Actually they’ve arrived – early – gotta love e-bay.. Since the weather was unusually warm and sunny – in March – sun!! I thought we’d be in for at least two more months of gloom, I decided to make the most of the dry weather to assemble and undercoat the new arrivals. I have to spray outdoors in my shed as SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED gets grumpy if she finds her curtains covered in black overspray, some people are just so unreasonable..

So here you go, the new arrivals and some old – very old metal miniatures converted to be the champion, standard bearer and enforcers. ready to be undercoated. The command squad troopers were converted from some old skulls and cadian re-breathers, tau legs and plastic coat tails from a historex (I think) model. All the chaos bits came from my bits box – left over from a chaos battle squad I purchased and the banner is from a Warhammer Black Orcs Boxed set which I’ve already converted to an ‘Ard Boyz unit.

And so to the paint job – for some reason known only to the gods of painting I’ve decided to paint them in an olive and red/bronze colour – partly to match the allegiance to khorne and partly because it looks good??

Actually I like the results, these are the finished ones with the chem trooper heads – breastplate and backpacks were scratch built to match the forge world ones. I really like the Minimax Kromlech designs and I’ll get some of the Orc in greatcoats later on for Storm boyz – but that’s another story.

All I’ve got to do now is finish the painting ready for the game this weekend – only – !!

And then there’s the terrain – I’ve been thinking and that’s always a bad sign.. I need something more flexible and easier to store than the rigid cities of death buildings I have already.. My head is filling with foam core card constructs and roadways – art shop here I come…