We have an Incursion...

Ok, so, it's been forever and a day since I updated this. Why? Well, no one else was reading it so I was getting more results off of sharing photos on Facebook. Which is a damn shame as it sort of just completely defeats the point of...well, doing this.

But I digress.

A significant leap in progress, to be followed by more soon if I ever stop procrastinating. Save some tidying up of the top of the base the Chain-Lord (still as of yet unnamed) is done. And surprisingly, along with him came 3 Chaos Cultists - a fourth is pretty much done but not based so didn't make it along. To clarify - the Lord is mine, the Cultists belong to a good friend, Dean and are being done in such a way that they can be fielded in either his Cleaved (Death Guard), Skulltakers (Red Corsairs) or with my Black Legion to form a Cult of the Damned specialist detachment with the Dark Apostle and a Sorcerer spare to form a second Battalion.

I',m really pleased with how the Chaos Lord has turned out. Hopefully his follow up unit won't take as long or be too ridiculous though I'm still going to have to pull off the aged trophy skull trick on them. 

Can I also say I'm happy with the base and how that has turned out? The Ultramarine is suitable weathered, battered and worn and looks well and truly like a corpse on a battlefield. I never understood the desire to make corpses, particularly Space Marine ones as bright and clean as their living counterparts - their armour should be battered, weathered and dulled down. The Marine went down with a fight - it's not really right to assume they just spontaneously dropped dead in parade ground bright clear and clean armour just for the sake of it.

I like him. I like the black tones of the armour and hopefully next time I'll be able to show some of the difference - subtle as it is between this Chaos Lord and the other Chaos Lord who just happens to be a bit...less alive. Mixing blues into the black and greys into the black for different results.

 Let's finish off on Cultists. As you can see, they're delightfully...common. And generic. Which is what I need them to be otherwise they will drive me mad. The one on the right of the picture is done in a (former) friend's Imperial Guard scheme - if anyone wants their own Guard to be used let me know as plenty more cultists to go. Same with Ad-Mech. And yes, different skin tones as well. I'm planning on making them a generic...rabble. So experimenting with skin tones as you can see. Some paler than others, some different ethnicities. I want the idea that the Cultists are generally the masses of humanity from a world and the regiments and forces stationed there.

Anyhow - there is more coming. Terminators to follow the Chain-Lord, the second 'character' - though really it's two characters (fluff reasons coming) and some photos of my work on Dean's Skulltakers. Oh, and maybe some WIP shots on a very, very large Lord of Change. One I finish cleaning the bloody tabs off the damn wings to start.