The Sons of Tyr - Arkhan's Log

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Hi everyone,

So I felt that having (finally) sorted out my lighting setup for photography - and learning a little more about my camera in the process - it'd be a good time to photograph what I'm working on at the minute. My old Sons of Tyr log is now over, as I'm starting a new force made up of some old purchases never assembled, some eBay rescues, and a bunch of old stuff stripped and redone. Working from those humble beginnings, hopefully I can put together a force painted to a higher standard than the old. I've already got a bit better at modelling, I think - the subtle modifications I'm making to truescale my miniatures are no longer quite as glaringly obvious.

I titled this Arkhan's Log as it won't just be limited to my Sons of Tyr chapter. Expect to see some VIIth Charon Watchers (Imperial Guard) soon, some victims of a Plague of Unbelief (ZOMBIES), and potentially some Dark Mechanicus and Khornate nutjobs. All depends on how much I get done over the next few weeks...

In the meantime, here's some stuff I've been working on over the Easter break. First up is an Aegis Defence Line minus AA quadgun which I'm still painting. Props go first and foremost to the excellent Imperial Propaganda posters made by GalenArtorius over on Warseer - check them out if you haven't already. http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?138549-Imperial-Propaganda-Posters-and-Signs

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010126_zpsb5413f34.jpg

Shown for scale with Nubator, the first Marine I assembled and painted for the old force

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010134_zpsc61b7606.jpg

Not quite sure why the mud's gone so flat here - it looks a little more three-dimensional in real life, but I probably need to go over it again.

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010129_zps4b0f4301.jpg

Some old terrain pieces I've been repainting - the stone and earth is finished, but nothing else.

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010135_zps067c38de.jpg

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010136_zps21759ee0.jpg

Just sprayed - Devastator Squad Subjugator [Long Fangs] with veteran Tahonis in Tactical Dreadnought Armour.

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010131_zpsad56ebce.jpg

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The last squad I painted for the old force, Devastator Squad Dominator [also Long Fangs] in terrain.

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010138_zps33df8ab3.jpg

And a teaser of a squad to come - Tactical Squad Conqueror [Grey Hunters], battle-brother Padanis.

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010133_zpsede36589.jpg

Comments, criticisms, etc all welcome.

[deathspectersgt7]

big difference in the pictures can't wait to see more enjoyed your old posts .purchased some of the AI bits you showed now to figure out the camera I  picked up cheers.  

[IndigoJack]

Looks very good! I love the weathering on your ADL. Where did you get the CML on that termie?

[MagicMan]

Looking awesome man. They look very cool amongst those terrain pieces as well.

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Thanks guys. I need to sort out the weathering on the Aegis ASAP. IndigoJack - I seem to remember it's from Kromlech. Got it ages ago.

 

Today and yesterday's efforts - assembling another five Marines in Squad Conqueror, and messing around with some greenstuff, a toothpick, and a Khornate icon ;)

I didn't quite get the pre-shading here right - some of the areas of armour have just turned out kinda grey. Which is fine, as I'm still learning, but the take-away lesson is that I need to pay a bit more attention to the direction of my spray (hur hur).

 

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[deathspectersgt7]

Oh yeah!!!! these are going to rock great job on the load outs.

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Got my fourth proper game with the revised force in today. Took a few snaps, thought I'd share here.
 I lost a game I really should have won - I made some terrible calls with the placement and use of the Grey Hunter squads. I say 'should have won' as the dice gods favoured me until the end of turn 2, at which point my errors of judgment (overconfidence) came into play.

 

Lessons learned:

 

-There is no such thing as going for an objective too early.

-Plague Marines are deadly en masse.

-Never split your force to fight on two fronts.

 

On to the pictures.

