Week Of The 16th Of March

 Right, new month, 1 squad to finish, 2 squads to start. I'm not expecting to get much done this week as I'm on a back to back sleep Wednesday and Thursday and my game group is off down to Lenton on Saturday. 

Plan A is to finish the Havocs squad on Monday and get an ushabati bone base coat on the Eight Bound as there's plenty of skin on display there, then Tuesday get a Fang Base coat on the Legionnaires and the armour bits of the Eight Bound. The Legionnaires trim will be copper penned, the to save time, the Eight Bound as its a hero unit I'm currently thinking of doing brass, but expediency might win out and they'll get the pen as well.

I'm also thinking of getting a gold pen to use on the blood Angels dreads as there is masses of trim on those buggers too.

Yeah, my week has just gone down hill really fast this week, so I've got next to no time at home, I've got half a mind to bring the eight bound in to work with me to get some painting on them done this week. 

Monthly Vow 12th Of February to The 12th Of March

 Well bugger.

I've seen a release schedule for Combat Patrol and the Khorne stuff isn't due until April which means my package will be May. That's one plan ruined, okay not ruined but in need of some body work for sure.

So what's the plan now? I say to myself as I sit in Band On The Wall waiting for The Gomez show to start.

Well the Dread Filled Month is definitely on, thinking of March to April for that at the moment, oh which is this one. Ah okay old boxy defiler, another Redemptor Björn The Fell Handed, 3 Blood Angels Contemptors, a Helbrute and the Preator tank. Of those I'm potentially going to let the Redemptor slide as that's going to be be most work. If I get all that done probably start on the guard/Genestealer cult army. Although at this time that seems pretty unlikely. 

As of the 9th of March I'm moving the legionaries squad to this Vow as unless I go "hardcore" this weekend I'm not going to get 10 minis with that level of trim done in 2 days, as well as the 5 Havocs I've already got started. As I'm looking at a building blitz {is it a blitz if it's building?} I'll plan to get the extra 5 Havocs built as well, then they will wait until the other big guys are finished. 

Review Tine

The first  bits finished this month were the Watchers in the Dark, I'm planning one for each squad but as I don't have that many I'm going to have to proxy a couple. 

I finished the brass off and the base on the 8 of these, put one of the red butchers and the big Chaos Lord into the other squad, that Lord is bigger than the regular Chaos Terminators. 

The not Harkan World Claimer is planned to be a jump pack Raptor squad leader, no I'm not doing 10 Raptors and 5 Warp Talons, I'm still still doing 5 Warp Talons, {too much trim} and 10 Heresy era jump pack Marines. 

I've left this with just a Fang highlight as I like the idea of the glowing exhaust pipes, scream of the engines and the afterburner glow being the first thing you see as they descend from a night sky. 

Björn The Betrayer and Space Kharne. Kharen is going into the Jakhals Squad when that finally lands. I gave her one of the spare Tartarus chain blades as a knife as I forgot to check the Orrlock and Enforceer bits for a pistol for her.

Björn the Betrayer, Breaker of 2 Legions, {still working on that saga} all I've done here is give the old metal Kharne the Betrayer the Greigor head and power pack. I'm a coin toss away from getting either the new version or the Heresy version and giving that the power fist. I'll decide when I'm down at Warhammer World. I'm really happy with how this has come out. 

The Dark Apostle and Wolf Priest are both filling the same slot in this army.

The Dark Apostle got the head from the Wolf Priest and that was the only bit of conversion here. 

The Wolf Priest was going to get the Dark Apostle head but I lost that and just found a hooded head to use instead. I like how this guy looks and might get another to actually paint up in the correct colours, oh, or use as an interrogator Chaplain... Okay keep that idea for later. 

The Havocs / Long Fangs and the Watcher in the Dark

The Berzerkers squad

Everything is ready to start. 

The squad got finished, they look okay and I'm happy with how they came out. 

I used one of the Havocs to make this one, I used the Dane Axe left over from the Chaos Björn Chuck. 

The Finecast Beliel. 

A mate had asked if I had this guy 2023 ish and I'd boxed him with a load of Terminators bits, then moved those bits from one box to another and was still looking for the plastic box when they were in a cardboard box, I was actually looking for the land speeders I'd moved with the plan to add wheels to make them ATV proxies. I still haven't found the land speeders. 

So on this guy, there's a metal storm bolter arm, to counter balance this, I've glued a penny into the base. The sword arm is a spare Tartarus arm and the sword came from the same box that Beliel was found in, the census on the watcher was also in this box while the watcher was in the main terminators bits box.

The 5 Havocs/Long Fangs, I got the Fang base coat and crimson wash done on all 5, with enough time to get 1 marine trimmed with the copper pen. 

The Havoc squad. I didn't quite get them finished by bed time. So not finished. 

Slight Change In Plan

Terminators again, well 1 more, 1 more. Until next time. 

Okay I know what I said, well I was looking at my tiny Tiberos and thinking the little fella needs an upgrade. So I found a Leviathan Terminator Captain for not too much on Ebay and bought that. I then condensed the 2 boxes of Terminators bits down to 1 and used that moment to dig of those little Tartarus chain blades, get to bigger arms sourced used some more of my green stuff to fit the chain blades under the fists, as the lightning claws are named Slake and Thirst I thought about what to use, one was rather easy as that's just a regular Knuckle Duster lightning claw, the other I has a root through the Dark Eldar weapons box for some blades, I had a couple of ideas and wanted to have a look at what was in there. 

