Hi all-This is my first post on here. So hoping to pop my Dakka cherry the right way I thought I might start a Project log- in hope that I might get more motivation to do the rest of what needs to be done and get some new ideas.
Any way- Being both a fantasy and a 40K player it saddens me a bit that there is’t really a 40k Beastmen type army. I mean there is- but usually it’s just a spin-off single unit or so for the IG or Chaos Space marines. There is very little background on them as well, even when you compare them to the Squats (man I miss them)
Having a bit of time on my hands lately, I’ve decided to do a whole army of 40k beastmen- ARMY OF THE METAL BEASTS
I’m going to be using the space wolves codex for this because I think in the 40k universe they are kind of the closest thing- tactic and feel of the army-
Ambush rules- behind enemy lines of the scouts-
Gifts-sagas
Counter attack- primal fury (I guess)

And somehow Space wolves units kind of fits whith the beastmen units too-
Gors- grey hunters/ blood claws
Bestigors- Wolf guards
Minotaurs- those wolf riders thing
Harpies- jump pack
Centigors- blood claw bikes
Shaman- wolf priest
Gorgons- dreadnaughts
dogs are dogs etc.

The only thing that not really in line with the fantasy beastmen is the They shall know no fear rules- cuz boy, do they run. Oh well, they evolved a higher Leadership I guess.
I decided to start this army diary in hope to inspire other beast lords out there to venture out into the dark reaches of space too (that, and I need more ideas on what else to do).
Bestigors (wolf guards) With power fist and bolt pistols









I’ve spent many hours on the internet and Ebay just looking for these legs. They are perfect I think. The power fist are from lightning claws- I just cut off the claws and cut grooves into the knuckle bit so it looks like knuckle dusters. By the way the reason a lot of the parts is in different color is because it’s from my bit box and other models that I have and hacked up.
Gors (grey hunters)







Special weapon(melta guns)/power weapons





By the way the shoulder pads are from the Space marine commander box. I scour the internet looking for these but could find any or if I did, it was at an extortionate price. So I’ve was a bit naughty and made copies of one of them using instant mould.



Beast Lord on razorgor (wolf lord on wolf thing)









I haven’t done the head properly to the mount yet or neaten up the green stuff yet. But will put them up when it’s done. The front legs of the mount came from a random toy I got from Daiso (it’s the 60 baht shop here in Thailand (the equivalent of the dollar store in the US or Pound land in the UK.))( I miss pound land living here in Thailand).

Ungors (wolf scouts + special weapons)







For the normal ungors, I still don’t know what to do with the back. It’s a bit scrawny right now・
Also I have no idea on what to do or use for Rhinos, razor backs, and drop pods if anyone have any Ideas please help me- it will be very much appreciated.

Sacrificing two or three Space beastmen for the greater good I’ve finally found and settled on a color scheme I liked.

Troops- Grey hunters (Gor Hunters unit)











There will be three units of grey hunters-2 unit will have a razor back and one in a drop pod (still have no idea what to do for a razor back or the drop pod- so if anyone have any suggestions I will really appreciate it)

Any hoo these are the grey hunters with melta guns-





Grey hunters with power weapons-





Painted Wolf guards (Bestigors)-











With a lot of bits and green stuff sculpting- I give you minotaurs!!!! (thunder wolf calvary)





















Finally the leader of my whole rag tag iron beast- Beast lord on a wolf thing ( Wolf lord on wolf thing..)












As I said I have no idea what to do about vehicle so if any of yall have any idea or suggestion- it would be most appreciated and also critics on the paint job or modeling in general are all welcome and is appreciated as well.

That's all for now will update on any further progress as soon as I can

These look brilliant I'm hugely impressed by the Juggernaught/Minotaur things. The conversions look interesting. Have you seen the Space Goats on Bell of Lost Souls by the way. I will admit though to thinking that the Ork list would fit Beastmen better than Space Wolves though.

Damn they are amazing Nice work

Love the conversions. The stealth suit lower legs on the Gors is inspired. Again, these are definitely worth the exalt!

Really amazing conversions, and i love the paintjob!

They are looking very nice, keep up the great work.

Very Very Very cool . . .

I like how you have them all with horns and hooves. love the paint job great army plan, and super great conversions.

Some suggestions . . .

If you are still painting the units, you should make the Scouts more Camo like so they will look different than your Elite and other Troop choices.

For the blood splatter you might think about a gloss or median to make it shine. From your basing it looks like you might have an air brush, maybe you can airbrush the Power Swords. There are tutorials on YouTube but if you don’t have one, maybe wet blending. Maybe a red, yellow, black or something would work.

You can soak the models used for paint testing in Simple Green and scrub them to make them ready new again.

Ideas:

I know it is kind of Fluffy or Cheesy, but since your army is all goat-like you can make the vehicles the same. Tanks would be hard to do. You could try to use dwarf vehicles, ork bits, and stone plates on a Space marine Rhino. The size and wholes would be the same, so you could change out weapon options from Rhino, to Razorback, to Predator. . . with all the options.
Orks use scrap medal, Salamanders use scales, maybe you could try stone slabs.

As for a Drop Pod, I was thinking like a meteor pod. Tyrinids use a pod like a bug, or plant. Think back to the video games; Ork Supplies came down in meteor like balls of medal.

Your Drop Pod could be like this ball of medal. Instead of strait scrap medal, you could make it look like the head of a Rahm (like battering Rams). The neck could be made into a turbine or jet or helicopter, and you can put other bits around it so it looks more like a the Lunar module that NASA uses. Or you could make it like a full body of a Bison, that is the shape of a drop pod already. Once landed it could open up like a Pocy Ball, or a hot dog. The base could be a Crater and the seating and weapons could be the same as regular drop pod with the weapon on top of the circle.

Oh, man, I had it in my head, and after looking online for like 3 hours to spell it out I found it. . . It is not a model but it is exactly what I had in mind.

What do you think?

http://www.hamillgallery.com/BAULE/BauleRamMasks/BauleRamMasks.html

If you are talented with scrap building you can make it happen. Lot to take in Advice but couldn't stop thinking.

Holy ! These are fantastic!

Woah! Great proof of concept stuff, you really proper followed through with this.

Nifty! Very, very nice stuff!

Valete,

JohnS

I love these, almost tempted to make one or two myself - those are some sort of Tau legs? I also love the colours, chipped yellow is my current obsession, it looks really cool. I think the feet look a bit small on the robo-minotaurs but I love that concept so much it doesn't bother me. You could add some gloss to the blood though, that would make it look fresh and wet rather than dried.

For vehicles I would be tempted to use giant cyborg beasts, maybe the Ogre Stonehorn could be armoured up and given a few guns to count as a razorback, with beastmen hanging from it's flanks. No idea for a drop pod.

Short progress report- Continuing with the project very slowly at this point because I ran out of parts...ordered more, but the curse of living in Thailand and ordering stuff off ebay is that it takes AGES for anything to come even with fed ex and all that. It's torture because you got the time urge and Idea but have to wait for the bits to come.... Bits -the opium of the miniature masses.

Any ways -so I did what I could with what I had on hand while I wait.

More rocks for the base


Long horns heard leader (Long fang squad leader)











Don't ask me why but I'm stupidly proud of these little dudes-
Servo skulls



Together you get





















War gor or shaman (I guess)-(Wolf priest/chapin)



Look they're actually real shoulder pads!!!!















That's it for now...hope the bits come soon.... As I said bits are definitely the opium of the miniature masses....I think I'm currently suffering from withdraws...

Great idea and great execution on the conversions.

My only little nitpick is that the legs and especially the hooves for your minotaurs look way too small to support those monsters.

I don't know you, but I love you - thank you for your concept and execution.

Thanks every body for the comments much appreciated.

Adrian Fue Fue- thank you for all the suggestions- Sadly I don’t have an air brush to do the great effect that it can do… want one tho…
I have how ever took you up on your Idea of making the blood more shiny by using tamiya clear red in some of the blood bits. Looks a lot more gorier now
The scout I’m still playing around with- but I scrapped that original version I put up earlier because they looked way too scrawny, but I do like the camo idea and probably will do that kind of thing.

