Red`s Retro Night Lords

[Red Skullz]

About time I made a new log. So it`s back into my bitz box as with my last plog, the Damned Stirlanders (VC) trying to save a few coins and reduce the amount of bitz as much as I can. That means a lot of old minis and a few new ones, kit-bashing, and converting.

With that said, here`s the obligatory work station pic:

I know...it`s a right old mess but when inspiration gets me I start going through boxes and picking out sprues and bitz I want to use. Took me two days just to get off the floor as it was the only place I had space after the first few evenings.

As for obligatory pet-pic, don`t have any at the moment, but I do have kids, three of them, between the age of 2-6 so don`t have the time for pets yet! It`s amazing I have any spare time, lol!

Okey, with that out of the way, let`s get to the matter at hand. I`m going for a Night Lords themed army, mostly because of (in my eyes) the epic Knightmare plog, Re-Inventing Fear, The Knightmare Project. One of the very first plogs that really caught my eye, but I hadn`t thought about for many years until I stumbled on this plog, Night Lords 18th Battle Company. So a new colour (blue) that I`ve never painted before as base colour on an army, and a ton of inspiration from those two plogs (and of course a lot of others plogs but you get the point..).

I won`t be doing any "count-as", at least as far as codexes go, I`ll be using the CSM codex.

First up you have a quite standard, out of the box CSM unit:

I really dig the missile launcher-, icon bearer- and aspiring champ minis. I just did som minor conversions but I wanted them to stay as close to original as possible. Will be some more stuff added, severed heads, skulls, etc.

Here`s my fav conversion so far in the army:

A Chaos Lord, not count-as Abaddon. Scaled up and refined. Still some work to do on the lower legs, but getting there.


Per now I`m in build-mode so I`m struggling along with painting another CSM unit than the one I`ve shown so far. I hate showing my PiPs so don`t expect any of those but plenty of WiPs and hopefully completed ones as well.
Not the most frequent one to update, but I hope that some of you find the time to comment, ask or come with ideas for further conversions and builds. I plan on doing some really cool conversions so we`ll see how that goes.

Until next time!

Red

[trigger]

I shall be watching with egerness night lords being one of the best me thinks , great scope for truly horrific conversions.

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[Red Skullz]

Cheers

Very nice wolves btw

R

[Red Skullz]

As I mentioned in the intro post, I`m in build mode. Here`s a few more pics:


I got a ton of the old termies, both SM and CSM. With the scale-up they`re more in line with the new plastic ones as far as size goes, but I do need to fix the waists and legs. I plan on having chains and severed body parts central for that purpose.


Probably heresy to cut into one of these but it`s better to do it and get it back to use than to continue to let i collect dust! Some more detailing and it should be ready for some paint.

As always, comments, ideas and what-not are welcome

Red

[horacus]

Looking nice

[Red Skullz]

Thanks

R

[Rokurokubi]

Like what you've done so far! The Lord looks great, especially like his 'pet'.
Where are the heads on the termies from? Like the variety

[Red Skullz]

Thanks

That was a great nickname, the pet I plan on painting him up like a Blood Raven. A friend of mine plays them so it`ll be double fun to have a nick as well!
The heads are from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles Chaos Knights regiment sprues. Fantastic sprue set! The lord and the termie with the crab claws are from the Manticore set.

R

[Red Skullz]

Been away a few days from work, I planned on finishing the paintjob on the first CSM squad but it`s so cold outside that I can`t varnish them so I didn`t bother..instead I started building some more, this is the result so far:

Yupp, a raptor Now the 40mm base is a must as the rule of cool* says so! So this is just a regular trooper. This squad will open up plenty of fun conversions and really be a focal point as far as the Night Lords part goes.

As always, comments are more than welcome!

Red


*Rule of cool is simply that instead of taking what is gaming-wise you take what you like simply because it looks good

[chunk]

Cant wait to see some painted mini's. Conversions are a good start, especially the original predator with all the different variants kit bashed on top.

[Red Skullz]

Ah, more painting pressure

Yeah I can`t wait to get properly started myself to be honest It`s really starting to heap up and that makes it very hard to get started so I need to get cracking asap!

R

[Red Skullz]

Ah...finally! This just took forever and ever but now I can present the first half of Claw Noctis:

Not the best pic but it`s pitch dark here this time of year.

Nothing fancy but I`m well pleased. As far as my army goes I see this squad/claw as "truebloods". So no mutations or anything here! I also feel that the Aspiring Champ, the vintage Ragnar Blackmane fig came into his own as a Night Lord
The bases I compromised on. I like the more grey and industrial look for 40K but seeing as most boards are green grass I went for a trench/wet mud look with some clusters of bushes. I think it looks quite nice and it also allows me to not be that neat around the feet of the minis when I paint it

C&C is more than welcome!

Red

[juicytomatoes]

3 kids, you say? Just for that, I'll be rooting for you here. It's really hard to find time to do anything about the hobby after kids come along...

Love the raptor conversion. Claw Noctis is also looking really nice!

[Red Skullz]

Thank you, I need it

Glad that the raptors are getting some love, got some more WiPs on them soon that I think you guys will like

R

[Duke E]

could we see more pics of the guy with the 3 trophies

[trigger]

the vintage Ragnar Blackmane fig came into his own as a Night Lord


C&C is more than welcome!

Red

I can't get over the skulls there just wow , I'm going to give it a go for a wolf priest ( il balls it up though )

It's not Ragnar bud , it's the grey hunter pack leader from 2nd.


Keep up the good work




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[Red Skullz]

@Duke E:
Sure thing. can post some on the next update

@trigger:
Cheers mate Oh and thanks for the clarification

R

[Red Skullz]

Got some more pics this evening. First off is the first model I made when I started with the new army, but then it was Chaos Daemons:

He`s suppposed to be on a chariot of Tzeentch, and that little critter holding the book is the familiar. Now for CSM I can`t have a chariot, so the best I can do is daemonic steed of Tzeentch. Cool mini though. I like the arcane tech feel of the rocket-board!

Now for more arcane tech, here`s my take on some obliterators:

In my opening post I mentioned Dan the Daemons plog. He made some Night Lords obliterators as stealthy weapon teams instead of the hulking monstrosities. Night Lords still according to fluff has stabile genes with little to no mutations. Mine aren`t as high tech as his, mine are arcane tech. You`ll see the details better when I paint them up!

This next mini I made before I landed on Night Lords:

It`s a heavy duty salvage job. I`ve had the dread for ages but not with all of the bits so I made a daemonic possesed version. Now this goes against what I mentioned on the oblits, but I got a cunning plan for integrating mutated stuff in this army without stepping on established fluff. I`ve armed it with to ccw`s.

Finally for now, the last 5 CSMs for Claw Noctis:

Better pics of the entire claw will be taken as soon as the rhino is dry and can be photographed.

As always, c&c is welcome.

Red

PS: oh drat...forgot to take more pics of the lord, sorry bout that!

[Red Skullz]

Ouch, a three stars rating. That was boringly average..

[Red Skullz]

Finally got the rhino ready so I could take a proper pic of claw Noctis:


I`m very pleased with the end result. I`ve found a way of painting this army that won`t kill motivation and which looks good enough for me as far as table top goes. I know that the missile launcher and the flamer probably isn`t the hottest kit I could use but hey, rule of cool right

Up next will be the finished obliterator teams and hopefully some WiPs of the berzerker claw.

Red