Whilst doing some reorganising the other week I found the missing World Eater! Here he is still on the sprue. I've since built him, and I plan to give him a base ring to get him to 32mm to match the others. I really like including these early models in my armies since it's a connection to the hobby's past.
For those that don't know, the Lord Invocatus kit essentially contains almost all the bits to build both the aforementioned named character, and the generic lord. The only bit that's common to both builds is the 2 halves of the juggernaut's body. Since no one has made a 3d printable body, which they have for one of the Tyranid kits which has the same setup, I decided to make a Greenstuff press mould using Bluestuff. Here's the results. A few bits didn't copy that well so I added bits from the bits box to hide that fact. The riders are still WIP as I've been working on a few other things to get them off my work desk so I can get onto Apocalypticon terrain.
In my brief flurry of pulling out my Khorne armies and working on them, I pulled out this set of original FW Berzerkers. I'd stashed them with all the bits years ago, but finally glued them together. One update was to 3D print some Excoriator chain weapons and fill in two of the squad. Backpacks are left off and attached after painting.
In my stash I've had a box of The Blooded Kill Team for quite a while. I have to say I love the KT sprues as there's so much variety, and it's pretty neat how you can build the different options for each figure, and have them look so different using a single base figure. That said I really don't like the fact you need to buy 2-3 boxes to build all the options. To get around that I found some traitor guard like STLs (I think based on The Blooded) and mixed and matches to use everything (except one set of spikes) from the boxed set. Once I'd finished, I could field 4 Cadian platoons worth of traitors, one command squad and thanks to a failed print, a set of heavy weapon crews. I mated these with some mortar STLs to make up the full set.
Another old Epic unit that's made it's way into our 40k games. A Blood and Skulls kit that I mostly completed about a decade ago. I pulled it out for Apocalypticon, needing to make up points as a few players dropped with short notice, only to find I have never finished painting the cannons.
Since GW has changed what's possible with IG, my Blood Pact have 3 Veteran Squads each with 3 Melta guns, which is now no go. The easiest way I had to bring them back so my friend Niels could use them for Apocalypticon, was to swap out 2 of the melta guns for a HWT. I had one of the missile teams done from way back when, so it was just finishing the other two. Sadly I don't know the exact colours I used then, and even if they're still made, so I did the best I could - I also cut corners, hence the skin tone difference (the very pale one is the old one).
Fully painted and based. Colours are such that it fits with my Dark Mech, Black Legion and Iron Warriors.
One option I looked at for Apocalypticon was taking my World Eaters using the new dex. I have a lot of big Khornate vehicles (old Armourcast etc), and my Blood Pact are obviously followers of the Blood God. In the end, I went with my beloved Iron Warriors, but maybe next year, it'll be these guys? I had scooped some extras on Ebay, so just showing them here in the state in which they have gone back into storage for now.
3 Bikers, they've lost their chainaxes, but I've printed some spares. I haven't fitted them yet as I'm waiting to see if they come back into the codex, and what their options are now.
Another clear-the-desk-WIP, a WE dreadnought/Hellbrute. I need to find where his arms have gone, but he might get a paint job next year if I decide to take my WE to one of the big events.
This has been hanging around my desk for months, and constantly breaking! It's been pinned more times than a donkey's tail, and the face has had to be reconstructed as the original got broken, so I wanted it painted, based and in the Detolf! Rather than go with the bright red of my other Khornate units, I went with the same scheme as on my Reaver titan - I'm hoping if Dark Mech come out, then this is the scheme I'll use. It's a Legio Mortis and Sons of Horus Justaerin/Reaver relatable scheme so it will also get some cross army usage I hope.
No updates for ages again - life is crazy busy and I haven't gamed since July! What I have been doing is preparing for one of King Fluff's events in January - another one of his Xenocide events. I'll be taking some Iron Warriors and some Orks using his 30k fandex for them.
Ork 'Eavy Gun (Something found on Thingiverse with some custom wheels and axles - mixed in with old school scratch building)
