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Queen Tarus's Face-slicers, a Chaos Warband

15 Saturday Feb 2020

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Hello again and welcome to 2020. Since my last post its been Christmas and New Year, and then we’ve done something silly and got ourselves a new puppy. I’ve not had a lot of painting time since then 😦 She’s lovely though.

Now, the two main points of “interest” with this warband were 1) further experimentation with contrast paints; and 2) painting a random selection of miniatures in the way that I did when I was a kid! Point 2 needs no explanation, but point 1 maybe does. I followed some intructions for painting with source lighting from above. So I sprayed these minis black all over, then gave a grey spray from above, and then a white spray from above. I was hoping that the white would help the colours to pop out, as if there was a strong sun above – this warband is wandering parched chaos wastes. I think I’ve had mixed success. Mostly the source lighting failed and I don’t really know why. Likewise where it worked I don’t know why it worked. Was it my choice of colours or paint? Why are the mutants so dull whilst the Warqueen looks great? Still, I think I’ve learned a few things and I’ve painted some lovely miniatures. I really enjoyed painting the Warqueen – one problem with the beautiful modern minis GW is churning out at the moment is that they are so very detailed that it is hard for us mediocre painters to do anything with them. This one has just the right amount of stuff on it, a challenge but not impossible. The chap with the warhammer was fun too…. his tab just says OLDHAMMER but I can’t remember getting him. The chaos toilet was great, I really enjoyed painting it but I think that I could have done a lot better. The zombie ninja was fun too and simple. I messed up the shaman lady, I should have used different colours. The chaos warriors were tricky, I am not pleased with any of them really. The not-chaosette was a nightmare to paint, lots of faint detail, hard to get any of it right. The rhino-monster I enjoyed and I felt like I got the tattoos right too. In true chaos style, even the paineous bits were a pleasure!

  • Darkoath Warqueen
  • Hammer of chaos!
  • Shaman, familiar, and zombie ninja
  • Warriors of Chaos Undivided
  • Khornate warrior and Nurglish warrior
  • chaos mutants
  • giant snail cavalry and chaos toilet-spawn
  • giant rhino mutant

Chaos Dwarf Baggage Train

18 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Having recently painted Old School Miniatures’ wonderful Bumcannon, I found their recent Baggage Train offering in my hand, calling out to be painted. I think this is a lovely set, though the daemon isn’t as good as the bumcannon daemon. The dwarfs are fantastic though, I especially love the one with the octopus. There’s not a lot to say about this group… oh yeah, there was a fifth dwarf but it became seperated from the group and forgotten about so who knows if it will ever be painted! Oh yeah, part dau, another thing I love about this set is the baggage itself. In amongst the boxes and bags is a small rodent. I’ve painted it as close as my fat gorilla hands would allow to my dear departed gerbil friend Lavender, pictured below on her uncle Doris’ knee having climbed up his trouser leg in search of seeds or indeed a big lump of cheese. Photo included so that you can see that a purple-grey-silver rodent is real and not my disordered imagination :D. Oh yeah, part tri… my first experiments with Citadel Colour Contrast happened in this paintjob. Mixed outcomes, too early to draw any conclusions.

The New Disease! Nurgle Blightdrone

12 Tuesday Feb 2019

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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

Assassinorum: Execution Force! completed

12 Wednesday Dec 2018

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  • 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. 

Dark Imperium Death Guard

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

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Sometimes a hobby can feel like a chore and trying to get this lot done was one of those times.  I found them very difficult to get looking this good, and I don’t think I did a very good job at all.  Beautiful minis but there is so much fine detail!

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Death approaches

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The Noxious Plaguecaster

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The unstoppable march of death

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Ring-a-ding-ding!

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Plague Marines in the house

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More Plague Marines.

Merdigera the Spawn

12 Thursday Oct 2017

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Merdigera started walking the eightfold path as a wizard’s apprentice who couldn’t wait to learn more.  Leaving his master behind he wandered into the Wastes Of Chaos in search of knowledge and magical powers.  At first all went well, and the gifts of Tzeentch turned him into something more than a man.  But like most chaos worshippers, he faltered, unable to master the winds of magic in such a way as to please his malignant god.  So it was that he ended up less than human, a jumbled twist of flesh dragged around by his former warband as a mascot. Let that be today’s lesson!

 

Spawn

Need any blood today, missus?

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

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Meet Nigel.  Nigel is a door-to-door blood salesman.  He has been painted for the Oldhammer Forum’s annual painting challenge for 2016 – “Chaos Villagers”.  Nigel has a bestial face mutation, and an extra arm with a beweaponed extremity.  Obviously I used a plastic beastman and glued a tyranid arm onto him!  He’s got a bucket filled with lovely blood and carries a banner advertising his wares.

Quite pleased with this, enjoyed making him.  Won’t leave it so late next year!

 

horny bastard!

08 Tuesday Nov 2016

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So I’ve been a lot more busy than usual.  I was hoping to have some Orcs done (for Orctober), but the only thing I’ve finished recently is this sexy Slaaneshi Minotaur for my ongoing chaos warband.  I had one of these miniatures when I was a lad but I didn’t really ‘get’ it.  Much more innocent times.  It’s a fantastic sculpt.  There’s such a lot to get your head around… bionic leg, jaw, and eye; that studded posing pouch without much in it; the long glove on its sword arm; the huge beefy pecs / boobs; pierced flesh; various cuts and scars across its back… definitely one of my favourite ever miniatures.  I hope that I have done it proud.

 

Bring on the trolls!

21 Sunday Aug 2016

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It’s been a while since I’ve gotten anything finished (apart from a squad of Space Marine Terminators that I completely forgot about), but I have finally finished a small gang of trolls.  These beauties were mostly sculpted by Drew Williams from the Oldhammer Facebook group.  There’s also a metal Citadel River Troll in there too.  I chose to paint them blue because it’s not a colour I use very often, and I am mostly happy with it.  I think that I should have gone a bit lighter, and I definitely should have remembered to remove the mold lines from one of the heads, but in general I am very happy with these.

 

“Death From Below!” – Chaos Cultist Mole Mortar

14 Monday Mar 2016

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A few years ago, when I first started buying miniatures, I found something interesting in a job lot.  It looked a bit like a Citadel Miniatures Mole Mortar, but upon examination it was actually homemade.  What a good idea, I thought, and then forgot all about it for ages.  Coming across it later I decided that the creator’s work should be honoured.  It’s a good job, if a bit rough around the edges, I’m not sure I could make a better Mole Mortar myself.

The original paintjob was a bit scuffed, but was suitably oldhammer friendly – with “death from below”, a winged bomb, and kill tallies painted on.  I didn’t change anything, just added a bit of shadow, some green lines for the control panel screen, and some rough edge highlights.

As I have lots of Chaos Cultists, it made sense that this was a repurposed Imperial mortar, and anyway, Cultists are always fun to make.  These two are well along the Eightfold Path, mutation stealing away their humanity.  I’ll leave it to the reader to identify the parts used.

Finally I added some fencing to cover up the least convincing part of the Mole Mortar, and to make it look more like an artillery emplacement.  Those two had better hope no Space Marine sees them using that old helmet, or there might be trouble!