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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Madison, WI

Public Service Announcement

Hello friends!

This missive is to let you know that for the time being, my 5 P&M blogs (Mantis Warriors, Bad Moon Orks, AdMech, Halloween themed Chaos and 30k EC) will have all their updates appearing on a single blog (my “Rebuilding the Mantis Warriors” blog… which will get a new name). Why? With my interests so scattered across multiple armies and terrain & the fact that I’m just not painting at the hundreds of figures a year rate that I used to… I’m not making enough quality posts to keep 5 different blogs going. I’ve got a few die-hard friends and supporters that still post… but not enough to build or maintain the community that has always been the strongpoint of my threads in the past.

If my circumstances change and I start painting enough to warrant re-opening one of the specialist threads, I’ll do so... they aren’t closed, just inactive. In the meantime, as of today (Feb 11th, 2017) I’ll be making all of my P&M posts (for all armies) on what has always been my “home” on DakkaDakka, my Mantis Warrior thread. I hope you’ll join me there for the latest updates!
Here’s the link:
Gitsplitta's Unified Painting Theory

Thanks!
Gits








My wife declared that I need to make a monster army after I jokingly made a contrmptor dread into a frankenstein's monster pose. Well, challenge accepted. I have a month to paint or aquire a lot of figures. Goal is to have this done by October 31st.

The Plan

After much himming and hawing on my Mantis Warrior blog (as the contemptor was supposed to be a MW dread)... and a lot of help from my buddy RiTides as well as a number of other contributors... a plan was formulated... to use the demon and chaos space marine codecii as the basis for a traditional Halloween monster themed army. Bound and perfectly legal but with lots of counts-as going on. I didn't want to just use say... vampire counts figures from Warhammer Fantasy as that's not much of a challenge, nor would it be different enough visually to have the right feel. I did however, want to try and use as many GW/Forge World minis as possible. Departures from that are in the instances where no suitable GW model was available or the cost of same would have been prohibitive. Here's what we came up with.


The Army List
I got out ye olde Army Builder and drew up a list based on 3 CADs (which are necessary because of the number of "featured" monster HQs involved). With only the obvious character upgrades (things like jump packs, wings, mounts) this comes to 1750 pts. Getting it to 1850 or even 2k is just a matter of war gear and special powers.

Listed below....
FOC slot: (monster) - modeling notes - rules

Chaos Space Marines CAD:
HQ: (Dracula) - GW Astorath body w/ chaos bat-winged jump pack - Chaos Champion w/ jump pack & power axe (done!)
EL: (Frankenstein's Monster) - FW Contemptor Dread - contemptor dread with 2x CC arms (done!)
TP: (Zombies) - 10x zombicide zombies - chaos cultists (done!)
TP: (Zombies) - 10x zombicide zombies - chaos cultists (done!)
FA: (Hell Hounds/The Thing) - 5x chaos beasts modified with spawn tentacles - chaos spawn (done! THANK YOU RAMOS!!)

Chaos Demons CAD:
HQ: (Wolf Man) - FW skin wolf - Karanak (done!)
HQ: (Witch) - GW Lilith modified to ride a broom - herald of tzeench on flying disk (done!)
TP: (Goblins) - 5x bases of multiple GW snotlings - nurglings (done!)
TP: (Goblins) - 5x bases of multiple GW snotlings - nurglings (done!)
FA: (wolves) - 10x GW Fenris wolves - flesh hounds (done!)
FA: (bats) - 10x Bones and GW giant bat combined - furies (done!)

Chaos Demons CAD:
HQ: (Thanatos/Grim Reaper) - GW changeling figure with staff converted to scythe & painted appropriately - the changeling (done!)
HQ: (Demon) - GW Khornate Demon Prince - demon prince (done!)
EL: (Ghosts) - 6x GW flamers of tzeench painted ghostly colors - flamers of tzeench (done!)
TP: (Mummies) - 10x Reaper mummies - plague bearers (done!)
TP: (Devils) - 10x GW bloodletters - bloodletters (done!)


