Stylehammer...

...at least a bit. And maybe an argument for true line of sight?

Just wanted to share a picture taken during one of our latest games. More of that coming soon...

Cheers

Black Templar Sword Brethren Terminators

A squad of Assault Terminators I painted some months ago while I had some time off and no Tyranids to paint.
This squad took me about 2 years from arrival of the forge world stuff to finished minis...

I think this conversion idea is about as old as the BT upgrade sprue and someone has won a Golden Demon Award with such a conversion. I had to copy that. The heads are knight heads from MicroArt Sudios, as well as the bases.

Forgeworld Avatar: new pictures

Greetings,

As you might remember, Trotzki painted the Avatar from Forgeworld some months ago. And since he wasn't happy with the pictures he made and they truly didn't to justice to his amazing work, he gave him to me to hopefully take some better pictures. And so I did my best.
Here he is again (click on the pictures to enlarge):  

The Avatar of Kaela Mensha Khaine

In my eyes he truly did an outstanding job. The contrast between the burning parts and the blue Alaitoc colours springs out really nicely.
So that's it. What do you think?

Hive fleet Nidhoeggr: some pics

Greetings,
so at last I have some pics of my flyrant and some more of my growing hive fleet. I baptized it Nidhoeggr after the dragon from norse mythology who feeds on the dead and the roots of the world tree.
So first off, the Flyrant:

 

And a pic from a game against the imperial guard where his enormous wing span becomes apparent: this fellow is really huge, hiding impossible.

And some more photos from from my Trygon and Trygon Prime I haven't shown yet:

The Trygon Prime smashing some tanks:

Venomthropes drawn to the front for the kill:

And finally the Flyrant and some Ymgarl genestealer fighting the elite of the Imperium: Grand Marshal Hermann and his terminator guard:

That's it for the moment. When I have more to show you'll find it here.

We have returned (and some wip pics)

Hey all!

After taking a rather long break from WH40k and an even longer time from blogging at least I am going to post again here! So without further boring you  with why taking a break, I want to share with you my current project!

Building/converting a hive tyrant into a "flyrant" by adding a pair of balrog wings.

As you can see this fellow gets a pretty impressive wing span...

 

I didn't like the way the original model holds its tail and so I thought it a great idea to re-pose it....and after messing up with modelling a completely new one with green stuff and having cut off the snappy thing at the end of the tail I tried to bent the original tail. To my surpise it didn't break and so Mr Tyrant came to his new tail with the carnifex end-piece.

And while looking around in my bits box I had the idea to use one of the many spare carnifex heads.

 

So that's it for tonight. As I make progress in converting and painting I will post it here! So hopefully we get back some of our old followers!

Cheers,

Managarm

Finished Avatar of Khaine

Hi guys,

hereby I proudly present my first ever painted Forgeworld model. It really was a lot more work than I had expected, but I´m pleased with the outcome on the model. The last month (one month since the last post ... wow, time goes by fast) I finished the sword and the tabard. I painted the sword in the same way as the Avatars body with reverse highlighting from yellow to black. For the tabard I applied a blue color starting from Space Wolves Grey, Enchanted Blue and Regal Blue. After one big wash with Asurmen Blue the blue color looked really nice and I did my first try on the Avatar rune - what I really learned then was that my free hand skills are not that special but I start to get better (compared to the much bigger rune on the Autarchs jetbike I all went a lot faster and I hadn´t do that much of corrections after the first coat of yellow paint (thank god for GWs foundation yellow).
So here you see the finished Avatar. I will try to make some better pictures the next days and try my luck at Cool Mini Or Not.  
Next up on my ToDo List is the really nice model of PrinceYriel.

The Avatar of Kaela Mensha Khaine

And what really excites me today ..... PICS OF THE NEW FIRE PRISM ! Have to get two of them. They look really different compared to the old one but I kinda like the new look. Gives the cannon more of a "Bright Lance with fancy diamonds" feeling. The new Night Spinner also looks really nice, but I would like to see the rules on this one, before I can make my last judgement on it. Hopefully you can magnetize / pin the two cannons easily and change between the two setups...

FW Avatar of Khaine painting log - Part 2

Hi guys,

slow but steady I start to make progress on the Avatar. Last week I finished the lava parts on the models body and started to paint its head and armour parts. To stay true to my Alaitoc Eldar I tried to keep the armour parts in blue tones with Regal Blue as the main color and with light accents of Enchanted Blue. For his fancy headgear I set for a stronger contrast and used mixes of Space Wolves Grey and Regal Blue. They still look quite empty to me, but really have no clue what to add on them to make them look less flat.

At the moment I´m painting his armoured hand with the biiiigg sword and I started the painfull work of finishing is thousand gems.

For the other two missing part I really am looking desperatly for some major inspiration - I don´t think my free hand skills will allow me to paint a nice Eldar rune on his tabard and for his 70s hair no distinct colour scheme comes to my mind.

I´d be very thankful for any comments or suggestons on these two parts...