Take Flight My Pretties

   I had a carefully crafted plan for the end of this year* - projects I planned to get finished and bits to get started for next year. My lull in painting mojo had put a bit of a stopper to that, so I'm now just painting whatever I fancy again. I have been working on bits for my Britannia AD43 (or so) project due to an impending deadline, but I've also been relistening to the Night Lords trilogy, this time on Audible instead of on my kindle after recommending them to a mate. This has led to another project jumping up the backlog that has no rights to be this high up - my Chaos Marines.

*stop sniggering

   I think the last time I did anything on these I said I had finished all my old ones, that was a cover to say I had a whole pile of new stuff waiting to paint. So the bits that made it onto my painting desk this time were the second Raptor squad and a Raptor HQ.

   The raptors I have painted the same as the other unit, and while I'd love to bulk both units up a bit more, maybe giving both units the option of 5 men with and without the 2 special weapons, they are done for the time being - I just can't afford the money it costs to buy more when I have no real aim of this army seeing the table any time soon.

   The lord on the other hand is a bit more interesting. The base of the model is Haarken Worldclaimer, a black legion HQ model who I have replaced the arms, head and jump pack on to make my raptor lord. The conversion will make more sense once I've painted his command squad, but they are a problem for later. Skin wise, I wanted to make this model match my daemon army to show that he is on the path to daemonhood and that these aren't random mutations - his command squad will be a bit more fleshy than this.

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