Night Lords 18th Battle Company (Treadhead)

[Dan The Deamon]

Thanks Rogan, Speaking of the termi chappy, he's been sitting on my desk beckoning me for some action for months now. I decided I'd probably never run him as abby, as i couldn't fit him and all of my other HQ models into my list, and my terminators have been performing like an un-rehearsed, elementary, orchestra in game, and i'm not terribly happy with them. My conundrum was to stick the model in there as is, with a lightning claw and another power weapon, or try and justify the power weapon, or dark crozius, as an icon of some sort. What my terminators are lacking are a decent invulnerable save, so his crozius(MOT) giving the squad 4++ would be nice, but their battlefield role is becoming inherently wasted and somewhat of a disastrous spectacle. What i need is a Reaper Autocannon, although i cannot have one with my two dreadnoughts, current heavy flamer termi, and a less than ten man terminator squad.

These thoughts have plagued me into indecision. What the hell do i do with this guy? Until i can make the voices go away (i'm becoming used to them) he's destined to "sit it out" until i come up with something.

I did update him a tad though, took the silly winged skull off and got some serious trophy rack action going on. I made sure he has 18 skulls, like the dreaddy, as those bad ass enough in the 18th company carry their company number in the brain-pan of slain foes.

Question for you guys, should he be painted all black, full midnight, or maybe some combination of the two. I have the shoulder guards on there as blue right now, but i'm not sold on the look. Opinions?

Then there's fleshing my wraiths out a bit. I want to give myself the option of running them as a larger squad (10) to be able to use them as plagues, Csm, or hell, even grey hunters. :)

In hindsight i'm not feeling the skull helmet on that one much, I will probably change it.

and i leave you this.

What could it be?

Dan.

[Terminatorinhell]

A shoulderpad or terminator?

Definitely dont see alpharius...

Edited April 18, 2011 by Terminatorinhell

[Noctus Cornix]

Alpha Legion Terminator.

[Darius Macab]

i have no idea what it is, all i know is that it will be awesome!

 

DM

[hushrong]

I really like how your Termie chappy is coming out. I think I want to add some skulls to mine now...

 

For his paint job, I would say paint him Midnight Clad. He isn't some loyalist trying to follow a set of rules so having black armor isn't necessary. Plus, that is too cool a mini to just leave it mostly black.

[Dan The Deamon]

Greetings,

Sorry to say I didn't get any Wip pics besides the spoiler of this guy before i basecoated him. You guys will just have to be happy with the final pictures. :D

To those of you who saw the hints, I hope you aren't disappointed. I gave him the assault cannon because my alpha legion are very big fans of bullets. Whether they be boltguns, autocannons, heavy bolters, or assault cannons, i've kept the dakka theme prevalent with them. I did give him an assault cannon instead of another combi-plas, or a reaper autocannon, because this way i could play him as a wolf guard, or as a reaper terminator when i pull the heavy flamer marine.

I'm madly in love with the shoulder-pad freehand. I spent a fraction of the time on it, and it looks loads better than what i spent 90% of the time doing (the damn eyes!). balancing the model out proved to be pretty tough so i had to mix things up a bit with the personal heraldry. There's the XX 20th legion sign, then scrawled in red ink, or blood, whichever you prefer, are his allegiances to the 18th company.

Dan

[Marmande]

Lovin' that Terminator.

[SnorriSnorrison]

Awesome stuff there. Lovin' the conversions, the painting, the grittyness, the theme...everything. Great job dude, that terminator is indeed very well painted, the freehands on the legs and the shoulderpad look very nice as does the overall look.

 

Man, I wish I'd be that creative. :(

 

 

Please, keep it up. :)

 

 

Snorri

[Loken86]

Beautiful work dan that free hand is amazing and the model itself is kick ass

[pattison]

Speechless - again...

