Obliteraters

 

While locked in my brain loop of not being able to start the Guard army, I did at least make a start on the Obliteraters for the regular Chaos side of the army. 

So at work tonight I brought them with me to get the weapons them. Plenty of green stuff used to mount the weapons. 

The Thunder Wolf heads work so much better, and the reason for these guys having bigger heads is you need more of a brain to fire weapons than you do to charge in and smack the opposition with your sword arms. I did forget the glue, so will glue heads tomorrow and once dry, mount on the bodies. The 2 Commissar Greaves Centaurs are due Wednesday / Thursday, so hopefully I can use the spare decoration to stand these guys on to give them some height. 

Change Of Priorities

 You know how it goes in this hobby, you make a plan and then something new and shiny comes along and distracts you.

You think on it and decided to dive into the idiot rabbit hole and do a for the giggles army. For the avoidance of doubt this plan has already changed twice since I started writing this post. 

So yes I got everything together for a bragging post. The Russ was bought for a defunct Necromunda game and was already slightly a joke when I got it, I shared it with the hobby chat group and the conversation spun my brain up. 

The yearly plan has stayed over all the same, seeing what's in the 11th edition box I'm okay with literally skipping the box and I've already spent that money on three boxes of the Astra Militarum Tank Battalion, which I'm going to focus on a tank heavy period, with guard and Genestealer cult units to give me a break from big stuff.

I'm getting an Escher Gang box with the plan to build a few to look as Tank Girl as possible 

With a plan to sack off Commissar Greaves and use the rocket bra Tank Girl as a proxy with as close to the weapons as I can get from the various sprues in my house. I just need a couple of rockets and an Escher box... 

The Björn Brutalis Dread is still a thing that's going to happen, I still need to do the lightning claws for the Assault terminators as well as the Deff Dredd for the Orks.

With the Hatchette subscription finishing in June by my maths, I'm looking at the second half of the year being tanks and Guard and Genestealer cult with the rule book to buy. 

Looking for dazzle camouflage 

I'm Having Another Brain Lock

 Because of the way the Combat Patrol series has landed, I've hit a brain lock moment, I want to finish the Björn The Betrayer army first but I had to wait through the Genestealer cult and Guard first, which meant I surpassed my target of 80 minis, I reached 93 and had the guard squad built and ready to go but just couldn't jog my brain to get the squad painted.

So I spent most of the time this week working on 2 Veterans squads, using a mix of Necromunda Oorlocks and guard. 

While I was trying to condense some stuff down in the bed room I found my first alternate history minis, my Deamon Prince Calgar, the Cato Sicarrius mini that's lost it's head and probably the Ultramarine from the unused Army on Parade with the Dreads. I do have a Titus mini on sprue which has a helmet and bare head so I'll give Cato the helmet and build Titus with the bare head, plan A is find a couple of the Honour Guard on ebay cheap to make  5 man Veterans squad for the Björn The Betrayer project. 

Waiting for some Thunder wolves to arrive for the heads on the Obliteraters, just thinking what I can have them standing on, I do have an idea... 

And the {already} revised plan for the Guard army. I had a box on order for the Tank box that I picked up yesterday, I've ordered one on a 3rd party site that's arriving much later this month. I'd hoped to grab a 3rd box yesterday and pootled down to Wigan early to grad a box. I got there about 9.40 and was 4th in the queue, the 2 guys in front of me bought the 2 boxes the store got in. So I was on ebay and managed to grab a 3rd box on my way home, as well as 2 boxes of the Commissar Greaves Centaur, which means plan B is now a go; 3 Squadrons of 2 Hippogriff AFV, 4 Centaurs with 3 Veterans squads and a heavy bolter heavy weapon team lead by Commissar Greaves and her squad, a Dorn Command tank 3 Dorns and an option to run a Leman Russ Squadron 

The Necromunda 8th.

 Well good day so far.

Organised a plan for my birthday, which is the 8th of May this year as I'm working next week.

I've got an assured box of the Guard tank box on order from the local shop, while I was out sorting tickets for the Sheep Detectives on the 8th of May my neighbour took the Hatchette package in.

When I got home I'd got the Guard Sentinel and the Khorne Lord on Juggernaut and the primium set 4 with a Broodcovern and the Rogal Dorn Battle Tank.

So my armoured section is looking pretty serious with 2 Dorn tanks, a Leman Russ, a Malcador, the 2 Hippogrifs and the Centaur with a Dragoon mounted squad.

So now I need an actual idea of colours as I'm nearly ready to start, I found an old Bone Head Ogryn that I'm going to use as a test mini when I've got the jump pack section finished.

Speaking of which

I definitely went the right way with these, 3 boxes of Warp Talons would have killed me with all that trim. 

Plan for tonight is a Fang low light, high lights on the brass, and get some metallic on the weapons of the assault squad. 

First 5 Raptors.

 As previously mentioned with Harkan World Claimer I'm keeping these as dark as possible, to suggest that they'll strike from a dark sky.

The jump packs on these are rather tidy, the glowing exhaust idea isn't going to be doable here.

I got the low light of Fang done last night and then went and focused on the jump packs, getting base coat on, wash with crimson, then metallics. The metallics got a wash with reikland flesh wash. As it was getting late I let everything dry and called it a night. 

Productive Day

 I got down to Wigan on Wednesday to show case some of my minis that's I've painted for the Million Miniatures Pledge, and we add my 77 to the total, taking the shop total to over 900.

The keen eyed might notice that the Helbrute isnt the one I've just finished. 

And with the event finishing on the 9th of May I should be able to get a trip to the shop on the day.

And I finished off the Kharne in a Kontempor as well before starting to put the mk2 assault Marines together.

I brought 5 with me to start tonight, the Raptors have been ordered and are being delivered to work so I don't miss them, which takes me up to 93.

Crap I need another 5 minis on top tiny Tiberos the Red Wake and Ursual Creed... Plan A right now is check the Guard stuff for a small squad. 

Kharne In A Kontemptor?

 So a long time ago I bought a World Eaters Contemptor Dread, the fancy World Eaters one.

That 2015 Malal project went the way of the dodo. 

I did get a nice crisp line on the torso though 

So it's sat unloved and disassembled in various boxes for over a decade, I didn't even revive it for the dreadnought Legion project where I used the Mk4 I'd picked up on Ebay and recent repainted for the Björn The Betrayer project.

So with the plan for this month switching I dug this guy out and I'd already done a couple of things I had planned. 

I'd brought the screaming skull and wraith bone with me tonight to get that done and the bronze trim. If I hadn't napped so aggressively I would have looked for the Kantor blue for those sections on the dread.

Looking at the painting guide app I need to pick up a couple of paints tomorrow when I get down to Wigan as well as the Warp Talons. Then it's a build day when I get home. 

Yes I will add some more to the shield.