Night Lords 10th and 11th Companies WIP!

[forkmaster]

"My sons, the galaxy is burning. We all bear witness to a final truth -- our way is not the way of the Imperium.
You have never stood in the Emperor’s light. Never worn the Imperial eagle. And you never will.
You shall stand in midnight clad, your claws forever red with the lifeblood of my father’s failed empire, warring through the centuries as the talons of a murdered god.
Rise, my sons, and take your wrath across the stars, in my name. In my memory. Rise, my Night Lords."

- The Primarch Konrad Curze, at the final gathering of the VIII Legion.

So after having so many balls in the air, I thought to myself, better get my s**t straightened up and put into numbers so I can keep track of everything. This is my 3rd full powered CSM-army. Unlike my my Emperor's Children and Iron Warriors, which is based upon my own writings, this army will be based upon the famous & popular Night Lords-trilogy, written by the author Aaron Dembski-Bowden. I've read all materials released about them so far, and I will do my best to keep it up with the established fluff. Each character isn't based upon the same time-period. I will go into more specific details later. Without the World Eaters auxilliary, the army so far reaches 1120 points.

Here are the list of my content (as of June, 2012):
HQ:
- Night Lord Chaos Lord/Hero; with power fist & combi-weapon. 125

Elites:
- Chosen Chaos Space Marines/Talos Valcoran's First Claw. 5 Chosen, 2 power weapons/swords, 1 heavy bolter. 130

Troops:
- Chaos Space Marines/Ruven's Second Claw. 10 CSM, Mark of Tzeentch, 1 power fist, 1 meltagun, 1 plasmagun. 250.
- Chaos Space Marines/Third Claw. 10 CSM, Mark of Khorne. 1 meltagun, 1 plasmagun. 230.
- Khorne Bezerkers/World Eaters. (Not official fluff, only gaming related.) 183

Fast Attack:
- Chaos Raptors/Lucoryphus Bleeding Eyes' Cult/Ninth Claw. 5 Raptors. 190

Heavy Support:
- Chaos Havocs/Fourth Claw. 5 Havocs. 1 lascannon, 1 heavy bolter, missile lanucher, 1 autocannon. 195.


Ninth Claw: This is Lucoryphus Bleeding Eyes' Cult, slightly mentioned in The Core that they belonged to 9th Claw. From the description, they still wear traditional midnight blue armour, only that they have painted tears on their helmets. Lucoryphus is described to be more bird-like, warp-changed into something he doesn't even himself recognize, but I won't be able to convert any like this. Here are my first official pictures:







Also should note this is the 2nd time ever I painted Night Lords, and first time ever I've worked with Raptor models. The metallic ones, at that, are not smoth going. Also this is a work in progress, so bare with me here.

Iron Warriors 32nd Grand Company!

[horacus]

These look great.

[Red Skullz]

Great start mate

R

[Student]

Nice work. I like how you've done their armour.

[forkmaster]

Why thank you guys! Yes I wasn't sure about painting dust or fire, so I went with the latter just to try it. It looks much better in real life I might add though. So I can update you readers with my current progress. While going through my Death Guard, which I will dismantle and sell now I've managed to establish to myself, I removed three of them and re-painted as Night Lords (a lot of repainting to do), which gives me one extra to make Variel. Does anybody know exactly what type of weapons he has?

First Claw: I've finished Xarl, Uzas and Mercutian.
Second claw: I've finished the squad champion, Ruven and a regular Night Lord with nothing special about him.
Third Claw:The standard bearer is complete.
Fourth Claw: Every member so far is finished except for the last heavy bolter.

Pictures: So thought I go into detail here. As I should say, Fourth Claw used to be Emperor's Children, but when I counted my points for that army I was like "****, I don't even need this squad!" so I re-painted them as Night Lords. Here are some Before-pictures. It should be noted, the Aspiring Champion is replaced by another as can be seen in picture 5. These are before and after pictures, how the Aspiring Champions have changed. In the first 2 pictures is the champion for 2nd Claw, and the last 2 pictures is for 4th Claw. I hope that is now confusing.






Future Plans: Deciding what to expand my Night Lords force upon, whether it be army box or separate box's and whether or not to get additional 5 Raptors. And then finish painting what I got.

[horacus]

I like them. Good work.

[forkmaster]

Here comes my so far only HQ choice, the Night Lord Hero. I'm quite satisfied with him. As said, I'm not quite sure who this will represent other than Malcharion pre-Dreadnought:

[horacus]

Really neat miniature.

[forkmaster]

Really neat miniature.

Thank you very much.

