They have come for me…

Another 3D render up at Artel W miniatures.

Variel the Flayer former Apothecary with the Red Corsairs who is convinced to join First Claw by Talos.

Wonderful.

I think we just have the 3D render for Cyrion and Uzas to go and the concept art for Xarl.

I would love for Artel to keep churning out Night Lord themed sculpts.

They have done a Lion El’Jonson and a Perturabo could Konard Curze be on its way?

Now up for order at Artel W.

So yeah this guy has arrived, as you can see I have done a lot of work on him…

Up for order at Artel Miniatures.

Just got to wait for this lad to arrive now!

Been awhile, currently painting other stuff for no reason, but this fella turned up and I have built him a little (left the heavy bolter and backpack off to make it easier).

Currently he is undercoated..

I didn’t even know a miniature for this guy existed.

But a monthly check of Ebay threw this up, and I was able to snag him.

Kreig first popped up in the still canon-ish Black Library Novel “Lord of the Night”, and was kicking around during the Horus Hersey.

He has popped up a few times since in various novels the last one being the Primarch book about Konard Curze.

But this mini takes him back the HH before he ascended to Daemon Prince status.

If I were ever to play Warhammer 40K I think he would stand in very well for a Night Lords Master of Executions.

Currently he is just in Midnight Clad, before I have the boring task of painting in all the Gehenna’s Gold trim.

This guy has a ton of detail little lightning bolts here and there and an obsession with winged skulls (More than a normal Night Lord anyway!).

So painting in all of that detail is not going to be fun.

You had a choice of two heads with this a long haired head (which didn’t really match the description of Kreig) this weird bat skulled helm.

Hopefully get this guy finished over the next week or so.

Then it’s a wait for the rest of Artel’s First claw or the Contekar Terminators from Forge World!

Almost finished.

Just need to complete his axe and run some Liberator Gold highlights over the knee pads.

Quite happy with the way this turned out the white on the bat skull helmet has come out so clean.

So, I have managed to get this guy painted up in double quick time.

Classic Night Lords scheme at this point

Armour

Kantor Blue, Drakenhof Night shade, highlighted with Alatioc Blue.

Pauldron Trim

Gehannas Gold, Agrax Earthshade, Liberator Gold Highlight.

Skin

Rakarth Flesh, Reikland Flesh shade, then Rakarth Flesh highlight

Used some contrast Aethmatic Blue on his sword to give it a power glow, seems to have worked out ok.

Also added his optional helmeted head to the base – because Talos wouldn’t be Talos without his skull helm!

No news on when the other First Claw squad members are going to go on sale yet.

But they will look fantastic next to this guy.

Guess who just arrived in the post?

As with all Artel Miniatures, the detail is so crisp on this, its almost a shame to paint him!

Ignore the plaster, I cut my thumb open when I was trimming off the remaining resin support struts. Needless to say getting covered in arterial spray from someone else probably would have made Talos grin.

Just waiting for the rest of First Claw to go up for sale.

When I started this project, I said the first thing any committed Night Lords fan had to do, was create their own First Claw from ADB’s Night Lords Trilogy.

And although I am more than happy with how most of my guys turned out, Artel W miniatures just dropped these WIP concept sketches and a render.

My word I want these!

If these turn out even looking half as good (and based upon the quality of Artel’s sculpts and casts) these will be amazing!

and now the Render for Mercutian.

These are going to be so good!

and now we have concept art for Cyrion! Note the Slannesh symbol on this shoulder paldron and on his bolter.

Quality.

Just got Xarl and Uzas to go!

Consider this guy ordered!

Link incase anyone else wants a Talos Night Lord!

https://artelw.com/Leader-of-the-Dread-Squad-p283336625

As is customary with Artel, you get a few different bits, mainly head options so you can have him with the skull faced helm, or 3 alternative bald heads.

I will go bald I suspect just to make him stand out a bit.

If you do order artel state that it can take up to 12 weeks for minis to arrive, and if you are in England I would expect longer delays in a post Brexit world.

Absolute madness how good this guy looks, he doesn’t have his “skin cape” in the concept art, but I think we can all live with that!

Uzas!

So, I have undercoated all of the Terminators in Chaos Black and the Dreadnought.

Splash of Kantor Blue and a wash of Drachenhof Nightshade and we are left with this.

For the Havocs and Raptors which I have had sitting around for an age now, these were already undercoated in Corax White.

I have also thrown on some Kantor & Nightshade.

I was holding off awaiting delivery of some funky Helmets and Shoulder Pads for some of these, but it looks like that order has gone massively array (when last I checked the courier service had attempted delivery – in New York USA- in live in the UK) so I have given up on those and just used some Night Lords helmets and random chaos marine shoulder pads.

The difference in lighting doesn’t help, but I think having all of these painted up and displayed together is going to look a treat.