More Chaos Renegades

You just can't keep a good renegade down.  After my joy at seeing how the CRM bodies looked with the Victoria Lamb Penal Legion bits I decided to see how the flagellants would look.  I've got a unit of about 20 of these guys kitted with close combat weapons and pistols.  I'm not really fond of how they look though.  So I thought I would try the penal legion arms on them.  I instantly love it.  I wanted to swap out the heads too.  Give them something more 40k-ish.  Victoria Lamb had some really nice bald heads with rebreathers that I picked up and have a bit of carving it looked pretty good.  So I will probably do a unit of 20 of these guys to be Conscripts.








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New Chaos Renegades

How many renegades are too many renegades?  I'm not sure but I'm not there yet, but may be getting close...

Victori Lamb just release some resin version of her Penal Legion in bits.  They are beautiful!  I had to get some and see how they would look for the CRM bodies.  I think they look great, so much so that I made a full unit of them.  If I had it to do over again I would use the legs and arms for all of them.




 

Life Slowly Returning to Normal...

So things are slowly starting to return to what passes are normal around here.  I was able to carve out a little time and get these Kromlech orcs assembled.  These are some of the finest orcs models I have had the pleasure of assembling.  They went together very well, everything fit nicely and the detail is amazing.  I'll get a pic shortly next to a GW Megaork for comparisons sakes.  I highly recommend these models if you want to add some heavy hitters to your ork WAAAGH!

That was quick

After a couple of months in Portland I have realized that its not the place for me.  I'm not going to get in to the reasons why.  I'l; be heading back to North Texas at the end of the month.  I can't wait to get home...

Moving back to the PNW

I'm heading back up to Oregon next week.  I'm moving to Portland Oregon.  If anyone knows of a good gaming group that is hobby/fun centric let me know.  Its a real pain packing...even a bigger pain driving 2400 miles...

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Did a bit of airbrushing...

I have not touched a paint brush since the first of the year sadly.  However, this past weekend I was able to break out the airbrush and get a little work done a few new models.

First off the Decimator.  I love the model, the legs are a bit of a pain to get positioned right but worth the hassle.

Next up was the Hell Talon/Blade.  I can never remember which is which....

Then finally is the ork fighta.   I know blue is not the traditional color of the ork fightas but I wanted something different and I was tired of painting red.  Plus all my ork vehicles are blue so it fits.

After doing several layers and getting the colors the way I wanted them I went back and sealed them with a satin coat.  This will keep other inks, washes and glazes from distorting the final air brush color.  The air brush paint can be porous which can sometimes adsorb the washes and distort the end result.

I actually did a few other items as well but didn't get them completed.  So still on the air brush work bench are 2 triarch stalkers, 3 acenthrites, 1 squiggoth, 9 penal legion, and 1 test marine, iron hands.

Small unit of Chaos Marines

I ordered these heads/shoulder pads from Puppetwars because I thought they look cool.  I really like them, very evil and twisted looking.  These would be great for Iron Warriors, Fabius Bile's augmented CSM or just about any other units but I think those two are great.  I may order another set and flush out the unit.

The melta gun is from Maxmini, I just like the alternate look of the gun.

I want my tzeench termies to have combi plasma guns.  But such a thing doesn't exist.  So using the combi flamer and the plasma bit off the obliterator sprues I made this.  I'm sure if I like it or not.  Looks sort of like a hack job, which it is, but I dont have a ton of time any more.  So I'm wondering if you think it looks good enough to get by with.

Adeptus Arbite and Penal Legion

Using bits from various sources I built a test model for an Adeptus Arbite and some penal legionaries.
The power maul and riot shields are actually two items I designed for MaxMini so I wanted to see how they looked.  I used Maxmini legs, torso and head.  The arms are from FW enforcers and militias with a hand added on to hold the shield.

The penal legion is just Victoria Lambs penal legion torsos and legs, her arms and the heads are from Maxmini.  Victoria Lamb makes some penal legion heads which look good but I wanted to try out the new heads from Maxmini,

Chaos Space Marine Raptors

Before the new CSM Raptors came out I had built my own.  I really didn't care for the older ones and I just wanted CSM with jump packs.  I wanted them to be followers of khorne.  I finally finished putting them together.  The jump packs are from maxmini (yes I love their bits).  Oh yeah, I also used their Nuclear Guns for my melta guns.

I think they turned out pretty good.  The new rules for them with the mark of Khorne and the Icon make them pretty fast and hard hitting.