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Got some work done this morning!







I really like the bigger bases over the smaller ones. This ten man squad was about as expensive as half the Bretonnian Army box (eek). I'll likely run then as Border Prince Brigands, giving them a special banner or shield perhaps.

Keep on building!

Just a brief update - I've been redoing my hobby room. Can't wait to share how it looks, but it already feels more functional!

Man those minis bring back some memories. I reckon the Dogs of War line is one of GW's peak accomplishments.

I feel your pain on pricing of some of these old metal minis too though, but sometimes they just need to be MINE...

How good is an update of the hobby space for sparking some motivation! Can't wait to see what it brings!

 tzurk wrote:
Man those minis bring back some memories. I reckon the Dogs of War line is one of GW's peak accomplishments.

I feel your pain on pricing of some of these old metal minis too though, but sometimes they just need to be MINE...

How good is an update of the hobby space for sparking some motivation! Can't wait to see what it brings!

I found an online auction house that was selling a deceased person's warhammer and miniature collections and got really lucky on the purchase of the core set. I really was going for a set of pikemen (one of the three types made for the line), but the price at the end just went a bit insane, especially for metal minis that are, well, old. So I put together this lovely little group! Also, I love the DoW line - I am wondering if they'll be popped into Made to Order at some point.

Here's a project update (from a day or two ago!)



I'm going from two 'regular' desks to a hobby desk and a single desk. So naturally now that I've moved stuff around, I have to take everything out of those desks. the floor is a mess but the room is set up beautifully now! Even the new offspring is enjoying watching me organize.

Because I struggle with sticking to just one thing, I've opened the last of my renegades and heretics army components and started putting it together on the new workbench. Originally I wanted to build them as the two large mortar style constructs, but I ended up being unable to do that as I clipped off one of the sprues and I'm unsure where it has gone. So instead, giant laser cannons instead! (My loyalists have the artillery cannons, and I do not do mirror matches).

My Renegade and Heretics army is played using the Astra Miliatrum Codex. It's designed to mimic a Blood Pact Company from Gaunt's Ghosts.



You can see some of the detail I tried to carve into the plastic shields. I also purposefully carved off all the Imperial iconography.



Obviously, there's a way to go! But I'm excited for the progress (which is harder to get nowadays with a tiny person needing holding all day long.)

Resin heads are from Anvil Industries, and I plan on bulking out the bases to represent more of a built up defensive position in ruins.

Nice start, those heads are awesome. Looking I over your earlier posts, there’s some awesome terrain you’ve been building. The fantasy buildings are some real classics!

blockade23

I remember painting up Regiments of Renown.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for the kind comments @Gobert and @Captain Brown

Finally putting all the pieces together for the Blood Pact Command Squad and Artillery. Did some greenstuffing to clean up some key pieces and fill / hide a lot of gaps (as can happen with kitbashing, especially with a kit like the Jackals, which want to go together in a very specific way.

First up, the Renegade Command Squad (Run as a cadian command squad)

Commander and veteran



Another Veteran Blood Pact Member


Vox Operator




Then had some fun playing around with posing for the artillery.





Then got to work and added some more details. I'm not the best at sculpting, but I am trying my best here.




(I have smoothed out the fingerprint marks :-)


Personal favorite detail - candle wax.

I'm pretty happy with this. I might shorten the cape on the running figure and trim it up but we'll see. I'll want to look at it tomorrow after sleeping on it. Otherwise, It looks like were onto priming and painting!

Congrats on the new hobby desk. I'm enjoying your progress on the traitor guard.

Love the fanbat stuff, digging the blood pact!

Huzzah! More miniatures have been finished. I've joined the Independent Character's Hobby Progress Challenge in an effort to motivate myself but also keep myself accountable to finishing projects. So I've ranked my projects by size in order to complete some faster and thus feel a sense of accomplishment. First up, the group unassembled pic.



