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Outstanding work on that Dread. Everything in the conversion and the paint job comes together really nicely.

A lot to catch up on, but still impressing me at every turn. Stellar stuff, KS. Hope you're having a good new year.

I am more perturbed than I should be about the little leather strap remnants on the ogre gutplate shoulderpad not going anywhere.

Cheers for the kind words, guys!

@ Anvildude: Haha, that's why I painted them as metal instead of leather: I imagine it's some kind of clamp mechanism, a mag-lock or what have you, with the shoulder pad not held by straps but rather clamped/locked to the arm.

So, another small update:

First up, one cool thing about my new Dread I forgot to mention is that I kept the arms detachable, so the model can now be used will all the different extra Dreadnought weapons I have built so far (quite a few):



In fact, having another model that can profit from all those extra weapons was really the original reason for building yet another Dread

In an attempt to relax after all that red colour, I also tackled some quick and fun conversion projects:

A little headswap I've been wanting to do ever since Dark Vengeance was released:





The helmet will need some further repair (it's missing a sizeable chunk because it's actually basing material (!) from the Thunderwolf kit), but I love it because it's an almost perfect plastic version of Jes Goodwin's original Thousand Sons design.

I also built another Fallen Angel, à propos of nothing:



The pose was inspired by an excellent model created by fellow hobbyist Fawzi, by the way.

And finally, can anyone guess what this is going to be?



As always, let me know what you think!

Looks like a mini imperial knight.

I really like hulk smash! (punching ground pose)

an old imperial robot?

These three guys are great, i especially like the fallen angel, with his pose, just like the ground pound from the Space Marine video game (how about giving him a jump pack...or wings?).
And is that third model a small version of Baron Harrowthorne to be used in an different game mode?
As always, good work and keep it up

Thanks for the kind words, guys!

And you are quite right: That model is indeed a "Chibi-version" of Baron Harrowthorne's Knight Titan. Quite possibly the only Epic scale model I will ever built, but a fun distraction nevertheless. More news on him soon

With the last few days given over to frantic painting in order to finish my Call of Chaos vow over at The B&C, I have been rater neglectful of this thread -- sorry for that!

The good news is that I have completed my vow, and that means new finished models -- YAY!

The final model to be completed as part of my vow was a Forgefiend, and I won't lie to you: I was basically resigned to give up on the whole thing, because things just weren't coming together at all. But then the strangest thing happened: Looking at all the fantastic stuff completed by some of the other participants and felt the spark of motivation returning. Even then, the task remained a problematic one, however: I really didn't like painting the Forgefiend, and I swear it was hating me right back: In true daemon engine fashion, it kept fighting me every step of the way. But in the end I persevered and bound it into its final form. However, I christened it "Gorespite", for giving me so much trouble

So yeah, here it is: Gorespite, daemon engine bound to the service of Khorne's Eternal Hunt:















And my entire Call of Chaos vow, consisting of:

- 1 custom Kharn the Betrayer
- 1 Chaos Lord in Terminator armour with Thunder Hammer and Lightning Claw (Brother Garron the Doomwall)
- 1 Chaos Dreadnought/Helbrute with Multimelta and Power Fis
- 1 Forgefiend with twin Hades Autocannons (slightly converted)



That's a sweet additional 500 points or so for Khorne's Eternal Hunt! Huzzah!

This was the first time I ever participated in an event like this, which makes me all the happier to actually have finished my vow!

All these new additions certainly call for some new army pictures in the near future! However, I suppose it'll be quite some time before the weather allows me to set it all up outside and take some dapper new photos. Until then, I have this picture (taken this last December for the "We Are Legion!" Contest over at Le blog dé Kouzes) showing a pretty big part of the army to tide you over:



It's not the entire army (it's missing the twenty odd "old" berzerkers from before my hobby hiatus during the 2000s and most of the additions from the Call of Chaos), but it's a fairly accurate depiction of Khorne's Eternal Hunt in its current incarnation.

As always, let me know what you think!

Looks beautiful!!

If it helps, you inspired me to convert me own hell talon a couple days ago from the heldrake kit with a similar silhouette to yours

I still have to add the weapons and discover a suitable cockpit though. I'm thinking the backgunner's cockpit from the ork blitza-bommer.

Rant aside, can't wait to see more inspiration for my iron warriors!

Cheers, mate! And I am happy to have inspired you! Just out of curiosity: Where will you add the cockpit? In place of the head/neck, or will it actually be sunk into the Heldrake's body, between the shoulders?

Hmm, I don't want to sound too in love with myself, but I would have expected the big guy to draw a bit more feedback. Oh well...

Aaaanyway, here's an update I hope will warrant a comment or two: More work on the Chibi-Knight:











With the basic construction out of the way, I was free to revisit several areas of the model in an attempt to make them as close to the big model as possible. Things got a bit out of hand, especially regarding the right arm, which is almost ridiculously similar, and I am pretty happy with the outcome! The only major detail missing at this point is the banner between the legs, since I will only add that after the model has been painted -- all else would make those legs very complicated to paint

And here's a comparison between the big version...



