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Hi there, While getting back into 40k from a 7 year absence last year i was suprised to find out that my precious Word Bearers Legion no longer had its own unique rules in 5th edition so i went along my way playing renegades as most do but recently i decided to work around the lack of army rules.


A THEMED army *WOO dance!*

My idea for a themed army came from some threads i posted on dakka concerning characters like Fabius and the disgust i had with the models themselves. I decided to create a dark apothecary for a count as fabius but it has inspired me to repaint all my cult marines and make them "Genetic Experiments" for my army now. I will need to strip my PM's and i wont know what to do with plastic models. If anyone has tips on taking pictures of models on a budget please let me know! i may have a digital camera somewhere around here but i may need to use my phone camera... FAIL!

looking for legit bitz dealers i found a store blackdagger games on Ebay on Window-box from which i bought many bitz, some chosen, the dark apothecary and a new dark apostle (which will be a count as MOT Chaos Lord/Sorcerer or possibly Kharn) are going to consist of the Churgieon backpack/Cypher backpacks, Blood Angels Death Company/ CSM Tactical/Berzerker and SM company command bits o create these.


This Blog will also show the occasional Pain job/conversion and please PLEASE feedback will be appritiated.



by the way this will be the scheme for the general outline of my army, with the exception of cult Expirements and terminators.

What colours with the cult experiments and terminators have?

Terminators are actually already painted; it was before i had a definite scheme for the army. They have gold helmets and some have red feet. The WB PM's are going to have filed off nurgle icons but still look decrepit. They will be as though the expirements essentially created Undead CSM through a mix of techno-magical constructs.

not to sure about the pms
has great potential
just baybee redoo the fluff

I cant wait to see some models in build mode!

Papaskittels wrote:not to sure about the pms
has great potential
just baybee redoo the fluff

What do you mean the PM's? they will be the exact same models, filed off icons, decrepit SM expirements. I mean hey you give a man a liberal dose of PCP and a knife, and you get someone with a handgun 30 ft away and tell them to have at it; im sure the Intoxicated individual will FNP and get to stab the gunner before he dies from massive blood loss

So epic fail tonight. Finally found a digital camera at home and when i took the pics.... it came out so horribly and thats when i remembered it was a cheapo camera. Im getting a desklamp for my desk tomorrow and i'll post pics either in the daylight on my phone or use this for better lighting.

I plan on showing you all:

My mix-match painted termies
1 painted CSM icon bearer
1 WIP(unpainted) Dark apostle/ lord NOT the dark apothecary... his bitz havent all come in yet.... :/
1 painted old school oblit and 1 unpainted stroggified corrupt ad-mech servitor oblit... i love kitbashing oblits


this will all hopefully be up tomorrow!

The bit is on the way!! I mailed it yesterday!

well thanks tonynids!


and you know in sunlight the quality got better so i said F it... bad pics or not ill post it for now.

some came out better, but its a terrible camera too.


so: the icon bearer, oblit, servitor oblit, some of the termis that didnt come out totally horrible and a really bad photo of the apostle

the pictures are pretty terribad, but from what i can see they look good...

and for future models, using some of the DA robed bodies with no loyalist symbols look awesome for word bearers

Meh, I don't like the idea of powerarmored dresses.... just not my style. When I get better at greenstuff ill make tattered unpurity seals but until then...


And didn't I saythe pics were bad

nice apostle, btw do you want to see a pick of my Lord? Iv'e done a mace/star weapon on him like the dawn of war CS lord got, I think it could give you some inspiration to a more impressive weapon He loos pretty good right now but imho I think he needs a bigger weapon

I like Cyphers backpack on that one marine!

Rose_Mountainz wrote:nice apostle, btw do you want to see a pick of my Lord? Iv'e done a mace/star weapon on him like the dawn of war CS lord got, I think it could give you some inspiration to a more impressive weapon He loos pretty good right now but imho I think he needs a bigger weapon

You know... I was going to have my apostle have a giant clunky weapon like eliphas from DOW but I realizes that these apostles are chaplains that became corrupter so I simply cut a banner arm from a CSM tac squad, then added a knife blade on bottom, then chaos knight banner top for the corzarius. I wanna use greenstuff but idk what to do!

