A rusty and kitbashed armoured tank squadron for the Iron Cult (Undivided Lost and the Damned). I am working on the finishing touches for the Iron Cult Demolishers.
Tag: Epic Armageddon
The second squad of Traitor Sentinels is completed. I used more black and less pink to contrast them with the first squad. The models are old Eldar warwalker.
More cleaning of my painting table. Some Dread Claw markers for the Iron Warriors based on the old style Drop Pods.
Finally, the Big Mutants of Papa Nurgle are completed. I kept to the rat theme and used Warmaster Rat Ogres. Together with the Mutants this makes two full Covens for Nurgle.
I have ten of those beautiful Blight Drone proxies from a talented TacComs artist. Below are my two paint scheme trials. The left scheme is based on the Forge World 40k Blight Drone example with dirty metallic green top armour. The second one emphasis the rust a bit more. Any preferences? I could paint the two squadrons in different colour shcemes so “both” is a viable vote.
Some more Dreads. The Black Legion contingents all have their Dreadnought squad now.
Finished up some more Terminators for my Salamander Chapter. The unit includes a (mildly) converted Librarian to round out the command choices (I already have a Captain and Chaplain for the other two squads). Nothing fancy as I had to match the style of the other models.
More reinforcements for Papa Nurgle. I added a bunch of Plague Marines to my existing four models. The new models include a Plague Marine Lord. There are only two Rhinos because this really isn’t a legal formation. They can either be fielded as a 4 model “Cult Marine” upgrade for a Black Legion Retinue (with two Rhinos), as a dedicated 7 model Plague Marine formation in the EPIC UK Deathguard list (without Rhinos as that formation can’t have any), or as part of two mixed Plague Marine and Deathguard Marine formations in the TacComs Deathguard list (again without Rhinos). Chaos is confusing…
Here are the last items from December, after the flock has dried (and I found time to photograph). Two Mutant Covens and some “Chaos Hounds”. I am still working on the matching 9 Big Mutant bases that will bring both Covens to full strength. The Nurgle contingent is heavily themed on rats so I used Warhammer Plague Rats from the Skaven range for the “hounds”.
So how am I doing in this Tales of Epic Gamers challenge? First of all, it has definitely achieved its goal of motivating me to keep chipping away on the big Lost and the Damned army. That’s a fantastic result for somebody like me who normally bounced from project to project. The plan in August was to complete about 11,000 points of EPIC LatD duringt the ToEG challenge, plus about 4,000 points worth of “left-over” models for their cousins in the Black Legion chaos list. Against that 15,000 points goal I have so far completed:
August: 965 points (but also based and converted the first half of the overall army)
September: 3520 points (mostly Khorne and a few other units)
October: 1300 points (mostly Undivided and some remaining Khorne units)
November: 1910 points (finished Khorne and most of Undivided, based/converted the other half of the army)
December: 860 points (random small stuff cleared off my desk, started basing/converting my Eldar, Adeptus Mechanicus and Squat armies for the next few years)
Grand total in five months: 8555 points. At this pace I will complete the project just in time for the 2011 ToEG challenge to start. I am not sure if that’s a good or bad thing… On a slightly more optimistic note, the points don’t tell the true story. A lot of my time in the last five months went into basing and converting which is now done for the entire project. I find that basing EPIC models takes about as much time per base as painting them. Moreover, I have left some of the “big & fun” items for the end of the project. So the remaining 7000 points include eight Titans or major war engines worth 3200 points. So I might just get done in the spring instead of late summer 2011…
Here are some more pics of the December update. Slaneesh Traitor Sentinels (which can also be used as Dreadnoughts in the Black Legion list if needed) and Slaneesh Cultist Fire Support.
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