Chaos Lord and Venomcrawler

 Some more reinforcements for my Alpha Legion with the Chaos Lord from the blackstone fortress set and a venomcrawler.

I always liked the lord mini with one of reasons for his inclusion in my new Alpha Legion is the amount of tentacles growing out of his armour. He appears to slowly becoming one with those tentacles.

The only conversion I needed to do was shaving down his left should pad so I could apply the Alpha Legion transfer. 

Painting of both minis followed the approach of the Alpha Legion Legionnaires with a little extra attention for the lord befitting of his status.

Both bases had cork added to represent rocks to break up the bases a little more. After I finished the paint job I decided to add some barbed wire to both bases so a few of these pics are from before that addition.

As is with the case with my Alpha Legion I want there to be a slow mix of the weapons and armour with the yellow green tentacles. The venomcrawler demonstrates this with the “flesh” and exhaust fumes painted the same way.

 

Alpha Legion Legionnaires 2 Part Two

I have now finished the next five of my second unit of legionnaires.

Much like the first the next five are set for close range shooting and combat.

Painting followed the scheme in Part 1with a little extra of the green paint mix on the accursed weapon of the leader.

With 10 done the unit is ready for the battlefield.

My plan is to run the deceptors detachment but I think I may need some heavy hitters so next up for the Alpha Legion will be a venom crawler and possibly some obliterators.

Alpha Legion Legionnaires 2

 My revised Alpha Legion is slowly being reinforced with a second unit of legionaries.

This unit is more melee and close range focussed with a heavy melee weapon, second bro with a plasma pistol and another with a plasma gun. All other dudes have bolt pistols and chainswords.

The heavy melee is demonstrated by a large spear conversion which seemed appropriate for the sons of the hydra. The wielder also gets the honour of carrying the chaos icon for some reroll of those dark pacts.

Painting followed the approach of the First legionaries unit with the same contract of the yellow green on the larger symbols/  weapon blades and red across all cloth.

I went with the alternative chapter symbol of a single hydra to differentiate them from the first unit of legionaries.

The next five are ready for the paint table.

I also repainted my old Chaos Lord from 7th edition who I always liked and gave him the necessary bigger base for 10th edition.

Blood Angels/ Necrons vs Ravenwing/ Necrons

 Had a doubles game with each of us space marines teaming up with necrons.

1000 point for each player did not leave me with much of  my Ravenwing after I was encouraged to take the Lion. He took a couple of shots to the face and eventually fell to a psyker with a force axe. 

Fun game.

Conquest LAOK Game

 These are some pics from my recent Nords vs Sorcerer bros game.

I managed a one point win with only two stands of archers left against a rather cranky elephant.

Chaos Dwarf baggage train and Black Orc Warboss

 With a teams old world tournament this weekend I needed to make a baggage train and paint up a Black Orc Warboss.

Rather than a train I went with a suitable bronze bull statue and the command group from my Lost Kingdom Chaos Dwarfs. These bros all have individual sculpted curly beards.

Apart from making the base this was an easy build with the idol/ statue/ baggage train coming up great.

Next up was the Warboss who is the old GW plastic black orc champion who got an old chaos marauder shield and a repaint of his weapons and armour and a little extra purple.

This was pretty easy with the following paints for the bronze over the old leadbelcher painted sections.

A little bit of purple over the cloth and orc glyphs and he is ready to punch on with this unit of black orcs which were part of my award winning band SLAVER.

Warpsmith

 The characters of my Alpha Legion continue to grow with the addition of a Warpsmith.

Much like the others and despite his best efforts to avoid the warp, he too is also gradually merging with his weapons and armour but remains “loyal”.

The painting followed my Legionaries with the warp touch applied to his tentacles of his trade.

The red cables and on the hammer are there for a bit of contrast to the blue, silver and green used in my paint scheme.

The Warpsmith’s job will be to hang back and keep my war machines in a fit state.

I have also started a repaint of some of my older Alpha Legion that was pretty simple and only needed a coat of the kroxigor scales over the power armour.