"Knives In The Shadows" Sign-up Thread

[Dr. Clock]

Close enough to taste it now... Just final gem dots, possibly some washes, and basing on the back half of Scorpions. Projecting final submissions next week. Taken slightly longer than expected, but within tolerance. Enjoyed these 5 a bit more than first 5 with a slightly tightened process (drybrush under the contrast for black is alot faster and seems just as effective; also skipped a step that was made redundant after decision to do green gems instead of my standard blue pearl.

 

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

[Alby the Slayer]

Vow completed!

 

 

A little story of this killteam and more photos in my thread:

 

Thank you everyone for this great challenge.

Edited May 7 by Alby the Slayer

[Lysimachus]

 

Calling my vow complete!

 

Considering the priming issues, which I think did obscure a little bit of the sharpness of the details, I'm very happy with how they've come out, especially the oil wash!

 

Fluff added to my other thread.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Finished the last 6 of my Slaaneshi Battle Goats - will post a group photo here when I think up some background/fluff to go with them.

 

[Chaplain Raeven]

Still working on my lads! It took me a while to wrestle through all the trim and freehand shoulderpads. I should have waited on the actual transfers with the previous squad, it would be out of place if I used them now.

Just need to do the oilwash and some tidying up. Should be done within 2 weeks  

[Bob Fossil]

I finally got my hands on those Mandrakes! I'm going to try the slapchop method on them.

 

 

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I'm also kitbashing a Hand of the Archon. 6 more to build, paint and base... Those I'm afraid I won't be able to finish in time...

 

 

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[grailkeeper]

Vow complete.

 

I wasnt happy with these guys but if I didnt finish them I'd have them half painted in my office as a memory of failure for ages. 

 

Edited May 18 by grailkeeper

[gaurdian31]

Finished up my Kill Team:

 

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More pictures of the team are in my thread:

 

Thanks so much for running this event again @Lysimachus ! 

[grailkeeper]

1 hour ago, gaurdian31 said:

Finished up my Kill Team:

 

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More pictures of the team are in my thread:

 

Thanks so much for running this event again @Lysimachus ! 

 

 

Looking good!

[Tallarn Commander]

Wow! Ya'all have painted up some wonderful Kill Teams. Keep up the great work!

 

 

I have finally finished my Kill Team of 15 Traitor Guard troopers.

 

 

88th Blood Pact

 

 

Here are some links to my page where you can view more photos and read the fluff for each of my 15 troopers:

 

Blood Bitch, Zenn, Nochfel, and Ram

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/321042-tallarn-commanders-chaos-traitor-guard-kill-team-completed/page/20/#findComment-6101237

 

 

Creed, Dekker, Jackal, Mishka, Grim, and Bonesaw (you will have to scroll way to the bottom past the battle photos)

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/321042-tallarn-commanders-chaos-traitor-guard-kill-team-completed/page/20/#findComment-6103204

 

 

Commissar Zhukov, The Dust Witch, Rusalka, Morr, and Vor

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/321042-tallarn-commanders-chaos-traitor-guard-kill-team-completed/page/21/#findComment-6111438

 

 

 

Enjoy!

 

88th Blood Pact, "Sworn to serve Gaur"

[grailkeeper]

I always liked when people could get little awards for their signatures for completing things like this. I never had one. They've gone the way of the dodo haven't they? Or is there one for this?

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Best ask the organizer @Lysimachus about that.

 

That said, there are a couple of other ways of getting those little award badges.  First is participating in @Grotsmasha's 12 Month's of Hobby which is perpetually running, another is joining this year's Call to Arms which is from June 15 to September 15.

Edited May 22 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Lysimachus]

10 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

I always liked when people could get little awards for their signatures for completing things like this. I never had one. They've gone the way of the dodo haven't they? Or is there one for this?

 

Definitely in the plan, though I haven't actually created the badges yet (I need to check the allowed pixel sizes)

 

I'm thinking there will be 4 badges; one to say a Frater has taken part, and a gold, silver and bronze for the top 3 teams that are voted for in the community poll that I'll set up after the competition finishes.

 

[Lysimachus]

Hello all!

 

This is just a quick reminder that this Challenge will end in a few days on Saturday the 31st May*, so if you have completed entries make sure you get your pics in by that date!

 

*I will probably officially shut it down at some point on Sunday morning UK time, just to allow for temporal warp shenanigans variances between time zones.

 

 

[grailkeeper]

Thank you for running this. Got me to finish my first squad in years.

[gaurdian31]

Agreed, thanks for running this again @Lysimachus! I had a great time as stated earlier and all of the Kill Teams have been great! Great work everyone!

[Mandragola]

Vow complete! That was a lot of sandwiches, sausages and she’ll cases to paint. Wow. 
 

 

I’ll take some proper photos at some point and add them to the plog post. 

Edited Wednesday at 10:26 AM by Mandragola

[firestorm40k]

Thanks for the reminder @Lysimachus - I've actually finished my Kill Team, I just need to get some decent pics 

[firestorm40k]

...and here they are 

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The head of the Cryptek's staff was a bit of an experiment, using inks instead of glazes of paint; it ended up going on quite thick (not sure that's visible from these pics), so I don't think I'll take that approach when I paint the rest of my Necrons. 