Bruticus- I was thinking of doing the ogre thing as well at first but the size of the stonehorn is too big (in reality rhinos should be at least that size to fit 10 space marines in…) I like the cyborgy beast Idea… my lord is riding one so it might fit into the army- thanks
ps
those are Tau stealth suite legs

Amazing project! they are perfect!

You are doing very cool things here.I was a bit worried when everything was sprayed weird orange, but the final paint scheme is superb. Nice work!

I am blown away....
This is one of the coolest idea/ concepts and follow throughs that I have seen on here in a long time.

Definitely subscribed.

Dude, awesome job there. This is probably the freshest idea I have seen in a long time. I think space wolves are a good fit given the ferocious nature of beast men. I can’t wait to see what you come up with next. Really really awesome stuff there

Awwww tau legs! I was wondering about those. Good find buddy, never realised how much they looked like hooves with a loincloth.
Also really digging the paintjob

Amazing, love the paint job. Did you use weathering powders on these to get that effect on the armour?

Doombiscuit wrote:Amazing, love the paint job. Did you use weathering powders on these to get that effect on the armour?

under coated black-
the yellow bits- GW Iyanden darksun base- gryphonne sepia wash all over the yellow.
Then Iyanden darksun is reapplied on -the leaving where shadows should be, round some of the edges, and bits around where you want the chips to be.
It is then highlighted with Bleached bone. I also put random blobs of bleached bone around the armor then paint scorched brown within the blobs to create a chipped armor effect.
some of the chipped bit- if you want it a bit darker- just mix the scorched brown and chaos black together then paint it on.

the black bits- start with fortress grey (GW) then shade it to black as you go down each of the armor parts (light on top black on bottom). then just paint chips on it with any silver.

After every thing is done including skin, horns, guns, etc.- I spray them with any shiny clear gloss spray, wait for that to dry, then lightly spray them with flat clear spray (flat over coat). This gives the model a sort of egg shell finish. Also it brings out a lot of the shading and add a bit more detail I think.

By the way- I am running out of GW paint that I mentioned(Iyanden darksun, gryphonne sepia,scorched brown, fortress grey) so need to order some more. With their new paint range that out- I have no idea what the new names of these paints are. If anyone at all can tell me the new names for these paint or the equivalent ofthem- it will be VERY VERY much appreciated.

Great stuff, might have to do something similar with my Beastmen horde sitting on my shelf lol. I don't play fantasy anymore and all those beasts are crying for love.

Very inspiring!

So full of awesome it hurts. One of the better SM converts I've ever seen. Subbed for sure.

Cant wait to see what you do for tanks and whatnot.

Great army mate! But I'm puzzled by 1 thing - you've put so much effort in their gear but still you use the unchanged SM backpacks... that just doesn't seem right. At least some beast-themed decoration would be a great addition imo.

Fantastic work. Love them all!

More more more more! Really go full Apocalypse scale with this warband!

What are you planning to use for Terminators? Or Scouts?

This is the best blog i've seen since Roleplayer's amazingly well painted Blood Ravens. This. As a Beastman player makes me giddy all over. The Tau legs work perfectly the adaptation of the Space Wolf dex is also a awesome idea. And those cyber-minotaurs. Damn. Your an extremely talented sculptor and I love how all of their gear and armor is weathered to all hell.

Hmm, I see the Wolf Guard (those are normally Terminators right?) are already done. Hmm, you still need Terminator sized fellows I think!

I think a combination of those Tau stealthsuit legs, Chaos Terminator torsos, Ork arms and some other bits could make them look very intimidating. Maybe give them wires coming out of the back of their heads, kind of like the Butcher's Nails used by the World Eaters.

You would need larger shoulderpads, those could be Terminator shoulderpads, or since I've already suggested Ork bits, make them out of the Ork armour plating. I tried something similar in the past (never finished it), which can look quite intimidating: pic 1, pic 2 and pic 3


As for scouts, they are also too cool not to include. You could use scout torsos, Ungor heads and Tau firewarrior legs perhaps?


By the way, something on the side, perhaps it would be a nice touch to add (chain-)bayonets to the (existing) bolters, it will give them that extra savage touch!

I love this!

Something wicked this way drops!
Finally some stuff came!!! So it’s update time on the metal herd… As I mentioned- I’m having a hard time coming up with something for a drop pod, and since a drop pod had arrived in the mail a couple of days ago- I decided to face it head on.

Essentially –gaming wise- it is a large model that comes on to the table and sits in that spot for the remainder of the game. In my army list that I use, I only have the one with a deathwind missile upgrade. So looking in the beastmen army book, the only thing that kind of matches this (one big thing that sits on the table and not move anywhere) is the SHARD OF THE HERDS TONE (50pts ENCHANTED ITEM ).

This is my herd stone I made ages ago for my beastmen-





So I want something these lines, but metal and techy. I figure the beastmen army uses these pod things to not only drop troops into the fight- but it also serves as a Marker type thing that tells other races that they where/are there –marking their territories.

First I chopped up the drop pod kit and put the thing together as much as I can ( I glue 3 out of the 5 fins bit so it will be easier to paint and mod the inner bits).



As I said I want this to be a 40k version of the herdstone so I sculpted some effigy of beastmen heads and maid copies of it.







Usually on the herdstone it will have spears or spiky bits so on the bottom bit I did that too then stuck it all on.





This will be for the doors- a symbol for beastus-mechanicus if you would



After undercoating the whole thing white, I painted the inner bits silver and carefully paint on army painter quick shade strong tone only on the silver bits. Personally I really like the effect that it has on metallic paints. (for some reason a lot of painters oppose the quick shade dip, but I think it’s just another tool/technique one can use to create an effect)….







For some reason a lot of painters oppose the quick shade dip, but I think it’s just another tool/technique one can use to create an effect. Just be careful of “pooling”...

Now to the equipment. This drop pod is supposed to be kind of a shrine, so having a bulky missile launcher in there as a center piece- I don’t think will look that good.
So I came up with this cute little dude….






Who’s a cute baby gor? Who’s a cutie? Who’s a Cutie? You are… you are!... Who want’s to kill every thing? you do… You do….











In my head-this little psycher guy can be used to first pilot the drop pod down, and then uses psychic shooting powers- like a zoanothrope would use a warp blast- to kill stuff…. Ok- it only goes 12 inches and does not have any AP- but he IS just a likkle baby go…. if he can survive a battle, brakes out of the tank and some how makes his way back to the herd- then he will become part of the beast army.... Sparta agoge type thing...







if he can survive a battle, brakes out of the tank and somehow makes his way back to the herd- then he will become part of the beast army.... Spartan agoge type thing...

So as a whole drop pod we get-






















That’s it for now I think….

ps
Malika2 - I will eventually be doing an apocalypse size army… while waiting for parts to come, I kind of started a frame work for a warhound titan (I dubbed it the “Cy-ber-gor” project… we’ll see how it goes).
As for terminators- I will eventually get around to doing them-just for the completion of the army…. The thing is I have a couple army list already that I’ve been using and really like the feel of them- and none of them does not include any terminators (wolf guards are there just not in terminator armor… Personally I don’t really like using terminators at all. They are way too expensive, cumbersome, and does not really go with my style of playing…. Or maybe I just don’t know how to use them properly…. So yes I will do them but they are not really a priority….
As for scout- I’m doing them now as we speak so it hopefully be finished and up here within a weak if work and life in general allows me to…. Here’s hoping.

Very well done man! Will there be more drop pods in this army?

As for the Terminators, I think they would be an interesting modelling project, maybe not for gaming though. However, if you find them too slow, how about teleporter homers or a Land Raider (oh come on...you know you want to!). Or even crazier, Forgeworld will be releasing a Lander Raider Spartan soon...

This whole army is unspeakably cool.

