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Looks like a good force linds. Should be impressive on the tabletop.

I was always going to convert my own obliterators out of terminators and assorted weapons, but consider your tyranid obliterator idea stolen/borrowed, I love it.

Nice work.

 lindsay40k wrote:
Ok, time to structure my initial additions with a 1750 army list.

Theme is a mechanised column that comes to the aid of a local chaos cult and teleports in support units, with one of each daemonic unit having caught the attention of a particular god. Goal is to collect an aesthetic force that stands a chance in casual games.

HQ: Warpsmith with Plasma Pistol, Veteran, Aura
^ leads v
Heavy: Three Tzeentch Obliterators
^ mounted in v
Elite: Land Raider Proteus with Multi-Melta

Heavy: Vindicator with Combi-bolter

Elite: Five Khorne Possessed in Rhino with Dirge Caster & Havoc Missile Launcher

Troops: 10 Chaos Cultists: Autoguns, shotgun, heavy stubber

Troops: 10 Chaos Cultists: Autoguns, shotgun, heavy stubber

Troops: 10 Chaos Cultists: Flamer

Elite: 2 Nurgle Mutilators

Fast attack: 5 Slaanesh Warp Talons

Helbrute Mayhem Pack: MM & PF, MM & Thunder Hammer, Autocannons & Missile Launcher

Probably scale up to 2K with a mechanised CSM unit escorting a Sorceror

I'm not going to say what should and shouldn't be taken as its a casual list but I want to point a few things out for you to think about.

Why are your long range obliterators going in a LR, they would be better off deep striking or sitting at the rear of the battlefield.

I'd swap the Vindicators combi bolter for a combi melta, it's going to nearly be in range by the time his cannon is.

Five possessed in a rhino isn't good you need more bodies you are at least going to loose one or even two from getting out the vehicle and then charging in the following turn.

Again same issue with the mutilators when they come in they wont be able to do anything the turn they arrive and will get shot to gak, unless you have more bodies or a lord with them. Or they arrive the same turn the mayhem pack does, then your going to be grinding those imperial scum into the ground

I hope that helps

The Obliterators will dismount from the LR into a position where they can really apply pressure, with the Rhino hiding behind it. They should be getting to fire every turn, with the WS adding to their shots at close range, and the Possessed jumping out a stationary Rhino to charge anyone who gets close.

With +1 to reserves from the Proteus, the muties near guarantee something will DS in the enemy's face and force them to split fire.

The Deimos Vindicator comes with a great combi-bolter. It's there to protect the Demolisher from half of destroyed results.

It's a shame most daemonic marines are so expensive for what they do. Maybe drop some Cultists for some more?

Not sure if you drop some cultists you're going to start to loose the theme of the army.

Do you know what sort of armies you're going to be playing?

To be honest I'd go with what you have as it will mean more to you forging the look and feel of the army, then if something doesn't work its a good excuse to buy and paint more minis. That's how my Dark Wolves army went from 2000 to 4000 points

I would pump up the Mutilators squad, then dump them in the Land Raider Protus. If you can sacrifice 95 points, dump in a Spartan to get more Obliterators or Mutilators up the table.

Five elites of Possessed and Warp Talons seems wasted. A round of shooting or overwatch could see them horribly mauled before you even reach the assault. I would suggest dropping one of these squads to beef up the other. I would go with possessed, but that's me.

Love the look of the army.

Mat

These are beautifully painted! Looking forward to more

Can't wait to see that Vindi. What a powerful blog title too.

There's plenty of activity in the paint yard. Hordes of cultists are frantically applying coats to all manner of gribblies and elite warriors.

But what's this that Kotar is tinkering with in his personal workshop? And why is he advising the garrison to practice field skyshield pad erection?



He can be heard working all night, bitterly muttering about losing a painting contest to a Harlequin. 'They said I was mad! They said I wasn't quite as spectacular! Well, I'll show them!'

Glad the cultists are hard at work.

Flyer with added gribbly bits? Sounds good to me

Wicked awesome boss work! I like the warpsmith's weapon effect.

Progress continues. The sawn halves have been connected by plastic strips. A blob of green stuff kept things from warping as the poly cement set. Next up: cover the join with external detail, which will also secure the wings. (Might leave them unglued until the sculpting work is done.)

The forges have been hard at work producing the prototypes of the hull and greeble for the air support:



It occurred to me that I'll need duplicates of these bits if I want a Storm Eagle. This will also enable me to repeat the conversion for anyone who likes it

Got the hull of the Fire Raptor mostly done. Going to add a little more greeble here and there, but all that's really left now is attaching the various wings. Then, the sculpting begins!

Solid work...looks great. Is the current plan to attach the wings before sculpting?

 monkeytroll wrote:
Solid work...looks great. Is the current plan to attach the wings before sculpting?

