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@cpyke - Thanks! My red is done with a basecoat of Khorne Red (on infantry I then highlight with Mephiston), and then hit it with one thick coat of Army Painter Dark Tone (basically the same as Badab Black), then TWO thick coats of Army Painter Strong Tone (Devlan Mud - on vehicles I do a light drybrush of Khorne between these two not-Devlan layers rather than taking the time to highlight). The washes are mainly responsible for the blotchiness - I do try to prevent them from pooling too much but on the left Whirlwind in particular it did get quite ugly on the front - but I also typically don't take the time to make sure the initial Khorne basecoat is even. What this all basically means is everything looks heavily worn and textured and I get to be lazy! Obviously I would not recommend doing this on models intended to have a particularly light or clean-looking color scheme.

Malika2 - Other than the plastic Lord (who I think might make a good Sorcerer with a little work), I wasn't planning on it. I might be able to mine the Warshrine and/or the Chariot for bitz, but I haven't seen the kits in person and nothing jumps out at me from GW's pics (except maybe the two Chaos star icons on the back of the Chariot, those are quite nice).

Alright, finished the Hyperioseseses.



Whirlwind Hyperios Kabaiel





Whirlwind Hyperios Murmux





And I FINALLY finished the Helbrute's base. Poor guy.







I sculpted that immediately after having watched a certain Wedding on a certain tv show. I knew what was going to happen but it still left me a bit shaken up. I needed an outlet. Anyway, next up is probably Terminators. I have 13 of them (2 squads of 6 plus 1 to round out the pre-existing 5-man squad). Not sure if/how I'm going to split those up, we shall see. Not planning any dioramas for these, but who knows.

How do you paint your Word Bearers? Tutorial?

The Hellbrute looks great I really like the spine coming out of the back. I think everyone was shaken by the wedding.

I absolutely love these guys, and my favourites are the first squads you put up, so dirty and yet magnificently painted! A basic tutorial as mentioned above, just for the armour and basic guys, would be amazing! You are very talented, a fantastic looking army.

@Sledgio and Tyranidcrusher - So it's only been two months since you asked, but I've actually done a tutorial in my B&C thread. Dunno why I never linked it in my OP here, I'll edit it in now. Linkifications!

Just a quick update to confirm that I'm still alive. Been slowly painting those terminators for the past two months, forgot how tedious all the trim on Chaos Terminators can be. Anyway, they're at about 50% now, here's a pic.



The guy on the left with the combi-melta isn't a member of this squad, he's there to bring my pre-existing squad up to 6 dudesmen. Also no icons or banners yet, been having trouble deciding what to do for that. Tried a couple different options and I'm not happy with any of them, might have to roll my own. Also ripped the banner off the guy in my Melta/PF termy squad since I thought holding a bannerpole with a power fist looked a bit derpy. Going to either go for smallish back-mounted banners or just stick with little chaos star icons.

Also this happened.



Sexy Forge World-ness because the GW Shadowsword looks like gak. I was GOING to wait until AFTER I'd painted the Baneblade, but... Anyway, I've got evil plans for this tank. At the rate I'm going though, it'll be a while. Decimators won't be converted at all aside from some fleshybits and candles, as I already fething love the models as they are. I put them on flyer bases since they didn't fit on the 60mms with the poses I wanted, plus it should give me plenty of room for dead guardsmen. One on the right doesn't have the guns pointing in the same place, not sure if I'm going to leave it that way. Kind of looks like he's just blown something up and now he's considering a new target, I... think I like it?

Considering stripping all my Cultists and painting them brighter, I'm not happy with how dark they are. The whole blood-drenched thing seemed like a good idea at the time but now it just seems like a lazy excuse for not actually making them look nice. I might just try to layer over what's already there, I really don't want to repaint 50 cultists from scratch in addition to the 30 or so I've already got on my to-do shelf. I'm actually kind of feeling like I'm putting myself through No-Fun-Allowed mode while I work through this backlog of models, got to finish up these Terminators (and then another 6 with combi-plasmas - the conversion I've done is a bit pants but it serves its purpose), 2 Defilers and then do whatever I want to do with these Cultists before I allow myself to tackle the superheavies, otherwise I'll never get around to it. I do have a pair of Dreadnoughts sitting around that I could have some fun with should the need arise to break up the tedium, though, so there's that.

...I'm dreaming of a Stormblade Christmas...

I'm full of hatred.

They are all so disgusting and horrid in the best way possible.

You've totally read the Word Bearer books too.

Good god. These are stunning. I think I just realized my mouth was hanging open the entire time I was going through these pictures.

Bravo!

Your work is still sick awesome.

Good work as always Razakel, keep it up!!

These guys are simply astounding!
I love the flamer and melta guys, and the whole theme you are doing with the decimated guardsmen!

Need to see more!

Always good to see new dead skin covered psychos on you plog. The big tanks will be tight.