Malika2 wrote:Very well done man! Will there be more drop pods in this army?

still messing around with different space wolves army list. But, I have two main army list that I love using (both 1750pts). The one I prefer and use most of the time has only one drop pod in it, and the other one that I like as well, but don't use as often as I should- has NINE drop pods.... so more to come i guess....

Color me impressed. Probably one of the most creative projects I have seen.

WOW this is some of the best 40k beastmen i've seen, and i love the color choices im subbed!

Extreme cool Beast-Men! I miss the times, when Beast-Men were normal at 40k and the Demon World army list. Really great stuff! Like it!

I usually try to avoid otherwise content-free gushing, but...

AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME!

Outstanding job over all, I'll keep both eyes open for more updates!

This is some pretty inspired stuff. I'm always a fan of seeing conversions. I feel like as a nod to your fantastic army, I need to add a trophy beastman skull to one of the Marines in my latest conversion project. And I'll make sure to give this thread a plug if I do, lol.

Impressive work man. Bravo.

I honestly was just expecting some half-completed plasticard kit bashes with no skill, but boy I was wrong. Excellent idea and execution! the weathering achieved was superb.

This is the best 40k beastmen army I've ever seen.

Mayajid, your imagination and skills deserve a special mention. Your conversions are clever and the execution is perfect. If I had more time I'd steal your idea and build the same army.
Moreover, you make my own beastmen look lame...Man, I'm jealous!

I'll keep an eye on this thread.

Nice work dude! Following intently =)

There are a couple Beastmen counts as (insert the whatever else they are here) I've found on Dakka, this is by far the best. It's obvious that you put a lot of thought into it before starting, and the execution so far is excellent. I really have to do this some day.

Subbed and will be back for more.

Just a very small update-
So swamped with work lately but finally found time to sit down to get more beastmen space ready…ish

In my main army that I use I have two units of Wolf scouts (ungors), and at first- as some of yall may have seen on this blog I used the tau fire warrior body and leg, imperial guards arms, with the ungor head. To me- they looked way too scrawny to be an “elite” unit. So I ripped them apart, salvage any thing I can and came up with this-

Ungors-











This is the basic colors I’m going for- I tried to do camo- green tone, black and grey tone, and yellow tone. But it didn’t have the same feel and tone as the rest of the army so- I just kept it more or less the same but with more yellow.



-Scouts (ungors)-To be continued……-

From light ungor scouts- to heavy armored, big guns wielding gors- The Long horn unit.

I wanted a Iron man warmachine like look to them so I started off with sculpting a helment that the long horns (long fangs) can ware.









In the main army I use two units all with missile launchers(typical I know… I’m a slave to trends I guess), but just incase I want to put another one in, I decided to do 3 units (what’s another 5 right).
So because I’m going to have 15 of them I just made copies of the first one. Along with the horns…



Sooo much fire power for just 15 gors……







Then I re-read the codex then realized that they have to replace their bolt pistols for missile launcher so I cant really do the under-arm gun thing like the one that warmachine have. So instead I armed them with more missile launcher on their legs…. Why not?







-Long Fangs(Long horns) To be continued……-

Right- small, medium… now let’s go large!!!!!!
Doom bull in Terminator armor (Dreadnaught/ Venerable Dreadnaught/ Bjorn the fell-handed)









The body is an upside down forgeworld khorne blood slaughterer body I took out of my chaos space marine army… It was only partly painted with a wash- that’s why it’s partly red...Out of all the models I hacked up- it pains me most to hack up that one… the top bit of the legs are razor back lascannons and the bottom bit where inspired by this gundam dude -http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MS-09F/Gb_Dom_Gross_Beil
STOMPY LEGS!!!!!
I have ordered the contemptor pattern close combat arm , and contemptor pattern plasma cannon arm for the dude….sadly still in the mail.
All the green stuff stuff still needs A LOT of cleaning and neatening-up work but I’ll wait till the arms gets here.
This also- To be continued-
Ps

Veteran Sergeant wrote:This is some pretty inspired stuff. I'm always a fan of seeing conversions. I feel like as a nod to your fantastic army, I need to add a trophy beastman skull to one of the Marines in my latest conversion project. And I'll make sure to give this thread a plug if I do, lol.

Impressive work man. Bravo.

-That would be awesome on so many levels, and I would be honored if you do that sir.

I've kinda been surfing around Dakka Dakka for the past few weeks just looking through the general awesomness of the plogs but yours has just won the internet. Totally amazeballs!

So massively inspired! I love the psychic baby-beast thing. And the minotaurs. The whole project is gold! What material did you use to create the green-stuff mould?

WOW Doombull looks amazing!

amazing!! What a great concept. Keep up the good work

Scouts are finally Done!!!!















I haven't made any progress worth writing about for the long fangs or the dreadnaught, new things came in the mail and I placed them on the back burner while I play around with my new toys….

Beastmen are known (amongst other things) for their use of chariots, so I figured I wanted to do some sort of huge chariot pulled by two mech/cyber razorgors like the one the beast lord is riding.
Razorgor chariot (Rhino)














The legs are from these dudes I got from daiso (pound store, or dollar shop)-



















That’s how we roll!!!





















Size-wise it’s just alittle bigger than a real rhino… It’s ok I think because It’s just like a chaos rhino with all the spikey bits on it I guess….







And finally I give you- Morghur the master of servo skulls… (Iron priest)







HE’S STILL ALIVE!!!!










Minotaur servo skulls – servitors













Ps
Kavish- the mould I use is mould-able eraser. Basically it’s that insta mould stuff-http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/instant-mold.html - but cheaper….

I have never liked beastmen 40k conversions, but your stuff is amazing, i love them. the drop pod is superb as well as the rhino conversion. the iron priest is another fine mini love him aswell. well done sir, keep up the good work.

Very very cool stuff. The rhinos are inspired.

Wow... Just wow... Those conversions continue to amaze! Love the "counts as" Rhino.

Valete,

JohnS

thats one sweet ride for your guys iron priest looks like something out of a horror movie. great work

chariots are awsome, and animal skull servos are cool!

I've been playing with 6th edition for a week or so now and with 6th you get acess to a fortification as well as 1 hq, 2 troops, 1 elites, 1 fast, and or 1heavy from allying armies. (if you use allies- you must have 1 HQ and 1 troop from that army before you use any of the other stuff. I used a platoon of 50 IGs and a unit of 10 rough riders in one of the games and it works pretty well.
So now I'm thinking of doing beastmen version of every thing. Primarily things I want to use along side this beastmen (spacewolves) army are-

Storm talon
Storm ravens
rough riders
Imperial Guardsmen
Leman russ punisher
fortress of redemption

(not all in the same game)

thing is I'm kinda tapped out on ideas for the time being- so I figure I'll throw this out into the dakka dakka collective idea community- hoping someone can help. so please let me know if any one have any ideas on what I can do to turn those models into a beastmen theme kind of thing.... Thank you all ahead of time-anything and everything will be more than appriciated.

Awesome! Absolutely awesome.

One thing. For your gore on the smashed termie, you need to get a hold of some Tamiya clear red. Get a pot asap. I promise you will not be disappointed.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?autocom=ineo&showarticle=298

http://theleadwillwalktheearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/tamiya-clear-red-x-27-bloody-marvelous.html

Rabid ferret- thanks for that the effect looks awsome... I'll get on it now actually. thanks again
.

I really am impressed with how well you've managed to create a 40k model around the Morghor archetype. He recognisably looks like morghur but fit's your theme brilliantly. Any plans for doing this with more characters?

Holy crap! Now you need to add some bikes and attack bikes based on those riding creatures!

WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! I finally finished my doombull in terminator armor!!! ((venerable)dreadnaught/ Bjorn the fell-handed)

















RRRAAAAAWW, Stomp, Crush, pew, pew!!!!!!!!!!



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Llamahead wrote:I really am impressed with how well you've managed to create a 40k model around the Morghor archetype. He recognisably looks like morghur but fit's your theme brilliantly. Any plans for doing this with more characters?

yes, I am thinking of doing all of them actually... it's just trying to work it into the theme some how... It'll be easier I guess now with the allying rule in 6th ed I guess.

