99. Vulkan Lives! Salamanders part 5.

....well, kinda.

What Salamanders army would be complete without Vulkan He'Stan.
However, I'm not a big fan of the official one, it just doesn't fit with how he looks in my head.

So years ago I decided to make my own, but I never got round to uploading him.
But here he is!





It's an Emperors Champion body, with a Mk 4 helmet (the 1 you got in the Black Templar kit as the Heresy range and Calth were not out yet), a plastic grey knight Nemesis force halberd (which replaced the metal one he used to have), and an apothracery gauntlet for the crazy hand flamer.... the barrel fell off while I was photographing him.

Small update for today.
we'll see what I can dig out for the next one!

Peace

-DH-

98. Devastator ready! Salamanders part 4.

So I'm back.
Not such a big gap this time eh?

I've actually done a fair whack of Sallies, it's just getting round to updating my various stuff.
I've been super busy with other things too.
If you wan to know what they are, check out my main blog!

But that isn't why you're here (or shouldn't be anyway), so on with the show?

I wrote up a list for my Salamanders, I can't remember if I mentioned it, but essentially it revolves around the Skyhammer Annihilation force formation.
Which they are conveniently releasing in a book this weekend.

Long story short Devastators, Drop pods and Assault marines, and due to the unique rules of the formation it pays to have a lot of devastators with bolters...
So out of the mass of Marines I had to build, that is where I started.

Now, I want a fair amount of drakescale cloaks and unique armour and arms in ym army.
At the same time I didn't just want to spam corsair cloaks, as awesome as they are

So more pillaging of the Fyrelayers then!



This more armoured scale cloak is actually a Magmadroth leg piece!
The front side needs some greenstuff work to make it look like an actual cloak form the front, but I think it looks pretty good considering!
Once again, thanks to a friend for the bitz!

Here is the Sergeant with his squad;



The guy with the thunder hammer will be used as the tactical squad sergeant should I even use them in that role instead.
(He's sneakily an exact copy of my Deathwatch Salamander from before Overkill was a thing)

Now, as the Skyhammer specifies two squads of Devastators...




More bolters! In this case it is captain pointy hands who is the understudy.


So yeah, you may be asking 'where are the heavy weapons?'
Well this is for a few reasons.

A ) I'm using the 'x' point heavy weapon idea...
basically my list just says 4 times 'XX point' heavy weapons.
This allows me to change it as I see fit.
This means...

 B ) I need to magnatise each heavy weapon devastator.
This is time consuming, and also means that...

C ) I need 8 of each heavy weapons that costs 'xx' points, but mainly, I need 8 Multi Meltas, as that is what I'll probably run being Salamanders.

So yeah.
8 Multi Meltas...

That's all from The Underhive for now!
Like I said, I've been busy with other stuff... if you'd like to know what check out my main blog - http://darkhazzl3.blogspot.com


But in short;
Mice & Mysitcs and new amiibo stuff - Main Blog
Twitch Streams of Hearthstone, Rocket League and Chronicle: Runescape Legends 
YouTube highlight reels, and other interesting videos (most of which are currently being edited).


So yeah, if you want a head up on what I'm doing and when, follow me on Twitter, or Instagram if you like spoiler pictures and junk.


That's it for now, so catch you next time hivers!


-DH-

97. A Fiery Red-Head. Salamanders part 3.

So more Salamanders to break up the time between the lack of sculpting and painting.

Part of this Space Marine project involves recycling my old Space Marine models.
They; like a lot of my projects several years ago, did not receive the care and attention to detail they deserve when I first built them.
So like my other projects, it is time to get these up to scratch.

So on that note here is the start of the new squad with their Librarian.



The eagle eyed of you may have spotted the main recycled marine in the squad...
Here he is in his previous iteration.



Swapped out the hammer for a chainsword to keep the number of hammers down slightly.

