Kytan Demon Engine - WIP part 2 - "Blood in the Water"

 So finally posting the update of the finished Kytan Daemon engine for my 30k and 40k Warhammer chaos armies. I was able to get him finished just in time for the Eye of Horus podcast event "EOHCON 2024" at the start of the year, was lucky enought walk away with the "Most Sinister" award as well for the conversion. 

 

 Below is a a few pics of the finished product and some action pics during the event. The second Kytan is in the wings getting slowly worked on. Will go more spooky green instead of the blood effects for a change on that one.

 

Kytan Demon Engine - WIP part 1 - "Skulls or blood?"

Finally back posting on the blogg, and this time with a cool simple conversion for the Kytan Demon Engine of Khorne. Very work in progress still and only about half done, but finally getting there and back on the hobby table.

 

 

 Have had a couple of Kytan engines in a box of shame for ages and came across the idea of combinign them with the AOS Endless Spells weapons. A simple cut witha  jewlers saw and some pinning and bam! new weapon for the arm of each one and a really niced matched scale.

Luckily there is the big axe and scythe so I could convert up one of each, I then replaced the heads with a ghostly skull from the same AOS endless spells kit.

For base coating and metals I used an airbrush to put down a black then a dark tone silver, followed up by a zenith lighter silver. This was all then washed twice with the amazing Army Painter Dark Tone wash thinned down with some flow improver. 

Group shot with the incoming Brass Scorpion as well!

40k and 30k Projects: Dark Angels on the Horizon WIP

With the incoming new Horus Heresy Thramas campaign coming and having already done a Night Lords army years ago it feels the best time to start up a side project of Dark Angels. The biggest question is of course how to do the black for the old Heresy style armor!

I decided on a dark silky midnight blue for the "black" of the armor. This contrasting with the red stripes and eventual checks/transfers on the armor should pop well. The deep dark blue was achieved in the following steps:

- Undercoat black with airbrush primer

- Airbrush heavy zenith highlight with dark grey

- Airbrush light zenith highlight with grey blue

- seal with gloss varnish

- wash with Drakenhof Nightshade

- sliver edging with Leadbelcher

- Reds with Khorne Red

I hope this was helpful to anyone looking to replicate and I have included a pic of the paints used.

Now I am working on some armor and heaps of infantry while I wait for some transfers to arrive.

Imperial Fists 30k event report for SEQsy Part 3

Ok, huge post and pictures warning...

This was the third event from the awesome lads at SEQsy Heresy here in sunny Brisbane down under. The format is two games, loyalist vs traitor with two specially selected book missions for the theme of the day, you can play a third game if you are drunk enough and don't have to drive home as the whole thing is run out of a pubs event room!

Missions were 1 and 2 from book two massacre and focused heavily on the use of scoring troops and killing the hell out of each other at 3000 points with LOW and Primarchs allowed.

I played Tim from the Eye of Horus podcast as my first opponent who was using a mates Khorne theme Demons of the ruinstorm. I took my Imperial Fists with a focus on outflanking and deepstriking turn two, while holding an Aegis line boosting reserve rolls and protecting a shadowsword with dreads and a Forgelord. I managed to snipe out one of the behomeths with a D shot and the Demon lord with focused fire from the rest of the army outflanking on turn 2. The fat terminator blob with a praetor and siege breaker dropped in behind his main demon blobs and forced him to respond. In both games the fat terminator blob ate huge amounts of armor saves like god damn bosses for once! I ended up winning the game 7-1 as I just had too much 13 and 14 armor for the demons to bounce off with their big boys dead early on. Demons are huge wound soaks though and you need to pick your targets and just dump on them until they die or you will get swarmed. Also you need to be ok with feeding the horde a sacrificial unit or two so the rest of your army can function and tries to do work on objective scoring.

Second game was on the same table as I was unlucky/lucky and against a inductii feel no pain horde of World Eaters and Angron.
I approached it in the same fashion, castle up and bait the main horde into it and then outflank and deep strike into the scoring area while picking apart important threats one at a time. The abundance of lascannons and melta in my army really helped negate FNP rolls and with some clever positioning/shooting I even sniped out apothecaries quickly as most people put them in the rear of a squad. I kited Angron the whole match and kinda felt bad about it until my terminators failed a 4 inch charge and at something like 36 wounds from a half dead inductii squad that then charged them. I ended up winning again by playing keep away with my scoring units in the opponents backfield and blocking any chasers with my tanks as fists will make a wall out of anything... even their own men and machines if needed. My opponent like all the other dudes at the event was a champ and good dude with great hobby energy and sick army.

Here is the first rounds armies and tables as a bonus!

40k and 30k Projects: Imperial Fists dream of metallic yellow sunsets - Part 2 - Event time!

So I attended the Eye of Horus Podcast 30k Horus Heresy narrative event this weekend with my new 30k Imperial Fists force.

I was able to just get enough painted to a table top standard the night before the event. Players had to have lists for 1000 and 1250 Zone Mortalis and also 1500 and 2000 point Centurion matches. I went Terminator and Dread heavy just because they look cool!