P.s show me the apostle!

As you wish


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Apologies that I haven't painted him yet

Nice; yeah i like the corrupt corzarius thing, but thats still a rad idea!

You have a cool army, I really like the list you played against me the other day. The standard bearer looks awesome, to bad you forgot it at home that night.
Keep posting those pics.

hi all! Thanks to me GENEROUS girlfriend i now have.... what is this? a camera that is not a piece of trash?! woot! im borrowing her camera for a couple days, time to post progress!
If you Follow Coutts's Death guard blog we just met on friday for a game at the soon-to-be battle bunker in Alamo CA; he whomped me pretty hard but that was due to ineffective list build and poor dice rolls on my part! you can see my half painted rhinos in it (which look more like fully painted black legion!)


anyways, i digress

For modeling; i also decided after my fabius count as that i will recreat ALL of the special characters in C:CSM in word bearers form; all of which will be types of dark apostles in one way or another.



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Nobody has any input>>?

Also new thought: with all these enhancement kind of things as a theme could i use this army as a count as blood angels? some of my apostles could be priests, my fab count as mephiston?

... wow alot of feedback!

anyways after finding out the GBP fell a bit i may go on forgeworld and buy the WB dred w/ 2 CCW

I'm liking the apostle model....the head looks awesome on him, also the Fabius Bile conversion is rather hot.

The only thing I would say is that the models are a little... shiny. It might just be me but personally I don't like shiny models too much, other than that, great job ^^

The forgeworld Word Bearer Dread is awesome, get it.

I usually don't take any of GW's advice but here is a link to helping you paint your WBs, if you need the help.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat210004&categoryId=600003§ion=&aId=1200011&_requestid=1710906

Haha thanks but i think i got a general idea down on how i want to paint mine.

And unclean one, maybe it was just the direction of the sun that made it shiny? my fab is a kitbash of WHFB warriors, FB backpack, Black templar axe, death company and SM command squad. The Apostle is company commander head and pads with cypher backpack, WHFB icon, aspiring champion body and Death company legs.

UPDATE!

So these are NOT final products, they are about half way painted. I am a busy man and i think that if i can paint about 5 models a week i will have a fully painted army in about.....4 months? lets hope!

Coutts: I usually don't take any of GW's advice but here is a link to helping you paint your WBs, if you need the help.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat210004&categoryId=600003§ion=&aId=1200011&_requestid=1710906

I really wouldn't put too much stock in his opinion considering he just got busted pretty hard for his shenanigans (sp?)

IMO, the figs look good. A little matte varnish spray will keep the paints from chipping and will take the shiny-ness away too.

Keep up the work!

tony_nids_10 wrote:

Coutts: I usually don't take any of GW's advice but here is a link to helping you paint your WBs, if you need the help.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat210004&categoryId=600003§ion=&aId=1200011&_requestid=1710906

I really wouldn't put too much stock in his opinion considering he just got busted pretty hard for his shenanigans (sp?)

IMO, the figs look good. A little matte varnish spray will keep the paints from chipping and will take the shiny-ness away too.

Keep up the work!

ooo varnish spray.... never thought of using it! And that link posted is actualy inaccurate; the trim of Worc Bearers is supposed to be like a metalic trim not brown...odd.

I understand he got busted tonynids; he is a pretty cool guy tho (know him IRL).

i like the your dark apostle model

What is a good/safe gloss for minis?

I used the Citadel Matte varnish on most of mine. There are other anti shine ones out there. I think Army Painter has one too.

got it! the GW varnish that is


painting the eyes is a bitch...


I decided to just use a mincron .005 color set but on the black they do not show, maybe i will put a dab of codex grey on the eyes and then put some of that green or blue ink over it







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p.s on the Dakka homepage how do i get them to change my picture of my P and M blog?