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So Ladies (Wishful thinking) and Gents

This is the P&M for my newest and most time restricted project! "The Lost Children of Isstvan V" A 1500 Warriors of Chaos army by summer (Hopefully)!

This is because I want to play in my FLGS's Fantasy Campaign they run and have really liked the look and feel of the WOC army. I have not played Fantasy in a very long time, but with the help of a ton of people from here on dakka, I have been working on a possible list and have decided to slowly pick up squads piece by piece and try and complete them and post the progress here on Dakka.

The kind of things I will be working on shall be Chaos Warriors, Trolls(Of which i will be using the beastmen Minotaurs as a counts as unit and Doombull as Throgg) a Lord of some sort and Chaos Knights...I will also be including some other things but have not decided 100% what will be going into the army.

The Paint Scheme I will be going with will be something more of the Darker Purple Variety as I want something a little different then Khorne Red or Nurgle Green...I also think the color Blue leaves a bad taste in my mouth thanks to my days playing 40k and having to face so many Ultrasmurfs! The following pictures are some models I have been working on and show the basic paint scheme I have settled on, which is a dark purple/dark gold look

I hope I am able to keep everyone interested and will do my best to keep up with this project to the best of my ability (Even with 21 credit hours)

The Things I have currently;y finished include
-5 Chaos Knights ~Squad Complete~
-11 Warriors
-7 Minotaurs (Counts as trolls) ~Squad Complete~
-10 Warhounds
-Sorcerer Lord

What I still need to finish
-Throgg
-11 more Warriors


So let the Maim, Burn, Pillage Begin!~

i cant tell with the purple, but theres definently bleached bone and dwarf bronze in there.... I think.

Is that bronze or do you think its a darkened gold of some sort? I was think a Leviathan purple with maybe some lightened highlights? and just darken the recesses? Any suggestions?


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Another Idea I have for my Army is to use these upcoming Black Knights models for some of my other squads of Chaos Knights! http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=19043

Cutthroatcure wrote:Is that bronze or do you think its a darkened gold of some sort? I was think a Leviathan purple with maybe some lightened highlights? and just darken the recesses? Any suggestions?


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Another Idea I have for my Army is to use these upcoming Black Knights models for some of my other squads of Chaos Knights! http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=19043

I think the black nights would make some great chaos knights! I think a darker gold my compliment purple a little more then bronze does,

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Another Idea I have for my Army is to use these upcoming Black Knights models for some of my other squads of Chaos Knights! http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?t=19043

So Stage 1 of Chaos knights is complete!

I cut every piece from the sprue and filed down and removed all mold lines to make them look a lot better.

I have chosen the horse in the last picture to be my first subject...Any ideas on what role he should play in this squad? Musician, Banner, regular knight?

So after spending some quality time with the lady and her family, I found myself with some extra time to make some major progress on the building of my Chaos Knights.

So with my tube of Testors (Blue) glue, toothpick and the 7th season of "Weeds" I was able to finish building all 5 horses and get them glued to their bases!!!! Huzzah

I then found a little more energy and then pushed forward and put the riders legs together just to put just a little more of a dent in the work I have to do to finish this army, now tomorrow I will have to make the important choices of what to model them with and who will get the horn and who will get the banner, as well as do I like the axe or sword better...If you have any ideas or want to cast your vote as what I should do please feel free to do so!

Thanks for Looking

Absolutely wonderful work!

Thanks, We shall see where it goes once I get to painting them Purple!

So another day has passed and it is time for me to show the bounty of today's labor!

It is nothing much but now at this point the only thing left for me to do is to start painting. Today I glued the riders together and put their shields together as well as pick out the weapons I intend to use. I have put together my general plan for the armor and I have also been working on a complete back story which i will write up and post on here tomorrow as I may not be able to start painting till I get white primer.

Thanks for looking and see you again tomorrow!




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Also This was my 900th post on Dakka!!!!

use an airbrush you'll be done by march.

I'm also in the process of building my Chaos army. Those Knights sure do take a while to build properly don't they? So much detail to carefully scrape mold lines from.

If you are going to play WYSIWYG games, I would suggest not using that lance while the rest of the squad has the regular ensorcelled weapons.

I would also suggest not gluing the knights to the horses until they've been basecoated, it will make painting much easier.

You might even want to just put a pin in there and never glues them for easier transport.

I am going to leave them unattached until the painting is done as I know they will be a pain,

I have given alot of thought to just leaving them unattached but I also have some really nice foam caring cases so I may make some special cuts in those.

I have been going back and forth with that lance, I do play in tourneys but I really like that lance, maybe it can be just a very long ensorcelled weapon..LOLZ

-Shadowsnip- The paint scheme I am looking at should not give me too many issues with being done by may, I don't own an airbrush and have not had enough practice to use it to the best of my ability where this is kinda a test of my painting skills.

Thanks all for looking and feel free to throw any comments or criticism my way. I am hoping to have my back story finish tonight and then if I can snag some white primer will start working on my test subject!

See ya soon!

Subbed and looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

Thanks, I hope I can keep you fully interested in this project and if I ask a question or you think something would look better just throw me an idea and I'll try it out!

Oh, no problem. I do that anyway.

So today I was able to borrow some White Velspar Primer from some friends since I am super low on funds right now and was unable to get a can myself and prime my test model!

I know the picture is not the best but it gives you something visual to look at along this road you have decided to travel with me!

Now begins the long road of Painting! I hope this comes out as nice as I am hoping and will update with pictures of the next stage for some C&C on how it is looking and what you all think may work better!

Thanks For Looking!

I will be following this with interest

Thanks, I am proud to have such a WOC player as you interested in my work!

Very interesting. Subscribed.

So I will end up posting again later today with some more updates, but this is what I got done at 3 a.m this morning as I could not sleep and wanted to try painting a little bit just to see what would happen.

My knight was a little camera shy in his new(Purple) armor and wanted his faithful steed in the picture to make him seem more manly.

Just thought I would give you all a Sunday morning update to give you all something to look at until later today!

Thanks for looking!

Afternoon Update because I am home alone and have to do something while I wait for the rest of the army's primer to dry!

I got the basic idea of my armor palate done and felt confident enough to prime and prepare the rest of the squad for their step into my painting shop while I watch Greek & paint.

The pictures are a little rough but you get the general idea of how dark the armor will be. I need to pop a highlight or two onto it but otherwise this armor is what Ive got!

I also want to throw a major shout out to my friend GuitaRasmus for giving me his purple recipe and letting me use it on my army, and if you want to see a real painted Chaos army you should check his P&M out! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/395043.page

But without further ado here is the test subject with his darker armor! Test was a Great Success!

So here is the final color of the armor after a ton of tweaking on the test. I now have the recipe and method down to a science and am very very proud of the results!

Thanks Guita!

I still have a good bit of work and was thinking about doing the random symbols and edgings in a gold darkened by Devlan Mud but I am not sure if I should use burnished or shining, or if I should just use a Bronze/Tin Bits mix? Any suggestions would be welcome. I am going to try to have the entire squad 100% painted by Friday! After the knights ill get the horses done then the weapons and shields!

So here is what I have at the end of the day! (Test subject is being redone to match up with the finished results of everyone else!)

What do you think?

So was able to get a little work done on one of the knights and with a little more detailing and a few finishing touches I will be complete with my first knight (Minus the horse, shoulder pads or arms)

I should be able to nail out the rest of the squad pretty quick tmrw and if I am able to sit down and get that done then Wednesday I should be starting to paint my first horse, or basing and painting appendages, so fun fun either way.

Thanks for Looking
Cutthroatcure

Looking good mate, maybe a few highlights?

Gonna dry brush some Liche Purple onto the armor and Skull White onto the Horns was my plan so far, thoughts?

Horses Have been started and will post pictures Tomorrow because i am too tired tonight!

So as promised after a little sleep and a day full of college classes, I bring to you pictures of the progress of the Chaos Steeds I have been working on.

I am quite happy with the current results but understand I still have a ton of stuff still left to do before they are complete but at least I have my basic color scheme down lolz.

I know it is not a lot but I have done the steeds skin and I have put the starting layer of paint onto the armor to get that process on the right track.

So here they are. ENJOY!

Cutthroatcure

So tonight I decided to watch some Freaks and Geeks and Forgo sleep while I got into the mood of painting and got a ton of work done on one of my Chaos Steeds.

I still have to highlight the saddle, hooves, metal parts and a few other areas, as well as finish painting the horned areas and doing a few bits of detail work to the overall model, but for the night I am supper stoked at how it came out!

I need to work on the mouth as well and have noticed my knights are a little darker but with anything it is all trial and error and I am hoping they wont look bad together, i just will have it all done pat before I do my warrior troops and will be able to make the major chunk of my army fall into the full color scheme I have grown to love.

So at 3:00 a.m my time I make this post and hope it finds you all in good spirits.

Thanks for looking
Cutthroatcure