Units that will be added but are not part of the original challenge:
HQ: (The Headless Horseman) - heavily modified GW Archaon the Everchosen - Skulltaker (done!)
TP: (Skeletons) - 30x Wargames Factory skeleton warriors - chaos cultists (done!)
HQ: (Imhotep) - GW fantasy liche - Herald of Nurgle or sgt upgrade for mummy plague bearers (done!)
TP: (biohazard sign)- homemade/printed sign for one of the zombies - plague banner (done!)
SH: (Cthulhu) - Scribor Cthulhu figure - GUO (done!)
HQ: (Lawrence Talbot werewolf) - Reaper classic werewolf - Herald of Khorne (lost... at least for the moment)
HQ: (Lucy/"The Lady in White"... first Dracula victim) - Reaper vampire noble - Herald of Slaanesh (unbuilt)
HQ: (Creature from the Black Lagoon) - Four A Miniatures "creature" - Herald of Khorne (done!)
FA: (Gargoyles) - CSM Raptors w/ claws & possessed wings - CSM Raptors (done!)
Ally: (VanHelsing the monster hunter) - Pathfinder Miniatures female vampire hunter - Callidus assassin (unbuilt)
HV: (Satan) - spiffy new GW bloodthirster - bloodthirster (in process)
TP: (Evil Scarecrows) - Westwind Productions killer scarecrows - pink horrors (done!)
EL: (Giant Bats) - GW giant bats - screamers (done!)







Here are pictures of the completed elements of the army. I'll keep updating as I finish them.

Demon Host: (not my work, purchased painted though I did re-base)


Werewolf Host: (Hounds of Khorne & Karanak)


Mummy Horde: (Plague Bearers)


Witch Host: (Nurglings)


Griselda Greenbottom the Witch (Herald of Tzeench on flying disc)


Vampire Host: (Furies)


Count Dracula: (Chaos Lord w/ jump pack)


Spirit Host: (Flamers of Tzeench)


Thanatos the Grim Reaper: (The Changeling or Exalted Flamer)


"The Thing" graciously donated by master painter & friend Ramos Asura: (Chaos Spawn)


Zombie Hoard: (Plague Bearers)


Frankenstein's Monster: (Contemptor Dread or GUO)


Skeleton Horde: (Chaos Cultists)


Headless Horseman: (Skulltaker)


Imhotep: (Herald of Tzeench)


Plague Banner:


The Creature from the Black Lagoon: (Herald of Khorne)


Evil Scarecrows: (Pink Horrors)


Gargoyles: (CSM Raptors)


Giant Bats: (Screamers)


Dakka Unofficial Painting Competition Entry: (which did win)


Completed Army as of 10/31/2015:


Current Army as of 2/1/16:



.... back to original text of the post...



I hope you'll join me on this little side-bar of a project. Be nice to have friends around while I spiral into insanity over the next 4 weeks.


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Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Sounds like a fun project. I really like the comtemptor.

Good luck!

D
   
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You're crazy.
I'll follow this for sure.

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Looking forward to this. Just going to leave some "Motivation" for you to finish, as you only have a month to "just do it".

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Yes! Go for it Gits! Awesome that you're aiming to have it done in a month, will be exciting to watch
   
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Army in a month... You can do it!

And if you need any extra motivation, there's a Halloween theme to this coming month's painting challenge! Pretty much anything you've got there would qualify!
/shameless plug!

Good luck! Interested to see where this goes!

 
   
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I had a though for different ghosts, if you are still open for ideas.

Use the Spirit Hosts from the undead line, but base them with dead Eldar. So it looks like their souls are being ripped out of their soulstones.

Just a thought. Looking forward to seeing this come together.

   
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Madison, WI

Thanks for the comments and support guys, I really appreciate it! I am *really* excited about this.


@deadmeat: That guy is completely off his nut! Made me laugh though and actually rather effective in a "get off your arse and do something" kind-of-way.

@Paradigm: Yeah... not sure exactly what would be appropriate to enter... especially since I'm going to have to be speed painting most of this. We'll see how the characters come out (or maybe I'll just enter the whole bloody army).

