Red Corsairs Master of the Maelstrom - Yaga Pattern Maulerfiend

[TrawlingCleaner]

 

A bit of colour and washes down and the big guy is starting to take shape, still a whole bunch to do but getting some paint on does tie it all together nicely

[gaurdian31]

Looking good!

[TrawlingCleaner]

With a mild side-quest with building and painting the new Darkoath (They're absolutely gorgeous models), I've gotten back to painting the 'fiend. I'm most of the way there but I think it needs some more work:

 

I think I need to do something with the front carapcae/shell bit just above the balck band? The red isn't quite perfect and it's showing.  I think I'm having trouble with it based on the previous one I did  which has way more red on it:

 

 

 

 

The leaks have really got my juices flowing for army list ideas and where I'd like to go next. The Raider's detatchment is really cool and literally the way I like to play the army, swarm forward on loads of bikes+transports and smash!

The Lord Discordant really looks tasty in the Raiders detatchment, as it's a Mounted keyword model rather than Daemon Vehicle, it synergises really well with their strats. The Dread Reaver relic seems ideal for the Disco, Reroll hits+Wounds when within 12" of the enemy deployment zone is a huge area of the board and really helps make him swing hard, he's definitely a midlevel unit bully rather than the vehicle killing monster of yester-year, a very similar role to the Venomcrawler I think! He can mitigate enemy hit back too from vehicles by potentially turning off a vehicle's shooting which is ace and also buffs friendly units shooting. Definitely the next model to paint!

The downside of the new detatchment is that it largely makes the Lord on Bike a bit superfluous (a Legends unit I know) with one of his abilites giving the entire unit Assault but I suppose the great thing is that half the Raider's strats are Battle Tactics which is tasty!

The Detatchment really helps Defilers too by giving them -1AP when targetting enemy units on objectives which the Battlecannon loves and gives them Assault. With the 8" move, advancing and still shooting really helps get it up the board which is something I've struggled with it for a while

[gaurdian31]

I think it is coming along great, maybe another pass of the base red you are using on that front carapace to smooth it out a little?

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Mr. gorilla arm is coming along really nicely - personally, I don't see the problem with the red that you describe, it looks fine to me.  I guess if you want to make it match the other places where black meets red on the model, you could do a line of red highlighting just above the back plate, and maybe buff up the highlighting on that ridge on the model's right side between the hatch and the black collar, as it does seem to kind of peter out there.

 

I agree with your takes on the new Raider's detachment - it looks really good and I'm inclined to use it for my own force though if I do that I'll probably want to paint up my second rhino and a legionaires or chosen squad to go in it.

[TrawlingCleaner]

I strengthend up the red a touch and also added a highlight next to the black as the good Dr recommended and I'm much much happier with him now. Great suggestions both!

 

 

Yaga bros:

 

The Beefybois of the army

 

Lord Discordant up next! He's a heavy old model being totally metal

[TrawlingCleaner]

Whilst I'm waiting on a shipment of sprays for my Darkoath project, I thought I'd plow on with units I want to try with the new codex, namely the lord discordant!

Still loads of work to do:

[gaurdian31]

The mauler came out great and I am excited to see the disco lord get painted up! What color are you thinking for the fur? Grey or tan or something more chaotic like bright blue?