New 40k, New army

So needed a boss, and the Kataphron kit seemed to fit the bill. Its a blend of the rust stalker and Kataphron kits.

Ive only used plastic in it, as i felt that using guitar wire tendrils would loose some of the blocky weight. I wanted it to feel heavy, blocky and with an industrial shape at odds with the the nature of chaos.

Also it was important to not make it bipedal or human looking. This is a centuries old thinking machine that uses algorithms to invoke chaos into its code and the code of other machines. It needed to be inhuman.

So whats left? weird monoliths and a chaos wardog, then done.

So the App came out didn’t it? so i had a bit of a fiddle with it realising i needed some sit on an objective and shoot infantry so i added a squad of noise marines…kinda.

So its the same paint scheme, so i wont write it out again.

What are the made of? Delaque bodies with Rust Stalker parts. As sonic blasters i used the flat ended blades, i imagine they are swinging them creating sonic shock waves. The heavier weapons are taser goads.

I think its time i admit that this army is apparently just prawns…..

So new Hellbrute. I’m really pleased with the organics inside it. Rather than it being a brain, i imagine its some unfortunate that the man of iron has nommed to replenish its battery or something equally weird.

Same paint job, same old oils. HOWEVER i want to give a shout out the GW crackle paint. I used AK stuff on this base…..and the GW stuff is so much better…..Who knew?

Anyway, enjoy! Next week maybe i do the horrors, although I may look at the points that got released to day and build a proper list.

So i got a Golden Button. I saw it Sunday when i got back from crewing Empire LRP (3k people in a field).

So one of the things that came up in the video was what paint im using….

Its oil paints. How do i do it? Here we go.

Base coat with random white spray paint. Seriously, its whatever i have. Yeah i know….

Once thats down, its a coat of black oil paint. leave it, wipe it off. Thats the whites done. No really. To be fair theres more than that.

Once ive wiped it down i use a couple of umber oils paints thinned with mineral spirits. and push them around on the white sections to give some tonal depth and warmth.

Next up the pink sections. Those are just layers of red, pink and flesh tone oils built up on the mini. Then using mineral spirits to paint in swirls and lines to give a bit of texture to the paint.

The lights are just red, orange, yellow and flesh oil paints.

Its not acrylics 🙂

So this is the basis for the next Hellbrute. Its going to be a fist and power scourge brute. Im using the Necromunda floaty fish dude for it. Have i started making a prawn and octopi army?……

Ive drilled it out to fit guitar and bass strings (As a basist, bass is different!) and glued them in. This weekend i intend to get it done. I have however got end of year reports to write, i want to paint a canvas and spend some time with my amazing partner….so it may just get the whites done.

I’ll be up front. In the write up on the golden button Blanche’s name popped up.

Not going to lie, I’ll take the name any where near me. But not for the reasons you would think.

As a kid, his and Ian Millars art got me into art. Their art defined my career as an art teacher, gave me my love of art. Chatting to my partner tonight she said that when i talk about art i have so much passion. They gave me that.

Also as a *mumble 47 mumble* year old, John has been incredibly kind and been really supportive of my art. Which has massively changed my output and shoved me to try to make art my main income…..As an artist hearing positives about your work spurs you on. Its why websites like this matter.

Its hard to say which piece of his work I love the most.

Amazonia Gothique change cover art forever. I use it in lessons when talking about feminist art.

The Sentinel. if you look at my sketch books, sub concisely that has stuck in. so many sketches of lone figures watching over a land scape.

Or the flying ships that my teen brain adored.

The pic i’ve stuck at the top is however the painting my friend Ian bought a print of for me because ‘It looks like your upside down head John’. Thankfully i have always adored it.

Another one done, you know the drill so i wont describe in details of how its done. Still needs black rim the base.

So they are on paper chaos space marines…..they really arnt, i think they are humans chopped up and used for parts for to create a body guard for the general.

Parts wise its Delaque gang members, no arms and guitar wire cut and glued in.

The heads and other parts are bits that looked cool in the ironstrider kit, cut up and glued in where they looked right.

The paint scheme is the same, but the amount of whites and pinks flipped to stand out more. It also means when i do the the general i can use more white so they stand out more in amoung their body guard.

What are the weapons? well on paper its chain swords and bolt pistols. I imagine the things have heat ray vision to cover bolt pistols. The gun armed one is either a heavy close combat weapon, special weapon or heavy weapon. I have no idea yet…i think this is very much a project of make cool things and make them fit in.

The same is, although i have decided to stay inside the GW mini ecosystem, i imagine thease models (with the correct sized bases) are too converted for playing at compertition.

I have also noticed the army list keeps changing in my head as i come up with cool ideas.

This was, obviously, an Iron strider kit put on the correct sized base.

I’ve taken the servitor off, putting guitar wire tentacles in its place. using the sensor pack grabby hands to give the look of a prawn….the most sinister of seafoods. I’ve mounted the Las cannon on the back, using the sensor blister as a turret.

Ive used the same paint scheme.

I think it gives a look of something inhuman and mechanical, yet also strangely possessed by something hideious.

Second one. i really think the washed out oil look lends it a sinister look, even if its bordering on barbie pink. Margot Robbie would be proud