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So, here goes the attempt to catalogue madness of the warp etheric kind.

As per the title, I've decided that being out of the main game proper since a few "if extraneous" editions. This would be a good time to visit the Codex[ices] that drew me into the hobby. And since none of this miniature malarky is tied to a rule system [till it all goes digital! ] it's free-for-all mayhem!

Entries are going to be organized by Unit types and following Codex Eye of Terror and CSM 3.5/Imperial Guard 4th [3rd] with some Imperial Armour thrown in.

Let's start off with Traitor Guard.


More to come.

Some Gibbering Hordes [Troops - Count as Nurglings]


Had a lot of fun just making various mutations theme to each of the Chaos gods. More on these later.

Followed by Chaos Spawn [Heavy Support]



Deep Madness the Boardgame, very good selection of monsters in there. These will add some good wound soaking units to the army.

Chaos Spawn - Wave 2



Went with two Venom-esque Spawn lead by a cross between a Brainbug and something Cthulhu. Least that's what these Deep Madness mini's remind me of.
Running two 3 Spawn squads will give great flexibility in Zone Mortalis type games. I plan to do a few batreps with my Mortalis/Battle Systems terrain.

Arch Heretics [HQ as Chaos Lieutenant/Sorcerers]

Nephar, Diabolus the Sorcerer (Tzeentchian)
Braakar, Disciple of Wrath (Slaaneshi)
Zakaar, Champion of Khorne (Khornate)

Braakar is weilding a might Kai Gun, MofS, Daemonic Resilience and Essence. Plus a Melta Bomb. Haven't attached what I'm thinking of making yet.
Picture a very fancy brass[gold]-trimmed Melta Bomb with a face stretched over it... or maybe.. just jewel encrusted?

Nephar has a Power [sacrificial dagger] and MoT and some psychic powers. [Note: sculpt a Pwr Wpn node!]

Zakaar, besides his amazing blue-tac feet skill, is a powerful Khornate Lt. An Axe of Khorne, MoK [Blood Frenzy/FnP]. He's got Daemonic Essence, Daemonic Strength and Daemonic Resilience. The visual aid here is his 40mm Base.

The 40mm base signifies +1W, +1 Str and +1 Toughness. A 32mm [new Marine] base is +1 T and +1W, whilst the 25mm base is just regular statline Arch Heretic.

Work in progress sorting, sorting... 5am.

Escaped prisoners, human Raiders???


Muties and Demons.


15 man compulsory Mutie squad.

This was my fave period of GW's rules. Eye of Terror was one awesome book. Look forward to seeing some mutant kitbashing.

What is that Zakaar miniature originally from? I bought one ages ago because I liked the way it looked but can’t remember what it was called or if it was from a movie, a different game system, etc.

Some cool minis. The non-GW stuff hold sup well

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:This was my fave period of GW's rules. Eye of Terror was one awesome book. Look forward to seeing some mutant kitbashing.

Thanks, and agreed. Plenty more to come!

Gulgog TufToof wrote:What is that Zakaar miniature originally from? I bought one ages ago because I liked the way it looked but can’t remember what it was called or if it was from a movie, a different game system, etc.

A Mutant Chronicles, Target Games Dark Legion Nepharite. Warzone: Mutant Chronicles is such a guilty pleasure of mine.

gobert wrote:Some cool minis. The non-GW stuff hold sup well

Thanks. I love using alternate miniatures and GW stuff in other games too!


Boo!

Warzone! Good to see old minis get another chance to shine. Looks like you have all sorts of interesting models lined up.

 youwashock wrote:
Warzone! Good to see old minis get another chance to shine. Looks like you have all sorts of interesting models lined up.

I do indeed!

Next up are the Sump Beasts, Ogryn workers who work the filth covered sumps of the underhive drainage system.
After being exposed to the touch of Chaos, particularly the Nurgle kind. Have mutated into that which is indistinguishable from the grime and filth of their duties.






Next, Apostate Preacher and Thrall. Preaching Nurgle's message throughout the lower hives.


Closeup of the failed summons Gibbering Horde unit
Plaguebearer [swapped the head later]

Probably NSFW once painted

Failed Summons? Or just sat on?

He's reaching for his Cuppa!

Super thematic army coming together here mate. Loving the mix of minis - failed summons are a great idea and the lieutenant minis all have such great personality. Looking forward to following. Thanks for sharing!

Enjoying getting on this at the ground floor. Some really awesome model choices for what I think was a stellar codex. The lost and the damned was such a great idea that I wish had survived the edition creep.

Really enjoying what you are putting together.

The last one is me getting that pre-work coffee.

tzurk wrote:Super thematic army coming together here mate. Loving the mix of minis - failed summons are a great idea and the lieutenant minis all have such great personality. Looking forward to following. Thanks for sharing!

Glad you like it! Chaos is a very fun army to model for, as fun as Orks IMO.

Archer wrote:Enjoying getting on this at the ground floor. Some really awesome model choices for what I think was a stellar codex. The lost and the damned was such a great idea that I wish had survived the edition creep.

Really enjoying what you are putting together.

Thanks! And yeah, it would have been interesting to see where the lost and Damned went after Codex: Eye of Terror. Trucks? Flyers? Big Mutant kits or conversion parts for Warhammer Fantasy Ogres and Chaos? It could have been quite wild.

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:The last one is me getting that pre-work coffee.

You don't need it, you WANT it.

Now, for some Horrors. Elites choice Daemon Packs!

