"His were the kind of words that are both terrible to hear and impossible to forget; I admired him greatly."
-Dilk Jirp on Kiergar

I am running a campaign this summer that ties together a Dark Heresy story we have been running for over a year with 40K, BFG and Apocalypse. The campaign involves a galaxy-wide Chaos plot to wage a crusade that will assault Mars itself. After ten millennium, the traitor marines would see their war machines renewed. The final battle will occur on a new 8x12' table representing a secret Adeptus Mechanicus base on Mars' polar cap. While the battle is preordained by Eldar seers, the nature of this struggle, whether a desperate last stand for the forces of the Imperium, or a clever trap set for the haughty forces of Chaos, lies in the hands of the players.

I have set myself about painting 10,000 points of Chaos by the apocalyptic finale in October. Aggressive, but it's good to aim high. The Chaos forces include three distinct armies, Mort's Reapers, a contingent of Berserkers led by Kharn (Maelstrom of Gore), and the masterminds of it all, the Iron Hydras.


Mort's Reapers

The grizzled Commissar had insisted on entering the reeking bunker first. He stood in the relative darkness with his back to the door, bust silhouetted by the firing silt in the far wall.
"Mort's Reapers" he confirmed flatly, harsh voice muffled by the cloth pressed over his mouth and nose.
"Mort?" piped up young Phil. "How bad can it be?" He sounded hopeful as ever. For a few moments the buzz of the carrion flies was the only sound.
"I guess you better have a look," the Commissar growled, turning back toward the men.
"Don't make 'im," the sergeant whispered plaintively.
"How bad can it be?" Phil repeated as he stepped forward, ignoring the officer. The Commissar moved out of the beam of light draped across the floor. Phil stopped. The other men turned away as the retching began.
"Grab 'im, Tiny," said the sergeant.
"Don't worry kid," said the Commissar as he stalked out of the bunker. "We'll all look like that soon enough."

The Daemon Prince Mortis leads the Reapers. First iteration (that will be a scythe):


And working on some pitting and corrosion of the armor after centuries:






I have done some more since and will add some pics when I can.

Mortis' friend, the Great Unclean One is also coming along:






And some WIP troopers:



The Maelstrom of Gore and other World Eater Elements

Kharn, MKII:




A bloodthirster WIP painted by my wife:




The bersekers are built and two rhinos with FW goodies are nearly complete. I just need to paint it all.


Iron Hydras

The Iron Hydras are a Chaos Legion formed millennia ago by the joinder of a an Alpha Legion warband led by the Daemon Prince Kiergar the Snake and an Iron Warrior warband led by Warsmith Dierar Wallbreaker. How these warlords separated from their original legions and the basis for their cooperation is not known by Imperial Scholars, but the two seem to work in perfect unison and with complementary styles, one a force of charisma and great schemer, the other a consummate tactician with a passion for armor. The Legion's symbol, a two headed hydra, references it's dual leadership and Alpha Legion roots.

This army includes a Hellblade, Warhound Titan, and other bits of armor on top if Daemons and CSMs.

Iron Hyrda Land Raider. See more here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/231137.page



Much more to come!

This will be heaps of fun to witness at Dakka too Thanks for finally sharing it here and I'm sure everyone is really excited to see more.

Looks good We can never have enough Chaos on this site

I like the boar head on the 'thirster (is it a boar head, looks like something out of the WHFB beastman/orc boar stuff).

how did you get the weathering on the DP, just jabbed away with a dremel or something, because It looks really cool

Back to this with some updates for Mort's Reapers as well as a look at an Iron Hydra air support vehicle. Looks like it's positioned more rakishly than it is due to the angle of the pics (from above). More to come.

Yes, LZ, I did use a Dremel to help make the texture on Mortis.

This blog looks set to be epic. Eagerly awaiting more!

Great to see new signs of life in this project. It's been thoroughly intriguing from the start. Keep us posted.

Wow, this looks awesome! I think its fantastic that you have combined different games and are now at the epic Apocalypse-sized showdown game.

I have been playing Dark Heresy for a year, running many games and have wanted to do something like this.

Good show!

This is the greatest idea. The follow up campaign must have Necrons(taking advantage of Mars' weakened state.).

Thanks for all the comments! Glad to hear others enjoying Dark Heresy too. We have 7 or so players in that game in 4-5 people for the 40K (a few overlap), so we should be able to do quite a bit with this. Not finding time for the BFG - another time.

Here are some Khornate Rhinos for the "Maelstrom of Gore" Datasheet:

Nice

im a huge fan of everything nurgle in this. Mort looks awesome, and i cannot wait to see the DG marines painted up. very nice

Wow, that sounds amazing. All that needs to be added is an apocalypse planetstrike game for the start of the invasion onto Mars.

This will end up being completely epic.

THIS IS PURE INSANE EPIC AWESOME!!!!!!!

Love the DP - simply spectacular work with the weathering! Quick question, what head did you use?

wow, i wond how this will play out, looks like it will be crazy

Thanks gents! It had stalled for a while, but I am back in the swing now. If I work hard between now and Columbus day WE (the big event) I will be able to get a lot, if not everything done. The plan is to get it looking good for Apoc pics, but go back and do the fine detail later if I have time. I want everything in the finale game to be WYSIWYG and painted.

Darkkt, the head is from a plastic Beastman banner.


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Quick update with some Nurgle stuff I finished earlier in the week:

Lotso FW goddies in this thread.

Looking good though.

person person wrote:Lotso FW goddies in this thread.

