Chaos is coming

Had a good session Monday afternoon with the Chaos Space Marine Terminators. I got to clean up the mess I had done earlier, and painted in all the colours where I had forgotten to paint before.
I have a few Terminators that still needs a little green paint on their trophy racks, but I had to leave that for another session because I had painted so much other stuff on the racks.
The next step is to make the bases, mostly with black aquarium rocks, but I will try to add some small pieces from the basing kits if I can to make the bases more exiting.
I was thinking of entering the unit in a competition at Games Workshop this Saturday, but I don't think they will be done in time. I had planned a painting session yesterday but that got "cancelled due to other activities in the home", and for a couple of days now we will have guests in the house and I won't get much painting done while they are here.

I have attached the arms to my Tempestus Scions, and one thing I am sure of after that is that I will not paint up too many command units. I love the Tempestor Prime with his greatcoat, but getting the standard bearer together was not an easy task.
I will look in to the possibility of using the greatcoat on other miniatures, as there are one in each box. Perhaps a few high ranking Astra Militarum officers can wear the same kind of coat, as I will need several officers for my Platoons.
I also started to look at a setup for the army, and think up what kind of units to add to the different platoons.
I know the army will have at least two companies, one with Cadian troops and one with Catachan troops. Then I will have an abhuman auxiliary, cavalry, artillery and an airwing.

More progress

Ended the day yesterday with basing 3 Cadian heavy weapon teams. I used Stirland Mud texture paint, to make some nice and muddy bases. The teams have built up their fortifications with Tamya 1:35 sandbags that they managed to find (think I need to keep my warhammer stuff away from my scale models from now on), and I had originally given the sandbags a wash of nuln oil, but that does not look too god after it has dried, so I will repaint the sandbags and give them a devlan mud wash instead.

My Chaos Space Marine Terminators are done, all that remain with them now is adding bases (black aquarium rocks) and going over the models to fix flaws in the paintjobs.
Hopefully I can have them ready before Saturday, as I would like to show them off in a painting competition at Games Workshop (but if it is allowed I might show off my heavy weapon teams instead).

I went a little crazy with my Chaos Black spray yesterday, and all the scenery I have built is now basecoated black. Well, almost everything as some of the small corners remains unpainted. There were a few spots I missed, but I am now all out of black spray, so either I will have to live with the basing I did yesterday, or I will have to redo some of the scenery when new spray is in the house next weekend. I'll probably redo it, as I ned to spray some tanks anyway.

I have also assembled my first Hellhound, and that was a mixed experience. The set is beautiful, but I had some issues with getting the top to sit right, so I will need to work some greenstuff magic on it.
I have three more to make, so hopefully it was just a flaw on the one I assembled yesterday...

Pictures will follow as the basing is done and the tanks and buildings are painted up.

The first units of Bullgryns are done

I've managed to get some work done this last week, and I have now finished both groups of Bullgryns that I have been working on.
The three Bullgryns with grenadier gauntlets and slab shields will be part of a larger unit in the future. They are a legal unit as they are now, with one bone 'ead and two regular Bullgryns, but since I can have up to ten in one unit a larger unit will look really cool. I am thinking a unit of nine.

The five Bullgryns with battle mauls and suppression shields will probably be the only ones with this armament, and will work as one unit. I might have to add one more Bullgryn as this unit doesn't have a Bone 'ead yet, but I am not sure if that is a must (but I belive so). I will look in to that and build from there. There are two small details left on these, and that is painting the tips of the power generators on their battle mauls and on the shields and painting a circle in the middle of the shields a lighter blue (need to decide on the blue to use before I do that).

The remaining boxes on the shelves will be made in to Bullgryns with slab shiels (two more boxes and I have a unit of nine) and regular Ogres.

The Abhuman Auxiliary command squad is also comming along. The uniforms are painted, and the armour for the ones wearing that is also done. I have also painted the banner, but not attatched it to the pole yet.

