Monthly Vox: 8 (December, 2021)

Happy New Year everybody! Yes, I know it's another late vox and the site has been super quiet this month but the Holidays, combined with my acquisition of COVID-19 has made things a little shaky. I hope you all had a lovely New Years Eve and were not unfortunate enough to acquire Nurgle's Rot as I have. Do not fear, however! I am on the up and you are at no risk of catching the 'rona through this site. With that, let's get into what December brought...

Modelling and Painting

High Marshal Helbrecht

I was lucky enough to maintain the motivation to paint the high-marshal in all his glory over the course of a combined 24 hours or so. I think that comparing him next to his original finecast model not only shows how far miniature sculpting tech has come but also how much I've improved as a painter this year. My shoddy photography really doesn't do it justice.

The community seemed to like my rendition of this fella because when I put it out on some Black Templar facebook groups, alongside some closeups of his terribly-painted face (I'm still no good at those), he was quickly integrated into a meme by The Eternal ShitPoster. 

Invictor Tactical Warsuit 

Using some of the mangled Necrons from the Sgt Castus kit, along with the legs of a spare necron from Imperium Magazine, I was able to get the Invictor Warsuit I bought off a clubmate over a year ago paint-ready while giving it a bit more visual interest. 

Yes, there's an argument to be made that both necrons featured on the model would probably just phase-out but maybe they're giving it one last go. The cron being clutched and lifted into the air seems to be making a grab at the pilot and the one under the Warsuit's foot appears to be reaching for his Gauss Flayer. That is how I shall justify it so shhh.

Redemptor Dreadnought (Re-Paint)

I decided to touch-up Dreadnought Alfons to be more in-keeping with the rest of my army. This was simple enough and mostly involved painting over and re-doing highlights, as well as fixing any transit damage he may have accrued. Alfons was painted in the pre-varnish era of my hobby journey. Fool me once... I am yet to repaint the weapons but they'll do for now. 

Re-Paint Prep

This month was a real slow month in terms of new projects because I kept touching up old models and even re-primed a large amount of them as well as priming old kit-bashes and stuff to hopefully encourage me to paint them more because priming is boring as hell. I intend to have these guys looking a bit more in-keeping with the rest of my army and also paint them to a generally better standard. I intend to do this with almost all my models over the next couple of months as well as having a good sit-down and going crazy with transfers even though I normally hate using them. We shall see...

Knightfall Indomitus 2021/2022 Vow

I'm also participating in this year's Knightfall over on Bolter and Chainsword and have vowed to put paint on the following units for a total of 405pts:

• 1x Phobos Marshal (95)
• 1x Reiver Castellan (75)
• 1x Invictor Tactical Warsuit (Seen earlier, 160)
• 1x Eliminator Squad (75)

I always find myself neglecting my Phobos models a little so I plan on using this vow to get through a bit of the backlog I've built. Big thanks to TheOneTrueZon over on B&C for setting things up. 

Site Changes

There's been a few changes on the site this month. The head-canon intertwining my 40K armies, the 'Gannach Crusade',  has been heavily restructured and renamed 'Warzone: Gannach' to pull less focus away from my Black Templars and stay more in-keeping with the 40K setting. I'm still not 100% committed to the structuring and navigation system but Blogger's tools are fairly limiting when it comes to large database-esque wikis of custom-written lore. 

Another large change to the site has been the introduction of ads! No, I'm not selling out (much) but I figured if the site can at least pay for it's own domain name, I'd be chill with that. So if you see something you like, make sure to click it and I'll get some bounce-back. Cheers!

Closing Statement

So that's December! COVID and the holidays have kept me busy and I'm sure January will love to pile-on when Uni work starts to pick back up. Again, I hope you all had a lovely holiday. Thank you for the growth this page has seen. The stat's are surpassing my expectations and that brings me joy. 

Here's to 2022!

Cheers, 
Ryan