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Hello all and happy new year!

 

Really looking forward to this, it'll be great to keep track of what I've actually done in a year and I'm really looking forward to seeing what everybody gets up to! I am definitely guilty of being a hobby butterfly so I can't predict what I'll be working on in a few weeks let alone for the entire year, so this thread might be a bit of a tour of the 40k universe more than a coherent army. I'm an incorrigible converter so those are highly likely to be a feature of my entries, which is either creative or a pathological inability to follow instructions depending on your point of view :laugh:

 

To kick things off I'm planning on converting/scratchbuilding a hell blade fighter for my world eaters, based on the wing blade things from the Heldrake and the turret from a stormraven gunship. It's early days yet but I've laid out the bones of the idea on my hobby desk:

 

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Whether or not I paint this in my world eater colours or my traitor guard scheme is an open question at the moment. 

 

Bingo card updated 25th Jan:

 

 

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Edited by Brother Anderson
3 hours ago, Brother Anderson said:

which is either creative or a pathological inability to follow instructions depending on your point of view :laugh:

Isn't that pretty much a pre-requisite of The World Eater's?! :laugh:

 

That looks like a really interesting project, looking forward to seeing it progress!

While waiting for milliput to dry for the hell blade I converted up and primed some Bloodcrushers for my world eaters, I prefer having marines rather than bloodletters riding them because it ties them in to the rest of the army.

 

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3 hours ago, Brother Anderson said:

While waiting for milliput to dry for the hell blade I converted up and primed some Bloodcrushers for my world eaters, I prefer having marines rather than bloodletters riding them because it ties them in to the rest of the army.

 

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 Are those gears on the basis? Where did you get those??

1 minute ago, mini_painting_mike said:

 Are those gears on the basis? Where did you get those??

They are indeed! They're MDF shapes and they're really cheap, I picked up a bag from AliExpress for for a couple of quid.

That's one unit completed, three Bloodcrushers finished as my first unit of the year.

 

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Work continues on the Hell Blade conversion but it's going to be a bit of a slow burn I think, so I've made a start and primed the Eldar farseer and warlocks set that had an MTO last year.

 

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I figure I'll add my bingo card to the first post for ease of reference.

59 minutes ago, ggergnayr said:

Dang, Marines on Bloodcrushers look sick as hell. Also I really like the off white WE armor color. 

 

Thank you! I wanted to do the WE mid heresy scheme but pure white sounds like hell, so I'm saying after a certain amount of blood no amount of washing will fully get rid of the stains :laugh:

Second unit of the year done and my first xeno squad of 2026! I've been slowly amassing a Craftworld Lugannath force, I've got some more bathing in isopropanol at the moment so that may well be next up. PXL_20260106_220612303.thumb.jpg.7230b0829c1a042ef36a74d07d58310f.jpg

11 hours ago, Brother Anderson said:

Second unit of the year done and my first xeno squad of 2026! I've been slowly amassing a Craftworld Lugannath force, I've got some more bathing in isopropanol at the moment so that may well be next up. PXL_20260106_220612303.thumb.jpg.7230b0829c1a042ef36a74d07d58310f.jpg

 

@Brother Anderson: rulewise, a Warlock Conclave being 2-4, and seen that you have 5 Warlocks minis, I wouldn't blame you if you claim 2 units for this entry: the full Seer council and a character walking solo... You could even count it for 3 units if the Seer is counted as a character/psyker entry too...

It would boost up your stats and would be perfectly acceptable IMHO.

5 minutes ago, Bouargh said:

 

@Brother Anderson: rulewise, a Warlock Conclave being 2-4, and seen that you have 5 Warlocks minis, I wouldn't blame you if you claim 2 units for this entry: the full Seer council and a character walking solo... You could even count it for 3 units if the Seer is counted as a character/psyker entry too...

It would boost up your stats and would be perfectly acceptable IMHO.

 

There is a farseer in there too that came with the MTO, though I forgot to include it in the proof picture so I hadn't claimed it. Thank you for saying that, though while I'm not the best painter I do spend a lot of time doing it which means I've got a pretty high throughput; so I'm being strict with what I count towards the bingo total for myself.

  • 2 weeks later...

Thank you, and I am indeed very excited! These guys are craftworld lugganath which are basically corsairs anyway so I'll definitely be leaning into those when they're released. I'm extremely interested in the Red Corsairs too, I can only hope they don't release at the same time :laugh:

Edited by Brother Anderson
On 1/6/2026 at 10:09 PM, Brother Anderson said:

Second unit of the year done and my first xeno squad of 2026! I've been slowly amassing a Craftworld Lugannath force, I've got some more bathing in isopropanol at the moment so that may well be next up. PXL_20260106_220612303.thumb.jpg.7230b0829c1a042ef36a74d07d58310f.jpg

 

 

These are ace, I've always loved these models.  At least 3 of them could almost pass for High Elf Wizards/Mages/Sorcerers from WHFB of the 90's. 

Dark reapers done!

 

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Next up, Krieg engineers based on the Cathay rank and file models, for my traitor guard:

 

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Looking forward to painting these guys, but I've got a few days off work and I've picked up a Baneblade as a project, pics to come!

 

Bingo card updated in the OP as always.

 

 

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