 

1. Deployment. Enemy forces are Chaos Space Marines of the Disciples of Nurgleth (fellow B&C member Disease). The board we were fighting on wasn't finished, as is evident, but should be a cracker once it's had the last touches.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010150_zpse702e376.jpg

 

2. View from the opposing side.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010151_zpsb6d672fd.jpg

 

3. Initial deployment. Old One Aegir, Tactical Squad Vengeance, Devastator Squad Subjugator and Brother-Captain Arkhan visible. Librarian Damas Tirekes manning the quad-gun in the back.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010152_zpsc408a0ee.jpg

 

4. The Decimator! This thing took a hell of a pounding before eventually being wrecked by lascannon fire. My opponent has a penchant for passing 5+ Daemon Engine saves...

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010153_zpsc9660be4.jpg

 

5. Turn 1 - Squad Conqueror and Brother-Captain Arkhan advance, using the Arbites court to their right to shield them from enemy fire. (Also left an unclaimed objective in my back field. Blindingly obvious mistake)

 

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6. Turn 1 - Squad Dominator's view of the battlefield with the Decimator visible in the distance.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010157_zpse7cd853c.jpg

 

7. Turn 2 - BOOM! The Heldrake, arriving from reserve, is shot down by the Librarian manning the Aegis quadgun! Unfortunately it  fails to scatter onto the Plague Marines debarking from their Rhinos, so Squad Vengeance breaks into a run towards them, intending to charge (mistake 2: don't assault overwhelming numbers of Plague Marines with a single Grey Hunter squad).

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010158_zps702bba20.jpg

 

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8. Turn 2, close combat - the Grey Hunters whittle down the first squad of Plague Marines before being annihilated in Turn 3 assault phase.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010160_zps4a348382.jpg

 

9. On the other side of the field, Arkhan spots the enemy commander limping into cover, his retinue of cultists torn to shreds by heavy bolter fire. Arkhan puts on his rage face and begins the chase...

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010161_zpsdb078a86.jpg

 

10. Squad Prosecutor arrives from reserve. I decide it's a GREAT IDEA to deploy them REALLY TIGHTLY PACKED when they're within 12" of a Lord with the Burning Brand of Skalathrax. I'm not going to say what happened next (I wanted to rapid fire the Havocs in his back field - I should have brought them on further behind him to assault his rearguard objective).

 

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11. Arkhan and Squad Conqueror are at the bridge. Elsewhere, Squads Prosecutor and Vengeance have fallen silent on the company vox and the Plague Marines march ever closer to the Sons of Tyr gun lines.

 

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12. Arkhan attempts to run down the enemy commander as Squad Conqueror takes heavy losses securing the bridge. Aware of the depth of his failure of command, Arkhan attempts to secure vengeance for the lives of his fallen battle-brothers as he brings the enemy Lord to bear. As the Traitor Marine roars defiance, Arkhan rams his eviscerator chainsword through the infested, putrid chestplate of the Chaos Lord, killing him outright.

 

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From here onwards the game devolved terribly. By the end of the game I had my Librarian (Rune Priest) and a single squad of Long Fangs left on the field. If I'd held Squad Conqueror back, shot the enemy Lord rather than chasing him in close assault, used Arkhan to support Squad Vengeance's charge into the Plague Marine lines, and used my outflanking squad to assault the enemy objective rather than getting within range of all the enemy guns at once, this might have been a very different game. As it was, I got to kill a Heldrake before it got to fire (unheard of) and had a really good time overall, learning a lot from the game. My opponent was an excellent sport and the quality of his miniatures means it's always a pleasure to play against this army.

 

Now, into the pain glove. Forty dead Marines in a single action - Arkhan will face sanction from Chapter Command for sure.

[disease]

Really was a great game (It has always been very very close between our forces). My only regret - not having my minis painted! There could have been some great photos.

 

Unfortunate that so many Sons were captured and tortured in the name of Nurgleth, but i'm sure Arkhan will have his revenge...

[Disruptor_fe404]

That really is a nice board (rather, will be when it's finished).

 

I really need to find a place with nice scenery and stuff so that I can actually get good shots of my completed models.

 

Also, Arkhan (or should I say, you?) looks like a right-on badass on the tabletop.

