Wow. It's been three YEARS?
Fair bit been happening IRL which more or less put fiddling with toy soldiers on hold for a while. But I'm back. And I have been able to get a few things done.
A lot has changed since I was last active including 6th edition 40k dropping, fliers, a new Chaos codex and new stuff for a lot of other armies. I was really hoping to be able to do a decent World Eaters army with the new codex and my existing models but unfortunately the codex was still a bit disappointing. Also, the less said about the Lord of Skulls the better... This will hopefully change in the future but for now I'm happy to use the allies rules to plug the CC hole in my guard army using the Blood Angels codex and World Eater models. More on that later.
Actual progresson the traitor Guard army? Not much. Finished my primary HQ choice. I went with the Primaris psyker as it's cheap points wise and I liked the idea of a chaos psyker being in charge! The psyker model is the wyrd telepath from Necromunda which already looks a bit chaotic with the big ring o' skulls. I tried out some new (to me anyway) painting techniques including gems on the staff and OSL for the "glowing eyes" effect. Company command squad will still be added as a plasma kill team using orders once they've been completed.
I finished the first squad of the platoon. The second squad is undercoated but have been waiting for a while to be finished. The PCS is built but nothing else. Other stuff is built but not painted because... I really prefer building. Painting is usually the step where I mess it up! Case in point, the sentinel which I built first here on the blog was essentially destroyed by repeated base coats in an effort to get a decent camo scheme. Doh!
