Indomitable Fortress

Saw this wonderful fortress setup here and wanted to share it with you, whoever you might be. He posted a lot of pictures of the build. Maybe later one when I've completed a few of my other projects I'll get to building something like this.

How to Magnetize a Predator Video

How to magnetize a Chaos Space Marine Predator with all available options. All the weapon choices as well as the dozer blade. Easy to do with minimal cutting of pieces.

I want to thank VaipaM from MiniWarGaming.com for his video on magnetizing a predator for providing the idea on how to magnetize the turret weapons.

Magnets can be found here at MiniWarGaming.com

Troop Choices for Chaos

The big problem I have with Chaos is a problem I have with the way I build armies. I look at things in a "how would it really be" sort of way. I like the story behind an army. I like to have a leader. When my Daemon Prince died to a swarm of rending genestealers, he suffered by not being invited to the next game. After all, he had failed me.

But the other problem is my Nurgle army. Plague Marines are awesome, but they are one sided. Plague Marines have 3 weapon choices (Flamers, Plasma, and Melta), which are all good choices for whatever you intend the unit to do. You also only need 5 marines to get two of those weapons. But that's all you can really do outside of the Champion options. This can get bland quick.

The new Chaos Space Marines are all about mix-and-match units from different gods. But here's the thing I have to remember: Just because Emperor's Children are pretty in pink and don't worship Nurgle doesn't mean you can't still include them in a Nurgle force. Indeed, you can just as easily paint them up in Nurgle colors, come up with some other story or a different themed weapon using the same stats, and suddenly the Emperor's Children become Emperor's Bile, a unit for long ranged combat as well as better horde killing abilities. Khorne Berzerker's don't need to worship the Blood God in your army. They don't even have to be Khrone Berzerker models. Have fun with the Nurgle Plaguebearers from the Daemon army. Suddenly your Nurgle themed army have a hard hitting close combat unit.

The key here is consistancy within your theme. If you want a multi-colored army, by all means, go for it. I know I wanted to paint up Emperor's Children as the Pretty Pink Pwnies, and even give them a Rhino in pink just to shake things up. But I want to see what I can do about creating a Plague Sons (Thousand Sons) unit.

The other thing to remember for your Chaos Space Marine army is that you don't necessarily need to buy the coresponding model. Sure, you might actually like the look of Thousand Sons, but you can just as easily use normal chaos marines.

I've seriously considered rewriting the CSM Codex for my own purposes and put a Nurgle slant on everything. That way, instead of taking Khorne Berzerkers, I'm taking my Daemonic Plaguebearers. Instead of Emperor's Children, I'm taking Plague Bringers. Even give vehicles different names based on different options. After all, a Predator with a Twin-Linked Lascannon isn't as interesting as Nurgle Plaguecannon, and a Vindcator is a Thundering Bilecannon.

Chaos v.s. Tyranids and Orcs

I'd give you a play by play, but honestly, I think this about sums it up. My Rhino getting rush by several squads of Tyranids and Orcs. Some unlucky rolls, and some poor play by me, and yeah, the picture was the result.

Nurgle Daemon Prince

With my new model built and primed with The Army Painter's Necrotic Flesh, I started painting it up. So far so good. I did a complete wash with GW's old Green Ink which gave it a nice solid green color. I did up the sword with a simple rust effect which came out well. After that, started working on lightning up the model by coloring all the spines sticking out with Bleached Bone and then Skull White. The horns got the same effect, though more work needs to be done on the head where it meets with the horns. The armor was done with Camo Green. I wanted the armor to blend in but at the same time stand out. I think it works so far. I highlighted the edges a bith with a 1:1 mix of Camo Green and Skull White. The chaos symbol in the middle was first done with Icy Blue with a Skull White Highlight. I still have a lot more to do. I want to avoid using metallic colors in this model, so I will have to practice a bit to make sure the chainmail and chains look good. I still have to figure out what I want to do with the sword hilt.

The model is going to be a Daemon Prince of Nurgle for my chaos army. It's actually a Warhammer Fantasy model, Be'Lakor, the Dark Master, but I loved the model. I complete treat to paint. I truth, I can easily see myself picking up another and building it up again.

Homemade Light Box

I found an excellent tutorial on building a homemade light box. The results are pretty awesome. I need to buy another light to increase the results, but I think it will help me become a better painter, as well. I can take pictures and get a real close look at what I'm actually doing and work from there. At the very least, it will allow me to take pictures of my miniatures and get better results.

Big Building - My Marines Need Someplace to Crash

It's a big building, for sure. I'm using the Pegasus Hobbies Gothic City Building Large Set. It's a good number of pieces that pretty much let's you build what you want. More importantly, it's incredibly easy to put together. I added the flooring myself. I'm considering adding a bit more to the rear wall, but not sure yet. I still have quite a bit more work to do, but wanted to let the glue set.

I wanted to make sure that a Rhino could make it into the ruins from at least one side.

Hey, look, Dreadnoughts can get in as well!

Looking down from the top. Obliterators on the roof, rawr!