Endless Ones: WIP Abyssal Reavers

Continuing with the Endless Ones, I've been trying to get some things together that I don't think will change too much with the new Chaos Marine codex.  Don't want to fool too much with magnets, and don't want to set up too many special/heavy weapon guys, champions and such until I actually see the book.  But Berzerkers should be pretty standard, pistol, axe and attitude!

Snapshot Review: Treacheries of the Space Marines

 

Hearing that Treacheries of the Space Marines, a new Black Library collection of 40K stories featuring various power-armored traitors and renegades, was out I hopped down to the local bookstore and picked it up.  With the new Chaos Space Marines codex out soon I was eager for some related reading material.

The stories themselves were mostly OK, nothing spectacular, but readable, and present different traitors in various situations, against each other as often as not.  The more disappointing part for me was that so many of the stories were reprints; ones I had read in The Best of Hammer and Bolter Volume One - which came out a mere three months ago.  If you've read that previous collection already, the value of Treacheries goes down significantly.  

The stories are:

• The Masters, Bidding
• The Carrion Anthem - from Hammer and Bolter collection
• Liberator
• The Long War
• Throne of Lies - text form of previous audio drama
• Bitter End - from Hammer and Bolter collection
• We are One - from Hammer and Bolter collection
• Torturer's Thirst
• Vox Dominus

So out of nine stories, three are from a prior collection and another is an older story in a different format.

There are a few stories of note I wanted to briefly mention, not especially for the stories themselves but more from a background perspective.

"The Masters, Bidding" by Matthew Farrer shows interactions between some members of various Legions, and demonstrates how not everyone in those legions, even prominent ones, are Horus Heresy leftovers.

"Liberator" by Jonathan Green, showcases the renegade Constantinus, who IIRC first surfaced in the last Chaos Marine codex.  Nothing especially new, but don't recall him featuring before.

"The Long War" by Andy Hoare is interesting for being the first to feature some things that Chaos Marine players only recently learned about - Mutilators, Forgefiends and Maulerfiends, new units in the upcoming codex.  I wouldn't be surprised if this piece was specially commissioned to feature them and has snippets appear in the new codex.

If you're a big Chaos fan and haven't read the other stories yet, might be worth picking up.  If you've read the previous stories, get it second-hand or borrow it.  If you don't care for Chaos, give it a pass.

Endless Ones: WIP Defiler and Predator

Some repaints on some secondhand Chaos Space Marine stuff for the Endless Ones. (background Part One, and Part Two)

Pretty much done, just need to seal them to keep the shiny!

Other view:

I still plan on getting the new CSM book, but I've been kind of disappointed with a lot of what I've been seeing, both model and rules-wise.  When I get the book I'll see how the Hell Hounds Word Bearers convert over, and how the Endless Ones and associated forces may end up looking. 

40K League Picture Dump 09/23/12

Only got one game in today at the league, against Patrick's Necrons.  As with last time, the horde of stacking tesla shots destroyed me.  Didn't help that I couldn't hit with 90% of my melta shots or powerfist attacks, and that assault marines apparently can't beat up basic necron warriors.  Ork Nobs and a Warboss, no problem.  Skinny robots, run away!  I may have to break down at our next points jump and just add in the bastion plus quad gun to shoot down flyers as they come in, plus an IG command squad with master of the fleet to slow their entry.

Chaos Marine leaks: Stuff you may have missed

Of course check out the main stuff, with more doubtless to come, over at Faeit 212.

A couple of things that are in the pics but weren't mentioned that I saw, so some may have overlooked them:

Endless Ones: Chaos Land Raider repaint

Redone Chaos Marine Land Raider for my Endless Ones.

 

Endless Ones: Updated Bloodletters

Shot of the Bloodletters after a fast bit of shading.  Ivory overbrush over most of the model followed by some washing, then matte sealer.

Picked up some daylight bulbs for my floor lamp per Dai's suggestion, seems to work well, though I may have overdone it with direct light, washing out some of the highlights.  C'est la vie.

And here's a shot showing them prior to the touch ups.

Music Kickstarter plugs

Just a couple of plugs for a couple low-budget projects that are quite different from each other musically, but similar in awesomeness.