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Made in ca
Fixture of Dakka





Surrey, BC - Canada

Nice plasma generator Dysartes.

Cheers,

CB

   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka







@gobert - Thanks gobert. These weren't helped by me remembering them as being in a different box for a couple of months.

@Olthannon - Thanks Olthannon. They're definitely a contrast to the green units I've put out before now.

@Captain Brown - Why, thank you, Cap'n. And thank you for tipping us over onto page 7

+ + +

I've been meaning to do a Sickly Pallor of Decay (SPoD) Plaguebearer unit ever since I completed a SPoD Poxbringer back in 2019, and followed it up with a SPoD Sloppity Bilepiper last year. There are also SPoD Nurglings on each base I've painted.

It's a fun variant colour scheme, just so my Daemons aren't a sea of green. I may well add a second unit in this scheme at some stage, as I know I've got more Plaguebearers kicking around somewhere, awaiting build and paint.

I'd've finished this unit sooner, but for two things - one, I was away for a week towards the end of July, and secondly I've been working with a friend of mine on starting a podcast. We've got 4 episodes in the can now (subject to editing), so we're hoping to launch soon. Mainly problem we've found so far, though, is sticking to an intended duration - but I guess that just means they'll make good background for painting sessions

What's up next? Well, I think I'm going to continue with "finishing off WIP stuff" while I decide what to build next. That means I'm looking at four options - finish the Haemotrope Reactor (2024); work up the two ruins from the 9th edition Command Starter (2022); finish the Thunderer (2022); finish the 5 BA Assault Intercessors & BA Bladeguard Lieutenant (2023). Not currently sure which.

In terms of building, I've got one more Plasma Generatorium to build; the Generatorum Hub to build; 10 more Necron Warriors to build; and 3 Tomb Blades to build, all as immediate options. Building the third PG is almost certainly going to happen this time round, as it is a simple build I can do while watching a Twitch stream. I should probably build my first unit of Tomb Blades, too, as I haven't got any of them in my Necrons yet. Probably the Gauss build for the first three.

Steps
Spoiler:
Key
HR - Haemotrope Reactor
PB - Plaguebearers
PG - Plasma Generatorium
+ + +
PB - Basecoated the bases with P3 Cryx Bane Highlight (twice)
PG - Built the first Plasma Generatorium
HR - Picked out three large elbow pipes on the rear of the Reactor with Brass Scorpion.
PB - Drybrushed the bases with P3 Trollblood Highlight
PB - Drybrushed the bases with P3 Sickly Skin
PB - Picked out the bricks on the bases with Khorne Red
PB - Shaded the bases with Agrax Earthshade
PB - Picked out the hair of the severed heads carried by the champion with Black Templar
PB - Painted the edge rims with Abaddon Black (twice)
PB - Went over the maggots on one base, and the severed heads in the Champion's hand, with Reikland Fleshshade
PB - Went over the maggots with Seraphim Sepia
PB - Went over the skin on the severed heads with Athonian Camoshade.
PB - Picked out the standard's woodwork with Wyldwood.
PB - Realised there was a severed head on the standard, so went back and picked out the hair with Black Templar, then the flesh with Reiklad Fleshshade and Athonian Camoshade.
PB - Basecoated all swords & banner top with AP Speedpaint Talos Bronze. I swear this is more of a copper than what I was aiming for, but it'll do, Donkey.
PG - Built a second Plasma Generatorium
PB - Touched up the undercoat with Grey Seer
PB - Picked out leather strapping on standard & musician's pipes with Snakebite Leather.
PB - Went over the rest of the musician's instrument with Skeleton Horde
PB - Agrax'd all the Talos Bronze, to take down the shine a bit and add deeper shadows to the recesses.
PB - Basecoated the skin with a 1:2 mix of Fenrisian Blue & Lahmian Medium.
PB - Shaded the skin with a 1:2 mix of Druchii Violet & Lahmian Medium.
PB - Shaded specific wounds with neat Druchii Violet.
PB - Went back and re-basecoated some bits with Grey Seer.
PB - Went over any teeth with Skeleton Horde
PB - Picked out Fly Guy's tongue and that one dude's belly maggots with Reikland Fleshshade
PB - Leadbelcher'd a couple of rings on the standard
HR - Picked out some of the elements on the rim of the reactor with Warplock Bronze.
PB - Went over Fly Guy's tongue and that one dude's belly maggots with Seraphim Sepia
PB - Went over all the horns and claws with Black Templar.
Insert 1 week gap here...
PB - Realised I wasn't keen on how the horns looked like that, so went over them again with Grey Seer.
PB - Went over all the horns with Reikland Fleshshade
PB - Went over the horns with Athonian Camoshade, twice.
PB - Shaded the eyesockets on everyone bar Fly Guy with Druchii Violet
PB - Picked out Fly Guy's eyes with Incubi Darkness
PB - Picked out everyone else's eyes with Ulthuan Grey
PB - Tactically applied Nihilakh Oxide to weapons & banner top


