Abaddon Kitbash Redux - Sword Envy

Abaddon has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time, collecting a good measure of dust. That was a shame, considering I thought I did a pretty banging job on a kitbash to represent him! Lately though, I was looking at the sword I gave him with a fair amount of disdain. Looked more like a butter knife than a fearsome Daemon weapon...

So I gave him an upgrade to appease his sword-envy. Using a left over Hellblade from the Bloodletters kit, I pulled out all the stops on my hot-glowy-flamey-sword effects. See for yourself... I think the result is pretty satisfactory!

Now that Traitor's Hate is out, I already have a few lists I wouldn't mind giving Abby another shot in. Ectomancy sorcerers and a unit of killy-termies sounds like a fun combo! Teleporting shenanigans... here I come!

Productive Sunday

I had quite a productive Sunday, managing to finish my 2nd CSM squad along with the predator I finished earlier. This brings my painting point total to 20 points in a single day! I haven't had such a productive day since the days of my IG speed-painting marathons...

Granted, these. CSM are also speedpainted, as health issues limit the amount of time I can stand to paint, but they still look pretty good from tabletop distance. The gold and black theme is very pleasing to me, and catches my eyes well without lots of red paint for a change!

Stay tuned for more status updates in the coming days...
--FP135 via IPhone

Chaos Predator "Eyesore of Horus"

Over a thousand years ago, a Space Marine Strike Cruiser went astray in the roiling turbulence of the warp. No one knows the vessel's former parent Chapter, as that information was lost along with the damned crew. Hundreds of years later, the ship reappeared, filled with Black Legion Chaos Space Marines. All the former vehicles of the traitorous marines appeared with them, repainted black and bearing heretical symbols and profane emblems.

One such vehicle was the Predator tank, renamed "Eyesore of Horus" by a particularly-flippant traitor. It now has been seen on the battlefield driving of it's own accord, apparently possessed by some fashion of daemonic entity. It fills the air with rumbling laughter as it bores into enemy armor assets with it's twin-linked Lascannons.

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Setting My Goal

This is what my new workstation currently looks like. With a single CSM Battleforce boxed set, I have been busily constucting a rough-shod Black Legion 1500 point list just in case I can make it to a 40k tournaments in the near future. As you may already know, I auctioned off my IG army on EBay to raise some emergency money to pay some bills. Now that PFDs came, and we're in the clear, I needed a replacement 40k force to use instead of my dearly departed 907th Alascadians.

So here is the basics of my cobbled-together list:
Chaos Sorceror w/ MoS and Lash
Chaos Lord w/ wings
2 ten-man squads of CSM, both have 1 missile launcher, one has a plasmagun, one has a meltagun
2 rhinos
8 khorne beserkers
1 land raider
1 predator with TL lascannons and possession
5 possessed

By using some loyalist parts I was able to expand the size of my starter CSM force considerably. Now I am trying to get it painted! Once I do, I'll look at optimizing my list and expanding my model collection.

Progress pics coming soon!

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