From dark to black in 8 seconds flat

Ok, so I listened this podcast where the hosts made an Iron Hands armylist consisting of 2 Masters of the Forge with Conversion Beamers, 6 Venerable Dreadnoughts, Rifleman pattern and some stuff. I thought this sounded like a cool and fluffy and fun list, so I started researching the Iron Hands.
Unfortunately, I found out that the list was rather un-fluffy for several reasons. First off, the Iron Hands apparently have rather few Dreadnoughts and revere what few they have, even more than the other Chapters do. Most of their Dreadnoughts and Tactical Dreadnought Armors (Terminators) were lost in the early days of the Horus Heresy and I have found no sources saying that they have been restored. Additionally, the book “Iron Hands” clearly state that the left hand on an Iron Hands Dreadnought is always a close-combat weapon with a storm-bolter. This precludes the Rifleman-pattern, which is a twin-linked Auto Cannon on either side.
Just to confound me even further, I learned that the Iron Hands very rarely deploy their Terminators as a squad. Instead they prefer to have their Terminator brothers lead the Tactical squads into battle as Sergeants do in other Chapters. Further, because they so revere their Dreadnoughts and their experience, it is no uncommon for a Dreadnought to lead Iron Hands into battle. Lastly, there is a quote in Codex: Space Marines that sets a precedent for Iron Hands preferring Razorback transports.
So. I need a Codex that allows me to field Terminators as squad-upgrades, has a Dreadnought as HQ choice and can field Razorback transports.
You should already know the answer - Codex: Space Wolves.
I am going to avoid the more Wolf-like units and abilities, like Cyberwolves, Thunderwolves, etc.
This is the list as it stand at the moment:
Unit
Counts As
HQ
Bjorn the Fell-Handed
Dreadnought Warleader. Maybe even Bannus himself! With Twin-linked Lascannon like Bannus
Elite
3 Wolf Guard in Terminator Armor
Squad-leaders for Tactical Marines. No upgrades.
Venerable Dreadnought with Twin-linked Lascannon
Iron Priest
Techmarine with 4 Servitors (2 w. Plasma Cannon)
Troops
3x10 Grey Hunters
As Tactical Marine Squad. Upgrades: 1 Powerfist (modeled as a Servoarm), Flamer, Meltagun. Transport: Razorback w. Las/Plas, Dozer Blade.
Heavy
Either:
5 Long Fangs, 4 Missile Launchers
Veteran Devastators
or
1 Vindicator

The Tactical Squads will combat-squad and deploy separately. Half in Razorbacks, half on foot with Terminators. Footsloggers get the Flamer and Razorback-squad gets Melta and Powerfist. The Dreadnoughts will be deployed together-ish with the Techmarine as backup. From then on, I havent the foggiest notion what will happen. I have not played Space Marines since Rogue Trader =)

Let me know what you think!

A musk, soft as sin…

Yay! Good news from the front. I fought a battle against fellow Emperor’s Pride member Dan and won! Woot!

He played Angels Sanguine (Blood Angels Codex) with (from memory) 2 x 10 Assault Marines in Rhinos, 1 x 10 Death Company Marines with Sanguinary Priest, in Land Raider and uh… some upgrades? Maybe Special Characters? Anyhow, I played my Slaanesh Daemons like so: Keeper of Secrets, 2 x Herald in Chariot, 1 x 6 Fiends, 2 x 12 Daemonettes, 3 x 6 Seekers and a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh. Add to that a lot of upgrades for testing purposes and that’s it. Well. My KoS mishapped and died before the game began. My Heralds popped his rhinos, Fiends thinned out the Death Company before getting killed and my cavalry killed everything the Daemonettes left standing. Oh, the Prince kept the Land Raider still while plucking its armaments off one by one.

Fun game and while we both said we had expected a different outcome, I can’t help but feel he kinda handed it to me. Maybe out of kindness or pity, either way, it was a fun and motivating game and it spurred me to go to the club today and get in about 8 hours painting =)

Without further ado, I give you…

Finished Fiends!

