Dragon Ogres

 After having these old school metal dragon ogres for at least twenty years, my return to the Old World inspired me to get some paint on these bad boys. 

Painting was made easier with the original black undercoat and some red that was hit with a white over coat.

I wanted these dudes to match my old school dragon ogre shaggoth who had the red skin inspired by a similar painted one in an old white dwarf.

These are the paints I used for the skin. After the wash I again highlighted again the wildrider red.

Leathers were various browns and the metal used various shades again hit all was hit the earthshade.

I have used them in two games and they were very useful so now they are painted up they will feature in most of my Warriors of Chaos armies.

Here they are next to their big brother Shaggoth. He needs to be rebased but I reckon they look awesome together.

Alpha Legion Landraider or is it?

The last of my Alpha Legion I have scheduled for painting is now finished with this Landraider.

I picked up this mean machine secondhand and it was painted in a light red red with a legionary in a clearly khorne helmet, some chaos armour and spikes, and the head of an unfortunate imperial guardsmen.

I decided it was time to try the “transition effect" (or "Omegon's Wrath").  To achieve this I used my chrome paint over the soon to be Alpha Legion sections that were then hit with GW kroxigor scales. To get the transition effect, I used an air brush white between the two colours. Over the white I used GW gunmetal air paint.

I used a thin paint brush and in sections that were too big or messy, the key colours of the tank were used to even the effect lines up.

The khorne sections were then painted with a red speed paint and the trim was touched up with various golds.  This came out a more favourable deeper shade of red than its first paint job.

I kept most of the original owner’s flame paint job on the back left hand side but added a little more red to the motif. 

The lascannon power cables had a mix of nuclear and plasma speed paints to contrast with the other base colours.

The Alpha Legion sections had the metal trim painted in silvers and a few transfers were added to various panels.

If you look carefully you will see a Hydra logo over the original paint job that had the mighty words of Angron of “kill, maim, burn” painted on.

For a first go at the effect I am really happy how this turned out despite my shaky hands and hesitation of trying something outside of my safety net.

Alpha Legion Legionaries Unit Three

The third unit of legionnaires is now complete with these bros.

I picked them up second hand from the excellent but currently unavailable Start Collecting Chaos Marines box.  The load out is classic legionaries with a mix of bolter and chainswords. Special weapons are the melta gun and heavy autocannon. The champion has the plasma pistol and what I consider an accursed weapon.

Painting followed the approach from my first Alpha Legion legionaries. To not confuse myself with the other units, I painted these dudes weapons with a little more black compared to the others.

As usual blades, cables and miscellaneous items were painted with the customary yellow / green used throughout my Alpha Legion.

They did not have much luck in their last game of 10th edition 40K thanks to the Iron Warriors predator that decided their sneaky strategy of bunkering down in a ruin warranted annihilation. Bring on 11th and the new hiding rule!

I have a few finishing touches to my Alpha Legion landraider and then I will start my next army project, the Deathwatch.

End of 10th edition - Alpha Legion vs Iron Warriors

It was a tough day for Alpharaddon/ Omegaddon as his Alpha Legion took on the Iron Hands in our last game of 40K 10th edition.

The Iron bros took the early lead with favourable secondary objectives and some poor card draws for the Hydra. 

Losing legionaries did not stop the Master of Execution and the forgefiend hitting a blocking unit of possessed but were unable to take them all down due to early losses from the yellow and black attack of those damn iron boys.

The chaos bikers avoid the blocking possessed and charge the termies. The enhanced charge bonuses did not deliver enough damage before they were destroyed.

When Kravek Morne and his terminator brothers took down the master and his supporting forgefiend things were looking desperate.

The Obliterators used their deep strike to infiltrate the battlefield and despite their successful charge into the predator, three wounds from a failed dark pact and some poor dice rolling meant the infantry killing tank remained. A counter charge from legionaries killed off the last of the mutie gun machines.

Out of his personal landraider Heaven and Hell (we love you Dio). Alpharaddon/ Omegaddon emerged with his personal chosen body guard emerged to send krab head (as he was called) and his termies back to Medrengard.

Alas this left the big A/O open to combined fire and charges from legionaries and an Iron Master of execution, sorcerer and more chosen.

As expected the big guy was the last to fall.

The Iron Warriors may have taken the battlefield but of course this was the plan of the Alpha Legion all along.

Iron Sultanate vs Eire Rangers

 Great game with the rangers taking the win but man of the match was the assassin who grenaded a berserker and then stabbed a warrior priest to take them out.

He was later taken out by the sniper priest. 

The Irish successfully held more objectives but the Iron bros did get one glory deed with a double charge by the assassin. 

Awesome game with some amazing terrain.

Alpha Legion Chaos Bikers

With the imminent release of 11th edition 40K I am steadily getting though the backlog of my Alpha Legion.

After finishing my Ravenwing army I have enjoyed using bikes so when I saw a marketplace ad for some chaos bikers I decided some fast attack was needed for the Hydra. 

Painting followed my usual Alpha Legion approach of kroxigor contrast paint over chrome. The one difference was the chrome was painted over a black undercoat. Not sure this made a huge difference but did make some of the black parts on the bikes easier to paint.

I am pretty confident the kit will be upgraded so I kept the bases pretty basic in case I need to rebase.

I have three more bikes, two armed with flamers and the other with a chainsword, next on the painting table.

I am not sure how they will play in 11th but I reckon I will at least get in a charge in before they get shot up.