Alpha Legion - Paint Recipe Part 01

Squad place-holder, ready to sit in the back.

 If you're like me - and prone to the occasional break from things like painting - it may pay to keep a log of how you actually paint your guys.  Or, if you want to make sure a project remains consistent - it pays to keep a log.  In the event anyone else wants to know one of the many ways to do an Alpha Legion paint job, here's what I essentially 'borrowed' (blood raven style) from the way Forge World does theirs.

The opening picture is a finished product with basing and transfers.  The green detailing on the bolters, melee weapons, and fabric serve as squad markings.  These guys are a minimal choice for a battalion or brigade - they exist to fill out a troops choice and provide fire support.

Recipe Part 1 - From Primer to Blue
This part of the entry is going to focus on the alpha legion metallic blue  We'll go from bare mini to "ready for the brush part" here.

Ingredients
Airbrush & associated place, gear to use it
Metallic silver primer
Tamiya Clear Blue
Tamiya Clear Green
MIX of Tamiya Clear Blue and Green (80/20 blue to green)
Flow improver

Step 01 - Prime

Kind of self-explanatory

 Public service announcement - metallic spray paint fumes will go straight to your head.  There's a reason it got used as cheap combat drugs in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Step 2 - Two Coats of The Blue Mix

Hey man, how old is that wash jug? Does it have to be so close?

 This is your real base coat.  You want to be thorough.  A touch of flow improver is your friend with the air brush.  I am not particularly worried about getting this on other parts of the mini that will be other colors.

Step 3 - Green From Below

What did I step in?

 Time for a little depth.  Make sure the first coat is dry and the airbrush got a good cleaning in between everything.  The green exists to help make stuff pop.  When you apply the green, it goes to the bottom bits of the mini.  Honestly, you just about hold the thing upside down and spray it up.

Step 4 - Blue from on high

I'm over the sound of the compressor

After cleaning up and letting the green dry, it's time for the blue.  This is basically the opposite - point the nozzle at the top of the mini - the blue comes straight down, hitting the upper part.  The blue and green serve to add some color and depth to the blue.

End Part 01
At this point, you can kiiiind of see the contrast in the blue.  And that's fine - but if you're seeing a mostly-blue blob after a lot of cleanup, that's normal.  Where this is going to ultimately pop is when the trim goes on.

Note that the trim is also kind of when some of the crying starts.  (Especially if you have new Chaos Marine kits, or want to run multiple Lords Discordant, because that's a small model with 3 square feet of trim.)

KDK - Hobby Post

No tactics this time out - just getting back into the wonderful world of painting. Ok, I mean, I got back into it already, but I've seriously enjoyed painting the bigger stuff for Daemonkin.  The Bloodthirster kit is prettty sweet.

Here's Johnny!

...and there goes Johnny

Shot from above.  Which is safer than looking up from below, amiright?

Cannon - AKA 'thing that gets summoned and fires a pie plate'

I'm pretty thrilled with the base on this big 'un.

DRIVE US CLOSER! WE WANT TO HIT IT WITH OUR SWORDS!

Blast from the past - the weapon conversion is cuz one broke and I'm not pinning it.

New sculpts - plastic is nice.

These won't be the only Khorne Dogs I paint.

How to Strip Paint from Plastic Models

What? A product review on Raptor's blog? What's going on? Is he bribed, brainwashed, or did he just not open the door in the workshop? None of the above. I actually found an amazing product for removing paint from plastic minis, and I felt the need to share.

It's called 'Krud Kutter Graffiti Remover.' If you're like me, you might be a bit...frugal. (Or just a cheap bum. Also good, right? I like honesty sometimes.) Now, metal models are a pain in the butt in terms of customization (and often pinning, for that matter) but it is very easy to remove the paint from them. It involves a glass you'll never drink out of again, and some acetone.

In fairness, if you're willing to take time and be both patient and quick, you can dunk plastic models in acetone and scrub them real quick, but this is sometimes known as Asking For Trouble, for if you're too long the plastic gets infirm.

Now, the the directions say to spray the surface and let it sit, but I found it more useful to simply pour some of the Krud Kutter out (...man, I feel like an ork when I type it out...) and cut it with a little water to make it go further. It's safe to soak plastic stuff in overnight, though it probably works faster. Afterwards, attack it with the good ol' toothbrush. You might need to soak it twice, but no more, and it works a WHOLE LOT FASTER than the standby of Simple Green.

