Thermos & Creamy Nougat

So, I've finally managed to get some hobby progress in, not counting the work on Codex: Night Lords for The Codex Project.

Had a small 2v2 1000pts each game the other week and with me using C:NL for the first time, I had some points over to fit in a lone terminator. Since I wasn't too fond of any of the four termies I had modelled since before, I salvaged the legs from one of them and made a new one. It's still a bit WIP, needing some more greenstuff and will be given some chains and skulls since I've been a bit inspired by Dan the Deamon over at B&C

Today I finally managed to get some work done on my Dreadnought, making it fully customizable for any weapon loadout and pretty much any codex. In total there are 10 magnets on him for torso/legs, arm weapons and the "hands". We'll see if I can also succeed in getting some paint on the torso before the weekend. The local store is having a walker event, and it would be pretty amusing to fight against other walkers with the equivalent of S6 lightning claws..

Go ahead, jump. Jump!

While I'm technically not completely done yet, since I have yet to paint a single lightning bolt on the miniatures, the first batch of 10 jump packs from Chapterhouse are finished. Drybrushing blue is really boring, fyi.

First I tried to keep it simple with the "tubing" parts in midnight blue, the same colour as the joints of my marines, but it was just too boring with blue, blue and blue, so I redid one in red instead. Quite a big difference, really..

A few days of doing mostly other stuff later, I can finally focus on painting another few normal Night Lords while waiting for my Maelstrom package with my new green stuff for a slight conversion on my Apothecary (Sang.priest) and HQ (Sevrin Loth).
2 models are already hiding in my BattleFoam, but the other 8 wanted to do a quick pose (wierdos!)..

Foamy goodness

It's finally arrived, my nice black 720 (limited edition number 212/500), designed to eventually carry aprox 5000 points of Night Lords (though it'll probably be more like 3500 pts NL and 1500 pts Grey Knights in the end)

Let there be blue

Finally some progress again. Got my act together and went to a friend with an airbrush for some vehicle basecoating. Also brought 10 jump packs that'll hopefully get some additional color tomorrow, but I'll save pictures of those until they're done.

Airbrushing everything I brought took an hour or two in total, with a normal brush, it'd probably have taken me a month or two instead.

TZ-303 Executioner-class Land Raider

TX-155 Punisher-class Predator

Magnetstravaganza

Yeah, I may have overdone it slightly..
It didn't take 4 magnets to get the dozer blade to stay on properly. Not even 8.

It took 12 of them.
Granted, the ones in the middle might not be really necessary, but that's a lesson learned for another time.
I'm still waiting for the tracks, and have yet to buy the sponsons and cupola/hatches. I suspect I'll need another 2+2 magnets for the sponsons since they're bound to weigh more than a set of resin doors; and I'm already up to 22 of them!

Anyone for magnets?

Since I couldn't stick to a single project to save my life, I've started on the first Rhino/Predator/Baal. I counted to an estimated 14 magnets on the Predator/Baal setup, with another 2-3 for each additional turret setup. I'm still waiting on a set of Dozer Blades from FW (to magnetize of course) as well as a set of non-GW tracks (which I won't spoil what they are just yet) before gluing it together and start the spraying and painting.

Bottom's up!

Progress!

Since our gaming group is doing our first ever Apocalypse game this saturday, I need to step up my painting a bit and piece together approximately 1000 pts of traitor Astartes. In order to do that I'll need to finish a 5-man devastator squad, 3 raptors/assault marines and 1 librarian dreadnought.

Since I paint first and assemble second, I tend to paint from the bottom to the top with the arms (which will mostly be magnetized) coming last. Thus far I've done the bases and legs for all marines and the torsos being worked on. I'm not entirely certain I'll manage to finish all arms to anything more than basecoat and highlight on the armour bits, so I'll focus on the few arms I do have to glue on and leave the magnet ones with only the basecoat before starting on the dreadnought (which may or may not get more than the armour plates done, possibly some of the gold as well depending on how fast I can work)

My part of our 3vs4, 8k points per side, battle will (hopefully) consist of:

1x Magister Raptorum Gabranth (Astorath)

5x The Atramentar Honorifica (Honour Guard)
  - Meltagun
  - Thunder hammer

1x Designation "Maelstrom" (Librarian Dreadnought)
  - Blitzkrieg & Nightshroud (Wings & Shield)

10x Raptors; First Claw (Assault Marines)
  - Meltagun x2
  - Power fist

5x Devastators; Eight Claw (Devastators)
  - Missile Launcher x2
  - Lascannon

This for a total of 970 pts.