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With the Khorne contingent nearing completion, I am starting to work on the basic colour scheme for the Slaneesh horde. My first effort was aborted when I ran out of Tentacle Pink paint and found that Games Workshop doesn’t make it anymore. After some trials I have now settled on Vallejo Squid Pink as a replacement.

These models are the trial for all the Slaneesh Knights, Titans and vehicles. A GW Liche Purple basecoat, manual highlighting with Vallejo Squid Pink and then some details in gold, black and green for the gemstones. I am using old plastic Eldar Wraithlords as Slaneesh Traitor Sentinels. They fit in very nicely with the other walkers of the Slaneesh horde.

More progress for November: Four Blood Slaughterer of Khorne. The models are custom sculpts by a very talented modeller on the Tactical Commands forum. A nightmare to assemble but incredibly nice once they are all together. The Tactical Commands World Eater list actually has them as a unique unit. Otherwise they can proxy for Defiler in the regular Black Legion list.

Another small step forward: The Khorne objective market is completed. The models are old Bloodletter, a Hirst Art skull and some chain.

The water effect in the cauldron has finally dried so here is the finished product. These were done in October so they don’t count for this month…

I am short a few Leman Russ tanks (inbound from Ebay) but work has started on the other Iron Cult vehicles. They are bashed together from whatever leftover imperial parts I had in my bitz box.

The first armoured artillery squadron are fairly straightforward Basilisks. I had to add some fuel tanks and Green Stuff items to the older models to “bulk” them to the new size (I only had two of the newer types left).

The second squadron uses spare Basilisk chassis but mounts siege mortars. I had those left over from the Ork Gargant kit and they somehow fit.

Finally I have two Hydra anti-air tanks. I have a bunch of Rhino hulls without tracks so I made wheels by cutting Ork plastic guns into two with a scroll saw. Add some Ork AA guns and an old Whirlwind launcher.

Once the weather is dry again these will get sprayed and then painted.

My first achievement for the October ToEG challenge is completed. Three undivided cultist covens with fire support upgrade each. My undivided Black Legion contingent are Iron Warriors so the Lost and the Damned I tried to go with the “iron” theme. And so the Iron Cults where born. The idea is to cover the lesser sub-humanoid tribes that populate the Iron Warrior worlds. They provide the manual labour for the factories and have to make due with whatever scrap equipment they can scavenge off the Iron Warriors. The models are DRM Ketzali and the paint scheme is inspired by the Starwars Jawa’s who have similar rust scavenger look. I colour-coded their staff icons in the same colours used for the Iron Warrior retinues (red, purple. green). The fire support upgrades are more Ketzali models with old Ork guns painted up to look like rusted piles of junk. Not real conversion work as I mainly just wanted to try out the rust look on a larger formation. I think it works ok. Future vehicles will be kitbashed versions of Imperial Guard “surplus” in the same rusty scheme.