Dark Angels Primaris Chaplain

In addition to the Cairn Wraith I painted while my wife was working on her first ever mini, I also (finally) managed to finish this Chaplain for my Dark Angels army. It’s almost as if I need constant adult supervision to get anything done…

This means I just have to finish my Redemptor Dreadnought and I have a full 10E Combat Patrol. The big boy’s almost done, so I should be able to show it off soon.

Provided my wife sits with me…

My wife’s first mini!

My beloved wife is my biggest supporter. Shortly after we started dating, she encouraged me to get back into the hobby after a near-ten year break (uni, no money, the usual!). Plus as she’s a professional artist she likes that I have a creative outlet too.

A few months ago, she expressed an interest in painting a miniature. She doesn’t have the time to properly build and paint an army, but she wanted to experience a part of my life that (usually) brings me much joy. As she’s a big Ray Harryhausen fan, I suggested that she paint one of the old push-fit WFB Skeleton Warriors that were sitting unbuilt and unloved in one of my many to-do piles.

We decided to build and paint one each, here are the results. Mine is the rusty one on the right, hers is the bronzy one on the left:

I think she did a really good job, far better than the first few hundred models I painted, at any rate! I especially like her colour choice for the shield, something I intend to steal for a future project.

She’s expressed interest in painting some more minis when she has the time, I can’t wait as painting along side her was an utter pleasure 🙂

Nighthaunt Cairn Wraith – my first mini of 2024!

My beloved wife darkens the door of Warhammer Edinburgh exactly two times each year, you can guess why 🙂

While I always give her a list of the armies/projects I’m working on, and she usually buys me at least something appropriate, since she’s a professional artist, she occasionally gets me a wee thing that speaks to her and that she thinks I’d like to paint. Thus far, she’s never been wrong!

This time, as well as some stuff for my Gloomspite Gitz (more of them in a later post), she also got me this Nighthaunt Cairn Wraith that I just had to paint as my first mini of the year.

I really enjoyed painting this, and who knows, maybe I’ll revisit this army sometime down the line…

Imperial Fists Legion Deimos Pattern Rhino

I’ve always loved Rhinos, the original plastic kit was the first tank I ever bough and I lost count of the number of times Little John attempted to repaint parts of it over the years. It was then no surprise to me that as soon as GeeDubs revealed that there would be a plastic Deimos Pattern Rhino released as part of the second edition Horus Heresy launch I was in geek heaven.

Let’s just say I pre-ordered more than one…

Finally, a year after painting its interior, I’m done 🙂

Now, onto the next one.

Horus Heresy – Imperial Fists Contemptor Dreadnought – REDUX!

This poor chap was started at the same time as his similarly-interred battle brother and was sitting at around 95% complete on my desk for a few months but, finally he’s finished!

I’m taking a week off work so I’d ideally like to get a couple more units finished for this force. Or at least a few more part-finished projects completed!

Biologus Putrifier

It’s amazing what an impending and very much unexpected deadline can do to my productivity!

Every Tuesday, me and some close friends have our weekly RPG evening, we’re currently finishing off an Age of Sigmar: Soulbound adventure and looking forward to some Thirsty Sword Lesbian action later this month. Summertime is, of course, particularly tricky to keep our weekly commitment going given holidays and a like and as a result, tomorrow’s game is off since one of our number has had the temerity to take their family to Iceland for ten days!

Last night, Steve (our AoS SB GM) messaged me asking if I’d like to come over to his place in lieu of our RPG to try out the Combat Patrol game mode for 40K’s new 10th edition. Problem was that although I have (too) many armies, I didn’t actually have an eligible combat patrol.

That was until I remembered that I had a Biologus Putrifier sitting still on its sprue 🙂

I started building it yesterday evening and, less than 24 hours later, it’s done!

In truth, I’d been putting this one off since I was terrified of painting the glass bottles and having to figure out how to do the liquid. Then I decided, fuck it, they’re now metal bottles so screw you, ‘Eavy Metal!

This has to be the fastest single character model I’ve painted in years. I’m sure I could have been neater and more imaginative in some places, but for the (lack of) time spent, I’m really happy with it.

Cadian Castellan

As the one or two long-time readers of this blog may recall, when I got back into the hobby in 2009, the first army I revived was my Imperial Guard.

When the new kits dropped last year I was really excited to reinforce my boys and girls and was especially looking forward to painting some new HQ/character units.

This chap will be my army’s go-to Warlord. I took the opportunity to make a few small adjustments to the colour scheme, but nothing major. I’m also considering giving him a spray of matt varnish to remove the shine, but I’ll sleep on that before I make a decision.

This model is also an update on the Warlord I built from the Baneblade Commander parts way back in 2011.

I still have a couple of the new Commissars (including the event exclusive), the Cadia Stands box as well as Ursula Creed. But they’ll have to wait a while until a few more WIPs are out of the way.

Callidus Assassin

I’ve finally been able to find some time to paint this lovely lady.

I’ve been wanting to paint a Callidus Assassin ever since I first read about Meh’Lindi in Ian Watson’s Inquisitor back in the early nineties and when GW released the current plastic sculpts I knew one of these would cross my painting station eventually.

Dusting off my Orlocks

I’ve finally got round to starting my long-delayed Orlock gang for Necromunda. This was my original gang of choice back when the game was first released in the mid-nineties. I’m fairly sure that my old (very badly) painted gang is somewhere in the attic of my mum’s house. Maybe one day I’ll get them and post my shame!

Until then, here’s the first test model for my new gang. I decided to start with a simple Juve to ensure that if I didn’t like my chosen colour scheme, I’d not have much to strip and re-do. Fortunately I’m fairly happy with it, I might make a few tweaks to better-identify more important gang members, maybe some patterns on the rag whatnots they wear at their waists? I’ll have a think.

Any way, here he is.

The gang’s not got a name yet, it’ll come to me eventually as more are added.

Horus Heresy – Imperial Fists Contemptor Dreadnought

I’ve finally finished the first unit for my Heresy Era Imperial Fists army! Of course, I should have started with an infantry squad, but I love dreadnoughts so there really was no choice in the matter 🙂