Absolutely marvellous! That doombull just oozes of power.

This army and the 40k Lizardman army someone else did need to go head to head!!!

Great job!

doombull = aawsome! nice job

Ungor guardsmen?

By the powers of greyskull-




- I have the power!!!!!!!!!!!!

That... Is a lot of green stuff.... Its almost beutiful

That Doombull: words fail me....amazing work, I've put a hat on just so I can take it off to you and your skills

Teaglowmo wrote:That... Is a lot of green stuff.... Its almost beutiful

6- 36 inches strips, and large tube buddy ..... brings tears to my eyes.

Long Horns finally locked and loaded…



















FFFFFFEEEEWWWWW……. BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Words fail me :O. This is litterly the best army of any kind ive seen in a long time it has even inspired me to take up 40k and take a break from fantasy you sir are awesome and you should feel awesome.

I only found this by accident via a google search and thats the BEST 40k Army I have ever seen!

I always wanted to do a simliar thing with the Beastmen, but never had the time and money to actually do it. So thanks for realizing this awesomeness.

I wanted to keep it a little cheaper, so I thought about using the Space Marine Codex with lots of Scouts (so i could use the beastmen legs) and give them a Mercenary theme without chaos, so more like the Imperial Beastmen, but as a mercenary company/clan. But the Space Wolfs and chaos fit perfectly too.

And again chapeau for doing this, your the MAN! Keep it up!

Some very cool stuff going on here. I love your battle damage and weathering!

What's your fluff for these guys (apologies if you already said and I missed it...) they look like Tau auxillia, is that the route you're going? (if so, that's coool as hell)

those are awesome thats all I can say

wndl wrote:I only found this by accident via a google search and thats the BEST 40k Army I have ever seen!

I always wanted to do a simliar thing with the Beastmen, but never had the time and money to actually do it. So thanks for realizing this awesomeness.

I wanted to keep it a little cheaper, so I thought about using the Space Marine Codex with lots of Scouts (so i could use the beastmen legs) and give them a Mercenary theme without chaos, so more like the Imperial Beastmen, but as a mercenary company/clan. But the Space Wolfs and chaos fit perfectly too.

And again chapeau for doing this, your the MAN! Keep it up!

That's amazing dude!!!!! that's exactly what I always thought they are from the start of making this army- mercenaries. great minds think alike I guess....lol ....

This army is just brilliant! God I wish I had this it just oozes pure awesomeness! Perfect conversions, models that are so epic words just can't describe... as for your Morghur conversion, just top-notch mate, top-notch! Count me subbed, can't wait for some more.

Fluff-wise to this army, I think it can be summed up by this poster-

mayajid wrote:

Awesome poster! A little fluff goes a long way in pulling an army together

I've always liked the concept of a mercenary army, but could never figure out how to get the "mismatched" feel of merc without using WHFB stuff.

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

This is one of the coolest things that I have ever seen.

This is one of the most amazing things I have seen! I'm loving it. Keep it up, you've got us all wanting more!

Love the metal beasts. A great idea and well painted. So many horns.

Awesome job, and kudos on the commitment to your project!

Need for speed?

For one of my army list I needed 2 land speeders. I sort of want to keep them in the theme of “chariot like” vehicle because of the beastmen army base. So, thinking about one or two thing pulling something else- the first thing that comes to mind for me is star wars episode one pod racer. I also lie the Tsmeu-6 personal wheel bike that General grievous pimps around in, in episode 3, so I decided to combine the two designs.

I found this remote control car for 200 baht (4-ish pounds or 6-ish us dollars) in the street so I got it and ripped off the wheels.



Then started to kit bash….






















Zoom Zoom!!!!!













































ZZZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

Well this is still all very cool. I'm always looking forward to seeing what you come up with next. I still like the idea of a few more giant beasts though.

Sweet lord... this is one of those projects I come across every so often that makes me wish I actually came up with it.

The paint scheme is gorgeous, the mini conversions are just... holy hell... I absolutely LOVE this army.

-Remi

Those monobikes are great! I've been working on an ork monobike unit, but mine are layers of polystyrene. It's slow going, but your's look great and a bit easier to make. They look awesome!

I don't know what to say; I'm speechless. Those monowheel models are amazing!! You really are a very talented, gifted person. I really envy you

Sweet monowheel podracer things! They were/are on the GW website in "what's new today" (in the little pictures you can blow up to the right).

Such an amazing army, must have cost an arm and a leg but it was so worth it. The concept is just so cool

Looking forward to seeing more

Young Logan

I am usually not a big fan of beastman/(Chaos)Marine hybrids...

...but this army is simply fantastic! You've hit it right out of the park with this one! Spectacular!

What really takes the cake though is that Doombull. That has to be one of the most fantastic conversions using a jugger head I have ever seen

Keep up the fantastic work! Subscribed

Wow, this is amazing!
Really makes me want to make something similar, though maybe not with beastmen, as I'd do a terrible job

It’s raining beast!!!! Drop pod revisited….
I made another 1750 points army list with 9 drop pods and a rune priest. It’s great fun to play with- because It’s one of those all or nothing army. Basically all I have is 6 units of 10 grey hunters with 2 melta and a power fist in a drop pod (5 with the missile thing), 3 units of 2 longfangs in drop pods with 1 heavy bolter (just so that 5 drop pods can come in on the first turn, and a rune priest with a jump pack and runic armor having one psychic power (depends on who I’m fighting I’ll choose at the beginning of the game)(not really important this guy he’s just here for the HQ)…. Not the greatest army out there I know but it’s soooo fun to play with due to the fact that on the first turn you have 50 space marine in front of you. It might get all get charged or blown away right then and there, but the look on your opponent’s face when it all comes down is priceless…..
Any hoo This is still a slow going work in progress but most of the pieces are molded, trimmed, and here(ish) so it’s getting there.















And another 31 dudes to go along with the ones I already have.



to be continued....

Just stumbled across this. Pure awesome! I'm a sucker for 40k beastmen anyway, but yours are not just a rare treat, they are fantastic as well.
The doombull is obviously the highlight, but I also dig the ingenious monowheels a lot.

THAT DROP POD LOOKS AWESOME, so cool your going to do more let alone a whole list with them in. such a cool army, keep it up

It’s raining Beastmen- iya iya!!!!!!













































I’m waiting for one more in the mail right now…. It’s the dreadnaught one from Forge world…… can’t wait!!!!!!!

that is awsome!

<gob smacked!>

I love that last pic

Continues to amaze!

Valete,

JohnS

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
I love that last pic

Same. Literally LOL'd and my wife started asking questions...

This MUST be what they call NerdPorn, they are the coolest warhammer thing I have EVER SEEN

B E A U TIFUL!!!
dam dude that is one of the coolest armyshots i have every seen. DAM
now i wanna see a dread droppod army!!! would be EPIC!
keep up the awesome

Ingenieous ideas, very good execution, incredible speed and continuity, all of that resulting in a huge unique army!
The tubes with the beastly fetuses are my favorite detail.

I am more than impressed!!! I love when people kit bash and the end product looks like it all came out of ONE box. You've met that expectation for sure!! I am a HUGE fan of the drop pod baby beastmen!! Excellent work sir!!!

Words cannot describe such a magnificent army!
The conversion work involved is literally incomprehensible.
It would be a pleasure to battle against such a force!

Man this thread is so cool! Your conversions are excellent. Love the minotaurs - and well - everything! Awesome.

I seriously dislike you dude...

... your talent cannot be contained by the internet...

... and as such, I have modellers envy.


this is some outstanding work dude!!!

Love the drop pods with the test tube babies, the whole project is amazing, and the paint job on the army is nothing short of amazing. Keep up the great work I would love to see even more of this.


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Love the drop pods with the test tube babies, the whole project is amazing, and the paint job on the army is nothing short of amazing. Keep up the great work I would love to see even more of this.

Doh... This is simply epic! Wish I had half your speed...

