Wyches Raider Plus my WoC Lord on Disk

Wow what a week its been! Or has it been two? I dunno but I know the last while has not been kind to my hobbyist time. That being said I did manage to squeeze some time in to my otherwise full Schedule and the results are not bad at all if I do say so myself!







First up is my the "mostly finished" raider. The paint work is done on it at this point. I'm just looking to get some printable transfer sheets in to add some decals to the sail and possibly the hull (still undecided on that one). The biggest thing I can say I learned on this one? Get a <censored> air brush. Seriously this thing was the least fun thing I have ever taken my brush to. I think if I could speed up the base coating process a bit and get to focus more on the detailing work (and fun effects an airbrush makes possible) would have been a lot more enjoyable for me. But overall not a bad result if I do say so myself.

After the raider I felt I needed a small break from my dark eldar before I started work on the crew for my new raider. That meant a quick trip to my warriors of chaos for fantasy. I have been working on a new color scheme that may yet get made the main style of my army. Unlike my dark eldar I have yet to come up with a scheme I am 100% happy with. Once I get the test model done maybe I'll post some shots of my choices here and find out what the internet at large thinks.

But of far more interest is my latest conversion project. This here is my lord on a disk of tzeentch. Games workshop does make a very good looking model for this unit already however I always had one problem with it. The disk is far to static to be related to the god of change. When I picture demons from Tzeentchs realm I picture beings who never adopt the same form twice and never stay in the same form for more then moments at a time. Beings that in the material realm flicker from form to form with very little care for the laws of this world. The flamers are excellent examples of this theory. Also I found the model that mounted the disk far to... bulky to be a sorcerer. Maybe a lord? but a sorcerer should be casting a spell! And that's where the inspiration for this piece came from. What better source of energy for a spell then a being given life by the god of magic himself. And it is established in the army book that sorcerers often make pacts with demons to attain their magical power. So the true question remains, in this pairing is the demon, or the sorcerer the true master? Or maybe its something else entirely? Who knows what plans if any the changer of ways has for this mortal soul?

See you in the webway!

Razorwing Jet-fighter Update

So over the last little while I have been exclusively working on my razoring jet-fighter. And I am proud to say I have the thing more or less modeled the way I want. Only thing I have left to do on it is to model up some missiles, magnetize the missiles to act as counters for how many shots I have left. And figure out how to get the fighter to sit on the stand properly without having to glue it on. Unfortunately the jet is a bit ass heavy so its not sitting on those neat ball bearing stands very well. Without further ado here are some pics of my new jet.

The extra wings are held on by some green stuff, some plastic cement and then a layer of super glue along the top edge. The were a bit of a pain to attach but I think it adds to the overall feel of the model. Contrary to what I had posted in the first blog entry I ended up not using the nightspinners as housing for the dark lances and simply attached them straight into the fire prism/night spinner slots on the fire prism tank turret. 

Here is a shot from the back. Originally I wanted to have two separate engines on this thing but I couldn't find a way to attach them and the wings without a lot of extra work I wasn't exactly keen on doing.

For now the rest of this project is on hold till I get the rest of my Dark Eldar army assembled. Main reason being is I actually wanna get some games in with this thing finished or no. Shouldn't take to long to get a coat of paint slapped on this thing as I only need to assemble an archon, 5 incubi, a ravager, and two raiders. Then maybe I can focus on actually getting both my warriors of chaos and dark eldar painted? nah!

The start of the blog and my first conversion

Hey guys and gals
So I have finally decided to start up a blog about my main hobby Warhammer fantasy and Warhammer 40K. Now I haven't exactly been in the hobby very long but -as is my nature- I'm an information sponge. I've read alot, talked to as many people at my friendly local game store as were willing to talk to me, contacted a few people I have encountered on various web forums and talked to one very experienced friend of mine. Unfortunately this leaves me with a lot of theory but little practice. Hence the blog! My hope is by adding one more motivating factor (that is getting work done on my latest project so I can post about it here) I will spur myself on to more and better experiences to have and then share here. Kind of like an infinite loop (did I mention I'm a software developer by day?). And on that note I will share my current work on my very first conversion!

So I've done the typical conversion jobs that almost every one does. Using the extra bits and bobs on the sprue to add some character to a specific model or make a unit commander even more unique. However I have recently started work on my very first unit that does not have a model created by Games Workshop. Being primarily a dark eldar player I suspect I will have to do this quite a bit in the days to come. Currently I am working on the Razorwing Jetfighter heavy support option. I'm not as flush with money as I would like so I wanted to try to limit this conversion to a single kit plus any random bits left over from my small dark eldar army. To that end I found a picture of another razorwing that someone had made out of a fire prism tank a Vyper as well as another kit I didn't recognize. Using this model as a starting point I purchased a fire prism tank and started butchering it. The general ideal being to use the turret as the cock pit and the body of the tank as the wings after it has been cut in half. Here are some shots of my progress so far.

To start I began building the the turret of the fighter more or less the way it was described in the instructions. I made one small alteration in that I cut the original head off the gunner and replaced it with a spare head from one of the Ravagers I recently built. Actually as a funny side note this is the third head the model has had. The first was the original, the second was a helmeted head that I found out after doing some blue tac builds would be to high to allow the canopy to close properly, and then this one.

Among other weapons the Razorwing Jetfighter is armed with two dark lances (or two disintegrator cannons but I'm not a fan of them). As I like to stay as close to What You See Is What You Get (or WYSIWYG) as possible I have decided to make some changes to the nightspinners that come with the kit to serve as mounting points for the dark lances. I figure the look should be right with two center mounted dark lances, two missiles per wing and bottom slung mounted splinter cannon.

In the process of doing some blue tac builds I realized I will have to paint the inside of the cock pit before I assemble the rest of the turret. So a quick blast of primer and some paint later I have gotten to this point. I still have a lot of work to do with the painting on this one. The inside walls are going to be bolt gun metal, the screen of the console will be a green color while the buttons will be a red and purple. Its kind of hard to see in this picture (the picture quality isn't great but my hands were shaking to hard this evening to get a better pic) but his shoulder pads are both silver to denote a vehicle operator in my army. This is part of the rank and function based color scheme I am using for my kabal which I will go more in depth on in a later post.

Thank you for reading my very first post ever. Feel free to leave any question, comments, or suggestions. As I lack anything that even resembles a life I will get back to you fairly quickly.