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 revised Alpha Legion is slowly being reinforced with a second unit of legionaries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The hydra has a new character to lead up front with this mighty Master of Executions.
The one exception was the skin cloak that used a mix of elf, dwarf and pale flesh paints followed by a crusade skin spore paint.
The skin hat/mask (that’s what I call it) that the master is wearing was painted with pale skin and a few light washes of reds and purples. I doubt the skin was removed from its former owner willingly.
I also managed to sneak in an old chaos space marine transfer on to the flesh cloak that seemed appropriate.