 

For completeness, here's some background text for my Dynasty, which these belong to - the Celestial Hegemon of High Phaeron Nepharekh:

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“Before the Transference, the Dynasty of Phaeron Nepharekh was in decline – the last of her bloodline, her forebears and heirs dying one-by-one; either to the cancers that ravaged our race, or assassinated by rivals who sought to take the few assets the Dynasty still controlled. And so, it might

have transpired that this lesser Dynasty would have come to its end, passing into unremembered

history as so many others had.

 

But when the Transference took place, Nepharekh had a key asset that would be the foundation for her future power – her powerful void fleet. Although the worlds and other assets once held by her

Dynasty had fallen to others through war, debt or decline, Nepharekh used her fleet to gain favour, and crucially, the allegiance of other, smaller Dynasties. She used her fleet to exert authority, control or ownership of specific routes across the void, and her genius was to enact a system whereby thosel esser Dynasties that had reliance on those transit ways, or her fleet, would eventually need to declare fealty to her.

 

And so the Celestial Hegemon came to be; individually, Nepharekh and the other Dynasties that had declared allegiance to it might have easily been singled out and defeated by the ambitions or aggression of the other, larger Dynasties; but together, they posed a formidable collective.

 

Once a lesser Dynasty had declared itself to the Celestial Hegemon, Nepharekh enforced their loyalty with an iron grip. Any who dared to go against their vows of allegiance to the Hegemon were punished and made an example of. So she was able to maintain her authority, and the Hegemon’s unity and

dominance in the parts of the galaxy it laid claim to.

 

Despite this, Nepharekh still had to endure the political rivalries and machinations of other Dynasties; an accusation frequently levelled at her was that she secretly intended to amass an empire that would

challenge the authority of the Silent King himself – something she denied, repeatedly declaring her fealty to the great Szarekh. She would support this in action, on a number of occasions sending vassals of her Celestial Hegemon to fight alongside the Silent King’s own armies, at his orders. Yet still, suspicions of ulterior motives coloured the gossip of Nepharekh’s rivals.

 

Though our race is eternal, it has not always proven to be immune to the slow, entropic properties of time; and so it was for the Celestial Hegemon. When the decision was made for the majority of our race to enter the stasis of the Long Sleep, Nepharekh’s own hosts had begun to fall to a strange

ailment: not the madness of the Destroyer curse, but a more concerning deterioration – her legions of Warriors were starting to lose their engrammatic memories. Slowly, the Hegemon’s Crypteks were

finding that their vassals were failing to respond to commands, simply standing or wandering

aimlessly.

 

Nepharekh tasked her Crypteks with finding the cause, and a solution, to this problem. And more immediately, she needed to slow this ailment, before it claimed too many of her Warriors – in desperation, she had the majority of her military forces placed into a pocket dimension, where they would remain as though frozen in time.

 

But there was a tumult, as a number of civil wars spread throughout our race – some seeking to split from the overall authority of the Silent King, others seeking to forge their own empires. Although she

retained the loyalty of the allied Dynasties of the Celestial Hegemon, Nepharekh’s influence began to wane as each went into stasis. As a result of both war and a declining number of her vassal Dynasties to call upon, the key mechanisms to access the pocket dimension where her Warriors had been sequestered became lost to her.

 

While her Crypteks still laboured on a cure for the mysterious ailment causing the engrammatic failures, Nepharekh herself almost faded into memory – searching the galaxy for the artefacts that would re-open the way she had hidden. Since then, sightings of Nepharekh amongst our race

have been rare. She may still be afoot in the galaxy, continuing her search. Or maybe she has fallen, as so many once mighty nobles of our race have, in the millennia since our Great Sleep began…”

 

- From ‘Untold Histories of Our Galactic Empires’, by Thumoteph the Undiminished

Apologies for ripping this wholesale from the fluff for the narrative campaign I recently ran 

 

Thanks @Lysimachus for running this event - it's been great to take part and get some minis painted! 

[Mandragola]

 

Some brief background for my Ratlings:

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The unit known as auxiliary section 946 does not exist on official lists of assets serving on Volkus. It is made up of a group of Ratling farmers and their Ogryn labourers whose transport, intended to take them to the newly-established agri-world of Herator VI, was mis-directed to the warzone at Volkus due to sub-optimal administrative practice.

 

No official record exists of them being issued with weaponry. However, following a shaky start, they are now trusted to carry out dangerous reconnaissance and sabotage missions. It plays a small but useful part in Volkus' defence. The section's unofficial status allows it considerable freedom of action, as it is not officially part of the chain of command. The quality of catering is reported to have improved, correlating with an improvement in the morale of regiments in the area.

 

The administrators of Herator VI were surprised when a fully-equipped regiment of Death Korps of Krieg landed on their world. They report a 4% increase in agricultural output, thanks to the much more efficient earth-moving techniques introduced by their new workers.

 

[Grotsmasha]

I have run out of time to put the finer details onto the Sternguard Team, but they are more than completed enough to game with,

 

 

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