Now having completed the Grave Wardens (or Chaos Terminators), I’ll move on to some heavier fire support, namely two small Havoc Squads with Missile Launchers.
Looking forward to getting these ready for the table!
Having completed the Plague Drones in the usual scheme, I’ll now turn my attention to bolstering my Grave Wardens. I’ve had five for quite a while, but this should provide some more flexibility – either as another separate squad, or to make a super retinue unit.
The Plague Drones:
The Grave Wardens:
I’ve just completed Mortarion and lot of the newer Death Guard models for 40k, including a lot of Poxwalkers, new Plague Marines, and character models! A quick photo of that below:
Next up: more Plaguebearers!
I’ve been working on the Kharybdis and Dreadclaws, as well as the Leviathan, as the spearhead of the Orbital Assault list I’m working towards.
You can see them deploying on an agri-world below:
The next project for the painting table sees a selection of flying models land, including the Daemon Primarch Mortarion himself, and a number of Drop Pods in the form of several Dreadclaws and a Kharybdis:
These will as ever be multi-functional, for both my 30k and 40k Death Guard, and offer a very direct method of transporting the Legion into battle!
I’ll also be working on things I can potentially deploy within them, including a lot of the great new Death Guard plastic models, and a few other supporting bits in the form of a Librarian/Sorcerer and a Leviathan:
I have a separate Dreadnought Drop Pod and standard Legion Drop Pods for Tacticals to come at some point as part of the Orbital Assault list, but there’s plenty to be getting on with here. The intention is to do this all in the traditional paint scheme I tend to use – with a few twists to account for the mutations on the new Plague Marines.
I’ve not been idle – although I’ve been keeping busy I’ve been able to get a fair amount more painted since the last update, and hopefully they’ll become more regular from now on. As ever, the ETL over at the Bolter and Chainsword has allowed me to finish a great deal more than I would otherwise, and has equally pushed myself in terms of techniques and hopefully quality!
After the last update, I entered the Daemonic Pact (3) again at the B&C and was lucky enough to win Artisan of Chaos for the Best Paintjob and ascended to Daemonhood! The following model, one of my three Great Unclean Ones, was my entry:
Thereafter, I’ve completed a few other ‘random’ things, including adding detail onto a previously painted Ahriman to bring him up to higher standard, a bit of repair work in places, that sort of thing:
Getting him to look like this:
Then, in a bizarre twist of fate, I knocked him from my windowsill – and his staff broke and backpack came off. It broke in precisely one place, allowing me to do this:
Tzeentch is truly the changer of ways!
Separate blog posts with follow with updated pieces of work – and my latest offerings!
It’s crazy that this blog hasn’t been updated in awhile – I thought I was getting good at posting regular updates and content, and clearly failed – so at least there’ll be a veritable truckload of posts over the coming weeks. Life has inevitably been in the way of hobbying, which is good and bad in equal measure! That said, since the ETL, I’ve been doing well at ploughing through unit after unit, and creating some really good things that I’m proud of – and continuing to clear my backlog!
As ever, the Bolter and Chainsword ran the Call of Chaos in the run up to Christmas – an irresistible challenge for a batch painter like myself. I went all out:
“I, Chaeron, will answer the Call of Chaos and vow to complete twenty one units, all before January 15th 2015. If I do this successfully I will receive the Mark of Postulant Glory and continue on the path to ruin. If I fail I’ll wear the Mark of the Lost and I expect no mercy on my soul!
It was a pretty big vow – the largest in terms of units pledged, with plenty of familiar faces also participating to suitably encourage and provide the criticism to help progress everything!
There are pre-photos of all of the pledged units:
And with that, the next Black Crusade commenced!
I began with the three Forge World Great Unclean Ones – arguably, some of the best models produced and one of my all time favourites.
I started with a Rhinox Hide base, getting in everywhere fleshy:
Proceeded to then drybrush Averland Sunset – trying get that tone and depth between the recessed areas, and make it look similar to elephant skin, wherever possible:
Then, started to pick out all the flesh ‘disturbances’ in Screaming Skull (of which there are many):
And all three had that done:
I then worked on the flesh further:
With the first one’s flesh coat done:
And then together!
So then, I started highlighting…
And adding gore:
Some assembly required:
Up close and personal:
I don’t even know the collective noun for three Great Unclean Ones – suggestions welcome:
They all have quite questionable hygiene too:
Once I got to this stage, I needed to throw in a WIP of something a bit different – those Fiends did nicely:
Before I began blocking colours on my Obliterators:
Once those steps are done, things go faster:
And naturally I had to get the ext batch ready:
And then get them painted!
And now with flesh and weapons done:
Before, finally, after a monumental effort: I completed it all! I went back and did a few extra things on all of the above, making sure everything was of a very good standard, no missed details etc. – which left me with one of everything:
A nice side view:
The ‘big guns’:
The right side:
The left side:
Phew! Quite an effort – really pleased generally as the vast majority of the Plague Marines were salvage jobs, hence why there is some discolouration in places. Overall, a new lease of life – so I’m pretty delighted I’ve rescued them for the army.
And with that, the Call was complete. Now to begin preparations for the ETL, and a review of the year in general. Best wishes to you and yours for the year ahead!
