083 Family Photo

082 Officer and a.....Colour Sergeant?

Started to get some colour going on the officer group, just the basic whites and yellows to start with.

The Colour Sergeant with his base coat of white on.

Another officer/banner bearer in the same position ready to be properly whited in and his yellows added.

081 Wash Spiders?

Dredging through my old but gold boxes of mini's from the by gone era of fifteen years ago I found some Warp Spider Aspect Warriors with what I must have thought at the time was a bitching paint job.... Sadly in the cold hard light of fifteen years of life later it looks.... well rubbish.

Very obviously in the "Red" era of painting and when flat bland and slightly shaky edged painting was still in vogue (ok that was never the case but hey! )

Fairy Power Spray to the rescue, lets see how a few days in the clover tub wash pot does for them.

Not sure if I will look to sell them on Ebay or repaint them for myself. Not really feeling them as good models if I am honest; I don't think the style has aged well.

080 30th Cambridgeshire - Moving forward

Got the bread bags done on the latest group and then started preparing the straps and braces with re- blacking before starting on the white.

You can see the whole group here ready with the exception of the three officers. All the re blacking is completed and I am just getting ready to go blind doing all the white strapping and lace.

079 Stormcast Fluff - 40k Cross overs?

I was reading a short piece of fluff in Issue 83 of WhiteDwarf about the new Celestant-Prime and was struck (which was possibly the intention) by how similar the idea was to that of the creation of the Primarchs and the original Spacemarine Legions in 40k (30k but you know what I mean!).

A few suitable twists, the Celestant was not lost like the Primarchs but Ghal Maraz which was need to wake the celestant was....

Having made the Celestant, Sigmar then created the Legions, I mean the Stormhosts.

Its very much, Celestant made in the image of sigmar, stormhosts made in the image of the celestant in the same way the Primarchs are made in the image of the emperor and the marines are made in the image of their Primarch. Now right now there is only one Celestant and there were many Primarchs but who knows what may come in the future?

The other thing I found interesting is the Stormcasts are literally created, destroyed and brought back to life. When I first saw the models I had the image in my head that there was nothing behind those masks, that they were either empty husks (thousand sons anyone?) or machines.

078 Beat the Drum

Got some time on the 30th's Drummer Boy over the weekend.

The pics don't really do it justice. I am still to sort out a proper set up for photos; always something to do isn't there!

Tilted left?

Or tilted right?

I am liking the right tilt but in think its meant to be the other way to line up with the strapping over his chest.