++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[El-Diablo]

Thats a superb start to the Blade, the lightning has just the right amount of pop.

[Midnightmare]

Bloody 'ell! Awesomesauce already!

[sockwithaticket]

I love the lightning so much. The Hellblade chassis has really given you a wonderful canvas to work on.

I'd like to see the Scorpion in NL colours (googled the one you mentioned and I think it looks pretty good), but, like you, I've always thought of the NL more as renegades and traitors than heretics who've fully thrown their lot in with the ruinous powers and demon stuff.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Did more of the metalwork. Drybrushed the gold with leadbelcher and washed the other metal parts with AP Dark Tone. Also, test-fitted and glued the cockpit windows to the cockpit armature. It's currently drenched in Tamiya Clear Red and drying...

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-04-07%2023.27.55_zpspmk96gaf.jpg

 

Cheers! Hope you like. :)

 

Replies:

 

@Midian: CHeers man, They came out well :)

 

@Midnight Runner: Haha thanks MR!

 

@sockwithaticket: It is! The hell blade has some nice surfaces to work with. I ordered me another one too. (For 115 points and 6 TL S7 rending shots, rerolling 1 to pen, these babies are the perfect flyer killers ) 

[Atia]

Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesooooooooooooooooooome work on that Hellblade Auggi   

Edited April 7, 2015 by Atia

[thamier]

that is possibly the best painted Lightning i seen, great job

[Augustus b'Raass]

I just finished my first helblade. Awesome model, but kind of a paint to assemble. Especially the cockpit canopy is so flimsy I couldn't get it in the right shape, because every time I used hot water for one side, the other side would warp too.... Oh well 

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Showcase%20Night%20Lords/2015-04-172012.05.13_zpsx5kvhawf.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Showcase%20Night%20Lords/2015-04-172012.05.05_zpsjs8vrwld.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Showcase%20Night%20Lords/2015-04-172012.04.36_zpstgdzpwt0.jpg

 

Hope you like!!

 

Replies!

 

@Atia: Thanks girl! There's one more to go, but that'll be for the ETL!

 

@thamier: Cheers! Yeah with some airbrushed opaque light blue behind the almost white background,t hat is indeed the best combo for lightning. :)

[Kizzdougs]

Beautiful, dude! Great paint job and the base is amazing :tu:

[Psykic_scribe]

Another fantastic model and paintwork, excellent base too.

 

Did you get tempted to bring the mounting out of the side of the pillar, so that there is less rod?  Although probably best avoided as it might twist too easily with the weight of the model.

[Atia]

yep, that hellblade is damn awesome Auggi =) 

[ShVagYeR]

The Hell Blade looks like a nasty predator... just the way it should. :) Awesome work! I like the base too. Congrats on the finished challenge, Augustus. :)

[Augustus b'Raass]

With the Arena event over and the ETL around the corner, I treated myself with another Khorne Berzerker. I used a knife from the wrathmongers kit, and some FW WE HH and 40k stuff. A pretty dynamic pose, which I love!

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/Khorne%20Berzerker%2012_zpssq8kklww.jpg

 

Hope you like!

 

Replies:

 

@kizzdougs: thanks mate! Another one in the pipeline for the ETL :)

 

@Psykic_scribe: I tried that before with a heldrake and it makes for a less dynamic pose of the model itself, unfortunately. Normally I try to mask the rod within the buidling, but this time I couldn't make that work with the cork base. Goes to show I need to plan ahead!

 

@Atia:CHeers, girl!

 

@ShVagYer: it is! Man, they absolutely destroy other flyers. A good thing they can't hover too, as then they would've been totally OP.

[Atia]

you call that a knife :D?

[Kizzdougs]

Awesome, bro!! I love the movement in the Berzerker :tu:

[sockwithaticket]

Yep, the Hellblade looks magnificent. I can only imagine how much of an issue that much resin can be Movement in the Beserker is great, looks like he's really rushing to ruin someone's day.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thought I should post this here too: this year's ETL vow:

 

 

I, Augustus b'Raass, answer the call of E TENEBRAE LUX IV.

I vow to complete from Codex: Chaos Space Marines, Imperial Armour Apocalypse, and Imperial Armour 13,
the following Night Lords units and those they use to sow terror, 

with of total value of 1555 points on or before August 1st:

 

1 Greater Brass Scorpion of Khorne (700)

2 Predator Annihilators with Extra Armour (2x150=300)

1 Chaos Vindicator with Extra Armour and Combi-Bolter (135)

2 Rapier Quad Heavy Bolter Weapon Batteries (80)

1 Nurgle biker lord with Power Fist, Lightning Claw, and a Sigil of Corruption, Veterans of the Long War (170)

4 Chaos Nurgle Bikers with 2 Meltaguns, 1 Nurgle Aspiring Champion with Lightning Claw Veterans of the Long War (170)

 

Success will bring eternal glory to me 

and to the 

47th Company of the Night Lords VIII Legio Astartes, known as the Night's Reapers. 

