Today in the hobby I....

[Daimyo-Phaeron Lenoch]

YITHI spray basecoated the rest of my ETL vow, and did the color blocks for their basic colors (cloth, armor, etc).

 

TITHI applied the shade to the parts of my vow that needed it. Nightshade is such a wonderful color, esp over Fenrisian grey.

[Gederas]

I also had an idea for a chapter of Primaris whonwear skull masks everyone (I plan on kitbashing the Chaplain and Captain for a power armoured Captain for example, and basically everyone wears Reiver helmets/masks) with some lore that they recruit solely from Death Cults making them a chapter that worships the Emperor as a god, plus they sup from their kills. As such I plan on running them as Blood Angels, but I'm struggling on finding a color scheme I like.

 

So the Knights Mortis are my post Guilliman army project, if I can find a scheme I like first.

Those sound like the Mortifactors, but even more crazy

 

Maybe a colour-scheme involving black and bone? Or if you want to go unusual, since they're essentially a Death Cult, you could go red (Celtic colour of Death) or white (Eastern colour of Death).

Edited July 13, 2019 by Gederas

[BitsHammer]

I'll admit a white and red quartered scheme sounds neat, though I question if it'll work with the masks or not.

 

I bugged Darren Latham on Twitter and he offered a novel idea that I'll be lookimg at as well: black but the edge highlights are red (Khorne Red, Mephiston Red and Wild Rider Red (for the brightest spots) built up over each other). I hadn't considered it but the black goes well with bone and I think the "black" can even be bushed further by mixing Khorne Red with black to get a near black shade.

 

In actual hobby news I got everything mounted on toothpicks, and then did the base blue color on all appropriate parts. Going to start with his foot next and build up each section as I go to ensure the highlights stay consistent.

Edited July 13, 2019 by Fulkes

[BitsHammer]

And we're back into the swing of things.

 

Man that was a long eight days. Well I've got two weeks left (or less depending on work) so there will hopefully be some nice progress jumps everyday.

[Darnok]

TITH I finished my first ETL vow.

[Baron Sebas]

YITH i continued my vow

 

TITH i'm finishing my vow (finally)

[Knight of the Raven]

Last night in the hobby, I baptized my modeling knife in the ichor of countless fleas, because the damn things don't have the politeness to check out when you squeeze them between your thumb and forefinger.

I've also gained a new appreciation for Tyrannic War veterans.

[Baron Sebas]

TITH i finished my first vow.

[thewarriorhunter]

TITH I got some detailing done on the legs of a Warhound.

 

[BitsHammer]

Probably a better update than the one from yesterday:

 

The edge highlights likely look a little weird at this stage, but they're to account for scattered light bouncing back off the gold.

[thewarriorhunter]

TITH I did a test run with snow and Iron Hands

 

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

TITH I finally repaired my Foetid Bloat-Drone. Anyone who owns one of these things (and owned one back when they had no clue how to take care of their models) understands how fragile they are. It also finally clicked what kind of unit Bloat-Drones are; I picked up a Dark Vengeance Helbrute and slapped a heavy flamer onto it pretty early on, before I figured out how to use a Bloat-Drone, so I never really learned the Bloat-Drone as a unit. Now I get that it's a quick-assault short-range unit which is not really for melee, because flamers but no great melee capability. Good for clearing hordes, less and less good the stronger of a unit it's put up against.

 

Edit: literally seconds after posting, I dropped my Bloat-Drone and the same plaguespitter I had just glued back on a few hours prior broke off again with a painful crunch of glue breaking.

Edited July 15, 2019 by Zephaniah Adriyen

[Progenitor]

I built the new Sister Superior that has been sitting under my desk since release weekend. Now to paint her. 

[RikuEru]

TITHI did these two today:

 

All the details meant quite some work, but I love how these two turned out.

Blood Angels Red on Mechanicum Standard Grey gave the right one a really nice dark reddish brown apron. While unintentional, I like it.

And it must be fate that the skull on his back has a big VI carved into its forehead.

 

Here have some pics of their backsides aswell (...and to see their quite ancient special weapon)

 

http://imgur.com/gallery/b444xvr

 

Oh, also i got my Feldherr Delivery - so i got two nice storage boxes for my models now (in addition to one of their heavy duty travel boxes)

[Slasher956]

The one on the right looks like he's just killed the wolf on his base!

