Marauder 28mm MM20 Space Ork

A single 40k figure in this otherwise fantasy range, he's pretty small, even compared to RT-era Orks. I opted for a camouflage jumpsuit. Painted for the GW Hammersmith figure cabinet at time of release.

Orky Boy

Laserburn Project WIP15 - Imperial and Redemptionist vehicles

A long time coming, here's part 15 of my never-ending 15mm SF project. This time up, some imperial vehicles and a cheap and cheerful red redemption flyer.

The first vehicle is an imperial ground attack aerodyne, which you may have seen in earlier posts, is a matchbox toy. I've done very little to it in terms of model making - a few mould lines cleaned up and a hole drilled for the offset base.

The metal rivet in the centre of the fan is a) too hard for most model drills and b) part of the functionality of the fan, so I drilled towards the rear.

The second vehicle is from Ground Zero Games. It's representative of a standard transport grav sled, widely in use across the imperium.

The last of the imperial vehicles is a Warthog APC from Atenociti's Workshop.

Finally, just because it's part of the same milieu, a red redemption transport, which you may recognise from a certain movie. It's a snap-together kit that comes pre-painted - all I did was give it a wash with army painter dark tone.

I'm sure there will be some more progress on this project at some point, but I have other things on my table at present.

Nurgle Army #8 - Citadel Chaos Land Raider

I originally inherited this from my godson, who had made it up as a Khornate model, but several parts were broken, and it was a bit of a mess. Perfect :)

The first thing I did was get my Dremel out, and I spent a fair while adding a multitude of holes.

Some further additions were a plague censer...

... A Nurgle logo on the door...

... A sack of something foul in the blocked off hatch...

... A corpse and some filthy ritual scrolls...

... Some old shields to cover up a mess, and a green stuff tentacle.

The painting was really a case of slop stuff on and build up layers of slimy waste. 

I did attempt a bit of OSL around the engine, but I fear I wasn't ready to take that step at the time.

I added a nurgling- as you do,

 and a suitably Nurgly commander.

The rust work was done with IXI metal paints, which are no longer available (I believe Humbrol do something similar now). I used their Iron paint on the tracks and guns, then added rust activator and left it to do its thing.

 

The front hatch was sort of working, but doesn't close properly. Here it is open and closed

You can also see the green stuffed eye, next to the heavy bolter.

Laserburn project WIP09 - Another toy, more vehicle painting

Scouring the toy shelves of local shops recently netted discovery of this little beaut for a mere £3.50. Looking distinctly like a 15mm ground attack aerodyne, it's heading for the painting table forthwith.

It's a Matchbox sky busters 'Strato saucer'. I believe they are re-releasing it in green too, but no-doubt it will require a repaint.

I've done a bit more work on my other vehicles. As you probably saw, I had masked the side of the pat-wagon in the last post. I used a high pigment liquitex ink to darken the stripes, for a nice low contrast effect. I did similar for the Imperial warthog, using chocolate brown on khaki.

After this, I worked on some lighting effects for the pat-wagon

That's all for now.