The Exodite Wraith Lords

Old photos of the Wraith Lords and War Walkers.

Revisiting The Exodite Army

The box my Exodite army was in went brittle and had to binned this morning, so while I was transferring to a cardboard box I got some up to date photos. Not got the 8th Ed Codex so not sure if the 20 strong guardian bands are still legal. The idea was this was one of the first Exodite worlds established, so some of the war gear and weapons are much older than the later leaving Craft worlds. I didn't include the Wraith Lords or War Walkers as their storage boxes are fine.

Counts as Shadow Spectors made with an excess of Harlequin Death Jesters.

The old version Striking Scorpions, as the first father of this Aspect fell to Chaos, and these Aeldar left before that happened and were cut off from main stream Aeldar Culter, they didn't find out about the fall of the Pheonix Lord and shift in weapons.

The Dore Avengers Aspect Warriors are made from old Dark Elf Corsairs

Not sure where this one is going, counts as Falcon I think, but it's still on pause.

Rangers made using Wood Elf Way watchers

The counts as Howling Banshees, using Black Scorpion Pirate Girls, one Mordemhiem Wytch Elf and a named 3rd Ed character.

Shiny new donkey to the first person that names the character,{disclaimer, donkey might not be new, or shiny or in fact a donkey but just a smug feeling of being correct}

The HQ section, half of which are no longer legal,like the one at the back with Shadow Spector jump pack, Banshee mask and prism rifle

The Avatar of the World Spirit, not a tree man ancient at all.

2019 Base Line

Not quite finished yet, but the terrible light that I did have has passed, so I called it a night after getting the Harlequins,  Exodites, and some of the power armour armies base lined for this year and some plans on what comes next this year, I've just got the tank and Terminators boxes left to go through when we get some weak, grey sunlight again tomorrow.

Warp Spider

Sorry if you have arachnophobia.
My Warp Spider Exarch/phoenix lord kit bash.

2017 Review

Or why haven't you done this?
Quicker to start with these 2
HARLEQUINS
Still exactly where they were last year, nothing touched.
Plans for 2018
Get 8th ed Codex and then work on them a bit at a time when I can see a path for them.
EXODITES OF TELVIG
Again very little done on this in fact one of the few things I did do got sold onto a mate and in 8th are a murder squad with the Web way portal strategy .
Plans for 2018
Nothing planned might just sell these to fund some other stuff.

SHADOW 72ND HIGHLANDERS
Well they got some reinforcements with 3 lots of heavy weapon teams in need of painting
The General, her Naval conterpart, and a Primaris Psyker.
Plans for 2018
Got the Vanguard Detachment in mind to run these with as I'm already there with HQ, elites , and troops. From there it'll be just keeping an eye on what's cheap in Ebay.

THE KNIGHTS OF BLOOD
Well crap they're all dead now. . .
So I bought the easy build Redemptor Dreadnought for these
And after looking through the archive I found I finished the Optimus Class Librarian Dreadnought as well this year.
Plans for 2018
Buy Codex, work out a new name and/ or buy a couple of minis to use as Inquisitors and call one Deckard and the other will be named after his Sgt and have them turn up on turn 5 with a couple of squads of marines to catch them. . . Idea - as I made the Honour Guard Formation for Gathering Storm, I could use those as the marines chasing the Knights of Blood , need to get Index one out. . . But I do like that idea.

Lost my train of thought now .

THE LION'S BLADES
So yes 8th threw a bit of a spanner in the works and I didn't get the tanks I was looking at for this, or anything else for that matter.
I did find a Brother Bethor minus his other arm so after I had made the 2nd Ancient a Lieutenant (see later) I gave Bethor the new plastic banner
The Lion's Blades also got my second Redemptor Dreadnought, I can't say enough how much I love these kits and that was part of the reason I did what I did later.
They also got a Hellblaster Combat Squad.
Plans for 2018
Read the codex take it in and re cost what I have, (again), I am thinking of adding some of the drop troops and probably give them the plasma guns or leave it loose if the build option allows. Still thinking about adding another flyer but budget is going to be tight next year.

