Dr. Ruminahui's mostly Slaaneshi stuff

[Dr_Ruminahui]

So, I was finishing up the bases on my big knights, then Call to Arms happened and postponed that.  Now that call to arms is over, I had the chance to return and get that done. 

 

While I was at it, I thought up some names to give my big knights.

 

So, first I did a dead body for the base of my abominant:

 

 

Then I did the same for the base of my rampager - not sold on my positioning of the bits, and seperating the bolter from the arm might have been a mistake.

 

 

Then the lot got names.  This is the first time I've done fancier letters for capitals and I think for the most part they turned out nicely.  For each, I tried to centre the wording on the focus of the model... with mixed results.

 

First up, my Tyrant "Lessons in Woe" - which I figured fit in with him being potentially nurgle marked (the "Woe" bit) and my more general theme of judgment and seeking perfection (the "Lessons" part). 

 

 

Next was my Abominant "Sublime Dictate", who is potentially Tzeench marked - the "Sublime" fits with Tzeench (sublimation being the transformation from solid directly into a gas) and "Dictate" being judgmenty.

 

 

Then, there is my potentially Khornate "The Hunger" - which doesn't really fit any theme other than the Khorne one, but fits the model well.

 

 

Finally, is my Slaaneshi themed "Dulce et Decorum Est" (latin for "It is sweet and proper"), which ticks a number of boxes in that it is a) latin b) austentatious sounding (very Slaanesh) c) from a poem with the phrase "ecstacy of fumbling" which is what made me think of the name in the first place and d) highly ironic, as the poem is about how ugly it is to die from being gassed (which also seems very 40K and Slaaneshi).

 

 

Finally, the whole gang together:

 

 

Someday, I will give the little knights emblems on their shoulders, but I haven't thought of what yet.

 

Oh, and the little ones are still unnamed, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Nice work - the group shot looks great  

 

The name tags look fine.  Unfortunately, I can't think of anything that would help with the unnamed ones  

Edited October 15, 2023 by Firedrake Cordova

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Been a while since I've gotten anything done, but Call to Arms always helps in that regard.

 

Does anyone need anything that needs defiling?  Because I have just the unit to do that, now.  For those who want to go and find out how I built this monstrosity, I set that out here.

 

First, here are all the painted magnetised options - 2 hatches, 2 weapon options for the armed hatch (combi bolter and combi weapon),, 2x lascannon, 2 heavy bolter, reaper autocannon, 2x eye plates and the flail.

 

 

Then some pictures of the various options grouped together into "variants"

 

Flail variant:

 

Havoc variant - I suspect this is mostly what I will field, with havoc launcher, lascannons and combi-bolter:

 

Heavy flamer variant:

 

And some just other assorted pictures:

 

Flail from the side:

 

Havoc from the side

 

The back

 

The other side

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Nice work - it looks great, and very unique!

 

Making it modular for the various weapons options is a nice touch, too.  

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks!  It was a fun build, even when it felt like it would never end.  As for the modularity, that was really the smallest bit of the project and if I was going to put that much work into it I might as well try to future-proof myself for future editions, even if I'm pretty sure in this one I'll pretty much always be fielding it one way (havoc launcher, las cannons and combi-bolter).

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

A very impressive collection of Chaos Knights. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks, @The Praetorian of Inwit, I'm really happy how they turned out - kitbashing the imperial and chaos kits was a lot of fun.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Okay, I've finished (mostly) my traitor guardsmen project that are intended to accompany my defiler - basically, 3 squads of traitor guardsmen plus a couple of characters.  First, the guardsmen - these guys are kitbashes of the krieg killteam, the blooded killteam with the 7 Blackstone Fortress traitor guard and 3 former cadian models: to make up the numbers

 

Pink squad:

 

Pinker squad:

 

Pinkest squad:

 

 

Then the characters - the enforcer:

 

His ogrynn buddy:

 

And the rogue psycher:

 

And here they are all together with my defiler to form my entire Lost and the Damned "combat patrol" .  Its 525 points, though the rogue psycher's legends rules doesn't allow him to attach to traitor guard (only cultists of their various types) meaning it would need to be house ruled to let it work.

