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Hmm, good point. This is my first stab at it. I have an airbrush and in theory from what I've been researching, I can just put it in their airbrush at (25?) psi with a relatively large needle and that should do the trick. Cleaning with rubbing alcohol. I think I will try that and report back.

Some paint on the chimera conversion! Filled in the hole where the fuselage parts met. Still have to do weapons and wargear but I wanted to see it blocked in color-wise

Very cool conversion on the chimera, looking forward to seeing it finished!

Poses for two Contemptor dreadnoughts for the Custodes just about done, the one holding the spear with the point angled down has been a huge frustration to get that pose right!
I've also magnetized all the wrist gun options because why not

Nice work! The Phobos chimera looks excellent, fits perfectly and the paint scheme looks real nice. The poses for the dreads are really cool.

 Olthannon wrote:
Nice work! The Phobos chimera looks excellent, fits perfectly and the paint scheme looks real nice. The poses for the dreads are really cool.

Thanks Olthannon, I need to put a lil gun mount on it but I’m not sure if I want to bits order or just buy goliath trucks.








Kind of hectic right now, about to move house, but a bit of paint is now on the Skaven Cadre Fireblade!

EDIT: alright that background isn’t making the colors easy to discern at all, hah. I’ll have to get some better backgrounded pictures.

Defiler WIP for the Iron Warriors, kind of a centerpiece / always-wish-I-had-one sort of model. Maybe they will be good in the new codex!

Nice work on the Defiler, I agree they are cool centrepiece models.

Also like how your Tauskaven (Skau?) are coming together.

Good luck with the house move, my place is still a tip as we had to move into a rental before moving house properly.

 Olthannon wrote:
Nice work on the Defiler, I agree they are cool centrepiece models.

Also like how your Tauskaven (Skau?) are coming together.

Good luck with the house move, my place is still a tip as we had to move into a rental before moving house properly.

Thanks Olthannon, the move is complete, it was harrowing but glad to be done!

I've recently been working on all my main projects, the Iron Warriors, Skaven Tau, Custodes, and even some Mechanicus too. Mostly trying to base/magnetize/store/paint every model I have sitting around to clear out space and get rid of unbuilt sprues.

I've got a lot of pictures, but here are a few things I just worked on:
















The metal color is White Gold from Vallejo's metal color alcohol based paints. They were a bit tricky to get used to. The color is almost silver, it is extremely pale gold. It's mostly noticeable alongside some painted silver, but I'm not quite there yet.

Glad to hear your move is over and done with, I've never enjoyed moving house but harrowing sounds particularly rough! Looking forward to more pictures. I love that colour scheme for your Custodes. It gives them an almost ethereal quality.

 Olthannon wrote:
Glad to hear your move is over and done with, I've never enjoyed moving house but harrowing sounds particularly rough! Looking forward to more pictures. I love that colour scheme for your Custodes. It gives them an almost ethereal quality.

Thanks Olthannon, I was going for something like that. Much more work has been done on them but my picture record taking is slow.


Today we have a squad I'm very happy with, my Chosen for my Iron Warriors. Unfortunately I think my photos came out a bit garbage. Hopefully I can get some better ones once they get primed and painted.



Models are Classic Iron Warrior Warsmith on the left, usable as a chaos lord on foot, and a converted Exalted Champion with the arms and combi-melta from the plastic Exalted Champion removed and put onto a Medusan Immortal body. The most minor of highly ranked officers in this band of Iron Warriors. These two will most commonly form part of one or two Chosen squads as the champion or respective champions, armed with Accursed Weapons and Combi-Meltas. As their Accursed Weapons here are in the form of Axes, they also are correct for a Lord's Power Axe and Exalted Champion's Exalted Power Axe. Kinda weird that the Lord can't have an Exalted Power Axe. Maybe he should be holding a thunder hammer to better fit the weirdly restrictive Chaos Lord weapons options.




The combi-melta chained to the backpack on the Exalted Champion is very cool, but the packpack didn't match the less /daemonicorganic feel of these chosen. Original backpack clipped away and put onto a MkIII Iron Armor backpack like the other Chosen.



These two Chosen represent combi-meltas numbers 3 and 4 for the 10 Chosen. Both armed with maces as their Accursed Weapons, going for the "trench warfare" vibe.



Combi-melta chosen 3 and 4, side views.




Chosen squads can take one power fist per 5, and so here are two power fist Chosen. Each armed with a regular bolter in the other hand.




These two iron warriors are the two out of 10 that can't have a different weapon option going on. Perhaps they are the most junior of the chosen, perhaps the first to die. I tried to give them slightly different personalities/poses, with one aiming more reservedly and the other advancing with bolter arm outstretched.




These two Chosen are armed with additional Accursed weapons in place of their bolters. The Age of Darkness / Horus Heresy MkVI marine power swords I think are an excellent option for right handed power weapons as all these chaos ones seem left handed. One guy has the spikey helmet, and maybe I'll switch his shoulder pad to spiked also. He's got an axe so he's the pointy one. Big mace accursed weapon guy has a space marine terminator shoulder shield so he's the chunky one.



That's it for now, many other projects need documenting but this is what I just got done and converting a whole squad is always fun.

New lightbox, trying to get my photos back in focus and properly lit:

What kind of light box did you purchase?

 wyomingfox wrote:
What kind of light box did you purchase?

I got this one here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RRYB8RS?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

I got the 25cm version, but maybe the 30cm would be better for larger models. I had an old light box that just wouldn't stay upright, also a cheap amazon one.

