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The New Disease! Nurgle Blightdrone

12 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Dark Imperium, Finished Work

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chaos, Dark Imperium, Death Guard

Finishing off the my Dark Imperium boxset, this Blightdrone. After the trouble I had painting the Death Guard from that set I put off painting the Blightdrone because I couldn’t face more failure. There is so much lovely detail on the Nurgle minis but my painting skills are not really up to it. I hope that it doesn’t put kids off – I know that it finding things hard used to put me off things, but I wasn’t raised in an environment that rewarded persistence. However I am pleased with how this has come out. It took a long time, and its not Golden Demon standard, but I’ve learned from the earlier DG and applied that learning and I am quite pleased. So now I have a small Death Guard army, just like I wanted way back before the DG were relauched. Being a sucker for punishment I have built the Gellerpox Mutants from the Kill Team Rogue Trader boxset to go alongside. You’ll get to see them in however many months! I lke the Blightdrone, its basically a really angry clam! I don’t eat molluscs, but I am reliably informed that they are basically delivery systems for getting heavy metal pollution from the seas into human beings, which is delightfully nurglish.

I’ve also included a picture of my ‘lightbox’ set up, as someone was grumbling about the quality of my photos! As you can see, I’ve got TWO daylight lamps and my shots are still quite dark, so if anyone has any suggestions for getting better shots with that set-up, please let me know. I’m a bit of a technophobe and have not brain so maybe I am missing something obvious!

  • Blightdrone
  • Extra slime for me please!
  • my current lightbox

Captain Poythines and Tactical Squad Nawab, Steel Guard 6th Company

11 Monday Feb 2019

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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captain, citadel miniatures, space marines, space wolves, Steel Guard, tactical squad

Another Steel Guard squad, plus another Captain for the Command Team. I’ve painted one of the Space Wolf Captain minis before, for the Captain of the 3rd Company. That time I experimented with non-metallic metals, attempting a gold armoured marine. It wasn’t especially a success, though I might try again sometime now I’ve had a few more years practice. I’ve been trying to clear my leadpile recently, having moved countries to glorious Cymru and having therefore to have to confront the sheer piles of stuff I own. I’ve sold off all the mid-period miniatures, leaving only the cool old stuff and some of the brand spanking new sweet miniatures the GW workshops are cranking out these days. Thus this squad is all classic minis from the days of Rogue Trader and 2nd Edition, and I think it looks before it, don’t you?

  • Captain Poythines, in the gloaming
  • That lovely wolf-headed mini
  • Missile launcher and plasma gunners
  • Sgt. Nawab
  • Squad Nawab
  • Imperial Space Marine

Chaos Dwarf daemon-machines!

23 Wednesday Jan 2019

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos, Dwarfs, Finished Work

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bumcannon, chaos dwarves, daemon machines, daemonsmiths, hasslefree, old school miniatures

What a lovely experience it was, painting this little warband of Chaos Dwarfs. The wonderful bumcannon monster is by Old School Miniatures, in homage of course to the legendary limited release bumcannon of yore. The tenderiser is mostly the original, though missing its shield and the lower half of the daemon pushing it. I replaced that with an old plastic boar. The chap with the lobster arm is from Hasslefree, whose sculpt is clearly based on the dwarf Yorri from an illustration in (I think) Ignorant Armies.

This was a great little project and one I really enjoyed. I hope you like them as much as I do.

Big Mek Gorrunt’s Gang – Outcast Retinue

23 Wednesday Jan 2019

Posted by terryshithole in Orks

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citadel miniatures, freebooterz, Orks, Outcast Retinue, Rogue Trader

The Freebooterz book is an amazing thing. It allows you to build almost any Ork army you want. All you need to do is pick a Warboss and his retinue, and a bigmob of at least ten Orks, then after that Freebooterz is your guide for making a fantastic army using whatever takes your fancy. The Outcast Retinue mob allows you to use a different clan to your main clan and still take whatever special rules that second clan has. Now, I haven’t got a main clan yet (though I have Goff and Bad Moonz clan Orks), so an Outcast Retinue is a pretty pointless thing to have. Still, the dice rolls were in, and an Outcast Retinue it was. I then rolled for a clan and it was Evil Sunz. But I’ve just finished a red, vehicle-based mob! An Evil Sunz Retinue offers you two Meks (and their associated odddbitz), plus cheap vehicles. But we’re not going to do that! This Retinue is missing all the things that make it an Evil Sunz Retinue! Mostly, this is because almost all my minis were already packed for my house move. One day I’ll add a load of vehicles to it, I’ve already bought one of the cool new Ork vehicles (did I say this last time, I love the new Ork vehicles, but I hate the modern Ork minis and flufff), and I will add a couple of tanks or something. The looted rhino (counts as a battlewagon) came in a lot I bought a few years ago and is a rough and ready conversion that didn’t need a lot of messing with. I cleaned up the paint job, added a few more bitz and some weathering and hoped that covered up the worst of it. The story behind this retinue is that a telly-porta accident seperated them from the rest of the clan, leaving the warboss, the boyz, the wagons, the runtz, and all the perks of kultur somewhere entirely different to the retinue. Following a period of adjustment, during which Big Mek Gorrunt ascerted his domination through a judicious use of a giant power klaw, they are now back and looking for a scrap. As any Ork knows, a wagon and a bike aren’t enough speed for Evil Sunz, they need more vehicles and they’re willing to fight for them!

