Spotlight On: Tyranid Flying Hive Tyrant & Toxicrene!

Say hello to my flying Hive Tyrant. 

He's a very friendly chap. 

And here's my ever-friendly Toxicrene!

I painted them using a blend of yellows starting with something dark and almost orange - a series of paints I picked up from B&Q in tester pots made to my specifications.

Spotlight On: Kataphron Battle Servitors

For the next unit in my Adeptus Mechanicus force, we have these Kataphron Battle Servitors. 

I was desperate to get them but strangely went off them as soon as I did. Having said that, they are cool. After doing a bit of research online I ended up giving them the grav cannon loadout. This seemed good and also moved away from the plasma weapons I usually go with.

The whole point of this force is to explore the weird and wacky, not tread the usual paths, so... we'll see what they're like in-game.

Spotlight On: Chaos Space Marine Daemon Prince

I was desperate to get this dude when he came out.

He was a very exciting miniature when he was first released and remains the best Chaos Space Marine Daemon Prince model so far. What is going on with the Nurgle one's eye? And the newer one is one of the worst miniatures I've ever seen with it's weird blocky muscles and odd expression.

I used the wings off the Orc Wyvern, blending them in with multi-purpose filler so as to maximise his close combat potential. There's nothing worse than a powerful model getting shot as it shambles slowly across the board.

Originally I painted the daemonic parts purple to go with the crappy Tzeentchian look I was going for but gave him an overhaul recently. Khorne red is a much bolder and more violent colour and ties in with his combat orientation as well.

Obviously the hand with the weird long fingers had to go.

It amazes me that GW though the first freaky long-fingered hand was so good they just had to copy the style for the latest one. I went with some writhing tentacles made from milliput with clawed neds made from little slices of blister pack plastic.

My finest hour? Maybe not. But they do the job. And they're okay.

And they sure beat those crazy fingers!

On the Painting Table: Grey Knight Dreadnought

I originally painted this guy some time ago but I decided to give him a bit of a revamp. Using Grey Knight spare parts! 

He does look cool with the Dreadknight hammer I whacked on there. Nobody is going to mess with this guy.

I went for the banner from the Terminator box but MAN I hated painting it!!!!! I bodged it in the end just to get it done. It looks alright I suppose but needs redoing someday.

(A.K.A. never) 

Putting the Dreadknight hammer on involved a bit of masking. I stuck a shield and an icon on to cover up what I couldn’t file off.

(Shrugs)

Looks alright!

On the Painting Table: Grey Knights Dreadknight

Man! I painted this dude ages ago but realised yesterday that I hadn’t put him on my blog!!!!

This is one of those truly cool models that have to be bought. Though I was determined to have an unusual pose (rather than the normal arms symmetrically out). After deciding to make him a gun platform primarily I went for a firing stance. 

I’m not a huge helmet-off kind of guy with my Little Men.

Nuff said on that subject.

It really is a towering model and lovely for a centre piece. I’m determined to finish my Grey Knights now and don’t have too many left to paint.

I followed my usual rule with this model:

Use at least three shades of colour on each part of the model (including the base!).

That seems to serve me pretty well. 

Spotlight On: A'rrse Bandit & the Bugg'erz

Heh.

Continuing my spotlight on the amusingly named elements of my Ork army, allow me to present A'rrse Bandit and the Bugg'erz.

They are Ork Kommandos that I wanted to make a bit unique well before the most recent models came out from GW.

So I asked what imagery I associated with commandos. My brother, Pod, was really into army as a kid (he's cutting back now so only owns four or five guns). He furnished me with quite a cool picture of commandos in my mind that involved tough sneaky men in black woolly hats. 

A fresh batch of milliput later and Bob is indeed your uncle.

These dudes always get their ass kicked in the game before they do anything interesting but they do look cool so who cares!

This dude's cool. I stole the idea from a White Dwarf but it turned out I had to grind away his lower jaw to fit the knife in.

And finally one of the classic Burna Boyz!

With the addition of a woolly hat he is a cuddly part of the team!

And there you have it!

A'rrse Bandit and the Bugg'erz!

(naughty snigger)

Well... It amuses me.