Pinkstone no more

I had one of those moments where the painting muse took me, and I decided to repaint my Slaanesh-worshipping forces. The pink, while distinctive, never really satisfied me and it was a pain to paint. They had been known as Pinkstone Fortress- no more! They have been tempted by the offers of Huron Blackheart and his Red Corsairs...

I started with the Beastmen as a test- I simply painted over all the pink with red, painted the rags a dirty sand, and rusted everything up. It was pretty quick with a lot of the hard work done earlier.

Before

Beastmen

I was pretty happy, and launched into the traitor guard, enforcer, and ogryn.

Before

Traitor guard squad.

Traitor guard melee

Traitor guard lasguns

Traitor guard grenadiers

Traitor guard gunners with flamers

I converted the leaders to have different weapons.

Traitor guard chieftain with bolt pistol and chainsword

Traitor guard chieftain with plasma pistol and improvised blade.

I used some decals from Forgotten Chapters to finish off the enforcer.

Traitor enforcer.

I darkened the ogryn's claw.

Traitor ogryn.

Much happier with their new allegiance and appearance. I've still got a few more figures to go- not least the marines- and some new chaotic acquisitions.

Blackstone Fortress Escalation explorers

I've painted up the explorers from BSF: Escalation.

Blackstone Fortress: Escalation explorers

Gotfret de Montbard is a crusader; a noble on a religious quest. I do wish he had a more dynamic pose, since his role is to be right in the thick of things.

Gotfret de Montbard

Aradia Madellan is a sanctioned psyker. She's got a great pose and cool little details, but hasn't really inspired me much.

Aradia Madellan

Daedalosus, on the other hand, was great fun to paint. He's a Technoarchaeologist covered in all these steampunky bits, and I'd like to paint more AdMech like him.

Daedalosus

X-101 is a weapons servitor, pretty much a lobotomised slave.

X-101

Finally, Neyam Shai Murad is a Rogue Trader. She's a gorgeous sculpt and was fun to paint.

Neyam Shai Murad

Skull-o-meter™: 18

Blackstone Fortress: Traitor Command

Here's a Chaos Commissar and Ogryn. I struggle with the concept of a Chaos Commissar. Nice models, though.

Traitor Command

Chaos Commissar

Chaos Ogryn

Skull-o-meter™: 3

Blackstone cultists

I've painted some Slaanesh cultists for Blackstone Fortress. Lovely poses.

I think the helm is a bit odd, but am happy with the flames.

Firebrand

The leader is no-nonsense.

Cult Leader

I think the gunner looks like Leela.

Heavy Stubber

Grenade Launcher

Cultists with autoguns

Blackstone Fortress battle report 2/2: Into the lair of the beast

Following last week's adventure, our heroes returned to Precipice to recover and get new kit. They had enough clues to track the ambull, and have now battled their way to its very lair...

Saved by urghuls again?! In Blackstone Fortress, enemy reinforcement rolls are rare but often devastating. Here, some unexpected urghuls erupted from a portal right next to the ambull. I randomised who they would attack- and luckily, it wasn't the explorers! Then, I rolled the rare reinforcements again- and again. There was no way Pious Vorne was going to survive.

In another unusual twist, I subsequently rolled an event that allows an out of action adventurer to return! Pious Vorne is back, baby!

Unlike the previous mission, the ambull cannot recover and return, so I wasn't worried by it once we had taken it down. I did enjoy the drama of it tunnelling and then emerging halfway across the board.

With the successful raid on the nest, I can now open the special sealed envelope that comes in the game, and get the unique goodies inside...