And I haven't even put together the Warhound yet! Might work on that this WE. Looking forward to it.

FOR CHAOS!
There is whole lot of win in this thread! FW worldeater and deathguard upgrade kits are amazing!

This is a massive project but it looks really good so far. :-)

Sometimes it's a little scary big.

Some more models built. First is Ahriman. Minor conversion on the arm and I figured some kind of circle on his base would be nice sorcerer symbolism.



The next one is Kiergar the Snake - one of the two leaders of the Iron Hydras (the one with the Alpha Legion roots). Love the Daemon Prince model, so did not do too much with it other than adding the tongue to provide a name reference.

sweet conversions

Epic thread. Now if you can keep up the pace, this will be even better!mI am really looking forward to more.

Campaign Intro

Over her shoulder, Inquisitor Kailen watched the Eagle Ascendant grow smaller from the VIP seating in the StormCrow patten interceptor. She wondered if she would see her void-borne home again and said a prayer for Commander Obel and Captain Denet. Even the Lord Inquistor's Black Arc, which dwarfed the Eagle Ascendant, was shrinking fast.

The grey-suited marines around her were taciturn as ever, but she could feel their unease. Even the Legion of Shades could not know fear, they knew concern and these Astartes were taking a terrible risk. It could only be a matter of time before Lord Inquisitor Quol would discover that they had Kailen with them. The consequences of that were certain - they would be declared heretics; their fortress Monastery would likely be attacked and with no reserve to defend it, the prospects were grim.

Pushing aside worry, Kailen found an upswell of faith and renewed her resolve. If it was not too late, they would pick up team Sigma and sound a warning to those who would listen. These were fateful times indeed.

Time for some more of Mort's Reapers. First we have his Chosen with 4 Meltas (gotta have some way to deal with tanks!). Nice to use some classic models with a few updating conversions - the Chosen should be the most warped and twisted so some of the wacky older models fit right in.



Next up are three units of 7 Lesser Daemons - I figured giant rats were very appropriate. Some of them are in pretty motley base-coating because they were dredged up from an old project. At least 3 generations of giant rats there, I think.







Finally, we have some PIP shots of the standard Plague Marines. They'll get a lot more detail and variation eventually, but they are coming along.

I say this alot, but I love nurgle models that aren't green, Necrons that aren't silver or black etc.

Good point PP, it's always fun to mix up and not do the archetype.

Made good progress this WE. Working on the traitor Baneblade now. Tonight's update are two huge units of flamers. Instead of the arms, I have added so GS flames coming out of their sides. I will probably end up splitting these up and they are super over-kill at 9.





And here's an old school obliterator (built 3 new ones over the WE).



Much more to come!

Very cool, however I am not a fan of the icon. It screams alpha legion but doesn't have anything to make one think that they are half iron warriors, I would just think that they were an alpha legion warband.

So awesome. The rats are a great idea - nice use of old models.

The DP - I know the tongue is to indicate that its alpha legion (snakey), but when its just 'jutting' out in a straight line, it looks a little comical/cartoony. I think the tongue should 'loll' out of its mouth, like a dogs.

I will be very interested in seeing how you paint this DP - Ive just finished painting my most recent alpha legion chosen melta model (Im a painfully slow painter) - Im going to try and post some pics tonight.

One more thing - really like the work on the bases - I try to do this myself, gluing spare bits of bitz on the bases for some extra goodness. Love it.

Keep up the good work.

ph34r wrote:Very cool, however I am not a fan of the icon. It screams alpha legion but doesn't have anything to make one think that they are half iron warriors, I would just think that they were an alpha legion warband.

Thanks. The idea was it's a bit blockish/inorganic looking to show the "Iron" side. Maybe I could have made it segmented? It will be pretty clear when you see the amount of armor in the force, though.

darkkt wrote:The DP - I know the tongue is to indicate that its alpha legion (snakey), but when its just 'jutting' out in a straight line, it looks a little comical/cartoony. I think the tongue should 'loll' out of its mouth, like a dogs.

I will be very interested in seeing how you paint this DP - Ive just finished painting my most recent alpha legion chosen melta model (Im a painfully slow painter) - Im going to try and post some pics tonight.

Thanks for the suggestion on the tongue. I was thinking of it being out like a snake when it is "smelling." The thing that bothers me is the thickness. Had I made it loll I could have sculpted it with GS and made it thinner because it would be supported.

Checked out your gallery, but it looked like the painted images are not up yet. The scales looked good.

Quick update on the big guy (Mortis) before I go off and try to finish my traitor Baneblade.

I love the models, but one thing:

Isn't Kharn supposed to carry a plasma pistol?

Cool minis, cooler battle reports

Mekboy wrote:Isn't Kharn supposed to carry a plasma pistol?

D'oh! Thanks for catching that before I got any further. I will correct it.

Miss Dee wrote:Cool minis, cooler battle reports

Thanks! I plan to do one up for the Apoc battle at the end.

Looking pretty good so far! I like the rats for lesser daemons especially. I always thought flying squid would make for amusing ones too...

Mortis is looking good.

nice models, i love what you did to make them, i just hope that one day i will be as good as you are

mortis is looking threatening

Wehrkind wrote:Looking pretty good so far! I like the rats for lesser daemons especially. I always thought flying squid would make for amusing ones too...

