A light
week, to be honest.
Finished
(well, finished off) Models
For a start,
there was a small furniture collapse in my room that smashed and
mangled beyond repair two Termagants, my Genestealer Patriarch and
the very nearly almost certainly finished Easy Build Plague Marines.
It also did a small amount of no good to my Blight-Hauler which is
not missing a couple of spikes.
Bollocks.
No actual
finished models. To be honest, this little incident rather knocked
the wind out of my sails for a day or two.
Games
Played
Had a quick
50 power of 40k: my Tyranids against Matt's Death Guard. I got tabled
but not before taking out all but four or five of his models. I am
still running a mainly combat-oriented list because that's what was
mostly painted and I think that what I really need is more range on
the army to soften up the opponent before reaching combat, especially
super-elite armies like the Death Guard.
Anyway, on
to the painting table:
Deathwatch
Kill-Team and Librarian
A little
highlighting and the golds on the Kill-Team are done. After that a
little tidy up and I can get started on the chapter shoulder pads,
which is the fun bit. Or maybe not because the sergeant is a Star
Phantom and that means painting a flat white and then
filling in the small chapter symbol in black.
Yay?
Anyway,
I also made some progress with the Librarian from Kill-Team Cassius.
He needs more work than the Kill-Team including a little extra work
on the golds which did not come out as consistently as I'd like,
especially the big winged blood drop on the leg. I am happy with the
shoulder pad, though, which has a very (for me) consistent bone
colour. Its about three or four thin coats of Rakarth Flesh and I
feel that I'm making progress in the multiple thin coats department.
Chameleon
Skinks
This did not
come out how I imagined it. I painted the shields of my Skink Cohort
in the Slaanesh-themed purple greys and thought it might make a good
skin tone for the Chameleons. I was wrong and I think I might redo
these in a green or something. Either that or try improving the look
with something darker on the back scales.
Purestrain
Genestealers
The other
week Tom sold me some old Tyranids of his. The box contained mainly
second and third edition models, which I don't mind because I quite
like those old designs. The super-thin and delicate looking, metal
Zoanthrope I adore and am using as a Neurothrope. Anyway, the box
contained about twenty old-style Genestealers.
They do, of
course, look very different from the modern Genestealers so putting
them next to each other looks odd. So I'm painting these in my
Jormungandr colour scheme but I'm planning to use them as Purestrains
in my Genestealer Cults army. I just have to work out whether those
big growths on their backs are meant to be carapace or skin of some
sort before I go further in painting them.
Savlar
Command Squad
And,
finally, the first Officer and Command Squad for my Savlar Chem-Dogs.
Now, for those just coming in, this is my “2-for-1” army: an army
that can be Traitor Guard units for my Genestealer Cults and an
Imperial Guard army in its own right. The other week I finished a
test model that was just an ordinary lasman and now I wanted to try
out the conversion and colour scheme on a unit that I can't use for
the Cults just to make sure it works for the Guard.
I think it
does. I have to work out a colour for the cuffs on the officer and
standard bearer, how I want to paint the details on the banner and so
on. I'm using a rather heavier Karak Stone drybrush to really build
up the colour. Looking at how the fatigue colour came out on the
standard I'm really looking forward to trying out the scheme on a
vehicle.
