Kill Team: The Blooded

The Blooded are a Kill Team of elite traitor guardsmen. They were a factor in deciding to repaint my 'Pinkstone Fortress' forces, as I can use some of my existing troops to round out and fill some roles. I lightly kitbashed some of these.

The Blooded Kill Team

Enforcer

His bodyguard ogryn

Chieftain with bolt pistol and chainsword

Chieftain with plasma pistol and improvised blade

Traitor gunners.

Traitor gunner with plasma gun.

Traitor gunner with flamer

Traitor gunner with grenade launcher.

Traitor gunner with meltagun.

Trench Sweeper

Thug

Butcher. This sculpt has a lot of menace.

Flenser. He will kill, skin and eat you- if you're lucky, in that order.

Corpseman.

Commsman.

Marksman.

Detail on camo cape

Brimstone grenadier

Traitor guard with lasguns

Gladiators

I recently picked up Spartacus, the 2021 boardgame about running a stable of gladiators. I've looked at Jugula before, and now I've heard Blood on the Sands is launching a Kickstarter imminently.

Here are my figures for Spartacus- they're non-heroically-proportioned 28mm plastic.

Here are 20mm Italeri soft plastics I painted up at the start of this year:

Most of these were painted with Speedpaints/ Contrast.

Thirteenth bloggiversary!

Thirteen years and still blogging!

My main hobby accomplishment of the year has been wrapping up my Five Parsecs campaign. I really appreciated Ivan Sorensen's ruleset and how it took me in unexpected directions. I enjoyed the inspiration for gaming and trying to weave it all together. See my reflections on this here.

Escaping the underhive

Last stand at the Innominate

At the end of last year I allowed myself to get more ensnared by GW again. I never thought I'd start painting a Space Marine chapter, but here we are.

Strike Force Justian

Veteran Sergeant

Intercessors

Having planted a flag for the Lamenters, I revisited my Pinkstone marines and they defected to the Red Corsairs. More to come of these bad boys.

Red Corsairs

Daemonkin and Master of Possession

So I've been painting a lot for 40K- and that's been a bit of a sobering wake-up, because these take me ages to paint. I've tried to reign in my worst excesses and focus on finishing a few projects before leaping into new ones.

I did a few other little pieces here and there, mostly science fiction:

Apple and Turbo Kid

Buddy

Galadriel

HP Lovecraft and LP Hovercraft

Halo Jones

You can see I've enjoyed Jon Hodgson's backdrop books.

What does the future hold?

As always, at this time of year I start to think about the upcoming Analogue Challenge. I have a lot of options to choose from.

I've really enjoyed my 5PFH campaign. I'd like to get another campaign going- probably another gaming system. I have been casting glances at the Forbidden Psalm suite...

This time last year I casually mentioned some upcoming lifestyle changes- so this is Furiosa:

40K Lamenters: Lieutenant and Apothecary Biologis

I've been enjoying painting my Lamenters recently, and have a pair of characters.

First is the 'Lone Operative Lieutenant' with a combi-flamer. This chap was one of the unique figures released for the 2023 10th 'Leviathan' edition of 40K. I did a light kitbash, changing the base, head, and adding a pointing hand to replace the second knife he was waving around (I wanted to add a pistol but didn't have a left handed one available). He's wearing the lighter Phobos armour. He is supposed to be a behind-the-lines lone operative, surviving with a scavenged Tyranid carapace strapped to his arm and a souvenir claw on his belt.

Lone operative lieutenant

Combi-flamer

Improvised armour. I think I could improve on the gore.

Second is a Apothecary Biologis. He's not a healer- he uses his anatomical and scientific know-how to inflict more efficient injuries on the enemy. Some call him a 'harmacist', or a PhD rather than an MD. He wears the heavy Gravis armour to wade into combat and collect samples. I was going to do a silver chest emblem, but the pale grey looked great so I left it. I tried to get a sloshy liquid effect in his sample canister.

Apothecary Biologis

Of course, the Lamenters don't have apothecaries. Being descended from Blood Angels with their Sanguinary Priests, the Lamenters have Calix Priests. I'm not entirely sure how the Biologis fits into this organisation, but I will find a way.

Skull-o-meter™: 11