The Sons of Medusa - 2000 points in less than 4 weeks...

[Hermanesq]

How do,

so having recently sold off all my fully painted armies, I then decided to go along to a tournament with a load of mates from south Wales. So that means new army. Righty then...

So I've spent the last week or so building up a Sons of Medusa army, which have had a bit of a background inject thanks to the Badab War forgeworld books. Which have changed their colours slighty *I'll ignore that* and revealed the truth of their creation. Now I had started a similar project a few years ago, doing 3k of Sons in 6 weeks, which in all honesty failed abysmally. However this time, theres a tournament in warhammer world at the end of it and i can't bring myself to turn up with an unpainted army in the home of the hobby.

The army is a Terminator one, using the Deathwing list out of the Dark Angel codex. The army itself consisting of a counts as Belial, 5 squads of terminators, 3 landspeeder typhoons and 3 predators. All is now built barring the apothecary, standard bearer and the three preds. I'll get to them towards the end of the log however, waiting for trades to turn up to get on with them.

Anyway, enough waffle, couple of pics and then a bit of painting whilst watching the superbowl.








One query for people however

I do have a question, the vehicles, which are mostly black with the diagonal stripe of the same green on the flanks. That's fine for the predators when i get to them but I'm wondering about the Landspeeders.

The two options being *after ruling out the flying bogey pure green idea* do I go for the black with green stripe, or, go for a desert colour scheme in honour of the 'Recon Support' unit from the original badab war background?

I know they were a razorback unit, but i'm thinking some desert yellow recon speeders might provide something nice to look at seperate from the army, fitting with the recon idea?

What do people think?


Chris

[New Cult King]

I like the camo idea from the Badab war

[RTJ]

Go camo buddy....btw, think James is taking the same list!

[Hermanesq]

this isn't for the same tournament, I don't think anyway. We'll see when I get there though I guess

And the desert camo scheme seems to be the popular option, so choice made then.

[Hermanesq]

So, progress is possible

After a day of spraying with both primers and then a couple of hours relearning to airbrush, Something a bit more colourful has arrived. Colourful enough to give me a headache actually, and several parts of me are also the same colour as the hulk


Mid airbrushing




And how the termnators looked two hour ago, before I washed them all heavily with thrakka green








The 3 speeders have also been primered, basecoated and then washed with various desert colours, but I'm gonna get a chunk of these termie done before distracting myself with them.

Input is again needed though, Do I go for a dusty appearance on the terminators, or a battle scarred paint scheme, a mix of both or keep them all clean? The colours are so bright, even more so than the previous incarnation of the army, that I'm not sure what route to go with them currently. Input is good at this point.

Chris

[Hermanesq]

Wakey Wakey,


So I got something in the post this morning that hopefully will wake the project up and get me started once again...


Thanks to someone I know, I got a little package of these boys...






Very impressed, very nicely cast, with only the eyesockets on a couple of the skulls filled in. A nice sharp scalpel point will deal with that. Now I just need some cruz pads to replace the dozen or so of them that I lost.

I do however have to decide on a shoulder pad style, and a way of making the force not so off the transport fresh and much more battle damaged to suit a 'long term campaign' look to them.

Chris

[Vitruvian XVII]

Sweet, love this so far, those pads are hella cool.

[BrotherTearz]

Just about to grab my own stuff from this guy to

[RTJ]

Good start! Be interested to see how this project develops....

[Mega Nutz]

It's a great looking start 'H', definitly eager for more!!

[ChickenMacNugget]

I'll be watching this with great interest

[lethlis]

Who made those pads? I cant find him based on name alone?

[Hermanesq]

Ben's website should pop up in a week or two. I should have mentioned commision when I got them off him, lol.

I might do that now actually...

Lol

[Hermanesq]

First test fit, and colour me impressed.

So much so that I might actually get some painting done tonight, lets see though...




Chris

[Fleafa]

I want updates! :P

[Haywiregrenade]

Seconded. Updates needed please.

[Dudde]

Hermanesq - Very nice looking termainator, but thirded, updates needed.

[Hermanesq]

How do and cheers for the motivation

So it's not the biggest of updates as I'vebeen away a lot recently and I'm still struggling to get over the painting flunk of the last few months. But there is a bit of progress at least, battle weary Sons of Medusa!







Will try do a bit more this evening, but away again from tomorrow night for another week or so so might be a little while til the next update.

Chris

[superdupermatt]

Whats going on with that stormbolter with a solo-barrel?

[Hermanesq]

Matt - Just trying something different, in hindsight I'm not really sure it works, it did look much better prepaint, but we'll see how it turns out. Theres not much I can do now really anyway so I'll just live with it, lol.

So another brief period away, another small bit of progress in the slow (and methodical) painting of the army. I've got a bit of progress and the first squad of Terminators is looking a bit more finished. Still loads to go on them, but since I've joined up with the Badab War challenge, I've got to get this squad done by the end of the month.

So, one battle damaged unit coming up, that currently looks like this







I have got to work out some colours for shoulder pads and other minor details, whether to go with the standard shoulder pad colours from IA10, or to go for one of the other clans and incorporate more black or silver, depending on which War Clan I go for.

But its progress at least, which is always good


Chris