I decided when painting up my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers, to use the Cadian Kasrkin for them.
Check out how these models were painted in the workbench feature on them.
Category: warhammer 40k
Grey Knights
These three Grey Knights are from my own collection.
I need to do a lot more for reinforcements, but was pleased how they turned out. You can see how these were painted on the workbench feature on the Grey Knights.
MkIIb Land Raider
I seemed to have spent ages painting this model, so I had a look at it the other day to see what I need to do next.
Actually I have done a fair bit to get the basecoat finished now.
The next stage will be to give the model a thin wash to bring out the detail and darken the shadows. The tracks have been painted separately.
This Forge World MkIIb Land Raider is a Grey Knights vehicle, with a desert camouflage for use with my Daemonhunters force.
Space Marine Assault Squad
Space Marines who excel in the fury of close combat are organised into Assault squads and equipped with jump packs that allow them to take the fight to the enemy in brutal close-quarter fighting. Armed with a mixture of pistols and swords, they are terrifying foes in battle, dropping from above like flaming angels of death.
I was given a box of the Space Marine Assault Squad by my son, after thinking about painting them as Grey Knights I decided in the end to paint them as “normal” Marines. I wanted the bases to be different so made use of the resin pieces I had got from various basing kits and from the Mines, Bombs and Booby Traps box.
The plastic models look relatively simple to construct, but I always seem to get caught out sticking on the arms and shoulder pads with GW Space Marines.
First stage was fixing the legs to the torso.
I then made up the jetpacks.
These were then affixed to the Marine bodies.
I do like the beaky helmets, problem for nostalgic reasons… pity you only get one in the box.
…and a little bit more.
Paint disaster aside, I spent some time painting a little bit more of my Ork Stompa.
Here are the feet.
The main problem with the paint was twofold. The first problem was with my Citadel foundation paints they were quite old and had dried out. Second problem was with my Citadel washes, which had gone weird and no amount of mixing could sort them out.
Dark Angels
These Dark Angel Space Marine vehicles were on display in Warhammer World.
Dark Angels Land Raider.
Dark Angels Vindicator and Rhino
Valkyrie Flyer
Valkyrie Flyer of the Imperial Navy, on display at Warhammer World.
I do think that this was one of the best concepts ever produced by Forge World, and obviously with the release of the plastic kit version, made it much more accessible.
I like the execution of the concept, it isn’t a helicopter without rotors that you sometimes see with SF flyers, likewise it doesn’t look like a transport plane with short wings! I do have one of the plastic kits, but alas still in the box. Maybe time to get out the craft knife and the glue.
Ork Bommer
Ork Bommer on display at Warhammer World.
I do like the look of this plastic kit, however it is still on my wish list. I’ve not gone out and bought one yet. I also think that a price of £27.50 is quite reasonable… well reasonable from a Games Workshop point of view.
Ultramarines Life Size Rhino
Just outside Warhammer World in the car park is the full size Rhino that was originally used as a promotional piece for the THQ Dawn of War video game.
THQ gave the Rhino to Games Workshop who then gave it a repaint in Ultramarines colours.
Typhon Heavy Siege Tank
I see from the Forge World previews for GamesDay 2012 that they are going to be releasing a new tank based on the original Land Raider.
The Typhon Heavy Siege Tank was named after the ‘Great Beast’ of Ancient Terran myth, this immense siege tank was developed by the Mechanicum alongside the Spartan, with which it shares a basic chassis design.
The Typhon’s primary armament is the massive Dreadhammer cannon, and was created in response to a request from the Primarch Peturabo, master of the Iron Warriors. He demanded a Legiones Astartes war engine that could rival the great batteries of the Imperial Crusade Army in firepower, but manoeuvre and deploy at the speed of a Space Marine force.
Very nice looking tank.