+++ Blessid is the Omnissiah +++

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.”
I've been working on a Mechanicus Kill Team. Problem is, I don't find the Hunter Clade very inspiring. I know they're pretty good ruleswise, but I felt like I wanted something more - the Hunter Clade feels a bit like a "slightly better than human" team to me, and I wanted to convey the weirdness that is AdMech - big robots, strange combat-automatas, etc.


I know it's a bit of a stretch, but the closest thing I could find to what I wanted was actually Hive Fleet (Tyranids). They have big guys, smaller warriors and Synapse rules, which convey noosphere communication pretty well, IMO.
Without further ado - here they are:
Magos Rho Verulac, flanked by the two Confrontation-Class Combat Automatas, W4LL4C3 and 6R0M1T (Tyranid Warrior Leader, Warrior and Gunner) and 5 Electro-Gheists (Genestealers)


They were NOT a speed paint project like my Necrons, but I really like the result, and the muted red tones combined with the green glow.


Rho Verulac is based on Belisarius Cawl, mostly with parts removed from him (the original model is a mess, imo), the Automatas are Necromunda Enforcer Automatas, with shoulders removed, lots of reposing, and a new head from some Necron vehicle, and the Electro-Gheists are Nighthaunt bladegheists, with arms from ruststalkers, Puppetswar heads and Electropriests generator backpacks, wires and halos.

The whole Kill Team

Electro Gheists

Magos Rho Verulac and Confrontation-Class Combat Automatas

 I’ve done it! Painted a Kill Team in less than a week! That’s a first for me. 



I got really inspired by the Pariah Nexus animation on Warhammer+ and felt a sudden urge to make a Hierotek Circle Kill Team. I had 5 immortals lying about from an abandoned project a long time ago, and a royal warden plus various other bits from when the Indomitus box was the hottest new thing. I realised I only needed a cryptek to have a complete kill team, and an idea formed. 



I’m not too crazy about the crypteks, except for the psychomancer - that miniature is amazing. On the other hand I’ve been thinking about the Hexmark since he came out, and wondering what I could use it for. I had the Psychomancer lying around (used the body for another project), and I bought a Hexmark and set about making a “mini Illuminor Szeras”. 



The Deathmark needed to come out of a portal, courtesy of Pariah Nexus. That is just the coolest thing ever, and the ploy even lets me do it in the game. I sanded him flat on one side, mounted him on a thin piece of plasticard and tried my best to paint it like a portal. Originally I wanted it to be geometrical shapes, ala the animation, but I soon realised that there was no way I could paint neat geometrical shapes, with the Deathmark already glued to the portal. 



I hope you like it - 5 nights (about 3-4 hours a night) - that’s definitely speed-paint for me (I usually spend a month or two on a Kill Team) and I quite like the look and the “pop” of the green glow. They’re primarily contrast on leadbelcher, except for the green, which is layed and glazed greens. 


Inquisition Kill Team

 I'm almost done with my Inquisition Kill Team (modelling wise of course) - and of course the Kill Team design team had to go and throw a wrench in the wheel with their balance dataslate! 

It's all good, and maybe it was needed, but now I have to figure out if I replace the pistolier, give the servitor a heavy bolter or use a grenade launcher gunner Kasrkin. Decisions, decisions... 

Anyway, I've grown a bit tired of the same old black cardboard background I'm using, so this post was mainly an excuse to experiment a bit with a new backdrop. I think I like it, but I need to let it simmer for a while. 

I was really excited when news of a bespoke Inquisition team broke, but the excitement became kinda "meh..." when I saw the miniatures; for a Kill Team practically dripping in potential character, the miniatures are pretty boring. Oh well, luckily I love building stuff, so armed with a roster, I began dreaming up some characterful (IMO) models. 

The main part of the Kill Team: 

Servitor, Mystic, Interrogator, Death World Veteran, Pistolier, Questkeeper

(Kasrkin) Gunner, Vox-Trooper, Recon-Trooper, Medic, Sharpshooter

A reboot - of a sort.

Dear readers of this blog - it's time for a change. 

If you are a regular visitor, you'll know that I'm horrible at updating. Sometimes it's a few days between updates, sometimes it's a year. Such is life, when you are swamped with tiny humans craving attention, care and even food, and you are trying to fit some hobby-time into your life as well - then updating the blog is pretty far down the list. 

