It has been a while since my last painting update. Even though things slowed down for the past few months; I have not been entirely unproductive.
When my friends and I played our apocalypse game about a month ago we had agreed on a 'three color minimum' rule. Normally I paint 5-10 infantry models at a time, but here I had to get 40 models up to code before our game. Rather than being smart and breaking the 20 man squads into groups of 10 I decided to tackle the entire 20 man zombie squad at once.
This was a mistake.
Painting 20 infantry all at once was soul crushingly painful. I began having delusions about starting a Khorne warband. Eventually I triumphed and finished the squad. I won't make the same mistake with the 20 guardsmen.
Here are some shots of my wyvern I completed a while back. I decided to switch out the traditional ammo boxes for some extra flamer tanks. With a Nurgle force it seems appropriate that my artillery would shoot toxic sludge.
I have been wanting to include a dreadclaw in my list for quite some time, and I am finally working on one for my current project. I saw this conversion on A Host of Work Bearers and I was completely blown away. The blog is filled with amazing chaos conversions. I am pretty proud of my conversion work, but I have nothing on this guy. Anyway here is my dreadclaw. I am still in the process of converting; right now it isn't spiky enough.
This all looks great! I especially like the Plaguebearer gunner for the Wyvern. Your Dreadclaw is looking good, once you get some spiky bits on it, it'll be fine. And thanks for the shout out as well! ;-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I've been thinking about making some dreadclaws too.
ReplyDeleteAlso when I had to paint up 200 cultists in 1 go with 3-5 colors I found white primer and then carefully painting using only washes was incredibly quick. Did an iron man painting competition doing that and won just buy pure volume of decent looking guys.
Wow, I can't even imagine painting 200 at once.
DeleteI was more concerned about putting them together (my least favorite part of the process) so I was lazy and bought hobbit goblins since they come as plastic with 0 assembly required. Typhus now leads his 200 strong army of mutant zombie midgets.
DeleteMantic wargaming has some pretty good zombies that are probably pretty easy to put together/paint up. If I ever get around to making a zombie army for Typhus they would be the ones I use. I'm pretty sure they have a 40 or 60 pack of them somewhere on the website but I can't find them. (Also they're pretty fairly priced)
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Hallo chaos player...!
ReplyDeleteReading your comments, your BR, and looking at your pictures, I have come to the decision to add a Chaos Daemon kin allied detachment to my beloved Dark Kin. I do love to play with the lowest codices in the 40k and try hard for a tie...
The allied detachement will be made of:
-29 cultist, one cultist champion, one lord of chaos, with the goredrinker [wow! what a weapon!]
- 14 fleshounds
- one soulgrinder with baleful torrent [hallo windriders! :-D]
The main Dark Eldar CAD will be focused on the assault, with 2 unit of 6 reavers (Bikes), one of grotesques in raider (with a tanking archon), one of incubi in venom, one of wyches in raider and one of shooting kabalites in another raider. 1850 pt.
I am sure I'll have a lot of fun with them... adding Chaos to Dark Eldar is like to add evil to evil... :.D
I know you're more of a Nurgle player (at least judging by a lot of your painting posts) but have you looked into the Betrayal at Calth box at all Andrew? So much value in there. It's not super Chaos-y since it's the 30k era armor but I'm excited with the box I bought because I play Iron Warriors and the armor fits great for that.
ReplyDeleteOh, that box looks fantastic. I really want to buy it and add the models to my Fallen Angels (since they are technically a heresy era force), but I am deep into expanding my renegades right now.
DeleteI love the models and the look of their gear and they have so many options. One of every type of special gun/CC weapon for each set of 10 Marines. There's a combi-weapon for each squad which is hard to come by otherwise. And each sprue actually comes with 13 heads, 11 bodies, and 11 backpacks. So as long as you have a few extra bits (legs) laying around, there is the opportunity to build some extra guys. My personal favorite is the missile launcher that comes in the box. It looks really cool. Too bad you only get three so I'm one short of a full devastator squad :/
DeleteI think they could make great Nightlords, Alpha Legion, Word Bearers, Iron Warriors, or maybe some fancy pants emperors children (focus on more pretty and less mutations?). Those legions seem to maintain decent standing armor. Dented sure but decent. I'm contemplating a box + 4x GW Thousand Sons upgrade kits.
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