Cvife Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Time for the promised update, and today's is a big one! Lets start with a new predator, this one has been a WIP for a while now but for some reason I just haven't taken photos! Now before I get ripped to shreds, I'm fully aware that it's an annihilator and that they weren't around during the heresy but I couldn't get hold of the parts to make a destructor in the same way as the last one. My excuse is that it's a unique vehicle which was built by the death guard techmarines for a specific purpose etc etc, either way, excuses aside, here's the photos!: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1133.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1136.jpg I feel I need to do more to the weathering and make the rust look a bit darker, I'm sure some devlan mud would be a good solution for both problems! Next up is the Devastators, the first five are now at a stage where I wouldn't have a problem fielding them in a game (still nowhere near finished though!): http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1139.jpg Now for the Contemptor, I've been working on this all day and am pretty pleased so far, still needs some detail work done, but it's definitely getting there!: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1132.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1131.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1130.jpg Finally a couple of photos of the army on a display board, one of the whole lot and on the finished tactical squad with a unit of "proper death guard" for comparison! http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1142.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1155.jpg Hope everyone likes them so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subtlebrush Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Everything is looking really good here. Definitely love that Mortarion conversion, consider that added to my "to do list"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander S. Caesare Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 VERY NICE! Love how you did the edges. I'll try to do that one day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy1391 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 The contemptor is an abomination you should send it to me immediately for proper disposal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorenzo_ishivar_kain Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Your army is rising brother..good work :) Love the predator :) Awesome the Contemptor ;) Can you give me the recipe for your bases please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvife Posted September 12, 2011 Author Share Posted September 12, 2011 Can you give me the recipe for your bases please? Bases are really simple, start with a black undercoat, give it a wash of heavily thinned calthan brown, heavy drybrush of khemri brown/graveyard earth, light drybrush of denheb stone, paint the rim black and finally add some dead grass! Nothing over the top really. But then I always think that the basing should never detract from the actual model, so I always choose a neutral scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorenzo_ishivar_kain Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Thanks bro :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Task Force Gauntlet Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Nice army, I'm going to be doing something similar soon myself. By the way, what are you using for your white? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvife Posted September 27, 2011 Author Share Posted September 27, 2011 Well... Games day UK has been and gone and I've once aging spent far too much money (thank god I bought all the bus tickets I needed or I wouldn't be able to work!). Anyway, what have I bought? You may be asking (or not), I got another 10 marines in mk3 armour to be used to fill up the first tactical squad to 20 men and a second contemptor with 2 close combat weapons and a cyclone missile launcher, Heres some photos: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1157.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1162.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1160.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1163.jpg tomorrow I plan to post some photos of the whole army, both painted and unpainted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvife Posted September 28, 2011 Author Share Posted September 28, 2011 well its a bit late, but here's the promised army shot: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1167.jpg I also checked to find out how big this army is and it came to 1750 pts, which is good! anyway, next up is some games, and more painting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
army310 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Man I love mk3 amour great job and i think you should see mine too. You mite like them. how are you doing to white I fail with that color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malika666 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Ooooh, nice! Will you also be including some Terminators in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMan Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Nice army man. One thing, the dude who's holding a bolt pistol as though its a bolter, why not give him an Auspex in the other hand or something? Looks odd how it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvife Posted October 7, 2011 Author Share Posted October 7, 2011 Time for a timely update. I know I promised a Battle Report, but, despite playing a few games the other day, I got a bit distracted, and forgot to take any photos of any of the games! However, if you're wondering, I got 2 wins against Tau and Dark Eldar and a draw against Blood Angels, Turns out Pedro Kantor's Inspiring presence rule is quite good when combined with a pair of contemptors. I promise that next time I play a game with this army, I will take some photos! Anyway, on to some WIP photo's of other stuff I've been working on: Firstly, the second contemptor is pretty much finished: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1174.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1176.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1177.jpg And here's the photo of both of them side by side: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1178.jpg Next up is a Malcador 'defender' which I've had for a couple of years now, in various paint jobs, I've given it a slight paint strip from nurgle death guard to it's more base colours and plan to re paint it completely to match the heresy era death guard, also, I've modified a leman russ to make it look a bit more pre heresy-ish and that will also be re-painted: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1180.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1181.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1182.