So here finally comes my Chosen squad, First Claw of 10th Company. The minis are based upon this picture, so let me know what you think.
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...First_claw.jpg









Rest of the pics:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...FirstClaw8.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...FirstClaw9.jpg

[forkmaster]

And here they are as individual characters. I am really satisefied with my work here, except on Talos as I didn't get a real Blood Angels sword, the NL-sword you get in the convert pack had to do. I tried my best to defile his imperial Aquila, but that didn't go too well as you hardly see it. Variel is a bit of a wild card as I didn't have any real flayed shoulder pads, I thought of doing him so it looked like a former Red Corsair. I wish I was better at converting models, because I would have made a longer broad chainsword for Xarl and have him hold it with both hands:

[Inquisitor Engel]

Nice work! It's nice to see more Night Lords out there, even if it is with the silly bat winged ceremonial helmets. * A nice, effective Talos conversion too (though Aurem is gold, not silver) especially considering he's basically a kitbash.

For Xarl's longer chainsword, have you looked into using one of the two-handed sword from the Grey Knight (power armoured) kit and swapping it? I think you might have some success with the bitz from the Sanguinary Guard too!

Keep at it! You've got tons of excellent inspiration to draw from!





*I've got a bunch if you're short and would like some, by the way. Shoot me a PM.

[forkmaster]

Nice work! It's nice to see more Night Lords out there, even if it is with the silly bat winged ceremonial helmets. * A nice, effective Talos conversion too (though Aurem is gold, not silver) especially considering he's basically a kitbash.

For Xarl's longer chainsword, have you looked into using one of the two-handed sword from the Grey Knight (power armoured) kit and swapping it? I think you might have some success with the bitz from the Sanguinary Guard too!

Keep at it! You've got tons of excellent inspiration to draw from!


*I've got a bunch if you're short and would like some, by the way. Shoot me a PM.

Thank you for the reply! I see mostly Word Bearers and Iron Warrior collectors, Night Lords and Emperor's Children are the rarest I might add. Yeah, I didn't want to spend too much money on Grey Knights and Sanguinary Guard just for spare parts, I would have 10 really expensive models not sure what I would do with later on with. But the idea did cross my mind. I barely wanted to buy the combat squad of regular SM just for Talos, but you gotta go for the high score to be perfect. I do loooove the ceremonial bat-wings, I'm currently gonna use them for special officers and characters from now on. Wait are you offering me some bat-heads? :O Seriously?

One last update here before this week is over. Next week I will begun working at a day-care thingy, for kids to attend while their parents work. Not kindergarden but for older kids who have started school. So this means less time for bad ass Night Lords.

Next update will be Ruven, and instead of making him a simple aspiring champion for 2nd Claw, he will be a Chaos Sorceror and my 2nd HQ. This is how I pictured him after the flashback in Void Stalker, except that he wields a magic wand instead of a sword:

[forkmaster]

Here cometh the Fourth Claw, which is my Havocs. Model-wise they are former Emperor's Children, that when I looked upon them I felt, "I already got 3 squads of these guys, the NL's got none!" I uploaded previously how they used to look, here comes the ending results.

They aren't based upon any particular characters, but I will try and re-read the books to see if I find some interesting names soo enough:









And the restof the links:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ourthClaw8.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ourthClaw9.jpg

[horacus]

I really like them

[forkmaster]

I really like them

That's really great to hear.

So today is not just any day but it is my birthday!!! So happy me! To celebrate this I think I will get around to order Fear to Tread, and perhaps look into either getting more Raptors, Terminators or perhaps a Dread! I don't know just yet.

Also I showed ADB, the author behind the characters this projects is based upon and he look enthusiastic about as can be seen here. I got no pictures at the moment, still working on my slog of regular Astartes. I got 8 soon to be finished at least and working on them.

[forkmaster]

Time for update, this is Second Claw. Only known member is Xan Kurus. These are based upon the passing name in Void Stalker. As I understand it he managed to have a full made squad at his desposible. Also I got some new videos up on my channel, does anybody know how to post them here in the forums so they can be watched?









And the rest of the pictures:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ds2ndClaw8.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ds2ndClaw9.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...s2ndClaw10.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...s2ndClaw11.jpg

[forkmaster]

Alrighty welcome to my Vlog on Youtube as well. I should warn the sound was crappy on the first 2 actual vids, but I will get that fixed for the future.

Welcome to the Vlog!

Background and my involvement with the hobby 2000-2012!

First Book Review!

As the videos are 16 mins, I have had to cut short on much thingys and I know a really good review should be like 2000 words without hardly even mentioning the plot.

[forkmaster]

So here are also my 2 next installments of videos + a sneakpeak:

Episode 2: First Claw

Book review Nr 2 "Legion"

[horacus]

Looking nice

[forkmaster]

Looking nice

Thank you very much!

So here comes my 2nd World Eater Khorne Bezerker squad. I managed to buy 23 Bezerkers second-hand from another guy for a really ceap price. 16 of them will be World Eaters, 7 will be painted as Night Lords 3rd Claw:








And the rest of the links:
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...rkerSquad8.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...rkerSquad9.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...kerSquad10.jpg
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...kerSquad11.jpg