...and Chibi-version of the Knight:



Oh, and it would be really rude of me not to tell you where the inspiration for this particular project came from: Fellow German hobbyist Paule has created some very cool kitbashes of all kinds of Epic scale walkers -- check them out here.

As always, let me know what you think!

Got to say longtime fan (well kind of long time) this is adorable and a great build. Do you have any intentions of using this great gift of you’re for the great changer of ways?

Any ways Great job and even if we don’t comment watch Ur numbers we are always watching some times on multiple forms lol

Wow I love the mini knight! Very clever. He actually reminds me of the old Tinbotz (the Ork robots made in mockery of Marines and Eldar) and I hope you use him as a type of cyberfamiliar in your army; maybe with the Warp Smith?

One tiny detail I think would help; another mini-stubber mounted beneath the left shoulder. Oh and do you have a top hatch on there? A thin slice off one of those circular protrusions on sprues would probably be the right size ...

Great work on the mini-knight!

Also loving the dread!

Liking the Epic you need more you know a Banelord would be cool and a few Deathdealers

Cheers for the feedback, guys! I really appreciate it!

Slipknotzim wrote:Got to say longtime fan (well kind of long time) this is adorable and a great build. Do you have any intentions of using this great gift of you’re for the great changer of ways?

I actually have, if only sparingly: I have to admit that Tzeentch is the chaos god I find the least relatable -- all that wanton mutation is scaring me off, I guess. That said, Thousand Sons armies can be absolutely beautiful if done well, so it's probably not a surprise that my only Tzeentchian activities so far go down that route: You may have spotted the Rubric Marine further up:



And there's also this sorcerer I built and painted a while ago:

weirdingway wrote:Wow I love the mini knight! Very clever. He actually reminds me of the old Tinbotz (the Ork robots made in mockery of Marines and Eldar) and I hope you use him as a type of cyberfamiliar in your army; maybe with the Warp Smith?

One tiny detail I think would help; another mini-stubber mounted beneath the left shoulder. Oh and do you have a top hatch on there? A thin slice off one of those circular protrusions on sprues would probably be the right size ...

Haha, you're right about those ork botz! I remember them from the 2nd edition sourcebook's colour section As for the second stubber, you may have a point -- although I believe I'll be using a shaved down bolt pistol for this, so as not to make the model too cluttered.

Llamahead wrote:Liking the Epic you need more you know a Banelord would be cool and a few Deathdealers

Haha, sorry, no. I have very little actual interest in Epic, to be honest. Adeptus Titanicus now, that would be a whole different thing: If GW should ever update that one, then I am game


@ Greldinard: Cheers, mate!

Loving the Chibi-Knight, very cool. And as always excellently executed

Young Logan

I'll insert whatever cockpit i can come up with into the socket left due to the absent neck of the heldrake

I love the sorcerer and the rubric marine looks great too !

Chibi titan is adorable

 KrautScientist wrote:

One of the first conversions in this vein was Huntmaster Bardolf. He leads the normal, footslogging troops into battle and serves as a commander in small to medium games of 40k. This is him:





So, what do you think?

Nice backpack...thats my initial thought.

Very cool model. Love duel wielding melee guys.

I think the Chibi Knight will make an excellent addition to your Terminator Squads. That could very well be what the Baron looks like outside the Knight Titan....when he wants to get up close and personal.

Everything looks amazing and I love your Chibi-Knight

Cheers, guys!

So, here's another small update for you all: Something quite WIP, although it's been fun so far:

Ever since I saw this piece of artwork by Diegogisbertllorens in FF's Tome of Blood, I wanted to convert a model resembling the berzerker in that illustration. So I cut up one of my leftover Chosen models from Dark Vengeance and started to experiment:



As you can see, the model diverges from the art in some places, but the inspiration is still pretty obvious. It's also nowhere near finished, being held together with modeling putty at the moment, but I already like the general direction.

As always, let me know what you think!

Net Epic might interest you then it's a rejigging of the original Space Marine

I like it - but I don't care for the normal axe in one hand and a chainaxe in the other. I say either dual chain weapons, or the chainaxe and a pistol or even rifle.

That's really cool! Only thing I would change is similar to what Kepora said except that I would do duel regular axes, because I like the way he's choking up on the axe, looks menacing

Great miniature man! Though I think you could dump one shoulder pad but that's just a personal preference... And regarding the axes, I think he would look better if he held them from the same point.
Btw where do his arms come from?

Cheers for the feedback, guys!

Here's a small update regarding the latest conversion:



The model doesn't look as if anything much had happened, but the copious amounts of modeling putty holding it together before have been replaced with a cleaned up GS build now. And I have followed Kepora's advice and replaced the big axe with a plasma pistol to see whether I like it better. I could also give him one of the following weapons:



Maybe the plasma pistol is actually the best option, though. Any thoughts?

@ Legio Ultra: He really needs both shoulder pads, both because the bare arms only barely work with the massive (!) Chose body, and the pauldrons add some much needed visual balance. Plus they also hide the massive damage to his torso where I had to take off the original arms. As for the arms, the right one came from the warshrine of chaos priest, while the left one is from a Bestigor.

I say old school is best school. Give him the other axe, the first one.