Khorne Slaughterpriest

I thought I had posted this one earlier, but I had not. I finished this version of the Khorne Slaughterpriest in December, mere minutes before the beginning of the new year. He is slightly modified as I swapped out the original head with one from the old Khorne Dreadnought champion.

OG Necron Lord

 

The original Necron Lord from GW. I turned his right hand around and added a small ball to stand in for a control orb. The cloak of gold panels in NMM drove me slightly insane. I also carved the crystals on his base out of old sprue.

Artificer Space Marine

This was a repaint of an old OOP Space Marine variant from the mid-1990s. I liked it for the Judge Dredd look. And then I remembered why I fell out of love of painting Space Marines. All the flat panels. It didn't help that I hacked up the right shoulder pad at one time or another for some reason so had to paint around that. The funny thing is, he's supposed to be an Ultramarine. When I finished him, I realized I had forgotten to paint the Ultramarine badge, instead using a unit marking because I liked the red contrast. He's the highly awarded but self-hating Ultramarine.

 

Old School Ogryn

This has been a year of clearing out the backlog of figures that have sat on the shelf unpainted and laughing at me for years. This 40K Ogryn is one of those. He was fun painting, especially with a face of large features instead of the tiny ones I normally deal with.

 

Wraithlord

It's been awhile. Being an adult sucks. Anywho. Here's a commission I just finished. He wanted a Wraithlord to look like a Dark Eldar archon I painted for him a couple years ago. He also wanted LOTS of guns. I give you the Rambo of Wraithlords.

Khorne Juggernaut

This is a few years old, painted a little ways after the Shaggoth.

Shaggoth

This is Games Workshop's giant dragon ogre, called Shaggoth. The original figure holds a big two-handed battle ax, which I was't a fan of. So I cut the shaft in two, cut the ax blade in two and used green stuff to rebuild the lost pieces. Two axes looked more savage for a Khorne shaggoth. "A Khorne shaggoth? But it's Slaanesh pink!" I hear you say. And now I know why highlighting red is such a tricky business.

Imperator Titan

This is an Imperator Titan from the old GW Epic 40K game. I always thought the big gun on the tallest tower looked goofy and impractical, so I replaced it with a Space Marine backpack decoration. The base, by the way, is a compact disc covered in a layer of cork.

The SEC Marines Project (West Division)

Here's the other half of my effort to paint Space Marines representing the 14 schools of the Southeastern Conference. Here's the teams of the West.

Alabama (Due to this team's long history of national championships, I felt it right that they should be the standard bearer)


Arkansas (this came out pinker than I wanted. There are too many damn reds in this conference and I tried to give the Razorbacks a "cardinal" red)


Auburn


Louisiana State


Mississippi State


Ole Miss


Texas A&M

The SEC Marines Project (East Division)

I went to the University of Georgia, which plays in the NCAA's Southeastern Conference, or SEC. Years ago, I wanted to paint a Space Marine representing Georgia's colors and "G" symbol. My wife, who went to fellow SEC school Florida, also wanted a Marine of her team. Then it hit me, why not do the entire conference, put them on a single base and have something to put by the TV come football season? I finished them several years ago but had to go back and revisit the project when the SEC added two teams a couple years ago. So, here's the first of two looks at my SEC Marines, featuring the teams of the Eastern Conference:

Georgia (note Georgia Tech-colored Tyranid):

Florida (sporting a garnet-and-gold helmet from hated Florida State):

Tennessee:

Missouri:

South Carolina:

Kentucky:

Vanderbilt:

Inquisitor ... Grimjack?

I did a kitbash figure a few years ago, envisioning a 40K Inquisitor. But it really was just an excuse to build my own version of Grimjack, a sci-fi/fantasy bounty hunter from the 1980s comic book of the same name. Not up to speed? Try here.

Anywho, the figure main body was an Adeptus Arbites leader with the head from a Space Wolf scout. The biggest challenge, aside from removing the old head, was removing the figure's right arm, which was cradling a shotgun. I then built a new arm out of greenstuff and an old Space Marine shoulder pad and added the Howling Banshee power sword. To hide the join of the new head, I sculpted a scarf. Not my best work as it still looks like a tongue. Live and learn. I used Rhino spare parts for the base.

Let there be light

I did an experiment in object source lighting (OSL) a while back as part of a contest at my local hobby shop (everyone had to paint their version of Reaper's Prof. LT Froschmeister. I actually did some modeling by taking pictures of the primed figure under a Christmas light. He's standing on a piece of a GW Great Gargant that was serving time in my bits box. I figured a mad scientist needs a proper platform for his latest experiment.

Inquisition Stormtrooper

Here's my latest work, an older GW Imperial stormtrooper painted up as part of an Inquisitor's retinue. I think after painting so much fantasy-related stuff, I was itching to paint somebody with a gun.