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Title: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 17 December 2013, 09:20:42 PM: I'm very much aware that LAF is not particularly 40k-friendly, because of understandable reasons (GW acting like corporate a-holes, etc.), but it IS my favorite wargaming related message board, so what am I supposed to do, should I not post here these pics of my newly painted 40k figures - a game I have yet to play even once!

Of course not. So here we go - everything 40k-related by yours truly (as I have mentioned in other, previous threads, I started painting early 2012, up until that point I didn't even know what wargaming is! Now... I'm a fan, to say the least.)

Two wolfguards - in my WIP space wolf army all the figures will be without helmets, thus giving them even more personality :)

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolfguard1_2.jpg)

Two grey hunters

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/IMG_6123.jpg)

Inquisitor Frankenstein with Demonhost (A Helldorado Figure with a Heresy Miniatures head + a Malifaux Enslaved Nephilim)
The inquisitor's head is not this yellow in "real life", I don't know what I screwed up...

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/inquisitorfrankenstein_demonhost.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Sendak on 17 December 2013, 10:53:30 PM: Grim but gorgeous.

You paint very well.

I like your use of other available figures and body-parts in your composition.

Goodness all around.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: DowVooVoo on 18 December 2013, 02:20:02 AM: Dude very nice!! Keep posting!! More please, after all not all 'hate' all GW. Well maybe the top brass for total bonehead moves taking greed to new highs or lows etc. But the minis are NICE.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 18 December 2013, 03:33:29 AM: Thanks, guys, your praise means a lot! More coming up soon :)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Diakon on 18 December 2013, 07:46:36 AM: Great looking miniatures dude. Love those Wolfguard. Bloody great for someone who's only been painting 2 years. :D
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Diakon on 18 December 2013, 07:50:03 AM: Quote from: DowVooVoo on 18 December 2013, 02:20:02 AM
Dude very nice!! Keep posting!! More please, after all not all 'hate' all GW. Well maybe the top brass for total bonehead moves taking greed to new highs or lows etc. But the minis are NICE.

Also they've released some shockingly bad mini's recently. Space Marine Telly-termies, that huge Khorne childrens toy thing, Space Marine Fisher Price Gunship etc. But some nice ones too, I guess. Really like the newest plastic Plaguebearers for example. Warhammer plastic Nurgle Lord too.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 18 December 2013, 11:19:00 AM: Quote from: Diakon on 18 December 2013, 07:46:36 AM
Great looking miniatures dude. Love those Wolfguard. Bloody great for someone who's only been painting 2 years. :D

Thanks a bunch! Actually the wolfguard has extensive greenstuff work done on them, which is impossible to see from this genius angle... :) I want my wolves to look like primal, hulking, almost primitive in their appearance, and thus I gave them and will give future wolf guards heavy pelt cloaks onto their backs.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Michka on 19 December 2013, 12:58:01 AM: These look really nice. After only two years of painting you have done an amazing job.
I don't hate GW all the time. They're like an old friend that bags on you behind your back because you don't come around anymore. I still paint my old figures and will occasionally pick up a new model if it looks good. I just don't want to play their game anymore.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 20 December 2013, 10:31:34 AM: A small update featuring the enemy (I'm doing a Space Wolves army, an Inquisitorial retinue and a Plague Marine army simultaneously. The only armies I have 100% finished are the Dark Angels and Crimson Slaughter forces from the DV boxset, which will act as allies to the bigger Space Wolf and Plague Marine armies, respectively.)

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/pmarines1.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/pmarines2.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Vinlander on 21 December 2013, 04:49:06 PM: I don't normally go in for "goo" on models but it gives these a very John Blanche look I think. ;)

Well done!
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 21 December 2013, 05:32:09 PM: That's exactly what I was going for! Thans!
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Commander Vyper on 21 December 2013, 06:12:49 PM: Yup nice..... your blanche-itsu is strong! ;)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Diakon on 21 December 2013, 08:43:51 PM: Excellent. Really nice colours, goo and well based. Those are some excellent Plague Marines. What bits were used? Mainly curious about the bottom left guy's torso.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Sendak on 22 December 2013, 12:08:10 AM: Mighty!

Plague-ridden-goodness; an oxymoron?

Admirably, well managed slime and goo.

Overall, just despicable, horrid, and cursed.

Now, Frag 'em all!!!!

I really think you're on a roll with your paints and miniatures presentation, very imaginative. :)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 23 December 2013, 06:23:18 AM: Quote from: Diakon on 21 December 2013, 08:43:51 PM
Excellent. Really nice colours, goo and well based. Those are some excellent Plague Marines. What bits were used? Mainly curious about the bottom left guy's torso.

