Slaaneshian Chaos Hounds

 Yet another not so very active month of painting. Just a single Chaos Hound - the blue one got finished. One more to go the the sacret number.

Deadcember entry

 I paint undead very rarely. But as it is still deadcember and nothing else got finished this month so I bring you a C18 night horrors ghost. A quick little paint job. Light red on robes and pale flesh for face and hands. Followed by a lot of dry brushing. See you next year!

Things that got painted this month

 It´s the month of gnovember but I´ve placed my gnome models in such a secure location that I was unable to lovate them. Well - they´ll turn up eventually. I know I have ten crossbow armed gnomes somewhere. So here are the models I´ve completed this month.

Four chaos hounds that I tried to paint in the old pastel Slaanesh style. 

Need two more for sacred number.

A goblin shaman. This one stood half finished for a very long time.

Elf captain. Just because I haden´t painted anything elvish in a while.

I´m not saying that I´m back

 But for the first time in ages I did find motivation to pick up my brushes and slap some paint on a few goblins. And it actually felt quite good to be painting again. Let´s see what happens.

These will join my goblin horde that numbers around 60 gobbos at the moment. Perhaps I should dig them all out for a head count and a group photo.

Plasma on the double

 Yet another month of not much painting. Work and other responsibilities came in the way of hobby activities once again. Just two models finished. Both Rogue Trader range minis and both wielding a plasma gun.

A space elf standard bearer with a plasma gun and an imperial guard guardsman 

with a slightly larger version of a plasma gun.

The guardsman will eventually join the 2nd assault squad I´m building. 

As you can see I´m using Space Marine packs for jump pack on the assault troopers.

Scouts and Scorpions

 I have been quite busy with work and haven´t had much mojo for hobby activities. Despite that I´ve slammed some paint on few bases of Epic eldar to keep something going.

On the left are four bases of eldar scouts. Painted in the same pattern as my guardians but wearing a desert yellow camo cloak on their back. Strinking scorpions were given typical green armour but I chose to paint their helmets white to have some unifying element with the rest of the force. I think I´ll follow the same system for the rest of the aspect warriors I´ll paint in the future.

Back to genestealers

 So it´s another paused project restarted. It was back in november 2020 when I last painted something for my slaanesh aligned genestealer cult. Having finished just a single purestrain genestealer so far I have been wanting to add a few more for some time. Finally I had both the models and motivation to paint them. BTW I working on a cult limo too. Hoping to get it ready in the near future.

Being plastics from Space Hulk and painted mostly with contrasts

these will most certainly not win me any prises. But they fit in quite well

with the rest of the cult.

A couple of support units and a warlock

 These three little (pun intended) additions will take my epic eldar army to 2900 points. And I could finish those vibro cannons in perhaps 30 mins if I wanted to and have a 3000 point strong army ready. But I´m at the same time working on some genestealers so it may take a while. On the other hand I scored some aspects warriors and other stuff I was missing so I´ll eventually take this project to somewhere around 4000-5000 points I think.

A warlock with two guardian bodyguards and a banner. Plus three las cannons.

Same guys from a bit different angle.

Squadron of three warwalker. I like this model a lot more than the newer egg shaped thingie.

Using up one special card and two detechment card slots. But I have three hosts

and having enough special/detachment cards should not be an issue.

Eldar defender warhost

 Eighteen stands of eldar guardian equals a full defender warhost. Worth 450 points in 2nd edition Epic. I gave each detachment a banner with warhost spot color (black) and detachment number on it. With these and black shouder pads one should be able to separate these stands from the eldar warhost guardians I painted earlier.

I´m getting very close to having a 3000 point eldar army completed. With a warlock, war walkers and some support guns I´m working on I should get there sooner than later. If I wanted (and had motivation) I could upgrade these to a eldar warhost by adding nine Falcon grav tanks. Remains to be seen...

A guardian host in making

 Just a quick update. I´m working on an eldar guardian host for epic. Eighteen stands of infantry. It´s quite an easy job but quite dull too. Basing, red base, white helmets, metal guns, black shouders pads  and then highlight with lighter red. As my war host infatry wears all red armor I wanted to add those black shoulder pads to show that these guardian belong to a different unit.

As you can see I´m painting a detachment of war walkers too. The guardian

detachments will have a flag each with a number of detachment on it.

And I painted a 28mm guadian too to show the small scale of epic infantry.

New unit of Boyz

 Here´s another project that was started a few years back and only finished today. Twenty one classic Ruglud´s armored orcs. I remembered having 12 of these painted when I took the bull by the horns and decided now it´s time to complete a unit of 20. When finished I set everyone up for some photos and it turned out that I ended up with 21 tin clad commandos. But that was a happy suprise. They look good in three ranks of seven orcs each.

The whole unit. As I can´t paint much free hand I used transfers for those shields.

And from a different angle.

A close up of one of the troopers. Armor is Typhus corrosion on black base with

Ryza rust and leadbelcher dry brushed on.

Musician, standard bearer and champion.

Sometimes it can take a lot of time - Dark elf war altar

 I think we´ve all been there. You start a new project and for some reason or other you just can´t get it finished. It gets overtaken by something new and more interesting. That´s just what I experienced with this dark elf war altar. Started back in january 2017 it sat in WIP stage for seven years until I finally got around putting the final touches on the model.

