My dreadtober project: leviathan!

 Oookay!  This has got to be the best October ever-- I've finished the last of the skaven commission to ship off on Thursday, I've got half an IK and two dreadnoughts on the altar and I've been ripped to absolute shreds for my Robute Guilliman model on facebook!  But never mind, that's not what I'm posting for today, it's Dreadtober!  Just so you know, the event has it's own blog now (slap obligatory link to blog here) to keep things tidy.

Right, my official pledge for this month is a leviathan dread for my Space Marines who've been ignored for FAR too long now.  They aren't a 30K force, and the leviathan isn't really a 40K piece, but my excuse is that they're so old it should be alright.

This fellow's got a grav-flux bombard and autocannon; alas, I couldn't think of any particularly provocative kitbashing, apart from the usual world-tree icon and perfunctory bit of hurricane mesh.

So here he is, after assembly and priming.  Oh, but I absolutely LOVE the sculpt, never mind what I said when it came out!

So that's my "official" pledge, just to be safe, but there's another, smaller chap on the altar too... I'm not so desperate to finish this one-- because well, I've got an IK to finish before December, and a land raider too.  But I still hope to squash in a minute or two between washes for this fellow!

Bye bye for now.

Miniatures for sale!

Yes!  I'm selling some of my single figures!  Money is in requite, so sadly these chaps have to go to a new forever home, so to speak.  I've got a rather major real-life occurrence on the horizon-- one I'd rather not disclose, save that it soaks up a LOT of money-- and so, yeah... here we are.

If you're wondering why they're all here, and not ebay (or Trademe, being the NZ equiv), is that I wanted you 'orrible lot to get first dibs if you're interested-- also, I don't actually have a seller's account on ebay!

All prices will be presented in NZD, so when you go and convert it into your own native currency you can be happy at the value your dollar has!

If anything catches the eye, contact me via @ lonely.kitbasher at yahoo dot com, and we can discuss from there all you wish: payments via paypal will be made to the same address.  Also, if you want anything tweaked or painted or whatever you wish, contact me anyway!

I'll keep this post handy, and if anything gets sold I'll whip it off so that you're not potentially disappointed.

Right, here we are:

 True Scale Lone wolf

A jolly nice addition to an Inq24 force.  Unpainted.

60NZD

 Inquisitor with bolt pistol and xenos blade

Poor haggard fellow.  Undercoated white.

40NZD

  

 Necron lord with resurrection orb

An interesting centrepiece and a colour scheme for a particularly grim-looking force.  Painted.

50NZD

Tzeentch helbrute

One of those!  Unpainted.

55NZD

 Blood Angels Chaplain 

An Angels Encarmine chaplain based on Lemartes. Painted.

50 NZD

 Imperial Gurad Commissar

Why did I give him a hand flamer?  Painted.

35NZD

 True scale Dark Angel

Another Inq28 character?  Painted.

60NZD

Kharn the Betrayer

Regrettably putting him up for grabs.  I love this little bugger, but I sort of need the money too... Painted.

90NZD   See how willing I am to sell him!  *sarcasm

Death Guard biker

What a white rapper.  I really should turn that pistol around.  Unpainted.

35NZD

True scale Grey Knight Captain

Another difficult fellow to let go, alas.  Painted.

70NZD

True scale Blood Angel

Just a vanilla Blood Angel, with heavy flamer and a lot of guitar wire.  Unpainted.

45NZD

Sister Seraphim with plasma pistol and chainsword

Should compliment Celestine nicely.  Unpainted.

45NZD

Blood Angels successors

A sergeant, 6 brethren and an apothecary.  Painted.  Be sure to ask about my unpainted chaps too; I've got an assault squad and some more tactical marines!

80NZD for the swag

3 Harlequins

Very slightly kitbashed.  one's painted, the other two are primed.

50NZD

 

Inquisitrix with bolt pistols

Inspired by Bayonetta-- obviously.

65NZD

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So that's that!  Remember, lonely.kitbasher at yahooo dot com!  I would beg you to buy, but that's be stupid.

I'll just leave you knowing that deep down, you really do want that one, that particular one... hee hee, don't you?

Bye bye for now.

I finished a second Amphis' Bane dread today...

It was a complete accident, I assure you.  He's been sitting there in a state of semi-assembly since the last Dreadtober.  My last Amphis' Bane got me so psyched I had started on another immediately; that was before the commission work began.

So for a WHOLE YEAR he's been sitting looking like this.
But today being my day off Real Life work, and my brushes are so cruddy right now I can't possibly do any decent detail work done on my commissions, I apparently decided to spend the entire day working on this fellow--fellows?-- remembering the Amphis' gimmick is that there are twin brothers interred within.

Folks on G+ would recognise these pictures I put up just this morning:

The completed assembly.  This chap is going to be a titan killer, by the looks of him.  Twin-linked lascannon with plasma cannon sidearm on his right, and an I-Don't-Bloody-Know-What with a storm bolter sponson for giggles.

And now it's evening and the sun's just vanished over the mountains, he's complete!  I dashed outside during a dry spell and snapped off these pictures while I still had some daylight.  Here we go!

Looking at that storm bolter, I can't help but think of a certain fish...

A particularly exotic piece of plasma array, the Gothic pattern plasma heavy polybolos, initially designed for use as pintle-mounted defence on starships during the great crusade.  This particular piece was found within the Space hulk the Sagodjur Fjorlag later adopted as their home "world".

This icon is possibly the single most expensive piece I have ever bought for a model.  Solid sterling silver, and it was $40.  I love making myself poor, obviously...  No, this is actually a zodiac icon-- Virgo to be exact, which happens to be my own sign.  I know gemini would have been more fitting though.

And here we have him with my first one...

And once again, a group shot!  Hmm, just realised how dread-focused my army's gotten.

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Throne, I'd awfully like to get this design to Games Workshop somehow.  I don't care if they steal it, just as long as they steal it 100%; that being. they acknowledge the pattern's mechanics and all that.  I suppose with the release of the Primarine dread they wouldn't be too interested...  Ah well!

Bye bye for now.

Commission work: Cypher & Imperial Knight #4 finished!

 QUICK NOTICE FIRSTLY:  The cut-off of the Astronomica "competition" will be extended to the 10th September.  Just so you know.  Alright, picture time!

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Right, so my 4th IK and 2nd Cadmus knight and first resin kit is finished!  I never liked green before, but it's growing on me, you know?

Lady Luci Ann, knight lancer of house Cadmus, and I must say she's quite elegant to be sure.

There was a shield involved... I couldn't help myself, I had to put it the "right" way up.

And here she is, lady Ann herself.  It's an odd thing that two of three interiors I've decorated so far have had female pilots (the third being a summoner).

Also, along with the Lancer, a dark figure appears...  Yes, I got a second shot a Cypher too!

I used my tried and true tin cape recipe, and a paint scheme with so many steps I've sort of forgotten what I used... whoops.

My 1st go; not quite so desperately grim

So there we are!  This is why I've been neglecting my blog for so long.  Partially.  I'm still up for taking commissions if you're interested, remember that!  Just flick me an email @ lonely.kitbasher@yahoo.com.

See you again in six months time, hee hee.  Bye bye for now.