Thanks! Mmm...cuttlefish. I'd go more the slug route if I had more time.

person person wrote:Mortis is looking good.

denny-814 wrote:nice models, i love what you did to make them, i just hope that one day i will be as good as you are

mortis is looking threatening

Appreciate the feedback guys. Can't wait to finish up Mortis, but there's a lot to do first. Last night I got the Traitor Baneblade almost finished. Should be able to finish tomorrow night and I owe you guys some pics of the new stuff I've built. Tonight was the Dark Heresy part of the campaign so I was busy GMing.

Time to get back to the updates! Iron Hydras traitor basilisk:

AWESOME

I wish we had a RPG group where I live, all the people moved away

Traitor baneblade completed! This one took a while to build, convert and distress.





We had our first campaign games tonight - a chaos win and a loyalist win. Really, really close, fun and memorable. Can't wait for the next ones.

Love what you did to the back.

Thanks - the shrine had to go of course. The alternative cannon made great fodder for a turbo-charged chaos motor.

Hey, liking the stuff.
Just one question, what are you using to make the snow bases?(That is if they are snow)

glue and baking soda?

Miss Dee, unless there is some secret to it or im just completely stupid i cant get that to work.
It turns into a stringy elastic goup and it dosent stick to anything.

Sweet log Scarab, everything is very impressively built, and I know paint will only amp it up. The bases do deserve special commendation, nice use of the chemical plant set

Digging the brass bits on the baneblade too, cool touches. Is that a GW bit that you used to replace the shrine? I may have to do similar when I finally enter the superheavy market ...

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Wehrkind wrote:Looking pretty good so far! I like the rats for lesser daemons especially. I always thought flying squid would make for amusing ones too...

QFT, and if I didn't have sexy multi-breasted demonettes to sub in I'd have been all over the squid swarms long ago

- Salvage

THERE NO FETHING WAY YOUR WIFE PAINTED THAT AWESOME BLOODTHIRSTER !!!!!!!


oh and .. nice minis

Bruiant wrote:Miss Dee, unless there is some secret to it or im just completely stupid i cant get that to work.
It turns into a stringy elastic goup and it dosent stick to anything.

I have seen it somewhere.... http://blog.brushthralls.com/?s=snow+basing

Thanks for the link
Ill definatly try it when i come to basing my minis.

http://thepaintingcorps.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-06%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-06%3A00&max-results=35 try this one.

Well, I was planning to just do the bases with SW Grey drybrushed with white, but now I am inspired to try some of this other stuff! Thanks for the thoughts and suggestions.

Gretar, she really did; she kicks butt! She won a 20 person WHFB RT tournament too.


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Boss_Salvage wrote:Is that a GW bit that you used to replace the shrine?

Thanks for the kind words - nice to hear from you. The bits are actually the shorter ranger alternative cannon barrel.

Thats the Artemis inquisitor model your using for the conversion right?

Yes - Mortis is based on him.

Much newer defilers. What a major pain these things are to assemble. Hate the original tiny heads and decided to try the terminator heads instead. Still deciding if I am satisfied. Think so.




I am going to use the super cool dudes as Heralds of Nurgle for the Daemon portion of my army. I think the models fit the role pretty well.

How easy is it to convert that Artemis model?

I'd be interested in doing something for a Khorne/WE based DP

He has quite a bit of scroll work and so on to dremel off. For me, the rough surface left behind was a desired effect. For some looks it would need repair, which could be a pain. Need to find a head too - defiler or something? He's about the same size and the standard DP model, so it works pretty well.

Defintaley go with the terminator heads on the oblits. I love those Also, very nice job on the Blade. Its got ALOT of flair without too many spikes and such.

Cheers for the bit ID Scarab, will keep that in mind when I get around to my own big bad blaster ...

Nice oblits so far, though I'm sad because I didn't think to chop the rebar (?!) off my newest ones back, and will have to go do that when I get home today. Helps give even more of a hunched-over powerhouse look.

- Salvage

Thanks guys. I hadn't even noticed the conversion, Salvage, my wife did it years ago and they have since been stripped and reconstructed with some new parts.

Today we have a Chaos dread I tried to make a bit more dynamic and a Abaddon himself. How can we have a Black Crusade without him?

Nice baneblade and stuff, its crazy work you do and its all great, hope it turns out well for you, i mean, its looking wonderful so far

I didn't even know your wife was in the hobby, scarab!

I don't know how others feel, but personally I hate Abaddon's stupid mohawk/tower haircut thingy

His topknot and his heads-on-a-stick things are too big.

Love the adjustment on his arm.

so far so good

Nice conversions and paint jobs on show.Can't wait for an update,give us one soon oh mighty Scarab!

Thanks gents!

malfred wrote:I didn't even know your wife was in the hobby, scarab!

She's more of a WHFB player. While I have been working on my Chaos she's been working on a very gorgeous Bretonnian army.

grimz wrote:I don't know how others feel, but personally I hate Abaddon's stupid mohawk/tower haircut thingy

person person wrote:His topknot and his heads-on-a-stick things are too big.

I don't disagree, but he really stands out that way, which is good at least. If I had more time I'd see what else I could do.

will a terminator head fit for his nogin?

Just a quick suggestion here about abaddon.
Maybe the plastic chaos termie lord model, but using the head and arms (hands) from the origional model?
this should make him stand a fair bit taller and look a hell of a lot more daunting.

As for what you have done so far, it looks fething amazing, cant pick fault with anything except you have too much money to burn

Yeah, I bet I could make a termie head work and a whole new approach based on the termie lord would be cool as well. Having read the first three Horus Heresy books I think I'll just keep him in his (over the) top-knotted splendor for this go-round.

