SCGT Prep Work – Steve! (Part 2)

So February has come and gone and there is now less than two months to go so what is my progress looking like?

Firstly due to the South Coast Pool document being not finished I discovered that Archaon and the Varanguard had all got cheaper! Annoyingly this means I have a spare 8 pool points that need filling. Fortunately this means I can include another Slaanesh Lord on demonic mount! Looks like I'll be spamming these bad boys, although I suspect they are not that good!

So my paint list now looks like this...

Archaon - Completed

Slaanesh Lord on Demonic Mount - purchased, not built
Slaanesh Lord on Demonic Mount - purchased, not built
NEW! Slaanesh Lord on Demonic Mount - Completed

NEW! 3 Varanguard - 1 completed
NEW! Chaos Warshrine - built and undercoated, scenic base all made.
50 Chaos Marauders - painted (but need some work doing), not based
20 Warriors of Chaos - completed
5 Hellstriders - completed
20 Demonettes - completed

Mutalith Vortex Beast - completed

So first up is the Slaanesh Lord on Demonic Mount. This was a bit of a cheat really as I had a Slannesh Demonette riding one that was a unit filler in my 8th Ed army so I have just popped her off the base and built a 50mm round for her to sit on. I'm going to change one of the claw arms to a shield if I have time at the end. The base for this was fairly simple. I used a GW 50mm round and popped a micro arts studio possessed base on top. To make the space for the mount to sit nicely I glued a piece of bark into the centre and then gap filled with cork and the Vallejo pastes I have discussed before. It was then painted in my standard colour scheme.




Sorry for the photos - they were taken late at night!

I completed the three bases for the Varanguard as well. These were done using some existing 25x50mm cavalry bases that I had Chaos Hounds on. These were whipped off and I then cut a whole into the ovals so the cavalry base would fit inside. This makes building up the base around much more natural. The surround is done using cork, vallejo lava paste, and then green stuff to make more of the tentacle bits so they flow onto the ovals. Then these are painted to match and the GW Agrellan Earth is added round the sides.


The Varanguard themselves have started to get done as well. I usually start with the riders, but then lose motivation with mounts so this time I have decided to start with the mounts themselves. They are big! That was the first thing I noticed. I have also found them a pain to do. I did the black and sponged on the weathering to allow me to not highlight the black, and then I spent time doing all the gold which looked terrible to start with, but after some Twitter discussions and advice from Jordan Bladen and Dave Fraser I gave it all a nice purple glaze and mixed in some Vallejo paints and I ended up being a lot happier. I am also pleased with the head conversions. It should tie the unit into the rest of the army where all the mounts are Seekers. I had to sculpt a lot of extra fur around the necks, but this helps bulk them out and stops them looking too thin.

I'll be interested to hear what other people think of these conversions.