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Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

ArbitorIan's FORCES OF CHAOS Mega-blog

This started out as a small repaint of my Noise Marines and has turned into a massive and sprawling Chaos thread. When I restarted this in Jan 2014, my plans were to strip and rebuild the army from scratch, getting rid of anything I don't want/need, to try out airbrushing and weathering as ways of increasing the speed of my painting and to get as many random models painted up and useable as possible, instead of sitting around in boxes. Since then the army has grown to hundreds of models and crazy conversions.

It can be configured in a load of different ways, and this blog covers:

- 40k Chaos Space Marines
- 40k Renegades & Heretics
- 30k Militia & Cults
- 30k Word Bearers (originally an allied force but now growing into a full army)
- Daemons!

In time, we'll have 30k Emperor's Children, 30k Mechanicum and Solar Auxilia in there too!



Contents

1 - Original Post, rebasing and dipping the old models, Daemon Prince conversion, Obliterators started
2 - Obliterators finished. End of Rebasing 2012. Start of NOISE MARINES Rhinos & Predators finished, Raptors, Sorcerers & Noise Marines finished.
3 - Terminators, Terminator Lord, Lucius, Havocs, Cultists, Bikers
4 - Dreadnoughts, Obliterators, Daemon Prince, Hell Blades / Drakes
5 - RENEGADES & HERETICSSpawn, Chaos Hounds, Cultist Champions, Beastmen, Cultist Heavy Weapon Teams
6 - Leman Russ Build, Artillery Build, Leman Russes Complete!
7 - Artillery Crew, Salamanders Build, All tanks complete, All renegade infantry complete, Massive photo post, Sentinels started.
8 - HERESY WORD BEARERS - Tacticals, Terminators and Deredeo built & completed
9 - Malcador Heavy Tanks, Mutant Rabble, Zardu Layak, Imperial Truth Event 2015, Chaos Knight, Sentinels, Khorne Berserkers, Artillery built
10 - Artillery & Rapiers, Gorgon Transport, Valdor Tank Hunter conversion, Thunderbolt, London 40k GT, Baneblade
11 - More Word Bearers! Zardu's Blade Slaves, Gal Vorbak, Assault Squad, Heavy Support Squad, Rapiers, Maxmini Jetbikes
12 - Renegade Stormlord, Word Bearers Breachers, Rhinos, Land Raiders and Spartans
13 - Renegade army shot, Leman Russ Tank Company complete, Hydra/Wyverns, Atlas Recovery Tank, Thunderer Siege Tanks, Deathstrike/Manticore

Models Painted

Spoiler:

* Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour
* Chaos Lord with Jump Pack
* Lucius the Eternal
* 2 x Chaos Sorcerers
* 24 x Noise Marines
* 10 x Raptors
* 6 x Warp Talons
* 12 x Havocs
* 6 x Obliterators
* 2 x Rhinos
* 2 x Predators
* 2 x Hell Talons
* 5 x Castaferrum Dreadnoughts

* 1 x Renegade Knight

* 1 x Renegade Commander / Demagogue with Flamer
* 2 x Renegade Commander (Tallarn)
* 7 x Renegade Command / Disciples
* 3 x Rogue Psykers
* 5 x Discipline Masters / Enforcers
* 60 x Mutant Rabble / Indentured Levy
* 40 x Renegade Guardsmen with Lasguns (Tallarns)
* 20 x Renegades with Shotguns
* 20 x Renegades with Melee Weapons
* 20 x Renegades with Lasguns/Autoguns
* 10 x Renegade Cultists (Red Redemption)
* 2 x Renegades with Eviscerators
* 4 x Renegades with Plasma guns
* 8 x Renegades with Meltaguns
* 6 x Renegades with Flamers
* 2 x Renegades with Hand Flamers
* 3 x Renegades with Heavy Stubbers
* 3 x Renegades with Vox
* 4 x Renegades with Grenade Launchers

