Word Bearers raptors W.I.P

Over the last week or so, I've had a bit of a kit-bash session, using bits that I had lying around the place. I decided that I'd make these Word Bearers raptors.

The main sources for pieces have been the GW Chaos Space Marines kit, jump packs from MaxminiEU, Steam Lord heads from Anvil Industry, and the legs come from both the GW Space Marine Assault Squad and the GW Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard.

There has been some trimming off of Blood Angels and general Imperial insignia and unnecessary Chaos spikey parts.

The results are as follows...

Nurgle Apostate Preacher

I managed to actually finish this guy off the other day. Although, as usual, I might well go back and do a bit more, when in all probability I decide I'm not happy with how he's turned out afterall...

Sorry for the dodgy photography, which is in places, blurry. But I'm not forcing you to look, so you've no cause for complaint (right?)...

Well, here he is.  As you can see, I've taken a different approach to weathering the metal areas than the one I use on my Death Guard. I figured that cultists would have access to a far lower standard of kit than space marines would, such as Imperial Guard or PDF type items, which would theoretically degrade in a different manner.

The preacher, here for example would be carting about stuff that he'd nicked from an Ecclesiarchy shrine for desecration purposes, etc. The censer that he's carrying, I figured would be made from some type of soft precious metal, so I've just tried to generally scum it up with a grey-greenish matt finish, and a light tarnish.

Ork Kill Team - Tank Busta added to the ranks!!!

Kromlech have come up with absolute gold for me once again!

Check out this dude, with his remote controlled mini-skip full of nuts, bolts and general explosive stuff!

BOOM!

Nurgle apostate preacher W.I.P

I've had this model from Forge World for quite a while now. Well, for practically a year, as I bought the pair at Salute last year.

I've been putting off making a start on this one as I was sure I'd probably mess it up big time.

So far, so good though, I think.  I wanted  it to come across as really crusted with filth. In the end, I'm hoping the robes will look filthy and stained, and that the banner will have a hint of mildew about it.

10,000 views smashed!

To celebrate, here is a picture of some verdigris on some pipes. I quite liked the colour.  And a picture of the lads.  Looking respectable.

Lord of Nurgle's retinue finished

It may seem like a while since I've done very much on the Death Guard front. Although that's probably because I've not been posting much recently. Y'know, due to the pressures of my non-existent social life and all that shite.

Anyways, I've actually managed to finish off the retinue for my Death Guard lord. I'm aware that some few people do read the spurious nonsense that I belch forth (although I can't think why). In all likelihood, those worthies amongst you probably didn't mentally retain any related information, as you doubtless have better things to think about. I will therefore also link to the unit champion, Aquinius.

To cut a long story short, the idea with this unit was to have a unit of 6 to accompany the lord (making the holy 7 of Nurgle and that) all painted up in armour that roughly matched the lord.  The colour scheme is basically a direct inversion of the basic scheme for the majority of my Death Guard. If you're interested in seeing them (the project is ongoing), please feel free to look up some of my older posts.

The conversion pieces (heads and back pieces) are from Maxmini.eu, in Poland. They do a fair range of decent bits of kit, so please check 'em out. The legs come from Anvil Industry.

Recent happenings at Castle Pestilence & Avignon Primaris

I realise that it has been a while since I've posted (asides from the couple of posts from earlier on this evening...), so I thought I'd give a bit of an update.

On Friday night I popped over to my friend Tim's place for a small 500 point game of 40k on a 2x2 ft Zone Mortalis board that he's been working on.  The Imperial Guard were mercilessly put to the sword and burned to a crisp etc.  We also rolled up some characters for a forthcoming Dark Heresy campaign (which I'm very excited about).

I can heartily recommend giving the Zone Mortalis rules a go, it was great fun...

Here are a couple of shots of my very messy worktable. There's a few irons in the old fire, so to speak...