August Pledge: Mebrind

When I thought of this write-up, I had some ideas of what I wanted to say...but then I left everything until the last minute again so shut up and here's some toys

Master of Relics:

Master of the Marches:

PA Librarian:

Terminator Librarian:


6 THSS Terminators

I'm off to bed,

Id

July Pledge Completion for Lethe37I, and some ramblings about themed armies..

Doubters and Haters beware, I actually put the nose to the grind-wheel and completed my hobby pledge this month..
So, I promised 10 converted bloodletters
http://i.imgur.com/wquSfJe.jpg
and 10 mega converted plaguebearers
http://i.imgur.com/pUWoo5Q.jpg

So, there are the pictures of my finished miniatures. Whoa whoa whoa, I hear you cry, those really aren't demons of any sort, let alone bloodletters or plaguebearers, and you would be 100% correct, so, you see, I've decided to go off on a complete mad one, and collect a themed army.

When I say themed army, what I mean is an army that is not just a collection of models, it is a unified force. The army has overall concept to bind it all together, and give me a reason for having the models that I have (and the batshit conversions that I'm planning). I'm using the same basic colour palette and the same basing for the entire army. So, even though the units are different, by having the same overall concept, the same-ish colours, and the same bases, they stand together very well as a single force.

The concept for my Demon army is thus: one of the ancient elven colonies in the old world was besieged by demons when the polar gates collapsed, and during the resultant magical shitstorm that ensued around the city, the city, and all of the demons, were utterly wiped out. The land where the city one stood is warped and tainted by such huge magical expenditure, that the very elements of the land itself fight back against anyone they see as invaders, which, for my intents and purposes, is everyone.

So, elemental I-can't-believe-its-not-demons.
All Khornate demons in my army are represented by fire and fire elementals, so, for my bloodletters, I have dryad bodies, clearly burned out husks (dark greys and drab browns, highlied up to light grey, like burnt charcoal) spouting massive brightly coloured flames from their backs and hands.
http://i.imgur.com/swiwURD.jpg
and a closeup of a single one, with its halo-esque backflame, and its massive hand-sword-fire.
http://i.imgur.com/qP1yUmT.jpg

All Nurgle demons in the army will be represented by earth and rock elementals, so, my plague bearers are little boulder-men, they almost look like small landslides running at you. I started with Vampire Ghouls, and sculpted a thick layer of rocklike greenstuff over the top, and then painted them up through the same browns and greys as the Emberboughs, and tried to reinforce their rocky nature with tonnes of stone, slate and pebbles on their bases, painted exactly the same as their "skin"
http://i.imgur.com/QtgEb2o.jpg
and a closeup on a single one (one of my favourite models)
http://i.imgur.com/OlPPh7U.jpg

I am sorry for the quality of lighting and camera, I did what I could!
Hope you guys enjoyed, more to come soon..

Lethe37I

July Pledge: Mebrind

Pledged for July:

Land Raider Crusader

Stormtalon

Stormraven

In a rush out the door at the time of posting so quick snaps on my phone (can't beat them there 11th hour pledge completions).

Land Raider:

Stormtalon:

Stormraven:

And the pledge all chilling out together:

Dread Month Pledge Done

So this month I decided to get all my unpainted dreads done and dusted. 2 BA Furiosos, a BA rifleman, a Slaanesh hellbrute and Ancient Rylannor.

Furioso with dread ccw and frag cannon

Furioso with twin blood claws

Rifleman

Hellbrute

Rylannor, the man himself 

All in all very please except for the rifleman who was based on a second hand chassis I really should have stripped. Thanks to Pete from GW Dublin for the tips for painting the statue for Rylannor's base.

Vin

June Pledge: Mebrind

Seeing as I was talking about my July pledge earlier, I figured I should actually put up pictures of my June pledge. To recap, it was the following:

10 Sniper Scouts
Human Blood Bowl Team (12 Models)
Human Dreadball Team (10 models)

First the Scouts, being done for my Aurora Marines, I followed the scheme I've been using since the new How to paint Citadel Miniatures book came out last year.

As people know, I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan, so anytime there's a football based game, I want the team I intend to play with to be Falcons colours. With that in mind, and because they're the old human models, I used the Falcons Throwback uniform as my base for a scheme.

Finally for the Dreadball team, I saw this image on the Falcons webstore, it's the mascot for the NFL on Fox Sports done up in a futuristic Falcons scheme, and with the way the Dreadball models are laid out it actually transfers pretty well.