The only downside? It is a little more expensive than Simple Green, but I believe you can get more actual WORK out of the Krud Kutter (WAARGH!) per unit volume (since the paint softens up, but doesn't necessarily flake off and darken/pollute the solution like I've had with Simple Green).

Anyways, that's your quarterly painting advice from the Raptor. Enjoy.

Also, it doesn't have NEARLY the distinct smell that Simple Green does.

Painted Tyrannofex

So, I finished painting this monstrous, walking gun-beast thing. I've constructed a white backdrop for pictures, and attempted to locate a better camera than the one I've sort of been given. (There was a reason it was a 'gift'...)

Enjoy. The thing was fun to convert, though my paint scheme came out a bit bluer than I'd thought, but I kinda like it. at any rate, I don't feel like stripping this one and 20 Termagants.

Terminator Project, Tau Pictures

The next part of the 'Flow' series will be up in time. Right now, it's one exam down and out, and another one in the pipes next week. In lieu of a writing update, you get pictures.
Here is Squad 5 of the Green Templar. The capes are scratch-cast, the tabards are all GS'ed, and the shoulders are inspired by Ron's pre-heresy shoulder pads. The burst cannon credit goes to Stelek, and the fact I have a Tau army. The green streaks on the paint job were inspired by this fellow. I'm not entirely sure that the streaks are visible in the picture, but ah well.

Speaking of the Tau, here's the last squad of Crisis Suits. I got a paycheck, and promptly blew some on the Greater Good.

Finally, here are the Piranhas. I've modified them to have the Multi-Tracker (the one on the right) and the Disruption Pod (one on the left). Mmm, scanners and ECM.

I am reasonably satisfied with how they all came out.

Eldar Pictures, and 100th post nonsense

And so, after just about 4 full months, I've reached the arbitrary '100 posts' mile stone. Funny, we talked about milestones in Contract Management today...so it goes.

For your entertainment/edification/what-have-you (and my Eldar-oriented readers) I have proof that I have not abandoned the pointy-eared
old arrogant guys (or gals). I took the plunge and painted up the Howling Banshee squad I'd acquired some time ago from Xardian.

They started white, got hit with warlock purple + wash o' Leviathan Purple. Then add ice blue to the cloth bits and jewels, Asurmen blue for the cloth, and white + bleached bone + Devlan Mud to the white and gold bits. Weapons are red + Baal Red wash. The basing is Xard's GS basing, and I think I'm going to just carry that through the rest of the army.

The next exhibit is my Princess Yriel(ette?) conversion. Banshee body with arm switches, and a scratch-made cloak. In part this is a test of whether or not I'll be using these cloaks on my Deathwing conversions, but I'm liking it thus far.

That Promised Musing

Looking back, I think I'm pretty prolific. Then again, I've been unemployed since I started this blog. Make no mistake, I like the spare time, but...amusingly enough, I'm pretty much out of stuff to paint.

Ok, technically, I've stripped some of my Eldar and have plans to re-work them, but my ability to purchase things has...dropped. There's that whole 'no money' thing. Kind of amusing, but also kind of annoying. (Well, not 'kind of', I'd really like to get a damn job and get on with life rather than just stay in school a bit longer).

Even when I do get a job and my 40k time wanes, I intend to keep on updating this. I feel, in part, if I've a mission/talent? Contribute clearly-written, well-reasoned articles. I like to think I'm usually responsive to comments, and will entertain alternative viewpoints. Most any tactical article I toss up here gets some revision, and I try to write 'em up and send them to From The Warp because some of their army sections are just woefully incomplete.

I feel like I'm competitive, but for me, part of the fun is trying to win. Figure out how the army works, what compnents are good, how to form them into a good list, and then how to wield them properly. I feel like I've progressed with the Eldar (but not perfected them), and I think there's plenty of Tau learning to do. I'm going to try to do a bit less in the way of little list tweaks, just to figure out the full impact of it. Ideally, I'll lock it down to a few lists and streamline my collection.

Am I against fluff? ...fluff got me into the game, thanks. I've a hefty shelf of 40k novels. The hobby? I think that's also important; that's why I've been trying to work on Daemons and also the Deathwing. While winning's fun and the tactical game is fun, I also feel like I've emphasized trying to have a neat-looking army.

Competitive vs. 'fun'? Bull. Competitive AND Hobby

I think when you get down to it, there's this strange misconception that you're either having fun, OR winning. There's some mutual exclusivity.

