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Ok so heres a quick overview of how I went about making my chariots of Tzeentch.

List of Components: (as best as I can remember)
- 2 Horrors ( old metal ones before new plastics)
- 4 Screamers as is from box sets
- some cheap craft chain and craft wire
- 2x flames accessory packs from malifaux (dont need all bits just a couple)
- Some air dry clay for disc mould
- Greenstuff for making discs/filling gaps and such

Bits used on Horrors:
- Horns from a Daemon Prince plastic kit
- Tongue from Keeper of Secrets alternate head
- Flames accessories from previously mentioned pack (used on horrors arm)
- Hand with a whip from the corspe cart box set (Vampire Counts)
- 2x Ends of whips from Dark Eldar Warriors kits (to make the whip have 3 tails)

Bases:
-2x Screaming Bell base
-2x 60mm round base
-8x 25mm resin base (used to match existing Tzeentch models I have)
-2x 40mm resin base
- 6x various sized flying stands (come with screamers box)
- Snow basing stuff

Basically I love the magical flames that tend to be in tzeentch armies alot, this coupled with the fact that chariots are awesome units for daemons I had to go and make some.

Burning Chariot of Tzeentch
"Tzeentch's chariots are discs of sorcerous fire shackled to a pair of screamers. They hurtle accross the Realm of Chaos like incandescent meteors, bringing Tzeentch's chosen Heralds to every corner of existence."
pg 50 Daemons of Chaos

That pretty much sums up how I think a Tzeentch chariot should be.

So, here are the bits I started with to make the chariots.



The discs themselves I decided to make from GS, I'v seen people use flying bases etc but I didnt like the sizes of the flying bases and went for a disc size in between the 2.

I made these disc halves by making a mould from a pepper grinder lid in air dry clay. After the clay was dry I used some cooking oil to lube up the mould and then pressed GS into it to make half a disc, I then put this in the freezer to harden the GS so I could pop it out of the mould without warping the GS. Two of the disc halves get glued together to give the disc a curve on the top and bottom of the model.



After gluing the disc halves I chopped the back half off to attach the flame tails, then I used GS to blend in the edges a bit. I also started doing some work on the heralds to set them apart from the normal horrors.





I then thought hmm, not enough flames, maybe I can sculpt some, and so my first real attempt at sculpting something happened.




Next pics just show progress on sculpting flames and bits on the heralds.




Now I knew I'd need some decent size bases for these guys and because they havent got any actual model or base size I made some bases using a screaming bell base and a 60mm round base.



I then chucked some resin bases on top for texture and because the rest of my Tzeentch army has the same bases. I also drilled holes into said bases and used GS to make supports for the flying stands.








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This pic shows how I'v used GS to fill the gaps in the join between the 2 screamer bits, also holes I drilled for the chains to link into said screamer.



At this point most of the building was done, the following pics show how painting progressed. (Not very detailed for painting just basic idea on how it progressed, anyone interested in how stuff was painted feel free to ask)







The chains were attached last and are just some cheap craft chain I bought, the rings that link the screamers and chains + the ring the heralds are holding were made by wrapping some thin wire about a round object, they were then cut to form rings (kinda how rings are made for chainmail). Was just a matter of cutting the chains to the right length by hooking them up and testing length.

And finally the finished Chariots.

This is awesome! Way to go! I almost want to Tzeentch now! (No! Bad Jake! Stop that!)

Anyway, some close up detail shots of the finished products would be cool if you can get them.

Wow, great, though it looks quite painful to sculpt all those flames...

By the way, what are the metal flames that form the tail of the discs ?

The metal flames for the tails are from the flame accessory pack in the malifaux range.

Ill see if I can take some better pics today. Either that or you can use zoom in the gallery if you havent already done so.

Very beautiful!!! Im in the process of making my tzeentch disks/chariots and i may have to borrow some of this idea

Give a tutorial for this, I beg you my great changer of Models

Really nice.

@ Nightwalker: this thread basically shows how Iv made them, wasnt too much more to it then what Iv posted here. If you have any questions about how I did something in particular though, feel free to ask.

@ OP : You should maybe list everything you needed for that project, before you start explaining how you did them.

I guess I was not the only one not knowing about the Malifaux flames...

Ill edit top post and put a list in before the pics

Great !

But why 4 Screamers?

Because each chariot is pulled by 2 screamers.

2 screamers fits the fluff and just having 1 would look weird I thought, going 3 screamers would have been overkill, so 2 is a good number.

The 2 left over screamers I'll just be using in my army.

Great tutorial; and excellent looking too!

Those flames are exactly what i need for my chariots! Thank you for alerting me to their existence!

I couldn't afford screamers so I used the spare heads and tails from 2 high elf dragons to make some firewyrm reminiscent type things.

Awesome work, especially on the flame details!

Epic daemons are epic!

Those flames look great. How did you sculpt them?

Just using GS and some sculpting tools I have.

I rolled noodle shapes, then stuck them on where I wanted them, then, using the tools I shaped the noodles to a more flame like shape.

Basically I was just playing around with GS to see what I could come up with lol.


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CrimsonHammer wrote:Those flames are exactly what i need for my chariots! Thank you for alerting me to their existence!

I couldn't afford screamers so I used the spare heads and tails from 2 high elf dragons to make some firewyrm reminiscent type things.

I think I saw your models for the screamers, they came out looking pretty cool I thought.

this is epic i hope you will contuine making such awsome models. and you should get a blog of ur Tzeenchy work

You're aware that this was posted 4 years ago, right?