Yvraine WIP

After spending most of last week pn the Yncarne and making a phenomenal mess of it, I abandoned that model for now and turned my attention to this far more straightforward one. I spent several hours today and made some good progress on Yvraine, especially her dress which I did following Duncan's video tutorial. She's an absolutely lovely model, I expect I'll have her finished before too long.









That's all for today, until next time!

Grey Slayers WIP

Started to get some paint on some of the many, many infantry dudes I'm gonna have to plough through before this legion is done....

This is the colour scheme I'm basing mine on, the company of Bran Redmaw from 40k. Obviously with a few alterations...

 Only got the base armour colour and the white down at the moment... this is going to take a long while.

Here are some I made earlier! This is more or less the colour scheme for the whole army, white pads and red helmets/mouths will be my company's theme.

Until next time!

Triumvirate of Ynnead built

Just a quick update today, I finished building the Triumvirate to lead the Ynarri forces... and then sprayed them, so they look rather rough at the moment, unfortunately, I thought Bellasarius Cawl was hell to build, but the Yncarne blew him out of the water, undoubtedly one of the most fiddly things I've ever done. All those pieces of swirling vortex look the same... and he's still full of gaps I'll have to fill before painting him properly. All in good time anyway. Until next time!

Armour of the Legion

Long time no update... funny how that happens. However, I have not been entirely idle. Last week, I managed to get my Land Raider Phobos built, and also cleaned up and prepped my Vindicator and two Contemptor dreadnoughts.

DRIVE ME CLOSER

This Mortis is made from the plastic Contemptor, slightly reposed and covered in wolfy bits.  

I don't much like the heresy vindicators that Forge World make, they lack the massive siege shield which is the best part of the tank, in my opinion. So I used the plastic one - the saving didn't hurt either!

This lovely Relic Contemptor has too much nice detail to cover it all in furs and shields... I might stick on a couple of little things but I'll more or less leave it as is.

Nothing too exciting unfortunately, hopefully I'll get some paint on these sooner rather than later. My friend and I have decided to play through the Burning of Prospero campaign from Inferno, when I get it... Obviously, he'll be building a Thousand Sons army to face off against me, and no doubt he will do it much faster and prettier than me. Oh well. That will also mean we'll want a Prospero themed gaming board, but we are currently stuck for ideas and how exactly to go about that. We will see. Regardless, this should help to motivate me in assembling a mighty legion.

That's about all for this update, until next time!

Riptide WIP

Made some good progress on this Riptide over the last few days. I didn't have my spray with me, so I decided to undercoat the entire thing in white by hand... let's just say that's not an experience I want to repeat any time soon. Obviously he's missing his shield arm at the moment, I removed it as soon as I realised how awkward it was making the painting process.

Here you can see the running pose I've achieved. I was set on having it it mid-sprint, before I actually got the model and found the ankle joint to be the most pathetic, tiny little ball socket imaginable. Not to be deterred, I attempted something I've never done before: pinning. It's a miracle that it worked: the holes I drilled were too big and at the wrong angles, so the piece of paper clip is essentially held in by nothing but green stuff and faith. But I'm confident it will hold! Next time I'll go for a less adventurous pose I think...

Until next time!

The Mission Statement

Hi, I’m Ed, and I’m a plastic crack addict.

This is, hopefully, the first post of many. On this blog, I intend to keep a record of everything I do, hobby-wise. It’s not the first time I’ve tried this, but I’m determined to make it work this time. While I do hope to gain a few readers at least, this is mainly a resource for me to see what I’ve achieved, and when I did it.

I’ve been playing 40k for maybe 6-7 years now, and in that time, I’ve started more projects than I can possibly remember. I intend to start many more before my time is up. Starting things is easy. Finishing them, or at least getting them to a reasonably satisfying point, is not. In all this time, I have played only a handful of games where my entire force was painted, and they were tournament games where it was required by the rules! So, to do something about this, I have started this blog, where I can keep track of what I’m working on and see how much progress has been made.

It can be demoralising when you spend hours on a unit and realise you’re only halfway through the basecoats, but it’s all progress. For this reason, I will post plenty of ‘work in progress’ models and units, and talk about what I’ve done, and how long it took me to do it.

Part of the problem has been my ‘one army’ mentality. Some of my friends are much, much less impulsive than I am, and can resist buying new models before their old ones are done. As well as this, they’re much less perfectionist than I am, and are generally satisfied with putting less work into a model than I would be. This is a good mentality to have, as it means they can paint units much more quickly, and when they’re massed on the tabletop no one will notice the difference! However, I’m not like that. I have to paint everything to a higher standard to be happy with it, and I take much longer to build and paint anyway! This means that I inevitably get bored of painting one army very quickly and ‘move on’ to something I feel I’ll enjoy more. So why not have multiple projects on the go at once? That way I’m much less likely to bore.

