They have come for me…

All quiet on this for awhile now, but some updates.

• I have ordered the HH upgrade Kits for my MKVI Night Lords
• I have also found my 10 Forgeworld Terror Squad heads
• I also have an HH Night Lord Praetor
• Artel W Miniatures have announced they are relaunching the Dread Squad range – minus (one would assume) the deliberate ADB characters – so I will be ordering some of those.

Once I finish the outstanding Blood Bowl Star Players, and build up to tackling Ka Bandha, I will get the MKVI’s from the HH boxset on the go.

Night Lord MK VI upgrades

Well it’s nice to get something at least.

Here’s hoping we get another HQ model.

I still hope to see Gendor Skraivok  the Painted Count in the coming months.

Recent update by Artel W Miniatures has confirmed something I suspected had to happen.

GW Have come For You.

They are ceasing production of their Dread Squad range.

Let’s be honest the first mini they did The Dread Lord was clearly always going to infringe on GW IP.

They only went and made this worse by producing 100% accurate versions of ADB’s Night Lords.

So it was only a matter of time before these got noticed!

I am glad I have picked up the minis while I could and am sorry to see an end to these. We might not get their Cyrion and we definitely aren’t getting a Xarl!

I will just have to stick to some of my First Claw minis and wait and see if Uzas turns up.

RIP Dread Lord’s we barely knew you. But we did know who you were….

Three of the lads so far.

Still think Talos is my favourite.

Oh Artel you sneaking miniature makers.

No sooner has Uzas gone up for sale than they drop a WIP render of Cyrion.

Artel’s first 3d render of Uzas.

No skin cape – which I can live with.

And maybe switch out the helmet for a GW MKIII.

But he looks awesome just like the rest of them!

The big lad is now up for sale at Artel W.

And what makes it more exciting is he does come with his skin cape!

I still think I might swap out his head(s) for a GW Mark 3 helmet, but the one he comes with is doable.

Also I might take my original Uzas and remove the axe arm and give him a gun arm instead and reuse his MKIII helmet for this guy, and give my original Uzas one of the bare heads with this kit!

The possibilities are finite!

Finally got around to starting work on the last two First Claw members from Artel.

Classic Night Lords scheme at this point.

Messed about with the ammo feeder on his heavy bolter. It’s leadbelcher then washed with canotepk gloss, then dry brush with Iron Hands Steel.

Makes it look grimy and well used.

Only issue here and I didn’t pick it up when I was dry fitting and as I painted his heavy bolter as a sub assembly its only really become apparent now. Is that there is a noticeable mis-alignment of his left hand and his arm. I am going to have to try and hide that with a little bit of green stuff.

Not sure what I could have done to correct as the triangle pegs on Artel’s stuff normally prevents any such issues. Their resin is far to brittle to try and bend as well.

Ho – hum not sure it really detracts from the overall quality of the mini however.

Finally got around to building and painting this fella.

Either I glued the legs on wrong or the rock his left foot is on, but the rock I couldn’t quite get to glue flat to the base. So I have basically jammed a load of small rocks around it to hide it.

Classic Night Lords paint scheme at this point, but with Variel he is still wearing the markings of the Astral Claws / Black Corsairs.

So we got to use Blood Angels contrast on his pauldrons and his chest insignia. Also used Black Templar contrast on these details.

As Variel isn’t a son of Nostramo he has regular skin so a bit of Gulliman flesh here. Possibly the nicest that flesh has turned out when I have used contrast paints.

Still got a few details to finish but he is looking good so far.