What was and What will be

What Was

Well I can admit I was extremely slack last year. In terms of what I achieved since my last post we have 2 more marines painted (eeek Pathetic) . I stopped for a bit as I just wasn't quite happy with the paint scheme, it felt like it was missing something and the white on the arms just bothers me so I tried to change it slightly for these two with some recess shading, still not happy though.

I made and painted these 3 Warriors and their Alpha, I think honestly considering they give you 4 bodies and 4 heads that its just rude there are only 3 sets of legs. 

Thankfully I had a spare hive tyrant tail that made for a nice serpentine look that helps the Alpha differentiate a bit more.

And I painted my 'Exocrine'.

Not to mention I finished Ganesh and co who I am quite happy with and was probably the most interesting project of the year.

  

What Will Be

2022 is off to a good start with me having already painted 5 models which is almost as many as I painted last year. I started with the Christmas gift which was an infinity model and painted him using the new metallic paints I also got for Christmas.

I also knocked out these Blackstone Fortress/Necromunda Minis in record time. The Tau mini was from when I was a kid, he had already been painted (poorly) but adding several layers of stains and grime (also a new Christmas present) with some basing and his lens coloured in he actually looks decent

Now I am setting some goals for this year. I have things I need to get done, such as these 3 marines who are still waiting for me to figure out how to paint white.

These Enforcers who will be doubling up their patrols in both Necromunda and as Scouts in 40k.

              

And for some silly reason I got the new GSC codex and my Pure Genestealer Army is getting some new units.  

The Neophytes are looking okay and should be distinct enough I hope, I have some special weapons being printed for the mining laser and grenade launcher as I couldn't work out how to represent them with the parts I had.

Rockgrinder looks nothing like its GSC counterpart but at least its the right size or close enough.

As for the HQs the Space Hulk Genestealer I used has a terrible pose and is impossible to take a photo of but I am loving my Zen Magus the Spiritual leader for my army, though I am stuck as to what to do about making him an organic staff.

Well that all folks, hopefully I can keep myself honest this year and post more updates as well as start getting my photography skills back up to scratch.

Cool Marines Hold Their Bolter With One Hand

 
See the problem with holding your bolter with two hands is that you then don't have a hand free for your knife and as we all know the knife is the absolute pinnacle of Imperial technology.

And seeing as the leading marine on holding your bolter in one hand is currently in the colours of the Children of the Emperor I was lost with what to do to complete the squad, thankfully the Monkey Chukka came to the rescue. When I asked if he had any spare reiver heads (upcoming project) he gave me what was left on the sprue including bits to make most of a reiver with no arms, one mismatched leg and one leg that was missing half the shin and foot.

The rescue mission has been mostly successful and I feel like hes coming out okay the only thing is he still looks very much like a revier not an intercessor. So my question is do I leave him as is and have him finish the squad or do I make him into a Phobos Captain or something? 

Hey Guys look at my Knife

Thats not a Knife this is a Knife

Thats not a knife thats a Sword

No this is a Sword!

Now wasn't that fun, they all still need a little bit of work but then they can go rampage with their knives out.

Starting a new Chapter

 

Even though I have finally found a base that goes well with my custom chapter Children of the Emperor I have since decided not to go ahead with the colour scheme as it didn't stick out enough. This is why I have since gone with a much stealthier Chapter that sticks out alot more. Behold my Necropolis Hawks. 

Originally some dudes custom chapter that somehow ended up in the Vigilus Campaign books.

I really like the colour scheme and feel like the army should certainly pop visually on the table. Especially with the combination of the alien landscape they are running across.

I am currently thinking about decals and whether I bother with finding/getting Hawk head one or just slapping the wolves icons on and renaming them the Necropolis Wolves.. 

My starting lists are going to based around two of the elite version starter kits as well as the squad of intercessors (-1), 6 eliminators and the techmarine from the Children of the Emperor Project. Not sure what I am going to do to get that 5th intercessor as I went to the shop and its $33 for even just the one that comes with the learn 40k magazine.

As for the Necron halves my son has started his own army. Look if a 5 y/o can paint an army to a table top standard and feel proud about it so can you (I'm pretty proud of him as well).

Well to start with we came up with a colour scheme, he said he wanted it like the artwork and between the two main colours he saw he went with Sautehk. This meant silver necrons with alot of green, and he wanted them fighting on mars while it was snowing, with extra glitter.

For the models we started with the skorpehk destroyers as they these were his favorite. I painted one doing each step too show him how its done then he would paint his two as we went, this went pretty well and he stayed pretty strictly to the guide lines apart from when he I told him what the Plasmacyte does and then he painted one glowing all the way up the spine as it was the one being powered up, a cool little touch.

Next up we did 5 warriors, this time he was super stoked about having them all charge up. He was ready to give up half way through though but I told him we could paint the scarabs once he did these ones so we eventually got them finished. The 3 scarabs were rocked out in record time leaving us with 5 more Warriors as WIP at the moment, I feel like these ones wont be done in a rush however as he doesn't feel they are as cool. He also has the Necron Half of Indominitus so he has alot more Necrons to go through and I feel like I might have to Skorpekh the entire army for him.