The Chaos Space Marine terminators are also getting close to completion. I have added everything to them, and painted six of ten with all the silvery bits. The remaining four will be done shortly.
I have also started on their trophy racks, and so far I have painted the leather pouches and the "pompoms", and the next job will be painting skulls and helmets before I finish with painting the tips of the racks metal and do a clean up. Then I plan to add rust to some of the chainmail and the broken trophy racks.

I have also done a little painting on my first Inqisitor. I'm missing a lot of details still, but he comes along slowly. I have not decided what unit to use him with yet (might be mainly for display purposes), but I am leaning towards a unit of Tempestus Scions. He's armed with a plastma pistol, and I think that might fit well with either Scions or Space Marines where the unit maxes out on their plastma weapons.
The second Inquisitor is still waiting to be painted. He is armed with an Inferno pistol and power sword, and he will fight alongside a squad of Sisters of Battle, but I might also use him with other forces if I want to add him to a game. These two Inquisitors look a lot like old witch hunters, and that is probably why I ended up getting them, as I love that look.
The third Inquisitor I have, looks a bit more special with a rather special helmet and armed with bolter and powersword. He will be accompanied by two Crusaders, as I think these figures fit together.

I have also dived in to fantasy for some experimental basework. I decided to base my Ogres with a snow theme, and I used texture paint for the first time on the base of one of my Ogres. I used the one called Mournfang Snow (if I remeber he name correctly). The idea is to use both this texture paint and the snow powder (same as static grass only white it seems) to make some snow effect on the bases. Still all bases will not be completely covered in snow, there will be som mud, some rocks and some small forms of vegetation as well.
If the texture paint works well, then I will use some of that on my Dwarf army, but then with mud and rocks. The only Dwarfs based so far are my miners, and they are based mostly with gravel, and I think I will use that for my remaining Miners, maybe combined with texture paint.
I also plan to use texture paint on the ground of my Citadel woods, both the two regular forrests and the haunted forrest.
If the temperature is kind to me, I hope to basecoat a lot of buildings, the haunted forrest and the one finished regular forrest this weekend.

New month, new progress...

I still haven't finished any more minis since the last update, but hopefully this will change soon...

I have painted the uniforms and boots of my Abhuman command squad, and the next step will be to paint the skin and weapons.

My Ogre standard bearer has also gotten his standard painted, but I am still wondering about what kind of text or image to paint on to the base colour.

I haven't painted much more on my Scions, but I have glued the servo scull to the Tempestor Prime. The plan is to work more on these in the following days.

One unit (or rather two) that has gotten a lot of work though, are the Bullgryns. I have five of them armed with battle mauls and suppression shieds, and I have come a long way on these. Their pants, boots and armour are done, and I have just a few more details left to finish their shields.

Then I need to paint their skin, the heads with gas masks, some singlets (wife beaters) and belts. I also need to find out what colours I'd like to have on their battle mauls.

The three Bullgryns with grenadier gauntlets and slab shields are even closer to completion as they already have their skin painted. All I am missing there is the singlets, belts and straps and eight yellow stripes on each slab shield.

Then all the Bullgryns will get extra equipment like ammo pouches, water cans (jerry cans) and grenades. This will be fitted after the painting is done, and depending on how the poses make this possible.

The Chaos Space Marine Terminators are also comming along. They all have at least one arm attached to their torso, and the painting of the weapons are almost complete. I have one more session with the metallics before I can add the second arm to all of them, and then I have to add and paint shoulderguards and some spikes and do some detail painting of chains and some silver details on the outside of their gloves.

I have also gotten well on my way with the Commissar that's assigned to the Abhuman Auxilia, he has his torso assembled and painted in base colours. I need to do some detail painting in his chest and shoulders, and paint and glue on his arms and head.

Progress slowed down again, but still...

