Ravager Battleship

The Ravager model is a simple modification of the Raider transport by adding two dark lances to each side. In the GW version, the center sail is insignificantly different. I wanted this ship to appear heavier and therefore added a second set of sails (as compared to my Raider model). This makes it stand out against the transports when combined with the whole army and I think it makes it look more like a battleship.

Ork Trukk

This kit is one of the coolest kits I've assembled/painted from Games Workshop. The amount of options and accessories was great! The only downside what that it took hours just to get the thing assembled and if I had to make another one, I would definitely put it together in a different order.

It was fun to paint, but I'm just about finished with yellow. It's just so much more work to deal with (and then it just gets covered up with weathering and fake scratches).

Ork Grots

I couldn't resist painting these guys, even though they are tactically ... dubious. But 40 points for an 11-man troops choice to sit on an objective, but also an easy kill-point.

Fun to paint though!

I did 2 different techniques (half got one treatment, half the other)
1 - Highlighting the "peaks" of the flesh
2 - Highlighting the outline of muscles

Games Day Captain

This was a limited edition Space Marine Captain from Games Day a few years ago.

I painted several Blood Angels a couple months ago, but I didn't want to spam the blog with a dozen posts. I lost track of time, and now I've finished painting Blood Angels (for now) and moved on to Orks.

Anyway, this poor guy has been demoted to Sergeant, for now.

A bit messy with the washes, but I was more concerned with the face this time.

Venom skiff

The GW version of the Venom transport (bottom pic) required a little pirate-love before being added to my army (top pic). I let the wych models that were provided as crew walk the plank and replaced them with the Kalabite Trueborn mods that I created from the Eldar Scouts. Each model has a small neodymium magnet mounted between its feet that matches up to another magnet on the vehicle. Similarly, I have two movement bases that each have magnets glued on top. This allows me to pull these two models off the vehicle and onto the bases when its time for them to disembark. This serves as a good WYSIWYG reminder and reduces the number of models I'd have to paint. I've also mounted a sail from the Raider transport in place of the original cannon mount. I needed a sail to match the army's theme and thought this new profile made the model looked more balanced (and kind of shark-like :-)

Kalabite Trueborn mod

Games Workshop has not produced models for the Elite Dark Eldar warriors (Kabalite Trueborn) yet, but I had a set of models already in mind. The top picture is a squad of modified Eldar scouts that I'll be using for the above mentioned unit. The bottom picture is the unmodified version of the squad from GW's webpage. I picked these models primarily for their ponytails, pointy ears and flowing robes, which I think fit well in the theme of my army. The modifications I made were not significant and pretty easy using the new resin (instead of metal) models. First of all, I substituted Dark Eldar muzzles to ends of all of the guns. Two of these received the splinter cannon parts and the remaining three got the regular splinter rifle. The model that originally came with an eldar helmet was lopped off and replaced with a pony-tailed she-elf head. The model with the cloaked helmet received some re sculpting to better resemble a dark eldar version. I used split, carved, and stained craft sticks on the bases to resemble planks that might be found on a pirate ship

Distracted by another chess piece

The above image is the last Castle model for the Confrontation-themed chess set I started ten years ago. The slow assembly is due to the fact that I usually paint one or a group of similar pieces in between the completion of one army and the start of another. This was the rare intra-army chess model. The previous one, the black queen, was completed back in October 2010, when the Eldar army was getting wrapped up. The only models remaining are the white knights. I'll probably won't get to those for a while. The Dark Eldar to-do list is still pretty significant. The below image shows the minotaur model and complementary Castle piece that was painted back in Feb 08. The hardest part about painting models in the same theme so infrequently is the color matching. I often forget what colors I used.