We bow to no God. 

We are terror incarnate.

Failure will doom me to bear the Badge of Shame until the year-end.

WIP Pictures of the vowed units:

 

1 Greater Brass Scorpion of Khorne (700)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-05-01%2020.14.31_zpsjrinllaq.jpg

 

2 Predator Annihilators with Extra Armour (2x150=300)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-05-01%2020.11.37_zpszw6jntwi.jpg

 

1 Chaos Vindicator with Extra Armour and Combi-Bolter (135)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-05-01%2020.11.56_zpspm0s7no1.jpg

 

2 Rapier Quad Heavy Bolter Weapon Batteries (80)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-05-01%2020.11.02_zpszxfr09y5.jpg

 

1 Nurgle biker lord with Power Fist, Lightning Claw, and a Sigil of Corruption, Veterans of the Long War (170)

4 Chaos Nurgle Bikers with 2 Meltaguns, 1 Nurgle Aspiring Champion with Lightning Claw Veterans of the Long War (170)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-05-01%2020.26.58_zpsznah34hw.jpg

 

 

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@Atia: Hahaha THIS IS A KNIFE!

 

@kizzdougs: cheers mate! He'll most likely be part of my second ETL vow.

 

@sockwithaticket: Thanks again SWAT. Resin is not such a big deal if you have a large pot of boiling water nearby and when it's dry, the right glue. Superglue is not the right glue for larger (bigger than marine sized) resin models. I use UHU Schnellfest 2-part epoxy glue. Best there is.

 

Yep, the Hellblade looks magnificent. I can only imagine how much of an issue that much resin can be Movement in the Beserker is great, looks like he's really rushing to ruin someone's day.

[MrBear]

That's quite a lot of veichles and bikes to paint! Wouldn't surprise me the least if you have it all done by tuesday next week though! 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Indeed mate! I started work on the Nurgle bikes today.

 

I first switched around all the front wheels of the normal and the chaos bikes, because I don't like the sleekness of the Chaos bike for the Nurgle look, but also don't want to use pure loyalist bikes. Next I added tons of pustules, some tentacles and lastly the Meltaguns for the two tank busters. Six done so far. I do admit that I've bought another three bikes from the DV box, as for the Nurgle Biker Lord I want to use the sergeant with the robes. So probably one of these current bikes will be used in my second vow...

 

What do you think so far?

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-05-05%2022.21.33_zpsf3ouw89f.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/2015-05-05%2022.22.07_zpscsmtkrq0.jpg

[Brother Heinrich]

Pledging to chaos means you're no VIII Legionnaire 'brother'. ;)

[Augustus b'Raass]

Hahaha the pot and the kettle, Heinrich... ;) 

 

But yes indeed, true astartes of the Night Lords pray to no gods. However, some do get corrupted. remember Kurth Hermond, my biker champion who started visiting Urath Torgalor and Daleth Onn and their plague marine companions over at the Imperial Freighter on which Contemptor-Captain Tol Zhaqael contained them? Well, it turns out Torgalor and Onn are quite convincing in their arguments. Hermond has succumbed to the whispers of Nurgle, and he has taken his entire squad, including Ayded Erlik, with him on the road to damnation. Needless to say, Tol Zhaqael is not amused...    

[Eldrick Shadowblade]

Looking good... can't wait for paint

[Augustus b'Raass]

Allriiiight, I finished the build of the Nurgle biker squad! I sculpted pus and tentacles everywhere, as well as glued sand to represent rust. Also, there's Nurgle biker upper bodies and right shoulder pads, as well as Night Llords MkIII left pauldrons.

 

Bikers with meltagun. Notice the fused right leg. 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/Plague%20Bikers%201_zpstqheoico.jpg

 

Bikers with icon bearer and meltagun. 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/Plague%20Bikers%202_zpsoqhkezjc.jpg

 

Biker champion. Notice the right tentacle leg  :)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/Plague%20Biker%20Champion_zps3ihxczvo.jpg

 

I also started painting the first Annihilator in my vow. 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Night%20Lords%20WIP/Predator%20Annihilator%201_zpswv0lloqk.jpg

 

Hope you like!!

[Atia]

these Bikers are pretty awesome Auggi, great so see some classic Death Guard helmets! oh, and i LOVE the champion, his tentacle-leg is so adorable =)

[MrBear]

Looking mighty promising mate, mighty promising indeed. Got to love that icon for the bikers.

[Augustus b'Raass]

@Atia: haha thanks! Although I do kinda take offence at this blatant deflation of the meaning of the word adorable. ;)

@MrBear: Cheers! Yup! Maybe this is 17th Claw... although the champion's head suggests it is 14th Claw... :tu: