Built a Rogue Necromancy the other day, and got it painted. I'm quite pleased with it, but it's huge. Like perhaps absurdly tall, even for a Height 3 model. I don't have a banana for scale, but perhaps these will do.

WIP Counts as Coteaz

I've been working to convert my old Sister of Sigmar Matriarch into a counts as Inquisitor Coteaz. I'm not quite done, as I want to armor her gauntlets and add a hawk to her hand, so as to better emulate power armor and represent Coteaz's wargear. I'm going to buy the Reaper Familiar Pack that contains the hawk and the raven, though I might go with the raven, as it seems more fitting to her. It just seems more Mordheim-esque.

Alternate Models

Meet my new "Counts as Coteaz". I've since dunked her in the Simple Green, and I'm going to green stuff more tech bitz on her (Bionic eye, power armor greaves). I'm also looking at getting the reaper Familiar pack with a hawk in it to have it alight on her hand, along with adding a RT era power pack to her back. This is in keeping with my new "No more GW purchases" mentality.

I'm also re-purposing the rest of the sisters as Death Cult Assassins. I'm thinking I might change their hammers for blades, so as to make them more "Initiative 6" looking.

Mid-way point

The Proto-type Storm Raven is coming along quite nicely.

Bloody Blood Blood Missiles (Or whatever they're called).



Ditto.



Underside:



Profile Shot

It begins!

I've finished the basic blocking for the front portion of the first Storm Raven. This is the first time I've worked with a conversion of such complexity, and it's quite interesting so far. I'm working with making all my measurements in millimeters, since I think they lend themselves better to making exacting measurements.

Here's my initial build of the hull. The portion of the top deck was cut away to increase the overall height of the model, and will be used to create the nose of the Raven. The rear angled areas were also cut as well, as the body will be lengthened to suggest an area for the Dreadnought to ride in.



The rear, cut away from the front.



The tail has been turned into a canard wing.



Here is the upper structure on the fuselage.



And here are the front Multi-meltas in place. They're from the IG Russ kit, BTW. The rear tab was cut off to allow them to fit, and I filed the sides down to make them fit.

So, against my better judgment, I'm going to attempt the above conversion (click through the pic to see the full write up on BoLS). Not once, but twice. I'd love to play with two Storm Ravens, and I don't see GW making one any time soon. Due to some fortuitous trades, I was able to get two Valkyries at no cost to myself. I'm thinking I'm going to need some help, and I'll seek out some advice from a friend or two for this.


Wish me luck!

Even More Progress

My vindicator now has a brother to attend battles with him.


Vindicator #2 has a green blood drop on him, indicating that it is from the 4th company's motor pool. According to the old background, the Flesh Tearers have only 4 companies left due to constant attrition, so this is from that last Company, as are all my Flesh Tearers. Of course, the green drop is the one for which GW doesn't make a transfer, so I have to hand paint all of mine. I wanted to weather the paint on both the Siege Shields, as I tend to make great use of them. These tanks get run through every stand of trees on the table, it seems. At some point, I'll have to weather the tanks as well.



Speaking of green blood drops, I've made a bit of progress on the Librarian Dread as well. I didn't like the highlights I did on him, so I glazed over them with some Red Ink mixed with a touch of Devlan Mud. It got me the right tone, but it left him too glossy for my liking. I'm hoping to find a decent matte sealer to tone him down.

Hive of Activity (Works in Progress)

I've been getting things together for this week's Tournament @ Blob Park, and since it's a "paint optional" event, I don't have to get things together for it.

But it still feels better having a cohesive looking army on the board. To that end, I've been working on getting things painted if I can make the tourney.

You can click on any of the images, and it'll take you to the image's dakka page, where you can see it full sized, and even zoom in on things. Dakka's Gallery is free for members, and membership to Dakka is free. So, win.

These terminators are not fully highlighted, and are missing lens work on the two in the back. Plus, My Baal Red wash got all shiny. I'll have to dullcoat them at some point.



I need to work on the siege shield, the smoke stacks, and the cupola gun, but otherwise, we're done with this one. I still have to finish another one, though.



This is nowhere near done, paint job wise, but I like how the conversion came out.



All metal bodies + all plastic arms means I pinned each of them. There's nothing worse than hunting for missing body parts.



These High Priests are pretty much done, except for basing and a few touch ups.

Additional recruits

I haven't been writing as much because I was preparing for a tournament. FYI, apparently, my scatter die mojo has gone south for the winter, as I went 1-2 and got pummeled the entire time. Apparently, strategy isn't my thing. :)

I'm a big fan of the alternate heads available out there for your cadian/catachan bodies. Things like the Seperate Head System from West Wind, or the ones from Pig Iron Productions. Pig Iron produced Winter Heads, and I snatched those up. I'm also a fan of the Rebel Kolony line. Both of those are available from the Warstore.

I think he has some Captain in him:




I don't know what to call this regiment, as I don't see them as Valhallans. I started making them during the whole Mordant 13th thing, so I might go with that. Or I might come up with some new regiment altogether.

And full disclosure, I receive no free stuff from anybody on this or any other product. I know there's a whole new law passed about that. I don't know the particulars, but I thought I'd cover myself, just in case. :)

Valhallan Flamer with Cinematic effects

I like the cinematic effects that Armorcast has, but I'm a bit broke right about now. So I decided to cook up one of my own. This here is just green stuff and a paperclip. I drilled a hole deep into the flamer, and glued it into place. On the clip itself, I left the curve at the end to provide support for the rising flames. I did an unequal mix (about 60% blue) to provide a firmer set at the end of it. I think it came out nicely.