I've had a bit time and had this guy sitting on my desk for quite awhile now so I thought, I would finish him up a bit.





I love the new Chaos Knights heads they are awesome looking and make for a neat different look, and a bit of creepiness also.

Next up, been at work on this Nurgle figure and a few other random Chaos pieces. Randomness will probably the theme for the most part for this chaos bloggin'. Haven't really ever done alot of Nurgle, so I thought about time to try out some things. Didn't like the head, so since I shot these pics I've removed it and switched it out with a nurgling head.






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dude these look awesome especially the first one

I couldn't agree more, these are realy nice looking chaos guys, as nice as heretics can look

Really good clean GS work as well, i look for ward to seeing more of these models

Nice figures. I really like the look of the cloth pieces on the first marine, and I agree that the chaos knight helmet looks great on the model.

Thanks guys, I'm beginning to have some fun.

I think this may be the first guys brother. This is another mini that has been sitting on my desk forever it seems, so I finished him up to get rid of him. And again another Chaos Knight that I at first really did not like, but on the CSM its actually quite creepy looking. This one has the cooler looking backpack.






More messing around to follow.

Extremely cool minis! Like it!

Looks good. I'm watching this one

I will be following this one for sure,looking good so far.

Modelling Chaos Marines aint it fun eh??

Yea Im loving these nice mix of stuff very inspiring

Nice greenstuffing! Very clean, very characterful, and it works well with the WHFB knight stuff.

I love the WHFB helmets with the grating for the nurgle marines... I've used em before as well...

I only have one thing...

you ARE really good at sculpting with greenstuff...

so why give them all essentially the same pose??

a little surgery and you can give them all such dynamic poses to go with their rotting but battle hardened glory...

top notch work for papa nurgle so far though...

keep it up!

-SINISM

Thanks for the kind words guys, more to follow.

@Sinism: I understand what you are saying, these are just the first few I have had sitting on my desk forever it feels like anyways. I'm grabbing just randomly and building. I really have no plans for an army right at the moment. Some of these I will keep, some of these I will definitely get rid of, some I will definitely paint. There are many more to follow, I'll probably change up and sprinkle in some fantasy also once and awhile, but I'm big into chaos and such.

And not everything will have Nurgle influence, expect Khorne to show sooner or later, and possibly Slaanesh, maybe even a Tzeentch model.

Some more messing around. This is another of my Nurgle conversions, a little different than the other. This time I made the base with a similar effect. I really am liking the mutated possessed bits, they for really evil looking items, mixed in a tabbard and some other skin/cloth bits on this one also.






The white putty on the base is Apoxie sculp which cures rock solid.

More to follow.

Nice nurgley marine

Wow I've never seen such sexy pustules lol. Very nice!

Do you have any special techinque on the tabards and cloth, or is that just experience?

It is very impressive greenstuff work, I like the kitbashing.

Its definitely practice and experience, but the only way to do it is just that. I do have some tips and general methods, there is a whole variety of ways to achieve this.

The cloth I typically do in a couple of steps or couple of different methods. Sometimes it works better to sculpt the cloth on the miniature, sometimes sculpt it over a support mounted on the model, sometimes it works better to sculpt the piece of cloth on a piece of plastic foil/wrapper.

If you use the wrapper method use a little bit of water to dampen the wrapper, the reason for this is so that you can remove it prior to the putty curing (Although sometimes you may not want to). If you use a lot of water you can trap air bubbles and water bubbles between the putty and wrapper, that's no good for most applications. Smooth your putty using a smooth surface on side and colour shapers or sculpting tools with metal spatulas/spoon shaped ends. Sharpen the edges of the putty with the knife end of your sculpting tool. With the wrapper method on large pieces of cloth or capes, I will allow the piece to cure 5-10 minutes leaving it on the wrapper, then apply the piece directly to the model, by holding the wrapper. Coax gentle bends in the cape using the foil wrapper. I have even used tape to hold the foil in place while the putty is curing. After the putty is cured, gently peel off the foil. Tattered edges, use an Xacto or toothpick or straight pin.

I'll use a dull X-acto to do the the tattered edges by first cutting out a wedge of putty and the then use it to coax the putty into shape. For the holes I'll use a tooth pick like tool and gently poke the hole then move the tool around in the hole a little to make the torn hole.

Nice conversions. What the HELL is that thing hanging between your second conversions legs though :/

Creepy indeed...

Solid work on the greenstuff. There can never be enough chaos on Dakka.

