Painted CSM specialists

Hi everyone! Once again it has been a little while, over the last 6 weeks I've just started a new job and have been crazy busy! But while my time is lessened, I can now buy all the hobby in the world, starting with an airbrush!

Today i'm going to focus on the melta/flamer CSM and the autocannon CSM I featured in a previous post, as well as a slightly converted DV Chosen as a chaos champion.

This is a front on of the flamer/melta specialist, the gun is magnetized and can be swapped out for either. As you may be able to tell, my lighting/photography situation is slightly better now, but still far from perfect!  Please, read on :) ----->

Aww Hell...Brute.

All the hype surrounding the hellbrute model release and the dataslate rules got me really burning to make a hellbrute. For me when the desire to make something comes I just need to go with it, and the result is one of the quickest paint jobs I've ever done. An 8 day hellbrute.

So sure I've got no money... But what I did have was a Dark Vengeance hellbrute just begging for a lick of paint. I am very happy with the water effects slime on the tentacles, 10/10 would use again.

While I didn't manage to get too many work in progress shots on this model as I made it mostly in secret (my housemate and I are having a bit of a competition...) I did snap a couple, and once it was 'revealed' I was free to go wild with my terrible camera phone. (that turned out ok this time). Read on!...

On The Table -- Chaos Conversions and a leg.

So in the spirit of posting more regularly, I have decided to start posting two new thematic blog updates aside from simply posting my most recently completed work.
The first of these will be On the Table, my currently half created or half baked ideas that litter the corners of my workspace pleading to be finished.
And the second will be 12 Year Old Ham. Which is basically flashbacks showcasing the horrible creations of my youth with some nice contrasts to my newer models.

Today I am focusing on some near finished chaos conversions and a mysterious leg that has found its way onto my table.

This is the first of two Chaos Space Marines that sit almost finished on my desk. I strongly feel that my traitors need to be decorated more to bring them in line with the newer dark vengeance and raptor sculpts. And while I am no citadel sculptor, there's a lot you can do with thin plasticard and greenstuff with little to no skill.

Renegade Militia

Time to post up my latest work, Renegade Guardsmen. It has been a long, hot summer since I last posted. Originally I of course intended my blog to be far more regular than this, but one can only post as often as one completes projects. With a summer of little to no money and heat that dries the paint off your brush faster than you can apply it, it has not been a very productive few months.

A desire to use Forgeworld weathering powders on my predator left that on the back burner, and a commission for a Tau riptide has also eaten in to my time (Still working on that one) --- But I have managed to finally finish something. My chaos renegade command squad had been loose inside my bits box for far too long, and I decided it needed to be painted.

Once more poor photography skills, a bad camera and nowhere to take photos has left these models looking far more washed out than they do in person, but such is life sometimes. 

I hope you like my Chaos Renegade Command squad, which hopefully will head a whole army of guardsmen when the new codex comes out.