* 6 x Renegade Autocannon Teams
* 3 x Renegade Lascannon Teams
* 3 x Renegade Mortar Teams

* 7 x Mutant Spawn
* 3 x Chaos Hounds

* 10 x Solar Auxilia Veletaris with Rotor Cannon

* 3 x Chimeras
* 2 x Hellhounds
* 2 x Salamanders
* 3 x Basilisks
* 3 x Medusa
* 2 x Hydra / Wyverns
* 1 x Manticore / Deathstrike
* 10 x Leman Russ
* 1 x Destroyer Tank Hunter
* 3 x Thunderer Siege Tanks
* 1 x Atlas Recovery Tank
* 2 x Malcadors
* 1 x Valdor Tank Hunter
* 1 x Baneblade
* 1 x Stormlord
* 1 x Gorgon Heavy Transport
* 1 x Thunderbolt Fighter
* 6 x Sentinels

* 6 x Rapier Plaforms
* 2 x Heavy Ordnance Platforms
* 30 x Renegade Artillery Crew

* Zardu Layak & Blade Slaves
* Legion Centurion/Delegatus/Champion
* Legion Chaplain
* Legion Chaplain with Jump Pack
* Legion Librarian in Terminator Armour
* Legion Primus Medicae in Terminator Armour
* 5 x Gal Vorbak
* 10 x Legion Terminators
* 10 x Legion Tactical Marines
* 10 x Legion Tactical Support Marines with Rotor Cannon
* 10 x Legion Breacher Marines
* 10 x Legion Assault Marines
* 3 x Rapier Teams
* 1 x Deredeo Dreadnought
* 2 x Legion Rhinos
* 2 x Land Raider Proteus/Spartan Assault Tanks




Paint Schemes Over Time

2014 Current Scheme - Pale Pink




2016 Word Bearers - Dark Red


Old schemes in the spoilers!
Spoiler:
2012 'Updated' scheme - washed & rebased


2006 Original scheme - pink & black



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Made in au
Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!






Adelaide, Australia

They are what most chaos space marines should be like! Great work!

Notice: If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
 
   
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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos








Really nice stuff, like them alot!

   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka






Lincolnshire, UK

Looks really good! The Terminator Lord and Noise Marine with the banner are my favourites, nice conversion with Fabius too.
The pink is surprisingly subtle yet bright which I like and overall the look nice and 'gritty'; as Chaos Space Marines should!
The bases could do with some more love IMHO and maybe some more vibrant colours on the Noise Marines, but otherwise it's a really good job!
Love the old school figures btw (always liked the Havoc Champion and heavy bolter dude).

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- Magnus the Red, to a statue of Leman Russ
 
   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London


ORIGINAL POST

I've had this army for years, but never really taken good pics of them. I'm now updating them to match my Slaanesh Daemon army, with a complete rebase and some pretty intense washes to make them a bit grittier. I'm also reconverting some if the bits I'm not happy with and adding in a few bits I always wanted to do.The models are a mix of the 2ed metal and 3ed (sort of current) plastic CSMs, with plenty of the old mutation frame and bits from the old Slaanesh WHFB range and the Emperors Children box, back when you could order the bits you wanted from GW!

Terminator Lord - rebase and wash
Lord on Steed - rebase and wash
Sorcerer - rebase and wash
Daemon Prince - build, paint, wash
6 Terminators - rebase and wash
6 Noise Marines 1 - rebase and wash
6 Noise Marines 2 - rebase and wash
6 Noise Marines 3 - rebase and wash
6 Chaos Marines 1 - rebase and wash
6 Chaos Marines 2 - rebase and wash
12 Chaos Marines 3 - rebase and wash
6 Possessed - rebase and wash
6 Raptors - rebase and wash
Dreadnought - add new weapons, rebase and wash
Rhino - additional conversion and wash
Predator 1 - additional conversion and wash
Predator 2 - additional conversion and wash
3 Obliterators 1 - additional conversion, rebase and wash
3 Obliterators 2 - additional conversion, rebase and wash

Noise Marines & CSM






Lord and Terminators





Raptors





Havocs



Sorcerer



Norn King wrote:They are what most chaos space marines should be like! Great work!