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Really was a great game (It has always been very very close between our forces). My only regret - not having my minis painted! There could have been some great photos.

 

Unfortunate that so many Sons were captured and tortured in the name of Nurgleth, but i'm sure Arkhan will have his revenge...

 

Yes indeed. When you have your stuff painted (and that Plague Drake fully assembled) it'll be a great excuse to have a rematch.

 

Cheers Disruptor. I'm reasonably pleased with Arkhan but I'm going to do another version of him on a larger base at some point and rebase the current mini, whose base I'm not currently happy with.

[recon0321]

Awesome work again brother will be following this new thread

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Finally, it is time for an update. About time! Thanks for the interest guys. Over the past month, my hobby time (and there hasn't been much) has been mainly devoted to assembling things and painting some test schemes on some old Space Hulk 2nd ed. Terminators I had lying around. In that time I've found a colour scheme I'm quite happy with - it's essentially the same one I used for my old army but with some new (gold) bits and better highlight (and in fact hopefully better painting all round, but I'll let the beholder be the judge of that).

 

I managed to get to Salute 2013 yesterday, and picked up some goodies (photos below) - really looking forward to seeing how they come out, the Maxmini heads in particular. I have a thing for helmetless Marine heads that 'look like' Marines, and these fit the bill in my mind.

 

The big news in this post is that I've finally finished the first miniature of my Sons of Tyr battleforce mk.2 - battle-brother Artac Padanis of the Seventh Brotherhood, Hawk Squad. All that's lacking from Padanis is a Hawk insignia, and an Anishinaabe emblem (which I will be using as the Chapter's emblem) - it's this:

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ixc1xIxRABU/SavwZiu6YDI/AAAAAAAAB6U/iF6_ND-Paqc/s400/CrestAnishinaabePeople.jpg

 

And Padanis himself:

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010351_zps389ca763.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010353_zpsc0f63e3a.jpg

 

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DIE XENOS SCUM

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Oh yeah, I finished a second Drop Pod (of three total - I'm thinking of going silly and getting another 2, but I HATE painting them)

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010357_zpse3c1611c.jpg

 

What will become Old One Rabican...

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Getting a head in the Adeptus Astartes:

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And somewhat randomly, two shots of a wound counter I'm making to substitute for the time-honoured method of laying a die down by your wounded character and then picking it up and forgetting how many wounds he'd taken. I'll be making more, much more interesting, versions of these.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010362_zps77c0cdf8.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010363_zps31bfbf6e.jpg

And finally, after a request for a recipe for the Sons of Tyr paint scheme (which was very flattering): here's the recipe I'm currently working with and pioneered with Padanis:

 

 

Undercoat black, white spray highlight

 

1. Grey Armour

• 
  Basecoat GW Skavenblight Dinge
• 
  Wash Army Painter Dark Tone (analogous to old GW
  Badab Black wash)
• 
  Layer with 1:1 Stormvermin Fur/Skavenblight
  Dinge
• 
  Broad highlight with 2:1 Stormvermin
  Fur/Skavenblight Dinge
• 
  Less broad highlight with Stormvermin Fur
• 
  Highlight with 1:1 Codex Grey/Stormvermin Fur
• 
  Highlight with pure Codex Grey

 

2. Bone Armour

• 
  Basecoat Dheneb Stone
• 
  Wash 2:3 mix of Strong Tone/water
• Highlight Dheneb Stone
• 
  Highlight 1:1 Dheneb Stone/Bleached Bone
• 
  Highlight Bleached Bone

 

Many thanks for reading this far. Please give me any comments or criticism you have - I'm here to improve.

 

Cheers,

 

Arkhan

 

EDIT: There is nothing like a really close up shot to reveal to you how you thought you'd trimmed all the mold lines and watered your paint down sufficiently, but...oh well. Practice!

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

I also couldn't resist posting a story I wrote idly one day during a break from other stuff. It concerns Padanis and the rest of his squad in the aftermath of an assault on the Sons of Tyr homeworld, Madrigal. Any comments on that welcome as well.

