Coming In Hot!

Whats this? Another update!

Work continues on the White Scars, albeit at a painfully slow pace, almost ready to join the ranks is the second Tactical Squad, six strong, armed with a Meltagun and a Veteran Sergeant with a Power Fist:

just a few touch ups and little bits to do on these guys now, drilling the meltagun barrel, the topknot on the bare-headed marine, a few highlights, the usual ;)

Pretty happy with how these guys have come out, a few close ups showing the tribal markings and that kinda Jazz. But wait there's more!

It would have felt incredibly wrong not to paint up an assault squad for this army, seen as you know, they are White Scars. Armed with a pair of Plasma Pistols and a Veteran Sergeant with his trusty Thunder Hammer i'm hoping these guys can claim a few heads on the battlefield...

lastly a shot of the mundane process of painting the shoulder pads (these have all since been used on the guys you see above)

Lightening Fast!

So first things first, cast a vote if you haven't already, whether I should make the Sternguard Veterans a Death Watch Kill Team or a Squad from the First Company of White Scars ----->

Here we are in about to jump into April, I cant believe it has already been three months since I started this White Scars Army, production is still coming on, albeit slowly, I've just about caught up with what I was meant to paint in February and of course I haven't completed March's quota either... but lets see where we are at...

firstly The Attack Bike Squadron:

pretty much complete, just need to add some transfers and do some tidying up and they are done, the Land Speeder Typhoon:

The left hand Launcher has the frag missiles the right hand is equipped with Krak, still have a little bit of work to go on this piece, a real pain to put together, and I lost the drivers right hand arm, not helpful at all...

The Bike squad is almost complete now, a few heads, another rideR to paint up, some metal work and of course some transfers need to be added but they're pretty much ready to go...

The commander is about 60% built now, need to fill some gaps and get him painted, but he'll be a separate blog in his own right...

next month? Another tactical squad will be in the works, have yet to decide what else, but time will tell

Sun Tzu Says

"that the art of war is a vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety, or to ruin"

you have to love the relentless fury of Sabaton, and the quote above seems particularly relevant... anyway less babbling, this month's quota is coming along, perhaps a little behind schedule, I may have under-estimated how long it takes to paint one of those sodding bikes... Oh well, there's only like at least another thirty to paint... *Sigh* 

Now before any photos, seen as your here, please cast a vote on the poll at the side of the blog, whether in your opinion the Sternguard should be modeled up as either White Scars Veterans or a Death Watch Kill team... If you have already voted, good on you... if you haven't get to it ;)

here is the test model now complete, complete with bare head and top-knot, something which may or may not become a feature of the army...

the next three bikes as you can see are built and painted, some touching up still needs to occur, but they are coming on nicely, the riders are in the process of being assembled, the main problem is of course that they only have on style of chest plate, which needs to be swapped out as much as possible for variation.

Xarl is also coming on nicely, the bronze banding now complete, I removed the head for ease of painting Executioner, but i'm happy with the progress thus far...

a WIP shot of Tolemion, I wont lie it's been nice to not paint white on a Marine!

Most of these week's progress has gone in to painstakingly painting Tolemion's shield, taken from the Event only Boarding Marine... The Imperial Eagle is now complete, after about three or four hours painting, slow and steady

The Duel as it currently stands... Still have to build a base for these two to slot into, my main concern is that they are very dynamic, the main problem with this was I really wasn't keen on cutting up the Finecast of Tolemion's body but alas, perseverance right?

For The Khan! - January

Okay Ladies and Gents,

here it is, the fruits of my labour for January, may I present to you the first Tactical Squad, their Razorback Transport and an Attack Bike from the White Scars chapter. As I have previously mentioned, painting white for this army has been a steep learning curve and next months painting shall be undertaken with the lessons I have learnt in mind, I plan on trying to paint the models as much on the sprue as possible, this leads to it's own issues but, we shall see how this turns out and then take it from there... anyway, less rambling more photos right?

The Attack Bike, armed with a multi-melta, there will be several of these in the final army, and end result on the next one will be an improvement, that is after all what we're after...

The first Razorback, again there will be multiple examples of these in the army, the next one I may even be as bold as to try some tribal markings on it, we shall see

the complete tactical squad, they may at some point get filled in to a ten man squad, still contemplating this...

Obligatory Group Shot... It was also decided that an initial 1500 point army list should be submitted with this entry so as follows is the roster for the Dothraki Brotherhood:

Captain Drogo Khan
     - Bike, Auspex, Melta Bombs, Teeth of Terra

155 pts

Sternguard Veterans (10)

    - 5 Combi-Meltas, 2 Heavy Flamers

    - Drop Pod

335 pts

Tactical Squad (5)
    - Veteran Sergeant with Power Sword, Flamer
    -  Razorback

155 pts

Tactical Squad (5)
    - Veteran Sergeant with Power Sword, Flamer
    -  Razorback

155 pts

Bike Squad (5)
     - Veteran Sergeant with Thunder Hammer, 2 Grav Guns

175 pts

Bike Squad (5)
     - Veteran Sergeant with Power Fist, 2 Melta Guns

160 pts

Attack Bike Squad (2)
     - 2 Multi-Meltas

110 pts

Attack Bike Squad (2)
     - 2 Multi-Meltas

110 pts

Storm Talon Gunship

     - Typhoon Missile Launcher

145 pts

We're implemented a scoring system for our tale of four gamers, just for a little bit of friendly rivalry, this revolves around making sure you paint the quota each month, and in time, there are also bonus challenges, the first of which was to submit a 1500 point army list... so this month i've racked up 3 points, completing all three tasks... just have to wait for the others now...

so what's next? well I wont be able to resist tinkering with what I've painted, but the aside, next months painting quota is...

A space marine Bike Squad with a veteran sergeant with a Power Fist and 2 Melta Guns as well as a second Attack Bike, this comes in at 236 points, and if I get time, I might have a look at building and painting Drogo Khan to lead this host...

anyway until next time...