Sisters of Battle flamer and Canoness conversions!

Progress on this project has not been slow but I must admit that progress updates have been! Never fear, I have the solution right here in the form of......a progress update!

Battle Sister flamer

I now have 4 fully painted sisters with one more to go. Then I'll need to convert and paint 4 more so that I can have my full squad of 9 (I'll be adding a priest into the mix too and mounting them all in a repressor). Come the end of April, this project will seriously pick up pace!

The Canoness

Converting and sculpting the Canoness has been a lot of fun! I began by butchering a warmachine caster for the flowing cloak and the 'armoured high heels' and an official Canoness model. The rest of the model came together naturally from various DE bits and a mountain of greenstuff! She's armed modestly, with a plasma pistol, chainsword, rosarius and the mantle of Ophelia. Still.....I'm pleased :)

The Big Boss on Bike made mostly of Trukk!

Last week saw me get cracking on the warboss on bike, which was slightly more challenging than the nob bikers in the sense that I wanted his bike to be mostly built from trukk parts?! It was the only way I felt his bulk would be accommodated so I set about mounting the engine block and large wheels from the trukk kit onto a very cut down deff kopta chassis.

I kept the deff kopta legs because they aren't actually all that much smaller than the normal warboss legs. Instead I raised the torso and re-sculpted the lower back just to give him some extra height and prevent the legs from making him look a little misshapen  (then again if you spent your whole life on a bike I guess you'd have short legs too!).

The finecast parts, although in pretty terrible condition, were a God send as it meant I could cut the parts to fit with ease. The fact they are so light also helps to prevent this guy from falling over, which I'm certain would happen a lot on the battlefield if he was all metal. All in all I'm very pleased with the result and I'm sure he's going to turn heads (and a few stomachs) on the field!

Here's a size comparison with the previous Nob bikers! He's an absolute beast!

Blood Angels army up for sale!

Dear readers,

The time has come for me to move my Blood Angels army onto another loving home. I've had some great games with this army and came second in the student nationals 2012 with it. Painting this army was especially challenging! Painting all those gems really took some effort but in the end I was really happy with the results. Another lovely touch with this army is that all the figures come with bases from dragonforge's urban rubble range! So without further ado, please feast your eyes on what's available in the lot. The auction can be found here.

The Chaplain, sanguinary priest and assault terminators

Some extra characters: Chapter master Seth, Commander Dante and a captain with lightning claws

 There is also a WIP honour guard squad

Assault squad one with razorback transport

Assault squad 2 with razorback

Assault squad three and two storm ravens

Finally, the whole army fits into this custom pull and pluck army case!

To top it all off, I will also include some blood angels sprus I have left! If you have any further questions about the lot, or you would like to see some more pictures then please get in touch either via ebay or through leaving a comment below. Once again the auction can be found here.

Good luck and best wishes!

 

Ork Lootaz- A Little More Dakka

So here's the second loota I've been working on. These pictures are a little premature because he's still not quite finished yet, but I wanted to keep the updates rolling. So without further ado, I present the 2nd ork loota to be...ahem...finished :)

 

 

Here you should be able to see the ammo hopper. The story is that Dokket, the ammo runt, is removing the rounds from an old ammo belt and dropping them into the hopper. The hopper then feeds the rounds into the gun. Unfortunately, the poor guy needs to act fast or else face the displeasure of his master when the gun runs dry!

Ork Lootaz- Re-visiting the Project

I'm sure many of you have been peering back at the blog from time to time wondering 'what ever happened to those lootaz you were working on?' At the time I was getting some fantastic feedback from everybody, which really kept me going with the project but then I moved and they became lost amongst all the other things I've been doing.

Well 2 weeks ago I played a game of 40k using my ork army and did astonishingly well considering my opponent. I also fielded my lootaz in this battle, which had many people attending club that day giving me praise on how cool they looked. Kind words combined with game success has inspired me to get cracking on finishing the unit properly and that means putting the painting hat back on!

So, as I promised Pom, I spent all of Sunday relaxing with DS-9, paint and Toad in the Hole! However, it wasn't battle wagons I was working on (sorry to mislead you Pom). Instead, I got the first of 12 lootaz finished, based and weathered. I do hope you enjoy, oh and keep dropping in, I intend to finished this project fully.

Don't worry you're safe so long as he's aiming at you personally!

Sons of Sanguinius: Blood Angels Progress

As promised I have some shots of the (almost) completed first assault squad. The final member has been built and is now waiting to be primed. I think I will prime him in black to match the rest of his squad just incase the red has subtle differences.

Having looked over the photos and then cross referenced them with the actual models I have notices one or two niggling little details. The most obvious being the which highlighting on the melta gunners helmet not being as smooth or thin as it should be! These will all get ironed out as the army gets completed.

Anyway, over to the pictures:

The sergeant with a thunder hammer!

 I like to think of this guy as leaping out of the razorback, ready to rend the enemy!

I just could not get a decent picture of this guy despite taking loads of photos! The white spot in his right eye is in fact black, it's just I couldn't remove the flash. I think I need some more practice with faces anyhow, more research needed for the next one I think.

I really like the wild look in this guys eyes...he seems to be bordering on the red thirst as he carves up the foe!

 And finally the obligatory melta gunner! Never leave home without one.

Right, well that's it for now. As I mentioned in my last post I went to forgeworld yesterday and picked up a big box of goodies. Now I have all the parts I will need to make all the vehicles WYSIWYG and of course, beautiful! 

In the meantime I still have the second squad to paint! Back to the bloody layers and washes I guess.