Kill teams

Something a little different this week, I say a little as it’s still a bunch of varnished and based models, however, this time they are Kill Team Models. The kill teams in question are the Chaos Legionaries and compendium Sisters of Battle and Grey knights.

While these are Quickshaded the same as the other models, they are based slightly differently. These have been based with sand rather than flock, as the kill team boards are either earthen boards or interior boards. As yet the sand is not painted and I don’t know how soon I will get around to painting and sorting them either. They will eventually be painted grey, initially with a dark grey tinted coat of PVA to seal the sand, and then a couple of dry brushes of lighter greys to add some texture. 

A couple of Chaos Legionaries

Grey Knights

Not sure what will happen to the grey knights, as I don’t think they have had a bespoke team release yet. I don’t plan on upping these to a full army or anything, not even a combat patrol.

Sisters of Battle

The sisters on the other hand I do plan on expanding up. I really don’t know how much they will be expanded, probably not to a full 2000 point list but maybe a 1000 point. I’m hoping there might be a new against of the Imperium codex where you can bring forces from one of the three Inquistorial flavours.

Anyway, back to the 40k units next time!

Space marine scouts

Next up for pictures are the Space Marine Scouts. These started off as a kill team in the 2nd/2018 edition of the game which I think, apart from the commanders supplement, was the best version of the game. I’ve said it before, I don’t dislike the current edition, I just don’t like it nearly as much as the previous edition.

Anyway, the scouts themselves are very nice models and look even better now that they are fully based. 

                                         

Again, not every model is here, just a selection of the models. These models will be joining the Dark Guardians first born space marines, which won't be ready for a while, although I'll be starting on them sometime this year. 

Now some might notice that the snipers cloaks don't quite match with the basing material, well that's because it's not supposed to! 

 

As you can see, they may not match the basing material and by extension, the battle mat, they do however blend in quite nicely with the main building that I use.

While not a perfect match, I think that they work quite nicely. 

Deathwatch

 Deathwatch are next in the Photo Booth, aka some pieces of paper on the desk. I haven’t taken pictures of all the models, there isn’t much point, as they are all the same really. I will have to get some proper army photos done at some point, once I’ve painted up the two rhinos!

First up are two of the three dreadnoughts, the first is an old push fit model with a scenic base, so its had just a few tuffs of grass on, the other two are standard bases fully flocked.

Here is a small selection of the marines. I haven’t done the transfers on some of these yet, that something to try and sort at some point soon. There isn’t much of a hurry for doing them though as I doubt I will ever have these out on the table top, as I think we’ll lose the base deathwatch vets in the new update. 

Here are a few characters, Watch captain Artemis, a Chaplain and a Lieutenant with jump pack (which must have been an option at some point but is no longer an option for anyone, even in legends)

So there they are, the first fully complete, painted, varnished and base space marine army, just another 4 more to go!

Company of heroes

So I had a few days of peace and quiet while the wife and daughter were away at a swimming competition. I decided to try and knock a few bits off my to do list for 2024, namely varnishing vehicles or quickshading and basing my infantry. I managed to get quite a few units done and sorted. I plan on posting up the completed models over the next couple of weeks but I will start with the Space Marine Company of Hero’s. These were a recent addition to the force and it wasn’t until I sorted these guys to put in their case with the other Eagle Knights units that I haven’t based the other models, so I’ll have to get on and do that sometime soon. 

 

Full squad

Ancient and Champion 

The champion and ancient have fairly plain bases, with the ancient having the crate to give his foot something to rest on. 

Veterans and Captain

Shiny trees

The only issue I have is the shiny trees, I could easily sort this with some matt varnish, such as citadels Stormshield. It was also at this point that i realised that in my haste to get these models finished i have failed to paint on the chapter symbols on the shoulder pads! I’m not quite sure how I can rectify this issue at the moment, maybe I’ll have to look in to custom transfers at some point!