Night Lords "Tenebrous Winter" (GREY KNIGHT 08/12)

[GrandMagnus]

Ohhh, I like the metallic MK II armour under the MK III, it looks great. Im going to have to try it out. How do you paint your metals? they look so dark and gritty.

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Beautiful painting, brother.

[Flint13]

Gorgeous!

 

Especially the group shot.

 

Keep up the awesome work

[AlanofAngels]

@Anaziel: Thanks, man! I was really torn on what to do with the under armor, but I thought the metal would look cool, even though my mk II guys wont have entirely metal legs I usually do leadbelcher just washed with nuln, but here I also re-highlighted it with leadbelcher because of how much bigger the surfaces were and to pick out the harder edges.

@Barabbas Sogalon: Thanks a lot!

@Flint: Thanks, Flint! I was looking at your thread and the winged monstrosity you're making looks awesome!

So, immediately after posting last night I checked the mail and I was met with a welcome suprise!:

So now I have 2 FW pins! I'll figure something out to do with them; maybe a display board accessory or something And this morning I put this guy together:

So far I am really digging the mk II, so after I finish this bolter marine, it's on to the sergeant/headsman! More to come!

[GrandMagnus]

HURRAH for MK II and skull helmets!

[Flint13]

I love how the mk2 and mk3 look so much more heavily armored than the mk4. This guys looking good buddy!

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Mk II is the best, no doubt about it.

 

Envy the pins. I seem to only get Mechanicum ones.

[Argent aquila]

i desperately want those terror squad heads!

 

very nice stuff!

[Fracture]

How on earth have I missed this thread. Amazing Night Lords, particularly envious of the gold you've managed to get.

[AlanofAngels]

@Anaziel: HURRAH, indeed! 

@Flint: They totally do! I really like mixing the earlier armor marks into my post-heresy armies; it just gives it that more ancient feel, and it helps that I don't like the regular CSM legs 

@Barabbas Sogalon: I agree, the mk II is awesome, but I have a serious weak spot for mk IV! Huh, I didn't know they even did other pins!

@Argent Aquila: The heads are  amazing, man! I'm keeping my eyes peeled on ebay for the Forgeworld Night Lord Raptor heads though, too!
@Fracture: Hahahaha we Night Lords do like to fly a bit under the radar until we want our presence to be known 

 

I'm in the midst of painting the mk II bolter marine right now, so more to come! 

[HellChyld]

Excellent start on your night lords. Looking forward to what else you present

[AlanofAngels]

Thanks a lot, Hellchyld! It's a slow moving process, but it is at least moving, unlike a lot of my previous ideas 

[AlanofAngels]

This guy took a little longer to pound out, mainly because I have been binge-watching shows on Netflix But alas, number 9 is done!

I really enjoyed painting the mk II legs! Interestingly, I am forgoing my desire to run this army through C:SM (for drop pods) and rightfully going to be using C:CSM, now that I can get pods through the new Imperial Armour book! That means this guy may end up being part of Second Claw because I'm going to want 2 plasma gunners in each squad now. But, I'll figure that all out later Now... the Claw leader. More to come!

[GrandMagnus]

MK II legs are a delight to paint and more importantly they look awesome. I must say your combination of chaos bits, SM bits and FW has inspired me to make some late-heresy Word Bearers using the GW SM kit as the basis, it looks great.

 

Keep it up brother!

[Flint13]

Ugh, tell me about some Netflix binge watching. Orange is the New Black *devoured* my life for a solid 36 hours 

 

On the NL front, pretty as always. But your bone technique is *silly* good looking. Like unfairly so. Which is interesting, considering it is such a small part of the overall model. 

 

I'm also loving the "hodge podge" mixed armor look your Night Lords have from mixing all the armor marks 2-7. It gives a very "long war" feel to them.

 

Keep it up buddy! 

[AlanofAngels]

@Anaziel: Wow, man thanks a lot! That's awesome that you're gonna try some Word Bearers! I'm very interested to see how that pans out!  The Forgeworld kits for Word Bearers look excellent, so I would definitely spelunk those   

 

@Flint: Orange is the New Black did that to me too  Is it just me, or is Piper the most frustrating character in the world? My episode viewings are usually filled with a lot of "why the  are you doing that, Piper?!" Anyways.... yes, 40k  Thanks a lot for the kind words on the bone; I've been using the old GW paints to do 'em (Graveyard Earth, Kommando Khaki, and Bleached Bone) and am gonna be a sad panda when it finally runs out!  In regards to the armor, that's always been the hope in getting that hodge podge and scavenger-esque look, which was all the more important because I don't particularly like the regular CSM plastic legs.

 

Also, Flint, congratulations on Mod status! Bring glory to the VIII! 

 

The Claw leader will be incoming soon! More to come!

[Noctem Cultor]

Great work with what looks like just a nice clean paint job but because of the highlight on the armour it gives it more depth. 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Just spent the last hour browsing through this thread, spending my day's worth of likes and as a fellow VIII legion I hate you. Which means I love your work ;) 

 

Absolutely beautiful paint work, characterful posing and perfect kitbashes. Great work man - I have subscribed! :tu: Looking forward to MOAR!

[AlanofAngels]

@Noctem Cultor: Thanks, man! I wanted to make the edging pop so I gave it that hard, bright highlight.

@Augustus b'Raass: It is always my goal to devour peoples time in this thread You are way too kind, dude! Thanks a lot, it really means a lot MOAR is on the way

The Claw Leader has taken shape:

So, I opted to go with the combi-plasma in terms of gaming, but he didn't look properly Night Lord-y to me so I had to give him the chainblade I also broke out one of my Sons of Horus heads to give him a cool top-knot type thing, that in my opinion marks him out as the leader (just ask Abaddon; it's how it works) More to come!

EDIT: Who needs spelling in the VIII

[recon0321]

You make MK II look great!

[Barabbas Sogalon]

I need to get my hands on a few of those heads.

 

Didn't notice it until now, but the weapons look really good without the bling.

[GrandMagnus]

Man that helmet sure looks good for squad commanders (note to self: steal idea). But I couldnt help but noticing that the chainsword is missing the pommel.

[AlanofAngels]

@Recon0321: Thanks a lot! The kit is excellent, so I don't know how much I'm doin' 

@Barabbas Sogalon: Thanks, man! I've been trying to keep the weapons diverse amongst the squad members as best I can. It's annoying because the mix of old and new parts means I am mixing the old, seperate boltgun bits (with the trigger/grip) in with the new hand-attached to boltgun bits, meaning I need to do some cutting fairly often. 

@Anaziel: Hahahahaha go for it, man! Yeah I cut the pommel off because it was going to get in the way of the combi-plasma  I think it looks alright though, just being a grip! 

 

More to come!

[AlanofAngels]

Hey guys! I have been busy painting away today, up to my knees in blue! So, I finished the Claw Leader

I'm pretty happy with him, to be honest! The Sons of Horus helmets look pretty cool on all traitor marines so I broke out the top-knot looking one for the leader, and it seems to fit him nicely This guy marks the end of First Claw, and I can scramble some photos of it completed if there's any interest.

Now with that squad out of the way, we can move on to... Second Claw! I made a pretty ambitious (by my slow painting standards) Call of Chaos vow, and that includes another 10-man squad, a rhino, and 3 bikers, not to mention a bragging rights competition with Flint to get it finished first So I have my hands full the next few months! A lot more to come guys! All C&C always welcome

[GrandMagnus]

Wow that was fast O.O He does look amazing and the helmet fits perfectly.