Another de-motivational factor is the lack of interaction as well. I recieve very few comments here, and 95% of them are useless spam. Therefore, I've decided to deactive comments - it's just useless clutter. 

Most of the interaction one gets these days, on hobby posts, are on social media. I've tried to hop on that bandwagon as well, as you can see here to the right (Facebook and Instagram). 

As such, the SoMe platforms are where we are doing our comments, interactions with questions, etc, but this blog will be kept alive as an online picture gallery for the projects (which is nice to have, since FB and Instagram both have pretty bad image compression, and we like our nice hi-res pictures.)

So - please stop by our FB page or my Instagram profile, and leave a comment or two - and have fun browsing this site. I've tried to give it a bit of a facelift as well, as I grew a bit tired of the very dark theme. 

On another note, the crew is changing a bit. Andreas, while still a member of this blog, hasn't been active for quite a few years, and I need a Bitter Old Painter Partner-In-Crime to keep me motivated, so some time ago I approached a good buddy of mine, and he agreed to join. It's been quite some time ago, but we're only now really starting to get this motor running, so it's time for a proper introduction of... 

DigitAllan! 

DigitAllan (or Allan, as I usually call him) is a great guy that I met a my workplace (a public school in Copenhagen) about ten years ago. It took a few years for us to realise that we're both miniature-geeks, but then our friendship took off. 3 years ago, Allan moved 300 km away, to a small town outside Aarhus, but if that #&€% Covid pandemic taught us anything, it is that social interaction can come in many forms. Thus, Allan, a few other cool dudes and myself regularly have Facetime painting sessions where we spar, critique and mostly goof around and joke with each other. It's a great way to keep motivation up, when sometimes it's so much easier to just get caught in some YouTube rabbithole. 

Anyway, Allan is the new Bitter Old Painter to join the blog. I hope you'll enjoy his contributions, he's a really good painter and a ditto modeller, and I look forward to seeing what he comes up with as well. He'll write a few words about himself shortly. 

So what's in the future for Bitter Old Painters? 

To be honest? We don't know. We'll try to make the updates happen somewhat regularly, but no promises made. This is a Hobby (with a capitol H) to both of us and motivation has a tendency to fluxuate. However, we are both very much enjoying GW's Kill Team 2021, and are playing lots of games, busy getting ideas for new teams and building and painting them - so expect a lot of 40k skirmish content in the future. Allan also has a weird infatuation with Blood Bowl (which he likes to play with his two boys), so we'll probably get some of that as well. 

As for Warcry, I still really like it and I WILL get around to painting my warbands one day, but for now we're so inspired by Kill Team that it takes up most of the hobby time. 

Remember - always follow inspiration. 

Best regards, and hoping to hear from you on FB or Instagram, 

GuitaRasmus. 

Blessid is the Omnissiah

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine."

I'm on a hefty Kill Team hobby-streak, and have been for the last year or so. I've actually done quite a bit of work on various teams, and I thought I'd finally get round to sharing it here. 

I've been working on a Mechanicus Kill Team. Problem is, I don't find the Hunter Clade very inspiring. I know they're pretty good ruleswise, but I felt like I wanted something more - the Hunter Clade feels a bit like a "slightly better than human" team to me, and I wanted to convey the weirdness that is AdMech - big robots, strange combat-automatas, etc. 

I know it's a bit of a stretch, but the closest thing I could find to what I wanted was actually Hive Fleet (Tyranids). They have big guys, smaller warriors and Synapse rules, which convey noosphere communication pretty well, IMO. 

Without further ado - here they are. They are still in progress, but the basic concept is pretty much locked down, and just need final detailing and greenstuffing. 

Magos Rho Verulac, flanked by the two Confrontation-Class Combat Automatas, L4Z4RU5 023 and 067

(Tyranid Warrior Leader, Tyranid Warrior with Deathspitter and Boneswords, and Tyranid Gunner with Venom Cannon and Boneswords). 

5 Electro-Gheists, experimental Automatons: 

(5 Genestealers)

Painted Kill Teams from the start of 2023

Death Guard Legionary Kill Team:  

White Templars Intercession Kill Team: 

Here come the Noise Marines...

 A small teaser of what I'm up to at the moment - the new Kill Team has spurred my imagination, and I figured it's time I tackle the concept of Noise Marines. 

More to come, and hopefully soon I'll get some pics of the Warcry war bands I've been working on up here.