This is simply amazing...
That's all I have to say, since so many people have said what I had in mind.

You never fail to disappoint. I could never paint that many drop pods so quickly, so my hat of to you sir.

Looking forward to see what comes of this FW dreadnought thats in the post

Young Logan

YOUR ON THE GW FLICKER WALL.... just saying

 bigfish wrote:
YOUR ON THE GW FLICKER WALL.... just saying

Yeah, they had it in one of their Facebook posts, with the Flicker link.

Thank you all for the awsome comments much appreciated. As well as the motivation to do this army for this blog helped it along so much - so thank you again... Right now Im in the process of doing 40k versions of Beastmen special characters like malagor, ghorros, moon claw, and all that.

I got the parts and have started building and sculpting some of them,but I'm really stuck on what to do for Gorthor... Ideally I just want a big Beastmen in terminator armor so I can use him as Logan grimnar. But the thing is Gorthor pimps around in a chariot. so may be not... Don't know

This is actually a very long winded way of asking if there is a model, unit, or vehical in 40k that is in or can ally with space wolves that I can use a lord on chariot type model to represent in a game. Any thing from Imperial armour is cool too.

The only thing i can think of right now using the rule for a wolf lord on a thunder wolf that is accompanied by two fenrisian wolves. so I do a Gorthor model on a chariot on a large basewith the yoke sticking out of it, and have the 2 cyber boars on other base in front of it so it looks like it's pilling it. But that might look abit weird model- wise and in game it may look very weird if the two wolves dies and is removed.

So if any one at all have any idea or suggestions,Please, please, please let me know.... It will be very much appreciated.

Well, as for suggestions, I instantly thought about the Master of the Ravenwing on his jetbike. That's the closest thing to a chariot I can currently imagine (except for a Trike maybe, but that wouldn't be available to a special character). Or you could go really overboard and have Gorthor ride into battle atop a converted Sentimel or even Defiler?

Man this is one of the best P&M blogs I've ever seen on Dakka. Great work. Incredible stuff.

My first thoughts were samael too. Maybe they could be space wolves with allied DA?

 prototype_X wrote:
Maybe they could be space wolves with allied DA?

Space Wolves allied with Dark Angels? That's a fluff nightmare!

True, but if you look at it from a counts as point of veiw.... it works

 prototype_X wrote:
True, but if you look at it from a counts as point of veiw.... it works

I know, I just like to give you a bad time

I'll take that as a compliment

I've seen somewhere on the web a conversion of a chariot-like thing featuring FB chaos steeds and a tomb kinds hovering sarcophagus... Maybe you can make something similar using khorn beasts of fb ogre animals and some hovering craft like from necrons? As for the rules I'm no big help, but i do remember an IG tank hero, an ork bike hero and an eldar hover bike one... Maybe they may fit...

 KrautScientist wrote:
Well, as for suggestions, I instantly thought about the Master of the Ravenwing on his jetbike. That's the closest thing to a chariot I can currently imagine (except for a Trike maybe, but that wouldn't be available to a special character). Or you could go really overboard and have Gorthor ride into battle atop a converted Sentimel or even Defiler?

awesome -I never even thought of dark angels raven wings for some reason... Thanks for that   .  Right-hop to it I guess.... Thanks again.

Ps
Fluff wise I don't think it should matter all that much... They are Beastmen army after all. 40k centigors as bikes to go with that as well I think.... Ha!!!!!! The fun

Little up date on Gorthor and his chariot.
Going from the great idea of using the ally rules of Sammael master of ravenwing that came from yall (thank you so much for that)- I started to look for shapes in the GW range and decided on using the Necron Triarch Stalker as a base for the chariot bit (Sammael mounted in a land speeder). (armored 14 in both front and sides, with a twin linked heavy bolter AND twin linked assault cannons, and also BS-5- thats total bad a$$).


The front bit will be a flying razorgor kind of thing- (half way between the thing that I got pulling my Rhinos and the thing that is pulling my other land speeders-) So it’s sort of gorthor on a razorgor chariot…














Then I had the Idea of not actually mounting him on the chariot it self but on a ship textured terminator base- so when he’s on the chariot he’s Sammael, and when he’s just pimpin around on foot- he’s Logan Grimmar.









for gorthor him self I’m using the space marine librarian in terminator armour as base-









The beast lord needs a cloak so I stole it off Celestine the Living Saint.





the beast lord cometh



















There are still a lot more to go like twinlinked assault cannons and twin linked heavy bolters on the bottom, but It's getting there....

Fantastic stuff! I am simply blown away by the apparent ease with which you take seemingly disparate parts from the whole GW catalogue and manage to recombine them into something quite unique! Excellent

Wouldn't Canis Wolfborn fit Gorthor better. Thunder Wolf=Chariot. The model is utterly awesome.

 Llamahead wrote:
Wouldn't Canis Wolfborn fit Gorthor better. Thunder Wolf=Chariot. The model is utterly awesome.

I'm actually saving canis wolf born for a 40k version of moon claw- him with the claws and being mounted on a big two headed thing and all that (and im running out of ideas for "use as" models that fits)....

Simply awesome as always! Your dedication to this army is legendary!

I love how you turned the putti into little beasties. Ingenious!

WOW! I saw a glimpse of the pic of 9 drop pods and assumed it was a photoshop job, and then read the whole thread and my mind was blown!

FANGODDAMTASTIC!

I bet people just love playing your army just to see the pieces =D

Wish i could make stuff half as awesome as this army! As is i mostly just kit bash more then convert and craft.

Again-just a small up date on the progress of gorthor and some other bits and bobs that I just started army.
Finally finish the making bit of the warlord’s chariot












Continuing with special characters- I started doing Khazrak the one eye.
This is make take on him in my fantasy army-







So I want to make more or less the exact same thing- but 40k.













To go with lords- Space wolves has the option to take cyber wolves… I don’t want to just go with a chaos war hound-so instead, I give you

Cyber Boars!!!





Still some ways to go…..

Little Qicky FYI on DIY- I’ve been getting people asking how I did fur on these guys and instead of typing the message over and over again I figured I’ll put up a little tutorial thing here for what it’s worth. It’s very easy and I hope some one finds it useful.

These are the things that you need-




Oh and if you can Vaseline too. The thing with Vaseline is that it stops you tools from sticking to the green stuff, and because it’s oil base- you can add more green stuff to it and it’s stick on normally. Water and you own spit works great as well in keeping you tools from sticking to the green stuff, but it may be difficult to add more green stuff on and around the part that you are doing (most of the time it will just slip off).

Before I get to fur I’m actually going to show you how to make scales (like dragon scales, fish scales, armor scales, etc.) because it’s more or less the same process but you see it clearer first… (just go with me on this for a minute )

First mix the green stuff up and stick it on the surface of that thing that you want scales on. Use Vaseline to spread or smooth that area down.





Using the clippers from the bottom up start clipping into the green stuff row by row.



On this part it’s really up to you how big or small you want the scales. For small ones use only the tip of the clippers and keep them close together- for the big ones, go for the whole thing and spread them a bit part.

Then finally use a bit of water or Vaseline to smooth or flatten down the whole thing a little so that it can curve, or flatten with the surface, while still being scaly.



or



Note: the amount of pressure you put on the green stuff in this process will determine how fat or thin each scale is. The more you smooth the fatter eah scale is.

Any touch up like separation between scales- or any other thing you want to do to it is up to you.

In the end you end up with something like this








RIGHT ON TO FUR!!!!!!!
Like I said it is more or less the same thing-

First mix and stick the green stuff on to the surface that you want.Use water or Vaseline to help spread, smooth, or shape the green stuff on so it don’t get stuck to your fingers or tools.
Once that is done create some diagonal lines all thru out the area.



Now do I the other way too so you are sort of making a grid kind of thing with long thin diamond shapes.



If you do it on a non-flat surface it will turn out something like this-



Now using the clippers, start clipping into it. Do the exact same thing as you did with the scales, but this time it can be as random or as orderly as you want.