Pictures

Sickly Pallor of Decay Plaguebearers




I should probably go back and add some Ulthuan Grey highlights to various points on the skin at some stage, but these guys are ready for the table at the moment.

Talos Bronze worked well for a metallic paint over a white basecoat, but I wouldn't describe it as a bronze - it looks far more like copper to me. Still, a dash of Agrax and some Nihilakh Oxide got things closer to how I wanted them to look.

2024 Points Log (MFM v1.11, 22/06/24)
Spoiler:
Chaos Daemons
- 3 bases of Nurglings - 40pts
- 5 Flesh Hounds - 70pts
- Karanak, Hound of Vengeance - 65pts
- 10 Plaguebearers - 110pts
Necrons
- 5 Necron Warriors with Gauss Flayers - 50pts
- 3 Canoptek Scarab Swarms - 40pts
Total: 375pts

Terrain
- 2 Thermic Plasma Regulators - 0pts

27 models painted, and I'm only at 375 points? Damn.

2021-4 Plog - Here we go again... - my fifth attempt at a Dakka PLOG

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
Made in ca
Powerful Spawning Champion





There is not this idea.

That's a really good color scheme for those bearers of the plagues.
   
Made in gb
Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

Papa's is a very inclusive church, and he absolutely approves of purple pustules Papa Bless!

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Lovely (probably not the right word) plague bearers. Good to get a bit of diversity in Papa’s minions, he does not car who or what he touches!

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka







@toasteroven - Thanks. It is one that I originally saw on a Warhammer YT painting video, so I'm not taking credit for it, but I do like the look

@inmygravenimage - Cheers graven. When it comes to Grandfather, a pustule is a pustule.

@gobert - Thanks gobert. In theory, you could probably do a Nurgle army where each unit is painted for a different form of disease or necrosis, but would it look good on the table?

+ + +

I had an idea what I was going to get finished next, and this definitely wasn't it. Still, progress is progress. Couldn't really get any traction with painting the Reactor or the Marines, but once these Tomb Blades were built, it was pretty simple to roll through into basing & undercoating them, then getting them painted.

I definitely want a word with whoever designed the Tomb Blade kit - both the Gauss Blasters and Shield Vanes would really benefit from a better way of attaching them, which is why the alignments on the three I've built might not be perfect.

Might try and do another post in a week or so, just showing off the "active" WIP models that are on the go, assuming I've not finished any of them by then.

