Gal Vorbak, Word Bearers Daemonhosts

 The most deadly close combat troops in the Word Bearers are those acting as a daemonhost, the possessed.

On the table, this model uses the Greater Possessed data sheet from the Chaos Space Marine Codex.

Making Your Own Contrast Paints In Slaanesh Colours

I wanted to paint this Slaaneshi daemon steed in bright pastel colours, turquoise and pink. I wanted to use contrast paints for a quick, decent looking job on a model surface well suited with scales, hair and ribs. Unfortunately, contrast paints don't exist in these colours but fear not because one can make one's own.

You need just three ingredients:

The first is a matt acrylic medium. I used Liquitex but the brand is not important. Acrylic medium looks and rather behaves like PVA 'white' glue. As an aside, it is very good for sticking printed material to models as it tends not to cause the print to 'run'.

Matt acrylic medium is goopy so after putting some in your mixing palette you need to dilute it down - and this is where an acrylic Flow Improver comes in. Add flow improver and stir until the mixture is properly runny to Contrast paint levels. Again, any brand will do.

Step three is to add pigment, in this case from Vallejo acrylic paints. Do not add too much. Put a bit in and stir well and repeat until there is a nice runny contrast paint.

And that's it.

The model above was painted using just these methods. The flow improver causes the paint to dry slowly so one can mix enough to paint a whole unit in one go.

Word Bearers Lord Discordant

 Lord Discordant mounted on A Helstalker Daemon Engine

This is fundamentally the same paint scheme as the Word Bearer Lord 'I made earlier'.

The base is painted with Green Stuff World Colorshift paint. This is an iridescent paint depending on fine structure to bounce varying wavelengths of light in different directions - in this case red-green.

The effect is of a warp energy field with different shades of colour depending on light source direction and angle of observation. It doesn't really come over in static photos.

Note the difference in colour from paint in shadow and direct light.

Word Bearers Champion

Bad Attitude

This is one of those excess leader models from boxed sets that are all over EBay for modest sums.

I picked this one up and decided to try out a Word Bearer paint scheme.

Rear View

I wanted to give him a dirty, kicked 'round the galaxy a bit, look. I see the Word Bearers as not very style conscious - not committed to any God of the warp and such.

I used Red Goblin Colorshift paint from Green Stuff World on the base as it gives the impression of dark warp energy swirling around the Word Bearers feet.

A Dose Of Plasma Solves Most Issues

I quite like the colour scheme and may paint a few more....just for the fun of it.

And It's Goodbye From Him

 

Creatures of Bile: Noise Marines

 

Fabulous Bill created Noise Marines and has always enjoyed a harmonious (sic) relationship with them.

I there fore decided to use the two official Noise Marine upgrade kits from GW to make two squads of five.

I wanted them to look different from the rest of my army so I tried out a couple of Green Stuff World colorshift paints. The armour is PinkyBlue and the weapons are Goblin Red (dark red-dark green).

You have to be careful to apply sparingly otherwise you get white crystals.

Still photos don't convey the coloured flicker effect as the light hits different panels at different angles especially as the model is rotated.

Two views under different light.

The same model rotated.

9th Ed. Necron Army: 1. Warlord

 

Overlord & Royal Warden

I have just about finished a new Necron Army for 9th Ed. with mostly new models.

My warlord is an Overlord, a senior battle-hardened aristocrat. Backing him up is a Royal Warden who is that rare thing in Necron society - a loyal subordinate who can still think for himself.

I have stuck with traditional Sautekh Dynasty colours, silver grey and translucent green but have been a little adventurous with base decorations. The bases are supposed to represent a waking, damaged tomb complex so we have metallic purple floors and translucent red representing living metal flowing around repairs.

I will be putting up new units every day or so so stay tuned for more undead, tomb-king, 40K androids.

Ultrasmurf Army

 Ultrasmurfs

This army isn't new but I had just given it a very basic paint job to get it on the table for 8th edition. As I now have time on my hands, sigh, I decided to tart them up a bit.

I wanted to give my Ultramarines a completely different feel to the Blood Angels as they are based on the 'safe' side of the Great Rift. Their armour and vehicles are clean, well maintained, waxed and polished....and in general they are better equipped. This is a mechanised detachment rather than an infantry raiding force.

1. HQ characters, Captain (5 points), three Lieutenants, one a Reiver (at 4 points each), and a Librarian converted from spare Primaris model (5 points).

2. Battleline Repulsor IFV (16 points) and two five-man Intercessor Squads (at 5 points each).

7. Battleline Tactical Squad of Old-Style Marines (10 points).

3. Heavy Fire Support Hell Blaster Squad (5 points).

4. Fast Attack Inceptor Squad (6 points).

5. Elite Reiver Squad (5 points) and Primaris Ancient (4 points).

6. Elite Scout Sniper Squad (4 points).

8. Contemptor Dreadnought (8 points).

9. CAS Stormtalon Gunship (9 points).

10. CAP Stormhawk Interceptor (10 points).

If I fielded the lot, the army comes to 112 points.