@Nev: I appreciate the suggestion but I just bought my ghosts (6 of them), sorry.



Things are going to happen fast... I'm not going to start painting until Oct. 1st (just seems right) but I have two nights to build before then. As I have the Fenris wolves and "goblins".... I'll start with those. Will try to get one unit done per night. Probably wolves and the bases for the gobbos tonight, then actually putting together the goblins tomorrow. I'm a little worried that a good number of the models I'm ordering are all going to show up at once... means I've really got to make hay here at the beginning with the models I already possess.

OH, and I just picked up a nicely painted demon prince off e-bay... so at least the demon contingent is finished. That should be the last figure I don't paint myself... but the price was right and it does give me a nice leg-up on the whole army. I will undoubtedly add my own finishing touches to the painted demon figs to make them my own (I always do).

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Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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LOL. Just saw the Frankenstein Dread! A W E S O M E!!! Pure genius!!!

   
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This is going to be epic, Gits. Just epic.

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I'm in!
   
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 Gitsplitta wrote:
Things are going to happen fast... I'm not going to start painting until Oct. 1st (just seems right) but I have two nights to build before then. As I have the Fenris wolves and "goblins".... I'll start with those. Will try to get one unit done per night. Probably wolves and the bases for the gobbos tonight, then actually putting together the goblins tomorrow. I'm a little worried that a good number of the models I'm ordering are all going to show up at once... means I've really got to make hay here at the beginning with the models I already possess.

OH, and I just picked up a nicely painted demon prince off e-bay... so at least the demon contingent is finished. That should be the last figure I don't paint myself... but the price was right and it does give me a nice leg-up on the whole army. I will undoubtedly add my own finishing touches to the painted demon figs to make them my own (I always do).

That sounds like a great plan, Gits! Rock out that assembly, and make sure to "assembly line" paint things like those gobbos to speed it up. I tend to work in bursts like this and having a good plan for each week really helps break up the total job and make it manageable
   
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Madison, WI

Couple of funny points involving the wife (whose fault this all is).

She...
A) Said I needed "killer tomatoes". *sigh* Maybe next year.
B) Offered to help with some really easy stuff. She used to be quite an accomplished artist in a number of forms... but throwing this at her mid-panic is probably not the best option. I may however, get her to work on the bases which can be quite time consuming and can be done anywhere in the house as opposed to my formal painting spaces.

Man I'm really going nuts with anticipation here. Nearly impossible to concentrate on what I'm supposed to be doing. Tonight and Thursday are going to really busy too (with non-gaming things) so I think I'll be darn lucky if I actually get both squads built... but I'm going to give it a try. Even if I get one done, that'll be something at least.

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Getting your spouse to help with basing to meet a deadline is a tried and true method, Gits! I've employed it on a few projects now and it was awesome and really helpful each time.

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Killer tomatos , I tried watching that movie a few months ago, my film tastes have definitely changed since I was a kid and loved that movie.

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Plague Drones as Flying Killer Tomatoes?

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Did a lot of thinking today and a bit of research. Found a great youtube video on airbrushing wolves. Simple, fast & gives great results.

Also spent a lot of time trying to figure out how I was going to do the nurgling bases. Decided to take one grot per base & the rest (probably 4) will be snotlings. That seems like it should be busy enough to make the bases interesting. I ordered more snotlings though I realized I really have very few gretchin that aren't armed with a gun (or have an easily convertible gun). I'll see if I can scare those up somewhere. Right now, I can make three bases and probably have enough snotlings coming to do 3 more. I also panicked and ordered some rats with mini-rat priests... enough to do 4 bases in the above manner. I thought they'd fit right in as nurglings and could either mix with the goblins or be the mummies' nurgling minions (as on of the mummy powers is controlling vermin of various sorts).


I should have some pics ready late tonight, if someone would be so kind as to post so I have a clean slate. 'Till then!

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Clean Slate done.

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A mix of a grot with snotlings is a good idea! Sounds like if the rats work out you'll have 10 bases, so could run two units of them (making that allied detachment a full one if you wish to). But you might not need the rats if you're only running 5 bases, right?
   