So, without further ado, here is my current list of projects. I am setting the end of the year as the deadline to achieve all these goals. We’ll see how that goes… The list is subject to change, new projects will inevitably surface and take priority over others, but I’d still ideally like to get this all done, eventually.

Vlka Fenryka

My one true love in all of Warhammer are the Horus Heresy era Space Wolves. I have been waiting for Inferno for six years, ever since I first set eyes on the ‘Pre Heresy’ models on the (now sadly deleted) Space Wolves blog. I plan on building a substantial force, a true legion, infantry heavy. I haven’t got an exact list, but obviously Leman Russ and the Wolfkin will be at the heart of it, as well as a lot of terminators and veterans, a good few tanks… and if the rumours of a plastic thunderhawk are true, then I’m getting one of them!

Painted:

7 marines, undecided as to their role

Unpainted:

5 Custodes, partially painted but I’m probably going to repaint them black anyway

5 Sisters of Silence

Wolf Lord

Rune Priest

5 Cataphractii Terminators

5 Tartaros Terminators

1 Contemptor Dreadnought

1 Contemptor Mortis

10 bolter marines

3 bolter marines (incomplete squad)

1 Vindicator

Unbuilt:

1 Land Raider Phobos

7 marines (to complete the squad)

30^th Anniversary marine, to be some kind of consul

Unbought:

Leman Russ

The Wolfkin of Russ

Any special units that Forge World release

Another vindicator

Leviathan Dreadnought or 2 – those things are too damn cool

Thunderhawk – MAYBE IF the plastic one is real / affordable

No doubt a lot of other stuff

Ynnari Eldar

I have long played my Dark Eldar army, and I also have a sizeable collection of harlequins that I haven’t painted yet. With the imminent arrival of Gathering Storm II and the Triumvirate of Ynnead, I intend to form parts of these collections in to a new force, dedicated to the god of death. I will be following the red colour scheme for this army. I don’t like the Craftworld Eldar models at all, so where they are required for formations etc., I will use some (possibly modified) Dark Eldar models to represent those units. For example, Kabalite Warriors as Dire Avengers.

Unpainted:

5 wracks

10 Wyches

1 Starweaver

Eldrad

3 Harlequin Troupes

2 Skyweavers (painted in wrong scheme)  

Unbuilt

Triumvirate of Ynnead (Yncarnae, Visarch and Cat Lady)

2 Skyweavers

Unbought

Other unknown stuff required for formations.

Tau Empire

I intend for this to be my ‘competitive’ army, but I suck at the game so let’s see how far that gets me. It will be built around a solid, nasty core of riptides and a stormsurge, so hopefully it should be enough to turn my friends to my enemies and make my enemies weep tears of blood. I’ll be painting these up in white and red, like this.

Unpainted:

1 Ethereal on Hover Drone

10 Fire Warriors

1 Crisis commander

2 Crisis suits

10 Drones

1 Riptide, partially painted

Unbuilt:

1 Riptide

10 Pathfinders

Devilfish

Unbought:

1 Stormsurge

Adeptus Mechanicus

My much-loved pink Mechanicus army has languished in a state of half-completion for too long. I normally run the War Convocation formation, so I will paint everything I haven’t got around to finishing yet that I need to field the formation.

Painted:

Imperial Knight Paladin

Tech Priest Dominus

10 Rangers

3 Kastellan Destroyers

Unpainted:

Ironstrider

5 Infiltrators

5 Ruststalkers

10 Vanguard

3 Breachers

2 Kastellan Robots (though I never play with them, so might not be bothered)

Unbuilt:

10 Skitarii – unsure whether to build Rangers, Vanguard, or maybe get some Secutarii upgrades

Archmagos Cawl

INQ28 Admech warband

I have begun messing about with parts to build a Mechanicus themed warband for INQ28 games. It will of course be quite a small project, only a few characters to convert and paint.

Blood Bowl Chaos Team

I have been playing some Blood Bowl lately with the starter set teams, which is fun, but they lack any personality, and as they are not mine I can’t paint them! I’m not 100% set on a team yet, but I’m thinking of a Khorne-themed one with the AOS Blood Warriors and some beastmen.

Unbought

Blood warrior blockers

Beastmen

A minotaur

9^th Age Vermin Swarm

My friends and I have long discussed jumping in to fantasy, whether we’ll actually do it remains to be seen. If we do, and it’s a good possibility, I intend to go back to my first and only Warhammer Fantasy army: the Skaven. I absolutely love these little guys, so hopefully I’ll get the chance to build and paint some. They will all be on lovely square bases as we’ll be playing 9^th Age.

So, all in all, not very much to do at all! I’d better get started… until next time!