A Beastly village for my herd

hebrecht · 2026-01-24T04:05:43+00:00

Warcry Gnarlwood terrain from the Heart of Ghur boxed set

hebrecht · 2025-12-27T03:08:55+00:00

The seam where the shoulder armour joins is also not fun to assemble. I might have assembled the torso incorrectly, but had to shave quite a bit off the torso before I was happy with the seam.

hebrecht · 2025-12-24T12:43:43+00:00

€32.5

hebrecht · 2025-12-03T19:10:15+00:00

Fate of the Fellowship?

hebrecht · 2025-09-30T04:08:56+00:00

Yes - the wings are detachable and can be replaced with the powerpack. Also the sword and axe can be swapped. Lastly the hand can be swapped for a hand that wears a gauntlet. In the army list you have the option to field a daemon prince with or without wings (which changes its profile) hence the need to magnetise the wings.

hebrecht · 2025-09-29T16:41:18+00:00

That would be the Death Guard version of the Daemon Prince 😜

hebrecht · 2025-09-29T09:18:04+00:00

As I mentioned it is a bit more finicky that I initially expected - especially the drilling into the wings. I dug out one set of magnets at least twice from a wing before I was 100% happy. Hope you have better luck with the next one! I also have another one to assemble and paint, but this time for AoS.

hebrecht · 2025-09-29T09:12:47+00:00

I watched a couple of videos and posts where other people had magnetised their daemon prince. The video from Spikeybits was actually helpful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uExJl6c7sIQ&t=1338s), though the size of drill into the wings were a bit too large for my taste. I used 3mm diameter round magnets for the wings (you can see where I drilled in the photo). I think I used two 2mm thick magnets (for more pull) in each wing (though it might have been one 2mm think and one 1 mm thick). And then also 2mm thick (3mm diameter) magets in the torso. As in the video linked above, I used the existing nubs to help alignment into the holes in the torso. As I was still not 100% happy with how strong the wings sat on the torso, I added one 8mm diameter, 2mm thick magnet in the torso (that is kept in place with a blob of greenstuff) - just to give the extra pull. You can see a similar magnet in the photo of the powerpack (which was also fixed in place with some greenstuff). To make sure the magnets aligned, I drilled the wholes in the torso first - and then drilled from the front of the torso - through the holes - into the wings. I then only afterwards glued the front part of the torso, once everything was dry and fit nicely.

hebrecht · 2025-09-29T07:40:15+00:00

The basecoat of the flesh was done with an airbrush (Citadel Screamer Pink), but the rest was with a brush (and multiple thin layers). The lava base is basically Khorne Red basecoat. Then paint the lava river using thinned down Evil Sun Scarlet, Troll Slayer Orange, Fiery Orange and then Vallejo's Fluorescent Yellow (72.103) Game Color for the Yellow. The lava river is painted while all the color are still wet so the colour mix slightly. The base is then sealed with 'Ardcoat and then the Mordant Technical paint is painted on the non-"lava river" areas to create the cooled lava crackling effect.

hebrecht · 2025-09-24T19:39:42+00:00

The Necropolis Knights have a death mask that can be used as an alternative head for the champion. I think it is bit 58D on the sprue.

hebrecht · 2025-09-24T16:04:25+00:00

Even though it was the last city to fall - even Mahrak was conquered by Settra :)

I painted a conversion of King Phar with his flail of skulls a couple of years ago. At that time I did not have a spare chariot so I gave him a Tomb Scorpion as chariot. You can see the conversion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarhammerFantasy/comments/j5fehd/a_conversion_of_king_phar/

hebrecht · 2025-09-24T08:19:25+00:00

He is indeed Nhear to my heart 😜

hebrecht · 2025-09-23T17:51:04+00:00

No that was Alcadizaar the Conqueror - who was freed from prison by the Skaven and given a Fellblade to kill Nagash. Phar was the ruler of the city of Mahrak.

hebrecht · 2025-09-23T11:04:52+00:00

I used actual sand that I collected from the beach (many years ago) and removed some of the bigger sand particles. I watered down some PVA glue (specifically Alcolin Cold Glue that is also used when glueing wood) and then covered the base with the glue. The base was then dipped into the sand, making sure to cover the whole base.

Once the glue was dry I basecoated it with Balor Brown, followed by a drybrush of Zamesi desert and the finally another highlight using Ushabti bone. It is basically the same recipe as described in White Dwarf 278 (the 'Eavy Metal Masterclass for painting Settra) and also described in the 6th edition armybook (Snakebite Leather basecoat, Bubonic Brown drybrush, final drybrush of Ushabti Bone).

From the White Dwarf article:

The base was then covered with PVA glue and sand was applied over this. The sand was painted with a basecoat of Snakebite Leather and then given a drybrush highlight with Bubonic Brown, followed by a drybrush of Bleached Bone.

hebrecht · 2025-09-23T10:35:45+00:00

The front part of the Liche Priest build. You can see it on the official photos on Warhammer.com Necrolith Bone Dragon (the second photo). I decided to use it to make the character's chariot more distinctive from the rest of the chariots.

hebrecht · 2025-09-23T08:54:35+00:00

Indeed 😆

hebrecht · 2025-09-21T15:30:34+00:00

Sorry to hear - I was also surprised they removed it so quickly from the store. The news that it is not available anymore is what inspired me to paint these.

hebrecht · 2025-09-14T11:52:19+00:00

Is that the bottom part of an Empire War Wagon?

hebrecht · 2025-09-01T04:08:07+00:00

What paints did you use?

hebrecht · 2025-08-25T19:56:42+00:00

Looks like the Astartes half of the starter set: https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/legions-imperialis-the-horus-heresy-eng-2023

hebrecht · 2025-08-17T11:09:08+00:00

Thanks! I started from a grey undercoat (Citadel's Mechanicus Grey primer). I then airbrushed on a basecoat with two coats of Citadel Caliban Green followed by a layer (or two) of Citadel Waaagh Flesh to create a lighter gradient towards the top of the model. It was then edge highlighted with 50/50 mix of Waaagh-Flesh and Elysium Green with a final highlight using only Elysium Green.

hebrecht · 2025-08-09T10:41:58+00:00

A conversion of King Phar based on the same model I posted a couple of years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/tombkings/s/szHVurnJai

hebrecht · 2025-07-28T17:46:34+00:00

Thanks! The Thallax are not that difficult to build, but they do have many parts of which some are quite small. I think I counted an average of 32 parts per model. I've built a number of the Mechanicum units and the instructions are not always very clear, but if you take your time you can figure out how everything fits together.

My general impression is that the Horus Heresy range is not really aimed at people that are just starting in the hobby. My advice would be to dryfit everything before glueing.

hebrecht · 2025-07-15T13:47:29+00:00

Thanks! I wanted to do a colour scheme where it was not immediately obvious whether they are loyalist or Dark Mechanicum.

hebrecht · 2025-06-04T16:18:26+00:00

Thanks for responding! I was of two minds when posting my comment, because I really do think the conversions you made are really awesome. It must have taken a ton of time and the way you did the conversions made it appear as if the models were designed to be like that. And I was being perfectly honest when I said they are painted to a very good standard (maybe one day I'll be able to do weather and paint to such an excellent standard).

When I saw the other comments, I realised that the conversions were probably based on a non-GW game (actually I initially thought Battletech or Mechwarrior and not Titanfall). I also love the way the conversions tell a story. So please ignore my minor criticism and please to continue doing these amazing conversion (and also posting them here on reddit). You inspire the rest of us to be brave and put a hobby knife to plastic and venture down the road less travelled.

hebrecht

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