Well while I've been busy with real life and all that jazz, that doesn't mean I've been idle on the hobby front. On the Deathwatch side of things I've been able to scratch alot of things off my to-do list including a few more Kill Team members as well as a Watch Commander model.
As with all of my previous Deatwatch models, the Ultramarine and Marauder have been magnetized, allowing me to switch their loadouts.
In addition to finishing some new members, I also managed to go back and work on some of my older models as well. I had some issues with the Dark Angel Librarian and decided that his sword arm needed to be reposed to a more relaxed angle.
With my Watch Commander model I wanted to do something different, rather then have him be a founding chapter member I thought it would be interesting to make him a Successor chapter member, but one with a more interesting colour scheme. To that end I chose a chapter whose lineage I was not completely sure of (although they're probably Ultramarine sucessors now), I chose the Howling Griffons.
I also chose them because I wanted to take a crack at freehanding their Chapter logo, the infamous Griffon. I think it worked out really well and I'm pleased with the overall result.
With these members done my Deathwatch are starting to turn into a more sizeable force, and if the recent release of Deathwatch Overkill, the rules to use those models as a unit in 40k and rumours of a potential Codex in the future, I might be able to use them on the table top at some point and not just as display pieces.
Aside from the Xenos hunters, I've also been working on some foul Xenos for them to hunt after. I entered a character painting competition at my local Games Workshop and decided that rather than use a pre-exisiting mini (which I was allowed to do btw), I felt I should enter with something different. After a quick trawl through Ebay I managed to come across a metal Dark Eldar Mandrake model.
I've always wanted to paint one of these since I first seen them in White Dwarf after the Dark Eldar got their new codex and felt that they were a cool element of the pointy eared slavers forces. They always reminded me of one of the characters from the Legacy of Kain (mainly the mysterious blue dude that looks a bit like a Protoss reject) and after reading the World Bearers Ominbus not too long ago where they encounter a Mandrake who I imagined did the teleportation trick ala X-Men's Night Crawler (Bamf!), I knew I just had to paint one up. After deciding on the colour scheme, I realised I wanted to base him as though he were prowling the streets of Commorragh as well as provided some interesting details such as OSL from the flames in his hands as well as his eyes. The detailing for the underside of the skull was a cool little test in detail work and gave me an excuse to ask my Medical Artist, girlfriend for advice.
After looking through my bitz boxes recently I found that I have alot of leftover metal minatures, mainly Imperial Guard ( I refuse to call them Astra Mila whatever they call them now) and took the time to base them all. However they will have to go on the back burner as I have more pressing projects to work on.
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However there is one other project that I did finish that is not 40k related and that is a miniature for my good friend and aspiring fiction writer Myk Pilgrim. You can check out his
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