Boss Julian wrote:What the HELL is that thing hanging between your second conversions legs though :/

Creepy indeed...

Well....his poop shooter of course.

Happy to see you doing some CSM, PPC

All the lads are looking pretty rad, nice use of possessed bitz and solid putty skills for details. And I agree, random is best for chaos marines

- Salvage

This time mixing in a bit of Fantasy. Everyone needs that front rank that screams we are CHAOS. This is one of many more models for my marauder horde, but one of the cooler looking ones. He'll be getting a shield. I warned you some fantasy would get mixed in.
They're just poster puttied to the bases.



And another of my favorites from the same unit.


One thing with chaos kit bashing whether 40k or fantasy nothing ever goes to waste.

WOW! The shoulder armor on the last one is beautiful... *wipes tear away from eye after seeing that stunnign GS work*

The armor plating is something that I have figured out how to do quite quickly, now that I have had a bit of practice on it, turned out much better than my beastman army stuff.

Here's a few more shots of some armor...a couple being from a some of my Khorne Demon army that is on GW's web site (least I think they still have the photos of last years GTs up still, haven't checked)...its my claim to 5 minutes of fame...winning the Best Appearance at the Chicago GT last year in Fantasy.











We'll be returning to 40k shortly.
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I really like the chaos warrior with the beastman legs,and the skull in his hand made me think,"Alas poor Yorick I knew him well."

Thanks for the answer.

Nice marauder armpit hair you got there.

Superb craftsmanship on the armor!

A bit of a departure: Well this one really doesn't fit with the others, but since I'm messing around and this was in the bottom of bitz box on my desk, I thought I may as well finish it. There was a time when converting these fantasy chaos warriors into space wolves and/or chaos space marines was pretty popular. Most of the posing for these were not very dynamic, but they are larger than the normal space marine.







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Well I've had some plastic Chaos Terminators since the Army box came out, and I've never messed around with them. This one I thought would look cool as a nurgle termi. Did a bit more base work like the other Nurgle one. The white putty is apoxie sculp so very durable, its certainly not cream cheese frosting. I think he turned out pretty cool, the head got moved from the other marine to the terminator, I think it looks better on the termie.

That nurgle termy looks ace i like it are you gonna do the rest of the termies like that i think they'd be kool.

Love the chaosy stuff. Fantastic greenstuff work too. The Marauders have certainly given me a few ideas for my own chaos force.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:I really like the chaos warrior with the beastman legs,and the skull in his hand made me think,"Alas poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio."

Fixed

Back to some fantasy. Some WIP shots of the hand weapon shield Marauder unit and finished models of the ones shown a bit earlier. Decided to mix pretty much all of the lines of chaos along with an ogre for filler. The centaur is going to be replaced with a centaur based on the newer plastic chaos knights, I just haven't gotten around to sculpting the torso for that yet.






This unit will be joined with a flail unit that is pretty much done including paint, which I'll show some of the WIPs of soon. Then a maruader Khorne great weapon unit, along with some warriors and knights and marauder horse, chariots, hounds, and such.

LOVE them

I'm back to messing with chaos, long overdue update.

Building a new blood thirster for a buddy out east.

The base model is the Balrog from LotR. Yea I know you're saying just paint it red give it an axe and whamo you got a BT. Well I can't do that, besides I'm getting good money to put armor on it.

Here's some of the WIPs:








Got a ways to go yet. Thank god I'm not painting this bastard.

Dude, that's crazy good...

I demand a tutorial!

A tutorial on armor plating? Anyone else want to see that?

I can definitely put something like that together. More of this big guy to come.

...Yes. Yes I do.

They all look fantastic great job.

+1 on "Awesome" as well as "Demands armor plating tutorial!"

Another vote on tutorial!!!

I, for one, would like the tutorial, and to keep an eye on this thread.

I love the armor.

Wow, you will have quite an impressive looking force. Great work.

It just goes to show what a little detail can do to greatly improve the look of a model. Not to mention the massive resculpts on some of your pieces. I'd like to brag and say that my stuff looks half that good.

but it doesn't.

Wait until I start the messin' with orcs P&M Blog. Coming soon to a blog near you.


I'll put together a tutorial soon. Finishing up this guy tonight, then shipping it off to General of Chaos over at the Demonic Legion forum, who commissioned the piece.
I should probably show some pics of his two headed chicken of change that built for him also.

Finished the Blood Thirster Conversion:





That armor tutorial is in the works also...I'm building some more Bloodletters for my Khorne Demon army, so the tutorial will be a armor/fix that posture tutorial for Bloodletters.