Steps
Spoiler:
Key
AI - Assault Intercessors
BGL - Bladeguard Lieutenant
GH - Generatorum Hub
HR - Haemotrope Reactor
PG - Plasma Generatorium
TB - Tomb Blades
+ + +
PG - Built the third Plasma Generatorium
BGL - Second coat of Mephiston Red on everything that will be red
GH - Built the Generatorum Hub
TB - Constructed 3 Tomb Blades with twin Gauss Blasters
HR - Went over the "faceplate" side of the large skull with two coats of Black Templar
HR - Decided I'd split the panel behind Big Skull as well, so went over the other half of that with two coats of Black Templar
HR - Basecoated the other halves of the Big Skull and backplate with Celestia Grey (twice)
HR - Went over the Celestra Grey with thinned Ulthuan Grey
TB - Built the bases for the Tomb Blades.
TB - Undercoated the bases for the Tomb Blades.
TB - Painted the bases for the Tomb Blades.
TB - Undercoated the Tomb Blades with Leadbelcher
TB - Drybrushed the Tomb Blades with VMA Chrome
TB - Basecoated the ankh symbols and recessed script with VMA Chrome
TB - Went over those areas with Seraphim Sepia (twice)
TB - Shaded three sets of ribbed cables on each Tomb Blade with Nuln Oil
TB - Used Black Templar on the spine above the Tomb Blade riders, as well as various recesses & the riders' spines.
TB - Deployed the Nuln Oil in the joints on the Tomb Blade pilots, as well as the areas of the Gauss Blasters needed to keep them in line with my existing Immortals.
TB - Black Templar'd the Gauss Blaster housings.
TB - Blocked in the pilots' shoulder pads with Leviadon Blue
TB - Went over the rest of the armour on the pilots with Aethermatic Blue
TB - [Insert series of steps as I work in Nuln Oil, Black Templar, Leviadon Blue & Aethermatic Blue on various bits of the tomb Blades]
TB - Went over the arguably-black-rock bits in the guns and sensors with Incubi Darkness.
TB - Picked out anything that's meant to be glowy with VMA Chrome. Also rebasecoated the panels on the... stabilisers(?) with Chrome, as I wasn't happy with how the Aethermatic Blue looked there.
TB - Picked out cables with Caliban Green.
TB - Went over all the glowy bits with Tesseract Glow.
TB - Went over the Chrome on the stabilisers with Aethermatic Blue.
TB - Highlighted the cables with Warpstone Glow


Pictures


Necron Tomb Blades

2024 Points Log (MFM v1.12, 21/08/24)
Spoiler:
Chaos Daemons
- 3 bases of Nurglings - 40pts
- 5 Flesh Hounds - 70pts
- Karanak, Hound of Vengeance - 65pts
- 10 Plaguebearers - 110pts
Necrons
- 5 Necron Warriors with Gauss Flayers - 50pts
- 3 Canoptek Scarab Swarms - 40pts
- 3 Tomb Blades with twin-linked Gauss Blasters - 75pts
Total: 450pts

Terrain
- 2 Thermic Plasma Regulators - 0pts

2021-4 Plog - Here we go again... - my fifth attempt at a Dakka PLOG

My Pile of Potential - updates ongoing...

Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.


 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
Made in gb
Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






 Dysartes wrote:

@gobert - Thanks gobert. In theory, you could probably do a Nurgle army where each unit is painted for a different form of disease or necrosis, but would it look good on the table?


There’s only one way to find out! Might make it easier to tell the difference between units, I think tzurks geometric daemons did that iirc.

Love how the tomb blades turned out, and I could not agree more about how much of a pita they are to assemble… and how easy they are to break! They do look cool though

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
Made in us
Ragin' Ork Dreadnought







Nice tomb blades. I love the look of these models and your subtle blue paint scheme works very well with them.

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Terrain I'm making.
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Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka







@gobert - The plaguebearers could make for some... interesting research, though possibly not something to do when you've just eaten. Didn't realise the Tomb Blades were overly breakable - something to look out for when I have to transport them, I guess.

@Warboss_Waaazag - Thanks for the kind words.

+ + +

Apparently, working on multiple things at once can be slower than just concentrating on one - who knew? Still, I've managed to finish off the Khorne Bloodmaster that originally showed up in here nearly three years ago, so it's good to see I can complete things in a timely manner.

I've picked up issues 2 & 3 of Combat Patrol, and gotten the Infernus Marines built and started - I'm going to paint them up as Mentor Legion, using a Contrast-centric approach, so we'll see how that plays out.

I've also found where the box of Fenrisian Wolves I bought in Q1 went, and built those over the last weekend. They're getting their bases sorted at present, then can get undercoated and under way. Hopefully I can get one of the two units finished off before another month has passed, but we'll see...

