Harlequin Kill Team

Harlequin Kill Team: Group Shot

The new version of kill team has been out for a little while now, and I think it's a really fun game. 

My first few games, I played with some of my Chaos Space Marines, and whilst they are still cool, I've wanted an excuse to paint some harlequins, and this seemed like a good excuse.

Leader with Power Sword and Neuro Disruptor

I did not batch paint any of these models, which I really enjoyed because I mostly hate batch painting.

I also used a different secondary colour on each model, because I think that's fun.

Leader: Back

Painting all the freehand diamonds was equal parts frustrating and satisfying, I do think they came out pretty well though. The power sword on this guy was also pretty experimental, I quite like how it came out.

Player with Harlequin's Kiss

This one is the first one I painted, so he is my "concept" model I guess, I like the fact that you can use a bunch of the different melee options in Kill Team, it makes the models more individual.

Player with Harlequin's Blade

Taking photos of these was hard, because I want to be able to focus on all the different parts, but I am not good enough at cameras for that.

Player: Back

I have a new phone with quite a nice camera though so I think with a bit more practice I'll do fairly well. I have not edited these pictures except to crop them, whereas on previous models posted I have done various colour corrections.

Player with Harlequin's Blade

I'm also using a game board and a background from a white dwarf rather than a lightbox, which makes the photos look interesting and is also I think why the colours have stayed more "true", but I am not technical enough to know for sure.

Gunner with Fusion Pistol and Harlequin's Blade

A lot of my harlequins have blades, I think they might be the best all round melee option for them, but I have not actually played a game with them yet.

Gunner: Back

I have only built and painted eight Harlequins so far, one full fire team with no options. I have two more boxes of unbuilt Harlequins so that once I have played a game with them, I will be able to sensibly add models to their roster, rather than just building stuff randomly

 

Player with Harlequin's Embrace

I am only planning on making a roster of seventeen Harlequins, because they come in boxes of six, and each box makes a leader, and sensibly you only want two leaders on your roster, both with power swords but each with a different pistol.

Player with Harlequin's Blade

This Harlequin had my favourite pose, so I painted her with my favourite colour for her secondary, I also realise I did not take a good photo of the left side of her face.

Player: Back

I do like how the coats turned out on the ones with coats, the split design is cool though I do say so myself. I think maybe I copied it from the box, but I don't actually remember.

Player with Harlequin's Embrace

I enjoyed these models as a project, and I am looking forward to playing a game or two with them, and then building and painting some more. I am already running out of colours, though.

Primaris Salamanders - 250 Points

I started painting these guys back in January, but I am not very good at sticking to projects and so here they still were unpainted in April. My husband and I are doing a "slow grow" 250 points at a time, I was going to do Word Bearers, as I need to paint those too, but then Games Workshop released Adrax Agatone and I therefore was obliged to do a Salamanders Primaris army.

These 250 points were supposed to be painted in January, but now we are on government mandated lockdown I finally got round to finishing them.

Primaris Infiltrators

These are Infiltrators, there are 5 of them. Primaris guys cost quite a lot of points.

I started by buying the "start collecting vanguard" box so you'll be seeing more of the miniatures from there in the fullness of time.

Adrax Agatone

And then there is this guy. It is slightly ridiculous to have him in a 250 point patrol detachment, but I don't care, he's cool and he has a cool hammer and a cool cape.

Adrax Agatone - Rear

I quite liked painting his cape, though I'm glad I don't have to repeat the process because it was a lot of making stuff up as I went along. I really like how it came out, though.

Maybe I'll finish the miniatures I planned to paint in March before it is, in fact, May.

Chaos Knights

There's just something undeniably cool about Chaos, it's unapologetic.

Knights are also awesome, and so when Games Workshop released their Chaos knight kit I had to have one.

This is The Old Faith, a Knight Desecrator loyal to the Word Bearers legion and the leader of my knights, as any good word bearer should be, he is decked out with runes both Chaotic and Colchisian and inscriptions from the book of Lorgar

This kit was fun and one day I hope to add a Rampager to this force for maximum stabbing. He is half black and half the colour of old parchment, with a red shoulder to denote his allegiance to the Word Bearers.

This is the first of two War Dogs who serve as slaves to The Old Faith, his name is Oculum but I call him Eyeball. He is clad in black like the left half of his boss's heraldry, with the same red shoulder pad.

Eyeball has half the contents of my chaos tin attached to him, spikes, chains, I even replaced his eye lens with the eye from a chaos spawn, hence his name.

This is Vindicta, the other of The Old Faith's War Dogs, I call him Angry, because his face is just so angry. He represents the other half of his boss's livery, again with the red shoulder pad.

I am especially fond of Angry's banner, which I cut out from the middle of a larger piece.

The transfers on all three knights are a combination of the sheet that came in the Chaos Knight kit, and a Word Bearers transfer sheet from forgeworld.

Salamanders Funko Pop

Yesterday was Warhammer day, and games workshop released a few limited things in celebration. One of those was a "paint your own" Space Marine Funko Pop.

My favourite chapter wasn't available when they released the prepainted unlimited ones, so it seemed like it would be a fun little project to paint a Salamander with a very large head.