Tortured-Robot wrote:

Really nice stuff, like them alot!


Thanks guys. It's amazing what a good dip in old, thickened Vallejo wash can do. Considering they looked like this before, it's a nice, simple update...



Just Dave wrote:Looks really good! The Terminator Lord and Noise Marine with the banner are my favourites, nice conversion with Fabius too.
The pink is surprisingly subtle yet bright which I like and overall the look nice and 'gritty'; as Chaos Space Marines should!
The bases could do with some more love IMHO and maybe some more vibrant colours on the Noise Marines, but otherwise it's a really good job!
Love the old school figures btw (always liked the Havoc Champion and heavy bolter dude).


Thanks Dave. The pink is the product of two touch-ups and refinements over about five years, so it's good that it still stands out. Originally, it was Tentacle Pink and Red Ink, then another Tentacle Pink highlighing update a few years later, and now the Vallejo Wash.

Regarding the bases, do you mean more touching up because they look a bit messy, or a more complex scheme? The simple scheme is mainly to keep them in line with my Daemons, but I could consider doing something more complex on some character models or fancy squads....

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Made in gb
Screaming Banshee






Novosibirsk, Russia

Love them, the only fault would be that the Lord's head is much too thin.

Thought I'd give the whole 'Blogger' lark a go...
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Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Noise Marine squad two...




The rest of the Terminators...






   
Made in us
Hellish Haemonculus






Boskydell, IL

I like them. You got a nice 'genital flesh' tone on your pinks. The lord looks particularly phallic. Your color selections are gritty and Chaos-y, and you make it creepsome without being vulgar. Great work.

Welcome to the Freakshow!

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Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Jimsolo wrote:I like them. You got a nice 'genital flesh' tone on your pinks. The lord looks particularly phallic. Your color selections are gritty and Chaos-y, and you make it creepsome without being vulgar. Great work.


Thanks! Can't say I ever intended them to look too phallic but... you're right...

MOAR UPDATES

This is all the basic infantry completed. One squad of Chosen and the last squad of Noise Marines - these ones were going to be Havocs years ago but since you can't give them all Blastmasters any more I decided to use them as Sonic Blasters. Maybe the upcoming Chaos Codex will change that...!

Noise Marines




Chosen





   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

And more! An alternative Chaos Lord on a Steed that I put together from bits once I found I had a spare Steed left over from my Daemon army.




And a Chaos Dreadnought I inherited from a friend about 15 years ago and went to town with. It's the base of an Epic Titan, with parts of the old metal Skeleton Chariot model as a hull. Just magnetised a couple of weapon options onto it, and hoping that the new Codex will allow me to put the Blastmaster back on...




   
Made in gb
Morbid Black Knight






Wales

Very old-school and cool, I'm loving the pinks.

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Polonius wrote:I categorically reject any statement that there is such a thing as too much boob.


Coolyo294 wrote:Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
 
   
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Stalwart Veteran Guard Sergeant





THE CUT!

Norn King wrote:They are what most chaos space marines should be like! Great work!



Agreed!!!!They look evil!



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Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

4oursword wrote:Very old-school and cool, I'm loving the pinks.

palehorse wrote:Agreed!!!!They look evil!


Thanks guys.

Here's a shot of everything completed so far - I now have to move onto the vehicles and obliterators, which need a bit of work. This one is zoomable in the gallery..


   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

And finally, in time for a bit of gaming today, I've finished the three tanks. Two Predators and a Rhino.

The Rhino just got a bit of a wash and touch-up. No big changes from before. The tubes are made from crushed and cut copper piping - I used to use these as noise amps back in 3ed.




The Predator Destructor had it's noise amp added, in hope that these make a return, and then the dirge casters remouted onto the back of the chassis, and some general spikiness added. Need to clear up some wash pooling on this one...