That's insanely awesome!! It's like a roman legionairre daemon!

Now that is hawt.

Wonderful sculpting! The Bloodthirster looks great but I would do a head swap.

The Balrog head is so strongly Lord of the Rings imagery... Maybe resculpt parts of it or swap with another head altogether? Then you'd have such a unique and wonderful conversion that looks totally yours.

Beautiful work, though I definitely agree with Gundam-Mecha that a head swap would be useful to further distinguish the model from the Balrog.

the pictures aren't working! i want to see it.

I concur, do a different head. Otherwise everyone you play will feel the need to point out that this is a LotR model.

Coolest use of a balrog model... ever

That is AWESOME!!!

I do agree you should change up the head somewhat though.

Great work looking forward to the tutorial!

one word:

EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will definitely be watching this one!

It's looking really nice.

But are you going to do anthing else with the head?

Branded Khorne symbol?
More impressive tusks/antlers like bloodletters?
Brass covers over the tips of the horns?

Just seems left out compared to the rest of the model IMO.

But great job on the whole of your army/armies.

My 7 Cents.

I love the CSM! the Balrog still looks like a Balrog to me, though..., sorry.

Thanks for the kind words.

As to the head, I did this conversion as a commission job, where he really did not want me to change up the pose or head. I acutally kind of like the head myself, but I can understand that it looks quite LotR.

If I did this model for my own, it would have seen alot more carnage and probably different wings as the detail on them are not as good as the rest of the model. But all in all its a nice model, but has huge gaps, not that there isn't real problems with the regular BT.

And if you are wondering what my BT looks like it:
I updated the model, trying to rid it of all of the old stuff as much as possible, and changed the position of the legs, gave it a neck, added new symbols, skulls to the wings, armor, a neck, new hair, a new tabard that uses a skull belt buckle that I sculpted and the chains from the 40k Termie Lord.

If you want to see the face of evil, well here it is:








And the rest of my Khorne Legion:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=&categoryId=300005&pIndex=3&aId=11100004&start=4

Armor Plating

Tools Used: Xacto knife, various metal sculpting tools, tooth picks, needles, colour shapers (primarily Royal Sovereign Size 0, for beginners I recommend the Firm), Ball Burnisher/Stylus, Mechanical Pencil, Thin Wall Metal Tubing

The picture below shows the various tools I use:


1 – Large Spoon Spatula: I use this for smoothing larger plate areas. Turned on
its edge works great for smoothing out the edges of your plates.

2 – Firm Round taper point. I use this for getting into all of those really tight areas and for smooth curved concave surfaces.

3 – Cup Round. I use this one for general smoothing. Flat for smoothing plates and convex surfaces. Round for concave surfaces and for round raised edges.

4 – Ball Burnisher / Stylus. I use this primarily for chainmail, but also for make holes in putty plates. Has too ball sizes. I also use this for denting and making the ball-peened hammer type look on the plates.

5 – Flat Chisel. General Smoothing. Square raised edges. Smoothing out plate edges.

6 – Metal Tooth Pick Hook. The point is like the Stylus. The bend kind of works like the Round Taper and Cup Round, but much finer than both and moves the putty much better.

7 – Mechanical Pencil. Used for recessed rivets and normal rivets when coupled with an xacto.

8 – Cup Chisel, Soft. When you really need a soft touch. These are the work horses for the way I make the raised edges on the armor.

9 – Cup Chisel, Firm. When you can use a slightly firmer touch. These are the work horses for the way I make the raised edges on the armor.

a – Knife on one end and long narrow spoon of uniform width.

b - Normal style knife, spoon spatula Sculpting tool. When you need to really move the putty. These are the work horses for the way I make the raised edges on the armor. The knife end used for smoothing the edges of the plates.

c - Normal style knife, spoon spatula Sculpting tool, but larger than b.


Materials Used: Brownstuff (BS), or Greenstuff (GS), Water.

General Notes, The More Common Putties
Greenstuff (also known as Kneadatite Blue-Yellow)
It is the most common putty you see used. It will cure solid, but will retain some flexibility. Very similar to a hard rubber. It strength is that it is excellent for making organic shapes. Its weakness is that it does not hold well for sharp edges. If you want really sharp edges, use your Xacto Knife and cut those edges after the GS has cured. GS can easily be cut once cured. GS does not take well to sanding or filing, but that does not mean you cannot smooth it out after it has cured. To smooth it after it is cured, use a sharp razor blade and gently shave the GS with the edge of the blade. Holds detail very well. Semi-sticky like gum in the early stages of curing, after being mixed.

