TrawlingCleaner Posted April 2 Author Share Posted April 2 (edited) "Empire's End terminator squad. Named after their decades of burning the Ultrmar system in the wake of the Eye of Terror opening. Crushing the enemy's morale in devasting strikes before decapitation strikes" Currently unnamed Chaos Lord: Empire's End Terminator squad: Mad Max esque Vindicator, not sure on it's name yet A bit of a busy Easter weekend painting wise Edited April 2 by TrawlingCleaner gaurdian31, Dr_Ruminahui, Gamiel and 9 others 6 6 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abaumann Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Both the weapons and the bone color make these models really pop! Nice work on the subtle highlights too TrawlingCleaner 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurdian31 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Terminators look great and love the name of the squad! Also love the guy in the vindicator, has "Bring me closer so I can hit them with my sword!" vibes in a good way. TrawlingCleaner 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 Thank you both! The Vindicator was an aim at a mild Madmax kind of vibe, like a suped up vehicle with a deranged person on top yelling about hitting someone with a sword and divine judgement. You know, the usual Chaos stuff I've been working on a biker lord on and off for a good while now and it's gone through several iterations, in fact many moons ago it had started to be painted and the rider has completely changed, so far I have: My idea is that the bike is sliding on it's side and he's stepping up to challenge someone, if I go this route I'll have cork on the base that I'll scratch up to make it look like the spikes are digging in. Or I'll make it so that the bike is upright which will need a good amount of GS work to make the feet line up with where they need to be. We'll see how I go! Tallarn Commander, ShotgunFacelift, gaurdian31 and 3 others 4 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurdian31 Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Love this, looks like he went to the Doom Rider school for bike riding! LSM and TrawlingCleaner 1 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 19 hours ago, gaurdian31 said: Love this, looks like he went to the Doom Rider school for bike riding! Live Fast, Die after a few Centries of War. That famous Doom Rider saying I tried making the bike upright but couldn't get it to look how I wanted it to so I decided to plow on with the handbrake turn look. I think with the basing it makes way more sense now too: First layers of paint going down: gaurdian31, LSM, danodan123 and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 12 Author Share Posted April 12 Washes down: New Formula Nuln Oil is interesting, I'm finding it more of a grey wash than a black wash so it doesn't pop as much in the reccesses of the red but it does let the metallics shine still. I also played another crusade game vs Eldar and got smashed again! Sorcerer Nalek and his squad did work with Nalek surviving as my last model and beelining for the enemy objective before taking a Shining Spear in the side and disappearing in a pillar of fire. These smaller point games (500) has been rough so far! My poor Venomcrawler always dies first turn With my 0-0-4 record, I'm obvioulsy taking my role as the Campaign Heel very seriously but the luck will swing my way at some point and I'll get some wins for team Raider danodan123, Tallarn Commander, madlibrarian and 1 other 1 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurdian31 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Yeah, 500 can be rough depending on what you are up against. As long as you're having fun though that is all that matters. Also biker lord is coming along nicely, I like the "Akira" slide now that the base is showing it off. madlibrarian 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 We're getting there! The weapons are popping now, it's just everything else that needs doing Kaiju Soze, LSM, Xin Ceithan and 6 others 5 4 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurdian31 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 The lord is coming together rather nicely! TrawlingCleaner 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 A busy couple of weeks for me as I got married on Monday! I did complete the Biker Lord (obvioulsy very important to do ) last week but didn't have the time to post about it "Varn the Bloodrider, one of three Marshalls of the Hounds of Huron. Varn is an expert duelist, taking trophies from each of the targets Huron gives to him. A Shield from an Ultramarine, armour from a Blood Angels, Klaw of a Warboss, the bones of saints and skin of a witch. Even his title is the trophy from his previous dark master" Varn is done! I think with the extra sand build up around the back tyre the Akira-slide effect I was going for worked out great. I'm not too sure what's next as I'm currently getting through my Slaves to Darkness backlog with the imminent arrival of AoS 4th edtion. The Chaos Codex is right around the corner too! I've got the Helldrake with a red basecoat down that I'd like to get done to tick it off as well as the old metal dread and some more basic marines too Brother Captain Vakarian, LSM, danodan123 and 4 others 3 4 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurdian31 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Congrats on the marriage! Varn came out really well! Love how serious he looks and the little trophy details came out great! Great job! LSM, Dr_Ruminahui and TrawlingCleaner 2 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 Thank you gaurdian! I figured with the Hounds being Huron's version of the Master of the Hunt from the White Scars, it would make sense to have one of the leaders covered in trophies from all those marks that he's been ordered to kill. It also helps explain why I didn't scrape the Blood Angels details off his leg Yesterday's points changes make me very happy indeed as they've dropped points for the core of every list I make; Marines, Bikes, Raptors and Venomcrawlers. My usual 1500pt list and crusade list has just gained another 80 points all of sudden which was impressive. I definitely won't complain! They've also dropped points on Maulerfiends too which has given me some more ideas on how I could convert one up as well as Possessed and even Havocs! The juices are flowing gaurdian31 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiju Soze Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 80 points spare? Moar bikers? Great work on the Lord, and congrats on the wedding. gaurdian31 and TrawlingCleaner 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 26 Author Share Posted April 26 38 minutes ago, Kaiju Soze said: 80 points spare? Moar bikers? Great work on the Lord, and congrats on the wedding. Thanks Kaiju! More Bikes, More Good. Honestly 75 points is a steal for them! gaurdian31 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volgon Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Have been quietly following (and seeing you post on Reddit as well), just wanted to say what a great army you have! I didn't notice before but I love the little streaks of grey in Varn's hair. Probably hard to notice at arm's length but very cool little detail to include. TrawlingCleaner and gaurdian31 1 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 Thanks Volgon! I was trying to figure out who you were from your Reddit comment! I think it's the little details that give models character like streaks of colour in their hair, not a perfect skin tone, scars, odd bits of equipment or old chapter's iconography etc gives them a bit more story and imperfect-ness? Whilst they're super soldiers and gene-enhanced they're still human, kinda. Seems a bit of a silly detail for small dollies of future spacemen After saying I wasn't sure what to paint next I decided to self-flagellate have fun and paint the Heldrake that's been sat on my desk for nearly 2 years: It was an eBay rescue as you can see from the missing leg parts, wings and the covered up hole in the belly but I think it's scrubbed up pretty well. I had a though that the Heldrake could be a Smaug type vibe. Gold hoarding dragon with a hole in it's underside, fated to be killed by a lucky shot from a mortal All the Engines so far: Re-looking at the Heldrake datasheet now that I've painted it up, I'm considering taking one to try some things out? It's stats aren't awful as my local meta tends to have a good amount of flying and a lot of C'Tan too. I actuallly think it might be a pretty good Anti-C'tan piece to finish it off if it's reasonably dented? It gets +1 to hit vs Fly and anti-fly 2+ with Devastating wounds. You could Tank shock before hand do some mortal wounds and then hopefully finish it with the claws? Something to test! I've got another Venomcrawler I've got some paint on whilst bits of the Heldrake were drying and also have the Lord Discordant conversion I've gotten a couple of layers of paint on too. With the new points and looming codex I'm looking at trying to pick a couple of armiger/wardogs up second hand I can canablise to make a couple of Maulerfiends. I had an idea to kitbash Lucius the Eternal from the Sons of Horus Tybalt Marr model and a Fabius Bile out of something else, however, EC are moving out of the Codex and into their own Index so I think I'll hold fire for now Gamiel, gaurdian31, LSM and 3 others 2 4 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurdian31 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 That is a dang great looking Heldrake! Great use of the terrain to act as the flying stand. It looks like it is pouncing on some unlucky prey off screen as it were. TrawlingCleaner 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Nathan Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Gotta say love it all! Great work on the heldrake! Am so inspired that ive lifted some bikers outta my bloodangels box that will be joining the IV. gaurdian31 and TrawlingCleaner 1 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 15 hours ago, gaurdian31 said: That is a dang great looking Heldrake! Great use of the terrain