Heldrake #2

I while ago I bought a second Heldrake. The model was assembled and primed in black by his original owner. I didn't want another red one so I painted it black and found a nice idea to paint it like it's flying over lava and the metal got hot.
I spayed the wings with red and quick after with yellow blending the colors nicely and getting a good hot metal effect.

Next I started painting brass on the rest of the metal details. On the wings I painted a very thin coat only on the red parts so that the brass would fade into the bright yellow.

I painted the tail in grey, dry brush it with bright gray and white highlights.
All the claws and tubes were coated with weak silver so that you can still see through the fiery effect.
I also tried to make the baleflamer look like it's hot.

Khorne Daemonkin vs Necrons

Mission : Maelstorm of War - Contact lost
Deployment: Hammer and Anvil
Points limit: 2000
Lists:
Khorne Daemonkin:
Bloodhost Detachment:

• Salughtercult
•  Chaos Lord equipped with Kor'Lath, the axe of ruin and bolt pistol
• 5-man Possessed in Rhino
• 8-man Chaos Space Marines with bolters
• 8-man Bloodletters with Bloodreaper upgrade and banner of blood
• 3 x War Engine 
• Soul grinder upgraded with Phlegm Bombardment
• War Engine
• Maulerfiend

 Air Superiority Detachment

• Heldrake Flyer Wing
• 2 x Heldrake with Baleflamer

Chaos Renegade Knights

• Renegade Knight upgraded with Stormspear Rocket Pod, Rapid-fire Battle Cannon and Thermal Cannon

Necron:
Decurion Detachment:

• Reclamation Legion
• Overlord
• 7-man Immortals in Night Scythe
• 2 x 10-man Warriros in Ghost Ark
• 3-man Tomb Blades
• Canoptek Harvest
• Canoptek Spider
• 3-man Canoptek Wraiths
• 3-man Canoptek Scarabs
  
• Judicator Battalion
• Triarch Skalkers
• 2 x Triarch Praetorians
  
• Annihilation Nexus
• 2 x Annihilation Bardge
• Doomsday Ark

 The Deployment:
Necrons infiltrated Tomb Blades and 2 squads of Praetorians. There is a squad of Chaos Space Marines in the building. Khorne Lord is in the Rhino with the Possessed. Excuse the tank, I forgot my Rhino at home.

Khorne Daemonkin Turn 1:
 Everything advanced in the movement faze. In the shooting faze all three Soul Grinders fired at the jinking Tomb Blades, but all saves throws were successful. Knight shot the Thermal Cannon at the Doomsday Ark but no wound, Battle Cannon and rockets took out 2 Praetorians from one squad and Heavy Stubbers shot at the second squad of Praetorians. Knight charged the Praetorians and managed to kill one model with a stomp.

Necrons Turn 1:
 Praetorians jump in the building next to the Maulerfiend, Tomb Blades hide in the forest and Wraiths advance. Doomsday Ark blows up a Soul Grinder and the Annihilation Bardges get 2 hull points of another Soul Grinder and immobilizes it. Ghost Ark and Stalker wreck the Rhino.

Khorne Daemonkin Turn 2:
One Heldrakes comes from reserves and fries 2 Praetorians. Maulerfiend blows up the Stalker. Knight get out of combat by getting a 6 on the stomp.  Tomb Blades get sliced by Bloodletters. Soul Grinder shot at the Ghost Ark and tried to attack it but it fails. Possessed also fail their charge against the remaining Praetorian.

Necrons Turn 2:
Wraiths advance and charge the Maulerfiend but no wounds were inflicted in that combat. Bardges wrek one Soul Grinder and Ghost Arks get 2 hull points off the remaining Soul Grinder. Doomsday Ark shot at the Knight but the shield saved him.

