365 Points Progress

I've made some headway on the Dread with its many coats of yellow:



I am stuck at a point on what the sarcophagus should look like. I am thinking keeping the background black and doing the eagle, skull and scroll in white. Or filling in the back with yellow and doing the wings and skull in red.

What say you?



Here's some work on the sergeant.

Overall its taking a little longer than I am anticipating, but hopefully I can get these156 pts out of 365 pts ready by wednesday.

Rogue Trader Friday

Yes indeed, the Lord Macragge himself, Marneus Calgar. The moray eel desk set, the leopard print cape, the picture of dear departed Emperor, its just magnificent, really.

It must be difficult to use his quill pen while wearing the Gauntlets of Ultramar.

365 Points

Ive decided to tackle the Tale of Four Gamers with 365 points first. That includes the Dreadnought and one Tactical Squad.

First up, the Dreadnought:



Got it based and primed, and a quick drybrush of Boltgun on the metal parts. Added a few items; a Forgeworld purity seal and an Imperial Fist icon from the GW Imperial Fist Conversion Pack .

This is, of course, the ubiquitous Black Reach Dread.

Next, a sergeant from the tactical squad:



This, I believe, is a GamesDay limited edition, with a simple arm swap. Base coated, drybrushed and based.

I've decided to stick with Imperial Fists, but went a different direction with the yellow, using Iyanden Darksun rather than the Tamiya Camel Yellow spray.

I am probably going to make them part of the Imperial Fist's 5th company with the black rimed shoulder pauldrons.

Tale of Four Gamers

I was lucky to stumble upon a thread on the Librarium Online forums about a group of gamers in my area that were trying to start up a group to take on a Tale of Four Gamers adventure. It had been some time since the thread had been active, but after messaging one of the contributors, interest was again stirred after their efforts had stalled early this year.

We met at the local Battle Bunker and discussed starting it back up. Since two other members had already had an indeterminate number of points left over, we decided to take the first month to have me catch up point wise.

Here is what I have ahead of me this month:

Its about 550 points which should keep me very busy.

Along with Space Hulk, it is a very full hobby month!

Space Hulk Has Arrived

An early surprise from GW and FedEx.

Rogue Trader Friday

This gem comes from the original Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader Rulebook.

Im not even entirely sure what is going on in this picture.

Chaos, Undecided

My painting table is in shambles. Too much going on.



I thought my Imperial Fist veterans were coming along okay. Spraying them entirely yellow gets to be a pain having to pick out all the metals first in black, and then hit with a drybrush of boltgun. Same with the white with a base coat of Shadow Grey and then many coats of Skull White. But even with a sepia wash, the yellow just doesn't get a good enough shadow in the transition spaces.



I pulled out some Crimson Fists I had been working on before getting inspired by yellow.



They get better looking every time I look at them.

Anyway, my fate is up to you. What say you; interwebs, Imperial or Crimson Fists? I am in your hands.



Another shot of a War of The Ring army of the dead.