I won't lie; I think some of us are playing different versions of 40k. There's competition, and there's hobby. I have nothing against either; I think the Deathwing and any Daemon list I come up with might have some 'hard' components, but I think they're more fun. I think the Tau list I'll end up using is more killy, but I think you can still get a theme on.

At the end, I have no animosity against 'hobby' folks. I think I do a bit of both, though my strengths lie more towards coming up with and trying to explain tactics/blowing up the other guy.

I do think, though, that both extremes of the continuum can acknowledge each other, admit there's a difference, and just get on with life. I suppose the most recent example is the BoLS-Con. I admit, I'm scratching my head at the winning list. I think there's a good lesson here about learning your army; you can pull internet tactics all you want (and learn from them), but there's still practice.

(as an aside? I am totally envious of the skill/time/effort put into that Tyranid army).

Getting back to it, the tournament was run differently than others, to my understanding. The pace, and all that were different.

My ultimate take on this? Always put news in context; this is no exception. We're people, we're stuck with bounded rationality. I don't care whatever your classes have taught you about people. We're lazy. We don't always do our homework, and sometimes we'll just flat-out ignore inconvenient facts. Don't be that. Do your homework, and be honest with yourself.

That's me, at least, and maybe I'm a stickler for it because of some scientific method training.

Anyway, enough aimless pondering for the day. Give yourself a cookie if you wandered through this last section in depth.*

*I learned the hard way not to promise cookies. I still owe Xardian one for a gutsy deep strike. Never seen anyone pull off so many risky deep-strikes. LUCK OF THE DEVIL.

Kroot Squads

Another painted update? Wow. I must be feeling ambitious. These are my Kroot squads.

The squads are differentiated by...hair color. It's not like Kroot actually have that many ways to distinguish themselves as squads, so here we go. There are a grand total of 34 kroot here. Yay, meat shields!

You might notice a difference between the guys on the left, and the guys on the right. The ones on the left are my counts-as Kroot Hounds. They're simply Kroot that have fed on predators and developed a taste for stabbing the crap out of whatever they can really, really fast. The kroot on the right are the more garden-variety kroot that are fine whacking things with kroot rifles, or using the boom-stick portion. What matters to them is that they eat.

Both squads are 17 strong. This means you have to kill 5 of them to force a morale check, which should be reasonably difficult. Most of the time, anyway. We'll see, though. I'm reasonably pleased with how they came out, and I think the Kroot Stalkers (the counts-as hounds) are sufficiently different from the regular ones.

Piranha Number 1

I mixed up a batch of snow basing material. I think I've got that down, but now I figured I would share pictures.

This is one member out of the Piranha squadron, or "WEEEE! We're in your face with a meltagun!" It's like all those annoying attention-whore, loud, high-pitched whiny children you never want to deal with, except it kills you if you ignore it.

I'm not much a fan of the flying bases, since they tend to break. In fact, this guy's hole had already been filled by a busted peg. So, we apply the magnet to it. Good old rare earth magnets to the rescue. As you can see, the flying base has a big one on it (superglued to a piece of plasticard, which is in turn plastic-cemented to the stick). The Gun Drones have a small magnet on the bottom, and a small magnet on top of the base. Considering that the Piranhas are not too hard to destroy (AV 11/10/10 open-topped, after all) I think it's safe to say I'll be needing to slap the gun drones onto their bases pretty regularly.

Sadly, I don't yet have Piranha #2 (unemployment and all...kinda can't go out and drop $30 on 'im). The they'll be a happy little short-lived squad. Planned kit is a Disruption Pod for the 4+ cover save, and then gear for +1BS, and the ability to multi-target with the squad's weapons. Their role is harassment, contesting, and blocking up movement lanes. They're also quite expendable in those roles.

I'm pretty satisfied with the paint job, as I think it gets across the 'weathered, worn, and long in the field' look I'm aiming for with the cadre. I think there are a lot of sharp, crisp, clean Tau armies out there, and I want my grubby blue guys to stand out. It's the Greater Good, but they're a little tired and could use a few weeks R & R.

Tau Broadside Team Conversion

You were all promised pictures of Tau conversions the other night. Well, I deliver (you SAVE! Or something like that). As you can see, I've cobbled together the Broadsides I intend to run. I have spoken on them in other posts, and I have indeed drawn inspiration from the Battletech Rifleman IIC. This conversion uses pieces of the Mechwarrior: Age of Destruction Ghost. Specifically, I borrowed the lower legs, cockpit, and side of the torso. The missile pods are from an Age of Destruction model as well. The arm guard is from the Eldar grav tanks, and the guns are a mix of fusion blasters and plasticard tubing.

