A New Challenge Awaits

Since I can’t seem to keep my paintbrush down for more than five minutes I’m moving on to my next challenge

Some of you will have already read that I’m taking part in the Independent Characters Hobby Challenge, but just painting a unit a month doesn’t seem to be much of a challenge so I’ve thrown my own extra restriction into the mix.

I wanted to start a new army but I wanted to do it on a budget so I decided to limit myself to £50 for the whole force. I may add something extra in the future but for now I want to pick up the basics, and if I really need to add something I can do that once I’ve painted the rest.

So where do you go for cheap models?

eBay of course!

I decided to not count the postage in my £50, but it really wasn’t much of a factor. I bought a few bundles here and there and came up with a nice little force for my Flesh Eaters.

Here is what I managed to get for my £50

eBay Stuff:

5 Flamers
4 Missile Launchers
40 Tactical Marines
10 Terminators
5 Vanguard Vets
1 Multimelta
2 Lascannon
1 Plasma Cannon
4 Heavy Bolter
1 Chaplin Jump Pack
26 Assault Marines with Jump Packs
1 Corbulo
1 Terminator Chaplin

Not a bad haul in the end, and I look forward to painting them up as the brutal Flesh Eaters.

I will keep you informed on how I get on.

Mighty Cthulhu Ends the Challenge

Here we have Mighty Cthulhu, the final model of my Clean Slate Challenge.

I made him from an old metal Blood Thirster model, some green stuff, and Chaos Spawn parts. I sprayed him with daemonic Yellow Army Painter spray and then gave him two green washes and a black wash, picked out bone bits with Bleached Bone with a brown wash, and the metal was Lead Belcher with a black wash. I tried to make it look like his eyes were glowing with some tentacle pink, but not sure how well that worked.

It feels great to have finally come to the end of this Clean Slate challenge, and I can’t wait to show you some new projects.

Thanks for all the support, and see you soon for my next challenge.