And the Predator Annihilator had a whole new Lascannon assembly constructed, using one of the spiky halo things from the Chaos frame and some Leman Russ engine bits as the gun barrels.



   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

So, I have been wanting a proper Daemon Prince for this army for ages, and there's ONE slot left in the carry case, so I thought I'd build one out of the contents of my Bitz Box. I based the model on some random bits of the old WHFB Azazel model I happened to have lying around - the body and the front leg. I have the head and one of the arms as well, but I'm not actually a big fan of the sculpt - and I wanted him to look a bit beefier and meaner - like a Space Marine.

After LOTS of rummaging, I came up with this.

Body/Front Leg - Azazel
Back Leg - Salvaged from a really old Daemon Prince.
Head - Ogre Irongut Helm with the face cut out and a GS 'fleshy maw' put in.
Left Arm - Eldar Avatar
Right Arm - Ogre arm with an Avatar sword




I need to thin out the Ogre arm a bit - it's a bit too large at the moment, and maybe find a large pauldron to complete the CSM look, but I think it's generally good. I'm going to give him big furry muscled shoulders so that I can have the option of magnetised wings, and (if I have the magnets to hold the weight) then I intend to use these old metal wings...



AND the newly painted CSM got their first game yesterday at the Overlords' event in Barking - battle report is at http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/431390.page


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Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Well it seems like Slaanesh CSM aren't exactly capturing the minds of the Dakka Community at the moment, but I've started, and I'm almost finished, so onward we go!

Here are some Possessed marines I've rebased and washed. These had the heaviest wash of all - they look REALLY dirty (quite a bit dirtier than planned, actually). The bodies are the original Saurus Warriors from the old WHFB boxed set, with Mutation Frame arms and heads and Berserker legs..




I've also based the Daemon Prince. Round one of magnetisation was a bit of a failure - the magnets were in the wrong place, and there's no way they're going to hold those giant metal wings. So, like my Daemons army, I'm going to use Gargoyle wings. They're not as big, but look suitably evil and ripped...





   
Made in my
Screaming Shining Spear






Prince looks good so far. How many nipples are you gonna add to it?

   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Swordwind wrote:Prince looks good so far. How many nipples are you gonna add to it?


Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. I guess he DOES need some, but his chest is pretty covered.... :/

   
Made in gb
Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps





Earlobe deep in doo doo

Witches nipples could be any place (Satan or in this case Slaanesh didn't mind where he suckled in old folklore). Part of me thought this would be a day-glo army like the Daemons most of me is glad a more sensible approach was taken.............Another part of me thinks
INSANITY IS CHAOS

"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
 
   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Llamahead wrote:Witches nipples could be any place (Satan or in this case Slaanesh didn't mind where he suckled in old folklore). Part of me thought this would be a day-glo army like the Daemons most of me is glad a more sensible approach was taken.............Another part of me thinks
INSANITY IS CHAOS


Thanks - yup, I have yet to see what they look like with the Dayglo Daemons. With the new Chaos Codex, I think I might be able to use them on the same table again soon...!

---

No nipples yet, but some more bits box fun on the Daemon Prince. I dug out some old Chaos Warrior arms and scraped the shoulder pads out, to use as basic armour.



I took some spikes from a Chaos Vehicle sprue and put one at the end of the sword and one on the shoulder plates. He also has a new 'back' to his robe, taken from an Ogre bit (I think).



And the whole of the shoulder arrangement sits on a greenstuffed 'mane' of fur, into which is inset the magnets for the wings. I put a rough dob of GS down and put in the magnets first, and then positioned them with the wings attached. Once the GS was dry, I then took off the wings (since now the magents were 'stuck') and did all the fur around them..


   
Made in jp
Grisly Ghost Ark Driver





NC

Good stuff.

Falcon Punch!


