Star Warrior Spinny Breeze

What have I been up to since my last entry here? LOTS!

Until I get around to talking about all that, enjoy this totally legit Whirlwind 'Spinny Breeze'.

So... what have I painted since February? Quite a bit, by my standards. Take a look.

First up were some Devastators- one unit of lascannons and one unit of heavy bolters. I actually got a chance to play a game against Tyranids a couple weeks ago, and I'm glad I had the lascannons- they took out a Tyrannofex in the first round. It was the only thing that went right the whole game!



I gave the Dark Imperium lieutenant some Dark Angels bitz, and tried to use the airbrush to do the classic power sword fade. It came out okay... I'm hoping it gets better with practice.

I gave Librarian Turmeil a new jump pack (magnetized, natch). He might have been useful against the 'Nids, if I didn't keep forgetting the psychic phase.

When I found out that I would be playing 'Nids I decided that I should probably get a flamer in my list somewhere- when I started looking, I realized that I didn't have any aside from this old Battle for Macragge dude. I also painted up an Assault on Black Reach missile launcher to keep him company.

I also got my hands on an old metal Terminator Chaplain on eBay. He came out pretty good, I think-

He's going to give these Hammernators some rerolls. These guys were also from eBay. I got them for $9 shipped. They were in pretty rough shape but stripping the thick old paint off, some command squad bitz, and a little fresh paint got them looking decent. It's just too bad that I didn't realize that they can't take missile launchers anymore.

My whole Deathwing to date-

I also chopped up the old metal assault marine (that Turmiel's jump pack came from) and made him a Tactical Sergeant with a big-ol' banner. I'm not sure that I like all the different white fabrics together, but I'm not sure that I don't like them either. I just finished this guy up a few minutes before posting this.

This isn't even everything- I also finished up all the Blackstone Fortress bad guys and a few of the explorers, but I'm going to do a post just for that once everything is done. Up next, though, are some Lannisters from CMONs Song of Ice and Fire minis game that I told a co-worker I'd batch out for him.

Dark Angels Inceptors, and a Palate Cleanser

I finished the 3 Dark Imperium Primaris Inceptors- everybody is right, the GW flight stands for these are awful. They look pretty but I don't see how they can possibly be expected to stand up to any kind of use. At any rate, I've been painting on my Dark Angels for a while and I needed a palate cleanser, so I took one of the hero models (the Ember Mage) from my original Super Dungeon Explore set that's been sitting half painted for years and years and finished her up.

Here's some pics.

The Paladin in the background there is the only other model that's painted- yikes! Maybe I can speed-paint some of the mooks this weekend!

Until next time...

Hellblasters, Intercessors, and Filthy Heretics

Last month I finished the Dark Imperium Intercessor squad, the Hellblasters (and ordered another squad of DI Hellblasters from eBay). I painted up some Knights of Casterly Rock from CMONs Song of Ice and Fire Miniatures Game for a co-worker, and I primed and basecoated the Dark Imperium traitor marines (they'll be in the same orange scheme as all my chaos dudes). I finished painting one of the 'raptor claw' Chaos Terminators, I just need to find the right blood filling for his base, and I also started on 2 squads of Devastators for my Dark Angels.

Of course, I painted the bullet babies first.

I have one final squad of Tactical Marines to build, and I guess that will be the last one I do, ever. It's pretty obvious that they just won't be usable in the game for much longer, but it seems a shame to not at least paint them and have them around for display.

Anyway, enough ruminating. Here's pictures.

Filthy Genestealer Cult Killteam

The other day I saw a tutorial for a quick, dirty, and good-looking Genestealer Cult paintscheme. Since I had the Cult Neophyte dudes from the Kill Team starter kicking around I decided to give it a shot.

It came out better than I was expecting, so I dug out some Genestealer purestrains that have been collecting dust since Battle for Macragge and painted them as Hive Fleet Leviathan to bring the list up to an even 100 points. For the very little amount of time I spent on them, I am very please with the results.