Malign Sorcery (Part 2 of 4)

I've completed work on a few more of the Endless Spells models from the Malign Sorcery set.

I have to say I do like these. At whatever point I finally get to play a game of Age of Sigmar (I've never managed it yet!) I'm sure they'll look great as they roll over my foes.

Umbral Spellportal

Aethervoid Pendulum

Quicksilver Swords

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Middle Earth SBG (Saruman)

Argh! I've done it again! Why do I keep doing this to myself? I've started collecting models for another game!

A chance conversation with a mate, followed by an accidental watching of half of one of "The Hobbit" movies ended up with us deciding to have a go at the Middle Earth setting.

Then, as usual, I stumbled across a bargain on eBay and now I'm building models for bad-guy Middle Earth.

I'm probably going to aim for Moria and Isengard, but along the way I'll doubtless pick up a few models I can use to flesh out a Mordor force too.

Anyway - here's my first offering: Saruman with Palantir:

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Malign Sorcery (Part 1 of 4)

For "Fathers' Day" last year my son bought me a fabulous gift - the Malign Sorcery set.

At the time the new AoS Soul Wars set was just being released and I was working on a bunch of Stormcast models so the timing was perfect.

Then I screwed the timing up by getting distracted and working on a bunch of other things. What can I say - I'm fickle.

I've recently made a start on this set and I have to say I'm having a blast with it - I didn't really appreciate just how much fun working on this stuff would be. These models are great fun to paint.

I've not finished them all yet so I'll present them in bits and bobs as I work my way through them, starting with these:

Prismatic Palisade

Malevolent Maelstrom

Soulsnare Shackles

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RandomArmyChallenge - xmas 2018 (Part 2 - finished!)

It took some doing, but I've completed the Deathshroud unit I decided to build and paint for the "Random Army Challenge" over on MeWe.

If you recall from my previous post, I  had an old unit of plastic terminators and some Forgeworld Manreaper scythes that I was going to hack together. Some greenstuff would be added to scabby them up a bit.

So I did, and this is what I ended up with:

The Unit

Individually, they look like this:

This:

This:

This:

And finally, this:

These guys are a bodyguard unit for the Death Guard Primarch, Mortarion. So here they are with the boss-man (it's a "counts-as" model rather than the Forgeworld original):

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RandomArmyChallenge - xmas 2018 (Part 1 - preparation)

This one took me by surprise.

Historically, like a lot of other people, I tended to share a lot of my blog posts over on Google+. With the impending demise of the G+ platform, many of us have migrated over to MeWe.

So, I'm happily burbling along, painting stuff, posting stuff and sharing stuff and I receive a message inviting me to participate in an event on MeWe called the "Random Army Challenge".

The basic idea is you pick something 40K-shaped that you haven't worked on before and are challenged to complete a model, squad, kill team or army before 2018 winds itself up on New Years' Eve.

I got this message a couple of days ago.

No rush, no pressure.

The closest thing to hand was a handful of minis I bought off eBay ages ago when I was getting excited about Horus Heresy and collected a bunch of ancient models to build a Death Guard army out of; I grabbed a load of RTB-01 Space Marines and 1st Edition Rhinos, Predators etc. I figured it'd make a good force and decided to - as far as possible - stick with vintage minis. Death Guard needed a Mortarion. Mortarion needed a Death Shroud unit. So, I bought a bunch of old plastic Terminators and some Forgeworld Death Shroud scythes.

I did a test paintjob on this guy over a year ago, and painted a dreadnought for Dreadtober in 2017. And there the project lay with no further progress. Until now. The terminators are what came to hand when I was invited to join the challenge, so, at the moment they look like this:

As soon as I get a moment, I'll get some texture on the bases and get the spraycan out and then the real work can begin.

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Warhound Titan Revamp - Part 3 (Head)

I'm not going nearly fast enough - there's no way that I will complete renovating this model in 2018.

From that perspective, I will fail my New Years' resolution.

However, at least it has left its box and is being worked on now. I'll keep plugging on until it's done.

Over the last week I turned my attention to refinishing the model's head.

This has involved adding some detail (Nurgle's rot, some gashes etc.) with greenstuff and a repainting job. The crew are sealed inside so they haven't been touched, but that's no biggy IMHO.

I had a choice to make when working on this fella. The head was already one of the most detailed parts of the model in terms of construction. Did I want to model more detail (like armour plates) or not?

I elected "not". But when I'd finished "rotting it up" I felt that it could have benefitted from a few more bits, so I painted on a few panel-lines here and there. It worked, I think.

And this is what it used to look like before the renovation:

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Wargames Wasteland HQ (Part 17 - Scenics: Large Hills)

Following on from my previous post about small hills, I thought it might be good to make some big ones!

So I did!

A couple of 3-tier hills

And an experimental cliff as well:

The cliff is basically a 2-tier hill, but the "cliffy-bit" has been made from tree bark, PVA'd on, filled with decorator's caulk and painted up. It's an experimental item - I'm not sure if I like it. The bark works well as rock, I think, and it's certainly sturdy enough. I think if I build more, I'll pay more attention to the view of the extreme ends as seen from the cliff-side. At present it's just a random-looking oblong of rock that seems to be there for no particular reason.

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