Essentially this is two ordinance pieces with six crew total, then six more Blood Pact infantry reinforcements. Most are for a command squad (officer, bannerman, and master vox.) But I hadn't quite finished the first counts as bannerman before I remembered I had an old FW Heretic flag bearer, so now I have two! Throw in two more basic grunts and I have about three squads worth of Blood Pact to go with my Thousand Sons / Sons of Sek Renegades.

Artillery piece #1



Artillery Piece #2



Running Blood Pact Reinforcements


Command Squad Members (didn't get a close up of the other bannerman but you can see him in the other photos.)


Now I need to finish this Goliath Rockcrusher I'll use as a Chimera or as itself for my Sons of Sek. It is neatly done just needs detail work but then I will officially have finished an army!!!

Onto the next project!

Wowee those guys are really something! I guess if you cover everything in blood then red camo will be very effective

Whoa - another post this week? Nice!

In my pursuit of clearing the last of my project boxes, I've actually done it. I've had a GSC Rockcrusher (back when I ran my heretics as GSC) sitting in the 'sorta painted' column for years, with me finishing the last of the Blood Pact (although I only have 28 infantry plus a command squad and I'm annoyed about that - that's another story) I wanted to finish the damn thing.

So.... Let's get to work!

Here's (mostly) where it started (subtract the metallics on the front and the rust effects).


Here's where it ended up!



Tons more photos below, spoilered for kindness to your computers (lots more angle shots)



Then some more fun ones with his sibling. These vehicles were painted nearly four? five? years apart (not sure when the first kit came out) so I'm pretty happy with how I did to keep them pretty similar.



More Spoilered


In more recent times, I'll run these two as Chimeras (Their weapons are also magnetized so I have a multilaser option, a flame thrown option, and a 'sure it's a heavy bolter' option)

Materials Used:

AK Rust Effects Kit (Light Rust and Orange Brown primarily) (Messed up on this, should have started with brown before oranges, but you live and learn).
Secret Weapon Pigments Terracotta and (Something something) Brown
Vallejo Pigment Fixer mixed into the pigments to make a paste
Blood for the Blood God

Woohoo, double update!

The mud on the vehicles looks awesome, well done.

Smart use of colour to easily differentiate the two for loadouts/transport contents as well.

Guardsmen sharpening up nicely to! Red's a pain to highlight but you've done it nicely there, looks especially good on the gun placements IMO. Soooo many edges.

Love the shirtless guy with the powerfist. Full army pics when??

 tzurk wrote:
Woohoo, double update!

The mud on the vehicles looks awesome, well done.

Smart use of colour to easily differentiate the two for loadouts/transport contents as well.

Guardsmen sharpening up nicely to! Red's a pain to highlight but you've done it nicely there, looks especially good on the gun placements IMO. Soooo many edges.

Love the shirtless guy with the powerfist. Full army pics when??

Thanks for the kind comments.

Yellow is a pain in the ass but somehow I've ended up with that as a major color component for not one but two armies (both Iyanden and my Sons of Sek / Thousands Sons Style cultists). I have a lot of experience with Red from both my Black Templars and the 30k Thousand sons (which I'm trying to sell now as I cannot justify that many space marine armies).

Shirtless guy was meant to be a 'could be straken?" style figure originally, but now he's just a corrupted officer.

Full army pic ASAP. Probably later this week. It's a lot of infantry. Hilariously, a full army pic will include some of my standard guard tanks, as I purposesfully designed them to be 'side ambivalent' so I could use them for either renegades or imperium.

Those blood pact look superb. The red on the guns is spot on, can’t wait for the full army pics! The mid and rust effects seem really effective, the paste works particularly well on the front of them!

Blood Pact and Chaos Mutants and Sons of Sek oh my!

Family shot was requested, and secured.



Composed of mostly chaos cultists, blackstone fortress minis, Forgeworld renegades, a lot of catachan hand-me-downs, and a variety of kitbashes with everything from the new Cadian kit to Empire Flagellants, the Frostgrave Cultist Kit and even some P3 minis. Had a blast building the army, and a lot of the cultists play double duty with my (comparatively tiny) Thousand Sons Army (which I suppose I'll post soon cause, well, it's less than 30 models.)

