Nurgle Firepower..... dreadnought style

Well this has to be a first...

I've said I'm going to actually do something and I have!

The pair of nurgle dreadnoughts are done, I've used the same tried and tested technique that I used for the whole of the deathguard army and they look pretty sweet, I'll admit I was a little worried that they might turn out paints as there isn't that much "green" armour compared to normal marines so I decided to go down a brass route for most of the metal and throw in the odd boltgun metal bit to break it up.

the banner on the converted dreadnought I've left blank but I'm thinking maybe 13 in roman numerals on one side and a off set chaos star on the other in a nice contrasting colour but we'll see what happens with that,

 anyway enough of the whaffling..

the "boys"
 

 the business end, loads of detail on these forgeworld models and great fun to paint

does my bum look big in this? 

The power claw on this is really nice, 

and even with the pooling of the inks it adds to the decayed look of nurgle, result!

so off to a pretty good start towards "the pledge" with the flying skip getting its MOT this month the likely hood of it actually passing is slim to none, so no shiney new models for me me thinks unless I either win the lottery or some one asks me for some more commission work!

But on a positive note that'll put well back on track for the last couple of months and with Abbadon, The cutlass gang on the painting table they shouldn't take too long to sort out, along with the looming target date of June for my first game of hail Caesar I need to crank out some celts too!






Could be a busy month!

And finally Happy birthday to my little sister!! (because she reads my blog apparently!)

(this was a long long time ago!!) Hence the slimness of us both!

Month end update July and the great debate....

Hi folks,

well another month is coming to an end and its time for the update, I managed to get a couple of sneaky bonejacks painted up that I picked up on Tuesday and popped them in the local shop on Thursday as they came out this week, I used to work for the "evil empire" a long time ago and painted new releases give people an idea than a picture on a box or a computer screen, in this case the size differance between the old school versions and what will become the "norm"

So the two ripjaws...

and the differance in size

quite a big differance personally I do like the new resin one though, good crisp detail, and dead easy to put togeather!

now the big debate is do you prefer the old or the new??  I like the new myself!

however.... I've just spotted these little monkeys....

Apart from woohoo! these are going to be awsome for my chaos/blacktemplars!! 

So onto the "pledge"

it been another tiptop month with the paint-a-thon at spencers place at the start or the month,

Bought: 31 (most of those black templar bits)
Painted : 61
Differance: +30! not bad at all!

Forge World Blight Drone & Noise marines & WIP

Hi People,

Bit of a update with what I've been up to recently, Its been a productive Month so far to be honest!

So since I pumped out the firestorm armada I've been like a mad man on an illegal class A! ( and for those who have lead a sheltered life then drugs are bad! so well done)

So onto the production line....

The Blight Drone that I picked up from the forge world open day, not I've used the same techinque as the death guard and tried to make it look a bit more "battered" than the average death guard model,

Close up of the business end of the drone!

Close up of the fans

The second noise marine squad done, I've tried to match the paint scheme to the test squad,

And the WIP the third squad of noise marines on the table and ready for the purple ink before the detail of the gold and the like!

Now this chap is going to be my next HQ I'm getting a a bit bored of running with Typhus and I'm sure the guys that I play against would like to see someone else to blow the be-jesus out of, But thanks to Dustin I've discovered that Abbaddon is immune to instant death but not to getting there souls sucked out by a force weapon, but hey there you go you carn't everything!!

So comment's as usual please,

Thanks Ant!!

Forge World Open day pic's (lots of pic's big post!)

As your warning this is a big post, go for a wee now....


So thinking I'd be crippled after a day of airsoft I was surprised to find my legs were still functioning so I wandered over to Lenton for the forgeworld open day, and boy it was busy!

Loads of cool stuff however bad news if like me your waiting for them to show some love to Tzeentch or Slannesh its not going to be happening for a while!! i.e. the chap who runs the development team ( a nice American bloke) told me this but if your an ork player or a loyal marine player then your gonna love it! 

But before that...

My first squad of emperors children are done painted to the colour scheme that won the poll

I also did the usual test model for the firestorm armada fleet,

So onto the forgeworld pics...

This is a mock up of what they are looking at doing, and intrestingly enough with the titans the actually make them bigger than they should be to fit in with the vechicles as they are oversized (but we knew that anyway!)

and the expression on Ross face was golden!

And some up and coming raven guard stuff, great if your a loyalist scum lover ;)

But then again.... Pre-Heresy.... Ummm.....

Some bloke with a jump pack

Some cool looking bits for the stompa kit.....

Now the lifta droppa on the left is for a battlewagon, Kult of speed anybody??

Mega dread variants

Some Tau Battle suits that sent Spencer over the edge and he frothed about these for ages!!

Then I found some more orky stuff, this did make me smile....

So now we can really play a scenrio called "Black 'ork Down" I might nickname this super six four.

 And now onto the tables....

A huge titan battle that was going to be played, A shag load of stompas on one side

Verses a shag load of imperial on the other side!

And they were nicely painted!!

The "mastercard" moment!

A siege of bla bla bla table,

The table was that big I had to use max zoom for some pic's and are a little whobbly...

Still carn't decide if I like this, something missing for me...

Putting is simply, yup I'll have it!

An orky style table that took my eye....

So over all the day was pretty good, some luck chap won a Reaver titan from the raffle with all the cash going to children in need, and some guys were dropping up to £20 on tickets!

A little dissapointed that the chaos is off the radar for the time being and the Orks (which do need it) are getting some nice treatment, but to do the Raven guard as well, I think the amount of marine players out there will get quite excited but for me I'm not...

Any comments welcome as always cheers,