Blocking in the colors on my Chosen, plus my counts-as tarantula sentry gun turrets have their main color on with some preliminary shadows, plus the base which took a hugely long time, it's 80mm which just barely fits the old forgeworld bunker once I chopped the heck out of its original scenic base.

Thanks for the tip on the lightbox!! Might have to pick one up. Like the bunker gun. What colors did you use on the panels?

Loving the Iron Warriors, the turret is really good, that pale bone white looks fantastic.

Olthannon wrote:Loving the Iron Warriors, the turret is really good, that pale bone white looks fantastic.

Thanks Olthannon, the old forgeworld bunker turret emplacement thing is a sculpt I like a lot.

wyomingfox wrote:Thanks for the tip on the lightbox!! Might have to pick one up. Like the bunker gun. What colors did you use on the panels?

Sure thing! It's Ionrach Skin for the white/cream color.

Here's the lightbox on and off for reference:

More stuff coming along, first of 10 Cataphractii to make up a Chaos Terminator Squad for 40k. Two guys with fists and two guys with "accursed weapons" so far.

Also two of 5 Alpha Legion terminators kitted out as Firedrakes, using their ability to copy wargear and special units from other legions, for Horus Heresy.

Finally the other day got all the Skaven Fire Warriors put together with their head antennae and backpacks. The conversions were not too bad but each little piece was kind of a pain to integrate.

Oh snazy rats, though for some reason, I would imagine that rats would have a greater variety of "displaced" alien technology that they have "found" and collected

So what is the story behind these conversions?

Great updates Ph34r! The Skaven and Tau bits really gel together well, definitely look worth the pain in the arsedness of putting them together

wyomingfox wrote:Oh snazy rats, though for some reason, I would imagine that rats would have a greater variety of "displaced" alien technology that they have "found" and collected

So what is the story behind these conversions?

It's a good point, I remember classic space skaven tau armies from a decade or more ago with lots of custom weapons, I love that look but one priority of mine in making this army was expandability/the ability to use all the tau models without having to customize each one... that said my goal is to use the tau weapons but try to make the models bearing them have a bit more skaven flavor. It's hard sometimes with things like battlesuits.

In my fluff, they're auxiliaries that had a falling out with the Tau Empire similar to Farsight, and chose to take all their wargear and run. Now, how does all the advanced battlesuit technology work without the Tau to pilot or interface with them? I guess that part is skaven ingenuity.

Olthannon wrote:Great updates Ph34r! The Skaven and Tau bits really gel together well, definitely look worth the pain in the arsedness of putting them together

Thanks, I think so too.

Here's a minor conversion I finally got the book arm onto, it's an Ethereal, parts from a skaven warlock engineer and plague monk.

Took a picture of my three Adeptus Mechanicus Magos, they all need little bits of detail work, highlighting, etc. A picture of them together will hopefully help my tie them together whenever I actually decide to add that detail.

Hopefully this picture shrinks to fit the screen:

Ooh...i lovecthe one with the 8 eyes almost seems like some GW artwork I've seen from years of yore.

Great job customizing and differentiating them!

Just caught up on this last page; loving the vehicle conversion work and that defiler is crying out for a heretic or alien to be grasped in it's claw! Also skaven and tau, it's going to be interesting to see how that develops.

Those tech priests are awesome, that pale green is such a good colour for the admech. I agree, the 8 eyed one is great.

wyomingfox wrote:Ooh...i lovecthe one with the 8 eyes almost seems like some GW artwork I've seen from years of yore.

Olthannon wrote:Those tech priests are awesome, that pale green is such a good colour for the admech. I agree, the 8 eyed one is great.

Thanks, he's my Archmagos and he goes on a walking platform to be Belisarius Cawl in game terms. The 8 eyes is shamelessly copied from Kelbor Hal, leader of the Dark Mechanicum, from the Collected Visions art book:

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Great job customizing and differentiating them!

Thanks! I love having the more minor and major priests to use in different size games or with different upgrades.

PaddyMick wrote:Just caught up on this last page; loving the vehicle conversion work and that defiler is crying out for a heretic or alien to be grasped in it's claw! Also skaven and tau, it's going to be interesting to see how that develops.

Haha yeah the Defiler pose, definitely could be about to squish something! Not sure who I'd have be the victim, possibly marines, eldar, orks.


I finally straightened the autocannon barrels on these two Chaos Terminators, which enables me to now prime the whole unit! Black and then leadbelcher will bring them up to speed.




Also building the last 3 marine bodies I had from my new Chaos marines/Legionnaires box. A melta gun because I didn't have any and now I can't take 2 plasma guns in one unit, a close combat guy so I can make a full 10 man close combat unit, and another unit psyker with this one being a conversion. I need to give him a big book somewhere, but he is holding the knife like the official hexfire tome psyker and doing his best "crush you with my mind" pose.

Awesome models!
The Magi look amazing, you wouldn't happen to tell me how you got that Green grey?

Not Online!!! wrote:
Awesome models!
The Magi look amazing, you wouldn't happen to tell me how you got that Green grey?

Thanks, it's kind of hard to get the color exactly right, here's how I "documented" it when I first made it:

Celestra Grey: It's the lightest/best grey in my opinion, aside from the new Grey Seer I suppose and Ulthuan Grey
Skarsnik Green: it's a somewhat light and bright, blue-green green
Rakarth Flesh: I decided the end result was slightly not warm enough, I guess?

probably something like, mostly grey, 1/3 of the amount of grey in skarsnik green, 1/2 that lesser amount in rakarth flesh. 6 grey : 2 green : 1 rakarth

Ultimately at a certain point later on I think I added some white to it too just to brighten it up, as I had been washing it with Nuln Oil a lot.