In the beginning of January I had quite a good progress, but sadly things have slowed down again. Still, I have done a few things.
I have made a command squad for my Abhuman Auxilia, this is assembled from my bitz box, and because of this they don't have a coherrent look. But this was exactly what I was going for, as the fluff indicates that the human officers and veterans serving in the Abhuman Auxilia have been transfered to this unit because of mistakes the have done or because their commanding officers haven't liked them much. Being a human in the Abhuman Auxilia is considered a punishement, all though some people actually find it rewarding, like their commisar that have found out that abhumans are much more easy to send in to battle. No one needs to be shot for being cowards, and especially ogryns and bullgryns have such a high respect for commisars that they obey his orders without question even though it will cost them their lives.

I have legs both from Cadian and Catachan sprues, and the commander is probably from the Baneblade kit. The bodies are also from several different boxes, some look like tank commanders and some are Cadians.

I think it is only fitting that the abhuman auxilia have an abhuman as a standard bearer, so I have converted a Bullgryn with a spare arm from my Ogres bitz box.
The standard is also from the ogre-range, so it is quite crude, but so are ogryns so I am sure that is ok. The idea is that the standard is something the Commissar has made to boost moral further.
In case I need to make it in to an all human command squad for games, I have also made up a human counterpart with a standard from a box of Cadians or Catachans.
When I made my bullgryn standard bearer, I made the remaining two miniatures in the box in to bullgryns wearing gasmasks and being armed with battle mauls and suppression shields, so I now have a complete unit of five. They will now be painted up before I make the final assembly of the head and the shield arm to the rest of the torso.

I have also started to paint up the second crewman for the Hydra Flak tank, and he is comming along nicely.

The Chaos Space Marines have gotten all the shafts of their power weapons painted, the only thing missing on them now are metal paint and a wash.
The guns and chain fists have gotten one side of the weapons painted with black, and next time I will paint the other side, and then I suspect it will be two more sittings with the metal, and I will do the finishing touches after the arms are glued to the torsos.

My first Inquisitor (the one where the arm was impossible to attach) is also comming along. He now have most of the letaher painted, as I found out that what I at first thought was a shirt probably is the front of his leather frock. I will paint these parts as leather too, and then I will paint his armoured chestplate like I have painted the armour on my Tempestus Scions.
I will also find some nice color to put on his pants for the very small places where they are visible.

Found this head in the ogre bitz box, and I think it has the quite fitting look of dedication and anger. 

From this angle, the fit between the arm and hand is a little off. I plan to fix this and make it a little smoother  with some liquid greenstuff.

Another building made

Monday was another productive afternoon. Managed to build a one storey Manufactorum building from the sprues I had from my already opened boxes.
I also made one more ruined corner, like the ones I put out a few pictures of in my last post, with only two ruined wall pieces. And I made one more lamp post.

But that's not all...
I also built three bullgryns, and armed them with battle mauls and suppression shields. They also got the quite scary heads with gas masks. They will be a part of a unit of five, who will serve both as provosts under the direct command of their Commissar, and in regular combat they will be close combat troops.
These miniatures comes in boxes with 3 figures in each box, so the sixth figure will be a bodyguard built as Nork Deaddog. Not sure what his name will be yet, I'll come back to that at a later time.

From my bits box I will build the remaining four troopers of the command squadron for the Abhuman Auxilia. I have some spare torsos and it will look ok for this command squad to look a little different from each other. They have all done something to deserve the posting they are given. Almost like a penal legion.
I haven't worked out all the details yet, but I know I will make some solid fluff for each human in this unit. What I do know is that the commander (captain?) was one of the poorer graduates from his class in Officer training, and he was sent to the Abhuman Auxilia because High Command did not wish to sacrifice human troops to his poor leadership. But he have proved the High Command wrong, and leads his unit well. They don't like to be wrong, so as a punishment they send him offisers that they dislike for one reason or another.
The commissar was sent to the unit because he was badly hurt in a fight with Ogres of another unit, so they sent him there because they were sure he hated Ogres by now, and that one of them would eventually kill him. Instead he found a unit where all the troopers followed his every order. In his time there, no one has been shot for disobeying orders or for cowardise in battle, and everyone obeys his orders without questions. He also have the five bullgryns mentioned earlier to help him stop riots, brawls or other problems in the camps where they serve.

