Night Lords (with paint!)

OK, I've been a bit sick and had time to paint. I have a lot of things painted for this army already (pics to come!) but the most recent addition is the lightning on a few models. I feel like freehand is a make-or-break kind of thing so I have been debating on the lightning at all. I watched a good online video about painting energy and decided to give it a go. What's the worst that could happen, right?







Hopefully I can get some better pics in the future. The combination of a fever and my medicine doesn't make for great photography.

More to come soon...

Night Lords (from the blood of angels)

So.... after much needling and sacrificing of small animals, Deathklokk has been summoned to the realms of the Istvaanians.

My current long-time project is a Night Lords army based around the Blood Angels codex. yes, yes I know "counts as" is all the rage right now, but please bear with me while I explain why this really isn't just an excuse to use the newest codex toys.

When I started thinking about this project (while working on my Guard army) I knew I wanted an elite force that had dramatic colors and a decisively offensive playstyle. I try and bounce from extremes and contrast armies to help hold my interest in them for the long haul. Before the Blood Angels codex I was really drawn to the background of the Night Lords as the tragic monsters betrayed by their maker, the Emperor. I feel they have a really "dark knight" vibe to them. Lawful Evil if you will.

While examining my options for the list I was unhappy with the selection offered by the current Chaos codex for the Night Lords. Having two other armies based around that codex already, I intended to branch out. I had thought about Blood Angels using their pdf codex but when the new book dropped, I was sold!

The Blood Angels have many fluff similarities to the Night Lords that I intend to bring to the for using unit selection, modeling, and background. Both have a Primarch that was killed tragically by betrayal. Both suffer from the memory of that death. Both have a distinctly vampiric feel. Both struggle with a taint that will ultimately doom them (Blood Angels the Black Rage and Night Lords with warp corruption).

Using these similarities I intend to build a Night Lords army using select appropriate Blood Angels units. Ultimately I intend to represent the two sides of the Night Lords coin, the uncorrupted Night Lords (using Dante and Sanguinary Guard) and the Forsaken (using Death Company and Astorath).

Bah, no more babbling...on to the pictures!

My initial conversion of an Assault Sgt. with Hammer/Shield











Astorath himself




Terminators





and a Hatemonger (chaplain) that was used for a test model




More pics to follow...

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