Update for today is a unit of Thousand Sons. The Sons are pretty bland fare, but I like how the Aspiring Sorcerer came out! I have been wanting to make a conversion based on this model for a long time.

10 Sons + sorcerer! That's a meaty squad of AP3 love! The champ is a way groovy conversion, especially set off by all those 1k Son clones

I'll second that you could do a much better Abby by combining the plastic lord kit with the metal head + weapons - and I once posted a pretty EPIC post of other modelers' custom Ababdbdbadons somewhere on here. It sounds like you're more interested in getting a very identifiable Abby on the table, and yea, the old shorty model works

Dig the dready, second chaos dread in 24 hours I've seen with asymmetrical ccw (and one with a heavy flamer welded to it), nice look. You didn't build up his waist, did you? Looks less hideously stunted than usual.

- Salvage

Great work TG! How about a group photo so we can see the scale of the army to date - am eagerly awaiting WIP shots of the titan

agreed.

Salvage, he's not built up per se, but as he's tipped at the waist it makes him taller.

Thanks Kaiser. As you saw today, the force is finally fully assembled except for the Titan, which is well underway. Hopefully I can get full army pics and a finished titan up soon.

Tonight I have a rather crummy pic of Dierer Wallbreaker, the other co-leader of the Iron Hydras with Kiergar the Snake. Also up are a unit of old school raptors. Not my favorite models, but cool in their way and you don't want to leave anything our when you are going for 11,000+ points. I was happy with how the came out relative to the bases and they are pretty well centered and not too too tippy.

Those raptors look fantastic

You are an AMAZING converter!

AWESOME

You gave some old school models an update.

Thanks guys!

Looking for some suggestions this time around - what to do with my Thousand Sons/Ahriman? I'll have the Iron Hydras painted in the worn green tone shown on the Land Raider at the beginning of this thread. The followers of the blood god will be in deep red with similar wear. The Nurgle guys are all rusty. I tend to like brighter looks for Tzeentch stuff, but I want it to fit in and I already have these:





So I am looking to do something different. Grittier, darker, but still fitting. Deeper blue and more toward brass than gold, maybe? Any suggestions appreciated.

I don't really have any suggestions on how to get a nice gritty dark blue.Yet I would like to say I love those raptors and the thousand sons stuff,keep up the good work.

Thanks man!

On another note: my wallet is in great peril: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/chaosreaver.htm

I was looking at the non-Chaos version yesterday and discussing with my wife that I could easily stave off buying one only because a chaos version was not available. This one is not as aged and weather beaten as the Warhound, which is disappointing, but it's still pretty cool. Hopefully some other arms will be available. CC weapons at this scale are of limited value, I think.

I might have to get one for this army, but first I have a few things to paint.

Try a stargate Gou'ald flamboyant colours

Thanks for the suggestion: I am not familiar with them so I went and had a look for pics. Seems like they have sort of Egyptian themed technology. Cool. More metal and not too colorful based on a google search? Gives me the idea to try the T-sons in sand color with silver accents. Could be nice and not too much flashy gold. Maybe some blue accents too?

yes that sounds cool, dont forget there is "white" gold as well.

Good point.

While I am at the computer, let me share some models my wife painted for a friend that will also be taking part in the battle on the Chaos team.

Are those old-style plague bearers or are they scratch built?

As for the stargate like Gou' ald theme,I like it.

Old school plague bearers.

Started work on the 8x12' table for the big game this morning.

They are nice.

Yeah they look cool,as for the table good luck in building it and give us an update soon.

Table is underway. So far I am just building the surface itself, nothing too exciting. The titan may be finished (building phase) tonight - or at least enough for a photo. It's a bigger job than I anticipated!

I know this has nothing to do with Chaos (or maybe it has everything to do with Chaos), but I
still love the look of your Eldar. I know it was already written for ye olde dakka, but I'd be happy
to help you put together an army profile for the Dakka Articles system. Just a thought.

Damn. That's really all that there is to say....

This looks sooooo incredible.

So far, wow....in the best way.

Will probably continue to amaze me. Keep it up!

Thanks guys.

malfred wrote:I know this has nothing to do with Chaos (or maybe it has everything to do with Chaos), but I
still love the look of your Eldar. I know it was already written for ye olde dakka, but I'd be happy
to help you put together an army profile for the Dakka Articles system. Just a thought.

Thanks!! I just finished them and took them to their first tourney where they took best painted. Nice to get them in fully painted and playable form after 10 years of working on them in some fashion or another... Should we talk about any army profile in PMs? My homemade version is here: http://www.darkwald.net/Eldar/

Back on topic, here are some WIP shots to share of my Warhound. Starting to look like something.

Fracking smart!!

Agreed,looks good.Get some paint on the bad boy and soon!

I love the chaos warhound, it looks so good. (looks even better irl)

I was gone for a few days, and wow that titan is looking nice, its larget than what i thought it would be, and playing on an 8x12' table, that sounds like it would be fun

Miss Dee wrote:Fracking smart!!

LOL! Thanks for the comments guys. Makes it more fun to keep plodding along.

Tonight I put some more detail on the titan and primed the last of my figures for the army. Everything is at least primed except the titan, and that should be soon. I also got paint down on the first of three table sections. Texture and feel came out a bit better than I expected, which is always nice. Nothing special to look at yet, though.

Re your Thousand sons, you could go a blue/metallic look (either mixing blue and silver paint or a blue wash over a silver). Keeps it a bit traditional, whilst mixing it up a bit.