Overall, I think it gives the Broadside a much more imposing look. It's obviously derived from the XV-8 suit (as per the fluff), but it looks bulkier and more armored.

The Shield Drone antennae (as well as the Crisis Suit's single antennae) are sawed-off Pulse Rifles. Hey, you kitbash your Pathfinders off the Fire Warrior kit (which is much more cost effective, BTW) and you'll have spare rifles. The 'radar dish' on top is from the Skyray kit; it's the Markerlight mount cemented into place with some Green Stuff.

Naturally, the bases lack the snow. I intend to run one more batch of snow, as I see no need to waste it, and it's easier to mix up in larger batches. Right now I'd have a handful more bases to do, and the Crisis Suits. I intend to run the team thusly:

2 XV-88 Broadside Suits (2x70)

Each w/ Advanced Stabilization System (for the required battlesuit support system) (2x10)

One w/ Upgrade to Team Leader (5)

-Drone Controller w/ 2 Shield Drones (30)

-Hard-wired Target Lock (5)

Total: 200pts.

The team can move and shoot (so I don't lose a turn of shooting to clever maneuvering, or the need to backpedal. More for the move/shoot). The Drones are there to keep the unit alive longer, as someone needs to eat that krak missile/lascannon/other instant death thing. The Target Lock lets me share the Railgun love.

More pictures to come: Kroot squads, the Piranha, and I need good shots of the Fire Warriors.

Tau pictures looming

A quick teaser:

I've finally finished building/converting the Broadsides. I primed them tonight, and intend to get them painted up in the next couple days, so we can all see how the Rifleman-inspired buggers do. Included with them will be the Piranha, and the Kroot that have been done for a bit. I'm finishing up the last two 'hounds' (I mean ninja Kroot, or Kroot Lancers? Something like that.)

You'll also notice a lot of the up-and-coming bases will be lacking snow, but I'll be doing them as a batch.

If I end up real productive, I'll have a WIP Crisis Suit or two with me.

For the Tau army in general, I lack:
-1 Piranha
-about 5 Crisis Suits
-Some components for the second Hammerhead (Railgun, etc.)

Amazing how close it is to completion, since it doesn't feel nearly done. I need to break it out and get it onto the tabletop some.

The Hammerhead and Vypers

Now, normally I think Tau tanks look pretty sweet as-is. It's part of the aesthetic that drew me to the Tau to begin with. Well, this Hammerhead came to me in a trade, albeit not in this form. The form was not pleasing to my eye, and included bits from a Skyray, and some other random stuff. So, I modded it up. The engines got repositioned, and I used the Skyray missile hangar-wing as a set of stubby winglets. Some of the inspiration comes from Descent 3's old Magnum, which is in the bottom left. This Hammerhead has some cleanup here and there, and the base is incomplete, but you get the idea. I'm reasonably satisfied with the rugged-looking paint job; the problem with committing to such vast expanses of a single color is making it look INTERESTING, and I think I pulled that off.

I'm also pretty happy with the way my Vypers came out. They're mottled in grays (fortress gray, space wolf gray, and skull white, actually) to match the same basic thing my Eldar have going on. Same goes for the gold canopies. I got both of these in a trade; one was fully magnetized and one was in the box. When I say 'fully magnetized', I mean the thing could be taken fully apart, the guns were magnetized, etc. I tweaked that one a bit, and instead of popping the whole front canopy assembly off, I just moved a magnet to the chin turret, and kept the gunner's turret magnetized as it was.

I think the two configs I'd run Vypers in are double shuriken cannon (Seen here) and catapult/scatter laser. Even if I don't end up changing loadouts often, I can still track damage readily.

Tau (et al) Progress Report, 6-6-09

So, for the record, I am not idle in my modelling.

Having no job is a biiit of a downer in terms of getting stuff together, but I'm sitting on a Space Marine army that's dwindling as I sell it off, and actually about half the Tau stuff I need for my army. As it is, though, I've settled on my scheme and I've a Crisis Suit conversion drying on the bench and waiting for Primer.

The paint scheme, as an aside, will be the Bork'an scheme (out of the ones I tested out, I liked it the most because it's sharp looking and not hard to replicate, and it gives me room on the vehicles and suits).

The army, at current, looks like....

10 Crisis Suits
Own 5, testing out conversions on one.

6-12 Fire Warriors
12 assembled, primed, and have their gray coat on in front of me now.