to act as the flying stand. It looks like it is pouncing on some unlucky prey off screen as it were. Thanks gaurdian! I think it was a bit of double whammy as the actual flight stand wouldn't fit back in the hole they'd left in it's underside so the terrain looks better and it doesn't actually fall over 14 hours ago, Brother Nathan said: Gotta say love it all! Great work on the heldrake! Am so inspired that ive lifted some bikers outta my bloodangels box that will be joining the IV. Thanks Nathan! More bikes is more good honestly. I'm glad to see more people pick them up now, I think they're really cheap for the stats they bring and utility too gaurdian31 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Ruminahui Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 (edited) I may have to break mine out after shelving them in 8th, where I fielded them a lot at the beginning but they were just too vulnerable to necron destroyers for their points, which was (and still is) one of my most commonly faced units. Now, at 3 wounds, they are in a much better place of needing 2 wounding shots to kill them Edited April 30 by Dr_Ruminahui gaurdian31 and TrawlingCleaner 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted May 2 Author Share Posted May 2 I've had really great success with them pushing up the board edges, getting shots into optimal units and then charging. They're really good for clogging up enemy units with T5 and 3W each and are greta to snag objectives with their board edge redeploy I managed to snag a War Dog for pretty cheap so I made another Yaga pattern 'Fiend, this time of the Mauler Variety! I've got some details to tidy and some gaps to fill but I'm very happy with this! Much more happy with it that my original Velociraptor type vibe, which may work for a Venomcrawler! danodan123, gaurdian31, Dr_Ruminahui and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurdian31 Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Looks great! Love the massive defiler claw! Dr_Ruminahui and TrawlingCleaner 1 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Ruminahui Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 (edited) That thing is both awesomely ridiculous and ridiculously awesome! Nicely done - though I do feel it's lasher tendrils need a bit more, as they are a bit weedy... they look more like an arm stand in than a whole extra weapon system. After all, its of similar size and half the number of the tendrils on the forge variant, which really are just there for the aesthetics. I do really like the doubling up of the smoke stacks on one side and the heavy duty cabling on the other - gives it a nice bit of asymmetry that more chaos models should have but largely don't. Edited May 2 by Dr_Ruminahui LSM, gaurdian31 and TrawlingCleaner 2 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted May 3 Author Share Posted May 3 17 hours ago, gaurdian31 said: Looks great! Love the massive defiler claw! 17 hours ago, Dr_Ruminahui said: That thing is both awesomely ridiculous and ridiculously awesome! Nicely done - though I do feel it's lasher tendrils need a bit more, as they are a bit weedy... they look more like an arm stand in than a whole extra weapon system. After all, its of similar size and half the number of the tendrils on the forge variant, which really are just there for the aesthetics. I do really like the doubling up of the smoke stacks on one side and the heavy duty cabling on the other - gives it a nice bit of asymmetry that more chaos models should have but largely don't. Thank you both! I think this pushed the boat out for me quite a bit than my usual way of doing things as I'm usually all about symmetry both consiously and unconsiously! As the good Dr says, the Chaos range is full of symmetry too I tried out another couple of lasher tendrils but I think it looks better as a single really spindly arm, almost pathetically reaching out. I think I've got some Left 4 Dead still deep rooted in my brain somewhere : I got my 5th game of Crusade in last night, this time 750 points against Votann and unsurprisngly got obliterated! My Sorcerer was MVP again clearing his way through Votann warriors, bikes and a character whereas my 6 man bike unit did 1W in 2 rounds of shooting (horrible wound rolls+good armour saves) and 1 enemy Hearthkyn Warrior squad managed 6 unit kills out the 8 I took. To round it all off I got 4 units injured out of a possible 8 so I'll have to spend some RP on them. The Corsairs are taking a beating! Even getting smashed as I did I had an absolutel blast and some units are making a great showing (poor venomcrawler died first turn for the 4 th game in a row) and are making a name for themselves. I keep forgetting the Sorcerer's rules making his unit harder to hit and the Battleshock tests too, I need to remember it! Sorcerer Nalek and his Bombadiers have both killed enough and participated in enough games to now be leveled up which I look forward to doing too madlibrarian, gaurdian31 and Dr_Ruminahui 2 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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