Night Lords by Mage updated 29/10/19 Forgefiend Update

Not much to  say here but this guy was a lot of fun to paint and it’s a shame he is out of production as painting and converting a second one would have been really cool!

Also my might box broke when I adjusted it after the first picture and I’m quite annoyed. I’m tired of fixing it and will get a new one

Enjoy the different angles and close ups

What can I say except damn, I’m happy with these.

To start with I followed this tutorial with one deviation:

I felt the barrel on the example was too dark. I decided to basecoat it with Leadbelcher and wash it with Nuln oil but not use as much Nuln Oil as the example. Furthermore I decided that layering Stormhost silver the area was better than soaring edge highlights.

I did make a goof with this tutorial too as I kind of god over excited and forgot to take pictures of the stage where the purple wash was applied and simply powered through to the next, so apologies for that. Whoops!

Below are two more completed examples. The twin meltaguns do not look as good. It was my first attempt and I used too much wash for too small an area, so it looks very dark with little transition and poor effect.

With the heavy flamethrower however it is much better. In future I will be using this on just medium and larger surface areas. The effort and how good it looks on smaller barrels is something that will prove self defeating without the desired effect until my skill improved.

After a break for a few days I am back to my Night Lords. I worked on assembling a few other models for different armies just to change it up but without stopping hobby as such.

I decided to drybrush these guys when I wasn’t using that technique on the Chaos Space Marine squad and Greater Possessed. It felt easier to do it with the larger surface areas but the flip side was it was messier, even with a handy Army Painter small drybrush. So I have had to do some touch ups. Liking the skin though.

Next entry will be a muzzle flare tutorial.

Feel free to comment 😉

The Obliterators are more awesome models that I like from Shadowspear: the combination of Astartes, Weapon and Daemon as well as being a staple of tournament Chaos Lists in previous editions. Now they are bigger, and not sure if they are better: the impression I am getting from reading online is that they are not as good as before.

Then again, competitive gamers are never happy, are they? Correct me if I am wrong 😉 Lol.

These guys intimidated me initially with all the warped demon skin as well as the sheer amount of detail and the size. However I got stuck in anyway and had a blast.

This will be a short and sweet post. Below are the current WIP Obliterators. Very nice models with various textures. Fun so far, but again, I am regretting the choice of skin colour for the basecoats.

PS: Apologies for some of the brighter pictures. I’m not quite sure what happened.

And now the two Greater Possessed from the Shadowspear boxed set are completed. They were quite fun with different textures. Their claws gave a chance to add extra colour to the palette, while the cables, flesh and armour meant painting certain parts were forgiving since the whole deal is veins become cables, skin becomes armour, armour becomes skin.

The only tough part was the smooth repetitive layers of Rakarth Flesh. I could have done the skin any colour since they are technically Daemons, but I wanted their gene seed Night Lords skin to show through. I did not have to do this though… but I did and that’s that!

These models are great and I want more. The fact they were larger means doing their armour and gold trim was more forgiving than the slightly smaller ‘normal’ Chaos Space Marines. If and when I get a second Shadowspear set I want to convert these guys and swap around arms, heads and backpacks for variety since a multi-part kit of them does not exist, yet.

I do need to touch up the star of Chaos Symbol on the right shoulder of one of them, looks more like a glob of paint then a highlight… and the base runs again. But they are done!

Below is where I am at the moment with my Greater Possessed. I am having fun painting the army, but after a stressful incident I took a break from these guys to mass drybrush my WIP Death Guard army (which will not be pictures here).

These models are so nice. The textures, the detail, the ambiguity as to where marine, armour and daemon all begin/finish makes for some interesting, creative and forgiving paint jobs.