield gives him and any models in the same zone a 2+ save. I eventually managed to bump him off with a well placed plasma pistol shot (Gydrael) and a few kraken rounds (Suberei). I think I could have really benefited from Edryc Setorax(RG) being in on this one, You can't shoot at him unless he's at Combat/Assault Range, and he only needs 2+'s to hit things with his lightning claws!

Speed is definitely the essence of this mission, don't mess about! Try to kill the things in your way, cause a lot of the time the cultists can't shoot for gak lol. Saying that though, I spent a lot of time trying to kill the fething Primus and his mates. Bastard just wouldn't die. Truly, the dice gods favoured my brother for this one, as his autorifle wielding little gaks managed to bring down Branatar... the fething terminator!! Ughhh! Suberei followed shortly after that and then Natorian. MISSION FAILED.

Campaign progress:

Deathwatch 1
Genestealer Cult 1



**Edit:

I also managed to get mission 3 done, but my camera battery was flat so no pics unfortunately. Deathwatch did manage to win this one! Basically I had to go fetch the silly Inquisitor's servo skull that was floating about. (Locate the C.A.T. Space Hulk mission, anyone?). This mission was a lot less stressful than Mission II since I had Grytt and his trusty frag cannon handy to clear a lot of the Cultists before they became a problem. The Cult get to use EVERYTHING for this one so I had to tackle the Patriarch on like, turn 3. Which was a bit daunting to say the least. Thankfully, the dice gods favoured me for this one! Cassius and I think, Suberei brought him down.( Christ it's so much easier to remember things with pics!) Setorax effectively breezed through the map and was in and out relatively unscathed. (He did take a wound, but I made a combat recovery that brought him back to full wounds )

Campaign progress:

Deathwatch 2
Genestealer Cult 1

Man you've been busy. I didn't know those Execution force expansion missions were a thing - so thanks for that. Downloading them now. I look forward to playing it, but the assembly and painting is putting me off. The same have stopped me doing anything with Calth or Overkill as well, though they both look like a lot of fun.

Troll WIP looks great, and a good recovery on the Blood Angel model as well. Good luck on getting those Stormcast finished as well. The Greenshade does give it a nice look.

I really like that modification to the BA deathwatch dude.

Stormcast dudes are looking smart too.

EDC

Great to see the Genestealer cult get a victory! I think I've seen so many reviews of mission 1 only (which seems very hard to win as the GC player), it's nice to see the campaign overall is much more level pegged.

Can't wait for more :-)

 Bottle wrote:
Great to see the Genestealer cult get a victory! I think I've seen so many reviews of mission 1 only (which seems very hard to win as the GC player), it's nice to see the campaign overall is much more level pegged.

Can't wait for more :-)

Mission I is pretty harsh on the Cultists. Of the 25 of them you have to kill, less than half actually got close enough to shoot/stab the Deathwatch.
I got thrashed in Mission IV and V as well lol. The score is currently Deathwatch 2 Genestealer Cult 3.
Will post pics later today as it's a bit tricky to do from a smartphone. My dice rolls were truly horrendous last night.

Great stuff AOV, really like the blood Angel repose

Been painting a wee bit this evening. Tried my hand at flames on the Salamander.


++UNTO THE ANVIL OF WAR!++



A good way to go yet though...

Thanks for looking

Bit more on Branatar last night. Coming along nicely. Might put a wash over the face and chest highlights as they look a bit strong. What do we think?

Looking good, the chest highlights and brazier especially. Just afew of the highlights look a tiny bit thick so maybe a fine detail clean up rather than a wash? It is one of those trial and error things, good luck AOV.

aye - I don't think another wash would be a fixer. It may actually tone the hoghlights down too much so they aren't noticeable at all. I'd maybe add a few points of light reflection to bring it out. bottom edge of the hip plate, top of the knee, bottom outside corner of the greave and then leave it at that. The metal arm is looking great. really nice oily metal look

Decided to have a bit of fun and paint the Chaos sorcerer's familiar. And my brother and I have dubbed him, Nur'pl the Purple