 

++++++++++


 

As he stood upon the ridge overlooking the settlement, Padanis gazed upon
the ruins of his old home and felt the dull ache of grief tighten in his chest.
The white walls of the longhouses, stained grey and black by ashes, were all
that remained standing within the settlement's boundaries. Roofs had collapsed,
outhouses had crumbled into nothingness; only the brick and mortar walls of the
settlement's homesteads had survived the firestorm. Here and there, a wall had
been torn down, shattered into rubble, by the weapons of the foe who had purged
Eagle Falls clean of life.

 

For six centuries Eagle Falls had been a haven for the coastal tribes,
providing shelter and arable land for the survivors of the Great War, those few
who had not died in the scouring of the plains, when fire rained down from the
heavens for weeks, and great, burning hulks of iron and steel plummeted from
the stars into the world of Madrigal beneath. They had built their homes on the
mountaintops, clinging to survival while the great Sky Warriors fought a war to
end all wars in the valleys below, choking the mountain passes with the
greenskin dead until a man could walk for a day across the valleys without ever
setting foot upon the ground. After the Great War ended, and only a handful of
Sky Warriors remained, the bravest of the survivors of the tribes had left
their mountaintop shelters to retake their ancestral lodgings. Finding the
plains scoured clean of life and arable earth, they had moved to the coasts,
building the first and greatest settlement at Eagle Falls. Seven tribes had set
aside differences and old grudges to found the great settlement; and for six
hundred years, Eagle Falls had been a symbol of hope for the survivors of
Madrigal, a symbol that the tribes would endure, united in their cooperation
and shared purpose.
 

And now that had ended, thought Padanis. He scanned the ruins of the
settlement, emotions foreign and unfamiliar rising unbidden in him. His
training as a Sky Warrior - as a member of the Adeptus Astartes, he reminded
himself, mentally chiding himself for slipping into the Madrigalan terminology
- required him to analyse the ruins of Eagle Falls for information which could
identify the foe's numbers, their armaments. His duty was to assess, to
observe, to collect information for the coming hunt. But Eagle Falls had been
his home, and even the psychological conditioning of a Space Marine could not
forbid him from feeling grief for those who had been family to him. His kin,
tribal brothers and sisters, elders and skraelings all lay dead in the
ashes of the buildings around him.

 

A century of service amongst the Astartes had desensitised him to the very
worst horrors of war. He could recall atrocities which would have left soldiers
lacking his augmentations and training traumatised and broken, and yet the
sight of a place which had once been his home lying in ruins brought forth
sentiments of grief and loneliness utterly alien to him. For an hour, Padanis
and the rest of his squad had scoured the ruins of the settlement, searching
for survivors in the wreckage and rubble, for anything that might be rebuilt
when the time came to do so, but they had found nothing but blackened bodies
and structures gutted by fire. The enemy had not simply butchered the
population of Eagle Falls - three thousand men, women and children - but they
had systematically destroyed everything of value in the settlement; grain
stores, water purifiers, stables and the minimal armoury the settlement had
possessed all lay in ruins. Anger and sadness vyed for supremacy, conflicting
with the training imprinted into his consciousness which demanded he remain
impartial to the tragedy before him.

 

They had burned the shaman's longhouse last. He noticed this as his gaze
passed across the eastern side of Eagle Falls, where the settlement wall had
been entirely flattened. No small arms fire did that, he surmised. Sustained
bolter fire would have been sufficient to tear apart the individual buildings,
but the reinforced wall would have required heavy weaponry to penetrate. So
they had entered the settlement there, nearest the shaman's great longhouse,
but judging by the smoke still rising from the ruins of the shaman's lodgings
it had been burned after the rest of the settlement had been sacked.

