Nurgle goes to maxmini for spares

 Back from vacation and painting again!

I was working on this salvage project for my Nurgle contingent of Chaos Space Marines just before heading off on Holiday and discovered that I had forgotten to pick up the loose backpacks...DOH!

 Not to be discouraged I ordered a dozen backpacks and heads from the Biohazard line up at Maxmini.

  They showed up pretty fast and I was pleased with the clean casts and the nice mounting slot which made for a perfect fit on models of widely differing vintages.

I painted them up on the sprue taking care to look at the refrence models to get a decent match.

 Here are the other three models in squad 1 that were missing backpacks.  They don't closely resemble the stock imperial pack but I like the belching low tech feel of them

With that tidied up I move into the salvage of squad 2.  Upper pic shows their starting position and the lower pic shows current progress.  I've adjusted the tints to more closely resemble squad 1 but will retain greater areas of brown rust on this second group.

Now its off to get a nap... I was up way too late for the Launch of the Raging Heroes KickStarter! ... But it was really Worth the time!

I'll need to accelerate the salvage project and wrap the Ogre Kingdoms update before I get consumed in a Raging Heroes frenzy.

Confession Machine from Max Mini

 Today I painted up a Confession Machine from Max Mini.  The casting was very clean and the whole look of the machine is awesome. 

I elected to add this to the mythology of my Order of the Ebon Chalice.  The essential theme being that personal sins, up to a particular level, are authorized to be submitted for summary judgement at the machine.  Of course Heresy is a totally different story so the machine monitors confessions for heretical content and reports to the local Inquisition facility.  More development is in order but its a good start!

There has been some progress on the Dark Eldar Reaper as well and its looking to be finished this week although there has been a difficulty with the main gun body separating from the deck plate during, or after, I installed the upper gratings.  I had initially thought that the out of sequence installation of the upper gratings had gone without a hitch but not so! I'll have to carefully re-glue that and do some repairs along where the control pylon joins the main gun but these seem to be relatively minor hiccups.

Most of the detail bits and the primary crewman are complete at this point so I should be able to begin final assembly and touch-ups.  Except... I forgot that the enhanced aethersail is still primer!  fortunately that is the last bit to add on so it doesn't really impede construction.  I'm still deciding on an actual color, or pattern, for the sails themselves.   I will likely wait to make the final call on the sail until I get the rest of it assembled so I can see what needs balancing.

Since I've opted for a fairly clean look on these weathering is minimal so far.  It may be that I'll return and weather the lot of them together at some point.