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This blog will document the birth of my chaos legion. I am a fairly new hobbyist and 40k player, only been into it for about a half a year and this is my first army. So any feedback is appreciated!

Over the last half year I've been collecting Chaos Space Marines, and I've amassed a large collection of unassembled, unpainted models. So far this is my estimated final product in terms of what I want to build:

HQ:

2 Daemon Princes for now, possibly some other stuff like Abaddon later.


Troops:

1. 30 regular CSM (they all pretty much look the same... these guys are my cannon fodder)
2. 16 Bionically enchanced CSM, to be played as Plague Marines
3. 20 Skull-themed bezerkers (Khorne bezerkers except modelled cooler and they're chaos undivided)
4. 5 Chosen CSM with an infiltrator theme, look like special forces
5. 5 Ornate and badass looking close combat chosen CSM or aspiring champions
6. 5 terminators, magnetized
7. 8 Noise Marines
8. 10 Raptors
9. 10 Chaos Bikers
10. Some extra missile/autocannon Havocs, interminged with the other troops with magnets

Vehicles:

1. 3 Chaos Dreadnoughts
2. 8 Rhinos
3. 2 Defilers
4. 2 Predators
5. 2 Vindicators (the tanks will be convertible from pred to vindi)
6. 3 Land Raiders

It's quite a lot of dudes and I want to do a lot of scratchbuilding and customization, so this project might last for awhile. After checking out all the cool painting techniques and painters here on Dakka and other places, I think I've decided on some basic painting strategies I want to use. The setting for my army will be on Cadia, sometime during Abaddon's thirteenth black crusade, and the whole army will have a weathered and battle damaged look. I also want them to look very nasty and chaotic, like a mixture of the Reavers from the movie Serenity mixed with a baroque style like the necromongers in Chronicles of Riddick. The Dark-mechanicus themed troops will sort of look like the Borg.

So to achieve this I've purchased an airbrush, weathering powders, the best metallic paints (VMA metallics and liquid gold), and I plan to try out using oil paints for washes. I also want to do some OSL (but not a lot, really) and put my troops on nice bases. I've also gotten some LED's and plan to light up my vehicles. I'm still a beginner at this stuff although I have traditional artwork experience, such as oil painting and drawing and design and the like. I just love creating something beautiful and then playing games with it!

If anyone sees something in here that they would like to know how to do, feel free to comment or PM me I'll try to answer you and if enough people express interest maybe I will make a small tutorial about it. Hopefully this blog will help me make progress and document that progress too.

So without further introduction, some pics.

My chaos Forge:


Some Obliterators:
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My Daemon Prince (He's like a flying badass obliterator) WIP:
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Thanks everybody! And more to come,

Cheers,

Meade

This is mindblowing! I can't wait to see them painted.

Thanks for the encouragement man! I need inspiration to stay up until 3 am every night and get my dudes built up so I can start painting

please do a tutorial on your puddy technique. its amazing

tkrettler91 wrote:please do a tutorial on your puddy technique. its amazing

The green stuff work is aided by a "Tube Tool" from Masq miniatures. It is my best friend seriously. It helps me to create Obliterators starting up from a wire frame. Because I hate those GW obliterator models. They all look like they are taking a dump. And they weapons they are modelled with are not even the weapons they actually have.

Amazing!!

I've got to know how you make those green-stuff cords. They look superb and really tie it all together!

Yeah they are all done with that tool, and I just experiment with different formulas for thicker cables or different textures.

I really like these!! Love the concept and great work with your converting, though IMHO wouldn't this theme work better for Iron Warriors?

Deathly Angel wrote:I really like these!! Love the concept and great work with your converting, though IMHO wouldn't this theme work better for Iron Warriors?

It would work pretty well with Iron Warriors, particularly those Bionic-counts-as-plague marines. But then I feel like I have to invest in getting all their shoulder pads, their viking helmets and do their chevron paint scheme (not really a fan of it), and I also want to include some Noise Marines in my army, and possibly Abaddon once I have a big enough force built. I think that black legion is the only thing with a big enough scope for all the stuff I want to do, you'll see when I post more stuff up. Although I am a fan of Iron Warriors. This this guy here on dakka is a big inspiration:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?u=24683&utype=own

Very nice work.

Like the dark menacing feel it all has.

they look amazing, on a side note, on the third image of your machanicus marines, the marine in the middle, to me his head looks like mr popo from Dragon Ball Z....
can't wait to see what imaginative colour scheme you come up with
Typhon

TUBES!!!!! Great work, very original CSM can't wait to see more of this project!

OMFG!!! The green stuff work is outstanding.

Your attention to detail is mind blowing. Keep it up, this is going to be a great read / view as it progress's

Your greenstuff work is insane! The tubes, the flesh and essentially everything is perfect. In addition the conversions are unique, creative and well thought out. Those Obilterators are way better than the official models. Keep up the good work!

I've added this thread to my favorites.

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Exactly what i was thinking.

Great stuff, i'm not gona lie it made me jump up and down a little in my chair, stuff like this is why i play chaos !

you used a few bits ive looked at for a while now, and considered getting, and well you've sold me on them

keep it up !