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1187.jpg By the way, I have just started a blog to better document my painting and gaming exploits, heres the link: http://mortarionstoilet.blogspot.com/ that's all for now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyner Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Awesome. How are you doing the white?? Wish I had a job again to fund my heresy army :) lol keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvife Posted October 8, 2011 Author Share Posted October 8, 2011 Awesome. How are you doing the white?? Wish I had a job again to fund my heresy army :P lol keep it up! at the moment, it's just a lot of drybrushing, with a cheeky white spray here and there, I'm planning to do a painting tutorial quite soon, I hope that will help. Anyway, I bought some new basing material from Army Painter and have been obsessively sticking it to random bases, It seems to add to the overall effect of the army quite well. Here's some more photos of the mostly finished stuff from so far: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1199.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1192.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1193.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1194.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1196.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1195.jpg I promise to do a Battle report tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander S. Caesare Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 Haha. I like the last pic for the Contemptor. YEAH YOU. THAT'S RIGHT. I'M GONNA BLOW YOU UP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvife Posted October 14, 2011 Author Share Posted October 14, 2011 I may have told you all I would post a battle report a few days ago... I lied! What happened was that I got carried away during the game and took lots of photos but no notes of what actually happened. So instead I present a series of photos of the two games I played and some small bits of info about what I remember happened! The first game was against the Tau, the mission was capture and control and the deployment was spearhead, here's how the deployment looked: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1202.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1201.jpg and some other photos: These Broadsides aren't in such a great place right now http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1209.jpg nor are these battlesuits: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1210.jpg One of my Predators killed a hammerhead! http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1207.jpg but then the other hammerhead killed the predator... http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1206.jpg Unbelievably the marines lost this combat: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1214.jpg the two contemptors wonder off in bordom after realizing how this game is going! http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1215.jpg These two won the game for the tau by deep striking in my deployment zone and causing havoc! http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1213.jpg as you may have gathered, I lost this game, but I don't mind as it was one of the best games I've played in ages. what have I learned? well, contemptors are mean and extremely difficult to kill and therefore work very well as a front line unit, massed heavy weapons can be very effective, but will suffer a lot when there's a lot of terrain on the table, and my heresy era death guard work quite well, but they are a bit too static and don't react too well to deep striking and outflanking armies, but, I suppose that is the way of things! However, the most important thing I've realized is that these guys really need painting!: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1211.jpg more to come soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natanael Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Nice pics, and great that you got a battle in. I think the problem with your DGs are that you dont have a good counter-assault-unit to back up your gunline. This time you were up against Tau tough, and they shoot like SoBs (not the 40K kind). - Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cvife Posted November 25, 2011 Author Share Posted November 25, 2011 Hi everyone, I'm back! Firstly, I'd just like to say that I'm alive, and so is this army, there are photos coming up in a bit. I got a bit distracted recently with a recent singles tournament in which I specially made a rather nice Black Legion army (even if I do say so myself!), but that's for another thread, did very badly and vowed never to use Codex: Chaos Space Marines in a competitive sense again, but anyway, heres what I've been working of for this army, firstly, a new Captain: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1235.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1236.jpg I know he has a storm bolter and that they weren't really around in those days, but it looks cool and thats the main point! Next is an attack bike, not my favorite model by a long shot, and still a long way from being finished, but necessary for this army to be legal in an upcoming doubles tournament: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1238.jpg Here's a nice group shot of the doubles army: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1239.jpg Any finally a Nurgle chaos lord I've been working on: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1240.jpg That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kapturowski Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1194.jpg I love this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahrimanjjb Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Utterly fantastic Captain model, and the same goes for those contemptors; the battle damage is particularly superb. The blending on the Nurgle Lord's horns looks a little iffy however, I would go back and try to make the blending smoother and maybe try to use more complementary colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lachdannan Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 These look top notch! I'm just starting a heresy era Imperial Fists force and I wandered what a army would look like with Mk|| and MK||| plate. Thanks so much for sharing! So many good conversions in there that will have to try! Will be watching this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 These guys look great - the weathering is alright and the poses for your models are decent too. This guy: http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/cvife/DSCN1194.jpg Is excellent in a subtle way. Simple conversion, oodles of character. :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapter Master Ignis Domus Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 Veeery nice! :tu: You've inspired me to do something similar when I finish the current project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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