Deathwing Bladeguard Veterans

These three bros are my latest Bladeguard Vets for my Dark Angels.

The first two bros are here.

Again I used multiples of the primaris lieutenant from issue 1 of the imperium magazine.

Weapons and arms came from a variety of different marine kits including the Dark Angels primaris upgrade kit.

Painting followed the approach of the first two and I like that each dude has a unique look befitting of their veteran status. I used them in a recent game and they did ok but they did come up against those necron hand to hand beasts who tore them apart.

Here is the full unit of five. 

40k Terrain

My ongoing challenge to clear out the pile of shame includes building up my terrain collection.

First up are some containers and a ruined manefactorium.

Next up is some scatter terrain using 40k barrels and cases combined with sandbags and brick walls from a cheap army men set. These were quick to paint and make good spots for or to be used as, objective markers.

Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought

This is my completed Redemptor Dreadnought for my Dark Angels.

My usual paint scheme for Dark Angels green is below.

Although this scheme works well over infantry, the big panels were a challenge and some mistakes were covered up by transfers.

The remainder of the mini had mixes of reds, metal with the barrel of the gun using GW runelord brass.

I used him in this mega game last weekend and he is an absolute monster but eventually fell as the necron heavies decided to target him and the blood angels landraider that were leading the charge.

Chaos Lord of Nurgle

With less than a week before a 2000 point WAP tournament, I have finished this Lord of Nurgle to lead my Death Guard Warriors of Chaos.

The model uses parts of the Lord Felthius with a suitably Nurgle head swap. 

The weapon is a black orc axe with the orc symbols hacked off. As I will be using this bro as Valnir the Reaper, I added the chain to represent his flail.

The left arm is a mix of a Nurgle mutation and a length of spiky mutation from a tzeentch kit.

Painting used death guard green with lots of brown and skin washes. The boils are a yellow green with red base. Since I liked how the boils came out I used the same scheme for his “eye”.

I used a deep red on his cloak to differentiate him from the others in the army who tend to stick with leather and brown for their cloth.

As my death guard infantry are oversized tor their bases, I decided to put him on the column as the size of his terminator armour meant there was no way he was fitting on a 25mm base.

I am very happy with how he came out and as I have been unable to fit in any practice games I don’t know how we will go but at least he looks cool.

Pusgoyle Blightlords

Another unit for my Nurgle WAP army is finished - the mighty Pusgoyle Blightlords.

The minis all come from warhammer 40k death guard kits with additional ogre and orc bits.

For the Blightlords I did some head and weapon swaps to the bodies from the Lord Felthius and his Tainted Cohort set. The rot flies use the body of the blight hauler and the bloat drone “wings”.

I kept the exposed “flesh” the same pink and purple colours of the mutations as a contrast to the drab armour.

The Blightlords all use great weapons so one of them wields a double headed spikes club whilst the others were “great” enough to not need further conversion.

In game terms, the rot flies can fly rather slowly and I think this conversion fits in with a slow moving plague beast.

Painting involved lots of dirty washes and some oxide paint / detail. The boils are painted with yellow green from Vallejo over a red base. 

I will use them as a flanking force backing up my units of infantry as at WAP tourney on May 20.  The army will be led by Valnir the Reaper who will be joined by his little buddy Festus.

Ravenguard Attack Bike and Bladeguard

With the return of the Lion it was time to swing back into finishing my Dark Angels.

First up was an attack bike with heavy bolter and two Bladeguard.

All three minis used a leadbelcher undercoat.

The attack bike was then covered with a black speed paint with highlights using grey and white.  This was my first attempt so have a few lessons learnt for the next bikes I have in the pile of shame.

I tried weathering effects for the first time that are not really visible in these pics.

The most important lesson is to get a decent dull coat to tone down the shiny armour. 

Overall I am happy with the finish but when I have time I will need to do some extra work on the head of the marine without a helmet.

Next up are my first Bladeguard.  I want all of these bros to be unique so used various parts from the primaris upgrade and eliminators sprues.

The white power armour is a combination of bone and white Vallejo paints with a watered down flesh wash and more highlights with white.

The shield and body came from multiples of the Primaris lieutenant included witj issue 1 of the Warhammer Imperium magazine.

I have a few more to do and then it’s time to get the Lion himself.

Alpha Legion Defiler

 This daemon engine known as the defiler is the latest edition for my Alpha Legion force.

I wanted the skin to be full of contrast hence the red skin and yellow/green muscles that is a new approach for me. 

Painting the various parts used the following paints over a lead belcher undercoat.

Muscles were a combination of the following.

Armour used the metal base and then the following paints to achieve the alpha blue. I tried a new technique ofusing the same gun metal to scratch up the “hard” of the blue edges due to battle damage.

Based on my old fantasy dragon ogre shaggoth I wanted red skin for this bro and used these paints for the defiler.

The finish of the skin is very chaotic and fitting for this awesome mini. In game terms I wanted the defiler to represent the mini and be built for close combat with the defiler scourge, cannon and reaper autocannon.

The cannon is from the ogre iron blaster kit and the autocannon comes from a necron heavy weapon. The cabling across the defiler is whipper snipper/ line trimmer cable.

Previous unpainted versions of the defiler have done pretty well so now it is painted I expect even better outcomes but as always I expect it will be destroyed on the first turn during its first game against Ad Mech this week.