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Anpu-adom wrote:Clean Slate done.

Thank you sir!

RiTides wrote:A mix of a grot with snotlings is a good idea! Sounds like if the rats work out you'll have 10 bases, so could run two units of them (making that allied detachment a full one if you wish to). But you might not need the rats if you're only running 5 bases, right?

Well, it dawned on me that I will likely need to take the army up to 1750 as the folks around here like to play larger battles. I can do a lot of that with wargear on my characters... but beefing up the troop units, especially the cheap ones probably isn't a bad idea. So yes... I'll have more nurglings than the current list calls for, but I don't see that as a bad thing.



Here's the build so far. Just waiting on more snotlings to arrive. I've got two more grot "commanders" that I managed to scrape up. Will have to go-a-begging to see if I can scare up a few more. All of the little bases that the feet are attached to will be hidden by flock, so the final product should look pretty good.




OH, and I did buy the two codecii and an extra demon prince (cheap).

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Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Nice job on the Nurglings/Goblins.

This is such a great concept.

D
   
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Mostly, on my phone.

Love the nurgley snots. You're still bonkers.

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GO GITS!


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I have tried to do armies quick with various success (this year so far has been pretty productive). So good luck to you sir. I am not sure I can add anything to your techniques, but eagerly await your progress.

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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They look great and if you snagged an extra demon prince, again turning that last allied detachment into another full one will net you an HQ slot for it (assuming it is HQ). Although I'm still convinced daemons have to be able to run some characters as elites or something from the lists I've seen, but I don't play them so just speculation! Now that you have the books you can mess with all that when you have time... so I guess November

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@graven: The magnitude of what I'm attempting just sunk in last night... Dear God. I'm an idiot.

@StarDrop: Thanks for your supporting words, I'm going to need them!

@Archer: I think staying disciplined about getting work done every night will be the key. That and not allowing myself to get sucked in to spending an inordinate amount of time on any one special project. I can always go back and add fiddly little details later on.

@RiTides: Yep, can do that. Think I'll have enough nurgling bases between the snotlings and the rats to fulfill the obligatory troop units.


Mounted my first bats/furies model last night... it's a bones figure with a bunch of bats swarming over a tomb stone. Neat... but the bats are really hard to make out in the mass. Have some other bats coming from a friend so I may add a couple of those per base just so it's a bit more obvious.

And OMG.... the seeker chariot... it's HUGE! No way Lilith is going to look right by herself on a giant oval base. I'm going to have to come up with some way to add things to the base to make it work. Maybe a bunch of giant critters like rats, spiders or bats? Not sure. This could be a real time sink if I'm not careful. I suppose I could try and modify a bunch of DE wyches to also be riding brooms so it's more like a witch squadron... but that would take a LOT of work, more than I have time for. Does anyone have any suggestions??

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Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Australia

What about a coven of witches around a big cauldron as Lilith flies around overhead?

See My Crazy Army plan here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/521618.page#5517409

2000 Point Armies
[40k] Orks - Kaptin Grimskragas Razorfangs; Tyranids - Hive Fleet Acidica; Astra Militarum - Murdochs 5th Armoured Detachment; Necron - Reclamation Legion of Tomb World Fordris; Inquisition - Ordos Hereticus Witchfinder Tasetus and Coven; Iron Hands - Taskforce of the Garrsak Clan Company; Alpha Legion - XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs; Aeldari - Guiding Light of Yarn Le'ath;

[Warhammer] Empire - Obsidian Knightly Order; Bretonnian - Vain Quest for the Grail, 11th Crusade of Araby; Dwarf - Throng of Kark Veng; Ogre Kingdoms - Wondrous Caravan of the Traveller and his Maneaters; Tomb Kings - Bronze Host of Ka-Sabar; Chaos Dwarf - Protectors of Hashuts Holy Places; High Elf - Dragonriders of Caledor;  
   
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Interesting idea, but not very threatening looking. The real chariot has beasts and a huge spikey thing behind it... well, at least the fancy version does (it's the only one I can find photos of). I'm guessing the regular chariot just had the beasts and the chariot. Hmmm....

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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