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D Company, 7th Mordion Regiment pt.10

29 Thursday Oct 2026

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Greetings Terrans! Sorry it has been a while since I last posted – I have been slowly been chipping away at the remaining 4 APCs for my Mordion project… I really don’t enjoy painting vehicles at the best of times, but tanks in particular seem to be a real slog for me – hence the glacial progress… Still, even glaciers get there in the end, and so do I:

They are all the same as the first one I painted, so not much to say about them really! Here they are, out enjoying a spot of sunshine with the entire 1st Platoon:

I also got a third AdMech Tech Priest finished up. I confess, I didn’t realise that Bob Olley did three of these guys until I did my research for the first two I painted. Once I did, it was pretty clear that I was going to track down number three & add him to the army:

I love his weird ram’s head helmet/leather boot combo, but I’m not sure what’s going on with the weird dildo-axe thingy… what happens on Mars stays on Mars I guess? All praise the Omnissiah!

Anyway, here he is with his buddies – really nice to complete this gribbly trio of weirdos:

Anyhoo, that’s all for now folks. I’m going to be shifting gears on this project for a while & go into a building phase – 2nd platoon needs a lot of converting so I doubt I’ll get that done in time to prime before winter, but I might do a rush job on some of the other platoons so I can keep chipping away at this army in the dark months. I’ll also be picking up some Eldar I have primed & will push that project forward as well. Onwards and upwards!!

Rogue Trader/2nd ed. Eldar Army pt3

22 Monday Dec 2025

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Greetings Terrans, time for another wee dip of the toe into my latest project – a proper old school Eldar army. Not gonna lie, progress has been very slow since my last post – I have been chipping away at the lead pile and got seven old RT04 models base coated, but they were taking ages so I decided to push 2 through to completion prior to Christmas. Now, a bit of history for you. the RT04 range go all the way back to 1988, and were part of an initial run of 12 of ‘Space Elf’ models designed by Jes Goodwin. They are very much the blueprint for all the amazing Eldar that Jes worked on in the years that followed, but without the clean refinement that quickly came to typify the range. As such, the RT04 minis are a bit… well, wibbly for Eldar… Also, back in those days, (because of the low model count), every mini was named – the guy with the Melta gun is ‘Capt. Aetolia Lightfoot’, while the lasgun dude is ‘Irbic Trueshot’. Here they are:

When these came out, Space Elves were pretty much space pirates known for their funky insectoid armour, exotic weaponry, and alien helmet stripes. I always envisage using the RT04s as Corsairs in my own project, and I wanted them to be true to the period rather than have them look like super-clean Craftworlders. Ultimately, while this army will become a rag-tag group of Craftworlders, Corsairs, Aspect Warriors and Harlequins as it grows, I do want the Corsairs to look at least affiliated with the Craftworld… with that in mind, I tested out a darker purple for the main armour and included the weird striping on the yellow areas. While the blending on the dark purple could’ve been better, I’m actually pretty happy with how they turned out. Here they are with a Craftworlder to show the similarity:

Anyway, that’s it for this post – I’ll be getting some time to paint over the Christmas break, and I’m aiming to get the rest of my Corsairs done & maybe get started on some Aspect Warriors!

Have a great Christmas & roll on 2026.

Scynir redux pt.5 and done!

30 Thursday Oct 2025

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Greetings Terrans, I had a bit of a spurt of enthusiasm since my last post, and actually managed to get the last minis painted up for my OldHammer iteration of Scynir’s warband. Back when I first rolled up the warband in 2022, it was mostly Beastmen and a few humans, but I also allowed myself extra rolls following various games I played with the plastic incarnation. As a result, I got some pretty interesting followers to add, including the Chaos Dwarfs I transitioned to lead a few weeks ago. Here are the OldHammer iterations of some of the more weird and wonderful warband members, starting with these feathered beauties:

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These Harpies are from Foundry, and are really nice models and great fun to paint – not sure why one random has human lady legs, but hey, it’s all good. I used the hair and wings to display the warband colours of orange and blue, and I thought this was effective enough to not need extra blue from warpaint. I’m really pleased with how they turned out!

Next up is a trio of Skaven:

These guys are also from Foundry, but are much less fun to paint than the Harpies… I think the sculpts are a bit ropey, no lovely long ratty tails and they look a bit well-fed to me – I prefer my rat-men to be more gaunt and feral looking! But still, these ratbags do add some charm… and some range!

Finally, we have a big ol’ Minotaur, and what better job for such a big beefy boy than being a big beefy flag waverer!

Again, this one is another Foundry model, and he really is very nicely posed for some top-drawer flag wavery. I removed his right hand weapon & sculpted in the banner pole over some wire, while the finial was made from the Horror that donated its arms to Scynir. The main body was painted up as per the earlier Beastmen, including sexy warpaint to bring in some Tzeentchian blue. I really enjoyed painting the banner itself, but with hindsight, I wish I hadn’t put a hole in it!

And that’s it – warband complete for now. This group will form the pool of minis that I use to pick out my 600 point warband for the event in November – looking forward to it immensely!

Next on the painting table – Eldar…