I HERD IT ON THE KROOT LINE

 With the new Great Gnarloc's I'm building for Monster May(hem) I needed some new herders, as each creature needed one herder, now I had two herders originaly from the first Gnarloc I bought from Forgeworld, so only need two more. I've built them from the new Kroot Carnivore squad, and these two are actually standard builds from the set.

Below is the two new herders with my two original ones, I think I still need to add goading sticks to the new ones, and rifles to the old ones.

So I have some initial thoughts on the new box compared to the old one, first you get less Kroot in the box, and it is more expensive, no real big surprise there. The second thing I have to say the detail is not as crisp on the new models, as the detail is shallower, a natural side effect of them being 3D sculpted. The last thing of real note, is these models, will be harder to convert, with the way the models fix together, where as the old one's any set of arms would fit on any body, and any body would fit on any set of legs. The fact that the new models are slightly taller, doesn't bother me, as you would get varying sizes in nature. This concludes my entries for paint what you got, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

SINS OF THE PAST

 The Chapter Master strode with purpose, he wouldn't have long without the Inquisitors prying into what he was up to, but the head of the librarians and master of ceremonies would keep them busy as long as possible and out of his way. He enters the inner sanctum of the tech marines, expecting to see the master of the forge, but instead a tech marine greeted him.

"Chapter Master, thank you for coming so quickly as this is a grave matter"

"Where is the master of the Forge, if it's so important ?"

"He is on a important mission sir, we think we have found another lost STL, but has asked me to show our latest findings, please follow me into the secure room."

The two moved quickly into an adjacent room, where a chaos marine was led on the bench in the centre of the room, the Tech Marine secured the door behind them, and switched on the security protocols.

"Is this what was so important ? Why hasn't it been destroyed as normal ? The taint of chaos makes it useless to our armour shortage."

"Here's the thing sir, it's our armour !"

"What stolen from us ?"

"No we've checked the records, and it's from the lost companies, from our founding, the ones that were lost to the warp !"

"Keep this information, quiet, and destroy the body, I'll talk to the master of the Forge when he returns."

Part of my chapters history, is four companies were lost to the warp while travelling to their first mission, and as I have some left over Chaos marines from previous projects, I thought it would be fun to turn the lost companies to Chaos. I'm calling them the Night Claws, and have a similar colour scheme to my chapter, and also Night Lords, but without the bat wings which I dislike. Here is a converted Chaos Lord

Next is an aspiring champion, from the old plastic kit, no conversion on this one.

Last today is a kit bashed Tech Marine for my Night Hawks chapter, added a few details with greenstuff, like the hammer head, and the extra armour on the leg greaves.

That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

HALF WAY MARK

 Managed to get hold of some parts to make another medical landspeeder, this time I've done the second company one, meaning yellow trims. I've also been thinking what Iain said about making them more individual and added a couple of extra sections in white to what I'd done on the previous ones.

Here's the other two I'd already done for comparison.

This now means I need another three to complete this project within the project, but as I'm still trying to work out what I want the first company to look like it may take a while, have had the idea of using Grey Knights as they have a knight look to them, but will need to add a lot of detail. That's all for today, so until next time stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

THREE'S A CROWD

 

While I've been busy trying to finish the last of my Christmas presents, I have finished off a set of three models that have been sat on my desk for far too long, the herders for my Salamander. The models were originally the second edition herders that were updated with greenstuff to look more like the current versions.

Below is the GW latest version, I had to change the weapons to match the current ones, and also add the backplates to bring them inline. That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

JON & FRIENDS

 When my daughter was looking for presents for me she found a 3D print of Jon Favreau holding an E-Web cannon, and thought I would appreciate it, although had no idea what I could use it for, well I'm going to add it to my Rebel forces.

What would have been a ideal was a model of Dave Filoni as well, but she couldn't find one, so based on his appearance in the Mandalorian as a pilot within the New Republic, I made a version of him as a rebel.

Here is the dynamic duo together, I suppose the title of the post my guns bigger than yours, but it's not a competition ! LOL

Next are two characters that were in Star Wars Rebels which was Dave's work from the Inquisitors the  5th Brother and 7th Sister.

That's all for today, so until next time stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave 

FLOCKING TOGETHER

 Today is the last of my Kroot reinforcements I got for Christmas the Krotox Rampagers. This is a new type unit, as before the Krotox originally were always described as slow and lumbering, and not massively aggressive, where as these seem very different from that, so in my lore I will have these as young bulls, before they learn temperance ( don't know what the GW lore is).

Used my normal colour scheme, and no conversions, these are straight from the box ( it happens occasionally ! LOL) that's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

UP THE REBELLION

 One of the gifts I got for Christmas was the new Rebel Sleeper Cell box, this is one of the new sets by Atomic Mass Games, and there are several noticeable differences to previous rebel box sets, first there is more models in the set (that's a bonus), the next is the face detail is shallower, so needs more work to make look right ( not great, but manageable), and the last difference was there was no female sculpts in the set (disappointing, as I liked the equal opportunities element). The set contains 5 humans, two aliens and an astromech. First up the humans.

Went with the same colour pallet I've used on all my rebels. Next is the aliens.

As you can see you get a Sullustan ( same species as Nien Nunb) and a Rodian, I've gone with blue skin, as I've already got a lot of green, and yellow/orange ones.

Above is the Astromech, now this comes with several options, but as I've painted a lot based on the movie ones already, I went with the option that isn't movie based, and decided to call it A2V. The set also has a Loth Cat, which is supposed to be on the base of one of the rebels, but I put it on a separate base and will add it to the bases I've got from Imperial Assault. That's all for today, so until next time stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

BIRD'S OF FEATHER

 Today I have another Kroot reinforcement from Christmas the new Krootox model, I've built it with the new grenade launcher option, as this will give my army another new weapon to use.

I've painted it up in my standard colours, but played with darker tones on the Krootox, overall I like the new model, except all the bangles on the arms, they're a bit over the top for my taste. How does it compare to the old model, well here they are side by side.

As you can see above it's a bit larger and a lot more quills on it, so it could be the old one is female and the new one is male, as I'm not replacing my old ones, just adding in the new one, as you can have up to 5 in a squad and this now brings my total up to 4, there is a spare head, so I might a second one, just not sculpt all the bangles on the arms so I have a full contingent. That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave