Imperial Guard Army

This is the Cadian army I built back when Tactica Aeronautica first came out.  It is based on the Cadian 212th regiment, which was stationed on Typha IV.  It had just recently fought in a theater with recidivist elements and was being heavily reindoctrinated and evaluated by the Commissariat.  To that end, I decided to use grays as the main color, and ice bases.  There are a couple of conversions, like the 2 Varrus models from Battle for Macragge converted into bodyguards.  This is also an ebay listing, if anyone is interested.

Reboot or Return?

While my hobbying time hasn't diminished too much in the past couple months, it has been a huge negative to have to use my smart phone as a camera.  So I decided to put the blog on hiatus for a little while.  That time period has ended, since the wife and I were able to get a great deal on a Nikkon camera.  It probably helps that i also recently lost my job and will be able to fill my days with more home oriented projects.  Over the next few weeks I will be posting both projects that I have recently worked on and projects that are taking up a wee bit much space and will be moving over to ebay to find a new home.  A lot of the newer stuff is more Horus Heresy oriented,though I have added a bit more to my Ultramarines chapter as well.

Second Thousand Sons Squad

I built my second thousand Sons squad back when Death From the Skies came out.  The credit that Games Workshop gave out for online purchases allowed me to buy the  Thousand Sons upgrade pack.  I then built the eight rubric marines with the kit.

 I used the new Finecast Chaos Sorcerer for the squad leader.  I swapped out the head with a Tzeentch Champion head from the Chaos Marine boxed set, and used the model as normal otherwise.

 The power armour was painted in Kantor Blue, and then the gold was done with layers of Hashut Copper, Argax Earthshade, Gehennna's Gold and Auric Armour Gold.

Illic Nightspear

 As a big fan of Eldar Rangers, I had to add Illic to my collection.  My first Eldar army was an Alaitoc one, and though I don't like to repeat army colors when I paint new armies, I do still love Alaitoc.  However, I chose to paint up Illic as if he were from Altansar.

I kept the same brown palette as I use on the mud bases, and then used P3 dark greens to paint the camouflage cloak. The red is the same as the Alatansar colors I've been using.  For the way stone Illic is standing on, I chose to just use greys, it is layers of Dawnstone and Administratum Gray.

 Illic's rifle is Abaddon Black, with a high light of P3 Coal black.  I used P3 Khardic Flesh and Midlund Flesh.  While I like this model a lot, I will probably use the Autarch I have more often.

Eldar Crimson Hunter

 I decided on building the Crimson Hunter variant for the Eldar aircraft kit.  The back story for the Hemlock made me think it was too rare or shunned for a craftworld like Altansar, that is trying to gain the trust of the other Eldar to be using unless they were desperate.

 I kept the paint scheme simple, using the same color palette as the Wraithknight.  I used the bone color as a highlight element, just like on the Guardians and the Wraithknight.  The Aspect Warrior pilot has the same paint scheme as a Guardian as well.

I kept the base simple, like the Wraithknight as well.  It uses the same textured base color, Stirland Mud, with layers of Mournfang Brown and and Balor brown (these should be Bestial brown and Snakebite Leather equivalents).

Eldar Wraith Knight

So once again there is a large gap in posts. Unfortunately, the camera I used to take pictures of my models with broke. The lens will no longer retract and telescope out. It being my wife's, I was left in a quandry. She suggested I use the camera on my phone, which is pretty good. This post is an experiment to see if the quality looks good enough for me to clear off my queue of models waiting to be blogged about.

My Eldar are painted in the colors of Altansar, using Khorne Red, Wazdakka Red and an extreme highlight of Evil Sunz Scarlet. The bone is Zandri Dust, Ushabit Bone and Screaming Skull. The black is Abaddon Black with a highlight of P3 Coal black (I cannot find this shade replicated else where and one pot has lasted forever).

In the next couple of weeks I should be able to show off the rest of the new Eldar models I've added (I still haven't picked an elite's choice). A detachment of the new Tau, some more Thousand Sons, Pre-Heresy era Ultramarines, Ultramarine flyers and some Executioners. I'm going to skip any book reviews for now, most of the 40k books are good, haven't touched fantasy. Felt IA12 was hard to plow through and am annoyed about the Iyanden supplements release.