Not sure. I'm going to dry pin them before making any decisions.

At the very least, I plan to make a decent air force for myself, and it'd be nice to sell enough to raise funds to replace my dying bicycle. It'd probably be a good idea to make a few pieces that can be pressure-moulded.

Mazahim is a senior Daemonologist whose blade has sacrificed countless souls, ritually summoning warp entities to possess the war machines of Ghalmek.









Parts used: Dark Vengeance Librarian, Grey Knight Terminator book, Chaos Marauder sword, Raptor arms and pistol, Possessed shoulder pad, Beastman skull from Tomb Kings, Space Crusade CSM backpack.

To get the colours of aged paper, I mixed a little yellow into Bestial Brown. His cape is a simple Scorched Brown to Screaming Skull highlighting affair, with neither colour being used in its pure form - this keeps all the tones cohesive. His spectral Familiar was painted with Astronomical Grey, highlighted up to white, washed with Nihilakh Oxide, rehighlighted, and the horns knocked back with a thin wash of Nihilakh Oxide darkened with a dash of Thraka Green and Asurmen Blue.

Mazahim is very cool. Nice colours and details!

Very nice indeed! Love the sword and skull!

Wow he looks very nice, really like the floating skull.

Fantastic job!

Excellent use of parts, sword and skull effects are great, and I'm really taken with the cape.

Really nice paint job on his robe, sword looks good too, it seems to lose some of the effect on the side of the blade, I think I would lose the red totally as you get towards the swords hilt.

 SJM wrote:
Really nice paint job on his robe, sword looks good too, it seems to lose some of the effect on the side of the blade, I think I would lose the red totally as you get towards the swords hilt.

I would do this with a blade that has a straight edge, but with all the spikes near the base there was just too much surface area for heat loss to go with it. The edge is still white hot between the spikey bits.

That's a really stunning model lind. The build is very cohesive given the wide variety of parts involved yet very imaginative. The care you took with the blends really shows too. A showpiece for any army.

I've had a request for an explanation of how I did Mazahim's book.

Base colour is Bestial Brown with a touch of yellow. Increased amounts of Screaming Skull blended in, with the palest part in the centre. Find an old book to see the exact colours to aim for to get an authentic appearance of aged paper.

The writing with with a fine detail synthetic brush, with a blend of Chaos Black and Scorched Brown. Use a technical pencil to sketch in the illuminated letter and a few dots to indicate line spacing. The paint was highly diluted and applied in a few very light sweeps. Again, keep a damp cotton bud to hand to erase mistakes.

Same technique used for impurity seals.

Fantastic reds, fleshtones, cloth, freehand and pretty much everything else. Your Oblits look absolutely mad in the best possible way. I dunno what exactly it is you're doing with that Fraptor, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna like it.

Here we go!

A deadline came up: my local museum is going to run an exhibition of models, and my FLGS is contributing the fantasy & sci-fi section. Guess who they asked for a lend of some 40K baddies?

Notwithstanding that we're clearly the loyalists - to the Warmaster, of course - and it's the corpse-botherers who are obviously the villains, here's the newly finished troops soon to be put on parade:

Dentata, Helbrute









I was playing around with a second DV brute and my leftover Slaanesh chariot bitz. I was pleased at how well they aligned, and so was born Dentata - the perfectionist Havoc whose monolatrist heresy earned them a place in a Helbrute after wasting time aiming for perfect armour kills when a simple immobilisation was all that was required.

The geometric chaos star was inspired by Ottoman art.


Morblis, Helbrute









I picked up a Talos to make a Daemon Prince, and loved how perfectly the racks fit onto a Helbrute sarcophagus. Adding a couple of antique Dactylis arms (well done, those of you who spotted them) gave birth to Morblis, the death-obsessed Havoc who serves penance as a Helbrute for dedicating mass slaughter of exposed infantry to Nurgle when his orders were to lay down suppressing fire on key targets.

I referred to photographs of squid when painting the eyes.


Warp Talons of Slaanesh









All of my Daemonic units are getting a Mark. The spare head from my Slaaneshi chariot was a perfect match for the motion of the champion. Freehand Legion icons all round, I don't do transfers.


Minions









These gullible fools actually believe we'll help them attain Daemonhood. If any of them actually survive contact with the corpse-botherers, we'll give Fabius Bile a call and get them initiated.

I referred to several swatches on coolminiornot's ethnic skin tones painting guide. Really, diverse units should be a standard practice - it only take a few more minutes.

Can anyone see what else is unusual about them?

Amazing work all around!

Beautiful helbrutes, great take on the kit. Having built a couple of my own now, I find it funny how much better posed the DV one is - my one complaint with the full kit is those damn boring legs. Why stand still and fire when you've got massive dreadnought armor to absorb the recoil? Stomp the line, big guys!

All the same, lovely stuff

- Salvage