Deathguard?

   It was only as I was putting the Chaos Possessed and their Rhino away that I remembered I had another unit of chaos marines and a rhino painted that for some reason missed getting their own post. Checking my painting notes, I found it was back in August 2021 that I had bought and painted a unit of Plague Marines and converted a Rhino for no reason other than I think I found some conversion parts for the Rhino and got ideas, but for some reason, I had a blip that month and didn't really post anything.

   The rhino is painted a slightly darker red than my other red chaos marines and then the recesses were washed in Typhus corrosion, which is lovely stuff is you want horrible looking models, so it was perfect for this. The aim of this squad was not full blown plague marine Deathguard but new worshippers of the God Nurgle, so some panels are ok but the rot is setting in.

   I also kept the rest of the marines in a red colour while using proper plague marine models - a mix of a box set and a few individually bought models to add character. There are heavy and special weapons in this squad, but I don't really understand what they are!

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The Possessed

   Again, why am I painting these when I have other projects that are far more important? I'm still on a 40k buzz, so I'm listening to The Talon Of Horus which feature a unit of possessed chaos space marines* in it's cast and it got me thinking about the unit I had sitting on the shelf behind me waiting for their turn on the paint station.

*no spoilers further than that

   I've bought at least a couple of boxes of possessed marines over the years, mostly for parts to sprinkle into other units, and while I have used a unit of them in games in the past, I converted more subtle versions as to be entirely honest, painting the official ones made me nervous. This unit is made from some left over bits on my latest sprue and a raid of my bits box, so there are parts from a modern Deathguard marine, old Khorne berserker, chaos spawn sprue and who knows what else, I've just made sure not to add anything that isn't fully chaos.

   Painting wise, I decided to embrace the chaotic mutations and give different colours to them. I wanted to show that these guys haven't been given well thought out blessing - this isn't a pair of wings for a jump pack lord or better armour for a front line champion - but a out of pure mutations from a variety of sources. Some have more subtle mutations while others are on the verge of going full spawn.

  While I was painting red and brass, I decided to knock out another model for the same project that has been sitting behind me long enough to get a layer of dust. When the new plastic kits started being released for the Horus Heresy, instead of jumping to buy them for my 30k armies I decided I wanted some for my chaos instead. Money being what it is, I limited myself to a Deimos Rhino in an attempt to show the age of my warband and add a bit of interest.

   Painting these guys has really made me want a box of chaos spawn I can go nuts with, but I've got to be good.

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The Swarm Pt 7

   I won't lie, I am getting tired of painting gaunt sized aliens now and this unit has been a real slog to push through, but the point of painting so many of this type of model as fast as I could and as early in this process as I could was that I knew this would happen, so I've already broken the back of the project. Even if I give up for a bit now, I've got 48 Termagaunts, 12 Hormagaunts and 10 Gargoyles painted up, which is a decent horde.

   This unit came from Troll Trader pre built, and judging by the weird grey of the bare plastic, stripped from whatever colour scheme they had before. This is why they have the adrenal gland son their backs that I've not done with the ones I've built - feels like a waste of points on a bullet fodder unit to me! Otherwise, I've painted these to match the rest of the horde and will let the red on their backs add a bit of variety to the sea of green and bone.

   This is the first post in it's own time for a while as the past few have all been based on stuff I painted a month or more ago. I do now have Leviathan on order and will probably be painting bits of that whenever I have the time to spare but first things first, time to paint something I'll enjoy a bit more.

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The Custodian Guard

   This is another hard to explain purchase and post. I played a game of the Horus Heresy much earlier this year and really enjoyed myself, while I had planned to organise more games, the year is slipping away from me. Before I knew that, however, I ordered a couple of things to try and make my list a tad more competitive, this is one of those things.

   The issue I faced in my last game was the guy was a Word Bearer army and he just kept sending wave upon wave of big daemons at me which my lowly Ultramarines just could not deal with. In my head a quick Custodes attachment should be able to deal with this threat while my army does its own thing. I just need to organise that rematch now.

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Fratribusia Campaign Pt 2

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Imperial forces on Fratribusia. Possible spawning point located in jungle on these coordinates; 528834,182077.

Recommendation: Burn with righteous fire.

Flight Leader Buzzard Squadron, Imperial Navy Fighter Wing 5517

Thought of the day; The Emperor sends his angels

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 +++ Message incoming +++

Resistance higher than expected. Recommend full scale operations into jungle.

Thought of the day: Hatred is a virtue

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Desperate Times

   I'm starting to ramp up at work so my painting time is starting to vanish - just in time for Leviathan to drop, but I have a few projects that I've finished recently but not posted about, so I'm going to slowly post them while I'm quiet else were.

   While I have more important things to be focussing on, I have yet again been distracted, this time by my Eldar. 

   The first thing is a bit of 3d printed scenery I bought online a few years back - so I have no idea what shop to credit it to - but its a generic Eldar-y bit of scenery and can be whatever we need it to be. Is it a shrine or a small webway portal - lets see what the scenario wants it to be.

   I've wrapped it in some GW vines that I bought at the time for this project and added a few jungle plants, the aim being is that it's obviously used every now and again but its not maintained. Painting was with spray guns and I wanted a clean bone finish to it.

   The next thing is a squad of old metal Wraithguard, with friendly neighbourhood Spiritseer. This squad was stripped a fair while back but my lack of a colour scheme then realisation that I needed bigger bases meant they just sat in a box waiting for inspiration. While reading the novel The Last Hunt as a way of keeping me going with the Tyranid project, it was the Wraithguard in it* that made me think the hardest. This still left the basing issue, I can buy 40mm bases, but none with the slot needed for these old metal figures, so I decided to do a 2 part fix, 32mm slot bases from GW and base extenders from ebay to do the last 8mm. I've then put a tiny bit of filler on to just take some of the gap away.

   Painting wise, I decided to match my guardians but I've gone for full white helmets to show the alien (even to the rest of the Eldar) nature of these. Also, I'm sure I read somewhere that white is the colour of grief for the Eldar and not black.

   I've got another 2 squads of the old metal figures to paint plus a plastic squad, so I'd better get moving.

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*limited spoilers there

Redemptor

   A post that is completely out of it's own time and place, I painted this Redemptor Dreadnought at the same time as I had a couple of batches of Tyranids on the go and it just didn't fit into how I was posting, so I thought I had better get it up before it falls too far behind.

   I picked the model up as part of the Imperium magazine along with one for my brother who is doing space marines for the campaign. I've always wanted one of these as I'm a big dreadnought fan but just couldn't justify the full price tag for something I wasn't going to use in the short term.

   I've painted it up for my 4th company Aurora Knights and it was one of those models that looked terrible at every stage of the painting process until all of a sudden it just looked right. I've got a decal sheet coming to replace the white "4" on the right facing but otherwise I'm quite pleased with it.

It can be built so that both main guns can be slotted in and out, so I took full advantage of that.

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