All good stuff tho, keeping a watch!

Time for an update - only a month left to go! The first of my models are almost done.




The titan is almost ready for paint (need to fix the bubble in his hip first).






What's left to do, minus a few on my painting table and the titan. A bit over 11K points.




One table section receiving aluminum edging:




And another based and textured. Needs snow now.



I am off to airbrush some base silver for the armored portions of my army. This will then have hairspray applied and then the primary color - some of which will be brushed off to make chips like the Land Raider at the top of this thread.

Looking good.

AWESOME

Dude its looking great

The table is looking good,so is the titan,still can't wait to see some paint on it though,lol.

Your family is like 60x as good at this as i am.

Love your bitz cabinet of infinintness.

Could we see some pics of that Ezekiel model with wings??

Who is he meant to represent?

person person wrote:Love your bitz cabinet of infinintness.

qft, you are seriously organised dude, well done!!

Hey really appreciate the comments and motivation!

The cabinets are handy. I got a bunch of bitz when there when the US bitz racks collapsed 8 years ago or so and that really got the collection of bitz going. Without some organization, it would be pretty hard to know where I might look for a part or idea.

The winged angel is a Lord Salan. He was made for a prior campaign and was an experiment with limited palette. I have rebased him for this. Here's a few older pics.

nice handywork

Unholy cow, you and your wife sure know how to put out some fantastic looking models.

I only wish I were a small portion as good at it as you guys are

Love the Mortis model's armour. Not really seen that pitted look on such a scale before.

Appreciate the comments.

I have been very busy painting of late, but it's time to catch up with a few pics!

First up we have pics of the painted 'thirster. This one has waited a very long time to be fully painted and based, but he's finally done. Perfect!





And some flamers. Figured I'd go for a bold, in-theme scheme for them as my marines and armor are more muted and natural. They're the raw stuff of Chaos, so fun to get fanciful.

Do I see a greenskull?

Heh, yep!

Holy crap scarab, that is the best molten lava effect I have seen in a long while. You pulled it off brilliantly!

Where is your thirster's head from? You must have mentioned it before but I missed it.

The head stuck on his axe is sort of comical

Oooh, I love that winged lord guy. Great work!

I agree: great bases.
And I love seeing some of the old school minis, particularly the antique flamers and deathguard.
Great work here.

Diggin it all.

I like that the brightest part of the flamers is towards their 'core' or 'center of consciousness' if you will. How everything radiates from there getting colder.

them flaming warp stuff things are freaking awesome

Hey dude, great work, very impressive, I especially like the flamer concept and paint scheme, bold is gold, especially in this case, my only question with them being: Are they supposed to be hot and melting the snow around them, or are they like all chaos-y flames and dont effect the snow unless they want to type idea?

As well, for the thousand suns, I would look up the classic tomb king models for some inspiration, everyone always makes them extremely bright, but I believe they should be almost like they are in perpetual sandstorm, very worn, I mean, they are just shells roamin' around and were burnt out from the inside? just a thought...

Ditto graypaint on how good the 'Thirster's head is. That's a WHFB boar, right? Looks much better than the original. With that head in place, I can finally appreciate the rest of the fig (well, except the giant hands). Also, those flamers look ace.

Thanks for being an inspiration to those of us who have Apocalypse-scale "to do" piles!

A real cornucopia of amazing things, I am most taken with the dp and the bloodthirster although the plaguebearers were very nice.

That mob of flamers is really something Scarab, all together on snow bases and all. And in game, damn that's a LOT of no armor template love

I'm really a fan of that 'thirster too, with the more aggressive pose, backswept wings and that GREAT boar head. I'll say it now, if I ever get around to making a 'proper' 'thirster (rocking a balrog convert and an uber-prince right now) I'll be nicking that headswap

- Salvage

Thanks for all the kind words!

graypaint wrote:Where is your thirster's head from? You must have mentioned it before but I missed it.

The head stuck on his axe is sort of comical

As Savnock noted - WHFB boar. And yeah, the head's a little OTT, but that okay now and then.

gameandwatch wrote:Are they supposed to be hot and melting the snow around them, or are they like all chaos-y flames and dont effect the snow unless they want to type idea?

As well, for the thousand suns, I would look up the classic tomb king models for some inspiration, everyone always makes them extremely bright, but I believe they should be almost like they are in perpetual sandstorm, very worn, I mean, they are just shells roamin' around and were burnt out from the inside? just a thought...

My wife said the same. I went with the "not really hot, just Chaos" approach. If I had infinite time, I'd definitely prefer to go with the melt look. Good ideas on the Thousand Sons - thanks!

Some WIPs from the Nurgle side (Mort's Reapers) today. The green will all be a lot more natural and complex (GuO tone, but more varied) when done.




And the plague marine contingent with the bases done. Still lots of detail ahead:

Flamers look great, looking forward to the final result on the 1k sons

Dittoed Shotgun'

Miss Dee wrote:Dittoed Shotgun'

how is that helpful? in any way?

-

Your models look great, i have only read a few pages but do you achieve that rust look by airbrushing? it looks simple but effective.

Thanks guys!

Gutteridge wrote:

Miss Dee wrote:Dittoed Shotgun'

how is that helpful? in any way?

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Your models look great, i have only read a few pages but do you achieve that rust look by airbrushing? it looks simple but effective.