I've ended up using one of the Wytch Swords for this, thinking a weapon called Thirst would be brutal. I'm trimming the blade down a bit and will green stuff it to the back of the power fist.

Once that's cured it's waiting for the Leviathan Captain to arrive. 

Berzerkers And The Finecast Beliel

 

Last week I mostly did the Khorne Berzerkers for the Wolf Pack. I also found the fine cast Beliel I'd bought years ago, used the arms on something else, put the body in a box and forgot the box.

This week is looking like I'm getting the Long Fangs/ Havocs done Fang and crimson wash done, with copper trim done on one of the 5. Looking at doing end of the month on the 13th to let me get this squad finished

The Beliel has a metal arm that I've had in the bits box for ages, a spare Tartarus arm and the sword was from the same box the Beliel was in. 

The watcher in the Dark was in 2 separate boxes, one box had the body, the Beliel box had the census. 

The 10 Berzerkers, I started this lot by blu tacking the arms on to 10 different pots so I could get to the body better.

They had the Fang base coat and crimson wash done then the copper pen trim. {even  with the pen I'm not doing 10 raptors} 

The next bit was covering slips with the Russ layer and then chains and skulls, chains and straps had an iron warrior base and the skulls had an ushabati bone base, both got a sepia wash, the metal bits had a lead Belacher high light the skulls got screaming skull highlights.

The weapons got iron warrior, nuln oil then lead belcher highlight.

This guy with Dane axe is a favourite from this squad. 

All finished. The squad is done, and packed up, the next squad is going to be the Havocs/long fangs.

Not that you can make much out here. The Fang base coat and crimson wash was done on all 5, got the copper trim done on 1 before I had to get packed up to go to work. I'm aiming to get this squad finished by Friday, this means this month is getting at least an extra day if not 2.

The Finecast Beliel and watcher in the Dark were done around the Berzerkers as colours used on 1 were also used on the other.

I haven't got this guy out of the box but will try & root for him this week to add a wraith bone coat to the armour at the weekend. 

HQ Section.

 

Finished off the HQ Section yesterday. 

The options for the Dark Apostle, on the Chaos Codex side of the army, I swapped the Wolf Priest head onto the dark apostle mini, and had to find a head that worked on the Wolf Priest, the little guys might be coming down to Warhammer World later this month.

The not Harkan World Claimer. His trophy racks broke off when the jump pack went under the sofa. I've only added Fang highlighting on this as I like the idea off his small section of the army descending from a storm wracked sky the exhaust pipes and burners from the engines the only sign of trouble coming. After looking at the Raptors box I'm going to hold off until we get either Mk4 or mk6 Heresy jump troops and get a squad of 10 of those and 5 raptors as all of that fracking trim on them.

Kharen is now waiting for her Jakhals to arrive,which is May I think. 

Björn The Betrayer was again just a simple head swap, that has worked rather well. 

Now do I grab a Kharne on the 21st and give him Greigor's power claw?

I got the Berzerkers, legionaries and havoc/long fangs out of the box to get started as well as finding the right arms for the watcher in the Dark. 

One I'm particularly happy with is this guy using the Dane Axe from the Space Wolf Terminators kit. 

The little guy's arms have been glued in place. 

Beliel was a surprise. I had an old box of Terminator bits that went missing for over a year. I think I used the arms on the heavy Intercessor Captain Beliel conversion I know I've done. 

The left handed storm bolter is metal, not sure which kit gave me that arm, the sword I've had for ages and just needed an arm that would work on it. 

Currently working on the Berzerkers, Beliel and the Watcher in the Dark, with the long fangs/Havocs waiting on the table with the other 5 to be built. 

I'm baking tomorrow and getting most of the trim done on the Berzerkers with a copper pen a mate had ordered for me, which is why some of the trim looks slightly different. 

The HQ Section.

In this week's choice there's the various options for the Wolf Pack. 

There's Björn The Betrayer, the Astartes that broke 2 Legions. 

After the Night Of The Wolf and Angron was returned to Terra in chains and the World Eaters became the War Hounds again, Björn took the weapons of the 8th Assault Company Captain, his last kill on that infamous day.

Over the course of the Great Crusade the Wolves under the command of Björn grew wilder and wilder, his command becoming referred to as the Cursed 7th.

The Warmaster would request the 7th Great Company for assault operations, growing more frequent in his request post Davin.

Just the plasma pistol arm and power pack to do. 

Kharen. 

Kharen was a Wargames Exclusive mini, the weapons are done, a couple of bits on the face to do. 

The Harkan World Claimer is going to be a Sgt in a Raptors squad, I like the idea of this squad being the first in, deciding on trails of flame, the pipes on the jump packs glowing. 

Highlights will be the Fang grey.

The Wolf Priest mini is an alternative Dark Apostle, I just need to find a decent head for it, and finish the skull on the pack and the fur.

The Dark Apostle mini is a huge pain to paint but once, but I know when I get it finished it's going to look great

The acolytes might appear down at Warhammer World. There is just a few more things to do.