Chosen by the Gods

I found a few chosen chaos space marines on my desk and decided to paint them (mainly because they were already primed).

These are painted in my own Maledict Brotherhood scheme.  Characterised by the black armour, bone trim and skull like helms.  They're also wearing the skins of their enemies as a loin cloth.

Lets have a closer look.

Dude number 1 is equipped with a power axe.  A really big power axe.  If that thing were real the blade would be about 4 feet long and this mofo is holding it in one hand... Bad arse!  He's also got a really cool minotaur like helm. But my favorite feature about him is on his back.  He's got a mutation, tentacles that are loading his bolter.

Dude number 2.  He is armed a powerfist.  He looks like he's about to break into a run.  He's not something I want to come charging at me. 

Dude number 3 is a bog standard bolter, bolt pistol and close combat guy.  However there is something about his pose that just looks really menacing.

Undead Legionnaires

I finally got around to painting some of my Warzone miniatures.  I used to play Warzone back in the 90's, and played Dark Legion.  I've misplaced most of my old stuff, but downloaded the old rules a few years back with the idea of rebuilding my forces with conversions.  However the Warzone Resurection kickstarter saved me a lot of bother.  Now I still play the Dark Legion, only now with some nice new rules and minis.

Here's some undead legionnaires

 I've gone with black armour as a uniform look.  I wanted them to look like corpses that have been picked up, dusted off, shoved down a production line and tossed back onto the battlefield.  The next five that I do will have different coloured boots and trousers.  I've based them (yes I based something  I'm amazed too) to look like they're on Mars.  I still need to seal the bases, and I better remember to do it.  Turns out the material I used is made from tree nut by-products and I don't want to kill any of my opponents... that would be bad.

Operation End times no17 Screaming Skull Catapult

In this installment a squasher of troops, a slayer of monsters an assassin of generals... a screaming skull catapult.  Ok its not the massive GW one, its the Mantic one.  But you know what I like the Mantic one better.  Its less cartoony.

Now screaming skull catapults have three crew, this one only comes with two.  So I need to find another. Audition time.

Could work, but I'm not sure I can trust him.

Hmmm... nah! makes the catapult redundant.

Arrow could work, but being in the employ of the undead might go against his moral compass.

Badass, but I think he lacks the training.

Ah f**k it! an extra skeleton will do.

Dreadball Just Got Stinky

I've finished my second Dreadball team.  Hobgoblins.  They are currently unnamed. 

You only get 9 guys in the hobgoblin team, but one of them is huge so he kinda makes up for it.

First up the strikers

The strikers are more lightly armoured than the other players in the team for extra agility.  They're also striking an 80's power rock pose.

Now the jacks

Clad in armour these guys scream "Don't hurt me!"

Oops too late

And finally the hulk

Hulk smash.

Operation End Times no16 Hordes of Worthless Peons

Well they're not entirely worthless.  They're job is to hold enemy units in place while a vampire beats the crap out of them or something bigger outflanks them... Or I buff the hell out of them and laugh my arse off as they become unhinged killing machines... Actually ghouls aren't too bad in a scrap... Behold my situationally worthless peons.

First up are some skeletons

They final wash on some of them isn't quite dry, hence the shiny bits.  These are mainly Games Workshop skeletons with a Mantic one infiltrating, see if you can guess which one.  The Games Workshop skelies are in my opinion the best in the market.  The Mantic ones aren't bad, the the just don't look as cool.  The GW ones have the Jason and the Argonauts vibe that drew me to the undead in the first place.


Now some zombies

A whole two of them.  Again we have a Mantic (left) and a GW (right) figure.  The Mantic zombies look far better than GW ones, the kit is nearly twenty years old and is very dated.  Please Games Workshop make new zombies and don't make them an overpriced dual kit.

And finally more ghouls

"Oh no not more ghouls! Most of you posts have ghouls."  Yes more ghouls.  You'll get ghouls and bloody like it.  Actually I think I'm running out of ghouls.  It's the usual mix of GW, Mantic and Heresy.  I'm kinda running out of things to say about them.

Other things on the painting block is my second Dreadball team and some Malifaux.  To break up the fodder for the next Operation End Times I'll paint of a fodder squasher... a screaming skull catapult.

Operation End Times no15 Neferata Mortarch of Blood part 2

After several grueling hours of painting I've finally finished painting Neferata.  As with Arkhan, and I expect Mannfred, the dread abyssal took an age to paint.  However unlike Arkhan, Neferata herself took a long time to paint.  Being a lady she has a lot of fine features about her not to mention she's a lot more opulent than Arkhan.  For a comparison to Arkhan you can find him here http://necrothrallshallsofthedamned.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/operation-end-times-no7-arkhan-mortarch.html

Well here she is, the first vampire in all her glory.

 I put a bit of water effects on the jewels to make them sparkle

 I posed Nagadron so that it was pawing like a cat.  I little nod to the Nehekaran Egyptian influence.

I deliberately didn't add any gravestones for two reasons.  Firstly the spirits ended up being lower down than Arkhan's so the base would look a wee bit cluttered.  And secondly as a lady who finds the fresher dead and ghouls loathsome she wouldn't be hanging out in a cemetery, she expects certain hygiene standards from her associates.