Shard's Neverborn Project

[Shard of Magnus]

I've had an on again / off again relationship with chaos in 40k (and Fantasy Battles) over the years. The result of that is a lot of unpainted daemons for projects that were shelved or stalled out as editions changed. The local group has recently started planning a loose narrative campaign around the Badab war and a revisit of 5th in general, which got me looking at what I had in the backlog. I probably won't play many games, if any, but I had a decent enough number of daemons that I'll decided to work on them. It will help reduce the backlog if nothing else and it would be entertaining to field daemons with the army wide deep strike rules from back then. And who knows...maybe 11th edition will do something interesting, and I'll end up using them for that.  More likely is that I'll use them as stand ins for a Daemons of the Ruinstorm Horus Heresy force.

 

So, what is in the queue for this project at this point you may ask? The following has been pulled out of my vault of the unpainted:

Khorne

Bloodthirster

3 blood crushers

10 bloodletters

 

Here is an older Herald of Khorne I did long ago. I have completely forgotten what I did for the skin tone. Given that I have switched paints and painting techniques since then, I think I'm going to skip trying to make anything match. May end up repainting parts of the herald at some point and/or rebasing him. The sword never worked out how I intended either.

 

 

Tzeentch

Lord of Change

Burning chariot of Tzeentch (may break down to individual models to bulk up units, may leave as is and use it as a herald for 5th edition games) 

12 pink horrors

14 blue horrors

14 brimstone horrors (mostly painted but never based)

3 screamers

3 flamers

 

Here's the last Tzeentch themed figure I did, also from long ago. 

 

 

There are also several half-converted chaos spawn and acquisitions I had intended to use for daemon prince conversions. There may be more. I thought I had kept more stuff rather than disposing of it. However, I can only rummage through the pile of shame for so long before it becomes depressing.

 

In a perfect world I'd like to get all of this done over the next couple of months.  It's certainly doable although very low odds given my work schedule and painting progress recently.  If I can get this done by end of year in addition to the Horus Heresy projects I have then I intend to treat myself to a Be'lakor model. Surprisingly, I've never picked up any of the versions of him despite being on my favorites list! 

 

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I look forward to seeing your progress.