This army is roughly 211 miniatures and four dedicated chaos vehicles (Two Rockcrushers that count as Chimeras, a 'Sentinel' scout car, and my Stalk Tank (Counts as Rogal Dorn).

I posted more pictures over on the finished P&M Showcase thread of mine, but here's a smattering of what the people want.

I love the family shot. I'm glad someone requested it.

Once again, another family shot of my Thousand Sons army. More pics over on the finished P&M Showcase thread.



Enjoy! Probably fewer reports from here on out, although I'm thinking the Eldar will be the next army I finish (only 3 models left!)

Awesome army pics! There’s not much better in this hobby than a well painted army. And you’ve eeked out 3 from 1. Have a couple of exalts!

Also, that castle wall is cool

 gobert wrote:
Awesome army pics! There’s not much better in this hobby than a well painted army. And you’ve eeked out 3 from 1. Have a couple of exalts!

Also, that castle wall is cool

Gracias!

To be fair, the castle wall is simply unpainted grey plastic from GW - the original Warhammer Fortress from GW (not the resin one from...elsewhere? Mind Blank) It's on my to paint list. Right now I'm working on a handful of Eldar characters and then the Wraithknight and that will clear out my Eldar backlog. Then Legions Imperialis and then maybe some AoS.

Stay frosty!

Got some work done on some Eldar Characters. Digging through the project boxes revealed a treasure trove of partially done characters. So I figured I'd work on them. These guys are pretty much done. I suppose I'll try to play around with some decals, and they need tufts to match the rest of the army.

The First Warlock




Second Warlock



Autarch

Nice pieces! Very nice work on the shading on the warlocks' cloaks.

Great work on the 1k sons. Awesome use of AoS parts in there, what a creative and cohesive force!

My jaw dropped at the traitor guard force. What a labour of love, must feel great to see them all massed like that! Love the ragtag feel of the individual units and schemes coming together in one army.

Lovely colour work on the Eldar too - though between the other two armies it's no surprise you've mastered yellow and blue!

thanks for sharing 8-)

Incredible work in here! I really love your terrain! It's so creative, and looks very realistic and characterful! Subscribed.

Thanks for the kind words Tzurk, FeistyRips & MeerCat. I do not consider myself an amazing painter (Above average at best is what I generally aim for) but I'm pretty good at the base three colors I suppose!

Here's a reward for nice things being said. More miniatures (in this case, finished, with decals, and based!) I use just those two types of tufts in the entire army. I love the pink one as it really stands out against the blackened world husk bases I use. I also use the two types to distinguish between my guardian squads so I can tell them apart (one squad has pink tufts, the other brown).






I tried to make sure the decals didn't look out of place, and his staff/spear sort of does look like wood, which was the goal. Really happy with the hair. Spear tip was the best NM "Metal Wraithbone" idea I could come up with as my army doesn't include much in the way of actual metallics.

Warlock #2 - Didn't do any decals on him because I was unsure of some of the meaning of many of them and the Iyaden ones just didn't fit right in any space I liked.






Iyanden Autarch - I used black for his weapon to denote it as something other than a shuriken weapon but also give him another way to stick out.





Finally - spoilered for big pics - I have some wraithknight progress. So much highlighting is driving me crazy, but I finished washing all the yellows (now to highlight the blues and yellows)


Keep Painting!

Very nice Blockade When I eventually start an Eldar army, I plan to paint them as Iyanden. So, I'm happy seeing some nicely painted Iyanden Eldar.

Late to it all but that sabbath chaos army is just so gorgeaous, you are truly talented.

Perfect timing as I follow along Arch's sabbath worlds crusade lore series!

Always glad to see more Eldar (and a Wraithknight), they look cool. But, those army shots are killer. Awesome collection of minis.

Nice progress!

Smooth work on the decals and love the different coloured tufts both aesthetically and as a mechanical reminder.

Wraithknight is coming along nicely. Big models terrify me too. I always like feeling like I'm only a few brush strokes away from "close enough is good enough", and that's hard to achieve with monsters like that. Looking good so far, very striking and will make a lovely centerpiece!