Monday 27 January 2014



Hello again folks!

Below are the Night Lord models that I recently finished highlighting and basing. They're the same models featured in the first few posts, but highlighted and based.

I figured I might as well put them up here since they're taking me ages to do.

The guy in the middle of the first image was the first infantry model I ever highlighted, so hopefully you can see some gradual progression as the images roll on.

The images show the front, then the back of the models. Mainly because the backpacks take almost as long as the rest of the model to paint, and I ain't going through all of that trouble for nothing!

Anyhoo, enjoy!













I know about the left dudes lens by the way, I fixed it right after this image was taken. Annoying when that happens right?


Sunday 26 January 2014




 Hey guys, been busy this weekend as you can see, with making the final few models left of what has been a huge backlog, which started way back in January last year.

Simply making the fifty Cultists, ten Spawn and about thirty Chaos Space Marines can be a real pain when you can't help but customize almost every...

Single.

Model.


The spawn weren't converted at all from their original pieces, but every Cultist has at least a little bit of conversion going on. Some were complete kitbashes of Grave Guard, Dark Elf and Imperial Guard bitz, which were meant to be a homage to the original Cultist models. I haven't posted any of them yet, but will do at some point in the future. Today's post is about today!

I finally finished off the last of the Night Lords with this first beauty, a Bannerman with a few touch-ups here and there:

 




As you can see, I didn't personalize him nearly as much as the previous Night Lords, as I felt that the banner would be sufficient.  His helmet is a Chaos Warrior's helmet with the wings from a Grave-Guard helmet attached.

I also added a crow to the banner because, well... Prince of crows reference I guess?

It looks cool!

Next up are my Noise Marines. I really didn't know how to convert these guys. The Night Lords are easy enough as long as you make them look desperate and "scavangery". 

I have no idea how to do the same to Noise Marines, so I just copied this chap!

http://www.genericminis.com/?p=23

He uses Black Templar bolters as his Sonic Blasters, which do look far better simply using regular bolters. I attempted to make mine look a lot more mutated using greenstuff (And some milliput "white" stuff, that turned out to be worse). I enjoyed making them look mutated a lot more than I should have really. After having to make my Night Lords all "clean" and un-mutated, these guys were a welcome break!

First up, the Blast Master guy. I just gave him a Possessed head that I had been saving. I figured that I would use it on either a Raptor or something else. I went with something else.


The regular Sonic Blaster guy. Not a whole lot to say here, other than that he has a Slaanesh shoulder pad from the regular Chaos Space Marine pack on his left shoulder.


The first of my mutants! Inspired by the above marine, I wanted to make it look like he had fused with his gun. I also wanted to avoid how the guy who I stole this from (Let's just call him "Greg" for the sake of not typing that out every time) didn't tackle the issue of how the demon-head-thing connected to the gun.

Anyway, Greg's models can get away with that because of the chain. His one's look clean, but characterful. On a regular Bolter, the demon-head just looks out of place. I figured that since the regular Sonic Blaster looks like it's fused to one of the wearers hands, a little green stuff fusion wouldn't look out of place.




Lastly, we have the champion with a Doom Siren and Power Sword. You can't see it too well, but his bolter has a sharp blade on the end of it. I got the idea for this pose from Jaime Lannister, who is a DERTY fighter, that stabs a guy in the head with a concealed blade. I figured that the Emperor's Children are kinda like that anyway, so wouldn't think twice about pulling out an extra blade in a supposedly honourable duel.

Hence why he's using both of the blades in his pose. Anyway, I got the head from the regular Chaos Space Marine box:
 

                                                       And that's all she wrote, AT LAST!

FINALLY, I can get back to painting without that nagging feeling in the back of my head that I've still got a load of models to put together. The only real construction left is changing over those grave-guard-headed models, eventually giving my old Space Marine models some chaos gear, and sorting out a bunch of old Assault Marines by turning them into either Raptors or Warp Talons.

Thursday 23 January 2014

It's been over a month since the last post, but I have a good excuse, as I landed my first job out of college at last!

I've had to sort out a tonne of stuff and have very little time left in the evenings anymore (I get home at around half six, but have to sleeping by around eleven, because I have to get up so early). So I get about four and a half hours each day to myself really. Regardless, I have gotten a bunch of models made.

I've gotten into the habit of spending a load of time simply making models, since it's starting to feel like a waste when I don't make use of all the bitz  I've accumulated over the years.

Anyway, less talk, more models!

The story behind these guys is that they are the "straight-edge" marines of the Night Lords legion. The types that despise Chaos...

I didn't have the bitz I needed to make them all with non-chaosy legs, but there are parts on some models where I've defaced chaos symbols, much like Talos from the Night Lords trilogy defaced the Imperial Eagle on his armour.

Loads of bitz were used on these models, from Cadian Guardsmen, Grave Guard, Ork Boyz, Space Marines, Dark Eldar Wyches, Chaos Knights, Chaos Terminator Lord,, Catachans, Orc's, the new Raptor/Warp Talon kit... Not to mention the Night Lords conversion pack and the chaos space marine kit itself!

The models are in order of preference, the last one being my favorite by a bit. Some have been sprayed black already, but you can still see the detail.

After these chaps, I'll still have six chaos space marine to make. Five will be noise marines, and the last will be another bannerman for my Night Lords.

Enjoy!