A Challenging January (Gallery post)

Welcome to the latest installment of Project Nevindar, the blog experienve surpreme! (Wait did I really just write that?). A more astute reader might already have noticed that this blog has actually gotten itself a proper logo just before closing in on its third birthday. Enough prattling, let's go on with what's new.

This month I took part in yet another challenge on Bolter and Chainsword. The March of the Legion. This took me back to my first Heresy-era project and I did quite get reinvigorated for Iron Hands!

This is Mantus, Iron Father assigned to the 523 Explorator Fleet aboard the cruiser Temeraire, the only cruiser from this fleet to make it to Istvaan V before the Dropsite Massacre. ...We are the ghosts of Istvaan V...

And now to some minis for the "regular" casual challenge.

Cacus, Librarian, IX Legion Astartes: The Blood Angels. 

Ascleipeos, Primus Medicae of the IX Legion Astartes: The Blood Angels

Primaris-Lightning Strike Fighter Designated VIII stationed on the Carrier-frigate Lachesis

This is more or less it for this time. Only painting grind, no special or extra fun projects!

Oh, there might be more frequent updates with my next project (no promises...) since... It is a bit larger than my more recent 1-2 minis a month ones. 

Cerastus-Knight Atrapos

//Nevindar

A grave conflict of interest in the frosty wastes of the north

Well, time for a side-project. Just some terrain. Just not Age of Darkness/30k or Warmachine terrain...

...Frostgrave!

Here's a teaser of what's on my workbench tonight!

A well that might contain dreams or nightmares... And a statue of wizards from long ago.

Stay tuned for more or less regularly scheduled broadcasts.

//Nevindar

B&C Boxing Day 24-hour painting challenge 2015

So, I took part in the new Boxing Day "Paint anything for your subforum of choice challenge" on Bolter and Chainsword this past day. The brief: Build, Base, and Paint a miniature (or more) in 24 hours. Never one to back down from a challenge (hence my record of failed ones behind me...), I decided to participate.

Despite having an ongoing Mechanicum project and the Iron Hands army going I deciced upon my old Legion of choice: The Blood Angels. Not willing to just rest on my laurels I decided to try out painting this character mainly with Gilding Wax (Rub'n'buff) and washes. Well, wax, washes and some miscellaneous metallic and regular paints.

Mini of choice? The new Blood Angel Chaplain from Games Workshop.

Not being satisfied with him looking like my vision of the (at this point yet unnamed) Praetor of the IX Legion, I decided that he needed some additions to his wargear. A Mk. IV helmet, , a sword and a plasma pistol.. And his 40k-ish Crozius was replaced with an axe. 

Pose mock-up. Sword or plasma pistol to be interchangeable (or other magnetized 1h weapon)

After this a bit of greenstuff work was done (no pictures of this) to remove the Death Company X markings on the knee and right shoulderpad. A bit of work was also done to sort out the axe head that replaced the Crozius mace top.

After priming was done, pewter gilding wax was drybrushed to half of the miniature and the wings of the backpacks. I did really fall in love with this doing my Iron Hands, and there is a liberal use of it on my Mechanicum as well..

Pewter drybrush

The red half below is the work-in-progress redification of the metal armour. Drying Blood Wash from Secret Weapons Miniatures was used for this. The gold and copper colour of the other half of the miniature are Rhulic Gold (Formula P3) and Screaming Bell (Citadel). At this point it really did just look like a mess of metallics.. (I could have used my gold coloured wax for the gold but.. let's blame time constraints shall we?)

The wings got a wash of Secret Weapon Blue Black in the recesses, followed by Secret Weapon Sapphire on the "feathers" themselves, leaving the pewter buffed wax to shine through.

Must say this was a fun project. The time constraints worked in benefit of the project (only painting one miniature for a short holiday challenge did not leech off too much time from writing essays!). 

Behold! Alastor, Lord of the Reborn, Master of the Battlebarge Seraphoi!

Weapon swaps, side-by-side.

Plasma pistol / Power Sword

So, let's have a foursome of pictures of the completed miniature, shall we? Seeing as we had a front-shot or two above, let's go for a spin.

You spin me...

...right round baby...

...right round like a...

...record, baby...

Must say that I could almost see me doing more of this paintscheme...

//Nevindar

ps. Photos taken with my LG G4, not bad if I may say so myself ds.

Mechanicum 1: "Boot them up, Magos. We have located the beacon".

Welcome to the first proper post of my new Mechanicum army (even though the Castellax were, technically, supposed to be for my Iron Hands.....Funny how things can turn out). Feeling inspired again after the post-ETL hobby burnout I can only say.. There will be both minis and some background story!

But.. First thing first, the two Castellax (Castellaxes? Castellaxii?) that I have finished. Colour scheme concepts and basing concepts.

With Multi-Melta and Flamers. Some Magnets Included.

