My goal for 2025 is make progress on (or, dare I say… finish) projects that I've started and stalled-out on these past few years. With that in mind, here's some Night Lords that I built last year which never saw any paint save for a base spray coat. I've easily got over a dozen 40k armies from the 90s/early 2000s era and it would be nice if some of that old metal could see the table sometime before the 2090s.



The internet tells me that Night Lords aren't Night Lords without their lightning details, so I've been figuring those out this past week too.



Rather than push on with these guys, I'd like to try something different this year and do small projects to try and avoid burnout. After these four I think I'll try and pump out a few Triumph! bases, then some more Night Lords, rinse and repeat.

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Ah, 2nd Edition 40K was my favorite and these minis take me back to that time - they look really nice Dave, great lightning bolts.

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those are great, classics!

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Thanks guys.

Four 40k Night Lords Aspiring Champions "done", Ah ah ah!. I have a few more things I need to get ready for priming, once that happens I'll paint their guns. And the bases… those are still a thought in process. Onto some light foot for my 15mm Khazar's.

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ahhh i want some!

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Do it! You don't need a whole lot of them for 2e, maybe 20ish? I've been running them in some 3e games these past few months, I need about 30 for that at 1k.

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yeah full on nostalgia mode at the moment … although on the cheaper side at the moment painting some primaris guys in 2dn edition style. We will see.

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Painting 15mm always seems to go quick, I finished these 15mm Slavic Light Foot for my Khazar army this week. I'd like to be able to double-dip with this army and play them as Tahirid too in Triumph! so they're be usable there too.





Hopefully I'll be able to top-coat these guys tomorrow along with a few more Epic formations, then get them based up for a game Saturday. After that I think I'll tackle another four Night Lords.

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I started my next batch of Night Lords last week, the basecoats are down and washed at this point. I'm hoping to finish them up by the end of the month but I may take a quick detour to finish some Khazar spearmen for a games day on the 22nd.

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great colour and highlights on those 15mm!

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Sometimes I wonder if you can just paint things flat, shine a bright light and take a photo so it looks like you did highlights

Thanks Apoc.

I won't tell if you don't, Lextar.

I finished these up two weeks back, took a picture and them prompty never posted it... These are the remaining eight spearmen for the 15mm Khazar. They won't be much use in the Khazar army, but I use them all in a Tahirid army which reverses the numbers of horse and foot units from Khazar. I'm all for double dipping figure usage, especially when it nets you a different playstyle.

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great shield colours

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Thanks Apoc.

I've been working on the Night Lords but took an evening this week to paint up my Khazar bolt thrower crew. They're conversions off of some Byzantine crew, I sculpted the headwear, added beards and lengthened the shirts into robes.

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We had our second annual Blood Bowl 7's games day today (the Glory Bowl) and I painted these guys up in secret for the big day. Melpomene's Glory took home the win on their debut, going 3-0 for the day. The masks are from the 40k Harlequin kit and took a bit of carving to look right on them.

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