NICE !!!!

Wow ur going to make my black legion look like crap lok. Good job! !!

Thanks for all the great comments guys.

Here are the rest of my obliterators (6 total so far), and some skeleton bezerker guys I was working on today (I'm not sure yet what to call them). They still need to be cleaned up a bit... sometimes you only notice when you take the pictures of them!

Here are my 30 CSM, they are pretty much cannon fodder so they all look the same. I'm leaving the bolter off for now so I can paint them easier.



My Obliterators:















And my Bezerkers! I tried doing more drapery today and my champion came out good, but I think I was sabotaged by bad greenstuff there are too many little chunks in it. The other guy is supposed to be like a cult leader a little bit like a chaplain. I ordered a new 36 inch greenstuff log today.











And for those who are curious, this is how my daemon prince and the obliterators start life, built up around a wire frame and hot glue.



Cheers!

Very interesting work and that's a compliment I seldom ever give. I can only hope two things for you on this army because I am very interested in it. First I hope you get some resin bases as they will really spruce up the models themselves. Secondly I hope the paint job lives up too the conversions as these are nice and I would love too see them done true justice because if you do then you will have one outstanding army on your hands. I take it the coils are done from a GS mould?

Empchild wrote:Very interesting work and that's a compliment I seldom ever give. I can only hope two things for you on this army because I am very interested in it. First I hope you get some resin bases as they will really spruce up the models themselves. Secondly I hope the paint job lives up too the conversions as these are nice and I would love too see them done true justice because if you do then you will have one outstanding army on your hands. I take it the coils are done from a GS mould?

Thanks man,

Yeah the coils are from the tube tool. It was worth every penny but I like using copper wires too. I also use the instamold for some things and sculpt freehand some others. I do plan on putting work into the bases, however I think I'm going to experiment with what I can do with cheaper materials first (i need like 80+ bases). I want to make them look like they are on Cadia, so that way I can put a lot of different extra elements like snow and dried grass and battle debris and cracked concrete, I want to experiment with using corkboard or some similar material. Might mix in a few nice urban bases if I find something I like.

I am new to painting minis but I have experience with traditional art, like sculpture and painting. So hopefully that will help me. But I got an airbrush and I'm looking into the different tutorials I can find online to help me adjust to the medium. One way of putting it is, the paintjob won't be the type that I spend 20 minutes on each model, I just have too much stuff. I need to figure out an assembly line strategy. But they will have all the cool stuff like glowing eyes, glowing (OSL) swords and weapons, and convincing weathering and battle damage.

Keep up the good work. Can you give me a link to a website that sells the tube tool you have? Also, I love the Berzerker with the Skull Chest.

LoneLictor wrote:Keep up the good work. Can you give me a link to a website that sells the tube tool you have? Also, I love the Berzerker with the Skull Chest.

http://www.masq-mini.com, you might want to look for a US retailer but I could not find one when I looked. Of course once you get it there's no going back, you will end up making a lot of tubes.

I think this looks really cool, but you should fix the feet made of sprue so they don't look like.. well, sprue...

speedfreek wrote:I think this looks really cool, but you should fix the feet made of sprue so they don't look like.. well, sprue...

Yeah, that was the first guy I did. maybe I will go back to him later when I clean everybody up. The other guys have feet mostly made of smoke launchers. Although, never underestimate the value of some heavy weathering and paint job!

those zerkers are going to be awsome

Weird and wonderful! I love the way your work coils and loops around itself. A great take on chaos -- very dark and industrial. I'm looking forward to watching this project continue to take shape.

risewiththefallen wrote:those zerkers are going to be awsome

Thanks. I'm still not sold on that skull head for the special guy carrying the staff. It's a little bit cartoony looking, I might just change it to be the same as my champions head, a grinning skull. The shoulder pads I got with that bit were good, but probably too expensive for what I get.

I'm working on Noise marines today, and I kind of was avoiding it, but I found out a great way to do the helmet so I'm actually pretty excited now, I'll try to get some done today and pics up. I hate those metal ones you get with the kit.

Even though I'm black legion Slaanesh is the only ruinous power that has a special part to play in my army. I've got a forgeworld dreadnought with blastmaster and I'm working up to doing that later






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Hi everyone, more progress!

Today I finished my Noise Marinesn (although they still need some shoulder pads). It was a pain in the butt working on that metal, but I got everything pinned. In the pics their blasters are not glued on they are just being held up by pins, that way it's easier to paint them when the time comes. I made their heads by taking the vent off a backpack, taking a regular helmet and smoothing out the top, and then replacing the grill with a bigger one... that way you get the 'screaming face' effect. and I added more wires coming out of their helmet because you know they need more wires... to do stuff.

I made eleven, with a champion who has a doom siren, 6 blasters, and one blastmaster, and 4 bolter guys for cannon fodder but they still look like noise guys.

enjoy!

And I fixed up two more skull bezerker guys. That green stuff skull on the shoulder pad is hand sculpted by me.

Really nive with speaker-mouths on all of them.

Best Obliterators ever. That tube tool is amazing. Creates a very Gigeresque feel which is perfect. Going to have to get one.