Monthly Vow November 12th To The 21st Of December 2025

The run in to Christmas is here, I might actually stretch this one to the weekend before Christmas as I'm off work up to the 21st. The Assault Terminators box has been handed off for Christmas. I've waited this fething long I can wait a bit more. 

I've started writing this post on the 9th of October so plans will be updated up to November the 12th, right now I'm thinking a dread filled month. I have a couple of Leviathan dreads, the Satanine Dread, the World Eaters Contemptor, and a Chaplin Dreadnought. The Satanine dreadnought is a coin toss on if I do it in the Pre Magnus Thousand Sons colours or The Lion's Blades black with green highlights. The Leviathans and Chaplain dreads are for the Lion's Blades, while the World Eaters dread is for the Khorne Björn War Band. That's 3 rather big guys and 2 regular dreads, which I think is plenty. 

Review Time 

I've had this one for about a year or there abouts, but never felt like painting it.

With my work schedule looking like I would be spending most of the month at work I wanted to get some easy wins. 

I made a start on this the same night as I built the Terminators, it got a screaming skull base and layers. Screaming Skull, nuln oil wash, wraithbone and palid wytch flesh make a very nice quick white.

The 12th 

I settled on how I'm doing these 2.

I built the 6 of these, I did them all together because it's really easy to batch build them. 

I also made an outstanding Cambodian dish on the 12th. 

I made one with 2 fists, using the last of the right hand options from the Preator kit and the lightning claws from the Tartarus kit, to go with the prototype squad. 

I'm sending one to my mate for his Legion Of Doom army, which leaves me with 4, and as you get 4 in a box I'm happy to pick up said box and have 2 squads of 4 knocking around. One of next year's objectives can be to get 2 boxes so I've got 2 squads of 6 Satanine Terminators. 

I think I need to talk to the person that does the rota as I've only just got the ushabati bone base coat it this week. 

Got the most of it finished on Saturday after the 4pm finish. 

Got the details done on Sunday. 

Got the squad out for a photo, I need to set aside a period to organise/ fix The Blade Guard Veterans.

The Homage 

Okay so I burned another one on a senseless throwback to the original version of the prototype Terminator. 

I painted the metal one so long ago that ushabati bone and screaming skull had different names and were, literally, different colours. 

I also got some paint on Marbas, Fallen Deamon Prince of the First Legion. 

 

Raketh Flesh on the flesh areas with reikland flesh wash over that, any armour or demonic flesh has been given a coat of black templar, this might just get paused again until I'm highlighting something else with the black and green mix.

I was building the plastic Leviathan on Saturday after picking up the Terminators box for Christmas when I noticed these 2 little detail bits, I was jokingly thinking indicators, I don't think I'm wrong but I'm sure it's pilot status and power system indicator..

I got the body built Saturday night  and the weapons built on Sunday before I left for work, I just failed to get a picture of it.

The resin version was also sub-assembled, both have the same issue that I can see happening, so I left the central cowling off for painting so I can get to the helmet when painting. 

For something a little different I had a few minutes to spare toward the end of my m9nth between work assignments and found myself walking past a Max Spielman, I dropped in to get a couple of photos that I'd edited printed off. 

Both are the backgrounds of the Dreadnought I'm upgrading with said dreadnought removed. Looking forward to using these, now if only I had a sandy game mat.

I've still not put these away as I'm not sure if I'm doing the Satanine Dread in these colours or The Lion's Blades. 

Background For Photos

 If you go back in this blog you'll notice that not 9nly has my painting improved over the years, but so has the camera and photography.

The play mats  that have come with the Hatchette series have been useful for a neutral base, while the background is vary. 

Today I got the chance to njp into a max Spielman and get a couple of edited photos printed off. 

The software did an okay job taking the dread out of the phoro.

Resin Mini Easier To Build Than Plastic Kit!

 In what is possible the most single surprising piece of news ever from Poxy Proxy Predator; The resin Leviathan dread is actually an easier build than the plastic kit. If only I hadn't lost the bag with the knee pads and second gun, and taken a photo... Oh well.

So, pre gaming the next Dread Filled Month by getting the 2 Leviathan dreads built. The plastic one was a way more complicated build than the already expert resin Leviathan. I'm a bit narked that I've sat on the resin Leviathan that long I've misplaced one of the bags that had the second weapon and the knee pads. I've got a couple of Leviathan dread legs coming from ebay to replace those, and I've got the Leviathan heavy weapon sprue on order from GW, and honestly the plastic autocannons are better than the resin ones.

So about those Autocannons. 

You might not know this guy, even if you've trawled through the backlog of posts, it's from 2017, when the game group had a day trip to Warhammer World, 실버 다트, 데카라의 철가죽, Silver Dart, The Iron Hide Of Deccara was finally brought low after taking nearly 30 Dark Lance and Blaster shots, which is how I gave it the name Iron Hide. I always wanted to give this guy an upgrade but there just wasn't the parts available. Until now.

 I've got a resin set of the quad autocannons and a plastic set as well. As I lost the other weapon package I need to buy the weapon sprue for another set of elbows and frankly the plastic quad autocannon looks better than the resin version, I'll probably mount those on the resin version and watch Iron Hide be one shotted in ever game I'll ever put him on the table in going forward. 

I liked these little bits on the hip pates, my first instinct with these two was indicators, but a bit more thought would be one is the readout for the pilot and the other is the readout for the weapons and power plant. 

One last bit is with the second weapon bag missing I'm giving the vulkite blasters to the resin version and the flamers are going on the plastic version. 

Full Retail!.

 And I'm not letting myself touch it till Christmas 

And with the new scale Cattaphrattii terminators show cased I'm not sure what to do I'm thinking / hoping the Tartarus pattern will be boxed as 6 and do a squad of mixed armour patterns with combine bolters and power fists and just run it as standard terminators in 40k with 1 spare of each type

Marbas, Fallen Deamon Prince Of The First Legion

I remembered this and made a start rather than painting 3 more Satanine Terminators. 

 

It started with a raketh flash base coat all over, then a reikland flesh wash on the skin bits and a black templar contrast coat on the bits that can be said to be armour.

I've got no drive to finish this, plan A is to keep it on hold for when I get to the black and green highlights on something else so I'm not wasting paint wet blending, even with the wet palette. 

I'm still off work today, tomorrow with a team meeting I have to go to and Tuesday, I'm thinking of building some of the chaos stuff for next years army as that box is very full and I just added the Heresy era Predator to that army. 

Bolter Armed Satanine Terminator

I've bagged the bits to send to my to build his Legion of The Damned version. 

They were a couple of places that the build could have been better.

To try and keep the colours as close as possible it had a base layer of ushabati bone after the nuln oil wash before the screaming skull, and a lot of the trim was given a base of iron warrior and a nuln oil wash, as I didn't want it to be too bright.

More Little Steps

 I had a dig through the bits for spares for this build, 2 hands and a head as well as finding the bits to send to my mate who's building the Legion Of Doom, not sure if I put a head in there now.

Ushabati bone base coat and nuln oil wash done. 

The next step will be screaming skull and to tie it in with the original Saturnine Terminator I did years ago, the trim will be mostly metallic. 

Question is do I make a ranged version of the relic armour squad...