Theres a new Queen in town.

I have been incredibly slack when it comes to taking photos of my models lately which in turn has lead to no blog posts as it would be incredibly boring to read my walls of text without the pretty pictures of the models discussed.

 

As such while the photos may not be wonderfully done I have made sure I take them and will use this a general catch up post. As only one model is entirely complete they get the naming rights to the post.

That is the dakka queen for my Nids, I had the parts to make another tyrant and went with extra dakka, some very simple conversion work but should be enough to make it feel unique and the engine on the front helps bring in the storyline told across some of my other Nids. 

 

Despite being my only complete model shes not the only thing I have worked on, we have the Christmas Present for my best friend which is turning out to be next Christmas's present at this rate. Its an overly ambitious model of an Elephant deity sitting on his throne with a nice scenic base.

I made it magnetic so that you can reduce the base size down enough that you can play with it as a huge creature in DND and have a nice side character interacting with it on the scenic base.

                     

 

This was originally going to be a skink with poison dart frog colours defending it but I scratched the paint job decided it was to visually busy anyway and now the elephants just having a chat with a Spanish Conquistador.

               

Where the barrel comes from is question that I cannot justify an answer too but it gives it some balance.

The Marines have not been stopped but I am finding it incredibly hard to motivate myself to do the painting which is way more intensive than any army before them. As such 5 are painted with 4 needing decals (yes we are counting the test model) and the rest of the squad needs alot of work. 

Not to mention the other squad that need alot of attention... (and all those models that are not built yet)

I have finished the display board for the marines, yes it is the playmat that comes with the Start collecting sets and I have durasealed it on top of a corflute sheet covered in magnetic sheets. My Duraseal work is as bad as when I was a kid, aka terrible and full of wrinkles and air bubbles. However the joy of having my models on a magnetic display board well outweights how badly I did it.

 

For my son we have a Skorpehk style Overlord to go with his Skorpehk army. The warrior legs have been 3D printed but were spaced at 32mm on the outside ring and are just the tiniest bit to big for the model, good thing I have 20 of them.

Last but not least I actually managed to get a game in with a Co-Worker. At a 1000pts I have to say a Barbed Heirodule is insanely good and that the new Space Marine Eradicators are way over hyped as they didn't deal any damage to the Heirodule at all (He rolled really bad and I made my 1 Invuln save)

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.