I finished up the basics of my terminator squad tonight. Still have some gaps to fill and need to bang up the plastics to make them fit in. 6x Chaos Terminators: Icon of Nurgle, Heavy Flamer, 3x Power Fist, 2x Combi-Melta.

More pics are up in the Death Guard 2008 gallery.

Since I am replacing my entire Death Guard army with new FW resin models I figure I might as well start with the HQ; a new chaos lord. I haven’t done any green stuff work on him yet, nor have I damaged the leg bits to make it fit with the resin. I mainly focused on the pose and the theme of many, many “Death’s Heads of Nurgle” trophies (ie: heads).

The body is the FW terminator champion model with the face section bored out via dremel. I disliked how low the original face sat in the armor. The head is from some manner of machine, Tyranid vet I THINK but its been a while (been in the bitz box for a long time). The shoulders are the FW champion ones unmodified. The heads on the rear are cut from another FW shoulder pad. Base was built using the GW 40k Basing Kit and a lot of dremel work.

Still haven’t settled on a new name for my totally re-done army either. I want to avoid using “Chearon Morbidius” again. Was thinking maybe Chearon Brutalis or Decimus Chearon or something.

They may have some quality control issues as of late with getting stuff shipped, correct items being shipped, and general slowness; however they still offer the same great customer service that I have come to expect from Games Workshop. I called this morning about my shipping mistake and they are going to dispatch my 6 missing power armor conversion sets as soon as they can and let me keep the six extra terminator sets that I got shipped.

Got my ForgeWorld order today. 60 Plague Marines and 10 Plague Terminators worth of resin. I open the box, marvel at how greatly sculpted they are…then realize I got mis-shipped! Instead or my original order of 8 kits of power armor (2 for a friend) and 2 kits of terminator armor I got 2 kits of power armor and 8 terminator kits. Because I really NEED forty terminators. Ah well, I’m sure I can sort it out with ‘em next week. The order was correct, the pick list was correct, just the product was wrong. In the bustle of getting the new models out I assume its not TOO uncommon.

I have a lot on my plate right now so the DG might not see paint for a bit. Participating in a fantasy escalation league with some Wood Elves and starting to prep a Nurgle daemon legion for the Hillbilly Invitational tournament in July. I may or may not have a new chaos lord already built using the resin parts though…(pics soon).

I managed to finally get back to Adepticon this year. The last time I was up there was the very first time the event took place; my how things have changed! With 650+ people there, vendors, GW guests Phil Kelly and Graham McNeill and a ton of great armies it continues to be a showcase event for the US.

Though I wasn’t really prepared for a tournament I managed to scrape together an 1850 list of combined Death Guard and a small Iron Warriors warband (to make points). I played in the RTT on Sunday and went 1-2-0 for the day. Not the best showing, but the list I had was pretty weak and it had been a long time since I played 40k in any sort of tournament setting. The Bell of Lost Souls guys were there all playing heresy-era Death Guard for the Team Tournament and I saw one other heresy Death Guard army in a themed team. Otherwise it seems everybody  has changed to Nidzilla…

I am still waiting for my Death Guard conversion kits from Forgeworld. They were officially “released” on the 7th so hopefully by the end of this month I’ll see the package. Until then, not much to update on the site. I have also started a Daemonic Legion for Fantasy so that may get a sub-section here just so I have a place to post pictures and whatnot.