 

Ands finally, here's a picture of them next to one of my chaos marine units (my maulerfiend) showing they should fit in fine even with the different paint scheme:

Edited October 23, 2024 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Painted up my second maulerfiend - sorry for the glare.  This one was converted to have a more dynamic pose to differentiate it from less reposed first model.  You can see how I went about doing that here.

 

 

Here it is with the little melta arms instead of the tentacles - as one might guess, they are magnetized.

 

And both my maulers together.

 

 

And all of my demon engines together - I have rather more of them than I would have thought, given that I've never gone out of my way to collect a demon engine force but just picked up the models as I wanted to paint them or when they came bundled with other models I wanted (that's how I got my second mauler and crawler).

 

[Mithrilforge]

Love it all 

 

 

 

cheers ,Mithril

[Dr_Ruminahui]

So, my last big painting project to finish out the year was to paint up the terrain I got in the 2018 Kill team box set - I had started it last year, but got stuck when my magnetization wasn't going well (I wasn't able to seat the magnets evenly).  So, after deciding I could leave my magnetization issues to another day, I proceeded with painting the bulk of it this fall - I had put the base colours on it last year, as well as finishing the two corner pieces as test models, but pretty much everything else has been in the last 3 months.\

 

Here's the front - sorry the picture is a bit washed out and blurry, but it was the best that I was able to get - its - 20 C outside today, so I didn't much feel like trying to take photos outside.

 

 

It was a real challenge coming up with the colour for the "bolt on" mechanical bits - I tried them in leadbelcher, dark gray, dark brown, medium brown (though maybe not in that order - it was more than a year ago) and finally in the Uthuan Grey you see above.  That said, the process was worth it - I really like the contrast of the gray on the tan and how it kind of gives the gray a blue tinge, while not standing out from the overall model.

 

And here's all the pieces from the back:

 

 

And some close ups of the back showing the details - my camera has trouble with colour saturation, so all the terrain is actually closer in colour to the next one IRL as opposed to how unsaturated they are in the photos:

 

 

 

Finally, I thought I should share a picture of all the models I painted in 2024.  It was a slow start to the year, painting wise - prior to June, I had painted a grand total of one chaos marine.  That said, things picked up with Call to Arms, where I painted the defiler, 3 characters and 18 traitor guardsmen, to follow up with 12 more traitor guard, a maulerfiend and the killteam terrain to finish off the year.  Anyway, here it all is together - again, I appologise for the kind of crappy picture.

 

 

Anyway, a happy new year to all of B&C and may be 2025 be a good year!

Edited January 1 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Firedrake Cordova]

The terrain looks great (and it's a great kit, too)

[Tallarn Commander]

Plenty of fine models! Huzzah!

[Helias_Tancred]

Great looking collection! Are you going to be picking up the new Emperor's Children line when it comes out?

 

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks, @Firedrake Cordova, @Tallarn Commander and @Helias_Tancred.  I agree Firedrake, that particular line of terrain is fantastic - I snapped up the basilica, which were the only pieces I didn't already have, when it went up on made to order.

 

Helias, I probably will - depends on how I feel about it and the new codex.  I expect to lose access to alot of my currently painted stuff (like my demon engines and obliterators) if I want to field an EC force, so even if I think the new stuff is worth the switchover, I'll probably be playing CSM instead for a while until I get get enough points of pure EC done.  That said, even if I don't think the switchover is worth it, I'll probably pick up the stuff I like best just to paint and/or use as allies.  BTW, as a continuation of our discussion in your terrain thread, my terrain above is done with washes (green over the copper, then dark brown over the whole thing).

Edited Saturday at 02:39 AM by Dr_Ruminahui

[Helias_Tancred]

That is a good technique! The results are great!