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Wow! I think it looks exactly like him. Tzeentch just stole his armour shoulder pads, that's all.

Very cool stuff. How did you achieve the look of Angron's armor?

Amazing, a real achievement

Man! What an incredible diorama - i've never been to happy to see my smurfs being mulched into oblivion. The piece is brimming with character, and the events unfolding are very convincing - you should be really proud, and awesome diorama that you made yourself! That's one of a kind my friend, great stuff.

Ace work!, and yes i will ask anyway

Simply fantastic.

EDC

Not enough Jaw-dropping Orkmoticons for this work.



The Ultramarine with the bolter has this one though. Angron brought an axe to a gun fight.

Again, cheers for the kind words, guys!

But there has to be a life after Angron, and while I'll be finishing the rest of the display base shortly (I hope), I also find my mind wandering towards the coming Call of Chaos event over at The Bolter & Chainsword: There are quite few stragglers left in my collection that I didn't paint for the ETL, so I should have some interesting stuff to paint for the upcoming event. But there's also the fact that this year's Call of Chaos is dedicated to Tzeentch -- easily the chaos god I am least interested in from a visual standpoint. But that somehow made it all the more tempting to include a little something Tzeentchian as part of my CoC vow, so I started working on a suitable model. Some of you might recognise this gentleman:





As always, let me know what you think!

The axe seems to Space Wolf-y. Are you planning on doing anything with it? A tomb kings sword or staff would be more thematic.

No it wouldn't Let's see if someone figures it out...

The legs make me think of a Dark Angels Interrogator, but I am guessing the axe is a kill-trophy of some sort?

Looking at his helmet, he earned that axe. And judging from his hand position, might still be force-chokeing the previous owner.

Nice looking mini!

Iskandar Khayon! very interesting to see the Warmasters Lieutenant although you've already made Fire Fist so why not! very good looking model sir!
also, maybe Telemachon Lyras is next?

Wow. I am so clueless about lore.

Cheers, guys!

Chaos Emperor is correct, of course: That Thousand Sons Sorcerer is Iskandar Khayon, viewpoint character of Aaron Dembski-Bowden's "The Talon of Horus" (which I cannot possibly recommend enough), and that axe is Saern, taken from a slain Space Wolf during the Fall of Prospero. So I guess that explains it

I'll have to wait for the actual Call of Chaos before I can get some paint on Khayon, however, so here's something else for you:

I recently painted a modern plastic Bloodthirster using my - now pretty well established - daemon recipe:





And I am pretty pleased with this guy! The interesting part, however, is that I am currently working on an "older brother" of this particular Bloodletter design, because fellow World Eater AMaxmimus recently sent me some of the late 90s/early 00s' Bloodletters, and I immediately started repainting one of them:



The model was missing its two-handed axe, but a modern plastic Hellblade arguably improves the somewhat clunky base model. If all goes well, I'll end up with a nice little comparison of three of the four incarnations of the Bloodletter:



On a somewhat related note. AMaximus also included this old chestnut in his bitz drop: a leftover vintage Bloodthirster head:





And here's a little fun bonus: A picture of all the models I've managed to paint so far this year:



Only 22 models so far, but I am still pretty happy with my output As you can tell from the amount of red and bronze, it has been a very Khornate year so far, although there's also the beginning of a fairly promising pitslaves gang and a couple of Inquisitorial Henchmen that I am pretty fond of.

As always, let me know what you think!

Me thinks the ultras should spend less time painting their soles gold and more time practicing fighting, or learning how to fight with no legs. Spritual liege much?

Very nice. I'm really digging the blood letters, old and new look awesome.

EDC

Your Angron is just awesome!!! (and i think that i'm the last one to this party ) As for the Bloodletters, they do look very nice with the brighter red skin. It's fun to see how it seems like GW actually seems to have returned to the older head design for their new Bloodletters rather than the late 90's. And can't wait to see what you will do with that old Thirster's head

I've always preferred the previous two incarnations of Bloodletters to the plastic ones. Wish I'd got some axe guys before they went OOP. Blue blades are working well for them!

Them Bloodletter Swords are great, lovely and contrasting from the model. Making a generally normal model be so eyecatching is a great achievement... Keep it up!

Thanks a lot, everyone!

So, time for another update:
Earlier this week, I returned home to discover the cutest little package in the world had arrived from the UK. Inside the package, I found a wonderfully sinister cultist of Khorne built and painted by none other than spectacularly talented Terrain-Overlord extraordinaire Neil101 :







Now I was already aware that Neil had built this model for me a while ago, but the fact that he also chose to paint it in his trademark style was a wonderful surprise indeed! The result is something far more painterly and visceral than anything I could have come up with, and I am really in love with this guy right now. And that wasn’t all, because accompanying the Khornate champion came a wonderfully macabre “Bucket o’ Blood” (followers of Khorne never leave home without it!):



As is usually the case with Neil’s work, there’s a wonderfully macabre and demented nature to the whole affair, calling to mind both the infamous Yggdrassilliumme as well as the kind of characters you would see in the golden days of Realm of Chaos. And while I am already hard at work figuring out a suitable angle for this guy as a part of the Velsen Sector (he’ll be a member of the so-called “Duelists”, an insidious Khornate lodge operating in the sector), Neil was also kind enough to provide his own little vignette of background:



Coal black eyes kindled the embers of hate, as the headsman daubed his breastplate with the aged ichor of his enemies. His skull face plate chafed at the nape of his neck, the fitting too tight for comfort.

So much he had given, but the Blood God’s bucket had a hole. Never enough, always more.

The unsaturated hunger for power, for glory, always gnawed at his soul. Like the itch of his helm, the one he couldn’t scratch…reminding him that his work was never done. His bucket never full.


In other news, I posted my thoughts on the new model for Khârn the Betrayer on my blog earlier this week, in case anyone's interested.

Last but not least, I also finished this guy:


Angron Thal'kr, Lord of the Red Sands

























As always, let me know what you think!

Wow nice!

Angron looks awesome! How did you paint the skin?

Skin looks very nice. Great work.

And the nice stuff keeps coming!! This new Angron of yours is really neat, and the painjob really does him justice. This new skin tone you used really fits him imho. And great idea to paint the base as sand rather than you usual dark grey, suits the gladiatorial feel very well. I think it could use some blood right under that helmet (and btw where is it from?) though it is common knowledge by now how reluctant you are when using that special effect
Another thing, very nice review of the new Khârn model

Cheers, guys!

@ Ashenwhyte: The skin recipe goes like this:

- basecaot the skin areas with GW Rakarth Flesh
- wash with GW Ogryn Flesh (or GW reikland Fleshshade)
- add a thin layer of GW Cadian Fleshtone
- add a mix of GW Carroburg Crimson and GW Druchii Violet to the recesses to create shadows, bruising or distressed looking skin as needed.

@ Legio Ultra: Seeing how this is basically Angron in his pre-Imperial life, the sandy arena base was a crucial part of the model! Ths sand was created using Vallejo Sandy Paste, which is a great little tool for basing!

As for the blood: My take was that the helmet doesn't come from a recent opponent (which is why it's partway buried in the sand), hence no blood The bit is from MaxMini.eu, I believe.

Any chance of an updated army shot?

Huh? For the 30k World Eaters, you mean? Mate, those three painted models are basically all that is finished right now...

Woah! if there was ever a character guaranteed to be evil before he was evil, it's 30K Angron. Even better, you've taken on both versions of him and they've turned out glorious! I especially like how you've stripped the man down from a heavily armoured tank to a true gladiator, more 30km any time soon?

Wow that Angron is stunning, amazing conversion and painting he really looks like hes in an arena.