Gutteridge, I think Miss Dee's comment is just a quick way of saying she's followed the latest update and enjoyed it. Good question on the rusting: the answer is "it depends." I did do the largest amount of rusting on the Nurgle side with the airbrush. Honestly, it over-rusted them a bit compared to what I had planned. I expect to do the remaining rusting by brush. Here's the "secret": http://www.micromark.com/RUSTALL-SYSTEM,7532.html Enjoy!

I do like a knight with a shining boltgun.

Oh, thank god, you are not done with the rusty men... for some reason I had thought you were doing them just that rust color, all over. I was trying to figure out if it was just an artsy thing I didn't get, or perhaps you had gone mad... but I just kept thinking "that is WAY too much rust, no matter how awesome it looks..."

I am going to slink away with the broken husk of my reading comprehension now... these look great so far

Wow, these are insane!!

Nice work mate!

Cheers,

Jack.

Wehrkind wrote:Oh, thank god, you are not done with the rusty men... for some reason I had thought you were doing them just that rust color, all over. I was trying to figure out if it was just an artsy thing I didn't get, or perhaps you had gone mad... but I just kept thinking "that is WAY too much rust, no matter how awesome it looks..."

LOL! No worries. It'll have some details, but maybe not in time for the big game. Still a lot of the 12K points to paint!

Blightdron wrote:Wow, these are insane!!

Nice work mate!

Thanks Jack.


Time for another update. Here's what's on my airbrush table at the moment. Note the Titan has some paint now!




Here's all three sections of the table - two done and one built. It'll be arranged as two 8x4s with a 5.5x4 between then in an H-shape to facilitate reaching models to move them.




And finally, the Maelstrom of Gore contingent of the army. Sorry for the poor pic, but I think you can see the chipping effect under the base of red. Much more to come on these.



Working on some nurglings at the moment.

BLOOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!!!


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I can start to see alot more detail on the warhound now.

scarab wrote:Still a lot of the 12K points to paint!

I know how that is. I'm doing pretty much the same thing for next summer with some friends(most of the stuff supplied and painted by me, though).

Yours will look tons better, though.

Keep up the good work!

scarab wrote:Looking for some suggestions this time around - what to do with my Thousand Sons/Ahriman? I'll have the Iron Hydras painted in the worn green tone shown on the Land Raider at the beginning of this thread. The followers of the blood god will be in deep red with similar wear. The Nurgle guys are all rusty. I tend to like brighter looks for Tzeentch stuff, but I want it to fit in...

Hey Scarab, just did a quick scroll through your thread and I must say you have some very impressive work! As to the Tzeentch marines, I have two suggestions (sorry if I'm late).

1: Stark, hard highlights probably of a blue-ish tincture. I see this a lot of WHFB chaos knights and it really seems to carry that 'otherworldly' armor look. Example:


2: Sort of along the same lines as 1, paint your marines up in a scheme close to the rest of the army but differentiate them by using blue glow effects on some or all of the cracks/gaps/spaces of their power armor. I thought this up whilst typing my first idea so unfortunately I don't have a pictorial example but I think this might be ideal for creating marines that flow with the overall force whilst still being distinctly 'Tzeentch'.

Hope it helps and in any case I look forward to seeing more of your work!

Platuan4th wrote:I'm doing pretty much the same thing for next summer with some friends(most of the stuff supplied and painted by me, though).

Yours will look tons better, though.

After painting that much, you'll be a pro.

0079 wrote:Hey Scarab, just did a quick scroll through your thread and I must say you have some very impressive work! As to the Tzeentch marines, I have two suggestions (sorry if I'm late).

Great suggestions - and nice looking reference work! I will probably be stuck being a bit more conventional due to timing, but maybe if I made the eyes a bit glowy or something? I'll think on it for sure.

person person wrote:BLOOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!!!

And don't forget the skulls.

Looking pretty good so far, especially that titan! 12k is just a huge amount of points to grind through; this is going to be epic when it is all said and done, before or after the big game

As a side note, that paint sprayer station is pretty impressive. I really might have to break down and pick one up one of these days... your results make an excellent advertisement for them!

Nice work, hope they go great, unfortunately i wont be able to see the rest how they turn out, because im am going to boot camp in the next couple days and ill be gone for a while

Just had a flick through, WOW!!e
The flamers are so cool, the molten lava effect is brilliant, are you going to do a group shot of everything? Because that will look REALLY GOOD!
Keep up the good work!!!

Threadomancy?
Maybe.
But this thread is WAY too epic to let die.
I'd love to know whats going on with this.

Models are looking really good! Update!

Nice to see a start on the titan, can't wait to see that bad boy all painted up. I like 0079's chaos thousand sons termi idea. Keep up the good work!

Sorry for the lack of updates - I was sprinting to get it all done! While the models mostly need more detail, etc., the basics were all there to look great on a 24,000 total-point game. The thread will live on as I continue to work on individual models, but let me first share where I got to in the adventure with the Apocalyptic battle rep over the next few days. The game took 21 hours to play over two days, so I figure the rep is better to do in pieces. Here goes:

Inquisitor Kailen had a hunch, and as her hunches had proven the salvation of the Imperium in the past, the Ultramarines under Romulus' urging, Cannoness Margarite and her annexed Guard, and portions of Inquisitor Mack's personal army traveled to Mars to meet the forces of Chaos. Other Imperial forces protected other high value targets throughout Segmentum Solar and the Sol system in particular, but Kailen was sure that the secret STC library on Mars' polar cap was the true target of the Ruinous Powers.

