yeehaa.... Ride em cowboy!

Strange title??

I'll explain..

I saw the new deamonette seekers and loved em, superb models and all that jazz..

Now when I bugged Ross at the shop about who was going to build and paint them Jack's name came up.. now he's a nice lad but one of these guys that never really finishes something the classic "oh thats shiney, drops current project starts new one" gamer.

We've all been there at some point in our gaming lives so no worries, and he got as far as sticking the seekers together and they've been sitting on top of the display cabinet for the last week of so, until now!

yeehaaa!

so now I've these little monkeys in my grubby little hands they'll be done "shorty" I asked Ross when did he want them doing for, ASAP was the answer and Spencer mumbled they'll be done by the end of the night, well maybe if they were undercoated!

I've also decided to start work on my black templars, and figured I needed a test model to paint so it might as well be the special chappie high marshall as most of his armour is a bronze/gold looking scheme, and not that much black/white so should be easy to practice on.

Now I've taken two sets of pictures to convince a fellow gamer that basing your models makes a huge difference on the finished product.....

Without...

With!!

So I know which one I prefer and maybe this is a unfair question as the model has gone from plan slotta base to nice shiney dragon forge resin base....

Close up of the powersword,

Boltgun metal
Inked Blue
The lighting bits dome with skull white
Inked Blue again

I'm not 100% happy with this though, any suggestions on what I can do to improve this??

Time to repent.....

Well for those that know me in the flesh and follow this blog will know that I've sold my soul to chaos for a long long time now, but I've seen the light recently and decided to repent my sins and start a black templars army,

I've had a few people give me the "eye" normally followed by there no good the codex is out of date all the usual stuff, but I'm the man who plays with Eldar, Deamons & Chaos so I'm used to having sub-standard codex's but I manage to make them work (most of the time)

Now the plan for this is to encourage Spencer to get his ass into gear and paint his force and for me to have something different to paint apart from chaos as I've done quite a lot recently and fancied a change....

So I had an "idea" which normally makes my bank account scream!!

This idea involved the new blood angel sanguinary guard and one (yes one!) sword that I wanted from the sprue (I'll show you the idea at a later date once I've found the other bits) but I didn't want all of the other bits go to waste so without further ado....


You start with......

and after a bit of messing about you get.......

Ok so the legs from the blood angel box with the angel type icons removed and where needed a purity seal banged on top, front torso from the black templars upgrade box along with the bolt pistol & shoulder pads, the huge power sword and the funky jump pack from the blood angel box, and the head is from maxmini the steam knight helmet set.

I'm going to use resin bases for the whole army from dragon forge so that should put the "ohhhh" factor when people see the army and if they all go together as nicely as the assault marine then I'm onto a winner!

but the question to the masses....

Is it any good? and what would you change etc..?