Note: on this part- while you are clipping you can pull out while applying pressure to the clippers to get random long length of fur.



(the front top bit has been clipped the back half is not.)
When you have done that- use your fingers or sculpting tool to add details on each fur sections or locks or whatever you want to call those bits, push them up, down in or out- to create what you had in mind.







Here are some other examples for yall-






Just have fun and experiment with it really is the key I think…

nice work as always, and that tutorial comes in handy to, might improve my gs skills with that

Looking better and better every time i return to these pages i just love the whole concept of this army

Young Logan

Nice tutorial thanks, that's good looking fur. And I see you have undercoated your thumbnail.

Lots of spectacular stuff in this thread. I'd still like to see some sort of cyborg monstrosity made from the Ogre Kingdoms monsters because I know you'd make something awesome.

Awesome glad it's to here its useful

 Bruticus wrote:
Nice tutorial thanks, that's good looking fur. And I see you have undercoated your thumbnail.

Lots of spectacular stuff in this thread. I'd still like to see some sort of cyborg monstrosity made from the Ogre Kingdoms monsters because I know you'd make something awesome.

I'm actually thinking about using one or two thunder tusks to make a land raider... Don't really know what the design will be or how it will work but.... Well it's all just rattling around in my head right now looking for a good idea to hook onto... If you have idea or suggestion on this it will be much appreciated.

Nice idea on the cloak and fur - thanks for the tutorial!

Superb work!
Love the tutorials, I will definitely be using them for sure.
Also those Cyber-Boars are freakin' amazing.
Keep producing awesome Space Goats!

This thread idea and concept are amazing so many rare units I look forward to seeing more....

One suggestion BULL TERMINATORS!!

Finally finished The Beastlord!!!!!!























On foot I using him as Logan Grimmar Wolf lord- But Gorthor is not Gorthor with out his chariot, so-








































I made Gorthor’s base with a little stub thing in front so it can just clip onto the chariot so Gorthor is secure. When he’s mounted on the chariot, I’m going to be using Sammael Master of raven wing rule (allying army (will be making centigors as bike so Gorthor can be legally use in a game later.)


































Let’s ride!

This whole army is beyond awesome...i love the originallity of your army and all the conversion work you have done to it, to really make it stand out.

The doombull is my favorite mini...but very closely followed by Gorthor...brilliant work, keep it comming

Very well executed. I love this blog and Gorthor seals the deal. Exceptional conversion work and painting all around.

Malagor the Dark Omens-

Essentially I’m going to be using this as a Rune priest with a jump pack.

So let’s start with the jump pack!





























Another great thing that I use insta- mold for is making fluttering cloth or capes.








I’m these as flying cloth tassels kind of thing coming from his head cloth mask thing…


By the way if do the same thing, then after it to dries- cut lighting shapes into it.



then just cut them up into smaller pieces (depending on you) and you can use it for electrical effects-




Any way back to Malagor



















the base is a piece of flame / power effect I got from a Naruto toy.






















heh heh FIRE...

Well f#¡¿ me that is brilliant!!!!!!!!

This blog gets better and better. I thought nothing would top the amazing drop pods, but the awesome just keeps on coming.

I can confirm those things you are murdering for your models are actually Transformers-Minicons to be exact.

But damn, tis a worthy cause they go to.

This army is sheer, pure, unadulterated awesomeness. Subbed!

 Squigsquasher wrote:
I can confirm those things you are murdering for your models are actually Transformers-Minicons to be exact.

But damn, tis a worthy cause they go to.

This army is sheer, pure, unadulterated awesomeness. Subbed!

Do you mean the legs that I used for the Razor gors pulling the chariot and the ones that my lord is riding on right? is that's what they are????? I just got them randomly cuz I like the look of the leg part in a 60 baht shop (dollar store or poundland equivelant) and it's cheap- 4 in a pack in one solid colorful crappy plastic color.... I've never seen them in any of the old or new animations, so i didn't know.... sorry for the crime, but thank you for the comment

Heh. Not all the toys appear in any of the cartoons. Also they could have been knockoffs, judging by the fact you got 4 of the same mold but in different colours (they normally come in packs of 3 different toys) and that they were so cheap.

I am quite the nerd.

Also, in the unpainted pic of the Doombull, the Blood Slaughterer torso looked like it was made of metal. What's going on?

I LOVE the wheelbikes by the way. So awesome!

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Heh. Not all the toys appear in any of the cartoons. Also they could have been knockoffs, judging by the fact you got 4 of the same mold but in different colours (they normally come in packs of 3 different toys) and that they were so cheap.

I am quite the nerd.

Also, in the unpainted pic of the Doombull, the Blood Slaughterer torso looked like it was made of metal. What's going on?

I LOVE the wheelbikes by the way. So awesome!

lol-I'm pretty sure they are knock offs sir.... I'm living in thailand .... with the doombull- originally I baught 3 slaughterer many moons before I started this project. I wanted it for my chaos army (we paly alot of appoc here) and so started painting it (base only- silver and red- havent gone into detailing, shading or any thing else yet).

Then new things came along and life in general got in the way of finishing it ,and so as with alot of other models i have get's left on the shelf or the bitz box quarter or half-finished. Then I started this project and it became that every model I have or don't have yet is fair game for ripping appart for parts- finished painted or not... may khorne forgive me .... the other two slaughter's safety don't look so good as well, because I might want to do two more ..... dont know yet.....

My god this log is fantastic, sooo full of win and brilliant creativity!

I really wish I'd had the money to do the same with my Tau beastmen back in the day when I still played 40k!

Brilliant, my only critisism is that you need a better camera!! lol

Finally the dreadnaught drop pod has arrived in the mail from forge world, and I wasted no time ripping it apart and rebuilding….oh the joy!!!!!


It’s A LOT bigger than I expected it to be so I figure I use two baby beastmen to control the drop pod in a glass chamber thing.





For the glass bit I found this egg thing with dinosaurs- erasers in it then simply sawed off the top.





As usual I sculpted one head and the rest of the trimmings, then using inta mold I made copies of them.




















Drop it like it’s hot!!!!!!!

I hate you... have I told you this before? I'm sure I have...

you have a disgustingly brilliant tallent and I am green with envy...

amazing work, truly!

This log is incredible. Very very creative. Not only that, but you are a talented painter and modeller.

Definitely some top notch work here.

More excellent work!

Got some more beastie boys done today, mostly on the things I started awhile back and just finished painting them.


Kharzak the one-eye (using him as wolf lord with frost weapon and additional hand weapon)


























Two era side by side….looks kind of like they are dancing








Back to 40k…











Cyber boar (using them as Fenrisian wolves unit or cyber wolves for characters )







Moon Claw mounted on Umbralok (Using him as Canis wolfborn)




























I give you the lunatic Prince on a umbralok!!!



















Love this little guy-













I smell bacon!

These are amazing. Top class work!

Ok, subbed. Brilliant work

this is awesome, you are awesome, everything you build just turns out awesome

 sir william the bold wrote:
Ok, subbed.

Sounds like: "I tried not to, and I resisted through the first 5 pages of awesomeness, but I just couldn't hold out any longer."

haha, yeah, that's exactly what happened... nah, more like, HOLY FREAKIN' CRAP!!!

Oh, yeah I need to sub this thread

I believe I've said it before, but just in case:

If you ask me, your models put the efforts of everyone else who has built CSM/beastmen hybrids up until now completely to shame! These are simply the best 40k-ified beastmen around. Period.

 KrautScientist wrote:
These are simply the best 40k-ified beastmen around. Period.

Auwww, though I agree these are excellent and they are the best version of CSM / Beastmen I have seen without a doubt, the painting is way better than mine and the fact that it's a whole army is superb but I still like my Tau beastmen so nerr (I don't think mine are better just different).

Also I like this guy.


But that's enough threadjacking... nothing to see here move along, move along.

KrautScientist: Thank buddy- very honored to hear that.

Maxxev: threadjack away my friend- We need more Beastlords and their herds out there to venture out into the dark reaches of space -raiding and pilaging the 40k universe for the herdstone!!!! I can totally see beastmen rockin up the tau tech .