Thanks for the comments. Terminator squad is done. I decided to make them the command squad for my Anointed/1st Cohort, they deploy with the Coryphaeus (aka Word Beard). So I gave 'em all cloaks. There'll be a Terminator apothecary to go with this squad, he's half-built at the moment, I'll show him off when the sculpting's done. Anyway, pic:

Anointed Command Coterie, Quor Purson



I've started painting the eyes (going back and doing this with my whole army is something I've wanted to do for a while, along with clearer, possibly fire-y Legion symbols) and I've also changed the way I paint candle flames - doing way less layers and only going up to yellow, I think it looks much better both up close and at a distance. The pic makes them look kind of yellowy but they're actually mostly orange IRL - I've just done layers of Wild Rider Red, then Fire Dragon Bright, then Averland Sunset.

Next project is touching up my old Terminator squad (the seventh Termy I painted with the squad above is also finished, he'll be included in the updated group shot for the old squad), and then I'll move on to a combi-plasma squad. After that I've decided to assembly-line my two remaining Defilers - it'll be painful but if I just paint one at a time I'll never finish them. I've also re-primed all my Cultists. They'll likely come after the Defilers. Paint 30 cultists, do a Dreadnought and a Decimator, paint 30 cultists, do a Dreadnought and a Decimator, paint 30 cultists, and then finally get to my Chosen, Possessed and the superheavies. Each group of 30 cultists will likely be done in 3 assembly-lined batches of 10. It's going to take a while but it'll just make me feel better, really wasn't happy with them as they were.

I thought you went a different route for a bit, from WB to IW. Then I clicked the picture to zoom in and realised that those were candles and not hazard stripes. I really love your WB. The amount of detail in each model is just excellent.

Where'd you get those capes for the terminators? They make them look so menacing!

@Know No Pear: Sorry for taking so long to answer, but I hand-sculpt all the cloaks in my army - I just flatten out a big square of GS and hack at the edges with sprue clippers. The idea was to emulate the WHFB Chaos Warrior cloaks but they're not very big, nor are they dynamic enough to get the sort of wrap-around effect I try to go for.

Yet another month-long silence and I'm back with more (very PIP) Termies. The washing and highlighting all took place in the last few days, it just takes me a while to work up the will to basecoat. It's mostly the trim's fault, Chaos Termies have SO MUCH OF IT oh muh god.



Metal highlights need a bit of de-blob-ification in places, the brush I used was dying. I may replace the combi-plasmas with Sternguard bits... I dunno. I initially wasn't happy with them but they're kind of growing on me. Thoughts?

Anyway, new army shot soon, fellow Traitors! Will try to find a big enough table once this squad gets done.

Fantastic work, as always.

 RazakelXIII wrote:
@Know No Pear: Sorry for taking so long to answer, but I hand-sculpt all the cloaks in my army - I just flatten out a big square of GS and hack at the edges with sprue clippers. The idea was to emulate the WHFB Chaos Warrior cloaks but they're not very big, nor are they dynamic enough to get the sort of wrap-around effect I try to go for.

Yet another month-long silence and I'm back with more (very PIP) Termies. The washing and highlighting all took place in the last few days, it just takes me a while to work up the will to basecoat. It's mostly the trim's fault, Chaos Termies have SO MUCH OF IT oh muh god.



Metal highlights need a bit of de-blob-ification in places, the brush I used was dying. I may replace the combi-plasmas with Sternguard bits... I dunno. I initially wasn't happy with them but they're kind of growing on me. Thoughts?

Anyway, new army shot soon, fellow Traitors! Will try to find a big enough table once this squad gets done.

The new terminators look awesome as well!
May I please have a shot from the back to see how the capes look like?

@Know No Pear: Really shoulda posted one in the first place. Here ya go:



I don't really put much effort into them. I find GS frustrating to work with at the best of times (so naturally I did a Gothic-pattern army - derp), but I feel like the effect on the silhouette is worth it. It really helps squad champs, or in this case the whole squad, stand out. I should note that they tend to require adjustment as the GS cures, since, because Sir Isaac Newton can't just let things be, they tend to droop a bit. The furs are just another big blob of GS that I stab over and over with a GW sculpting tool until it looks sort of nice-ish, btw. It's actually very cathartic.

Speaking of stabbing big blobs of GS a lot, here's a preview of coming attractions. It represents another step on my eternal quest to achieve maximum Guardsman overkill.







It's becoming extremely forward-heavy, to the point where I'm getting worried about it tipping over, so I'm probably not adding any more to it. As always, very open to C&C.

EDIT: Oh, and I got the fleshybits on the combi-plasma squad done today. Will try to make the final push to finish them tomorrow.

Indeed, the capes really do help the silhouette. If only I were playing a true chaos army!
Where do you get your GS? That huge lump must've been a pain to part with! i must say it looks extremely chaosy, and looking at how your models have turned out thus far, the defiler's gonna look amazing. Are you going with a normal coloured flame? I think it'd be cool if the flame wasn't fire, instead being some warp magic thingy.