I really like how he came out, I freehanded some fire onto him, and I think it worked well. I also think it is sort of apparent how much practice I have had painting fire.

His back is less interesting than his front, but thoroughness demands I show you anyway.

Phil also painted a Funko Pop, his is a Crimson Fist, you can read about it on his blog.

I like the picture of them together.

Noise Marine

A little while ago, Games Workshop released this noise marine, I don't collect emperors children, or even particularly love Slaanesh, but I really like this miniature, so I decided to buy it just to paint.

I painted the whole marine with bright colours and gradients before painting black over quite a lot of it, the new contrast paints worked really well for that, I started the mini before they came out but then put him down for ages, so the bright colours are about half contrast and half traditional.

Some other angles just to show a few more of the colours and patterns, I'm quite pleased with how this guy came out.

The Horus Heresy: 750 Points of Salamanders

This post isn't really 750 points of Salamanders, but I didn't know what else to title it, these are what I have painted this month, which when added to last month's Salamanders round out to 750 points.

Pyroclasts

These guys are the second half of my Pyroclast squad, making them up to the full ten. They were effective last month so I am hoping that twice as many will be twice as effective.

The next squad are some tactical marines with bolters, I had already painted these a few years ago, but I think my painting has improved so I decided to touch them up. I have included photographs of both before and after so you can see what I improved, hopefully you agree with me that it was worth the effort.

Tactical Marines: Before

Tactical Marines: After

Mostly what I did was to overpaint my tragic attempt at OSL on their legs and add edge highlighting to them all, the champion and vexilla got a bit more attention, I am especially pleased with the vexilla, so here is a separate picture of it:

Salamanders Vexilla

Sergeant: Before and After

 Here is a final side by side of the sergeant which I think shows my improvement pretty well.

The Horus Heresy: 500 points of Salamanders

Last month I painted 500 points of Salamanders because me and Phil are doing a Horus Heresy escalation campaign, we started with 500 points for February, and we'll be increasing it by 250 points a month.

I haven't posted anything on here in almost three years apparently, but I'm very pleased with how these came out so I'm posting again.

Delegatus

This is my Delegatus, at less than 1000 points he is the only way to have a rite of war, and I really like my rite of war so here he is! I really like his power axe. I also couldn't pick an angle to photograph him from so here's two more pictures:

Pyroclasts

Pyroclasts are really cool, so I am starting with five of them. We're playing the zone mortalis ruleset for our first few games, and their combination melta/flamethrowers work really well there. I love these models, I'll be painting five more this month.

Breacher Marines

Breachers, because I need a compulsory troops choice. the black still shows through the gradient on a few of their shields, but I really liked the gradient so I didn't want to go over it again. I'll put a better basecoat down next time I am painting this sort of thing. Their sergeant has a third party shield to help to mark him out.

So that's my first 500 points of salamanders, I have many, many more salamander models so I should be able to keep on escalating for a while before I run out.

Malifaux: Bits and Bobs

No real theme to the miniatures in this post, just some bits I have finished recently.
I got Sandeep's box from Gencon, so that's probably coming next, but I've finished my Miss Fire bonus model, and I didn't want to wait to post her, so I've gathered together my finished models that haven't yet been posted.

Lazarus

I wanted a Lazarus with blue pipes, but I'm not sure that's even a thing any more, so red pipes it is. I like him though, he was interesting to build. I totally understand why Wyrd didn't make any other models the way they did Lazarus, though. He's more complicated to build than really pays off.

Soulstone Miners

Not thrilling minis, easy to build and paint though so they have that going for them

Union Miners

These guys are kinda cool, I like the one with the dynamite. They look nice standing next to my rail workers, they're beefier looking but not in a way that looks badly scaled, they're just more muscley dudes. I suppose swinging giant hammers and axes around will do that.

Miss Fire

She's a very cool miniature who was a real pain to build, much more fiddly than I thought she would be. I like how she's turned out though.

Malifaux: The Crossroads Seven

These were so fun to paint! I love painting individual models that have character, and that's what this box is all about. Each one took me longer than average, but I think it was worth it looking at them all together. The seven deadly sins theme is neat, and it was interesting what they did for each one.

Wrath

Their glorious leader, I should have painted his spirits before I glued him on, but I didn't because I never do. He looks scared not angry, probably his lack of eyebrows. Maybe I should have given him some angry eyebrows.

Lust

She is my favourite. I love how her hair turned out, I love her tiny violin, and I just think she is such a cool sculpt.

Greed

Another rock chick, I like the ombre effect I got on her hair. Girls are always my favourite to paint because I think I am better at their faces.

Pride

This guy does not fit on his base. Wyrd like doing that. 

Gluttony

Snake! I enjoyed painting this guy far more than I thought I would, mostly because of the snake. The tiny dolls on the drum are also cute.

Sloth

Zombie man is zombielike. His shovel/guitar amuses me.

Envy

Giant walking organ that is also a minigun, because why not? I have done tiny music on his music sheet as well, but I couldn't get a picture of that without spoiling the view of the rest of the model.