Black Legion Blog: May 20th - Pred, Dread & its a wrap..

Full 2nd squad pic..

Marc--the NMM gold looks superb. Well done, sir.

Thank you Mr Witt.. silver giving fits still

So I probably raced a tad on the second squad APC knowing after this model all I have truly painted are two Troop choices. I scaled back the smoke launchers to black. I simply cannot handle large space silver, but I'll get there. I hope time permits me to get back to this pair as I don't want them to "drag" on the army..

The skulled guardsmen is all that remains of Joe's boys in blue now..

Rhino #2


70pts well spent..

Plenty of groundwork in the remaining army models but nothing completed enough for a pic update. With softball and hockey seasons out of the gate my paint time will be limited to hours of darkness.. we shall see

I'm not happy at all with the stage this model is in, but sadly the push must go on as I rush thru the other components of the army. Time is no longer on my side ..a bit of extras to turn the Vindi "possessed" via chained hatches and rear ramp along with a tentacle thru the peephole made the piece a bit of fun.

Anyways, here is the first of three..

Diving back into things with my homemade Berserker. At the time of assemblage the CAG tourney was coming quickly and those purty ForgeWorld bitz would have to wait. Enter my Black Legion inspired lot. They all have the "skull" helmet and Khorne pad but taking a note from the Codex and bashing the colour scheme. Thoughts?

EDIT: completely missed a stage in painting the base

wow marc you are getting great!! Your nmm gold is very solid and trust me i know it's not easy. I can't do it at all. My only critique is the nmm silver. The highlights look a bit blochy and abrubt. I'm sure that will not be a problem soon though . Also like the scheme. Overall a great quality troop.

I hear ya.. I'm goofin with some new mixes to transition a bit smoother on that silver. Not sure why I'm comfortable with one and anxious about the other

Oblit WiP made from bashing the Chaos Term, Spawn and Marine Devastators.

A nod to Danny for green stuffin me some fleshy bitz.

I'll finish him up Tuesday as I'm working the next 3 days

Marc wrote:

Oblit WiP made from bashing the Chaos Term, Spawn and Marine Devastators.

A nod to Danny for green stuffin me some fleshy bitz.

I'll finish him up Tuesday as I'm working the next 3 days

He's going down tonight.

John Gemrich wrote:

He's going down tonight.

..really? ..so how did that work out for you?

Marc wrote:

John Gemrich wrote:

He's going down tonight.

..really? ..so how did that work out for you?

HE went down just fine. It is the rest of the army that was the problem.

It was close..

Thanks for the game and all the comments on the army John. We will have to do it again soon..

Icon for the 3rd squad which is jooost about done..

I have one serious critique...

And this is a half hearted comment at best but, don't you think your guys look a little clean for chaos?

The painting is awesome but its just so neat and orderly.

"Hey Benzark The Man-raper, Were like 5 minutes away from eviscerating those followers of the false-god and man I gotta tell ya... You did a lack luster job on cleaning those trophies of The Blood God hanging from the rhino. So were gonna need you to go down to The Infernal Broom closet of agony and fetch some rags and a bottle of tormentuous.....uh... a bottle of anguishous.... A *****(Do not use profanity please...Makari) bottle of pine-sol alright? Get some rags and a bottle of pine-sol and get those skulls and entrails looking sharp. Needless to say, the Dark Lord would be pissed if he saw all that stuff just slung on the impaling spikes with no ryhme or reason. And when you get back, your going to help me alphabetize all these bones we got lying around, tried to find a human femur the other day and missed half of "16 and pregnant"

archite666 wrote:

I have one serious critique...

And this is a half hearted comment at best but, don't you think your guys look a little clean for chaos?

The painting is awesome but its just so neat and orderly.

Thanks

Never thought that would be a bad thing

hmm.. maybe I can muck up some Plaguebearers for you.

Well seriously, its so clean. The war trophies and stuff should be a little mucky.

I like them. To me... painting clean is a good step. Then you can take that and start to enhance your weathering etc. I clean painted figure (and army for that matter) is something you can always go back and enhance if you so choose.

..wtf ..couldn't find this topic for a few minutes there

So we have some Lesser Daemons. I did not want to represent a specific Chaos God with models so went with some Dryads from the WFB range. I think its legit..plus did not want a Chaos God colour scheme nor simply more black next to the Legion. Worked up from dark flesh, vermin brown, etc and now they really do look like Dryads instead of the tentacle head daemons I visioned

Very cool. I like the idea. they'd make great horror too.

I will admit that they look like bark demons and they are so well painted I would have also thought that was the lookyou were trying to achive.p

If you want them to be demons, what about some glazes...maybe with purples/reds?

I'd grab 1 and start playing. If you like it, you can apply to rest of the army.

You could also get a little Tamiya clear red (hobby town USA) and apply blood everywhere.

Solid advice, definitely a heart in throat moment to smatter up the models.

I like the Tamiya advice and will nab that product for sure. That would give them a glossy, bloody look which sounds cool.

Thanks for the tip man..

I think the dryad idea is really cool. What if you just bought some of the beastmen heads to go on future dryads and use those as lesser demons?

First of my Terminator unit.. a trophy kill atop from a certain brood

son ofa b1tch.

It's on now.

..a grudge match for CAG Game 1 then ..I'll be easy pickings so this way my man here gets the points

I may just bring that red down a notch or two and call it a Sgt helmet from a certain chapter..