Ta and ta!
IMAGE DUMP!
The colours aren't really accurate, but I dug out the airbrush and had a go at doing the green parts of the Plague Tower (tracks removed for painting) and the Titan:
I also did some 'sketching' for the Dystopian Wars-based Plague Tower, this will also have crenelations around the decking area to match the existing one:
While raiding the bits box I remembered this Dreadnought front panel that I'd set aside as being perfect for a pulpit, this is just a bulking exercise at the moment, it will end up on top of a proper tower. I'm not sure whether to use the old Palanquin banner or to make one that looks more in scale.
This will normally get used as a standard Plague Tower, but for custom scenarios I'm thinking along these lines:
BEHEMOTH OF NURGLEWE Move 15cm Armour 4+ CC5+ FF4+
2 x Desecrator Cannon 45cm AP4+/AT6+/AA5+, F Arc
2 x Desecrator Cannon 45cm AP4+/AT6+/AA5+, R Arc
Twin Plague Mortars 60cm 6 +2d3BP, Disrupt, FxF Arc
Pestilence Battery (15cm), (Small Arms), EA+2, FxL Arc
Pestilence Battery (15cm), (Small Arms), EA+2, FxR Arc
DC9, Invulnerable Save, Reinforced Armour, Void Shields (2), Inspiring, Fearless, Transport (24).
Can transport Infantry, GUOs and Dreadnoughts. Dreadnoughts and Daemon Princes take up two spaces, GUOs take up four spaces.
Critical Hit Effect: lose an additional DC, d3 transported units of the owner's choice are destroyed with no save.
I also got a load of bases painted up:
Then I started on the Blight Drones at last. The difference a good wash can make:
And done. I'm not 100% happy with the colour scheme, and if I were doing them again I'd match the colours of the carapaces and ducted fans more closely. But they'll do.
On Tuesday I've got a test game with the NetEA DG 0.3.1 list and am trying out some of the new units and formations. I've added 'Death Guard Assault Dreadnoughts' to the army, with Alchemical Launchers and an extra FF dice, so decided I needed something that will look different to any 'normal' Dreads I might take. 'Space Crusade'-style Chaos Dreads with a weapon swap:
The 0.3.1 DG army also has formations of six Vindicators and I only have four assembled, so two more were required. Unlike the previous ones with RTB01 Combat Accessories on the front, I managed to get hold of some metal dozer blades for these:
Given the small contact points between the Rhino front and the dozer blade, the blades are actually sitting on some plasticard spacers that I glued to the base: