Latest hobby progress has been slow, but I finally got something that isn't like painting a zillion termagants. Enter the Khorne Lord of Skulls! First I'm excited about the prospect of seeing limited gargantuan creatures and vehicles in a regular 40k game. Limited being the key word. As players I think we need to change how we think about 40k as it is not the 40k of even last year. Expansions, fortifications, formations, mini-dex's, and extra characters has changed the fundamental game. The biggest push pause is from GT's as it is super hard to gauge all of the new additions to the game and try to do it as fair as possible. I don't like the "fair" part as the game is flawed and not "fair" the begin with. What it is , is fun. Plain and simple. Whats the difference between a 1000 point seer council or a Lord of skulls? Both can be hard to kill ( though i think the seer council is better ), the seer council can buff and put out decent damaged to anything in the game. So why the hate on the KLOS or similar ? I'd like to see the KLOS throw that unit a beating, until it was killed off by something itself. It's an epic cool ass model and a real death star killer. :)
And now the progress pics.
I went with the Daemon Head and the burning engine paint scheme ( matches my other daemon engines ). Still lots to do like the edging on the armor, the blood tanks, highlights all over, and the all important blood splatter.
I also went with the ichor cannon and the skull thrower arm. I love how they look and if the rules are the same for the apoc as the expansion the skull thrower is a cursed weapon that requires all saving throws that pass to be re-rolled. So no 2++ re-rolls Vs. this guy :)
I was thinking also about adding glowing emblems on a few parts like his chest and the 2 side pieces of armor. If you are reading this tell me what you think about that. I was considering a blue glow effect or maybe green.
All in all I'm pretty please with the model and can't wait to play this bad boy on the table top.
Blood for the Blood God!! Skulls for the Skull throne!!!!!