Assassinorum: Execution Force! completed

12 Wednesday Dec 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Assassinorum, Finished Work

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assassins, chaos, cultists, sorcerer lord

  • callidus
  • vindicare
  • eversor
  • chaos sorcerer lord
  • cultist scum
  • cultist scum

Another completed box set here.  When I got back into painting miniatures, there were just three games and everyone was crying out for new games but GW were like, you’ll have three and like it.  When this was released we all got excited and expected it to be a one-off buy since them there have been more boxed games than I can count, certainly more than I can paint.  So I stopped buying them, realising that my interests were too wide and my painting not quick enough.  So I let the Warhammer Quest sets pass me by despite them being lovely.  I’ve ignored Age of Sigmar, despite some of the minis being great.  I bought the Dark Imperium last year mind, and am still working on it.. How can a person paint so much?  But this year has seen so many great box sets that I have had to ask for GW vouchers for Christmas… Kill Team Rogue Trader set, Speed Freeks, and Blackstone Fortress all call to me.  TOO MUCH HOBBY!?!?!?!1111

So yeah the assassins are lovely minis, and the chaos guys are a pleasure to paint.  I’ve modified the callidus a bit because the hair was ridiculous even by the standards of the 41st millenium.  I couldn’t let it stand. 

Ancient Binahus, Rogue Trader dreadnought

01 Saturday Dec 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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dreadnought, lead, Rogue Trader, space marines, Steel Guard

Next out of the leadpile is a rebuilt Rogue Trader dreadnought.  I do like these models, whether long or short of leg they really feel like an archaic machine.  The face on the sarcophagus is great, giving a sense of the inhuman and megalithic!  It feels like quite a dramatic mini, considering how slab-like and immovable the sculpt is.  That’s the sign of a good sculptor, I think.  You can imagine this pulverising its way through a battleline, small arms fire bouncing off it and power-fists laying low anyone who came near! This particular one has been rebuilt.  The left side (facing the dread) has had the circular shoulder piece replaced by green stuff as it was missing.  One of the bolters was also missing and has been replaced with a standard bolter.  Due to the lack of detail this is a challenging mini to paint, and I think I did OK considering how average my painting skills are. 

  • Binahus, close
  • Binahus, far

Deathwatch Overkill Genestealer Cult

29 Thursday Nov 2018

Posted by terryshithole in deathwatch overkill

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deathwatch, genestealer, genestealer cults, genestealer familiars, genestealer hybrids, genestealer magus, genestealer patriarch, genestealer primus

Finally finished painting up the Genestealer Cult from the Deathwatch Overkill boxset.  These are lovely modern miniatures with lots of fidddly detail but not so much that its overwhelming.  I found these tricky to paint, but I think that mostly I did alright.  I painted this army in three blocks, months apart, and I think that sometimes it shows – the finishing isnt as good on some of the earlier stuff.  I might add a rockcrusher (or whatever they’re called) to this army.  I also saw some bikes and quad bikes that are due for adding to the Genestealer Cults army, and those are pretty good too.  As if I don’t already have enough to paint!

  • The Patriarch
  • Cultists
  • Cultists
  • Third and Fourth Generations
  • Genestealer Cultists with autoguns
  • First & Second Generation hybrids
  • Hybrids
  • Magus
  • Metamorphs
  • Patriarch
  • Primus

Orktober! Bad Ork Bikeboyz

26 Friday Oct 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Orks

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bad ork bikeboyz, freebooterz, Orks, Orktober!, Rogue Trader, WH40K

Hello everyone, its Orktober again, and its nice to see so many people painting Orks in celebration of the happiest time of year.  GW have done well, releasing some properly Orky vehicles and a new game that I might pick up if I find a spare ninety quid at some point in the near future.  My Orktober has mostly been spent packing boxes, as I am moving house, and indeed country.  I am moving to Caerdydd, where they speak a different language.  What’s Welsh for “more dakka, ladz!”??

My contribution to Orktober is one that I’m not really very happy with.  To use a common expression, “they’re a bugger to paint”.  Four 2nd Edition warbikes, and a tiny RT warbike.  He’s the yoof, on his practise bike!  Actually, the RT bike was a pleasure to paint, but the plastic ones not so much.  I simply don’t think that they are very good minis.  The scale is better, but they feel like a cheap children’s toy rather than a finely detailed collector’s model!  I also had to repair and rebuild them, all of them being scrap from the bitzbox.  I think I did alright but compared to some of my previous Freebooter mobz I don’t get the warm glow of success!

Never-mind, its all a learning curve.  I present to you Magog and his Bad Ork Bikeboyz, the only survivors of an Evil Sunz warband who were wiped out by Space Marines.  They survived because they drove right through the Marines and off into the distance, more into going fast than shooting.  By the time they calmed down, turned round, and found the battle again there was nothing left of their old warband.  Now they’re Freebooterz, willing to fight in exchange for food and fuel.

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Imperial Guard Land Speeder

25 Tuesday Sep 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Imperial Guard

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40k, conversions, imperial guard, land speeder, oldhammer, Rogue Trader

A relic of years passed when Land Speeders were a support choice for the Imperial Guard.  this is a lovely miniature that was a pleasure to paint.  I’m pleased with the way this turned out, I think the crewmen especially came out alright.  I was least pleased with the tiny repair job I did, replacing a missing under-slung bolter with a plastic bolter from a modern Space Marine tank.  I decided not to put any iconography on the Land Speeder so that it could be used as either a loyalist or traitor army, depending on my mood.

20180925_imperial_guard_land_speeder

“Hold this thing steady whilst I take a shot…”

Brother-Techmarine Baris

25 Tuesday Sep 2018

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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space marines, Steel Guard, tech marine

Another Techmarine.  I think I need to start painting some of the other specialists of the Steel Guard, they’re lacking Librarians and Chaplains.  The Techmarines are fun to paint though.

I must say that I have real trouble getting enough light and no shadows in my photography.  Learning to paint (ish) has been hard enough, learning to get good photos seems to be something else I need to do now.

 

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Brother Baris is in a very artificial pose here.

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