Looking forward to more updates!

Holy $%&^pickles, this thread is full of win.

Not even a Chaos fan but this stuff has got me wanting an army now, thanks for that.

Seriously man, this is some GREAT stuff.

Thanks gents. Know No Pear, I get my GS from Warstore. It's actually called Kneadatite and it comes in a tube, but it's exactly the same thing, and you get about 3 or 4 times as much as you would from GW for about the same price. Linky (appears to be out of stock at the moment). As for the fire, yeah, I'm thinking about painting it purple or green (I don't want too much blue in this army), but I've also got orange fire elsewhere in my army (Stonehorn-Vindicator, flamers, alllll the candles) so I'm not sure if I want to deviate that much.

Plasmanator squad is done!

Anointed VII Coterie, Quor Zefar



I also revamped my old Combi-Melta/Fist squad a while ago and added a sixth dudesman.

Anointed III Coterie, Quor Allocer



I wanted to put up an army shot with this update but I really don't have time to set one up today. Will try to get something up this week. Defilers are up next for painting, my soul already hurts from all those metallic highlights.

Army shot!



You may notice that Vanessa now has a base. This is because she managed to survive a whole Apocalypse game for once. The universe likes to correct itself when such cosmically wrong events occur, so as soon as I got her home, all her toes fell off and she would no longer stand up. The base is to ensure that this cannot happen again. There Will Be Guardsmen. Anyway, unpainted stuff:



The psyker in front is technically done, but I have plans to give him a much nicer base. Not pictured are 3 Hell Blade Fighters, because I forgot them. They are actually "finished," but I have no bases for them and I kind of want to repaint them anyway, I find them very... dull.

And some very WIP HQs. All are in dire need of GS and in some cases, MOAR BITZ.



So, on to the Defilers.

That army shot is insane!! Really liking the HQ mockup as well. Especially the Termi Apothecary and the sorcerer based on the Dv Chaplain (I think) can't wait to see what you come up with for this Chosen squad you mentioned before as well.

I have been watching for years here and other sites, this army is amazing . If you need some weight on the back of the defiler you could always make smoke for the exhaust, a big barrel of guardsmen flamed juice, or a nice little shrine of BBQ'd guardsmen.

Amazing army shot, Raz! Look forward to seeing the new additions come to life.

Someone over on B&C asked for a closeup on the Terminator sorcerer in the back of the last pic. The model was really rough when I posted that, so I used the request as motivation to get him a bit closer to paint-worthy. Still needs some work, and my GS work is always a bit messy in places, but he's coming along. I'll be ditching the rock/big GS lump he's standing on for... well, you'll see.









Beard and/or hair, y/n?

Also, something else I whipped up:



He'll be getting paint (and probably a cloak) whenever I get around to my Chosen squad. Pardon the flecks of GS all over his torso, I tried to give him a hood and it didn't work out. 'Course, if at first you don't succeed...

Regarding paint, I'm taking a sanity-break from assembly-lining things and I've decided to paint the Acolyte/DV Chosen Champ next instead of the Defilers (I need time on them for more GS work). It feels like it's been ages since I've painted one model by itself.

As if I don't already have enough stuff to paint, I was one of pledgers for the Red Box Games Helsvakt Kickstarter. There have been numerous difficulties in production and I wasn't really expecting my shipment to arrive any time soon, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the box on my doorstep a few days ago. Pretty much pledged for at least one of everything so I've got my work cut out for me. Word Bearers are always my main priority, no matter how hard I try to tell myself they're not - one of these days I should post a pic of the shelves I've got full of unpainted non-CSM stuff - but I may just have to paint some of these RBG minis soon, I'm very impressed with the quality of the minis I've examined so far.

Working on the Acolyte, got basecoats and highlights done.



I've also been going maybe juuuust a little crazy on that Terminator Sorcerer.

No. That sorcerer isn't crazy at all. Well, maybe crazy awesome! Red on the acolyte looks good. That sorc, though! The star of flames is a good idea. The shooting skulls are a must and that killer facial hair! Does his mustache count as lightning claws? It should.

Ha, thanks Moltar. But who needs lightning claws when you know the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique?

I was going to call the Acolyte done, but then I took pics of it and they revealed all sorts of horrible problems. The scar on his forehead just looks like a big red blotch in the pics, it looks fine IRL. I dunno, I may go back and touch some things up.





No further progress on the Sorcerer. I have basecoated my two Defilers in Leadbelcher (usually I do red first but with all the metallics on Defilers this is going to be much easier). I also got another Land Raider, so I've put that together. Probably not going to get painted for a long time.

Defilers aren't quite done yet, but it's been far too long since I've updated. Decided to go back and do some extra sculpting on the flames for both of them. Anyway, mostly done, feel like I could actually add some more script though.



Please excuse the out-of-focus claw on this one.

Awesome!

Will there be Obliterators and Mutilators as well?