I have been working feverishly to get these Word Bearers done. The big batch paint of about 100 models has now hit a point where I am picking up a unit at a time to finish off. Last night I managed to get the bikers to a point where I could varnish and leave them ready for a tournament this weekend. 

There is a lot more work to be done on these guys but for now they are ready to shed blood for Chaos.

The My FLGS Warhammer 40k Campaign this Autumn/Winter The Otu Gata Incident requires players to have a "Home" tile from Planetary Empires. When you have one of these you can then start claiming territory. If not you are just brawling. 

As I am going for Word Bearers I wanted a suitably moody looking tile. I dug deep in the bits box to find some fire and pieces of tech that could work as generators etc. The core of the piece is the cathedral/church which is actually a Monopoly Hotel (don't tell the girlfriend!).

A good friend and fellow gamer at the FLGS is leaving to work in Hong Kong. The gamers that we are the only suitable way to say goodbye was to put 8000pts on the board and fight it out. 

Like my Plaguedrake I decided a more daemonic look would be better for a Word Bearers Forgefiend. The bonus of using the Vortex Beast/Slaughterbrute kit is that I only need to remove the vortex which is pinned and I can use it as a maulerfiend as well.

Joel from Paintmybits has finished his Large Scale Ultramarine Sergeant. Here is the  WIP if you want to see how he got to this stage. For once I shall just let the pictures do the talking.

I have been having a ball painting these guys. They are 99% complete just need to chuck some weathering powders on them and the Dark Vengeance Chosen are ready for eBay.

The guy above is my personal favourite. That axe is just gnarly.

When Dark Vengeance came out I split a bunch of boxes with various friends in order to get hold of 60 cultists. I ended up with a lot of spare models some of which I shall use to give some build variety to my Word Bearers (which will be very useful in an upcoming escalation league at the FLGS) and others will be going spare. 

Out of those going spare are 3 Chaos Lord Kranon the Relentless'. I have painted them up in a batch and all that is left to paint are the cloaks.

When I started the Word Bearers I picked up the Heldrake kit. After stabbing myself numerous times with various plastic blades that model has attached to it I ended up getting some paint down and everything was going well. I manged to get it to this stage and then promptly fell out of love with the model entirely. 

Something about it just didn't work with the Word Bearers... Daemon Engines are for the Iron Warriors and the like... Then I realised what I should do. The Word Bearers would use Deamons pure and simple. So With that in mind I started hunting for a valid kit to use as a Dragon/Daemon.  After a short look around the GW site I decided on the Terrorgheist and I knew it was the winner.

I have been working on this Night Lord Warp Talon/Raptor for awhile now. Progress was delayed for awhile as I have been making my own cast bases and getting the moulds done, the resin poured and then everything cleaned up took a little while.

Well the base is now complete and he is up to the point where I can start weathering.