“Misbegotten” Sons – Semi-Loyalist Thousand Sons PLOG

[Strigis]

Well, after finally bringing myself to lug in my drill press from the shed outside I set myself to getting the bases cut and prepared for the Thousand Sons, they've been languishing on their painting bases long enough.

So, I got down to work last night with AutoCAD display base layouts in-hand and marked then hole sawed all the bases out I'd need for the sons then got the first bit of the display base put together. There's much work to be done but at least now I can get to work on basing the painted Sons.

Sadly, no paint work update, but still getting ever closer to completion. Until next time!

[Strigis]

Finally a painting update! There's been lots done I've just been lax in updating this. As it stands now I've got everything done but the 4 rhino's, 9 Cultists, bastion and Relic Predator. Conservative estimates have painting completion by the second week of February. All of the Thousand Sons got fitted to their bases and the display board was primed for fitting of the bastion. I wanted it to look like it had slammed into the ground so the bastion sits below the level of the surrounding material by about half an inch. The second brute (pictured in this post) was primer as of Sunday afternoon and I just finished his base at lunch. The club championship is the 21-22 of Feb so I need to not lose my pace now if I plan on finishing everything on time. The literal crunch is on!

[Darren Richardson]

wow that's pretty impressive indeed, love that walker

[Strigis]

Small update, the first of 4 rhino’s is finished; except that when taking the pictures this morning I noticed that I missed the 4 rivets on the left rear exhaust shroud, grumble touch-ups, grumble… I’m happy with the way the doors really pop. I’m about 60% on a second rhino and the Relic Predator, hopefully pics of them will arrive soon!

[Strigis]

Another small painting update, another rhino and an infernal relic predator are added to the "finished" pile.

[Kirsten]

interesting technique, I like it. the edge highlighting puts me in mind of cel shading

[Strigis]

This has been a long, long project for me. It feels like I’ve been painting this army forever now even though I had just about as much time into the converting/sculpting as I did actual painting. Today marks day 358 for the project and everything I NEED to have completed for the Club Championship is done. The “nice to haves” list is still coming including glowing wreck markers for my tanks and a Scratchbuilt greater demon on the off chance my Malefic Sorcerer rolls Possession.

Here’s the army all arrayed on the display board. The board itself is MDF, 2x4’s, 6” square resin plates (from which the bases were cut out with a hole saw), limestone from the Canadian shield, engineered sand mixture graciously provided by my work, some blood and a plasma-cut aluminum plate as an attention-grabber.

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The Raptora Sorcerer’s spell effect was supposed to be subdued as their powers were described as primarily defensive in nature.

The Athanean sorcerer, intelligence gatherers and mind readers, I wanted his spell effect to have lots of individual "feeder tendrils" coming off of it so as to represent their ability to lash out and pluck information from their enemies.

Ahriman on the left is the absolute master of sorcery so I gave him a very controlled version of all the cults spell effects surrounded by a large gold effect representing his "home" cult of the Corvidae which keeps all the other cults powers in check. Beside him is the Daemonology sorcerer who's effect is supposed to be undefined and unkempt.

The cultist squad leader, now shown with the tendrils feeding into each of the battle automatons that he is directly controlling with one of the many uses of the Pyrae cult's powers.

Pyrae sorcerer, this was the easiest one to conceptualize and get onto the table.

The Pavoni cult often use their arts for healing of squad members and as such his influence is larger than most and has very straight edged feelers coming out of it so as to best reach the battle brothers in need of his arts while the core of the effect is very flowing representing the graceful balance needed to knit bone and flesh back together.

[Strigis]

Last but not least is the Bastion. I did some test shots of it one night in my kitchen with all the lights out. When I flipped it over, it was bright enough to read by. Also are some finished shots of it as I realize I didn't post any.

[Thaldin]

Damn that's impressive work! Nicely done. I like the bastion and I like the display board a lot.

[interrogator_chaplain]

I just want to say that that's the best use of the old school Whirlwind Missile Launcher bit that I've ever seen. Love that walker kitbash.

The board is spectacular too, great work!