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And then when the battle is over you need a team to get the hellbruts and dreadnaughts back that will be fun to see with what you come up with.

That's easy their lured back into their cages by unfortunate cultists who are gifted with loyalist power armour as bait

I like monkey troll's idea

Thanks a lot for the excellent feedback, people! You've really provided lots of great ideas for the Helbrute's background, and together with another great suggestion by DexterKong (over at ToS), I had everything I needed to come up with a suitable piece of fluff channelling the elements I liked the most. Many thanks, especially to monkeytroll, Llamahead and Dexter! Here goes:



Khorlen the Lost

Ever since the Skalathrax campaign, the warriors of Khorne's Eternal Hunt have been trying to keep the inevitable descent into madness that has claimed most of their legion at bay, instead clinging to their fierce martial pride. However, Lord Captain Lorimar's retreat from Skalathrax earned him no small number of opponents amid the ranks of his own legion. One such enemy, Karakar the Exalted, considered Lorimar and his company cravens and hypocrites, unworthy of Khorne's blessings and ignorant of the true nature of chaos: Karakar was furious about the Eternal Hunt looking down upon daemonhood and the gifts of the Warp, and he vowed he would educate the fourth assault company about the true meaning of chaos.

In late M39, Karakar and his warband fell upon the Fourth in a series of rapid assaults. During the initial phase of the fight, Huntmaster Khorlen, then a senior officer of the company, and his retinue were captured on the daemon world of Skabrea. Lorimar himself led an attack into the heart of the enemy stronghold, in order to rescue his battle brother and put Karakar to the sword.

When they reached the innermost sanctum of the fortress, the warriors of the fourth discovered a chilling scene: Karakar had wanted to punish the Eternal Hunt for their selfish pride, and for clinging to their long-obsolete past, so he had undertaken a sinister ritual to call the forces of the warp into the vessel provided by Huntmaster Khorlen's body. He had paid dearly, however, as Khorlen - his body twisted and wracked with the raw powers of chaos - had broken his chains and slain everyone present in the ritual chamber. There his brothers found him, crippled and bloodied, his form twisted beyond reason, but yet imbued with a sinister resilience through the powers of the warp. And against all odds, Khorlen remained completely sane, and aware of the horrible changes that had been wrought upon him.

Lorimar and his warriors were at a loss: Had Khorlen's mind been shattered by the ritual, it would have been easy enough to put him out of his misery. But their brother was still sane, and begged them to allow him to continue fighting. So a compromise was reached: Khorlen's twisted remains were interred into a dreanought ironform, in an attempt to keep him combat worthy.

But the ritual had been so powerful that even the internment did not protect Khorlen against the forces of the warp: His ironform began to change and mutate, turning Khorlen into a hulking beast of steel and fleshmetal. Yet at the heart of the hellish contraption, the proud spirit of Huntmaster Khorlen still remained, untainted and unbroken.

Khorlen spends most of his days hidden deep within the great forge aboard the Aeternus Venator, his condition closely monitored by Huntmaster Deracin. Only in times of battle is he released to walk among his brothers once more, seeking a worthy death in battle as long as he is still himself...


As always, let me know what you think!

Yes.

Nice - that works

Cheers, guys! Glad you like the finished version

I have something special to show you today: Since my blog , Eternal Hunt, recently hit 200,000 views, there was the question of how to celebrate that. And what better way to celebrate than to get a nice present for myself, as a reward for all the hard work, right? Relax, though: There’ll be something interesting for you as well. So what is this about?

Some of you may remember when I posted about fellow hobbyist AgnostosTheos building 30k versions of two of my World Eaters characters a while back. This was pretty cool, because his World Eaters army is easily one of my favourite Heresy-era representations of my chosen legion.

Now imagine my dismay when AT recently announced that he would be selling his amazing collection of World Eaters — what terrible news! I, for one, would have loved to see further additions to this force, and maybe even some more 30k versions of characters from Khorne’s Eternal Hunt.

However, and I almost feel guilty for admitting it, this also provided me with the chance as well as the obligation to purchase the 30k versions that already existed.

Now I normally have pretty strict rules when it comes to buying painted models or commissioning people: I don’t usually do it, period.

I have various reasons for this: I don’t want to let other people do the work that actually constitutes a sizeable part of the hobby for me, reluctant as I sometimes am to take up a paintbrush. I also have the creeping suspicion that once I start to commission people like the Spiky Rat Pack, for instance, to build and paint some of their amazing models for me, I’ll never stop until all my money’s gone.

