Hobby Failures and Killing the Lion

My Nostroman lion Maulerfiend is a wash. After spending months and months gluing random bits to it and sculpting more and more green stuff elements, I finally decided to prime the thing and... I hated it. It feels (and looks) like a disjointed mess, even with a unifying coat of Army Painter gray. So I'm scrapping the the thing. I've already started plucking some bits off for my Trench Crusade project, but that's an entirely different post.

Every aspect of this project has bummed me out, but I'm trying to turn the negativity I'm feeling into hobby progress by working on models I do like. So far it's worked, as I'm finally painting my Chaos Terminators and my kitbashed Abaddon proxy!

Building a Tyrant

I've finally started painting my Abaddon proxy, the cyclopean King Balor of the Baleful Eye warband! Thought it would be fun to post some pics of him in various stages of completion. This model is made from a miniature from the HATE board game I snagged on eBay for like $15, various Chaos bits I've had lying around for ages, and some sculpted elements. Not bad considering the actual GW mini is like $70.

Easily Sidetracked: Blood Angels Kill Team

I had some Stormcast Liberators and spare MKVI bits lying around and things happened! Right now this will just be a kill team to keep the project manageable. I'm definitely not contemplating turning this into a full-blown Heresy army. Nope!

Nostraman Lion Maulerfiend Pt 2

She's been sitting in a cupboard for quite a while now but I finally busted out my maulerfiend again! This has been an intimidating project, but today I started putting the finishing touches on her armor and I think it's finally starting to come together.

The Baleful Eye Opens! 👁️

Mini Baleful Eye Update

Not the best photos but I wanted to do a real quick update on my horrible little skin thieves! Legionary squad two is almost done. I'm still very much in love with this paint scheme, something that isn't always a given when I'm waist-deep in a project.

That's all for now! I have tentative plans for a possible Heresy project that I just impulsively ordered several kits and bits for, and I'm still waiting for my chaos barbarian inspiration to return so I can resume work on AoS/Old World things. Soon, hopefully, or the Dark Gods are gonna be pissed.

The Fomorians

Here are some WIPs of my Abaddon proxy, King Balor, and his personal guard, a squad of Terminators known as the Fomorians. These ancient bastards have literally been to hell and back.

This was my first time working with the Chaos Terminator kit from GW, so I wanted to keep things mostly stock, but I also wanted to differentiate each Terminator a bit more. I chopped the trophy racks up to create more unique silhouettes for each troop, and I also got some bonus lightning claws off eBay to keep things Night Lordsy.

King Balor is converted from a miniature from the HATE board game by CMON. I want to add some more sci-fi bits, especially tubing, to make him look more at home in a 40k force.

Nostraman Lion Maulerfiend WIP

I promised myself I wouldn't do any elaborate conversions for the Baleful Eye in the interest of keeping the project manageable, but that went out the window real fast when I decided I wanted multiple Mauler- and Forgefiends without paying $80 a pop for them.

Here are some work in progress shots of my Maulerfiend, a heavily mutated and augmented Nostraman lion. She was once King Balor's favorite pet, but centuries of exposure to Chaos energies and augmentation by the warband's Warpsmiths have left her a vile mockery of a beautiful predator.