Steps
Spoiler:
Key
BL - Bloodletters
BM - Bloodmaster
FW - Fenrisian Wolves
IM - Infernus Marines
KB - Kruleboy
+ + +
BM - Attached Bloodmaster to base
BM - Built the Bloodmaster's base
BM - Undercoated the Bloodmaster with Chaos Black
BL - Mostly built 10 Bloodletters
BM - Basecoated the skin with Khorne Red
BM - Washed the skin with Agrax Earthshade
BM - Drybrushed the skin with Mephiston Red
BM - Drybrushed the skin with Wazdakka Red
KB - Cleaned up and finished assembling the MotM Kruleboy
IM - Built 5 Infernus Marines, sans backpacks
BM - Drybrushed the skin with Evil Sunz Scarlet
IM - Built the bases for the Marines
BM - Drybrushed the face & upper back spikes with a 1:1 mix of Fire Dragon Bright & Evil Sunz Scarlet
IM - Undercoated the Marines with White Scar
BM/IM - Painted their bases, carefully (and after changing the very red paint water).
IM - Undercoated the backpacks with White Scar
BM - Basecoated skulls with Steel Legion Drab
BM - Rebasecoated the tongue with Ulthuan Grey
BM - Went over the skulls with Screaming Skull
BM - Washed the tongue with Druchii Violet
BM - Washed skulls with Agrax Earthshade
BM - Picked out some of the darker silver metallics with VMC Gungrey
BM - Went over the Gungrey with Nuln Oil
IM - Touched up the undercoat on the underside of the backpacks with Ulthuan Grey.
IM - Basecoated the backpacks with Dark Angels Green Contrast.
IM - Went over all the ribbed undersuit sections with VMC German Grey
IM - Shaded the German Grey with Nuln Oil.
BM - Went over the kneepads and chain/scale mail loincloth with VMA Gungrey.
BM - Basecoated the cheek horns with German Grey.
IM - Went over pouches, holsters and a shoulder strap with Snakebite Leather Contrast.
BM - Shaded the Gungrey & German Grey with Nuln Oil.
BM - Applied Brass Scorpion to various bits of metal.
IM - Picked out metallic areas on the backpacks with Abaddon Black.
IM - Basecoated the metallic areas on the backpacks with VMA Steel.
BM - Went over the head armour with VMA Steel.
BM - Shaded the Brass Scorpion with Agrax Earthshade.
IM - Shaded the Steel with Nuln Oil.
IM - Tidied up areas on the Marines that are about to become green with Ulthuan Grey.
BM - Picked out the eyes with Averland Sunset
BM- Went over claws and the sword handle with German Grey.
IM - Went over weapon foregrips with German Grey (originally intended to do these in green, but changed my mind).
BM/IM - Washed both newly German Grey areas with Nuln Oil.
IM - Painted the green parts of the armour and guns with Dark Angels Green Contrast.
BM - Remembered to shade the Steel head armour with a 1:1:1 mix of Nuln Oil, Drakenhof Nightshade & Lahmian Medium.
BM - Picked out assorted straps with Rhinox Hide.
FW - Built 5 Fenrisian Wolves.
BM - Highlighted the horns & toenails with Warpfiend Grey.
BM - Touched up various bits with various colours.
BM - Painted the sword blade with Runelord Brass.
BM - Shaded the sword blade with Agrax Earthshade, to dial back how shiny it was.
BM - Picked out upper teeth with Warpfiend Grey.
BM - Highlighted the teeth with Ulthuan Grey.


Pictures



Knorne Bloodmaster, Herald of Khorne

Looks like it has been nearly six months since the last bingo card update, so here you go:
Spoiler:


At this point, I doubt I'm going to complete it this year - however, I'll give completing a row and a column the old college try. Of those, I think row 2 and, oddly, column C may be the ones to focus on, but we'll see how I get on in Q4.

2024 Points Log (MFM v1.12, 21/08/24)
Spoiler:
Chaos Daemons
- 3 bases of Nurglings - 40pts
- 5 Flesh Hounds - 70pts
- Karanak, Hound of Vengeance - 65pts
- 10 Plaguebearers - 110pts
- Bloodmaster - 65pts
Necrons
- 5 Necron Warriors with Gauss Flayers - 50pts
- 3 Canoptek Scarab Swarms - 40pts
- 3 Tomb Blades with twin-linked Gauss Blasters - 75pts
Total: 515pts

Terrain
- 2 Thermic Plasma Regulators - 0pts

Achievement unlocked! - 50 GW models purchased in 2024 (Is that an achievement? Who knows.)
Achievement unlocked! - 500pts painted in 2024 (as of latest MFM)

2021-4 Plog - Here we go again... - my fifth attempt at a Dakka PLOG

My Pile of Potential - updates ongoing...

Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.


 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
Made in gb
Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Well done finishing the blood master, he’s a cool mini, now nicely painted! The Mentor Legion are a cool scheme, I look forward to seeing them grace your plog!

Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way 
   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka







@gobert - Thanks gobert. He isn't a bad sculpt at all, but I do wish I'd left him off the base to paint him. Would've made both painting the base and getting to parts of the model itself a lot easier.

+ + +

I may have distracted myself from the Infernus Marines, but at least that means I've gotten something else done fairly quickly. I remembered a video I's seen on the Warhamer YouTube channel about painting Fenrisian Wolves with Contrast paints, and thought I'd take a crack at that.

I'll be honest, I'm pretty happy with the outcome - except for how few points a unit of Fenrisian Wolves takes up in a list. Apparently I'm up to 300 points of painted Space Wolves now, but that's three characters, a unit of Wolf Scouts, and a unit of Wolves, so hardly the most useful army...

Steps
Spoiler:
Key
FW - Fenrisian Wolves
IM - Infernus Marines
KB - Kruleboy
+ + +
IM - Rebasecoated chest eagles with Wraithbone.
IM - Skeleton Horde'd the chest eagles.
FW/KB - Built the bases.
FW/KB - Undercoated with Wraithbone spray.
FW - Painted the bases.
FW - Touched up the undercoat with more Wraithbone.
FW - Washed the whole of the wolves with a 1:1 mix of Skeleton Horde & Contrast Medium.
FW - Washed the wolf fur with a 2:1 (ish) mix of Snakebite Leather & Contrast Medium
FW - Washed the upper 3/4 (or so) of the wolf fur with a 2:1 (ish) mix of Gore-Grunta Fur & Contrast Medium.
FW - Washed the upper 1/2 (or so) of the wolf fur, as well as inside the mouth, with a 2:1 (ish) mix of Wyldwood & Contrast Medium.
FW - Washed the wolf's spine fur and nose with a 2:1 (ish) mix of Black Templar & Contrast Medium - then changed the water.
FW - Rebasecoated eyes, gums & tongue with Grey Seer
FW - Aethermatic Blue for eyes
IM - Touched up the undercoat on the white armour with more White Scar.
FW - Volpus Pink on tongue & gums.


Pictures



5 Fenrisian Wolves

I really should knuckle down and finish off the Infernus Marines next, but I'm also undertaking a #bigbrushchallenge with a friend of mine to paint the MotM Kruleboy, so he needs to get done by November 4th - and will handily fill up that "Any Model" square on my bingo card.

Latest field manual came out today - Necrons are 5 points more expensive than they were, and my general Imperial list went up by a net of 5 points, once I factor in the wolves.

Quick question, as I don't have the SM 'dex - are any of the weapons combinations that the Jump Pack Captain can be built with not currently allowed?

2024 Points Log (MFM v1.13, 16/10/24)
Spoiler:
Chaos Daemons
- 3 bases of Nurglings - 40pts
- 5 Flesh Hounds - 70pts
- Karanak, Hound of Vengeance - 65pts
- 10 Plaguebearers - 110pts
- Bloodmaster - 65pts
Necrons
- 5 Necron Warriors with Gauss Flayers - 50pts
- 3 Canoptek Scarab Swarms - 40pts
- 3 Tomb Blades with twin-linked Gauss Blasters - 75pts
Space Wolves
- 5 Fenrisian Wolves - 30pts
Total: 545pts

Terrain
- 2 Thermic Plasma Regulators - 0pts

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2024/10/16 20:14:36


2021-4 Plog - Here we go again... - my fifth attempt at a Dakka PLOG

My Pile of Potential - updates ongoing...

Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.


 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
Made in gb
Ancient Venerable Dreadnought






Cute little wolfies! Looking good dysartes

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