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Have you read Storm of Iron if ya have convert one skull champion an make an avatar

Storm of Iron is why I have Khorne Berserkers in the army! It mentioned that Iron Warriors don't really follow the Chaos gods, but some of them do fall to Khorne in the assault companies.

Cant wait to see our avitar of khorn

Well, there are some Khorne Berserkers earlier in this thread! I have some Obliterators primed and assembled I might do for this army soon; I need to do something with OSL this month so it'd be a good opportunity.

Cool remember light dont go around corners and have a look at my Tau and space sharks link below that might help.

Finished up my first Obliterator - these are from some third party sculptor in Russia, but he also sells recasts on his eBay store so I won't be linking it in this thread. Search "Daemon Warrior" and hope you get lucky I suppose! This figure was really fun to paint, and I've got two more lined up for when I feel like I need a break from cartoon blues and golds.

Wow, these are fantastic! :3 Long time since I looked at this thread but nice to know you're still going strong, I love the third-party obliterator..

MOAR.
MOAR IRON FOR THE IRON GAWD.

Awesome work.

Definitely inspiring, since I'm about to start a Word Bearers army!

I really love this thread, such a fantastic looking army. what's next after the Oblits?

Thanks for the comments guys! I have two more Obliterators to do (one more has a plasma cannon arm like that, the other has your typical random allotment of guns) and after that I'll likely do some cultists, since they've been doubling as a Necromunda gang.

Aside from that, there's this one piece of John Blanche artwork from White Dwarf 266 that really inspires me:

I'm thinking if I could convert up some Marines like those, where they look almost barbaric, but with more caution stripes. I really like that look, and might think to go with it if I add more Marines. I also have plans for some counts-as Noise Marines, but let's wait on Forgeworld to make some sweet Iron Warriors first...

if their iron warrior shoulder pads are anything to go by then I'd say start making your own stuff now

The Iron Warrior shoulder pads are a bit dull, but everything else Forgeworld has put out has been drop dead gorgeous. I think I'll wait and see where things go - worst case, I get some MK2 armor and Volkite weapons and make counts-as Noise Marines with hose.

That's some awesome art, by the way. Really nice

The Dark Vengeance CSM might be worth a look. I've built a couple by replacing their heads with those from the WHFB Chaos Warrior box and filing down the more organic shoulder pads. Reducing Terminator pads down works quite well, as do the regular CSM ones with the extra trim around the edge.

This is by no means a unique conversion, but I thought I post a couple of (bad, apologies) pictures of mine just to illustrate the idea.


Thanks for posting that Blanche art, it's awesome. Kind of makes me want to rake through my bits box and get a squad of these guys built.

Your conversions aren't bad at all! They're actually pretty slick to tell you the truth. I've painted a couple DV chosen for the army (namely the lightning claw guy, the bolter dude, and converted the chosen champion to a Dark Apostle) but converting some of them into jus standard Chaos Marines sounds like a good idea. I don't exactly need that many guys with special close combat weapons anyhow. The ones I painted are probably back a page or two. Anyway, the mix of Chaos Warrior, Dark Vengeance, and Chaos Space Marine bits makes for some pretty cool models, so I'll look into that when I add more to the army!

My DV Chaos Space Marines are sitting in a box gathering dust.. I sort of gave up painting CSMs once I realized I could never settle on a colour scheme xD

Obliterator looks awesome, seriously well painted.

Thank you! Expect the next two to look just as cool

 Brother SRM wrote:
Your conversions aren't bad at all! They're actually pretty slick to tell you the truth.

Thanks man. FWIW I wasn't fishing about the conversions I was more talking about the picture quality, the lighting in my house is pretty poor and i don't have a light box.

Had a check over the chaos warrior heads, there are loads of different horned helmet options in there, there's also a few other good ones. Some of the Chaos Knights might be worth a look.

Was thinking about the art itself. I think rather than DV the Khorne Berzerker legs mixed with CSM parts and Warrior Helms might work better. The Berzerker legs really look like the illustration that you posted IMHO.

 Brother SRM wrote:
Thank you! Expect the next two to look just as cool

I certainly do :3

So I've had a pair of Obliterators sitting on my desk for 7 months now, just waiting to be painted. While waiting for washes to dry on my Cadians today, I did some work on these Obliterators. Before I knew it, I'd finished both of them! Unfortunately it seems I changed golds between them, as they don't quite match the older Obliterator. Well, winds of Chaos and all that.

Looking good! Parts breakdown?

They're actually by some third party sculptor I can't find. They were sold by a dude on eBay who sells tons of Forgeworld recasts so I won't link him here in the thread, but he had these and I grabbed them because I really liked them. Whoever sculpted them originally used lots of actual GW parts which helped them keep the aesthetic though - the plasma cannons are from the 2nd ed plastic Orks I think, and the guy with the mess of guns are all obvious GW bits too.

And now for some Cultists! These were hastily kitbashed some time ago and I gave them a pretty simple paintjob, sticking to just a basic wash + highlight for most parts of them. After painting all the crisp, clean retro stuff it's liberating to paint something dirty and rusty.

Niice! I kinda strayed away from the tradional mad max type cultists. I painted mine as i did my chosen bright red and gold to show their Khorne pride.

Those sound neat! I personally like the muddy, grubby cultist look, since these guys aren't exactly professional soldiers. They're scum and they should look like it!

Then again, if these cultists were painted like my Iron Warriors, they'd have silver and gold trousers

Those oblitorators look awesome, loving the classic plasma cannons

 Brother SRM wrote:
As promised, here's the WIP!

Just blocking in some colors. The melee dudes are Khorne marked, and the shooty ones are probably gonna stay unmarked.

those are the cultists from dark vengeance.

 bigfish wrote:
Those oblitorators look awesome, loving the classic plasma cannons

Thank you! I can tell the sculptor used a bevvy of GW bits on them, and those plasma cannons are definitely from 2nd ed.

lliu wrote:
those are the cultists from dark vengeance.

That's... very observant of you? I don't know what you're going for here.

I have some cultists from DV if you need some more.