Friday 14 August 2015

State of the Desk: mostly Dark Mechanicus

New toys! Dark Mechanicum 3 full squads completed.

As I’m used to Guard this was a nice change of pace to get 600 odd points painted relatively quickly.
5 coats of varnish on the heads for gloss (I just used Tamiyas stock gloss) 
Some heat warping across the Barrels, and some simple weathering too. 
Because I’m a sadist I also chose some hand painted blue OSL for the jets. 

For all of them! Ouch!

I played a couple of games of Heresy with the Ogryn ‘counts as’ Myrmidion Destructors, loaded with Photon-thrusters. These guys have been reported to be underwhelming but I found them really useful at range, blinding squads prior to assaults. Their power fists can be a nice shock to assaulters picking on a ‘poor defenceless ranged unit’ and their t5 and 3+/5++ keeps them around for a while as well.

They even managed to chip a couple of wounds off a Primarch, which lined him up nicely to get slammed in assault. He barely noticed. CURSE YOU ROBOUTE GUILLIMAN!

The only instance where I shouldn’t have brought these guys was to a Mortalis fight with the same ranged load-out. 


I’m still de-magnetising those unused and magnetising the soon-to-be-used troops that would benefit from having swappable weapons, rather quickly and dirtily to be honest. There’s a little stack on my desk that I will be using.

These heavy weapons bases are now completely painted, and because I’ve accidentally raised the clasping gorgets over their faces a little too much between 6 guys there are around 5 visible eyeballs total.
I’ve spent more time on these guys exposed flesh than their eyes so I might need to go back and tidy them slightly. 



Next up, Infinity.

More to follow!

4 comments:

  1. Looking great Mark! Those jets look great...talk about time consuming if you did that all by hand!

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    1. An hour at least that must have taken, so not too bad with some Netflix in the background!

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  2. I really like the ogre conversion you have done. Very imaginative and creepy!

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    1. Why thanks! I want more of these guys as I have an abundance of bits to use with them.

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