The Everblight Vectorium

The plague spewer is done. It is an impressive model with a weapon I really love. It’s both cool looking, great in the rules and very fluffy so what is there not to love about it.

The backpack is so impressive looking that it was hard to paint it. Clean fresh surfaces with hardly any prefabricated imperfections. But Typhus corrosion is named that way for a reason. I swear by it <3

Since I have only tried my painting on small models I wanted to see how the same method would look like for bigger pieces and surfaces. With this test I know it will work for the smaller vehicles like the drones and the haulers. The bigger ones will still need another method because of the huge flat surfaces.

What do you think?

Every ship that sails the darkness between the stars carries its own history. A legacy of all the things it has experienced and accomplished. Whether you call this essence The machine spirit or the ship’s soul all these things are ingrained into the ship giving it its unique character.

This is the story of the battle cruiser Requiem Est and how far it has fallen. Born at the height of the Age of Apostasy it was christened Almirel’s Fury as it would carry the Fraternis Templars as they protected the Ecclesiarchy and its move back to the dusty halls on Terra.

Almirel was a rash and bloodthirsty captain that set out to make a fortune for himself as the conflict between the Ecclesiarchy and the Imperium grew. At the edges of the Obscurum Tempestus he raided worlds demanding tithes in the name of the church.

It all went well for quite a while before the Imperial fleet caught up with him and his crew. They where swiftly dealt with and sent to their deaths in the cold darkness of space. The ship then joined the fleet for many years living a rather quiet life with the coward captain Ardbus at its helm.

But the ship’s soul had been awakened so as the bloody conflict grew into the Reign of blood it again was brought into violent service as Ardbus was replaced with Imperial captain Jeramy Ghal that commandeered the ship to chase after the renegade war master Ulthrich that had been spreading fear and terror in the Agripinaa sector, close to the Eye of terror. In a brutal fleet battle the war master was finally slain but the ship had suffered heavy damage and was sent to the ship yards of Agripinaa where it again was left in a state of restless sleep.

For over three thousand years it would rest before dreams of glory again roused it from its heavy sleep. Abbadon launched his 11th crusade and Almirel’s fury was commandeered by the Ultramarine captain Corador to protect the Cadian gate. It was christened Voice of Agripinaa to protect the vessel as it traveled the treacherous space around the Eye of terror in service of the Emperor of mankind.

But the enemy never came and the Voice of Agripinaa’s mission changed yet again placing it on a patrol route to protect from incursions from the Eye of terror, the ever present threat to the imperium. For many years it would lead a rather singular life battling pirates and small war parties. But fate had other plans for her and as the civil war ravaged the world of Vrax in the Scarus sector it was again was called into service. The fleet battle over the planet had escalated with multiple marine chapters on either side fighting for control and the Voice of Agripinaa held its flank against the chaos.

It was here a small almost unnoticed cut would send its soul on yet another journey. As the war raged a small breacher squad from the Death guard chapter The Purge managed to board the ship. It was an almost indistinguishable hole in the hull and even if the intrusion was swiftly dealt with the slow, wilting strain of virus that took hold of the ship could not be battled. In the end Captain Corador ordered the navigator to set a course out of the system so that the plague would not spread to other ships.

They say that every ship that has succumbed to the dreaded diseases of Nurgle slowly will make its way towards the home of the plague lord himself, the Plague planet. Here they become plague hulks that are sent back out to spread the benediction of the All father.

The valiant sacrifice doomed the crew and the ship to slowly drift towards the Eye of terror and the Plague planet in a drawn out torturous death rattle. In time the battle cruiser left the warp a tainted husk of it former self and arrived at the shores of the cursed planet.

Here it was gifted to Death guard captain Kyrios with a specific mission to sneak into the Ultramar sector and lay in wait for further instructions. He gathered his men and christened the ship Requiem Est as a cruel twist on its former name. They set off just as the 13th black crusade launched making them a spearhead into what would be a glorious time for the dark Gods.

So a new chapter opened up for the ship now known as Requiem Est. A twisting journey that would take it to the heart of darkness through the treacherous murky warp.

Who knows what tales it will be a part of as the bell strikes the hour for the Imperium of man yet again.

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Every vectorium need a ship to execute their unholy mission. This is the ship my army will use to raid and ruin the paradise worlds of Ultramar.

The flail of corruption is a great close combat weapon, but more importantly it is the coolest weapon to look at and for me that is even more important than stats.

The second of five plague marines are done but they take forever to paint due to my rather exploratory way of painting them. Instead of painting the armour white and then use washes to dirty it down I use the washes first and then paint the white over the grime. This leave brush marks and paint streaks on the mini like a painting. Sadly the feeling of a painting rather than a smooth transition is somewhat lost as you take a photo of it.

Anyone interested in a more detailed look at the rather time consuming method?

I wanted to get my brushes wet again after a small hiatus so I asked a friend if he didn’t want to do a “tales of two gamers” kind of project with me? He had a Word bearer army that had been stuck in boxes for a long time so we set out to paint 1500p or chaos each.

Step one:
We both will build and paint a killteam for our respective armies and the deadline is 9th of March. So far I have primed my team and finished one of the plague marines.

“A whisper from the lips of Mortarion himself can ruin worlds. We are that whisper made flesh and our promise is the fall of your world.”

This was the first miniature i had painted since last summer so I felt rusty (See what I did there?). I had painted death guard before but I wanted to experiment with texture so I set off with washes to set the grime and then went back over the mini with Ceramite white that feels somewhat chalky to get that contrast between the white and the filth.

When you pick up the model and look at it it feels more like a painting where you see the paint and the brush strokes. When you take a picture of it that feeling doesn’t translate. This is true of many of the Blanchitsu themed painting styles.

I am a messy painter so these experiments suits me fine where I work with the paints without a clear image of what it will be. So now I’m stuck with a method of painting marines that takes roughly 2 hours each… Lucky me 🙂