Nurgle Dreadnought Conversion

This second hand Space Marine Dreadnought, has been sacrificed to the Great God of Contagion, Grand Pappy Nurgle. Some Great Stuff, some zombie bits and viola!

-The gory triumverate of daemon infused rotted heads form the symbol of Nurgle.

-Moldy Las Cannon.

-Bit of a fungal infection in back there. Better get some cream for that.

-Scratch built CCW. Plasticard and a bit of plastic skewer.

I accidentally splattered some paint onto the model while I was painting it, but it looked so good I did it with three other colors. I’m not sure if it shows in the pictures but it looks nice in person.

I’m trying to speed paint this entire army for a convention in May. I still have a lot to go. But I think this painting style is looking nice and functional.

As always comments are appreciated.

-Skeller

Battle Hymn 2010: Richmond’s Gaming Con is coming.

Battle Hymn is a good time. The kind of good time where you don’t want to go home at the end of the day. Scott Craig and company, do a great job organizing this convention and this years event should be the best one yet. Goblin Mini-mart’s Commander Krieg, myself, and the rest of our crew will be there running a big narrative game of Apocalypse 40k, which I will be posting more about as it develops.

If you’re in Richmond, VA, or feel like taking a drive, come check it out.

Get all the info at their myspace site.

I hope to see you there.

-Skeller

Dave Taylor’s Blood Pact Tattoo Contest: Winner Announced.

When world famous modeler Dave Taylor’s blog following reached 500 members, Dave decided he needed a new tattoo to commemorate the event. So he held an online contest with sweet prizes. He received a ton of incredible entries and after much deliberation I’m sure, today he announced the winner. Congratulations Robert on your win. It is an amazing design, which conjures up all sorts of sinister blood pact imagery in my mind. I love it. You can see the winners announcement here.

Here are the designs I submitted for consideration.

I wanted to get a carved into the flesh look while keeping a simple black line tattoo style, I’m not sure if it worked. But I had fun doing it and really enjoyed the contest. Thanks Dave. Maybe this will end up on one of my renegades banners some day.

-Skeller

Killa Kans! Thanks Barter Bucket.

I like to run Killa Kans in my army. They serve me well in almost every game. They are like a stompy, choppy, running wall of armor. They scare people and make them do rash things. I love my Kans. I’ve had six for a long while. Then I was gifted a seventh. Odd man out it stayed in the blister for a year, until I recently made a haphazard click on the Barter Bucket and saw an ad for Dreds and Kans, lots of them. Since the new plastic Kans are about to go on sale, I know the old metal guys will be getting harder to come by. So I bought two more to finish my third squad. I have one of each weapon type per squad. I like the versatility. I don’t get to use my Skorchas as much as I would like, but when I do… Waaagh! It’s good times.

Here they are after a bit of modeling, remodeling, and some simple bits converting. Some of the bits were missing from the kits so I fabricated some hatch levers, valve handles, and extraneous engine gubbins.

Big Shoota Kan.

Rokkit Kan.

Skorcha Kan.

The whole mob, looking fer trouble, or the paint grots, or both.

I primed them today. So I just need to get them painted up and off to da Waaagh!

-Skeller

Project Catalog: Focus on the prize.

I’ve mentioned before my tendency to constantly start new projects without finishing the previous ones. Right now, I find myself under a particularly large heap of unfinished models and terrain pieces. So I’ve decided to make a list of all those projects here in hopes of being able to work through it and clean up my work space of unfinished business. I’ve also decided to take notes when I have a great idea. Instead of just diving into a building a new project when I think of it; I’ll take notes and let the idea simmer and cook down into a refined form, until I can get to it proper. This list does not include models still in the box or on the sprue, only projects now in progress.

Let’s begin.

Categories: Orks, Chaos Renegades, Terrain and Mordheim.

Orks-

1. Painting Battle Wagon.
2. Painting Stompa A.
3. Building and painting Stompa B.
4. Building and painting kustom weird boy.
5. Mega Armored Warboss Ghazghkull conversion.
6. Painting Ork Trukk conversion.
7. Building and painting Looted Wagon.
8. Paint Nobs mob.
9. Paint numerous boyz.
10. Paint two Mega Nobz.
11. Build and paint last Killa Kan mob. Thanks, The Barter Bucket!
12. Build and paint Biker Mob.
13. Paint Zap guns and crews and build and paint (1) crew.
14. Build and paint Ork Objective markers.
15. Building and painting Ork buggies and Trakks.

Well I should probably just quit right there. That list is a bit daunting.

Chaos Renegades-

1. Paint Chaos Dreadnought conversion.
2. Paint and build Chaos Renegade Guardsmen.
3. Paint Mutants.
4. Paint Renegade Ogryn.
5. Paint Plague Marines.
6. Paint Defiler.
7. Paint Rhino.
8. Paint Daemon Prince.
9. Paint DIY Great Unclean One.
10. Build and Paint Chaos Lord.
11. Chaos Sorcerer of Nurgle.

I think that’s it for the Chaos…

Terrain-

1. Build and paint Mad Dok Morkenstiens Kastle.
2. Build and paint Great Basilica.
3. Paint Plasma Generators.
4. Paint Bombarded Park.
5. Paint Ruined Mechanicus temple.
6. Paint Machine Cut Imperial Ruins.

Mordheim-

1. Build and paint Possessed.
2. Build and paint Magus.
3. Build and paint numerous Henchmen.

Well there ya go. Looks like that’s the end of the list…wooh! Guess I better get to work then. It is nice to have it all organized in front of me. Now, if I can stick to the plan I can finish all this stuff by 2025, and start on the models I have in blisters and boxes.

If anyone would like to make requests on what I should finish first drop me a comment.

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day.

-Skeller