Plastic Daemon Prince WIP, Slight Conversion work

So, I finally realised that I would never finish that other DP project I started, and got myself one of the "new" plastic Daemon Prince Kits. I like that Games Workshop try to do as much plastic models as possible, but this kit did not get it right in my opinion. The arm options are stupid, why three almost exactly the same weapon arms? why only two very odd left ones? The kit fits quite good together, but it is a shame that they can't eliminate gaps even with fancy CADing.
I pretty much swore to never buy this, but the pain in using the metal alternatives made me give in and pay up, you have to support the company when they try to improve themselves afterall.

I can't say I am fond of this "Cartoon-evil" style Chaos are going towards. Yes, taste is very subjective, so I can't put the kit down for that, I just wish Chaos would be more grimdark than Orks...

"Would you look at this fucking love connection"

I did a quite simple head swap with the Balrog kit from the LoTR series, which changed the tone of the model quite a lot. Quick and dirty, but at least I won't feel ashamed when I deploy him.

"Purple raaaain, purple rain"


"DVDA"

I will try to finish the base tomorrow and then I will wait for access to the airbrush again.
I really should get to finishing something soon...

Forgeworld Chaos Renegade test painted

I was supposed to paint up my cow-man-dos, but all the fiddling with the new stuff made it itch and I had to make a test paint to see how easy/hard it was to paint the renegades.

All in all it feels like a welcome break from all the cartoony orks I've been painting for the last two years. The problem – if you can call it that – is that these figures really screams for a more realistic style of painting. With less striking highlights and more shading.

The paint scheme didn't really come out as I wanted. Mostly because of the pigments going away when applying the matte varnish. In this case 50/50 satin & matte. Before varnishing the legs were way more earth colored. Something I have to figure out if it's possible to avoid later on.

The uniform is pretty uniform. Something I'll have to ponder for a while. It is pretty realistic to have it as uniform as I have it now, but having 50 of these rather dull figures on the table might be either too dull or making it all come together. I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and paint up a bunch more and see how it looks.

Any suggestions? Comments? Let me know. I'm all ears for any C&C before I commit to painting them all.

Now I'm off to finish the Cow-men. Tomorrow is field trip day. I'm off to lovely Örebro to give Boomo a proper spanking with my orkzes. Although I guess it's me that will get the spanking. I haven't played a proper game of 40K in 6 months or so. We'll see... I promise you a battle report no matter what happens! :)

Hoarding Forgeworld for fun and profit

Pus for the Pus-God! Forgeworld Vraks Renegades.

Apparently it's not enough to have 1500pts of space marines to paint, together with the Warhound and tons of other stuff. Got to have more! Must have more!!!

So today the UPS-van arrived, again, with a big package from Forgeworld. The dudes (once there was this kinda nice girl delivering my parcels) kinda know me by now. That's how bad this addiction is. Blah blah blah... I got enough stuff to convert 50-ish guardsmen into Chaos renegade militia.

I kinda justify the purchase to myself since my orks are more or less "done" now. After the commandos are done I need to paint two nobs and then that's it. The Ultramarines... meh. At the moment not so exciting as putting together a wall of human meat ready to die for Papa Nurgle.

But still... Why is it that you have to buy more 40K stuff than you need?

On The Table: Forgeworld Dreadnought

I have Painting ADD, I admit it, and I stand by it. I abandonded Zhufor and the Berzerkers for now and got to painting my Nurgle Dreadnought instead. I was quite scared of painting him, the incredible amount of detail is quite daunting, and I always doubt my painting ability.

The build was quite straight forward with only minimal gapfilling, I have heard that many have had problems with the ForgeWorld Venerables, but I think since this model is quite new, the old issues with the powerplant etc. have been corrected
It was surprisingly well cast, and everything fit without any hassle when the mandatory flash was cut off. The arms are magnetised for hotswapping and weapon destroyed results. The Waist is magnetised too but seems to have gotten stuck after the greenstuff got glued, I don't want to start bending it to much, it is resin after all..

This Far I am pretty pleased with the paint job. After about Six hours I have a lot left though, I have still to decide on how the metal should be done, and I need to go to the hobby store tomorrow to get some paint for the highlights etc.


I also got to working on an objective marker, already finished a "fuel" marker, so now I wanted a "more Dakka" marker

Resurrection Of A Land Raider: The Project Hate XL

So, I have had this busted Land Raider for more than 10 years. It came with a box of marines I bought, so it must have been one of the old megaforce sets. Anyway, I tried to assemble it back then, with no real clue, or care really how it should look. I then followed me around in one of my old boxes of stuff, collecting dust, getting more beat up.
Last year when I started playing 40k "for srsly" I remembered the old beast and tried to just paint him up and play, but since it looked like shit, I just played without it. Now I feel like I need it in my list again.

The two things to be done was first to strip the paint back off of it, and the fix the worst part; The seams! This thing could be used as a sieve, so many gaps and ill fitting parts, the worst being the top piece that did not connect properly to the tracks or the power plant.


I stripped it using "Yes Power Spray" also known as "Fairy" outside of scandinavia.
It pretty much melts the paint and leaves the plastic unharmed, and it does not smell or poison your family and pets, so I could do this in my kitchen sink. If you haven't used it before, clean up any splashes before they dry as it gets harder to remove once dry, and second, It foams a bit while you brush, but resist to wash it off with water as this instantly kills the effect of loosening the paint, so you have to either repeat the soak or just persevere until clean.

Now I just have to carefully cut off the roof and sand, and fill and glue and sand and fill and sand and glue...
*racks shotgun* Goodbye Cruel World!