The model is made up of five altar guards one of which is carrying a standard and of the altar itself.

The guards in the front are a crew member from a dark elf repeating bolt thrower and

a Marauder miniatures dark elf warrior.

The guards on the back are two witch elfs and the standard bearer another 

crew member of a repeating bolt thrower. All slightly converted for their new roles.

A closer look at the banner itself and it´s bearer.

I wish I could remember what that demon idol was. It used to be part of a larger model that sawed in half to make it fit that wooden platform used to carry it around. It´s large I know but these are religious fanatics and can manage it.

Into the year 2024

 Last year was not as active for hobby activities as I had hoped for. I´ll try my best to do at least a little bit better during 2024. To start off I finished two little minis that I´ve had for a while,

First one is this elf beastmaster war boar. Brown fur with drybrushed higlights.

Black snout, legs and hooves. Bone for tusks and a metal nose ring. Pretty simple.

All six boars I have as a group.

And finally their masters,

The second miniature finished is this Mithril Miniatures M202 Ioreth the healer.

Her face and fingers was almost to small for me to paint.

She will be yet another addition to my ever growing high elf baggage train.

Not sure if just a cup of water will do much good for that fallen elf warrior.

Closing the year 2023 with a bang

 Or actually multiple bangs as the last thing finished for this year is a lead belcher organ gun. With all sorts of things going on there has been not that much time available for hobby activities. Yet I´m happy to have painted at least something. This is one of those models that has sat for months unfinished on my painting station so getting it done was quite satisfying.

My leadbelcher model was missing it´s original wheel that I replaced with 

the ones you see here. And I had only four of the six crew models. 

That is not a problem as per army book the gun comes with three goblin strong crew.

The gun from behind. There´s a lot of details both on the carriage and the gun itself.

And the gun shield is very detailed too.

Another view from the side. Can´t remember where these replacement wheels came from.

Finally Lead belcher organ gun as represented in Army book.

Old School Rhino

 The original Imperial Guard army list published in WD109 back in january 1989 stated that "The Adeptus Mechanicus and Servitors accompanying an Imperial Guard force must be provided with sufficient vehicles to carry them". At the moment my IG army has two Adeptus Mechanicus and four servitors. I chose a rhino APC for their means of transport. It took me a while to get my hands on an original rhino and even longer to finish painting it. It sat in a locker for couple of years undercoated as I was gathering motivation/courage to finish it. My experience on painting vehicles is very limited. Anyway here it is now.

I general I´m pleased with how it turned out. Kept the paint scheme simple and in line with the rest of the army. 

2nd walking egg

 Rougly four years ago I posted an Imperial Guard sentinel I had finished painting. A couple of weeks back I managed to acquire a second walking war egg and quickly threw some paint on it. Two sentinels can be called a recon section, can´t they?

Very simple desert color scheme as with the rest of my Imperial Guard.

Desert yellow, black, leather brown and metal.

A side shot showing the pilot´s laspistol and the metal joints of the sentinel´s legs.

Gnovember is here again

 It appears that both september and orctober vent by with not much hobby activitiest around here. To kick my self out of painting stopur I started working on some Old School miniatures gnome sappers. It´s gnovember anyway.

These guys are small. I have to admit that I had some hard time with those tiny faces and some of the other details too. But they turned out good enough for my standards. These chaps will join their bearded brothers in my slowly growing gnome warband.

Epic eldar spirit host

 As mentioned ia an earlier posting I´m working on a small 2nd edition Epic eldar force along side with other hobby projects. Today I finished a spirit host for that army. A spirit host consists of a warlock, four bases of wraithguard and two squads of dreadnoughts with for dreads in each.

Baggage train group shot

 This is something I´ve been planning for a while but only now on my short vacation got around doing. That is digging out all my high elf baggage train models for a group shot and posting it here. To be honest finding everyone was a bit of a challenge. I have quite a few model cases and did not remember where most of the elves were in. Rummaging through different foam filled bags and boxes I came around miniatures I had somewhat forgotten I had. And eventually found all the elves I was looking for.

Let´s begin with a bird eye view of everyone. Four carts or wagons, sixteen individuals, a few animals, barrels, boxes and few smaller supply items.

In the left back corner an elf weapon smith can be seen holding a new part for a bolt thrower. In front of him a is a pair of merchants leading their horse away from an unlimbered cart.

An artist is about to start a new painting depicting a wounded wardancer. Next to them two youngsters are playing with their wooden swords.

A group of camp followers is spending their time reading and listening to music.

An elf lady is getting some food from a cart while a kid is threatening a goose with his bow.

Here we can see some hay being moved while another cart is getting loaded.

The hay foraging is closely watched by the army´s quartermaster. These elves are army regulars as can be told by their blue and white clothes (my high elves wear those colors). The civilian camp followers have much less uniform clothing.

As I have an elf casualty model lurking somewhere I plan on adding him and a healer of some sort to this group. And I got a tip on a nice elf bowyer model that I intend to buy in near future. So expect to see more of this baggage train in the future.