I *think* it's a CSM possessed torso, but I'm not a 100% on that...
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 10 January 2014, 10:14:48 AM: Guys, here is a super stupid question: how could I incorporate my Heresy toads

http://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=49

into my 40k Nurgle army? I just love these models, I have 3 of them. They are not big at all, they are like 1 cm tall.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Inso on 10 January 2014, 02:49:40 PM: Nurglings?
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Michka on 11 January 2014, 03:51:37 PM: How about a team of toads pulling a war-sleigh ridden by a Champion of Nurgle?
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 24 January 2014, 06:08:46 PM: Couple of new guys, gooey and not gooey :)

First, a Nurgle Chaos Lord, a marine, a Herald of Nurgle proxy and plague zombies

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/plague_lord.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/pmarines3.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/killjoy_a.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/plague_zombies.jpg)

and another inquisitor, Inquisitor Zadori of Ordo Xenos

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/inquisitor_zadori.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 05 February 2014, 06:04:00 PM: here's a new Wolfguard, for your viewing pleasure

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolfguard2.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 14 February 2014, 04:45:01 PM: Grey hunter sargeant. The frost sword is painted patchy on purpose: I wanted a *snow* sword

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/ghsergeant1.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/ghsergeant2.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/ghsergeant3.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 14 February 2014, 04:45:31 PM: Inso & Michka, thanks for the suggestions!
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: cheetor on 15 February 2014, 06:22:36 PM: Quote from: driller on 24 January 2014, 06:08:46 PM
and another inquisitor, Inquisitor Zadori of Ordo Xenos

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/inquisitor_zadori.jpg)

I really like this guy: a cool sculpt with a well chosen colour scheme. Is it a Mordheim figure?

Its perfect for use as an Inquisitor.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 15 February 2014, 06:24:54 PM: No, he is a Warhammer Fantasy "Empire Witch Hunter"
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: cheetor on 15 February 2014, 06:29:43 PM: Quote from: driller on 15 February 2014, 06:24:54 PM
No, he is a Warhammer Fantasy "Empire Witch Hunter"

Cool, thanks. The model was reminding me of the sort of Don Quixote looking Mordheim "Freelance Knight (http://www.solegends.com/citcat2000/c2000p363-01.htm)" for some reason.

That Witch Hunter is a perfect Ordo Hereticus type. Im looking forward to seeing his retinue.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: Momotaro on 15 February 2014, 07:16:34 PM: Quote from: driller on 17 December 2013, 09:20:42 PM
I'm very much aware that LAF is not particularly 40k-friendly, because of understandable reasons (GW acting like corporate a-holes, etc.), but it IS my favorite wargaming related message board, so what am I supposed to do, should I not post here these pics of my newly painted 40k figures - a game I have yet to play even once!

Don't worry, for a lot of us it's frustration with GW - we LOVE the minis.

Yours are brilliant - the inquisitor is my favourite, but the Wolfguard really feel like barbarians in space, and you've got the rotting, diseased Nurgle look captured perfectly.
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 15 February 2014, 10:25:01 PM: Well, thank you sir - in both cases those were my exact intentions! :)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 16 February 2014, 06:15:34 AM: crappy mobile photo of some WIP wolf guard conversions (the left guy still needs his green stuff fur cloak to look extra barbarian.)

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wip_wolfguards.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 27 February 2014, 03:03:20 PM: Unfortunately my dslr camera was not available for these photos below, so I had to use my crappy point-and-shoot. They did not turn out to be too bad, but they are not satisfactory either.

First up is my Lone Wolf. My painting style is kinda patchy, painterly to begin with, and the shitty camera somehow manages to over emphasise that. In real life the Lone WOlf is not this messy, but never the less, he is dirty and bloody, because he is the last remaining member of a squad snuffed out long ago. He is disturbed, and psychotic - also, his colors are somewhat darker than my usual wolves. This is my way of accentuating that he is from an even earlier time, than they are (because my main wolves are very 13th chapter-ish)

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/lonewolf.jpg)

And, as a sort-of-a-detour, here are my freshly finished figures for a planned DUngeon skirmish game, that will use the Cavern Crawl-rules.

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/adventurers01.jpg)

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/baddies01-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: blackstone on 27 February 2014, 03:19:37 PM: Great stuff. Damn it I want that witch hunter figure! :)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 16 March 2014, 05:08:16 PM: A quick update.

A better photo of a grey hunter I have alredy shown you guys.
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/greyh.jpg)

A wolfguard equipped with weapons salvaged from slaughtered chaos troops.
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolfguard_chainfist.jpg)

My WIP wolf lord (unfortunately his big ass fantasy bestigor axe is at a crappy angle)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolflord_wip.jpg)

and my WIP rune priest, with runic armor, runic axe and boltgun
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/runepriest_wip.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 18 March 2014, 04:16:04 PM: here is the finished runepriest. photo is a bit too bright, so his head is not this yellow at all :)

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/runepriest.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 18 March 2014, 06:35:35 PM: Since I wasn't entirely satisfied with that last photo - and the miniature - I did some repainting on the runepriest, and also took IMHO better quality pics.

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/runepriest_02.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/runepriest_01.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 22 March 2014, 10:14:05 AM: couple of new plague zombies

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/zombies02.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/zombies03.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 30 August 2014, 03:34:34 PM: After a long hiatus, I'd like to present to you guys a couple of new figures (the first 2) and repaints (the last 2). It drove my crazy to find the right color for the armour of my space wolves, but I think I have finally found it...

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolfguard1.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolf1.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolfguard_2.jpg)
(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/runepriest_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Driller's Grim Armies
Post by: driller on 26 November 2014, 12:24:06 PM: after some repainting, head-swaps and whatnot, here are the first 4 wolves I'm actually satisfied with + a disgruntled Chaos Lord (40k-ified, with backpack and a bolter (strapped to his waist with his own gut) You can't see it because of his axe...

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/wolfsquad_2014nov.jpg~original)

(http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/wostry/chaosfatty_2014nov.jpg~original)