Night Lords by Mage updated 29/10/19 Forgefiend Update

The Night Lords were never bright or vibrant. At present they are a broken legion: their Primarch is dead, there is little in the way of structure and they are a shadow of their former glory. They have to scavenge for equipment and resources out of desperation like vultures. I reason the gold trim would be dark and dirty.

• Step 1: Drybrush  Golden Griffon or Liberator Gold (I used Liberator Gold below)
• Step 2: A liberal wash of Agrax Eartshade (not Agrax Earthshade Gloss – it makes it too shiny and clean)
• Optional Step 3: Edge highlight the most prominent areas (shoulder pads, some of the backpack parts, parts of the helmet, chainsword trim) and straight edges only with Liberator Gold

I attached all the models to their bases and have made comparative shots of the conversions I did on them. From here I began basecoating them. The next entry will have a short and sweet gold tutorial.

Many moons ago I bought two copies of Dark Vengenance, the Sixth / 7th Edition starter set for Warhammer 40,000. These came with an updated aesthetic from their predecessors which fall more into line with the current newer releases this year for the army.

Since they were going with my new Night Lords army with newer models I decided to rebase them. I ordered the bases direct from GW and collected them at my ‘local store’ in Dublin, a 2.5 hour drive away before seeing Airbourne live at The Academy.

This model is beautiful and its a shame it was only available (For now) in Shadowspear. It was fun to put together and fun enough to paint even though I was a little intimidated by it: the silhoette, size and various surface textures seemed like a challenge at first but it has been fun!

I was cleaning and tidying around my room and noticed I Kept bumping off a box full of older chaos models and they kinda broke and got battered gradually overtime.

Amongst it was many cultists. I took eight of the many many models and drybrushed them Mechanicus standard grey. I then continued to basecoat it but take shortcuts and Cut down steps to get a horde done (I have loads more)

I wished to use these in any army and keep them generic as possible if I expand and do other Legions or warbands.

I think the limited palette really works and they contrast nicely to the Nigh Lords

I’m kind of half way through the basecoats of the Chaos Lord. As in; I’ve done the first thinning coat. Was 50/50 on doing the cape red but now I feel it’s just right: it ties him in as a Night Lord proper and makes him stand out as a leader.

I’m trying to limit my pallets which is tough as I like various colours. I was tempted to do his sword a bright turquoise blue but I’ll stick to green since the flames on the Master of Possession were done that way. I think it’s the right choice.

I’m really enjoying the sculpt and painting it too: I thought I’d get bored of painting the army by this stage but I’m not

I’m also drybrushing away with various blues on these vintage Thousand Sons for a seperate older chaos army

This is the old plastic out of production chaos Lord from dark vengeance .  The faction in that set fighting the dark angels was the crimson slaughter, a renegade  chapter of space marines

While it is a few years old it is still pretty cool and keeping in the scale and style of the current Newer chaos space marine models

Years ago I sprayed him with army painter plate mail. I believe I intended him to be alpha legion that project never came to fruition

He has been dusted, rebased to 32mm, and repainted. I did a drybrush and second thin layer of Gold, an agrax wash and will continue to work on him.

The final model of the Chaos half is Shadowspear and the biggest. This will be ether fun, or tough and maybe both.