I haven't been up to anything terribly interesting in terms of painting lately, which explains the lack of posts. Mostly I've been working on finishing the basing on the genestealers, which is ridiculously intricate and time consuming. I've got it down to the last 3 stealers requiring skin and claws to be painted, and a couple of helmets and skulls on a couple of bases. Those things do a good job of sapping my motivation, though, so I've also been doing some assembly. I did up another hormagaunt with tail, though this time by merging him with most of a ripper at the hips. It turned out alright, and I'll be using it, but I don't think I'll do more than one or two more similarly. It was really easy to do, but the rippers tail comes out looking a little short.

Other than that I also got my hands on a warrior box and started working on them. The next few posts will be pics of various warrior related things. For starters, here's he second assembled one. The legs have been re-posed so that he's stepping up, the tail was bent into a shape that's not the stock straight, and the arms are of course converted. I found the warrior scything talons to be a bit large for the second pair of arms, so I used hormagaunt talons instead. I'll post a closeup of the lash whip and bonesword with more detail on those.

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