[Wicced]

damn, another great conversion by the mighty dan ;)

 

i'm proud to serve the 8th legion with heroes like you ;)

[vezok the annihilator]

realy nice work again mate!!

are you going to make a full squad of aphlalegoin termies, as they do look so CHAOTIC? and could you possibly do a tutorial on how you paint your alpha's, this would be realy apriciated as i am converting up a "count as" squad of noise marines..

once again i am inspired by your epic work!

[KhornateKiller]

o Dan thats goooooooooooood :)

[Lemainus]

You're like magic, except also ice cream and sex.

 

...I like your Dreadnought.

 

....this is hands down the best thing ever to be posted.

 

Besides Dan's Night Lords.

 

I'm just saying.

[Dan The Deamon]

*space reserved*

 

post 1,000 what can i say? (or 1001)

Edited April 24, 2011 by Dan The Deamon

[Firepower]

Awesome. Now do it 40 more times and take your rightful place on the Golden Throne! :lol:

[Lemainus]

It's a testament to your outrageous skill that you've garnered replies in the thousands - and that not a single bloody one of us had anything negative to say. About anything you did. Not once.

 

You are madness, your house is Sparta, you are not lost and if anyone else dares to post a Night Lords army in this forum for the next 23498546 years someone will inevitably say "they're nice, but they aren't as nice as *insert link to your thread*. If I had a tenth of your talent I would be charging people new to the hobby $45 to stroke my cheek and perhaps glean a smidgeon of power from physical contact.

[Sons of Horus]

I become happy every time I see you post something new :)

[Natanael]

I love the AL-terminator. The pre-heresy AL symbol on the shoulder pad is most impressive. Any tips on how to make it look so good? Havent had the courage to try painting that in my True Scale marines yet.

 

- Natanael

[Keyoz Devastrius]

I've been following this thread for a long time and I'm a real fan of your work so I'm really sorry to nitpick. Isn

[Dan The Deamon]

I've been following this thread for a long time and I'm a real fan of your work so I'm really sorry to nitpick. Isn

[Hyaenidae]

@Dan: Remember back in the day when there was a big contreversy about units turning our combat patches reversed so that they faced forward with our unit patch (especially in the 101st) "towards the enemy"? I think he means that the hydra on the right arm shoulder plate is facing to the rear, instead of towards the front; even though the hydra facing to the left is how it's supposed to look, it's generally accepted for loyalist marines to face non-mirror image chapter symbols towards the front a.k.a., the enemy.

 

By army standards, his hydra is perfect, ladies and gents... :tu:

[Dan The Deamon]

it's generally accepted for loyalist marines to face non-mirror image chapter symbols towards the front a.k.a., the enemy.

 

By army standards, his hydra is perfect, ladies and gents... :tu:

 

Yeah I remember. I had the hydra in mind when i did it, and really didn't mess with it much or switch the shoulderpads because I felt the backwards Hydra heads would be symbolic to the duality of the Alpha Legion's purpose, that's the reason i posted the pics of the other two guys in the unit, as they also had symbolic "windows" into their duality painted or modeled onto them. (The imperial eagle on top of the dreadnought, and the Inquisitorial shoulderpad on the havoc Sgt. I wanted a good kickback to the old alpha legion on their proper side, left Chained A, and figured the hydra on the opposite side would balance it out, and give me the opportunity to put a little love into the theme i love so much about them; That they are fighting with chaos with it's eventual downfall in mind, and that the only way to save the human race is to extinguish what the imperium has made of itself.

 

So yes, the hydra would be facing their enemies if the alpha legion were anyone but the alpha legion.

hope that makes some sense.

[Firepower]

So yes, the hydra would be facing their enemies if the alpha legion were anyone but the alpha legion.

 

Alpha Legionnaires, hipsters of 40k.... :)

 

It looks awesome Dan. The baby hydra cowl and trigger guard are one of those "wish I thought of it" conversions I've become so begrudgingly familiar with here on the BnC.

[Keyoz Devastrius]

So yes, the hydra would be facing their enemies if the alpha legion were anyone but the alpha legion.

Alpha Legionnaires, trolls of 40k.... :P

fixed that for you :D