Heresy Era World Eaters - When life hands you lemons...

...BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

The plan all along was to do a Shadow Crusade force with the Word Bearers, and as I'm working on Argel Tal, I was more or less obligated to do his battle buddy, Kharn!

Pretty jazzed with how he turned out, it makes perfect sense to use the commander of the force as the paint test model, right? ...Right?

Fairly straightforward paint scheme - Primered grey, followed by Vallejo Stonewall Grey and Ghost Grey drybrush over the armor followed by a 50/50 wash of Army Painter Dark Tone and Lahmian Medium. Once that dried I picked out some edges with Ghost Grey again, then went over the model and re-blacked in all the piping and metal in preparation for further colors. The blue is based on a 50/50 mix of Imperial Blue and Stonewall Grey (an excellent suggestion from the rockstar painter John Stiening), which turns into a great desaturated blue - Interestingly it looks much darker in the pics than it does in real live, likely a function of the white balancing. Still, I dig it!

NOCF Fall Charity Raffles are live! Featuring some familiar pointy-eared gits...

I've been a little remiss in my blogging this month (been a bit of a rough ride) but I wanted to help spread the word about another set of awesome charity raffles the folks from NOVA are putting on - Quite a few awesome armies and individual models, including a set of Exodite Aeldari that may look familiar!

 

For a mere $5 you can enter for a chance to win these pointy-eared gits, as well as all sorts of awesome other models!

The raffle launched on Monday, October 15, and run until November 25, so there's still plenty of time to get your tickets, and the money goes to a number of fantastic causes! 

Here's the scoop:

• Tickets are available from novaopenfoundation.org

• We will ship to winners anywhere in the world (with a valid mailing address)

LINKS:

Home Page                 https://novaopenfoundation.org/

Links to the various raffles below!

Armies                         

·       2018 FALL ARMY: 40K Board Game, The Lost Patrol

·       2018 FALL ARMY: 40K Exodite Aeldari

·       2018 FALL ARMY: Dark Age Forsaken St. Isaac Army

·       2018 FALL ARMY: FOW Mid-War Italian Tank Company

·       2018 FALL ARMY: FOW Team Yankee – American Armored Cavalry Company

·       2018 FALL ARMY: Necromunda Underhive

Models

·       2018 FALL MODEL: 40K Nurgle Chaos Knight

·       2018 FALL MODEL: Banshee Anonymous Bust 1.0

·       2018 FALL MODEL: Banshee Anonymous Bust 2.0

·       2018 FALL MODEL: Ogre Bust

Cheers everyone!

Dreadtober 2018 - House Vyronii Armigers complete!

More Dreadtober goodness this morning! It's been kind of nice having two projects going at the same time - When I get tired of the red and black of the Word Bearers I've been able to bounce over to the green and white of House Vyronii. ...But not any longer, as my pledge for Dreadtober 2018 is now complete!

First up are the Armiger Warglaves, all set for close-in work with their Melta weapons and close combat weapons.

And second are the Armiger Helverins, which are probably my favorite of the two varieties. Really dig the twin autocannon look!

All in all I'm really happy with them, they were a blast to build and a joy to paint. Now we'll see if I can actually get them on the tabletop at some point!

Head on over to http://dreadtober.blogspot.com/ for more Dreadtober goodness!

Heresy Era Word Bearers - Argel Tal built!

All of the various bits and kits I'd ordered to build Argel Tal finally arrived and I could get cracking on attempting to get a model that's been rattling around in my head for years out on to the tabletop!

Vargheist wings, some custodes weapons, a possessed arm and a torso from the FW Gal Vorbak kit were laid out and dry fit to get a feel for what was going to need to be trimmed away - including the head to make way for one that more closely matches the description of a bestial face in the books.

I was really jazzed by how the parts fit together - Had to trim down the wings a little and cut the two arms back from the shoulder a touch, but minimal greenstuffing was going to be required!

The wings are perhaps juuuust a touch too large, but I think it gives him a real sense of presence. I'd test-fit a set of Dark Eldar Scourge wings which definitely looked anemic compared to the bulk of the model, and Hive Tyrant wings would have been massive. These worked out about as well as I could ask for!

Tried to blend the wings into the pack and keep the organic look going, we'll see how it works out once I get some paint on him!

The intent in-game is to run him as a Praetor with a jump pack, artificer armor, iron halo, and a master-crafted paragon blade and bolter to represent the Custodes weaponry. Not a perfect fit, but I figure most heresy players wouldn't mind!

Dreadtober 2018 - House Vyronii Armigers livery on!

Dreadtober is upon us, which means it's time to paint some giant stompy death machines! None of my current Heresy projects include any dreadnoughts so instead I'm working up a quartet of Armigers to mill about the feet of the Knight Lancer I'd done a few months back. It's been a rough week recently so I've been remiss on getting stuff posted and updated on the Dreadtober page but the always awesome Todd Sherman has been keeping a hand on the rudder. Big thanks to him for keeping the ball rolling in my absence!

To begin with all the metal areas were given a pass with Vallejo Gunmetal, drybrushed with Chainmail, then given an Army Painter Strong Tone wash, which gives it an oily, dirty metal look.

Next up was blocking in the House Vyronii livery, which is an emerald green and white. I didn't want to paint each one identically, so they each got a bit of a half-and-half pattern that ties them together color-wise but keeps them individualist which I think suits the knightly order vibe.

Next up was the gold trim and cleanup of the areas where the livery got out of hand. They're starting to come together nicely! Now on to all the fiddly detail work and basing prior to the initial sealant pass step. Once that's done I can do the waterslides and weathering - So far, so good!