Nope, not forgotten about you, my droogs...

With the usual holiday nonsense and my other book project, it is hard to keep this thing updated. My bad.

I just had an evilgasm....

And another F-ing Landraider....

In case you have not been vigilant in your watching of new releases, Forgeworld has come out with another pre-heresy design based on the "classic" landraider from over 20 years ago, referred to as the Proteus. Experimental rules can be found here.

Now, with that out of that way; as one who has bought/owned over a dozen of landraiders over the years to the point that my spouse has threatened divorce if I brought yet another one into the house, and this carries little weight with me, I have to ask: "Do we really need another landraider variant?"
Yes, it is pretty and more than likely the shakes will not stop until I get my hands on one, yes yes my precious.... but for the sake of the hobby/game, shouldn't other such toys get more effort put into releasing than an already heavily supported Imperial(insert flavor)/Chaos Marine factions?

Dreading over dreadnaughts....

Had the happy experience of getting a package this afternoon from Forgeworld, even though it took them over three weeks to get here, and the box was dented, which is why my neighbors heard a blood curdling scream...
Any ways, had ordered two of the contemptor dreadnaughts, and a few arms to go with them.
First thoughts so far, as with anything Forgeworld, "What the hell did I get myself into?" First thing that struck me is that at least one dread has some problems with the casting, some of the resin did not flow right and appears gummy on the flash bits. Body has a couple of holes that will need putty work done.
Second thing, my odd luck resulted in one contemptor is of the regular version, and the other is the relic, which is not available or on the website from what I can tell. Go fig.
Design wise, it fits together like an old GI Joe or Transformers toys, all of the major joints are ball and socket, poses are nearly unlimited in what you can do. Was planning on magnetizing some of the arms, but will have to put some more thought into it before doing anything.

Radical Inquisitor band

Another visit to the old dusty shelf of yesteryear...
This was an attempt at doing a radical inquisitor army, using rules from both the Daemon and Witch hunter books.

I think I started this about the same time or shortly after I did my last Black Legion army, and carried over some of the animal themes I tried to do with them. One example of this can be seen in the gun servitors, which were wolves that had their heads replaced with either heavy bolters or a multi melta. The other was in a few squads of mutants that filled out the ranks made from fantasy beastmen, most armed with HTH weapons and a few flamers.

One of the other things I tried to do was making at least three daemon hosts, all made from just plastic parts and putty. I limited myself to just these materials to kind of challenge myself, and to see what I could do. Was only able to finish the Khorne and Nurgle hosts before other RL issues started to encroach in on my free time, and eventually lost interest. I really wish I still had some pics of the Slaaneesh one that I had half way finished at the time. In the shot with the Khorne and Nurgle hosts, you can see a psyker that I had made from a fantasy banshee model. This is one of the few models that I regret rushing so quickly, could have done much more with her.

The inquistor himself was one of the models I was most proud of, using a old old figure as the base, and then did an arm swap on both limbs to change the weapons out. This inquisitor has always been one of my favorites from the early days of the hobby.

The henchmen were another interesting attempt at doing something different. The two acoyltes were made from space marine commanders with knight lord heads. The psyker/telepath was an old citedal figure from one of their older board games.

What was also not seen in the video were the three inquisitorial imperial guard units that I had done in addition to the army, each with their own chimera transport. The turrets were replaced with space marine razorback turrets to represent the better equipment that they would have access to. I used a lot of flamer weapons in their armament as well, all the better for purging.



Like many other armies, this was sold as well when I lost my job to cover bills. I regret it, and every now and then think about starting over again on another one like it. But of course, not sure about it being worth the cost, might be better to just create a few units that could work with my other imperial army.

Also just realized that I recognized one of my other conversions in the background on the right, a space marine libarian with a power glove, which is annoying since I finished painting him right before the revised the codex, again.

It's annoying when you notice similarities between different things...

I have not had a lot of time as of late to do much conversion work, but while putzing about the internets for other things, I noticed something a little disturbing...

This is the current NightLord Daemon Prince that I have been working on prior.


Night Lords Daemon Prince wip




Something about his head kind of bothered me a little since it felt like there was something familiar about it. Then it hit me...

He looks like Pennywise from the Stephen King novel "IT."

It's been over a week since last post. Great, now I went and started to already procrasinate....