Colors look a little bland in this picture but in real life they look nice.

Also, I finished the Daemon Prince Aedon the Sibilant. Ok, almost, his shawl needs some highlights.

Finally, the Keeper of Secrets Clarionanoisex the Indulgent. His sword may need a highlight but he is basically done.

I am trying to write some fiction to accompany the army and it is hard to find a balance. Being Slaanesh, it needs to be over-the-top with the sensations, the depravity and the allure but it also needs to not be Sado-Twillight in Space. Hm. I am writing this one instead of typing. Here is a shot of a page. As you can see, my handwriting is not the nicest but it feels oddly fitting.

Last, I have some sketches for the Slaaneshi Soulgrinder and for runes to put on the Chariots and banners. I was going for mystic/sexual/evil/odd. I doubt I will be using very much of it, thought. It is a little much, perhaps.

On the further exploration of indulgence

Quick update.

Progress has been made. Also, a setback of sorts. I worked a bit more on the soulgrinder:

Most of it is not that visible but she’s got some spiky bitz now =)

And I started a mystery project that is very related to Daemons of Slaanesh. Here is a hint: They cried for darker wine and wilder music.

It is the start of a new army.

The Scented Gardens

Whew. 8 hours of hobbying done!

Did some work on my Slaaneshi Soulgrinder. Take a look, (S)he’s a beaut!

Ok, not a classic beauty. For one, her head is still missing. I am putting it off, since it is the hardest part =/. The body is inspired by a Daemon encounter in the Inquisition War trilogy by Ian Watson, with elements of Keeper of Secrets mixed in. The skirt is very work in progress the the moment.

I managed to finish a Herald of Slaanesh! His Chariot is about 75% done but here are a couple of pictures.

The head of the Herald is a bit from MaxMini, one arm is a Daemonette weapon-arm and the other is an old elf arm from Warhammer Fantasy Battle. The body is an old-ish Champion of Slaanesh from WFB.

The chariot is made from Tomb Kings chariots with various bits from Seekers, Daemonettes and Cold One Knights.

The last Chariot still needs most of its paint.

And a gratuitous overview-shot.

Must... have... power...

Aha! Turns out, I can't handle playing Warhammer Age of Reckoning. So I unsubscribed and got to hobbying again. Yay me. Painted 6 Seekers of Slaanesh, only 18 to go =D



Also converted two Tomb Kings Skeleton Chariots for my Slaanesh heralds and finally started converting a Soulgrinder into a... Soulgrinder of Slaanesh.

I also suffered a major setback in that I realized that the paint scheme for the Seekers is much, much better than the one on the previously painted Daemonettes, Daemon Prince and Keeper of Secrets. Thankfully it is also much easier to paint but it is annoying having to strip the paint off of so many finished models.

Anyhow, pictures to follow during the week.

Så skubber jeg de her to frem... Har du roulade?

Studen i BT Tv

A short clip abour my gaming club, Emperor's Pride, featuring yours truly.

 Link updated - should work now.

Three is a magic number

So, I already have 2 Daemon Princes of Nurgle. One from Ultraforge and one from Games Workshop. They work great and I love fielding them with the Forgeworld Great Unclean One and Plaguehulk. It really makes the army stand out.

I can only field 3 Monstrous Creatures under the current Army Selection system we use in Emperor's Pride. So there is absolutely no reason to buy a third Daemon Price of Nurgle, right?

Wrong. I read somewhere that Ultraforge has been sold! I panicked and bought this sucker on CoolMiniOrNot:

Fra Minis

My wife, henceforth known as ToughCookie™, is in the shop, being upgraded with some new hardware, so I will have some time to assemble and paint this sucker while she is being recalibrated and adjusted. Not that I wouldn’t have time otherwise, but this should take my mind off my wife when I am not visiting her at the hospital.

You may have noticed that he has wings. I will magnetize those so I can use him with or without, as suits my fickle and inconstant whims.