They found the base in good condition to defend with excellent infrastructure between the entrances to the underground complex and the only suitable landing area in the area (far end).

Surveying the battlefield, Kailen and her allies knew there would be six main objectives that would need to be considered to keep Chaos from penetrating the library. The first two were the physical entrances (near end) consisting of an armored pyramid and a simple escape hatch built into a cut-off Martian outcropping. These objectives were well guarded by two bastions and barricades. Also of strategic importance were en electrical facility and test station (mid field), which were surrounded by razorwire, but, if lost, could reveal secrets about the base and it's defenses, and finally the control tower and fueling station in the landing area (far end), which would allow the Chaos forces to quickly escalate their assault.

I really do not mean to break the stride of your post, but I LOVE your workshop/office/gaming room/gym. I am seldom envious, but I am quite envious now.

PS your Great Unclean One looks like a ball-chinian.

I dunno, 2 bastions and some barricades against 12,000 pts of Chaos? Board looks awesome though.

Turn 1A - Chaos holds their entire force in Strategic Reserve to co-ordinate their attack with the support of their Daemonic allies. (Score: Chaos 0 - Imperials 0)

Turn 1B - The Imperial forces await the onslaught of the Ruinous Powers by consolidating their defenses around the two entrances to the library complex and advancing exploratory forces into no-man's land. (Score: Chaos 0 - Imperials 0 + 4*1 = 4)

crossbonesx11 wrote:I really do not mean to break the stride of your post, but I LOVE your workshop/office/gaming room/gym. I am seldom envious, but I am quite envious now.

PS your Great Unclean One looks like a ball-chinian.

Thanks! That's my basement. We have 4 of us every other week plus some bigger gatherings from time to time and it's nice to have the space.

person person wrote:I dunno, 2 bastions and some barricades against 12,000 pts of Chaos? Board looks awesome though.

Well, they had 12,000 points too! Lots and lots of armor, as you can now see. Large parts of the Ultras and Grey Knights are still in cover at this point.

Man scarab, someones gonna have fun poundin the hell out of your army haha, SOOOO much armor....

You bet, G'n'W! And now the first half of the forces of Chaos make their entry:

Turn 2A - The Chaos vanguard strikes! Chaos takes hold of the test station in the no-man's land and refueling station near the landing pad, threatens [forgets] to capture the control tower, and sends deep-striking packs of Daemons and Obliterators behind the Imperial lines. Bye bye, Baneblade! (Score: Chaos 0 + 2*2 = 4 - Imperials 4)




Turn 2B - The first wave of Imperial reinforcements deep strike, taking possession of the control tower. Back nearer the library complex, the Guardsmen's resolve holds strong and the Daemons are largely eliminated from the Imperial backfield. (Score: Chaos 4 - Imperials 4 + 3*2 = 10)

Dang. I want a basement.

I think mine is technically a "crawlspace." I'll have to check city code.

Same, I call cool basements like that lairs of awesome/man-ness

Basements are great. Mine is pretty usable because we painted it white and put down the soft tiling. It's also a pretty cool place to hang out because in addition to the GW hobby it also houses my brewing hobby. Only the garage can compete.

Back on topic:
Turn 3A - The remaining Chaos troops enter the fray behind the covering smoke of a Blind Barrage. (Score: Chaos 4 + 2*3 = 10 - Imperials 10)



Turn 3B - The Imperial reinforcements arrive just as the smoke lifts to reveal the true chaotic threat! The battle for the control tower intensifies. At the electrical facility, the Bloodthirster is taken down by disciplined, massed fire. (Score: Chaos 10 - Imperials 10 + 3*3 = 19)

malfred wrote:Dang. I want a basement.

I think mine is technically a "crawlspace." I'll have to check city code.

Yeah man, hurry up and get a basement so I can hang out over there and make giant tables. chop, chop.

Turn 4A - With the battle fully joined, the Warhound turns his attention to Grey Knights and Ultramarines around the control tower. The unengaged elements of the Chaos forces push forward in a Strategic Redeployment to close the gap with the Imperial artillery. At Abaddon's order, his ship, the Planetkiller unleashes a controlled Orbital Bombardment, knocking a Valkyrie from the skies and decimating a unit of storm troopers and a squad of Ultramar's finest. (Score: Chaos 10 + 3*4 = 22 - Imperials 19)



Turn 4B - The true heros of the Imperial forces, a squadron of (pesky) Imperial Ultramarine landspeeders, repeated efforts to destroy the Traitor Baneblade succeed, leaving another massive crater in the polar ice. The library entrances secure for the moment, the Imperial forces advance while the Grey Knights hold the Control Tower in the shadow of the raging Warhound Titan. (Score: Chaos 22 - Imperials 19 + 3*4 = 31)

landspeeders killing baneblades?!?

Thats a first.

Formations can be surprisingly hard to kill. And 3 multi-melta speeders behind a Driver Stunner Baneblade is bad news!

Turn 5A - Still flush with his destruction of Ultramarine terminators, Abaddon waded from his Landraider into combat with six Grey Knight terminators, killing three easily, but suffering a thunderhammer blow that slowed him briefly. The last Grey Knight at the control tower ended his duty to the Emperor under the foot of the Warhound. (Score: Chaos 22 + 3*5 = 37 - Imperials 31)




Turn 5B - The Grand Master of the Grey Knights fearlessly charges into combat with the Great Unclean One behind the control tower, relieving a sole Ultramarine Champion who had survived four turns of combat with the immense pustulant Daemon. Despite this heroism and the massive volleys of artillery fire, the Imperials can not extend their control of the battlefield beyond the twin entrances to the complex. (Score: Chaos 37 - Imperials 31 + 2*5 = 41)

And now the final turn!

