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Hunea’s Reavers, a Warhounds warband

10 Friday Jul 2020

Posted by terryshithole in Chaos

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30k, chaos marines, warhounds, world eaters

This is the second of the three pieces I’ve finished since March, an experiment that failed. Having painted a Night Lord next up on my journey through the Chaos Legions was World Eaters. Now the World Eaters started out as the Warhounds, and were blue-grey and white. When Angron took over he called them the World Eaters and reversed their colours. When Khorne took him over their colours gradully migrated to the red and brass we know today. So I thought that I’d paint a squad of each!

Hunea’s squad were based a long way from the rest of the Warhounds on garrison duty in a distant stronghold, with irregular updates by astropath. They followed at a distance the change from Warhounds to World Eaters, the butcher’s nails, the rebellion. They were able to hear the Legion break down into madness and bloodlust but not be part of it. Finally there were no more astropathic transmissions, the galaxy was at war, and the squad had to decide which side they were on. They decided that no-one cared for them so they cared for no-one, and started to carve out a petty empire for themselves on the edges of known space. After the heresy came the Scouring, and Hunea and his gang fled in the face of overwhelming Imperial retribution. They tried to use a warp storm to hide in and wound up in the Maelstrom where they made a base which they used to raid the Imperium and in which they gradually succumbed to the lure of chaos. They act as sell-swords and security detail for lesser chaos warlords in the Maelstrom, and are mostly trying to avoid notice by bigger fish like Huron Blackheart!

I didn’t enjoy painting Hunea’s squad that much, it felt like I was fighting the minis’ natural ‘feel’; a colour scheme that works for the clean lines of loyalists doesn’t work very well for the complex lines of chaos marines. It felt like I was forcing the paintjob. One of the plastic marines was one from a parts lot that had been stripped but was very badly built. I should have just chucked it in the bitz box and used a different marine instead of trying to repair and reuse it, it looks crap! But you live and learn, innit.

30K Imperial Fists

14 Saturday Oct 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Betrayal At Calth, Finished Work, Imperial Fists

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30k, Betrayal At Calth, horus heresy, Imperial Fists

If I had my time again I would have decided to paint the Betrayal At Calth miniatures in the ‘correct’ Legion colourschemes.  There are a number of reasons for this.

  1. Historical exactness.  ‘Historical’ ‘exactness’.
  2. I have become more interested in the history and motivations of Lorgar and the Word Bearers since reading about them in one of the big expensive Horus Heresy rulebooks.
  3. The Ultramarines aren’t really as loathsome as all that, just a bit over-done.
  4. Imperial Fists and Death Guard might eventually get their own games and then what will I do?  I should have been more patient.
  5. Imperial Fists and Death Guard are really hard to paint and I’m just not good enough at painting to have done anything better than an ok job.

Still, I have one plastic Captain left to paint and then Betrayal At Calth will be complete.  If only I can remember what I did with him…

 

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Don;t look too closely at the Legion icon…

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matey-boy on the left is supposed to look like he is reaching for his pistol….

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the chap on the left here has had his left pauldron replaced. it was supposed to look like a field replacement, but it just looks crap.

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i don’t think that crests suit the Fists particularly.

Sisters of Silence and Geigor Fellhand

21 Sunday May 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Burning Of Prospero

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30k, Burning Of Prospero, geigor fellhand, horus heresy, sisters of silence, space wolves

Working my way through the Burning of Prospero miniatures, amongst all the other things!  The Sisters were fun to paint, and in general satisfied my feminist inclinations.  That is: they’re dressed, and fairly realistic in proportion.  It’s nice to have some women in WH40K.  Now we need some female Imperial Guard, and a rebooted Sisters of Battle, perhaps some female Scitarii and Chaos Cultists, that sort of thing.  Miniatures that are just women, that woman-ness is not one of their personality traits, if that makes sense.  I think that the photos don’t look as good as the minis themselves.  My paintjob isn’t great, but they look pretty good on the shelves but not so great in the pics.

Geigor is the first Space Wolf I’ve painted since the early 90s.  I followed the Warhammer TV method for painting Space Wolves, which was very close to the method I use to paint my Steel Guard.  Whilst that made it easier, it wasn’t much of a leap in style or technique, and I think I would have liked a try at the baby-blue early 90s Space Wolves.  That’s one for another day!

For Dorn! 30K Imperial Fists

29 Sunday May 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Betrayal At Calth, Finished Work, Imperial Fists, Space Marines

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30k, space marines

By golly, yellow is difficult.  This was a squad that I really came to hate.  I never felt like I was getting closer to getting it right.  In the end I gave up and hurried my way through, just being thankful that I was a squad closer to finishing painting my Betrayal At Calth minis and that was that.

This was also the first time I’ve used transfers.  That was a lesson too.

 

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Newhammer Warning: 30K Death Guard

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Betrayal At Calth, Chaos, Finished Work, Space Marines

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30k, Betrayal At Calth, chaos, citadel miniatures, Death Guard, newhammer

I was given Betrayal At Calth for Christmas.  I can’t tell you yet if its any good as a game, but the miniatures are lovely. Whilst they lack the charm and crazy genius of the late 80s Citadel output, these really are beautiful models.   Deciding against painting the contents as Ultramarines vs Word Bearers (as Ultramarines are yuk, and Word Bearers similarly uninspiring), I had to consider other options.  The baddies were an easy choice really – I’ve already got an Alpha Legion army and have given up ever getting a painting technique I am pleased with for those snakey scamps.  I do want to paint a Night Lords warband – in fact, I want to make the warband from the Night Lords series of novels by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.  I was tempted to use these as a place to start, but I want to use these as game pieces in Betrayal At Calth eventually, not chop them up into individuals.  So Death Guard it was.  Nurgle is my homeboy.

 

The paintjob was loosely based on the Forge Word painting instructions for Death Guard, along with some making-it-up-as-I-went-along.  It’s pretty hit or miss to be honest.  I’ll be changing the recipe slightly for the next Death Guard squad.  Still,  I am happy with this first attempt.

 

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