COURT OF PAIN

 To start the community challenge I've finished a unit of Wracks for my Dark Eldar army, these models have sat basecoated for about a year now, and in plastic for a lot longer than that, so was about time I got them finished, which is what the challenge is all about.

While working on these I also finished off my only Grotesque model I have, the reason I only have one is due to this being the only model available from GW and only available in Finecast, which I'm not a fan of.

So while looking at this model I came up with a solution and started building some new models.

I will be releasing the models through the website as close combat flesh constructs, once I've got these cast I will then add more details to them to make them look Dark Eldar.

That's all for this post so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

ANYONE FOR BUMPER CARS !

 Finished off a few more speeders for my Night Hawks, first up is Squadron 3 all flying the standard MK 3 chassis, I'm considering this the training squadron where newly appointed marines to this company spend a time until there used to flying these before moving onto the more advanced or company artefacts.

Took Iain's advice and added chipping to give variation to each, as it's the training squadron I went quite heavy with the chipping.

Next up is my only Tempest at the moment, want to add another two when funds allow, I went with less chipping on this one.

I've also finished up this pair of  Stormtalon gunships, which I've also added chipping to, and then thought I would add a bit more personality, like the pilots in world war 2 and added a name on one, and a pair of eyes on the other to make it look more like a hawk face with the white nose.

Community Challenge.

As all of us in the UK are about to start the second Lockdown, I thought it would be good to start another challenge, so over the next 4 weeks why not do a unit challenge, in respect of the unity of the gaming community.

This can be any unit you like, be it Fantasy, Sci-Fi, or historical. the unit size will be down to you as different gaming systems have different unit sizes, and I trust you to be honest.

If interested in taking part, leave a comment below, and if I don't know your blog please leave a link, to help with roundups.

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

Cheers Dave 

ROGER ROGER

 No I'm not hailing our good friend Roger, I'm declaring my first squad of B1 Battle droids finished. These are pretty much straight from the box, with two arm swaps as the unit has two duplicates in it, and I do like variation.

I chose not to add any markings other than the leader droid as this was the way they appeared in the first two films. The colour scheme is quite time consuming but effective in my opinion, I also chose to do the bases different to my Imperial Assault models, to define which models are for which system, and this is how my other boards are done.

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

Cheers Dave

BOMB'S AWAY

 Needing a break from painting tan and white, I decided to clear one of my Dark Eldar models, so I painted up my Voidraven Bomber. I've had this model since it's release, but never really had the enthusiasm to paint it due to the style was too Eldar like for my taste. I prefer the original style models as they don't look like spikey Eldar versions, If I had managed to get the Forgeworld version, I would have not bothered with this one at all, but unfortunately left it too late and it had been removed from sale. 

I've kept the style in line with my Kabal army, as my two Forgeworld fighters were done in this scheme, as it was only stated in the second edition that the pilots were from the Wych cults, so not in my army ! LOL

I've painted the Kabal logo on the top as well, the Kabal of the bloodied claw.

While I had the paints mixed up I also finished off my Cronos Parasite Engine, all my Talos models are the original model, as I wasn't just replacing them because a new model had been brought out, but the Parasite Engine wasn't in the original list so could warrant this addition. The colour scheme ties into my Court of Pain flesh cult. All three of my armies use the same set of colours just in different ways so they tie together but each stand out from each other.

Right back to painting tan and white, so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

DROIDEKAS & DROIDS

 Have finished all four of the Droidekas, the two in rolling configuration, and the two in open format.

Remembered to post the reference pictures by putting them in first to help Star Wars Phobes as John called them ! LOL

Really happy with how the metals turned out on these, and actually tried blending the metallics for the first time. I would like to have a go at making some shields for these at some point.

                                                                             R2-X2

                                                                               R2-Q2

I've also painted up a couple more R2 units for my Imperial Assault R2-X2 and R2-Q2 both of which appeared in New Hope.

I've also painted up a power droid that I found on Ebay produced by WOTC

ROLLCALL

In these strange times it's good to keep an eye out for your blogging friends, as you never know what may have happened. Now I've seen most people either on here, or on other blogs, or on other social media, or by direct contact, but there is two I've noticed not being around Wouter and Dai, has anyone heard from them ?

That's all for this post so until next time stay safe and have fun !