32 Kroot
2 assembled/primed for testing purposes. Need to figure out if I'm going to bite it and get the doggy things from Fantasy, or model up Kroot Ninja for the hounds.

8 Pathfinders
All 8 assembled, primed, and gray-coated in front of me.

1-2 Devilfish
Own one, need to strip it and convert it to the Smart Missiles, but I've the bits for that.

2 Hammerheads
Own one, finishing up the conversion work on it. A little putty here and there....

2 Piranhas
Own one; it's partially assembled and in the box it shipped to me in.

Other Armies...
I suppose in fairness (and to get my lazy self painting more) I should mention how they're doing.

Eldar
Dire Avengers
I need to finish up detailing the masks and basing the last few to get 'em up to 30 total.

Seer Council
I need to finish painting that errant Farseer, slap her on her bike, and touch up the rest.

Grav Tanks
I REALLY should e-bay enough stuff to get magnets to magnetize the Wave Serpent turrets, and remove them in a way that lets me magnetize them.

The Fire Prism/Falcon bodies need to be assessed for whether or not they're going to remain Falcon bodies. Much as I kind of like the Falcons, I'm rapidly questioning the utility of 3 BS3 S8 shots when I can get an energy field and a twin-linked BS3 bright lance for only a little more. Plus, it's roomier inside.

Wraithguard
Complete

Fire Dragons
Complete, just recently. I should slap up a pic.

Prince Yriel
Figure out how I want to model him. I WILL be running him, much to Xardian's chagrin I'm sure. Except if I use that model, it's Princess Yrielette and the...y'know, the wrath joke in there is in terrible taste, and I'll resist for the time being.

Rangers
10 complete, 5ish stripped and waiting for me to figure out if I want to do anything with them.

Warp Spiders
In the process of stripping so I can e-bay their worthless selves.

Daemons
There's actually very little to do here; it's just been forever since I've broken them out. I am fighting the urge to do so again after tweaking 'em, but they will always be a 'fun' army. They just CANNOT kill vehicles reliably enough, even with Fiends.

Fiends
I'm not satisfied with the current ones. However, they're holding 'til I can raise the $$$ to order Milliput in sufficient quantities to redo 15-18 of the boggarts. That's a decent amount of Milliput, or a few good auctions whenever I get around to setting up a Paypal account.

Daemon Princes
I really want to like my Wraithlords, but I'm not really convinced I'm ever going to field 3. I might yet break down and look for actual DP models, but at the moment I've some stand-ins.

Tau Test Schemes

The front view...in the 12 o'clock position there's the Bork'an. Clockwise, we move to Sa'cea's blues, to D'yanoi's browns, then to the gray with red cloth as seen in Cities of Death.

And the back.

I'm rather partial to Bork'an's scheme. It's not hard to do it looking somewhat beat-up, and it gives me an excuse to combine a couple of techniques on basing.

Recipes used:

Bork'an

White primer. Codex gray basecoat. Thinned chaos black wash to bring out the lines. Drybrush armor with fortress gray, skull white. Sept markings in hawk turqoise, then ice blue. Rifle in black.

Base: texturing with thin layer of Squadron Green Putty, scuffed up w/ toothpick. Paint brown, then wash w/ devlan mud. Snow from this interesting tutorial with found items.

Sa'cea

White primer. Basecoat in codex gray. Base armor in ultramarines blue. Drybrush armor w/ fortress gray, then ice blue. Wash model in thinned-down black. Gun in black, sept markings in orange.

D'yanoi

White primer. Wash cloth with thinned chaos black, drybrush with skull white. Base armor in brown, then wash with devlan mud. Black gun, sept markings as Bork'an.

Cities of Death-esque Tau

White primer. Red gore cloth, codex gray armor. Muted with thinned chaos black. Drybrush armor, gun w/ fortress gray, lighter drybrush on higher areas w/ skull white.

I believe I've found my scheme for my Tau, and the mud/snow base helps the scheme pop.

The pictures would show the more textured look of the Bork'an armor, save that the camera's got no zoom. My girlfriend loaned it to me, then got a better one for her birthday, so for the time being I get a 'free' camera. (Olympus D360L, dunked in water a few times, dropped a few times, but STILL going.)

Tau Schemes, Part 2

I've been brainstorming paint schemes for my upcoming Tau army, though admittedly army expansion is waiting on more trades/me getting a job. Not having an income is...an inconvenience, to sya the least. That aside, here's some of what I pulled from Soulstorm's army painter. It is a bit limited in that it's got a very set pattern, but it does let me get quick and easy shots of a paint scheme.


The Bork'an scheme doesn't look too hard to pull off. Prime, slap the black cloth with some codex gray drybrushing, then do the white armor (drybrushing, maybe a thin black wash?) and then paint light blue squad markings. It looks a bit parade to me, or suggests I do some snow/urban basing.


I have to admit I'm a bit drawn to the D'yanoi scheme. It has a slight concession to parade colors, but the brown and white looks like a badlands scheme to me.



I think the other one out of here that catches me is the Sa'cea scheme. The military blue-gray looks tidy, though I'm not entirely sure what locale it would actually fit into. An ice world, maybe?

The Tau'n scheme also looks sharp, but the white's bothering me in that it looks more parade than anything else.

The Vior'la scheme looks like a very pale green with red and gray trimming. It looks a bit military, but that kind of pale gray makes me think more of an airborne type of unit.

Tau Schemes

I've decided to finally give in to my urge and start a Tau army, and to that end...well, I've taken a hint from Stelek's take on hybrid Tau. I'm also not a fan of the basic parade-scheme Tau, so it's out.

The army will include Kroot, Fire Warriors, tanks, and Crisis Suits. As such, I need to check out good ways to paint 'em.

I want to do some conversion work on my Tau, just to personalize them a little bit. What can I say? I'm a fan of doing at least some conversion work.

I've seen some sweet olive drab-ish Tau over at Warhammer Tau. I'm also fond of his conversions. I like the bulked-up torso, and the head-mods. I can't say I'm that fond of the bog-standard head.

I like the head conversions that Stelek's got on his Tau army, as well. The white and blue is sharp, but it's a bit bright for me.

If I do go a parade scheme, I admit I'm a bit attracted to the new-school Jade Falcon stuff Wizkids released a bit ago. Primarily black, green accents, and some gold here and there. If I go conversions, I can see if I've got wings to cast, and use the beaky heads as well. I just have to get someone to cast 'em, or cast 'em myself...

Admittedly, I aslo kind of want to do a bit of a camo-scheme as well. I'd want to do something simpler. I came across this sample of just a gently-striped gray. Simple two-toned scheme.

The other vague inspiration is salt-weathering. Jon's Vendettas (I could call 'em Valks, but I think I'll see 'em more as a triple-las threat...) are proof that it can turn out sharp, though I wonder how that'll look on Crisis Suits. I'd combine this with one of the more 'practical' schemes, to make it look like a Hunter Cadre that's been on the field for a time.

Dire Avengers w/ Avatar WIP

Here, we've the first complete squad of what will be 2-3 Dire Avenger squads. These are the old-school metal models. The head crest will be a helpful reminder of which transport they're riding, and if you look a couple posts down you'll see their WIP Wave Serpent.

As a 'teaser', here's the modified Avatar I'm working at for the force.

Khorne Loving

Skarbrand of the Forge, from the front.

Skarbrand of the Forge, from the back. The base is a customized Eldar 60mm job with some green stuff. Skar himself is a modified Bel'akor, the Dark Master. I'm pretty satisfied with how he came out.

This is my response to the fact that Bloodcrushers are $25USD a head. I can get Chaos Knights for about $22 for five, and then 60mm bases for cheap as well. So for the price of less than two Bloodcrushers, I can get a squad of seven. The rest of the buddies need a bit of washing and then basing, but you get the general idea.

Wave Serpents WIP

I'm a bit proud of the stippling on this, but here's a shot of the Wave Serpents. And with the proper photoshop masks, you can actually SEE the stuff. They need cockpit class and the guns, and a little highlighting on the intakes, and work on the engines, but THEY ARE CLOSE.

Then 3 Falcons, then wraithlords, and later the Seer Council. Not necessarily in that order.

Fateweaver

Behold, the mech-daemons Fateweaver conversion.

Bits used:

Tau Crisis Suit

Warriors of Chaos banner bits

Wings hacked from a little swan toy

Green Stuff

I need to get back on the ball and do a little bit of touchup work here and there, but you get the idea.

The Daemons of Chaos are my little conversion project...I've got more pics to take, and they include...

Soul Grinders

Skarbrand

Daemon Prince

Bloodcrushers (conversion)

Counts-as Plaguebearers

Fiends (that are going to get redone, but still...)

And eventually Horrors

Wraithguard, Rangers

The Rangers

The Rangers, again.

Wraithguard, from the front.

More pictures to come.