Volkus Terrain Done!

 

Brothers of the Star Path

 Brothers of the Star Path are ready for battle (except Magus and Patriarch).

Dark Angel Deathwatch Kill Team

 While waiting on Kill Team Termination box set with the new Brood Brothers team, I started to paint up these marines I got off facebook for a cheap price. I still had two to go when the set arrived so I finished them up just to have them as a backup team.

Pathfinders Kill Team

 My son owns a Tau Pathfinder Kill team but is afraid to paint it and wants it to lok good so asked my to paint them for him.

I am mostly pleased with the end result and the bases took two tries to get right. I tried a more brown base at first and it was not working for me. 

The Bridge Assault

*WHOMP*

"What was that?"

Sergeant Stiel looked up from the map. Several of his soldiers looked up as well. 

"It came from  over there," said one pointing to the port side of the bridge. 

"Nah, it was over here," said another by the starboard bulkhead.

A quiet voice from one of the corners of the large room, Corporal Janis, the squad's unflappable sniper, stated "It came from both sides."

Stiel looked to Corporal Kilser, his demolitions expert. "Breaching charges?" The soldier simply nodded.

"Listen up! Move away from the walls! Get your weapons ready!" he shouted and the guardsmen quickly moved to obey. They were not green recruit fresh from the hive. They were veterans.

Tense minutes passed, soldier talking in low voices mixing with the sounds of leather, armour, and the background hiss of the consoles and screens of the decrepit vessel. "Maybe they moved on?" one soldier ventured to the sergeant.

Suddenly section of the port side wall blew inward with a deafening roar. As soldiers coughed in the dust and ringing ears bullets the diameter of a man's wrist started whipping through the air. They were joined by blindly flashes of plasma.

"FOR THE DARK GODS! FOR QUINTARA!" Massively armoured eight foot tall marines shouted at a volume not possible for a normal human. 

"OPEN FIRE!" Stiel ordered, his comms-man passing along the order on the vox to ensure everyone in the room would hear it over the ringing in their ears and the constant roar of the reaper autocannon. Lasgun fire started to snap accompanied by imperial plasma and punctuated by the sound of a grenade launcher. The heretics laughed.

Stiel spun as the blast of a second section of wall blew inward on the other side of the room. A daemonic voice scream "INSISTO OBLIVIUM!" and through the billowing dust a form emerged, half super soldier, half daemon, blue glowing claws raised to strike.

"Men, to me! Fix bayonets! FOR THE EMPEROR!"

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I finished painting my Into the Dark terrain with the Soulshackle upgrade pieces, and thought the best way to show it off was a little battlescene. 

Kill Team Ezakon

 I have spent the last few weeks working on the Chaos Marines kill team, and I have completed the basic team.

First I started with dark grey primer and then black on all the major surfaces.

Then I go over all the spots I want to use contrast paints on with light grey. I find they work best on a light surface undercoat. Once applied, I put on the contrast grey, red, and brown.

Then the silver trim. Silver for days!

After this point, I took each model to completion one at a time.

And here are some picture with a better camera.

Return ofthe Black Storm

About 16 years ago when I last played Warhammer 40K, I had two main arimes: Craftworld Eldar and Chaos Space Marines. In Kill Team I have scratched the Eldar itch and this Christmas I got a box of the Chaos Space Marine Legionaries:

After I put the models together I was faced with the question of how was I going to paint them. Unlike the Eldar that I stripped and repainted with a new paint schema using new techniques all those years ago, my Chaos Space marines never really got past the drybrushing phase. And with all the new constrast paints and techniques available on Youtube now, I have a lot of options open to me.

First off, I knew I was not going to be anything but Chaos Undivided. None of the chaos gods appeal strongly with their fanaticism so it was going to be something else.

I leaned at first towards Alpha Legion. I like their background and their symbology of Hydras. But I would have needed to buy like 5 different new paints to get their scheme correct and that was a no go for me. Night lords are fanatics in a different way and I don't like the look. Word Bearers were a possibility, but I just did the Eldar in red and black and I did not want to go that way again. Iron Warriors I never really liked (and always get them confused with Iron Hands, like dudes, pick different metals). That left Black Legion or once again roll my own.

I decided to try and paint a test model in the old Black Storm schema because why do Black Legion black and gold instead of my own black silver?

While at first glance its like I'm just back where I was 16 years ago, there are a lot of differences. The bone work is much nices, the contrast paints for some details like the brown and metal sword are nice touches, the red is more subtle and less overwhelming.

I decided I needed a second model test.

Yep, I'm sold. The Black Storm, the Scourges of the Draconis Sector, are coming back. All hail Quintara, the god of Chaos Undivided!

Battlezone Octarius is Ready For Action

 I have completed all except one tiny piece of the Octarius Terrain.

I really love how modular the set is and how well it can go together into one massive fort, or broken halves, or quarters and how their is pieces to make elevated walkways between them.

I do have some regrets. When I started on the small rubble piles I was testing contrast paints and trying things out so when I began work on the larger pieces I wanted the same style to keep it unified but this turned out to be a lot more work then just drybrushing everything and picking out details. I also have a bit of regret I did not do the inside of the fortress pieces but you rarely see them and I can always do that some rainy day.

Looks awesome, I can't wait to get it in action!