I always like having a Space Marine captain (even if I don't use them), so after re-purposing the previous captain I decided to make a new one, by re -using another old model.



This guy is made from my very first kit-bahsed captain from the Phoenix Warrior days.
I've added some choice bits to make him decorated enough to be a captain, hence the weaponry... he'll never be use din a actual game so it doesn't really matter .

inb4 the questions; the helmet is made using a Sternguard helmet and a crest form the new AOS Fyreslayers.

More marines to come soon!
I think I've decided on a scheme for my Imperial Knight too, so that's good

Until then, comment, constructive criticism, general chatter all welcome :3

Peace!

-DH-

96. Unto the anvil! A Prophecy. Salamanders part 2.

More stalling on painting. Shock!

But there are more Salamanders.




This is my Librarian.
As my Salamanders are probably going to be 3rd company, I thought I'd base it on Dakir from the Tomb of Fire trilogy by Nick Kyme.

Just needs a little bit of green stuff on the pistol arm to match the sword arm, and for a bit of fire in the center of the chest plate.
Also, it needs some form of scenic base, otherwise the sword arm will drag along whatever table it'll be on.... goddamn long sword

More later!

-DH-

95. Unto the anvil! Salamaners part 1.

So while I am still stuck in the indecisiveness of Imperial Knight painting, and the slow crawl to having all of my Sisters infantry base coated (haven't even begun the tanks either) I needed to something to fill my hobby time.

Time for the resurrection of my original 40k army; The Space Marines.
For years I'd left them to one side, not sure what to do with them.
A few year ago, I decided upon Salamanders to Collect, with another Space MArine army (The Marines Malevolent) being used as a 'house army' for visiting players.

These projects have languished in obscurity... untouched, and unloved.... but slowly gathering resources for a time when they would finally resurface.
That time has come!

Resurrected from the ashes of Space Marine armies past, this is a project based around re purposing my old Space Marine army.
breaking it down and building it back up better than before.



This was a concept model, using bits form various kits, including forge world  and spell crow stuff.
I've since done quite a lot more, and will post about those soon.

Here's the production line shot.


You can make out a few more models here and there... I'll post some more of them soon if I don't get the urge to paint the knight!

Anyway, until then, stay classy Underhivers!

-DH-

94. Paint Factory. Imperial Knight part 3.

So, it's been a while, but I have been super busy working on stuff!
I'll get round to organising and uploading the picture for them soon, but as usual, if you keep an eye on my Instgram you'll get to see them sooner rather than later!


In the meantime here is the Imperial Knight all put together and with a bit of paint on it in places.




I still can't decide on what colour to paint it aha

I've been toying with this scheme;

(Image taken from here - http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/02/showcase-29-imperial-knights-traitor-admech.html )

Either that or one of the Purple/ Turquoise ones.

Opinions always welcome.
In the meantime, I'm going to crack on with other stuff and hopefully be inspired

Peace
-DH-

93. A Road to Glory. Fly You Fools! Sisters of Battle part 19.

#TBT

While I'm deciding what colour to paint my Imperial Knight I thought I'd work on some other stuff I've been neglecting...so I've been doing a spot of painting and trying to finish off projects here and there.

On project that has been crying out to be finished is my much loved Sisters of Battle.



I had someone make a mold of the metal prototype and have been casting these from green stuff.

As well as this I've started the long process of undercoating and base coating, as well as tidying up the tanks and stuff.

While I've been doing this I've thought about expanding the army a little.
Someone bought me a squad of Sister Repentia. I love the way this unit looks so I've been considering building them.
As well as this, I've got enough Battle Sisters spare to throw in another Battle Sister Squad for extra bodies if needed.
I pretty much 'need' to build 4 heavy flamers and a Promethium relay pipe for my new 1,500 point army anyway, so it wont hurt.

Who knows what else?
Another Exorcist maybe?
Some extra priests?

We'll see.
But expect to see an appearance from L'ordre Des Angels soon!

-DH-