A WIP log to shame myself into activity

[aa.logan]

As the title may suggest I'm one of GW's most treasured customers- I buy too many models, assemble too few of them, paint pitifully fewer and never play a damn game.

With the release of Kill Team, I thought I'd *maybe* start to reverse this trend- Low model count! opportunity for kitbashing! ability to use stuff I already owned!

But it didn't work. The rulebook sat on my bedside gathering dust. Then I thought, sod it, I'll write up a list. Then I built the models. I was on a roll. But it came to a halt.

What if, I thought.

What if I shared them here? People might say nice things. These nice things, combined with the fact I'm publicly saying I might like to paint them could, conceivably (possibly. maybe) convince me to apply some paint. Or maybe knock up another Kill Team, at the very least.
 

MY AS-YET-UNNAMED BLACK LEGION KILL TEAM

I chose the Black Legion because A) they're cool as anything B]they can use a range of parts across all marine ranges C) I have a lot of Sons of Horus bits from an (obviously) as-yet unstarted Reaver army.
D) REASON I CLEAN FORGOT ABOUT: THIS LOVELY IMAGE FROM ON THE WALL ABOVE MY DESK TAKEN FROM THE FIRST CHAOS CODEX:

I think they're going to be from the first Black Crusade or so, hence their relative lack of mutation and Horusian decor. The Rubric Marines parts add what could pass as slight Chaos-warping/Cthonian ornateness.

To build them, So far I've used

• Chaos Marines
• Rubric Marines
• Plastic MK III and IV
• Chaos Raptors
• Tactical Marines
• FW Sons of Horus bits
• Necromunda Goliaths

I've still to build the cultist for the Kill Team, who will likely be based on an AoS Gor, but I'm sorely tempted to keep on knocking more Black Legion Marines out too...

Aspiring Champion.

 

My gunners, with heavy bolter and plasma gun
 

[Deadass]

The Aspiring Champion is looking good, just like your gunners. It's always nice to see another frater don the black!

[aa.logan]

I tried to avoid the obvious with the rest of my Kill-Team, but it was too much fun to build a ridiculous Khornate marine...

 

 

 

I'm quite happy with the combination of bitz on this guy- I think that he has that Darth Vader-esque unhurried deadliness; he doesn't need to run, doesn't need to raise his weapon- you're dead as soon as he sees you, you just don't know it yet... The rubric legs and stupid horns combine to make him pleasingly tall too. which I hadn't indented when I built him.

 

 

As soon as I saw the Goliath models, I thought 'Cthonian ganger', and I definitely didn't buy the Necromunda box just to get the heads, with everything else being a 'bonus' oh no... Can't wait to use the others on more Horusian models.The stupid, smug grin on this one lent itself well to being a grenadier, taking pleasure in the destruction of his explosions.

 

 

 

The last one is pretty standard, but I'm also happy with how he turned out, the mix of kits hopefully looking disjointed but also vaguely coherent- he's survived the Heresy, the scouring and untold time in the Eye after all...

 

[Cyrox]

Following this. I think me and you are very much alike, I'm in the same boat, my pile of shame is horrendous!

 

I think I need to start a WIP for My Kill Teams, and also for my Traitor Guard now that i have Blackstone Fortress

 

Nice looking BL team!

[Urauloth]

That's a fantastic champion, looking forward to seeing him painted up. I really like the idea of an early Black Legion warband, too.

 

my pile of shame is horrendous!

 

Mine is almost my entire collection at this point, so I'll probably be starting a similar thread. ;)

[OakRiver]

 

:D

 

Promising start so far, even if you're a filthy Traitor.

[aa.logan]

Wow, this subforum has a faster churn than the Black Library one...

 

Have I painted? Kind of.

 

I built another couple of probable Black Legionaries.

 

I'm not sure this guy's tabard is a hang-over of his days as a Luna Wolf, he's a convert from Fenris, is just bestial and savage or has just gotten out of the shower.

 

Speaking of the Space Wolves, this chain glaive is one of their two-handed power axes topped with a Burning of Prospero chainsword. Not sure if he really works- the helmet seems a bit off perhaps. Any ideas? He looks better in profile, I think

 

 

Then I got a bit bored and thought about a loyalist kill-team. This Space Wolf is obviously over-the-top and quite probably far too on-the-nose, but I rather enjoyed building him. He was an excuse to use the left over hammer parts from the just-out-of-the-shower marine. really.

 

 

I collected a some of the new blind-boxed Space Marine Heroes, and obvious ended up with two Brother Gaius, but at least he has the nice running legs. The helmet is from thesternguardkit, I think and having mainly dealt with mkIII and mkIV for so long, was a nice reminder to me of how nice ‘traditional’ marines can look. I have visions of out-hipstering the hipsters jumping on the Emperor's Spears by staying in the ‘Veil and building a Celestial Lions kill team, which he could lead. Or maybe he'll just gather dust.

 

 

Anyway, the idea of actually painting Black Legion models was a little daunting, but I decided that I must paint *something* today, so I've started basecoating a bunch of tanks. I'm using Vallejo Sombre Grey, which is looking a touch purple to my colour-blind eyes; hopefully it'll look better once I've added a contrasting tone for a camo pattern. My colour-blindness isn't as bad as all that; I know that most of these photos show the tanks in their brown undercoated state. I'm rather happy with my kitbashed command salamander pictured last. I had a great time building the crew (not yet pictured)

 

 

If I've not broken my airbrush/run out of paint, I'll aim to get another coat of paint on my tanks this afternoon, but first I've a roast dinner to cook...

[aa.logan]

While my chicken roasted I got on with some tanks.Hopefully they look suitably urban-camo-y. I like the paint splatter, honest. My airbrush skills aren't yet up to doing much detail, so I'll finish these by hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the most painting that I've done in some time. Go me!

[noigrim]

You are one of the 90% of players that will never paint a damn thing ;)

[aa.logan]

I think wasn’t a dream! I did do some painting!

 

Photos taken in natural light show my efforts a bit better...

 

 

 

 

half tempted to add some darker patches to further break the camo up today.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on painting the tanks. I like the camouflage pattern.

[aa.logan]

I can’t stop myself, but perhaps I should have done. So the tanks did look well classy with the two-tone camo. So why not mess things up with more colours? 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, I’m quite happy with the darker patches. At least happy enough to tell myself that. I’m hoping to refine my technique before I start on my Baneblades...

 

Next up, I guess I’m going to have to try and find my paintbrushes; I’m far from confident enough with an airbrush to do any kind of detail...

[aa.logan]

I didn’t do anything over the weekend, but I did spend a while today on the tracks/metals and base coating stowage as well as tidying up the hulls. Light went before I finished, so I only took the one photo, but yet again PROGRESS!!!