 
   
Made in gb
Screaming Banshee






Novosibirsk, Russia

Can't wait to see how those wings work out on the DP

Thought I'd give the whole 'Blogger' lark a go...
-Cadian 812th (rotting in a cupboard)
-Dark Angels 3rd Company (in disfavour, eBay?)
-Irun'Mahn (pretty and deserve love; why aren't I giving them it?)
-Draigo 'n' his Merry Band (to be continued) - How to magnetise Grey Knight strike squads' two-handed and special weapons
-The Maggot Host
Klan WurldWaagh -Are now in my first P&M blog! If you like the idea of WW2 and Orks, please take a look... 
   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

DAEMON PRINCE! Hey presto. Painted in an evening in time for today's game - a Daemon Prince made entirely out of bits from my bitz box. I've started work on the Obliterators next.

Llamahead wrote:Part of me thought this would be a day-glo army like the Daemons most of me is glad a more sensible approach was taken.............


Even through all the grime, there's so much skin on this that he still looks pretty Dayglo...

Henners91 wrote:Can't wait to see how those wings work out on the DP


I like them, but can't help thinking they're a LITTLE bit too small. What do you think? I'm not that worried about it - the only other ones were those huge metal ones which he magnets wouldn't support, so while I could have pinned them in place, he wouldn't fit in my carry case any more...!








Automatically Appended Next Post:
Also started work on the Obliterators. They were built in a bit of a rush a few years ago, again from spare parts. This time I'm going to be doing quite a lot of bulking out with power cables and fuel lines. I'm off to borrow some of those rolly-cable-making-plates from Panic this afternoon. For now, I've started on some big, bulky power packs, and scraping the old basing off...





Automatically Appended Next Post:
The original batch of Oblits had these bulkier should pads, which I think look much better (and provide flat surfaces to attach cables to)



But the problem was, these were old Exo-Squat shoulders, and I only had one left. I've press-molded this in Insta-Mold, and I'm going to make six copies to use for the other batch of Obliterators.



I've also made three more backpacks..

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Made in my
Screaming Shining Spear






Those are some unique Oblits there. Like the idea.

   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Swordwind wrote:Those are some unique Oblits there. Like the idea.


Thanks! I've been spending my evening making them even more unique. I borrowed some of these Tube Tools from Panic yesterday to make some power cables to bulk out the Oblits.



And here's the first guy - with Insta-Molded shoulder pads and a fair amount of extra cable....




Automatically Appended Next Post:
More fun with the Tube Tool - only one more Oblit to go..


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Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London UK

yeah,
Nice work dude! some nice cable results..

You should make 9 obliterators and another Daemon Prince just so you can run the bastard list...


Panic...

   
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Fresh-Faced Inquisitorial Acolyte





San Francisco

Very cool pipe detail, The whole concept of the obliterators is very tight. Works well with the lithe and slender aspect of slaanesh

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Made in gb
Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps





Earlobe deep in doo doo

The obliterators are interesting. How eactly does the tube tool work?

"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
 
   
Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Panic wrote:You should make 9 obliterators and another Daemon Prince just so you can run the bastard list...


For the next couple of months until they change the damn Codex? Nah, I can't fit them in the box anyway, and you know the rule - if it can't fit in the case, it's not in the army..

djdutton wrote:Very cool pipe detail, The whole concept of the obliterators is very tight. Works well with the lithe and slender aspect of slaanesh


Thanks!

Llamahead wrote:The obliterators are interesting. How eactly does the tube tool work?


It's a set of small plastic 'plates' with ridges set into them (see pic above). You roll out a thin tube of green stuff with your hands, and then roll it in between the plates, and the plates push the ridges into it. You get three 'pairs' of plates in the set, with three different sized ridges. Takes a bit of practice to get the hang of, but after that it's easy.

This movie explains it quite well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkT63r1-7QI

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Made in gb
Dispassionate Imperial Judge






HATE Club, East London

Three of the Obliterators are finished, and much bulkier and scarier...



   
 
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