Fabius Bile

Day 2 is over, and this is auto publishing, so I'll update how the weekend went shortly. In the meanwhile, here's my new Warlord, Fabius Bile.

Melee Cultists

I've probably just spent a day being battered at 40k - not enough time to practice this list, or indeed play 40k at all so it's all an uphill struggle. My list called for some cultists, and since the sort that I had before are now in Legends, I pulled out some half painted figures from a couple of my old school cultists, made a valid squad and got them finished. Before traitor guardsmen were a thing, my IW cultists were just that. Models are a mix of GW Cadians and Chaos Marauders, Blight Wheel, Anvil and some long departed bits firms.

Legionnaire Champion

While you are reading this, I'm on my way to Stockport for the Northern Warlord's Summer Team event. We used to do this event, but with players having busy lives, we dropped for a few years. Now we've got some new recruits we're taking the Animosity Team back there again. Like most events lately, I find myself short of a squad Sgt or several. Thankfully this time it's just one.

Iron Warriors Plastic Predator

Following on from the resin addon bits Predator the other week, here's the newer plastic kit.

Iron Warriors Bikers

Usually I'm pleased with my paintjobs, but these I'm not. Rushed, on horrid models, and even converting with some printed and Raptor left overs didn't make me feel better about them. The only good thing is that they are done!

Iron Warriors Predator

 Old FW Predator, done for my IW.

Fixing some Ultras

 A while back I got these in a buy from ebay, and the Volkites had been attached in a wrong way. A few bits of plastic rod, and some spare hands later, and these are almost ready for painting. I do need to add some GS to the right wrists first though.

Start of something new!

After months of doing mainly Iron Warriors, I'm starting something a bit different. I'm finally restarting on my loyalist guard army that I began in 2009. There is however a twist, I'm planning on building a skew list that I can run for 40k and also for 30k using the militia list. Let's hope 3ed Heresy doesn't remove that option! The theme of both lists is horse heavy, about 60 for 40k and 90 for 30k. To make the points, I will also be using up lots of my really old guard models from my storage box in the garage. Here's the first WIP shots of some infantry. I'll be adding a couple more guard to replace one of the melta gunners so that the can be fielded as grenadiers in 30k, or Catachans in 40k. The models are Catachan legs combined with the upper parts of Empire Outriders. I have the latter left over after making rough riders. The melta guns look a bit shonky, but they are a digital kitbash of something I found online, and it was an easy conversion.

Cypher

 Another cupboard of doom veteran, Cypher, although it's the new model, so it can't be that old.

Iron Warriors Warp Talons

I've had these years, but finally got to slap some paint on them - same complaints as yesterday's chosen, too fiddly!

 

Iron Warrior Chosen

If  there's something I like less than painting infantry, it's painting highly detailed infantry, and I've had weeks of it. Weeks because my free time is pretty limited at the moment, and I need lots done for an event in June. Of course this time of the year is quite busy on our small holding and the day job has been requesting extra hours too. Anyway, here are my chosen, a mix of GW bits and 3D printed parts. They aren't my best paint job, but they are done at least.

Traitor Guard - The Blooded

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.

The figures built as per the box

Using spare arms to make more riflemen, the GW torso is mated with a greenstuff copy of a back plate.

The Command Squad plus one regular guy

More sergeants and specialists

This kit has so many heads, here we're using complete 3d bodies with the GW heads, which do need to be trimmed to fit.

More heads, and a regimental banner using an old CSM bit.

Last few pure 3d printed guys to make the numbers up to full squads.

The last print failed, so I retried it and got 5 surplus guys - add one more and 3 mortars and here we are.