Brownstuff (also known as Kneadatite Brown-Aluminum)
BS is a hard putty that combines a bit of flexibility with the ability to be sanded and filed into sharp edges. It cures harder than GS, and is more brittle. BS is often used for making mechanical looking parts or other metal parts like sword blades. I have also found that BS is much easier to get smooth before its cured than GS. Does not work as well as GS when sculpting more organic looking stuff, better suited for mechanical things.

Apoxie-Sculp
Apoxie-sculp is a self-hardening synthetic clay that combines the features and benefits of clay with those of epoxy. Apoxie sculp will be very soft when mixed, and has a much longer working time than BS or GS and takes a couple hours to really start stiffening. Once cured it becomes rock like. It can take sanding and filing. Its very strong and rigid. However, it does not take detail very well in my opinion.

Milliput
Milliput is an epoxy putty that cures hard. Once fully cured Milliput can be machined, drilled, tapped, turned, filed, sawn, sanded, but can be brittle.

Putty Mixing / Curing
After mixing the GS or BS putty, it will be soft and pliable. You will have about 20-30 minutes where it is very soft. This is a good time for basic shapes. After the first 20 minutes the putty will start showing more rubbery characteristics and begin to harden. Most epoxy putties, also depends on the amount of the hardener you use, will have about 1-1.5 hours of working time before it is too hard to work anymore. Epoxy putty will typically cure fully in about 24 hours.



General Tips for Armor Plates
- Recommend using BS, but GS works fine. BS is more forgiving in getting smooth plates, especially if you are new to using putty.
- Sharp edges are very critical to make it look right.
- To make raised edges very gently use your spatula/spoon tool, ball burnisher, or my personal favorites the chisel pointed colour shapers.
- For recessed rivets use a mechanical pencil without the lead in them and simply jab the putty as it's curing with the metal tubing.
- Plastic Rod Rivet method. Use your Xacto to shave off a thin layer of plastic rod. Place a tiny drop of glue on the model where you want the rivet and put the thin layer of the plastic rod over the glue.
- For raised rivets, allow the putty armor to cure (it helps if you put a little tiny divot in the putty where the rivet is going), flatten a small ball of putty over the armor, then use the tubing and press it into the flattened piece of putt. Remove the excess putty and allow it to cure. This is a very delicate rivet, not durable at all unless it is sealed in place somehow. I recommend the recessed rivet for use with your armies and things that get played with, its much more durable and gets the idea across easily.

Next time we begin the correcting of the posture of some Bloodletters on our way to making the armor plating.

Posture and Armor Plating Part 2

In this post we'll correct the posture of the bloodletter and see some general gap filling and smoothing tips on GS work.

Stage 1
We’ll cut the torso at the waist, straighten it out matching the back groove where the spine piece goes. Pin the two pieces back together with using some pin material and a pin vise.




Fill the gap with GS and smooth it out a little, one of the quickest ways to smooth it out is by simply dragging your finger gently across the GS. Put a little water or lotion on prior to doing that. The goal is not just too smooth it out, but also to blend it in to get a smooth transition from plastic to GS.




Stage 2
Allow stage 1 to cure for awhile. In this stage we want to make the area we created in stage one to look like it has abdominal muscles. Roll out a small sausage of GS, and place it approximately where shown on the pic below.


Blend the edges of the sausage into to the torso with fingers and/or sculpting tools. If I use tools I’m generally using the round cup chisel or the tapered round to do the blending. Once the edges of the sausage is blended into the torso I'll use the round cup chisel to do some general correcting of the sausage to rid it of any possible ridges.
Below you see me blending in the GS with the tapered round.


The result of the blending:



Now we need to define the abdominal muscle, again I'll use the tapered round and gently add an indentation down the center.




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And the final product, shown below. Allow this to cure a little and do the next set of abdominal muscles.


Next post, we're ready for the actual armor plating of the miniatures, but the thing to take out of this how to smooth out the GS, which is critical to making armor plates.

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Stage 3
Alright, let’s do some armor plates. Here we have a set of bloodletter legs, I’ve added a sheet of GS to the legs in the general shape that I want on the leg, and smoothed it out with my fingers. Again use water and/or lotion on your fingers to smooth out the GS.


Next shape up the armor plate edges with the knife end of your sculpting tool. Done right this will give you a fairly sharp edge.

Smooth out the plate. In this picture you see me using the round cup smoothing out the GS. This is a cool picture, as you can actually see the water between the cup and the GS, as I was lifting the tool to back up and smooth an area out.