Turn 6A - Sensing a possible victory in the air, the minions of Chaos charge forward into the teeth of the Imperial tanks. The Warhound covers their advance by destroying the famed Imperial Tanker Task and his command Vanquisher. The Marines and Daemons of the Plague God dig in to the objectives they hold, anticipating a righteous final push from the forces of the Imperium. (Score: Chaos 37 + 3*6 = 55 - Imperials 41)



Turn 6B - The Imperial Ogryns rush forward to try to push the Plague Marines out of the electrical facility and secure a famous victory. They are supported by the combined firepower of as many Imperials as could bring their guns to bear. Unfortunately, the Sons of Nurgle proved too resilient and the Ogryns could not secure the objective. With only two victory points separating the forces of Good and Evil, the battle was declared a draw. (Score: Chaos 55 - Imperials 41 + 2*6 = 53)



Great battle. We'll be talking about this one for a long time. Next up we are doing some small (500pt) games to mix things up and it will give me a chance to select a small part of my army and finish it up. More pics to come!

Waw, sounds like a wild one. Great building, great table, great everything. In the hobbyworld, you are to be commended, Scarab.

BTW, I saw a pack of rolling tobacco with dutch warnings written on them. You from the Netherlands or Belgium?

Superb work Scarab, the table(s) look fantastic and that battle was truly epic! Certainly looking forward to hearing about your smaller scrums too, particularly if it means closer shots of awesome models

Also, don't I live kinda close to you? When was ya'll's games day again?

- Salvage

was a fun read look forward to more

PanzerSmurf wrote:Waw, sounds like a wild one. Great building, great table, great everything. In the hobbyworld, you are to be commended, Scarab.

BTW, I saw a pack of rolling tobacco with dutch warnings written on them. You from the Netherlands or Belgium?

Thanks man! My wife is Dutch and her uncle is professional tobacco blender, so we have lots of nice cigar boxes around. You have a good eye.

Boss_Salvage wrote:Superb work Scarab, the table(s) look fantastic and that battle was truly epic! Certainly looking forward to hearing about your smaller scrums too, particularly if it means closer shots of awesome models

Also, don't I live kinda close to you? When was ya'll's games day again?

Thanks. Hey, you are welcome. It's always in October - usually on Columbus day weekend.

Empchild wrote:was a fun read look forward to more

Thank you! You're not to far afield either. Maybe we'll catch a game sometime.

Empchild wrote:was a fun read look forward to more

Thank you! You're not to far afield either. Maybe we'll catch a game sometime.

Wow, I work in Worcester. Will PM.

scarab wrote:

PanzerSmurf wrote:Waw, sounds like a wild one. Great building, great table, great everything. In the hobbyworld, you are to be commended, Scarab.

BTW, I saw a pack of rolling tobacco with dutch warnings written on them. You from the Netherlands or Belgium?

Thanks man! My wife is Dutch and her uncle is professional tobacco blender, so we have lots of nice cigar boxes around. You have a good eye.

Aaaah, I see... Yeah, saw some dutch-labelled sanding paper there too. I'm Belgian myself (see the little flag ), but with dutch and german roots, so I allways tend to keep an eye out for other languages and writing and things, among other things .

Cool table, min's a beer please.

Miss Dee wrote:Cool table, min's a beer please.

Thanks. I have no idea what the last bit means, but it's about beer, so it must be a good thing!

Nice battle report and i can only dream of playing apocalypse.. . BoT lovin' the marines and your deamon prince you have excellent (sp?) sculpting skills can't wait for more!

Hmmm needs more beer ! ( oh good stuff )

Back to these after a break. First unit of Mort's Reapers finally done:

They look resilient as ever You've got one heck of Nurgle army TG

Nice minis keep it up

Thanks gents!

I like the combination of "uniformity - yet unmistakeably Nurgle" effect.

Mortis is fantastic. Really. I'm curious as to what you used as his body. It's too big to be any of the metal minis that I can think of.

Also, where did you get the plastic wings for the Daemon Prince? I've been trying to get my hands on some like that, and I have been unsuccessful so far.

Thanks.

TempusCorvus wrote:Mortis is fantastic. Really. I'm curious as to what you used as his body. It's too big to be any of the metal minis that I can think of.

It's an Inquisitor scale space marine as a base. 58mm models line up well size-wise with typical Daemon Princes and it's a GW model.

TempusCorvus wrote:Also, where did you get the plastic wings for the Daemon Prince? I've been trying to get my hands on some like that, and I have been unsuccessful so far.

They are from the GW dragon. GW sells them on the website as bits. Try a search for wings.

Hows the 1,000 sons going?

Very cool work scarab with the death gaurd. I love the skulls in the center of the pack. Is a great offset color wisethat draws your eyes to the models.

kaiservonhugal wrote:I like the combination of "uniformity - yet unmistakeably Nurgle" effect.

Agreed, Like the rusted armour alot. Nurgle has plenty of colours beside green.

I'm so far from you guys i live in chicago. But it is the Center of Culture.

Thanks again gents. Had two great games with them last night, both vs IG. Game one was brutal for the IG as he got too near. Game two he deployed as far away as possible and it was a closer affair. 5-4 on kill points when we had to call time. Good times.

Ah man that looks like a blast.