WIP update

I have been painting a bit on the last Myrmidon but I have not made great progress. I have base painted the body and leg sections but the going is slow. I do not seam to have the drive to finish it. Instead I have been fiddling a bit with another of my long running builds, the Opus Magna. It has been hanging around its table for some time and not much has been done, mostly because I ran out of polystyrene sheets. Since I was not happy with some of the things I had done and I could not change it due to lack of material nothing much was done on this model for about six months. Now I have finally bought some more polystyrene so now I can go back and change the parts that I do not like. I will also take the opportunity to change how Opus is put together so that it becomes more stable. Instead of hanging everything on the elevators as it was done before I have now sectioned it into three stories separated by large solid sheets. In this way I can build everything to be flat against these sheets which hopefully will make it easier to put it together with out large gaping holes. I have also started to attach some GW parts to give it some details. There is still a tremendous amount of work left to do one this but I am slowly working on it.

As I am almost done with my Fallen Dark Angels assault squad I thought I would add a tactical squad in the same style so bought some chaos space marines for this purpose. The base of my Fallen Dark Angles are the models from the Dark Vengence box, but as these are either loyalist Dark Angels or mutated chaos marines I am not really happy with their cohesiveness. If I could afford it I would go for some FW 30k marines, but as I am not made of money I will have to stick to the plastic chaos marines and just skip the horned helmets. The current era monastic monk/knight Dark Angels in robes do not look very intimidating to me so my idea  is that the pre-heresy Dark angels should look more like Gothic plate armour painted black to set them apart from the crusader style of the Black templars. Sadly the photo of this model did not turn out great due to the lighting so it looks more messy then it does IRL.

Dragon Raider

After yet another week away from home I finished the Dragon Raider, at least as much as I could with the paint I have there. So I brought the painted pieces home for final tuchups and assembly. In the end I think the Dragon ended up looking better without the raider. I will leave him loose for the moment until I decide if he should be there or not. Models have a tendency to grow on you after completion. Even if they did not turn out as you expected or imagined, after a while in the cabinets you get used to how they should look. It is much like music, you might not like to song the fist time you hear it but after a few times you are stuck on it. Well, at least they fit in with the rest of my Khorne daemons.

Last of the Myrmidons WIP1

I have started the process of painting the last of the Myrmidon Walkers. Of course I forgot to build and add some things in my haste to finish it so I will have to add those things later as I go along. Apart from that there really is not much more to say. I am following my old paint recipe that I have use for all my mechanicum stuff and the build at this stage is not that impressive. I will start on the lower body now so hopefully I will have something that is starting to resemble the finished model soon.