Operation 500: Week 3

Well last week certainly was the week that was. I managed to paint absolutely no figures at all taking my total of completely painted figures to zero entering my fourth week. It is not all bad news; I have many figures undercoated in their new colours and several more on their way to being built. I have discovered that nail varnish remover takes paint off plastic figures although it is a slow process, which means I may have an additional one hundred Chaos Space Marines waiting to be converted to World Eater Chaos Space Marines, but not in the Berserker incarnation. It does mean that I have two additional Dreadnoughts for the Iron Hands now giving me three of the six required.



Death Guard

Yes they have their own fancy heading because I cracked open the box containing them for the first time in two years and had a look at what it contained. I knew that I had over one hundred semi-painted figures in the old second edition colour scheme of black and dark green. I did much prefer the first edition dirty green colour scheme which was what my first Death Guard army was painted back in the early nineties. Sorting the figures out it become apparent that due to changes in weapon choices for Death Guard from 3.1 to 4.0 (no more Death Guard Havoc squads) I am in a position to field once built/ painted twenty-two seven man squads, each with champion and two special weapons. I will still have a couple of figures left for Chaos Lords and/ or Sorcerers. Somewhere there are seven part-converted Chaos Terminators and Typhus to lead them. That at a quick calculation is over 5k of Death Guard before I add any vehicles.

According to old Index Astartes fluff Death Guard preferred to fight on foot advancing slowly yet implacably across the battlefield. Squads taking Chaos Rhino transports were moved from Troop to Fast Attack. With this in mind I will hopefully manage to gather between five and seven Chaos Rhinos making nearly a third mobile and I am planning on building a Plague Tower which can transport four more squads. The vehicle is severely over pointed at 700 points, but with seven damage points it should never be destroyed in battle, should…

The new paint scheme for Death Guard will consist of Rotting Flesh over most of the armour, highlighted with Bilious Green and blended with Brown Ink. I will see if I have any of the very old Ghoul Grey, which if memory serves me is darker than Codex Grey, to add a little colour to the figures, with weapons and backpack being a mix of dark wood and Tinny Bitz. The ink will disguise all failings on the paint scheme so I should be able to paint them quickly. I need to paint them quickly as I am so far behind in completing actual models. If I can get twenty squads completed quickly I will have over 4k of models completed and be back on track for month one.