My plan is that the Abhuman Auxilia will have five bullgryns with mauls and suppression shields, nine bullgryns with grenadier gauntlets and slabshields (one of theese will be a Bone'ead), and then I'll see how many I will assemble as ogryns with Ripper guns. I will also add all the ratlings I have (will not buy more unless there are new models being released) and I will use my old metal ogres as planned earlier. They look rather different from the new plastic ones, but after all there are at least seven different races of them (my army will have three of them).

And now for some pictures...

Here is the new Manufactorum building. This time I glued the pipe bend first, and added the two chimney elements after it had dried.

The new corner, exactly like the one I made last time. Thought about adding a plain wall segment to it, but I didn't want to waste a good door element.

No doubt this will look really cool when it is painted up and put on the table.

Had to to the same with a lamp post. This is not the new one from yesterday though.

I just had to give this officer a big chainsword. He is from the tank corps or artillery train, and is ordering his units to roll out.

And here is a pic of the commander of the Abhuman Auxilia, as mantioned above. He was also visible in the background in one of the pics in the last post, but I thought he deserved a better picture.
What I like here is his head. I think it makes him look a bit like a miniature ogre, and you can see battle scars.

...and it actually ended up as a productive weekend after all...

The weekend is now officially over, and I managed to finish my forrest (didn't use all the leaves I thought I would though so I have some left for future woods), I have a Hydra almost complete (still missing 2nd crewman and some paint), and I have two new buildings for my 40K town.

Below is a small description of each new project and some pictures taken on my workbench last night. 

I promise to add much better pictures once everything is painted, as the pics look quite messy with the weird things in the background.

Here are two pictures of my Manufactorum building. This looks pretty much like the building at the back of the Manufactorm box, but there is a modification... The building is one piece longer so it is 3x4 instead of 3x3 (if you count whole panels).
The chimney was a pain in the butt to glue on, so next time I will only glue the bend and add the rest of it when everything is glued solid.

The forrest seen from different angles to try and show the different trees. I might add just a little more leaves on them when I look over them tonight, but if I do it will just be small leaves to hide naked branches.

This is a conversion I think there will be some of in the ruined town. I try to get as many "whole" buildings as I can, and that means that these parts often ends in the bitbox. So why not use them?

This is the frst pic of the Hydra. The black panels on the side will be similar on all Chimera-based chassies, and I will try to think up something similar for the Leman Russ chassies. The rest of the tank will be Administratum Standard Gray. Gunbarrels and tracks and details will get their appropriate colours... In the back by the waterpot you can see the commander of the Abhuman Auxilia, where he commands Ratling, Ogryns and Bullgryns. He will have a command squad consisting of humans, an Ogryn Bodyguard and the unit will have their own commisar.

Here is a look inside the drivers compartment of the Hydra. If you look closely you'll see a little red field by the drivers left arm. That is a tank of some sorts, probably a fuel tank or something. On the platform behind the gunner/driver there will be another crewman, and I am painting him up now.

The second building is a pumping station. I will go over it with greenstuff today and fix some holes that are around the pump units (above the pipes comming in) and some cracks between the roof tiles. 

I really like these streetlights, and want to add as many of them as I possibly can to my city. That means I will build several of these small corners. This weeekend I made two. Both of them have battle damaged floors, and I think most of them will have that, as those tiles are the ones most often being left for the bitbox after assembly of a building.

The second one got a little more battle damage. Looking at these pics now it seems like I really wanted to take a pic of my plastic watercup, but that just happened to be standing there.