4 years of 40k. Painted armies and grey models , armies in the pipeline. Part 4

Chaos marines Slaanesh...
Nightlords...
Orks..
Fire Hawks...

you would think I have enough, but no. Ever since 300 (2006) I wanted a greek warhammer army in fantasy, probably with chaos warriors but at that point I was busy with my Lizardmen and I still did not feel I could do them up to the standard I wanted. There were no bits for them either. My first play with them was back in 2009. Sculpting was still new to me too.

2010 I experimented again, gw released the blood angels sanguinary kit which has a great body for my greek marines and black lotus relased some nice greek heads that combined with the tutorials from Master of the forge gave me this.

While I was tinkering with the build I did not know which army book to use for them.
Back then it was space wolfs, thunderwolfs so i got back then archaions horse and went to work on it.

Today it is most likely I will use grey knights,  power weapons and storm bolters. the only draw back is that they do not have stormshields something I want in the army, I might just give them shields anyway. Lets see what chaos codex and dark engels give us.

Today 2012.
Two week ago puppetswar released the most amazing thing for my army; futuristic greek style helmets!
(http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=89 they are doing some realy nice stuff, good quality and great prices.)

I think its like a dream come true.
I am going to magnetize the hands, I will use gw torsos and not try and make my own. 2-3 from the sanguinary kit are sutable with minor modifications and I like 2 of the space wolf ones. The one bellow and one from the new thunderwolf kit same style.

Because I have made them true scale I am using terminator arms, so I will need alot of terminator stormbolters.

Background
The background of the army I had writen ages ago, the army will be like deathwatch but with anchient greek chapters unsted of your regular chapter marines. They have abandoned the emperor in their pocket in the galaxy and gone back to worshiping the 12 gods of olympous.

4 models finished, 40k objective, Fantasy Unit Filler, Nakai & Thunderwolf.

Here is my finished 40k objective.

 

Nakai the wanderer

And some mobile shots of the thunderwolf.

Next up I am hopping to work on some of my greek marines.

40k ork objective. Creating the objective

This is the description of the objective i wanted to build for my 40k flying army.
 "On a terminator I will put a corner of a two storey high building. Upon it will be dangling a ork with his parashute caught on the building.
I will buy this http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440265a&prodId=prod900120a and have a piece or rod from the building going through his chest.
And lastly the parashute will be made out of armies banners, blood angel grey knight, dark angel, ultramarines and  space wolfs. Which space marine would not try to reclaim their banner?"

Apologies for the photos i found it easy to open my mobile and take a quick snap.

 The model's back, left leg and left arm are flat the back. So I cut of the arm and replaced it with a plastic one.

 

 Plastic arm is pinned muzzle is drilled and I also placed a pin into his stomach.

Next up you can see the building

The building pieces got cut of with my dremmel to get the right size, then I drilled the back of the ork and the building and pinned together.


Next on is the banner.
I made a stamp of various space marine banners with Ge deo http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/model-shop/casting-modelling/silicone-rubber/gedeo-siligum.html (this is just a link showing the product, I buy it form my local craft store) I mixed green stuff and a bit of  milliput to create a rough shape parashute, then pressed in the stamp, and finaly sculpted the stiches. Once semi dry I placed it on my building piece.

For the base I placed an ork skull, will our paraboy meet the same fate?
Added some sand and placed atop a axe ( cut out the hand and replaced with plastic rod and green stuffed the handle.


So the parashute rips, he crash lands on top of some building ruins and gets impaled, at that point he drops his axe.


The parashute backpack I had made a while ago when I was trying some stuff out, it very nicely hides the flat back of the ork.


Once all of this was dry I started on the parashute ropes\cables.
I made thin rols of green stuff the used this http://www.masq-mini.com/aid-240-TubeTool-Set.html


After that I sprayed it black, air brushed it a few colous and now it is ready for some hand painting.


now you can make your own.

Is the painting bug back? My four pieces this month.

For a while now I have lost my painting mojo (painting creativity and desire). It seems this month I have started to regain it. I am preparing 4 pieces for some minor painting competitions, no prizes just for fun. I started them all in March. And I am hopping to complete them by the end of the month.

1st piece is for Greek warhammer Forum bimonthly competition, the subject fantasy unit filler.

The statue is from the GW grave terrain kit, I added 2 skeletons and 2 grave guard so it can be used either for skeletons units or graveguard. It took me 2 days, I am sure you can notice the airbrush effect.

2nd piece Greek warhammer forum painters league. Nakai the albino kroxigor.
This miniature is from trollforge. I will be use it as a blood thurster in storm of magic for my Lizardmen.

*These are old wip photos he is now almost done.

3rd piece Local GW competition.
 These is new from my local GW store, paint 1 of the releases in the past month  to enter, they say there will be prizes, I would not hold my breath though, prove me wrong GW!

A friend has comisioned me to paint him some thunder wolfs this is one of them:

Still need to paint the rider but that can be achieved in one day.

And finaly piece 4 for Greek warhammer Forum bimonthly competition, the subject 40k objective.

I had 2 months ago this idea and expressed it on GWF,
 "On a terminator I will put a corner of a two storey high building. Upon it will be dangling a ork with his parashute caught on the building.
I will buy this http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440265a&prodId=prod900120a and have a piece or rod from the building going through his chest.
The parashute and the ork will be removable so i an place them on any piece of terrain I want.
And lastly the parashute will be made out of armies banners, blood angel grey knight, dark angel, ultramarines and  space wolfs. Which space marine would not try to reclaim their banner?


I will do a small wip post on how I made it, but this is how far i have gotten to.

I am pleased once again I can actualy turn idea into miniature.
Only thing is that it is not removable, I was afraid that way the cables would break off.


Hope you like it.
I will be taking better photos of all three at the end of the month.

4 years of 40k. Painted armies and grey models , armies in the pipeline. Part 3

I already have a chaos Marine Army but after reading more and more about the nightlords I felt compeled to create them on the table top. My first approch was to create them with space marine , chaos space marine and fantasy graveguard bits. Winged helmets and no demons was the plan. Does this make sence?

After reading Soul Hunter and Blood Reaver I reduced the winged helmets.

As you can see in all three pieces of book cover artwork, the spikey helmets are not used.
So my second attempts had less winged helmets.

Unfortunatly this army has only 1 painted rhino. And 15 nightlord marines half painted.

I have started working on the group of 6 main characters but I have lost my momentum and now this army is on freeze. Hopefully this summer I will get a few more done with a nice codex to back me up.
I am wating for the third book of the series to come out (void stalker- next month ) and new codex, then I will decide on my list. At this point it seems a unit of chosen 2 units of demonic raptors and pods. This is a justified army on hold.

4 years of 40k. Painted armies and grey models , armies in the pipeline. Part 2

Next up is an army mostly complete but need some finishing touches and a few additions, my Fire Hawks.

Still need to make a chaplain, finish the vehicles and maybe add some units where needed.
Pretty much though done.

Next come the nightlords.