[RikuEru]

The one on the right looks like he's just killed the wolf on his base!

You did not see an execution, so there was none... or the next one will be yours.

[Progenitor]

Last night I sprayed the Sister Superior I built the night before. Considering I'm going with Ebon Chalice for the paint job and therefore most of the armour is staying black, the model is not 50% complete! 

[SickSix]

Last Night I painted the metals on my last two Gideon tanks and painted the black parts on 4 terminators.

[treadhead]

TITHI Built and painted a plague burst crawler

[BitsHammer]

TITH I got Phil Kelly to answer a question I had on Twitter:

@philkellywords any room in the Primaris lore for a survivor of the Iron Cage?

 

I got the idea looking at the Forge World transfers (since they're the only Imperial Fist markings currently available) but I like to stick to lore plausible stuff with this kind of thing.

Hey, so since Marneus crossed the Rubicon Primaris in the war for Vigilus there have been several incidences of Astartes veterans undergoing the (risky and possibly lethal) procedures to become Primaris for various reasons - so it’s possible, yes

So yeah, I now have a flimsy excuse to have a Primaris Captain who fought with Dorn during the Heresy, saw the Emperor in person and is crusading with the fury of a Black Templar to find his lost Primarch.

 

In less exciting news I feel like I'm stalling out on Guilliman. Maybe it's work (I do average 40+ hours of retail each week), maybe it's something regarding the execution that isn't lining up but I can't put my finger on. I have a long way to go to become a top level painter so the list of things I don't know is actually rather lengthy.

 

So yeah, Guilliman may not make Everchosen at this rate, so I may step back and drop the NMM and go with True Metallic Metals. I have a better handle on that after all.

[Gederas]

TITH I got Phil Kelly to answer a question I had on Twitter:

@philkellywords any room in the Primaris lore for a survivor of the Iron Cage?

 

I got the idea looking at the Forge World transfers (since they're the only Imperial Fist markings currently available) but I like to stick to lore plausible stuff with this kind of thing.

Hey, so since Marneus crossed the Rubicon Primaris in the war for Vigilus there have been several incidences of Astartes veterans undergoing the (risky and possibly lethal) procedures to become Primaris for various reasons - so it’s possible, yes

So yeah, I now have a flimsy excuse to have a Primaris Captain who fought with Dorn during the Heresy, saw the Emperor in person and is crusading with the fury of a Black Templar to find his lost Primarch.

Ooooh, that is interesting. Veeeeeeeery interesting.....

[Zephaniah Adriyen]

So you CAN have Primaris models who crossed it. So I CAN have a Primaris Chapter Master. I was unsure if it was just Calgar or anyone could do it.

[RikuEru]

So you CAN have Primaris models who crossed it. So I CAN have a Primaris Chapter Master. I was unsure if it was just Calgar or anyone could do it.

There are a few more examples by now - I'll put them in spoilers just to be safe:

1. There is a Short story in which, at its end, it is revealed that the whole story is a vision/dream Uriel ventris has/experiences while lying in coma after his Rubicon Primaris Operation.

 

2. To make this a tiny bit less of a spoiler:

One of the main Characters in the Emperor's Spears Novel undergoes the Rubicon Primaris procedure during the novel. In full detail. Absolutely noteworthy and awesome stuff.

 

3. The already previewed new Model of a Primaris Iron Hands Forgefather seems to be "Ferox" (spelling?)

[BitsHammer]

Yeah,there is definitely a push in the lore to muddy the waters between the old and the new. Thanks to Captain Felix in Guilliman's first 40k novel we all know some of the Primaris hace memories of the old Imperium being taken in by Cawl at the end of the Heresy.

 

Basically, I was thinking that some of the Primaris could be both: Marines that Cawl had used to work on the transition from a "normal" Astartes to Primaris but still had memories of the old Imperium kicking about too. Using that as a premise gave me a jumping off point involving the Iron Cage since it was lilely a good way for Cawl to gain new test subjects who were presumed dead or lost.

Edited July 18, 2019 by Fulkes

[thewarriorhunter]

TITH I think I nailed down the color scheme for the frames of my Adeptus Titanicus legio. Going with the legs on the right for black. They'll still get the brass treatment.

 

Edited July 19, 2019 by thewarriorhunter