Adding to the Angelicus Mechanicus

First up a quick welcome to MIK and Dalauppror who help us edge ever closer to the 150 followers mark. Good to have you on board, I hope you find something of interest!

Secondly, stout chap that Loki is, he is running a giveaway on his blog to celebrate smashing the 100K barrier. Well done mate!

OK, here's the latest addition to my slowly expanding home-grown Space Marine chapter - a batch of eight Servitors and a unit of five Terminators. They've "done their time" on the Curt's painting challenge so I can duplicate them here.

First up we have another eight Servitors in the two chapter colours of red and green. I have absolutely no need for these chaps number-wise as I already had four complete. However, I love the models and wanted all sorts of weapon options so they've been painted anyway. I won't be adding any more now though. I hope... :-)

The second set of pics is a unit of Terminators. They're armed with all the usual goodness for shooting up all manner of nasties at both long and short range. We still play 4th edition hence the double heavy weapon load out.

I'm still working my way through a pile of ECW cavalry plus some more Space Marine stuff, hopefully to appear very soon.

Cheers,

Millsy

Space Marine Razorback

This little number is my entry for the vehicle round on the painting challenge. It's nothing special but it is complete and off my workbench :-). There are some amazing entries so head on over and check them out. Don't forget to cast a vote while you're there!

As my Space Marine force is a divergent chapter based on the Adeptus Mechanicus it was important to include some themed detailing to maintain cohesion across all the vehicles. Consequently she sports some metallic reinforced cog-themed armour and a nice big Mechanicus crest on one of the side doors.

The skull is an undead shield motif I had left over and the surrounding cogs cut from plasticard. I've made the top hatch / weapon mount removable so I can use her as either a Razorback or a straight Rhino.

I'm currently still working on more Space Marines and also a pile of ECW cavalry. Stay tuned...

Cheers,

Millsy

Some fine looking rear ends

My vehicle submission for the painting challenge bonus round is on it's way. This means I can move on to another project - two units of Royalist horse for my ECW army. As you can see, things are progressing nicely.

If you thought you might see something else based on the post title, well, that's all down to you. :-)

Cheers,
Millsy

Los Liones de Lustria - WFB Knights

This is the last of the units from my 500 point painting challenge mega-entry.

They're for my Dogs of War army and will be used independently or brigaded with another unit of five depending on how I want to play them I guess. I've named them Los Liones de Lustria in my deliberately bad Lustrian mock-Spanish. Translated into English it is something like The Lions of Lustria.

They're GW plastics from the Empire range with old skool spearmen shields as I wanted the lion motif in relief and also a different shaped shield for variety. They were undercoated in black and then the metallic finished dry brushed and inked before the blue was applied. The banners are all home made using Photoshop and some free clip art.

On a side note, the workbench is currently groaning under the weight of some Space Marines and ECW Royalist cavalry amongst other things.

Cheers,

Millsy

Undead Army of the Cairns Part III - Complete!

Well, I did it. I painted the entire (large!) Oldhammer army in under a month. I even went beyond my original plan and added three extra units just because they were there and I wanted to do it in one go. I'm still kind of shaking my head about the whole thing because I hadn't planned it that way AND I also got a fair chunk of other stuff done too.

If you want to see the whole story you can view the other threads in the project in the right order here:

1. Intro: Heinrich Kemmler's Undead Army of the Cairns
2. Undead Army of the Cairns Part I
3. Undead Army of the Cairns Part II
4. Kemmler, Krell, a Shadow Druid and a Wight King

Here's the remaining units which I completed late last week. Some of you may have already read the descriptive text on Curt's blog. Don't forget to click on the images for the full sized versions.

We start with another unit of 20 Skeleton Warriors armed with spears. These are mostly plastics with a metal command from the Cursed Company Regiment of Renown. These will be one of my standard core regiments in the army list.

Rolling along we have a rare 20 figure unit of Glooms. In the WD article these were represented by Spirit Host miniatures but they are flipping expensive figs to buy so I've used a combination of Empire skirmishers and undead bits instead. With the weapons clipped out and their hands still clutched into fists it looks like some sort of ghostly pub brawl. Awesome! Not sure how much use they will get but hey, they're in the list so they get painted.

Following on we have 10 figure unit of Unquiet Horsemen. These are the older Black Knight miniatures commanded by a Wight King. The Wight Kings is possibly the single most badly cast GW model I've ever built and he required oodles of green stuff to line up the two halves of his steed. Things worked out OK in the end though. They're rubbish stats-wise in the list but I've got 10 and I needed something quick and mobile in the army.

Lastly we have a 20 figure unit of Barrow Guardians, a kind of elite infantry formation. These were built using Empire state troop torsos and skeleton weapon hands and heads. I've continued the red skull shield theme on these guys too. I will eventually replace these with decent metal figs of some description but they are fine for now and clear another pile of plastics off the paint pile.

All up this represents close to 3,000 points when you add in command upgrades, a few magic items and such. By my count it is 126 miniatures including monsters and the chariot. Here's the complete list:

Lords and Heroes

Heinrich Kemmler, the Lichemaster (550 pts)

Wight King Krell (190pts)

Shadow Druid (70pts)

Barrow King (100pts)

Core

3 x Simulacra (195pts)

3 x Simulacra (195pts)

20 x Skeleton Warriors including command (217pts)

20 x Skeleton Warriors with spears including command (241pts)

1 x Ghost (60pts)

1 x Ghost (60pts)

Special

8 x Embalmed Ones including command (106pts)

10 x Unquiet Horsemen including command (245pts)

20 x Barrow Guardians including command (290pts)

1 x Tomb Stalker (45pts)

Rare

1 x Winged Nightmare (175pts)

20 x Glooms (120pts)

For those of you who saw the original plan (or didn't I guess too), here's the updated version showing everything.

And to finish things off, here's the whole army out on parade.

Certainly one of my crazier projects but hey, it got the job done, I'm chuffed with the finished product and it has significantly shrunk the unpainted lead/plastic pile. What's not to like?

Cheers,
Millsy