 

As he pondered this, the autosenses in Padanis' armour tingled, indicating
the approach of a squadmate. At his shoulder Silak appeared, kneeling next to
him, his bone-white shoulder pauldrons dulled with the ashes of the settlement.
Unlike Padanis he was helmetless, preferring to let his bionic eyes gaze upon
the settlement which had also been a home to him.

 

'Melta weaponry breached the eastern wall. From there, flamer teams cleared
the breach and dealt with the bulk of resistance, if the state of the eastern
half is anything to go by. No signs of struggle by the western and southern entrances
- the whole settlement must have been up in arms to fight them.'
 

Padanis nodded, agreeing with his squadmate's assessment, and felt a small
tinge of pride. If there had been any survivors, they would have found them by
now. That the bulk of the tribesmen and women had died in the streets of the
eastern half of the settlement - where the foe had breached the wall -
suggested they had died fighting against the invaders. They could have fled and
yet they fought against a foe immeasurably their superior, who had butchered
them where they stood with horrifying ease. And yet not one of them had fled.

 

Silak seemed to sense Padanis' emotions, and tapped his squadmate on his
shoulder pauldron.

 

'You were not the only Hawk warrior to call this place home, brother. You
do not mourn alone.'

 

Padanis bowed his head. Silak, like him, had been of the Hawk tribe, and
although two decades his elder, surely felt the pain of loss as keenly as did
Padanis. He felt ashamed that his grief was so plain to see.
 

'Forgive my moment of weakness, Brother-Sergeant. My conduct shames me.'

 

Silak snorted, and rose to his feet. 'No weakness in mourning, sarhan.
Your loyalty to the tribes separates you from the unctehila who did
this.'
 

Padanis smiled within his helm at his squad sergeant's gradual slip into
the Madrigalan tongue. The impact of their shared home's destruction had awoken
old sentiments and memories of their mutual upbringing.
 

'Let your thoughts turn now to vengeance, Padanis. The Chapter remembers
its own. We will burn the entrails of those responsible as offerings to the
cannibal-spirits to let our kinsmen rest in peace.'

 

Padanis tapped the twin-headed eagle on his chestplate and uttered the Sky
Mother's name, finishing the rite of vengeance his squadmate had started.
Padanis stood to join Silak, and the two looked out over the settlement.
 

'Your assessment matches mine. I noticed no bodies in the western half and
could not find signs of struggle there either. They had time to muster a
defense. Why did they not use the comm-relay at the settlement hub?' Padanis
asked. Silak cocked his head to one side, a mannerism Padanis recognised as one
the hollow-faced Marine displayed when perturbed.
 

'I do not know. The enemy would have employed jamming beacons but the
emergency failsafe would have provided a pulse recognisable by the planetary
comnet. Unless they did not activate the failsafe, which I doubt, I do not know
why we were unable to pick up the distress signal. Maybe...'
 

Silak fell silent, as the same thought entered Padanis' mind. Barring
technological failure - unlikely - and the possibility that the tribal headsmen
had not thought to use the comm-relay to call for aid, which was so unlikely as
to be inconscionable, the alternative was that the relay had been sabotaged.
The unwelcome thought sat in his mind, daring him to disprove it, and yet he
could think of no other possibility. Silak broke the silence.
 

'If it was sabotaged from within it would have happened shortly before the
attack was launched, to maximise disruption. If it had simply malfunctioned,
the headsmen would have sent a horseman to call for aid. The enemy would have
killed him before he could escape, and we would have found the body before now.
There can be no other alternative.'

 

As much as Padanis wished to deny it, he knew that their suspicion must
have been correct.  The thought of a
tribesman or -woman turning against their own kin and sabotaging the
settlement's primary means of contacting their Space Marine overlords - denying
them aid and consigning them to their fate - filled Padanis with rage.
 

The rest of their squad emerged from the ruins of the buildings below.
Mkal, Lanan and Artac cradled their bolters in the ready position, and Padanis
saw that the same rage he felt twisted their countenances. Mkal, the youngest,
nodded to Padanis and spoke addressing Silak, his single braid twisting in the
wind.
 

