Heresy Era World Eaters - Adepticon Force 90% done!

Now that the bases have arrived I'm in the home stretch with the World Eaters force for Adepticon - All that remains is a trio of Contemptors of which I'm awaiting delivery! Had some time yesterday to break out the photo tent, brace yourselves for a tidal wave of pics!

Kharn and Khargos Bloodspitter

Command Squad

Skane's Destroyer Squad

Tactical Squad

Assault Squad #1

Assault Squad #2

Dreeadclaw Drop Pods

Heavy Support Squad

Rhino

Sicaran Arcus

Proteus  Land Raid

The all-important painting chart!

Starting to get a  little anxious about the contemptors arriving (they're from a garage casster in the UK, so it's understood that they're being done in his spare time), so I'm scheming on someme alternate plans just in case they don't arrive in time for the con. Fingers crossed!

Heresy Era World Eaters - When life hands you lemons...

...BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

The plan all along was to do a Shadow Crusade force with the Word Bearers, and as I'm working on Argel Tal, I was more or less obligated to do his battle buddy, Kharn!

Pretty jazzed with how he turned out, it makes perfect sense to use the commander of the force as the paint test model, right? ...Right?

Fairly straightforward paint scheme - Primered grey, followed by Vallejo Stonewall Grey and Ghost Grey drybrush over the armor followed by a 50/50 wash of Army Painter Dark Tone and Lahmian Medium. Once that dried I picked out some edges with Ghost Grey again, then went over the model and re-blacked in all the piping and metal in preparation for further colors. The blue is based on a 50/50 mix of Imperial Blue and Stonewall Grey (an excellent suggestion from the rockstar painter John Stiening), which turns into a great desaturated blue - Interestingly it looks much darker in the pics than it does in real live, likely a function of the white balancing. Still, I dig it!

40k World Eaters - When Life Gives You Lemons...

...BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! Little departure from the norm today - stopped by the local GW shop to pick up a game for the escalation league which fell through, but while I was there my eye fell upon the new Kharn model. No real intention other than 'Hey, that'll be fun to paint' so I initialized the painting servitor subroutines and knocked him out this afternoon.

Much like the Forge World Kharn model, it's surprisingly difficult to photograph. Many of the pics I'd seen make it look like a fairly unbalanced/awkward stance, but in-hand it really has a great sense of motion to it. I rather like the nod to the pose on the Heresy version, might have to pick up one of those to paint to accompany this one!

  

Fairly straightforward paint scheme, gave the whole model a vallejo Dark Flesh basecoat, which forms a natural underpinning for both the red and the brass. The red is essentially my Heresy Thousand Sons recipe with a little stronger Blood Red stage than usual, and the brass started with Brassy Brass, Burnished Gold, Reikland Fleshshade wash and a final Shining Gold highlight. Dug out a resin 'field of skulls' base from a stalled project and he's more or less good to go! I was going to add some blood spatter, but both of the bottles of blood effects had gelatinized into unsuitability. Will have to pick up a new bottle next time I'm in the shop. Overall quite a fun little project!