Blood Angels Scouts

These past two weeks, the Heresy bug bit me really hard once again. I finished the Scouts for my Blood Angels Legion and got paint on quite a few more Space Marines.

Pict 1355: Blood Angels Scouts

Pict 1356: Blood Angels Scouts

I really like how these Scouts came out. Converting them to fit in more with the Heresy aesthetic and now painting them up in the Blood Angels Legion scheme ties these aging sculpts into with the newer Marines of the collection. I could see myself doing a second squad – I bet they would look great with shotguns...

Pict 1357: Blood Angels Castra Ferrum Dreadnought (Conversion)

In preparation for Dreadtober, I converted a Castra Ferrum Dreadnought for my Blood Angels. This one was originally a poor and unloved Space Wolf Venerable Dreadnought by ForgeWorld that I picked up for cheap. I started by removing all of the sculpted wolf detail and filled in the remaining holes. The band that was inscriped with runes was simply plastered over with Vallejo's plastic putty. I plan to do these as gold trim – we'll see how it turnes out.

Pict 1358: Blood Angels Inductii Despoilers and Consul (WIP)

I also signed up for a 2000 point tournament with my Blood Angels and plan to use this deadline to finish some more units. First of these are the Inductii Despoilers I recently built. Whilst putting down the base colours I also added in a Consul with Heavy chainsword. He will probably be a Warmonger or a Champion – harkening back to my old (and sadly sold) Luna Wolves Champion.

Finishing up a few projects and starting new ones

These past two weeks I managed to finish up a few more small projects for a variety of game systems: painting a squad of Blood Angels Seekers, refurbishing some Hormagaunts and finally highlighting my remaining Sepulchral Guard models and a Wight King for my collection of undead models.

Pict 1348: Blood Angels Seekers

Pict 1349: Blood Angels Seekers

The first few miniatures I finished this week were these Seekers for my Heresy Blood Angels. Usually I like my units to be in a consistend armour mark, but I can imagine the Seekers using the cobbled together MK V whilst scouting ahead of the main army. I might build some more of them to fill out the squad with more of the special ammunition Bolter or Combi-weapons. But for now, they are done and there a q lot more Marines built and ready for a lick of paint.

Pict 1350: Tyranid Hormagaunts

Pict 1351: Tyranid Hormagaunts

Last weekend I played my first game of tenth edition 40k. It was great fun, to take the Tyranids out of their box again. I think my last game of 40k was right at the start of 8th edition, so it must have been sometime six years ago. My opponent hadn't played even longer. So it took us some time to figure out what we were doing, but in the end it was quite fun and did feel appropriately 40k.

Anyways, my bugs sustained some dings and scratches during their slumber. So I set out to refurbish them somewhat and started with these Hormagaunts. Whilst I was ironing out the dings and scratches I also updated the markings on the carapace to bring them up to speed a bit. If I find myself playing more 40k I will have to get eight more models to fill out the squad. And of course, they still suffer from the falling disease of all Hormagaunts so I might have to get myself some fitting washers to put under the base.

Pict 1352: Wight King and Sepulchral Guard

Pict 1353: Wight King and Sepulchral Guard

I also finished up this selection of skeletons. These poor miniatures sat in my box of current projects for over a year. And of course they were only missing the highlights! In the mean time the Wight King recieved some rules to use him in games of Cursed City, so after finishing the Vampires a few weeks back got him and the remaining four skeletons from the Sepulchral Guard higher up the queue. Still, nineteen more miniatures to paint to finish that second Cursed City expansion!

Pict 1354: Aeronautica Imperialis Xiphons

Lastly I started to prepare for Legiones Imperialis in the hopes that this new edition will be released soon. I managed to buy these Aeronautica Xiphons second-hand for a good price. They were already built quite nicely – only a few mold lines that had to be removed. The basecolours went on rather quickly after priming them. The 8mm scale is new to me, but I could get used to it! Next up will be an oil wash and some highlights to finish them up.