Stegadon WIP

Here is a first look at the assembled, primed and somewhat painted Stegadon. Really fun model and the scales gives a good amount of detail into it. So far I have only painted the skin with Rakarth flesh but I will create a painting guide once I am finished. See ya!

Stegadon sighted!

Yay! It's package day kids! This time a mighty Stegadon has stomped its way into my hobby and I am looking forward to painting this beast. I've already assembled it much like the one on the box with the wheel of doom or whatever. Found an interesting painting scheme online which I am aching to try out. As I still haven't learned how to play Warhammer fantasy and since the Lizardmen seem to have gone missing from that game anyway I will use this for my Lepidosaurians=40K Lizardmen. Going with the Ork rules I think I will play the Stegadon as the Squiggoth (rules in this book) which is a monstrous creature with a transport capacity of 10. The actual model looks a bit small to carry 10 Saurians but this isn't any more weird than the Rhino transporting 10 Marines (like GW works with scale, hah!). More Stegadon pics tomorrow!

Old sins. Part 3: Astra Militarum

Today in the third part of the segment Old sins, where I present my previous armies (before 30K), I bring you the Carolinian Guard. This is an Imperial guard/Astra militarum army painted in the glorious colors of my home country (guess which). I liked the idea of an army fighting in the traditional style of the 19th century, with loads of troops marching into enemy fire. This is just what the Astra militarum is all about, they have the manpower to send wave after wave into the slaughter.

Approximately three ten man squads. The middle one has upgrades from ForgeWorld and is usually played as veterans.

Command squad.

I wanted heavy weapon teams rather than tanks because they more resemble the cannons used in the 19th century.

I love the idea of using cavalry in 40K charging enemy xenos and tanks. These rough riders were converted using the horses from the Wood elves Glade Riders. They are very fragile in combat but when they charge they can kill even mighty space marines.

The leader of my army is the charismatic Carolus Rex. He is modelled as a Lord Commissar but I sometimes play him as a Platoon Commander. He is so vain that he needs to have his royal painter to accompany him into battle and capture his great deeds on the canvas.

This army was painted to the music of this album: Youtube video.

Tyranid terrain

Today I had some fun playing with hobby clay to make some Tyranid terrain. Nothing fancy really but it was both easy and cheap so worth a try I would say. The clay was bought at a store for art supplies and there were lots of colors so I went for one white and one black for about 5.5 $ (4.9 Euros) and from that I was able to do 3 capillary towers + a small digestion pool. Take a look:

The material was quite easy to work with and I am sure that the edges of the towers could be made sharper if one took the time. The clay hardened in the oven (about 30 min) and was ok to paint at, not perfect but enough for the paint to stick. I might take the time to make some more of these as I think they will blend in well with my Tyranid army. Perhaps making a Tyranid version of an aegis defence wall? Or is that even allowed? We will see!

Old sins. Part 2: Minotaurs

This segment presents my previous hobby armies, before I started with 30K. Last week I showed my first army: Tyranids. After a while it becomes boring painting the same thing over and over and I had just been introduced to the Horus heresy novels so I decided to start a space marine army (40K). I chose the Minotaurs chapter featured in the Badab wars because of a cool background story and nice models from ForgeWorld.

Rhino.

Land raider crusader.

Three half-done tactical squads. I thought it would be cool to use the horned helmets of the Chaos space marines since they make the models more bull-like. I also considered the chapter on the verge of turning traitors (they are described as having some shady features).

Devestators.

Assault terminators with some special shields.

Captain.

Asterion Moloc Chapter master.

Ivanus Enkomi Reclusiarch.

The paint scheme for this army was kept very simple and I am happy to say that I have advanced since then. This was before I even dared to use shades/washes oh how naive! There is yet one more army to present for next week so stay tuned!

Old sins. Part 1: Tyranids

This is a new segment where I will post some pics on my previous works, pre-heresy if you wish meaning before I started with the Emperor's Children. First out is my first army in 40K: the tyranids of hive fleet Leviathan. This is a force close to my heart which is by far the largest in terms of points and models. Every now and then I keep adding new miniatures to this army and there are still many awesome monsters released from GW which I want to own.

My Hive Tyrant leads the Swarm!

 Venomthrope.

 Lictor.

 Trygon.

 Genestealers with Broodlord.

 Home-made spore pod (before it was removed from the codex and later returned as a tyrannocye).

 Zoanthropes are my favorite models from the Tyranid faction. I love that they seem defenceless and float on their huge brains. The lack of eyes is also unnerving...

The rest of the Swarm. Lots of gaunts, warriors, gargoyles and some spore mines made from greenstuff. I have lots of yet unpainted models lying around which have to be finished some day... That's it for now! I will continue this segment for the coming weeks and I have at least two more armies to show you!