And there’s also the fact that it’s really an all or nothing choice: Either you only buy single pieces and end up with them looking markedly different from the rest of your army, or you commission an entire army, pay through your teeth and actually have no hobby activities left to do yourself — apart from the playing, admittedly, but that has never been the greatest draw for me.

So, to make a long story short: While I usually lack any impulse control when it comes to buying little plastic men, I have so far managed not to buy fully painted ones, at least.

I made an exception this time, however, because the thought of somebody else owing AT’s Heresy-era versions of “my” characters was pretty much unbearable to me.
And due to the fact that I have zero interest in assembling a 30k World Eaters force, it seemed a safe enough endeavour to buy a couple of AgnostosTheos’s models without running the risk of becoming addicted to yet another army. So I made him an offer that he could have – but didn’t – refuse and purchased four models, all in all, along with some supremely useful resin bitz and an almost complete sheet of World Eaters decals. While the latter two will become very useful for my work on Khorne’s Eternal Hunt, it goes without saying that the painted models were definitely the stars of the show. Here are three of them:



From left to right, we have a model representing Marax the Fallen in the days before his internment into a Dreadnought, a World Eaters officer based on the WFB plastic Chaos Lord, and Khoron the Undying, once again before being interred into an ironform. Let’s take a closer look:

First up, Marax the Fallen, in both his 30k and 40k incarnations:



The twin lightning claws on both models make for a pretty clear recurring element, and the blood spatters all over 30k Marax’s armour and face show that this warrior was dangerously unhinged, even before becoming a dreadnought.

Then there’s Khoron the Undying in both versions:



Although blood spattered, Khoron seems less feral and uncontrollable than his brother. His patrician features are also a nice and subtle way of representing his function as a figure of respect among the warriors of the 4th assault company. In the 41st millenium, this face has forever been replaced with the brazen skull mask of a dreadnought, however.

Actually having these guys in my hands to display them alongside each other is a really awesome feeling, you know

And then there’s the unnamed World Eaters officer: While the model wasn’t based on any of my characters, the fact that it uses the same base model as my own Dark Apostle makes it fun to imagine that it might represent a younger Huntmaster Stian Gul:



Plus the model was actually a steal, so what choice did I have? My favourite part has got to be the way AT used etched brass parts to add World Eaters iconograpgy to the medieval looking armour.

There is actually one more model I purchased from AgnostosTheos, although one I am not prepared to show you just yet. It will also need some final touches to complete it. As a little teaser, let me just show you the weapons I intend to use for this mysterious warrior:



Maybe that should give some of you a clue as to the character this model will represent…


All in all, purchasing these models was a really great way to add some texture to my force! I really couldn’t be any happier with these guys:



While we’re on the subject, though, be sure to check out AgnostosTheos’s WIP thread and Flickr gallery: Though the various models may have found new homes, they remain one of the coolest 30k World Eaters armies, and those links allow you to check them out in their entirety — highly recommended!


As always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

Hrm, absolutely nothing to say? That is kinda disappointing...

Anyway, a smaller kitbashing related update today: I am currently messing around with the Tempestus Scions (an amazing kit, btw), and thought I would share some initial impressions. This may be semi-off topic considering this thread mainly deals with my World Eaters, but since there's a fair bit of chaos related kitbashing involved, I hope you won't mind

My current plan is to turn four of the models into the beginnings of a squad of elite soldiers for my detachment of Traitor Guard, Urash's Marauders, although I will probably use one model and some of the amazing Tempestor Prime bitz to buy an Inquisitor/Imperial Noble/senior IG officer/whatever...

Anyway, taking inspiration from Jeff Vader's recent experimentation with different head swaps on the Tempestus Scions was a huge inspiration, and so I did something similar, collecting various heads from my bitzbox and trying them on my first Scion test model, in order to see how they would change the overall look and feel of the model. Now don't get me wrong, the whopping seventeen heads that come with the kit are just as amazing as the rest of the bitz. But I still wanted to see how a mere head swap might turn one of the models into very different characters.

I sorted my findings into several different categories. Each picture links to a big, very zoomable version in the gallery, btw:


I. Inquisitorial Types

Possibly the most relevant part of the experiment for this forum. Here are the various heads I tried:



I wanted to explore several options for creating shadowy and/or hi-tech-y Stormtroopers. My first experiment was to use a leftover head from Inquisitor Coteaz I still had lying around, and not only was it a great fit, but the resulting model is quite similar to the Sergeant of the Kasrkin models, don't you think? I am seriously considering using that head for my Scion-based Inquisitor.

I also tried two robed DA heads, and while Marine heads tend to be a bit clunky when used on non-marine bodies, these might actually work (although it would be necessary to shave down the neck portion, which I didn't do for my experiments). I also like the faceless SpecOps look of the fourth head (a Valkyrie pilot head, I guess? Just bought it via ebay some time ago).


II. Medieval Types

There's quite a bit of overlap with the Inquisitorial types on these, although I wanted to see how to make the Scions look even more archaic and medieval. I used several Bretonnian heads for that. Here are the results:



I actually really like the Brodie-helmet like look on the left two models! These might look great for a fire-and-brimstone Hereticus retinue (or in a particularly medieval IG regiment). The helmets do interfere with the antenna and sensor array on the shoulders, however, so some cutting might be in oder if you want to take this route. The knight helmet was mainly a joke, as was the shaved down berzerker helmet on the right (just the thing if you're going for the old "Boba Fett" look, though).


III. IG Veterans

I think that using various heads from the IG, WFB Empire or even Space Marine catalogues could be a great options of making the Scions look less like freshly-pressed parade ground soldiers and more like hard-boiled veterans from some of the more colourful regiments of the Astra Militarum:



I particularly like the one with the SW scout head on the far right


IV. and V. Traitors and Renegades

Ahhh, now we're talking: I tried various chaotic heads in order to make the Scion model look like a Traitor Guard soldier: The decorative trim on their body armour makes them equally viable for chaos, if you ask me. I did already shave off some of the beautiful IG iconography, too. Anyway, here's my first set of traitors:



As you can see, slightly shaved down WFB chaos warrior helmets will work, as will heads from the plastic cultists.

I tried even more heads, though:



I really liked one of Jeff Vader's experiments, where he used a head from the WFB Marauder Horsemen, and indeed, those heads work brilliantly on the Scion bodies: They are instantly recognisable as chaotic, but they still seem orderly enough so as not to damage the elite soldier look. My absolute favourite has to be the head from the Dark Vengeance cultist champ, though: While it may look slightly goofy on virtually any other model, here it instantly transforms a Scion into a warrior of the Blood Pact - BAM!

Anyway, hope these experiments might be helpful to some of you!

As always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

Hey I wAs going to post but it was 1 am and I was sleepy...
Looking great but I must demand that you return to the clutching darkness of chaos, lest inquisitorial light give you holy sun burn. .

Very nice aquisition of these 30k versions of the World Eaters (kind of a shame the army was scattered though...). Do i suspect a 30k Lorimar conversion is en route?? as for the sions I think the chaotic heads are the best fit...particulary the hornless Warrior of Chaos Helmet (and although it was a joke, i reather like the Boba Fett head as well )

Cheers, guys!

@ the shrouded lord: Not to worry! If anything, the scion kit has re-energised my interest in building and painting a couple of traitor guard models!

@ Legio Ultra: You might just be right about the mytery model...tee hee Oh, and I have gone on record trying to tie Boba Fett into the 40k background, you know...


More kitbashing today: Interestingly enough, the first mostly finished model to come out of my purchase of the Tempestus Scions wasn't even a Tempestus Scion: I used the voxcaster bitz from the new kit to salvage a FW Vraksian Militia torso I had seriously gutted for another conversion, and thanks to the new bitz, I was able to build a traitor soldier with voxcaster:





Even though he uses Chaos Marauder legs and a FW torso, he should still work well enough as a squad member for my chaos elites. He looks good enough next to my test model, at least:



As it happens, I have some Vraksian torsos lying around (courtesy of fellow hobbyist PDH) and I think I will use more Marauder legs and a couple of bitz from the Scion kit to transform them into further models for the elite squad:



Again, they should work well enough from a scale perspective:



The slight variation in armour will make for a suitably ragtag looking squad, yet I believe these guys will still read as elite soldiers and look badass enough for the job

As always, let me know what you think!

Anything in power armour?
Lol.
Looking great, where did the knIfe in the guy with the scout bolt pistol cole from? Warriors i'm guessing?

"Hello.. Is it me your looking for....!!"

Pretty cool to see the 30k versions besides their future selves.