THE GATHERING STORM
I did buy book 2 and book 3 of these and my God Girlyman gets plot armour level 12.
So the Cypher Chosen Formation got filled out in a hugely not wysiwyg 3 squads of robed marines, mostly there's a couple of plastic mk2/3 in there as well, but no photo of these.
The other formation I did for this army was the Honour Guard, I went 3 Stern Guard, Howling Griffins, Mentors Chapter, Nemesis Chapter, and one Vanguard Veterans Squad with 10 Honour Guard from the various Imperial Fist Legion Successor Chapters.
The Grey Knight Grand Master is doing nothing and might get sold and I painted Girlyman black and re worked the sword to remove the flames and of course the hide and seek champion that's a nice mini to paint and does look much better in black than in white.
Plans for 2018
Buy a couple of minis to use as Inquisitors to command the Honour Guard Detachment run with the Vanguard Detachment rules.


THE EMPEROR’S LOYAL HOUNDS OF WAR.
Yes thank you 8th, like a lot of players I ended up with a new army this year, but not the one I had intended, I ended up with The Emperor’s Loyal Hounds Of War, or The Hounds for short.
I'm taking these to a tournament next weekend realistically I'm playing for the wooden spoon as I'm not a competitive player below is the army I'm taking
I also got to do a loyalist dreadnought family tree for this army as well

Plans for 2018
I plan to go through the Knights box and just use them as a Demi Company, so anything extra is getting bounced from them into The Hounds next year. No real plans to expand these beyond that, although if I can find cheap Predator tanks they'll get added to these guys.

The Björn project
This was a for a laugh project, get the various versions of Björn painted up and them try making him in a Redemptor Dreadnought kit, nearly there with that one, should have it finished for the 12th.

So I've mentioned a tight budget a couple of times , because I'll be helping out my oldest for when she comes home from China next year by putting a wedge aside each month , but should be able to get some stuff each month, hence cheap and minimal plans.

Update On The Dreads

I hear by solomly swear that I will not be buying another Dreadnought this year.

Before I packed away the Dreads I got all of them out to get a photograph.

The Telvig dreads, no plans to add anything to this lot bar the Wraith Knight but that's on hold for now.

Chaos Dreadnoughts Family Tree is done on the gw side, just the Contemptor from Forge World and a wait and see if the Deredo and Livvi get chaos corrupted versions.

All of the Knights of Blood dreads.

Will look at the weapons on these but I think that my plan will be to have them be counts as Contemptor Mortis patterns, just need to check the availability of guns. So no buying but can work on some dreads.

These I plan on working up into Deredos next year.

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Fire Dragons.

Finished these off before I jump on the Primarch Trimulative band wagon. . .



Did 6 of these and the Exarch with Fire Pike last night, as I was running late on them for last months vow and wanted to get them finished before moving onto the March April vow.

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Monthly Vow, 12th of Feb to 12th of March

With that hole that was blown in my budget I didn't plan to get much done last month, which was a good job as I got the shit kicked out of me by my depression mid month.


Both of these are currently based with ushabati bone waiting to be painted, which is planned to be this month but could slide after I opened my big mouth (more on that later).


The Predator got done, the spare turret is waiting for an Autocannon, that I'm not looking at getting that this month, (big mouth again),


The Optimus Class Librarian Dreadnought finally got finished, sort of. Going to buy some 5mmx1mm magnets for the arms.

Actually got some paint on this guy.

And no idea of where this one went.
So plans for the coming month.



Strip the Dread and re-paint in pre Magnus Thousand Sons colours,


Touch up the trim and add the enforcement badge to this one.


And firstly and lastly I plan on making a Necron Knight out of K2 a doomsday ark, I also have a tomb blade coming and am watching some bits on ebay as well.

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