Centigors!!!!!
(When they turbo boost- I imagine they just inject themselves with loads of red bull and off they go…)



























Using them as bikes.....


for the attack bike I went with a razorgor armed with a huge gun....

those centars are really cool!

Checking in again and my jaw hit the floor your recent stuff is awesome the whole Plog is awesome.

Your Beastmen ... are F**king awesome!!

 mayajid wrote:

Centigors!!!!!

Using them as bikes.....

Ok, I've refrained from commenting on your work thus far because I wouldn't really be adding anything (what with your plethera of "best I've ever seen"s and "I can't beleive how awesome this is"s), but these Centigors really take the cake for me. My favorite of your impressive portfolio

....

I Love you... So Much...

These are beautiful... and put my Imperial Gorsmen to shame !

Just A W E S O M E...

I’ve been messing around with a list that is based around using terminators. I’ve never ever really been much of a fan of them but- they’re slowly growing on me now. So I figured I’ll do some for the metal beast army.

I like the idea of having the blade on the back of the for arm ( new predators style-but with simple clean lines.)




After the blade I got working on the body and put things together-













The thing is this is just a mock-up. I’m not really sure of anything and nothing is final just yet- I do like the lines and look of this. The basic elements are there I think- but I just feel like there is something missing….I don’t know…. I know a lot of the green stuff still needs to be neaten up and all that but I just want a final idea or final look before I do any of that…. I’m kind of stuck- So please if anyone out there have any comments, critics, or suggestions on what I can or should do- please help. It will be very much appreciated. Even and the end of it I need to scrap the dude and start anew….

I think he quite obviously is a terminator. Great work thus far!

My only thoughts would be 1) use plasticard for the blade (the current one looks a bit bendy) , 2) the added leg joints look a bit odd (but maybe they just need some gs cleanup) and 3) what would they look like with your longhorn helmets on? IIRC, they looked quite termie-esque

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

My thought would be to cut a concave cut at the top of the lower leg guard before the join as I think the lower leg presently looks too long.

I agree with maxxev that the legs seem too long. Can I also suggest that you use a power fist for the sword arm as the current one looks too small for the sword. Either that or make the sword smaller.

I forgot this is the size comparison to a "normal" marine.



I think you guys are right about the hight issue thing with the legs I think....


Rawson- I'll try out the long lorns helment on this little guy and see how that works.

Maxxev- I try chomping the legs down a bit more like you said.

great input keep it coming please it is much appriciated! I'm way too close to these guys to see clearly.

I think it looks good, but a bit too much like a biggerised power armoured marine.

Can you sit the head a bit lower in the body? Or build up an area behind the head? Hard to do with horns I guess. The most visually defining thing about terminator armour is the head being in the middle - shows they aren't just taller, rather they are wearing armour like a tank.

I think the legs are quite long, as they are now it makes the arms look too short.

Centigors DONE!!!! (using them as bikes and the big razorgor with the gun is an attack bikes)



























Razorgor with multi-melta (attack bike)





























I also did some more of the basic gors (grey hunters)…. If less is more then surely more has to be better!!!











Oh just as a side note- the other week I decided it would be kind of cool to put up a bunch of 40k propaganda posters I found on the internet on the terrain at my shop just for the hell of it… I think it turned out really cool and gives the battle field a lot of character (even if I do say so myself)….













I took this opportunity to advertise as well….













Just in case any one wants to do this too and want a printable size for A4 paper- here’s the link-
http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd334/mayajid/0_zpsae29ca91.jpg

It’s just random 40k propaganda images I found on the internet and resized it so that it’s more or less the right scale. (Note: Except for the metal beast mercenary poster- I did not create any of these images or know where I actually got it from so I cant really give credit to the artists who made them…. sorry….)

I love it! The centuars are freakin beast!

Love the terrain, and thanks for the posters I've been trying to get a good set, and will use the crap out of these

sexy stuff!

Awesome thread. Awesome conversions, awesomely exalted.

This blows me away, I love this work, I can see the centaur units being the thunderwolves, I can just see that, they make cool bikers but it's just my humble opinion

I saw this dude on Ebay and I just had to have it (just for the “lol” factor)…. Probably not going to use it for anything but for some reason it just need to be in the army.








Then and now….

More excellent work. the centigors are fantastic!

Regarding the Terminator, maybe try and reverse wher the heavier plate goes? On humans, we have big shin plates because thats what runs into stuff first. On digitigrade legs maybe the thigh and hoof armour should be bulked up rather than the shin armour? It will also help with the fact that Terminator thighs are stupidly slender, even compared to normal Marine thighs

What about repurposing Crisis Suit legs? and adding more of an organic lower leg? That would fit quite nicely with the stealth suit legs on the normal PA Beasties.

Cooo! I haven't seen one of those Imperial beast men for a long time, that came out back in the early 90's - possibly a rarity?

 monkeyh wrote:
Cooo! I haven't seen one of those Imperial beast men for a long time, that came out back in the early 90's - possibly a rarity?

yep... it was rediculously expencive at the end of the bidding....then there was the shipping and tax in thailand as well... oh well.... I'm wanting the other two rare beastmen 40k models as well but they are soo hard to find and I'm kind of afraid of the pricing when I do find them.....




no school like oldschool

There is something wonderful about old sculpts.He looks like a great mascot for your army =)

Right after ALOT trial and error, going foward and back with a lot of random ideas and form what you all suggested (thank you for that really appreciate it and it was alot of help! ) and this is what I’m going with-













I left them all without helmets because they are basically meant to be squad leaders.... I notice this with most if not all miniature wargames -not just warhammer- that the captain, squad leaders, and alot of the characters (including terminator captains) of the squad is the one that dont ware head protection..... this dont make too much sense but I'm going with that "tradition" thus no helmets.... (if any one can tell me why this is the way it is-it would be very much appriciated- cuz personal logic in me thinks that the sergent or the capatin is important and should be protected if not more protected ....)

Any ways... now to do this 15 more times…..





The idea behind the blade is that it could flick back and forth. It’s back when the dude needs to operate something, shooting or just walking around, and it flick forward when he’s fighting in combat.





Just for what it’s worth- this is how I do capes-

I first put some insta-mold (this stuff-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub70AU5RfmI) into hot water spread it out a bit, then using the end of a paint brush- make flowing marks going up and down (or however you want the cape lines to flow).





Now mix up some green stuff and using water flatten it in your hand till you get the right thickness or thinness you want for your cape (the water is just so it wont stick). Once that is done place it over the insta mold and whit a rubber clay tool or you fingers and water push the green stuff in so it takes the shape.





Once the green stuff cures properly it will stay in that shape. now trim the piece down to the size and shape you want. When I usually do this step I trim it so that the cape is a lot shorter than it needs to be for a later step.





glue them on to the back of the model




using green stuff I outline roughly where the cloth will flow on the model’s body.








Using the metal tool start to blend the new green stuff into the bottom bit of the cape and with the knife end do some cloth marks.





Then use the rubber tool to flatten or smooth the cloth out and also do final blending. So that there are no sharp edges…. Unless you want them to have sharp edges…. Experiment yourself and have fun with it…














This process can be done on any scale really… I did this for my Gorebull (Wolf guard pack leader on a thunder wolf.)








You can also add texture onto it like fur (I talked about how to make fur a few post ago) or runic type of thing like this guys-




















Any way back to the termies.
Horns…





Legs-




this joint hinge on the leg can be used to add more details for other things too like side of tanks, side of guns, armor details etc. simply just this-










Once that dries just pop them out and stick them on anything you want.





In the army I’m thinking of I use 16 terminators- 15 with frost weapons, and one with a cyclone missile.


















Now all I need to do is some cleanup work and get painting finally…

Absolutely stonking work there, and that cloak method is brilliant, they look great, can't wait to see them finished!

This army is getting impressive day by day! love it!

Wow. I love the Terminators! For the greenstuff sculpting, do you use an armature as a base? My free standing sculpts always seem to be quite bendy and flimsy after they've set, so I'm curious how yours are done.

