Deserters beware!

Finished up my widowmakers last night, next up are six Winterguards and a Mortar.

Sorcha, Juggernaut and a lone widowmaker

So, a lot has happened since my last update, in short: my computers and photo equipment got stolen, I may or may not have Ménière's disease and I became a father to my first child - my son Jakob. But the blog is not really about all that, and I finally got the time to paint a little bit again.

I've decided to "speedpaint" my Khador army, this will be my first attempt at speed painting and I hope the result will be my first fully painted army. The paint scheme is pretty simple, lots of red along with the green-grayish-brown Charadon Granite. Some bronze and silver metallic for the bits and pieces and a snowy white base.

Widowmaker prototype

First up was a widowmaker prototype, which presented the first problem: a good camouflage colour to match the scheme, I settled for a light grey, drybrushed up to white.

Next up was a Juggernaut warjack, I think the scheme turned out all-right if a bit harlequin-esqe, I may experiment more with the colour of the armour plates on the legs but for now it will do. I had some trouble figuring out how to highlight the Charadon Granite, I've done some "fine" edge highlights with codex grey but I think there may be a better way.

Juggernaut

Usually I agree that white bordered bases look poor, but I think they really compliment these models. The Ice Axe was made with Hawk Turquoise, drybrushed irregularly with Ice Blue and white. I plan to paint all weapons with the Critical Freeze special rule in this manner as a visual aid.

I used bronze for moveable and intricate metal parts and silver for rods, spikes and other simpler bits.

Finally I painted Sorcha from the battlebox, oh boy she is tiny compared to the space marines and Warhammer mineratures I usually paint.

I think she turned out quite nice, with a bit more red and less gray than planned but I guess that's all right for the Warcaster. Next up are the last three widowmakers and after that either a Destroyer or some winterguard. I bought a quite a bit of used Khador miniatures, but most of them still need assembly and primer.

Sorcha

Destroyer ready for action

I finished up assembling my Destroyer today, I decided to magnetize both warjacks in the arm joins - this will allow me to customize my warjacks once I buy the Heavy Warjack Kit which contains 4 different weapon loadouts (Destroyer, Juggernaut, Decimator and Marauder).

Some pictures of the assembled Warjacks:

Juggernaut and Destroyer

Destroyer

Juggernaut with Destroyer arms

Destroyer with Juggernaut arms

Warmachine

Me and Laurents decided to try out Warmachine after Laurents bought a small Cryx army (intending to use them as 40k necrons). My fraction of choice are the Russian inspired Khador warriors, hailing from the ice cold northen region.

To start my army up I bought a battlegroup consisting of 2 warjacks and a warcaster along with a box of Widowmakers - a nifty 4 man sniper squad. All this add up to a quite potent 15 points army. Since I'll be beating up Cryx for starters the next addition is likely a Spriggan warjack and a unit of infantry - possibly Winter Guard or Iron Fang Pikemen. The Spriggan will take care of any of the Cryx stealthy units while the infantry is intended to shield my warcaster while tarpitting any problematic units.

The models in the latest battlegroup boxes are made from a plastic like resin, quite a bit harder and heavier than the GW plastic models, one downside to this material is that the usual plastic cement can't be used, the parts can only be glued with super glue like metal models.

I assembled my first warjack tonight, a Juggernaut melee orientated heavy jack. The intended pose for the model is quite boring so with a few modifications I managed to pose the model a bit more aggressively.

New stuff

One of my current projects is painting once of Laurent's buildings, since the initial wash emptied a full bottle of Badab Black Wash I ordered two 200 ml Serpia and Black washes to finished the job.

I am also working on a new case for the Deathwing models I bought, when its done it should be able to hold 40 terminators, 3 land raiders and 4 dreadnoughts. I also need to figure out how to mimic the paint job, so far I believe its a bone coloured spray with a either dark brown or black ink.

Land Raider Crusader (1 of 2)

Chaplain and Belial

Land Speeder (1 of 2)

Land Speeder (2 of 2)

Bikes

Venerable Dreadnought

Assault Terminator Squad

Terminator Squad

I bought some stuff

Back again, i bought a Deathwing/Ravenwing army, mostly painted. I set up my entire army on the dining table.

Not much else has happened, I bought a few bits from ebay but most of my time is spend on other projects, notably my aviary shed.

I plan to finish the Deathwing army, once complete it will contain 40 Terminators, 2 Venerable Dreadnoughts and 3 Land Raider Crusaders. The Ravenwing numbers 18 bikes, 3 attack bikes, 3 Land Speeders and Sammael mounted on Jetbike and Land Speeder, this is enough to field 3 Ravenwing Attack Squadrons.

My camera has been out of commission for a while but it has been repaired and I plan to shoot some pictures of the new units and upload them to the blog.

Magnetised Land Speeder

Last night I finished gluing and magnetising my first Land Speeder, I mostly followed the guide at talonstrike . I'm still missing a Heavy Flamer, but I ordered one at Modelbits so that should be arriving shortly, along with the flamer I ordered a few bits to finish up my 3 Deathwing terminator squads - the only thing missing is 5 Thunder Hammers and Storm Shield, I guess that'll be my first eBay bits buy.

Land Speeder Typhoon

Land Speeder Tornado