Games Workshop Expansion Blackstone Fortress: Escalation (English)

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Some of them are packing serious firepower – literally in the case of the Cultist Firebrand – and all of them are ready to lay down their lives in service to the Dark Gods. Mallex is now inextricably linked to the Blackstone Fortress, and his connection grows with each passing moment.

Also, having just had a sneak peek at his rules, I can’t wait to see how he fares in my next game of Blackstone Fortress. Warhammer 40,000 datasheets, power ratings and matched play points values for the all of the models are included. I’ll do all the bases together for this project, so once I complete the last two models you’ll see them all together, fully based. The fire is the centrepiece of the model, and Contrast paint makes getting the change in colour so much easier than before.I’m really enjoying the Contrast paints at the moment, so I mainly used the Contrast Method, augmented with some metallics.

To those he assists, he is a light in the darkness, so I made sure there were some light sources glowing on him as well. I wanted to communicate her past successes as a Rogue Trader, so almost everything about her is golden – even her Servo-skulls! Moving away from my comfort zone toward slightly more advanced techniques, I adapted the painting tutorials on Warhammer TV from blue to green for the Blackstone effect on the base and the glow on his Eradication Pistol. Since these represent 8 of the 13 models in the set, I have gone from ‘hardly started’ to ‘almost finished’ in one go!

I knew it was inevitable that I’d pick up a copy of Blackstone Fortress: Escalation to add to my backlog, so I jumped at the chance to paint one of the new miniatures to a real deadline that I couldn’t miss! These new explorers offer additional opportunities to work together and enhance the entire team, including the original adventurers.

In fact, I painted pretty much the entire model using Contrast paints – the only exceptions were the metallic parts, which I basecoated with Black Templar before drybrushing with Retributor Armour (on her staff) and Stormhost Silver on her psychic harness.Her design is so wonderfully unique, even in the creative phantasmagoria of the Blackstone Fortress. I decided to invent my own forge world and went for a mixed Mars/Ryza parentage in the colour scheme – choosing to do it quartered proved quite the challenge. His mind twists with visions of the past, present and future, and his own senses have become intertwined with the station itself. I used the same paints as for the flesh of the servitor, but this time around the green base didn’t wash out but stayed very strongly in the mix. For the armour, I didn’t want something shiny and immaculate, but something more seasoned and raw to represent the years spent around the galaxy that finally brought Gotfret de Montbard to the Blackstone Fortress.