The big lad counts as a Flamer, the rest are Horrors.


Imititation of Life 3D, why yes! Mutant squad, Troops choice.


These guys mean business, and will be in a squad of 15 [Compulsory choice]


Flood anyone?


These just might count as Flamer armed mutants. The idea is they fall down and burst towards the enemy like a Flood Popcorn!

Spawn, Wave 3!


Wrath of Kings is providing this spikey beast.



Until next time!

Friday productive day? Now to the task of tracking down some 28mm bases. [Great for slightly bigger lads but still Toughness 3(4)]

Sometimes you gotta have a snack mid-battle!


A swole Tzeentchian-birdman, a muscle beach gorpse-grinder and blue-tac neck is better than no neck.

Artsy...


Several [p]blogs on here and around the web have inspired me over the years. Pickled cabbage anyone?*
More Mutants. Some come from fighting pits, others from work camps/prison labor, it's a whole rabble. Once painting starts, items like orange jumpsuits, boilersuits and shackles will help identify each.

Love the mix of gribblies, really leaning into the horror that is Chaos. Where did you get that pig head?

 Archer wrote:
Love the mix of gribblies, really leaning into the horror that is Chaos. Where did you get that pig head?

Thanks. The head is from Kromlech miniatures.
edit: or uhm.. Max Mini/ Bits of War [they split]

Preview of Human Marauders/Mercenaries working for the LatD force. Not enough time this 5am..

Plugging away at the Mutant troops in the background and zenith priming the human elements.

Marauder Mercenary Boss, simple armament, low points cost.


I call this lad, Snake. Definitely could pass as a Marbo.


A good example of Grey Seer zenith [right hand] vs Skull White [in Winter no less!] on the left hand side



Thankfully the speckling is only visual. Shields anyone?


Grenade Launcher specialist and squad. Was aiming for Khanak Skulltakers meets Heavy Metal 2000.


Traitor Guard squad, quite a mix so far.


Vraks Guard, these kits were such an awesome set of conversion parts.

Nice mixes of parts. Love the guy taking a shield to protect himself from bolters and such.

Nice work! definitely a proper band of renegades

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Nice mixes of parts. Love the guy taking a shield to protect himself from bolters and such.

Thanks. It's a patented kevlar-imite flextape shield. It grants a 5+ save... or 6+... or "-"

Guardling wrote:Nice work! definitely a proper band of renegades

A human Renegade force is always an interesting idea I had.

Excited to see the progress on this - I have a human renegade force that I run as guard based on the Blood Pact and Sons of Sek from the Gaunt's Ghosts series. The modeling opportunities are endless!

Lovely stuff some excellent proxies and an army I wish they'd kept in the game.

blockade23 wrote:Excited to see the progress on this - I have a human renegade force that I run as guard based on the Blood Pact and Sons of Sek from the Gaunt's Ghosts series. The modeling opportunities are endless!

Indeed! I'm very tempted to go with mustard yellow for the Vraks elements, but they also look fantastic in blood red fatigues... /struggle

Llamahead wrote:Lovely stuff some excellent proxies and an army I wish they'd kept in the game.

The Lost and the Damned are THE most common bad guys. It's a force that could be given all sorts of model kits if GW gave them a turn.
Back when as a Teenager, I used to mix up 'proxies' with 'count as'. GW does a good job in enforcing 'use this model' on young players.
This meant a lot of builds and tactics were simply not financially available in my gaming group.

Now for some Traitor Guard!

Some Blackstone Traitor Guard, definitely a different scale than Catachan, Cadian, Marauders, Mantic. Won't be adding anymore of these guys.


Traitor Commissar [or item thief?], Feral-minder and Butcher.


Forget to mention, Wargames Atlantic 'The Damned' in there as well.

Well, it's been a bit.

First up is some Big Muties, but I have to check what these actually are supposed to be?
I think they are going to be used as +1 Str Mutant Troops.

They have all sorts of crude impaled weapons and sharp objects to work with.


A Renegade Ogryn will round out the WIP Big Muties unit, as a FOUR wound boss!



As the force expands, into the other Chaos gods. Units like Plague Toads will make their way. [these will paint up nicely with just washes!)


Speaking of Daemons, a Fast Attack choice is Demonic Beasts. As Chaos Furies we have these tentacled monsters!


Plus more Mutants for the Troops choices, all in all there will be about 3 15-man compulsory squads with flamers and heavy stubbers.


Bolstering up the HQ slots are these Rogue Psykers, which could be aligned either way to be honest.



Later....

It's been a few, moving again! But I did after near 10 months finally manage to get in a game against.. myself. Ah, convenience.

Rather than use an army from 4th Edition that know of, I decided to get into the 3rd Ed Daemonhunters Codex! My, what a book.

Here are my Deathcult Assassins, one's a Xenos for sure! OR are they?


For now a teaser of the 1050 point game of LatD vs Daemonhunters with a mish-mash of 4th,5th and 6th Edition rules.
It took many readings when I encountered contradictions and basic questions like "So, ten guys got 3 casualties, they rolled a 12... ran some 14" of the table??"


Right, buy Purity seals, it's only 5 points. Suffice, this game has really let me sharpen up my armylist knowledge and that I need to re-read the 6th Edition BRB.**



*I completely forgot Overwatch... probably won't use it with cordial opponents.**
** Which is all that's left at this point lol

Any game is a good game (well within limits....) who won the contest?

I love it, great use of the Warzone guys too!

Interesting army. LotD was really peak cool 40k.