Cultists now form a gang.

Another WIP of the near complete first unit of cultists.  Just a shot taken late last night.  On completion I will do some shots in the light box.

Sven is not happy with his short mount!

The rabble start to form into a ~insert collective noun~ of cultists!

Whilst I have some plastic in the green bath of removal doom, I wanted to paint something 40k to keep my army growing/starting/moving etc.

As I have ten cultists all built, prepped and cleaned, I thought why not get them going.  So here is Sven, a WIP of the bare chested cultist.

I really am enamoured with how the skin has turned out.  I wanted a pallid bed sore ridden look, you know like a computer nerd who hasnt left the basement since the Heresy.  And I think I have got it.

I also have been playing with my new Foldio lightbox from Orangemonkie.  Still early stages, and my hands shake, but the pictures are not half bad.

Sven has a pretty good ab work out regime.

Hmmm, bedsores.

Ave Dominus Nox

Painting some Nightlords for the kids

Gaming Night - Battle Report

The original intent of this post was to be an in depth battle report from the game played on our first gaming night of the year. However due to the shortness of the game I will provide a summary of events rather than an overly long report.

Armies:

Rob - Imperial Tank Company

HQ Vanquisher w/ beast hunter

Commissar w/ beast hunter

Tank Destroyer

Leman Russ Battle Tank (3)

Leman Russ Executioner w/ Plasma Cannon

Vulture w/ twin linked punisher cannon

Colossus (2)

Medusa w/ enclosed crew

Josh - Eldar

Not to sure of specifics but...

Farseer

Avatar

Warlock Council

Dire Avengers

Guardians

Wraith Guard in Wave Serpent

Crimson Hunter

Fire Prism

Wraith Knight

Maybe some more stuff

Turn One:

Guard - 
First shot kills the Wraith Knight with a beast hunter shell. That pretty much summed up the game for the Eldar.
Leman Russ kills 5 guardians
Medusa kills 3 dire avengers
Executioner 2 wounds on avatar
Leman Russ and Collosus strip 1 hull point from Fire Prism

Eldar - 
Farseer guides Fire Prism
Fire Prism destroyed weapon on Medusa. Rob rolls the Heavy Bolter as the random weapon.
Wailing Doom failed miserably

Eldar - 
Farseer guides Fire Prism
Fire Prism destroyed weapon on Medusa. Rob rolls the Heavy Bolter as the random weapon.
Wailing Doom failed miserably

Turn Two:

Guard - 
Vulture arrives from reserve
Beast Hunter shells finishes off the Avatar
Fire Prism losses last hull point
Eldar are tabled as all else are in reserve

Guard lost a single hull point and a heavy bolter on a tank.

Creature Caster Kickstarter

For those of you who are interested the Creature Caster Kickstarter is in its last week.

Basically it is an alternate source of Greater Daemons and dragons for wargaming.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeremyglen/creature-caster-first-wave

Initially I was considering getting the two Slannesh look daemons, however now I am leaning towards the Maggot Demon and the Plague Angel.

Both would be worthy additions to my Nurgle list that is in the works.

Thousand Sons, paint schemes and crisis of faith.

So I have had a crisis of faith with regards to my chosen paint scheme for my Thousand Sons.

I know, it is probably not the time to use that saying, especially as it is only in relation to my nerdy hobby, but it still expresses how I feel.

I used to dislike the more traditional variations of blue/gold of the Thousand Sons.  This is what pushed me down the path using the pre-heresy colour scheme.  However as I wanted to see what the Dark Angels robed bodies were like I thought I would paint one up more traditionally.  I tested out some blue, and some gold.  Then at Paul's behest weathered up the robe and used a mega dry brush on the edges of the armour (mimicking edge highlighting).  It needs a weapon, and a bit of tidying up, but the result is below.

Traditional colour scheme with robes.

And this is where I came to my crisis.  I was surprised how much I liked the traditional look, more so than the red I have been painting.  After much soul searching, deep thinking, and random dice rolling, I have finally decided to go with it, and eventually strip and repaint the old red guard.

My final products will be a slightly different blue, as I am going to use the Army Painter Ultramarine spray over a dual primed model.

A few questions now remain.  Should I do the lines on the headdress yellow or gold?  It varies on units and images you see.  And what should my dry-brushed highlight colour be?  I feel the green is probably a bit too alien next to the Ultramarine.

First complete unit in the house!

Yes, you read it here.  I have completed the first unit in my Thousand Sons army!

Perge ad gloriam!

That is two Raptors with bolter + chainsword, two with meltaguns and the unit champion with bolter, chainsword and meltabombs.