One down, Two to go

Aaaand done! Pretty pleased with the final results, but there was some whining on forums that I did not overload him with a metric fuckton of guns, but that is neither good design, original, or the look I was going for. He has an energy (well slime then) weapon, and a nice claw hand to counts as a PF. He is also slightly larger than a GW Obliterator, modelling for advantage is for pussies

Would like som CC on the build, since it is my first conversion, I want to know what to improve in the future

Slight update, pregame musings

Got down and dirty with the obie, some final touchups and basing to do, then this one is pretty much done. Not too shabby for my first (real) conversion.

He will get his first blood on sunday in a 1750 matchup between my CSM and my friend Jocke's Blood Angels. A friendly game to the death. We recently decided to try and only play 100% painted and WYSIWYG, both as an incentive to just f*cking finish your army, and because playing against a grey plastic ork counting as Lysander is bullshit. Good for Jocke, because he has finished his army (and with speed too!), less so for me. I have the points, sure, but not the list I want to play. I tried to make up for the lack of decent Heavy Support and AT units with a (kinda) tailored list versus MEQ

My list for sunday, not very competetive, but it's all painted at least.

1 Daemon Prince (HQ) @ 155 Pts
Mark of Slaanesh; CC Weapon (x1); Wings
Lash of Submission [20]
(would typically not use this classic combo, but I got a really creepy looking custom DP from Jocke to use, so it must be done!)

1 Chaos Sorcerer (HQ) @ 170 Pts
Mark of Tzeentch; Force Weapon; Combi-Bolter
Terminator Armour [10]
Warptime [25] (probably the worst choice in this list, but I wanted an HQ to roll with my terminator unit)

4 Chaos Terminators (Elites) @ 185 Pts
Mark of Slaanesh; Icon Bearer; Chainfist (x1); Lightning Claw (x3);
Combi-Melta (x1); Lightning Claw (x3)
(MoS is a cheap way to dampen furious charge from Jockes BA and to keep hitting first, I would typically take Khorne instead but when I can tailor to MEQ, why not)

1 Chaos Dreadnought (Elites) @ 130 Pts
Front Armour: 12; Side Armour: 12; Rear Armour: 10; Dreadnought CCW;
w/Heavy Flamer; TL Lascannons
(I should probably put this guy on the bench, always underperforms, and "Crazed" can be a pain, but meh. I like Dreads!)

8 Plague Marines (Troops) @ 287 Pts

Mark of Nurgle; ; Blight Grenades; Bolt Pistol (x8); CC Weapon (x8);
Bolter (x6); Plasma Gun (x2); Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades

1 Plague Champion @ [73] Pts
Blight Grenades; Mark of Nurgle; Bolt Pistol (x1); Power Fist (x1);
Bolter; Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades; Meltabombs; Personal Icon
(this is the only proxy unit, will use regular CSM instead of my WIP Death Guard )

9 Chaos Space Marines (Troops) @ 260 Pts
Mark of Khorne; Icon Bearer; Bolt Pistol (x9); CC Weapon (x9); Bolter
(x8); Flamer (x1); Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades

1 Aspiring Champion @ [55] Pts
Mark of Khorne; Bolt Pistol (x1); Power Fist (x1); Bolter; Frag
Grenades; Krak Grenades
(should probably move some points around and get these guys a melta or two)
1 Chaos Rhino @ [35] Pts


9 Chaos Space Marines (Troops) @ 265 Pts
Mark of Khorne; Icon Bearer; Bolt Pistol (x9); CC Weapon (x9); Bolter
(x7); Meltagun (x2); Frag Grenades; Krak Grenades

1 Aspiring Champion @ [45] Pts
Mark of Khorne; Bolt Pistol (x1); Power Weapon (x1); Bolter; Frag
Grenades; Krak Grenades

1 Chaos Rhino @ [35] Pts


17 Summoned Lesser Demons (Troops) @ 221 Pts
CC Weapon (x17)(odd choice you might say, but these are always fun to drop like a rotten meat blocker to keep a forward objective)

1 Obliterator Cult (Heavy Support) @ 75 Pts
Power Fist; Lascannon; Multi-Melta; Plasma Cannon; TL Flamer; TL Meltagun;
TL Plasma Gun
(GOGO Trollerator!, optimally, I would use these in squads of two, and deepstrike for mid/short range tank hunting and maybe plasma dump against MEQ)


Total Army Cost: 1748

My Name Is Inigo Montoya, Prepare To Tie!

So, New contributor in the proverbial "hizzaah"
Most people (the few, the beautiful) know me as boomo around the web. I have been actively playing 40k for the last year and a half, but I have been dipping my toes in to the hobby on and off for about ten years.
Firstly I must say I love 40k, the fluff is very rich, and I think the quality of Black Librarys publishings have continually increased over time. I will maybe (probably) whine and rant about GWs usual disconnect from the "reality" of the gaming community, whether it be releases nobody asked for, or rules that make no goddamn sense, but in my heart I love the hobby, and always look forward to new releases.

I play a Nurgle/Khorne CSM army, with focus lately shifting to the smelly boys.
I can not claim to be any good at painting or modeling, but I think I have the willingness to learn and improve.

I would like to show you my latest project (will do a full army list with pictures when everything is painted and I can fucking settle on an army list)
Like most of the old CSM models, the obliterators really suck.
Very uninspired sculpts, and I will go as far as to say that the previous version was better, in concept at least. When the Fantasy River Trolls got released last year, I saw the potential of the ugly bastards, but the box I got was put on a shelf and forgotten. 8 or so months later I finally got around to finish one last night!

Will Update with paint and progress on the other two, pixel gave me some new ideas to make them even more gnarly (gnarly as Gnarly Sheen)

PEACE I'M OUT *drops mic, on foot, cries*