'Your hypothesis was correct, Brother-Sergeant. The comm relay was
destroyed by bolter fire, but energy weaponry was discernibly used to disable
it. The scarring is consistent with basic las-weaponry. The enemy would not have
used such primitive weaponry.'

 

And so there it was. Someone in Eagle Falls had turned against their own
and destroyed the only means of communication the settlement could have used to
call for aid. Silak nodded, taking in the younger Marine's information, and
addressed the rest of the squad.

 

'This is a matter for Chapter Command. If one of the tribes is harbouring unctehila
worshippers, we must root them out before they can taint the rest of the
population. I will inform Brother-Captain Arkhan while we regroup with the rest
of the strikeforce. Check and bless your weapons, brothers.'

 

Padanis nodded and felt the battle-rage rise within him. In the distance
the landing lights of a Storm Eagle gunship could be seen, approaching the
ruined settlement of Eagle Falls rapidly. Whilst Silak's squad had searched the
settlement for information, the rest of the Chapter's strike force in the
region had been searching the surrounding area for signs of the enemy. As the
gunship approached, the company-level voxnet crackled into life, the voice of
the company Captain filling Padanis' helmet and the vox-links of his
squadmates.
 

'Arkhan to Silak. Regroup at muster point Apex with squads Conqueror and
Prosecutor. Chaos Space Marine presence at Talak settlement confirmed. Main
force en route with Thunderhawk support. Target enemy rearguard and engage with
utmost prejudice. The war-spirits call for blood, brothers. Arkhan out.'

 

As Silak and the rest of the squad formed up on the ridge, Padanis felt a
swell of anticipation rise within him as the rising howl of the gunship's
engines echoed the surging of his own spirit. War beckoned. The Chapter rose to
avenge its own. The anvil of war awaited only the smith's hammer to beat out a
tune of death and destruction upon it, and Padanis would be a willing artisan
of the bloodshed to come.

 

[deathspectersgt7]

Well written you know that some some of us will want more.I liked this this thread when I first started looking around and still do.Got some modeling ideas from here. So well done brother.

[recon0321]

Thanks for posting the paint scheme...

 

Do the layer paints work well for a base coat? If you don't mind can I use your scheme but with some different twists? Keep up the great work...

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Greetings fellow lifeforms! About time I updated this. Haven't had a huge amount of time to paint, but this is what I got! Nearly got a whole squad of Hunters done in this scheme. Also included: un-good shots of the wound counters for my Rune Priests.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010367_zpsb562f6b3.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010369_zpsc34bac45.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010370_zps91441dfa.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/P1010371_zps546a018e.jpg

 

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[deathspectersgt7]

Looking good brother poses are great .

[Disruptor_fe404]

Don't forget to paint in the black dot on the end of the bolter barrels!

 

You did it for the meltagun, so I can only assume you intend to at a later date...

 

Cool wound counters too. Your Rune Priests must be hard.

[recon0321]

How did you make the chainsword for Arkhan?

[Disruptor_fe404]

It's a Kromlech two-handed chainsaw sword.

 

I think.

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Yup, it's Kromlech. There's a pack with four or five huge (and I really do mean huge) chainswords and that's the smallest of them all. It's a complete pain to assemble - the resin is very fragile and any attempts at pinning it should be made with caution as the handle's so thin in its diameter that you risk shearing right through it with the drill.

 

Hopefully have some more pics up either tonight or tomorrow - have finished the squad above, assembled + undercoated my first Shaman and sorted out my custom decals to be applied!

[recon0321]

How did you get custom decals

[Disruptor_fe404]

You can buy decal paper from... wherever it is people buy stuff for model trains. If you buy the right ones, you can just print onto them with your laser printer at home.

[recon0321]

Have you guys seen the rub on decal paper?

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

I've had some quite pleasing results with laser printer decal paper. Camera's not on me ATM but I intend to post pics tomorrow night of the finished results. Been a bit sidelined recently by BFG...