Above is the first one, which might also get used as the "solo"-paragon of metal version of a Castellax.

Better view of the base. Using a slightly less-than-optimal water effect made the base take a tad longer than it should have had to complete.

No magnets included. D'oh

"Go ahead. Touch the wheel. I dare you"

The second one. No magnets, no special fancy rules. Even longer time spent on the base. Ah well!

Both of them have quite a mix of transfers applied. For once I am quite happy with how they turned out. 

Next up: Thallaxii. And tanks. Loads of tanks. Despite starting with Cybernetic walkers... I am going down the path of the Reductor!

//Nevindar, who should spend time to learn how to work his new camera properly.

A bit of ETL, a bit of a new 01110000 01110010 01101111 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100.

New post! First up will be a photo of the entire second ETL pledge, all collected up. Sadly no individual photos of the last three parts of the pledge, including Ferrus Manus himself. Havn't had any time to get some proper photos on those minis. Sadly.

Second on will be photos 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110111 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 00101110 00100000 01000001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01110010 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01010010 01101111 01100010 01101111 00101101 01101101 01100101 01101110 00100001*.

Without further ado, bring on the Legion!

Glory to the Iron Tenth! 3000 points of Legion awesomeness!

WIP on a Tech-Thrall for my future Mechanicum force. A kitbash/conversion job. Will do the work,
I think.

WIP concept posing of Thrall

Mid-painting.

"Good enough"

For some reason the semi-OSL on the helmet eyeslit seem to be non-existant on the photo but it is after all only a concept mini. I still have his (at least) nine brothers left to go.

//Nevin of the Deatacita Advanced Research Corporation**


*of my new project. An army of Robo-men!
**No actual corporation affiliation.

Gallery: E Tenebrae Lux, part 2

Welcome to the second installment of the ETL-dedicated gallery posts. This one is a showcase of the second part of my painting pledge for the challenge over at the Bolter and Chainsword forum (Go Age of Darkness subforum woo!). There will be one or two more of these post, not long to go now when it comes to the challenge.

In this post:
1 Praetor Iron Father
1 Consul Delegatus
1 Consul Moritat
 2 Iron Clad Dreadnoughts
5 Command Squad marines
10 Veteran Tactical marines

So, let's start!

Iron Father and Command Squad

The Iron Father do, naturally, wield a giant powered wrench. He is Khalkeús after all. Also featured is the Command squad with a banner only listing the number of their Expedition Fleet. They have, after all, not won any glories yet. Whenever they do, a symbol representing it will be added!

On to the Dreadnoughts!

 Siege-wrecking dreadnought, Black Shield, formerly of the IV legion.

Siege-wrecking gravi-flame beatstick.

On to the first Consul ot the Post: the Moritat with twin volkite serpentas and jump pack. More astute readers might notice most of the bit-sources for this mini.

Gunslinging highy destructive energy weapons requires the use of a laidback pose

Then on to the Veteran Tacticals and the Delegatus. Interesting might not be the most apt word but well.. They look cool. Also, some of them lack a bit of insignia on their shoulderplates, but them being veterans I figured that they have won glories for themselves so the same reasoning behind the banner can be applied here.

Delegatus and Veteran Sergeant

Nuncio vox and two marines

Vexiliarus, Marine, Gravmarine

Marine, Marine... PLASMA MARINE

You still with me? Good. A month to go; some tanks, some infantry, some support and a PRIMARCH left to paint and we're hit by a heatwave. Challenge: Accepted!

Also, since I kind of had the guys over at Eye of Horus podcast announce my Zone Mortalis project, a scetch or two might just be in the works!

Oh, and for sticking with me so far, here's a picture of my Iron Hands army so far. There will be a bunch of additions before I'm satisfied though.

bis später

//Nevindar

Gallery: E Tenebrae Lux, part 1

Greetings and welcome to yet another Gallery post. This is the first in a series of posts for this summer featuring my rather neat vow to paint 3000 points of Heresy-era miniatures for the ETL-challenge on Bolter&Chainsword. In this post I will showcase the first part of the vow that I completed. As I complete more parts of the vow, more posts like this one will be added!

The miniatures:
1 Centurion
2 Rhino APCs
5 Volkite Heavy Support Marines

Centurion and Heavy Support Sergeant

Heavy Support Squad

For once I actually seem to be somewhat satisfied with how a face turned out. So happy that I, in fact, even sorted a picture of the face alone!

Glaring, am I not?

On to the transports. I call the Rhino Pattern "Pallas", named after a creature of myth with impervious skin (yet killed and later used as a shield in some translations...). It did take some work to get done but I think it works. It is one way of using Rhinos that you just have laying around if nothing else.

Ordinatus and Dominatus.

Side

Front

Top

And let's end with a group shot!

There we go. A few models and a lot to go for the rest of the vow so...No time to sit here and slack off!

'Til next time,
Nevindar