Khorne Daemonkin Turn 3:
I had enough bloodthie points to convert my Lord into a Daemon Prince and also a Bloodthirster from the axe. Second Heldrake arrives from reserves and toasts 2 Scarabs. Red Heldrake killed the last Praetorian with Vector Strike and burned one warrior from a Ghost Ark. Knight puts a wound on the Doomsday Ark and one on the Ghost Ark. Soul Grinder gives it a second try and this time manages to wreck a Ghost Ark.

Necrons Turn 3:
The Knight's shield protected him from that nasty Doomsday Ark. The Bardges and the croissant wrecked the last Soul Grinder. The Ghost Ark got 2 hull points from the red Heldrake. Wraiths made one wound on the Maulerfiend.

Khorne Daemonkin Turn 4:
 Red Heldrake flew off the table, in the process it got a penetrating hit on the Ghost Ark taking down the shield. Other Heldrake changed its fright mode so it can burn 3 Warriors. Bloodletters killed one Scarab. Daemon Prince attacked the Wraiths and killed one. Knight penetrated the Doomsday Ark shield leaving it with 2 hull points and then charged the Ghost Ark, wrecking it and loosing a hull point from the overwatch.

Necrons Turn 4:
 This is the round when my opponent won the game. He moved his Night Scythe next to objective 5 and disembarked. That squad alone got him 5 points. Warriors took off one hull Point from the Heldrake. Warriors, Doomsday Ark and Annihilation Bardge do 2 more hull points to the  Knight. Scarabs manage to kill a lot of Bloodletters. Excuse the turn dice, I flipped it before I took the picture.

Khorne Daemonkin Turn 5:
 From bloodthie points I summoned a Skull Cannon that shoot at the Warriors. Knight blasted the Annihilation Bardge and charged the Spider but again all saves were made. Bloodthirster and Possessed came to help the Daemon Prince and the Maulerfiend killing the Wraiths. Heldrakes mange to kill a couple of Necron Warriors and get 2 hull points of the croissant. Bloodthirster died because of the wounds received from being summoned from the Axe of Ruin.

Necrons Turn 5:
 Warriors and Annihilation Bardge killed the Maulerfiend. Doomsday Ark missed the Daemon Prince. Immortals kill a Chaos Space Marine.

Khorne Daemonkin Turn 6:
I summoned another Skull Cannon and shot with both after the Immortals and Overlord getting a couple of wounds. Both Heldrakes went after the Overlord and Killed another Immortal. Possessed killed the Scarabs. The Knight managed to stomp the Spider.

Necrons Turn 6:
Night Scyte wrecked the red Heldrake. Doomsday Ark failed to kill the Knight. Warriors got off one hull point of the Skull Cannon. Other Warriors shot after the Heldrake but with no success.

At this point the score was Necrons 11 - 8 Khorne Daemonkin. It was a good game, balanced and I had fun.

Warhammer 40000 exhibition

The company I work for organized "Arts day" and I chose to participate and create a Warhammer 40000 scenery. I prepared a fight between my Khorne Daemonkin and my wife's Orks. The Khorne horde attacks a stronghold defended by Orks.
For the event I got painted a lot of models and I created a piece of terrain out of pressed polystyrene.

  And this is the battlefield.

Berzerkers

I had an intensive period of painting, as I was preparing for an exhibition at work. I had a lot of daemons, but almost 0 Space Marines, so I painted a squad of Berzerkers.
I based them in red. I didn't like the texture and the color of the paint so I washed them with nuln oil.

I got all the black parts done and then I started to add grey.

Next was the gold.

Then the rest of the details, a wash and highlights.

The champion had a power fist so I tried some blends from dark red to bright orange.

10 more Flesh Hounds

I got from ebay 10 more Warhounds that I am going to use as Flesh Hounds. I tried different color schemes, but I didn't like any of them so I painted them like the other 10 that I have.
I got some new smaller pebbles from the flee market. For 1$ I got a large can of pebbles. I based the model with red, then a strong dry brush of red-orange. I used brown for the hair and highlighted with pink.