Vanvlak 30 years of 40K

[Vanvlak]

That happens in 2024, so I am starting to prepare for my anniversary (and I had better not forget it's my 30th wedding anniversary too  )

In order to do that, I am just planning to paint a few 40K models. Not a specific force, or even unit, as that usually goes all over the place. No, this time I am just planning to have some fun painting interesting models. Hopefully, these will include some oldies from the nineties.

Here's the first one. I always saw the Forgeworld Breaching Drill as an industrial rather than a military design, so that's how I painted mine. It's seen a bit of wear, so it's a little bit grubby.
It also stays slightly unbalanced, with the head pulling the body up, but as it doesn't topple over, I actually fancy the idea that this thing is visible top heavy. I probably shouldn't have assembled the drill in the raised position, but it looked cooler to me.

Forgeworld ARE expensive, but this is one of those models I had found irresistible, and just had to get. I might be painting another Forgeworld model soon... another of the irresistibles 

I had assembled this ages ago, as I was keen on this little model, but undercoated it a fine yellow which turned out to take any acrylic badly, so the poor thingy languished in development hell for a few years. I finished it in an hour or so today after respraying it in matt black the other week.
It's not a stunning paint job, but it was definitely a fun one to do, and I do remember equipment this battered at the shipyard where I worked! Coe to think of it, that is definitely what inspired the yellow paint job.

[BeardGoblin]

Super grungy - niiice!

Reminds me I have a one of those, and inspires me to get it done!

[AKULA]

Nice paint job 

I like that drill...havent seen it before, but it doesn't look particularly GW (unless the skulls are festooned on the other side)... might even have to get one.

[Vanvlak]

Thanks all 

Nice paint job 

I like that drill...haven't seen it before, but it doesn't look particularly GW (unless the skulls are festooned on the other side)... might even have to get one.

It has none!! At least unless I left them out when I assembled it ages ago, but the current Forgeworld pic only shows one applied as a transfer.

[snitcythedog]

Thanks all  :DIt has none!! At least unless I left them out when I assembled it ages ago, but the current Forgeworld pic only shows one applied as a transfer.

That would explain why this model appeals to me.  Grimdark always has more skulls than you could shake a stick at.  Very nice work Vanvlak. 

[dwbullock]

Sort of reminds me of the Arnold Total Recall miner tanks.

Good job!

[Vanvlak]

Thanks all.
A delayed birthday present arrived, so there will be a Leviathan theme to this! This morning I found a couple of test models (not from the box), and here they are duelling in a strange landscape:



The very old termagant was one I bought second hand; after cleaning away any remaining flash (and adding four more friends, as I am still a bit unsure about which colour scheme to adopt), I sprayed him (well, them) off-white, as I am going for a light colour scheme to contrast my unexpected choice of SM chapter. The transfer sheet in Leviathan includes five (or six, can't remember!) transfer sets, and I picked the Ravenguard. I tend to produce dull paint schemes based on black undercoat or just plain black everything, so I have to be a bit careful with this, and I have a plan (although it will be black undercoat of course). The SM shown here only has the first scraps of paint applied to the helmet, so it's fair game to diverge whatever chapter he was heading to towards Ravenguard.

In case anyone was wondering, it's (another) sunny day in Malta, and the strangely patterned alien terrain is the top level of the cats' scratching post.