Definitely subbing to this one! May or may not be due to my plethora of Tau and Beastmen bits Loving the stuff! Keep up the amazing work!

Thats a lot of green
I apsulutely love them, they're awesome.
For the helmless sergeants and guys, I think they sometimes keep their helmet of to show their troops personality and get more of a bond with them. not sure thought. I mostly give my sergeants helmets although I gave some of my beakies swappable heads for fun so I could swap between helmed head and bare head.

Your conversion work and greenstuff mastery is seriously inspiring. What a sweet army you're gonna have when finished!!

Truly stunning work. Everytime I see that there is a new post, I brace myself.

Also, thanks for the tutorial. I will definitely be referring back to it.

i simply love this project. Such well sculpted things. Such simple effective methods, truly inspirational. Also a lovely theme, and fantastic conversions

 ghosty wrote:
Wow. I love the Terminators! For the greenstuff sculpting, do you use an armature as a base? My free standing sculpts always seem to be quite bendy and flimsy after they've set, so I'm curious how yours are done.

unless I'm doing a full sculpt from scratch or a weapon with long handles- I don't really use any armature... Personally I think the natural bendy-ness of the green stuff is the thing that makes it strong and not as breakable as say white, or grey stuff. we as modlers and player just gets paranoid about the bendyness of the it- thinking it might break off or paint will flake off because of it- but it wont really.... well not any more than the usual ware and tear of usage of the model.


But if you still want it to be "stiffer" I usually just soak part of it with a layer of super glue once the green stuff cures... I did that with the bottom part of the terminator wolf guard frost blades. when the glue dries it, along with the greenstuff becomes harder... just becareful of dripping and pooling of the super glue. if it does just use something to scrape it off the drop (not tissue paper !!!!). you can do it with the cape too but I didn't bother. hopes that helps a bit

Your work is amazing mate !

Heheh you did it finally bulls in Terminator armour.....

Very very masterfully sculpted loving it every time I check in a new treat keep up this superb work........ Now! paint them.

This is a simply spectacular army. Absolutely love the conversions.

 ArchaonSon wrote:
Heheh you did it finally bulls in Terminator armour.....

Very very masterfully sculpted loving it every time I check in a new treat keep up this superb work........ Now! paint them.

LOL.... yep- finally gave into doing them... just figured out how to use them effectively (or "cheesily" (-wich ever way you want to look at it)) in an army list.... Theory-hammer alway works well!!!! right?

These termies are soo cool!

Awesome project, i wonder living in Thailand, how is the gaming community in Thailand? There is some here in Japan, but it is small.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Awesome project, i wonder living in Thailand, how is the gaming community in Thailand? There is some here in Japan, but it is small.

There are around two hundred odd people either playing or just modeling here in Thailand... Mainly they are around Bangkok but you get some of them all over really. There are stores in chiangmai, phuket, pattaya and all that but there are around 5 or 6 dotted around in Bangkok. So yeah we kind of have a small to medium sized community I guess- but compare to like England or other western country it’s very small I guess….


I own a warhammer shop, and I can tell you that the numbers are growing more and more lately, especially with the new edition of 40k.


Ok- I can only apologies to everybody reading this blog for what I’m about to do…. It’s shameless advertising- I know- but built it all from scratch so it’s my baby…..


Here’s my shop!!!!!





Shop’s diorama (every shop NEEDS one!!!)




Table that doubles for lockers to rent so people don’t have to hull their army back and forth.





12 foot one









If anyone is planning to come to Bangkok Thailand, yall are more than welcome to come kill or blow up something at the shop (games-wise preferably). I got Loads of models at here yall can use to play just in case you don’t want to bring you army.





And here is where the metal beast mercenaries resides-





COME GET SOME!!!!!

Nice shop!

very nice shop!

Wow that is a cool looking store!

Thanks for the info on the shop, neat idea with the locker tables, if i ever come to Bangkok i will surely drop by!

Gore bull with thunder hammer/power fist and storm shield For hire!

Using them as- Wolf guard battle leaders on a Thunderwolf mount.

Every time i come back there is something new a different I love the shop and seems that you have put a lot of work into it. Looking forward to seeing the termies finished.

Will you ever do something based on FW stuff or FW counts as for this army. And even if you don't what would you considered doing if you did?

Young Logan

really love the pictures of the bulls in action. Its quite dramatic.

 cormadepanda wrote:
really love the pictures of the bulls in action. Its quite dramatic.

Agreed. Love seeing them sized up next to some scrubs. They look awesome.

The Gore Bulls are freaking brutal looking. I love the picture where the one is up in the Soul Grinder's face like "COME AT ME BRO!"

I will say, however, I think the capes look unfinished. I think some more highlights or shading would make them look a lot better. Perhaps a complete overhaul color-wise to make them a deep, dark red or a dark, ruddy brown. Right now they look like unfinished capes you sculpted out of grey putty.

Thank you all for the kind words- I really appreciate them and it's really helping the army along.


Young_logan- I'm not really thinking of doing any forge world stuff just yet. There really isn't any thing that I'm interested in using yet. Tho I am liking the idea of having a war hound Titan, or may be a beastmen primarch.... But nothing solid just yet.....YET....



Dearth bob- you are right about the cloaks I think. i felt that some thing was missing or something else needed to be done to it when I thought I finished, but I didn't want to over do it because I might just spoil it... I was just not sure what. I want to keep it a grey color because i think it works well graphically so I think I'll just try highlighting it some more and hope for the best I guess. Thank you for that

Just wait until the Horus Heresy book with the Space Wolves comes out... ;-)

 mayajid wrote:

Dearth bob- you are right about the cloaks I think. i felt that some thing was missing or something else needed to be done to it when I thought I finished, but I didn't want to over do it because I might just spoil it... I was just not sure what. I want to keep it a grey color because i think it works well graphically so I think I'll just try highlighting it some more and hope for the best I guess. Thank you for that

I do think they look nice in gray. They just need a bit more depth rather than the somewhat "lacquered" look that they have now. I look forward to seeing the updated ones as I have no doubt that, with your painting skills, you can make them look much better.

Just a little bit update with the gorebull- I changed the color of the capes to black because the other one didn’t really looked as finished as it could be…. If that means anything….









On a side project but still relevant to beastmen 40k-


GOTHIC METAL !!!!!!


A group of us here decided to do a Battle Fleet Gothic campaign. I already have an imperial fleet, but I figure this gives me an awesome opportunity to TRY to come up with a suitable ride for the metal beast mercenaries.

Transport for them to get to where ever they need to be, do whatever it is they’ve been hired to do, come back, and get paid.

I figured that their fleet should be-

- Small and fast (to get to where they need to be as quickly as possible and get away quickly after).

- able to not get into space battle or any battle at that, if they are not getting paid for it (or if they don’t have any other choice.) basically the ability to just slip by unnoticed.

-may be just enough fire power to cripple ships so they can take it over or just buy time to do what they need to do.

Looking at all the fleets and their rules, I really like the rules for the dark eldar fleet (I played with them before and it worked for me well).

Space wolves wise- I know it doesn’t fit at all- but metal beast wise- I think it works great- with their access to the mimic engines (just so they can drift by undetected), and they are fast at getting around.

The impailer assault module is just in case they get hired to clear out a hulk of tyranids, blow up part of a ship (hired for sabotage, or to kidnapping some people (Slavetaking rules), etc…..). an also just enough firepower to do a good amount of damge…. Having the shield couldn’t really hure either …

Had to rush them and get them done within less week before we start of the campaign this Saturday (18th November) here they are.











The big ship is an eldar jetbike upside down, with spikey bits from the tzeench lord on disc of tzeench.











Metal beast escorts (dark eldar corsair class escorts)














These are the battle fleet gothic eldar shadow hunters also turned upside down and spikes added to them.


Metal beast Cruisers (dark eldar torture class cruisers)






















It's not much but I think it adds alittle more depth to the fluff of the army I think