And always good to see new renegades

I do like the juxtoposition of the higher-tech vox-piece and wrist-mounted datascreen contrasting off the simpler Renegade Militia torso and Marauder legs.

Cheers, people!

@ the shrouded lord: To tell you the truth, I have no idea where that knife originally came from: I received it as part of a bitz drop from fellow hobbyist gaire. It seems to be a shaved down loyalist knife (or a spear tip) though, glued to a Space Marine scout's combat knife arm.

@ Miss Dee: The idea of that voxcaster traitor making prank calls during battle really cracks me up: I imagine nothing will mess with your battle logistics like someone calling in the middle of an offensive demanding to speak to Commissar I.P. Freely...

For those of you who might be thinking of using the scions as a base for (Dark) AdMech Skitarii conversions, the following pictures might be helpful as well:

You can combine the scion torsos with flagellant legs:





For the real Skitarii log, you would probably need to replace the bare feet with something suitably tech-y and bulky (Necron feet, perhaps?). And you'd need to either add a cowl sculpted from GS or use the AdMech-styled cultist head.

As an alternative for making Skitarii (or, indeed, trenchcoat scions), you could use the legs from that very cultist:





In this case, the legs might be a bit on the thin side, though...

Anyway, hope this helps!

If I get some they are going to be Hydra ....

@ Miss Dee: Be sure to check out migusla's counts as GK/IG force to see an extremely awesome way of building an AL operative cell using guard models!

On a related note, I think the scions would be brilliant as IW cultists (or allies in an IW army): I can't imagine the Iron Warriors using ragtag cultists and misfits, but rather highly efficient soldiers appearing as emotionless and faceless killers (think the Kerberos Brigade in Jin-Roh).

LPoking good.
Kraut, I'm planning on ordering in some chaos puppies and a crap-tonne of greenstuff and I'm planning on making some were-wolf chaos spawn.
Also planning an uber-spawn / Daemon prince.

@ the shrouded lord: Sounds cool! Regarding the wolf-spawn, you should definitely check out CVinton's Thunderwolves , which should be great as an inspiration for just the type of conversion you have in mind. I'd personally recommend using Vargheists/Crypt Horros as base models, btw, because they have just the sinewy, lean predator look that you need As for the über-spawn/DP, maybe my own Manticore/Maulerfiend DP can serve as some manner of inspiration?

Anyway, keep me posted on your progress!

Sure. Just about everything you do I'd inspiring, even for a servent of the corpse-god like me.

aye up Mr scientist .. lovely work here as usual , liking your experiments with the flagellants.

There is something about the scion torsos and flag legs that looks a little out of place to me.

Probably because I see the flag legs as being more pilgrim than tech solider.

The rest of the experiment has gone very well....really like the trench coat one.

Thanks a lot, guys!

Peter, I agree that the flagellant legs would need a bit of work to actually match the torsos. In any case, I was just messing around with a couple of bitz in order to explore some of the possibilities of the kit. The trenchcoat idea is pretty interesting, though, because you end up with something only one step removed from one of my favourite pieces of IG artwork by none other than the great Jes Goodwin.

One last idea for you, at least for today: I just had to try and combine one of the masked Scion heads with the helmet of a Bretonnian Man-at-arms, creating something resembling a futuristic Brodie helmet/gas mask combo:



The resulting model basically looks like a more detailed, more baroque GW version of one of my beloved Warzone 2nd edition starter minis:



Might be a useful idea for IG as well as Inquisitorial Stormtroopers or Traitor Guard, though...

As always, let me know what you think!

Wow!

I really like that guy, KS!

So, all the other parts are from the Scions? You just trimmed the top of the head and added the Bretonian helmet?

Nice work.

The trenchcoat legs work a treat, and I love the look of that brettonian helm combined with the facemask. Not de-sprued my scions yet, but will be having close look at them tonight or tomorrow

Cheers, guys

@ Yellowbeard: Yes, I just spliced together a scion helmet with that of a Bretonnian Man-at-arms, as you described. Took a bit of cutting, but worked out quite alright (if maybe not as downright awesome as I would have hoped) .

Still, easy enough, right?

That is a genius kitbash KS. I think somewhere between the Genswickian Scion, the flagellant legs and the cultist legs is the perfect Imperial Guard model

Krauty Baby. It is more down right awesome than i can find the words for. That one I like enough to steal!

I love the Brettonian head with the scions - the WW1 look is excellent. With a suitably dirty paint job, they're going to look great with your World Eaters.