You could also use the spoon/spatula shaped end of your sculpting tool to do this, like what I am doing on this arm.

At this point I want to make the plate on the leg into several plates, so I’m using the firm flat chisel point to make raised edges for what will be overlapping plates.

Now back to the arm. I’m not making a number of plates, but I am using the same technique to make raised edges around the perimeter of the plate. In this picture I am gently denting the plate with the cup chisel. I do this by pushing edge in and then gently drag it back to smooth the central area. Again we are doing this after we got the plate completely smooth and the edge defined.


Some more coming up very soon.

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Some additional pics of the arm:

awesome quick tut! That looks so much simpler than I was thinking it was gonna be!!

I like these... I wana try and order some chaos knight head's now

Great stuff... makes me feel like i could possibly pull it off

It is a pretty straight forward technique. I've shown this technique to numerous people in about 10 minutes, and have them sculpting the basics in no time. You can make it as difficult as you want, or as simple as you want. My advice is that if you are having trouble with metal tools, it probably means you need a softer touch, and try the colour shapers, they are more forgiving while you are learning to get that right touch. If you have trouble getting green stuff smooth, get more patience and if that doesn't work try brownstuff for awhile, again its more forgiving, and sandable.

Got around to shooting pics of the pieces from tutorial. A fun bit of work, getting ready to prime, and very soon expand the number of bloodletters I have at my disposal.

And here is the final work minus the bl spine pieces:

Whoa. Very nice work. Keep at this!!

Those armour plates look really nice; I like the dimpled effect on them. Must give this a go on some of the carapace armour I'll be doing for my guard, thank you

Like the Balrog conversion into a Bloodthirster you occassionally get commissions that are so cool that you can not turn them down even though you have no idea whether you will make any money off of it at all, nor do you really care. The one thing I did know however that this was going to be a cool project and be very fun to build. Not sure that I totally nailed the cool part, but I did have fun building it.











And yes, I went back and added some more rivets, but you get the idea. I won't however be doing any painting. The owner will be providing the basing, paint, marauders, and remaining details.

And for a size comparison:

Mind me asking how much that job cost?

Ah so your the guy who did that cool Daemon army, saw it in a GW GT army feature(or atleast I think those daemons look the same as the ones in the GT feature).

Cool chaos mammoth, nice conversion work on him keep up the good work.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Ah so your the guy who did that cool Daemon army,saw it in a GW GT army feature(or atleast I think those daemons look the same as the ones in the GT feature).

Yea, GW's Chicago GT '08 web coverage, the Khorne Demon army is mine. Mike Butcher and I generally team up and go to those things when held in Chicago. His awesome Nurgle army is also featured there. And another of the Wisconsin guys has a piece up in the models.

That's an amazing war mammoth. I like it alot. I'm also really inspired by your kit-bashing of the whfb and csm, it's something I've been wanting to try since I started the hobby. Kudos!

#1 of the Awesomeness Mafia just ceased stroking his Persian cat in shock.

Yeah Mark Butcher's Nurgle army is also really cool.Well any way,nice sculpt/conversion/greenstuffing on the war mammoth.

OT again:Hope you don't mind me stealing your idea for putting armour on the blood letters,although I guess if you didn't want us to use it,you wouldn't have put the tutorial up.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Yeah Mark Butcher's Nurgle army is also really cool.Well any way,nice sculpt/conversion/greenstuffing on the war mammoth.

OT again:Hope you don't mind me stealing your idea for putting armour on the blood letters,although I guess if you didn't want us to use it,you wouldn't have put the tutorial up.

Yea I get to see Mike's nurgle and other stuff quite often, since we don't live very far apart. If anyone is unfamilliar with his work they should check out http:/www.chaosbutcher.com, he's only been featured in Whitedwarf a few times.

And I have no problems with people armoring up their BLs. I armor up everything it seems from beastmen to orcs and beyond.

That War Mammoth is utterly stupendous. I also really am enjoying your beastmen conversions. The idea of using them as/in Chaos Warrior Regiments has suddenly made my Nurgle Beastmen army seem much more playable and practical cheers!

I just spent about 30 minutes looking for this thread so I could figure out how to do the armour on the Balrog (I'm using a different model but the principle is the same ).

Nice work! Thanks for the inspiration!

EDIT: I also stole the idea for the Chaos Knight heads. My Berzerkers are going to be scary!

Sometime simple and subtle conversions can make things very different, this one of those cases where you just put a little GS in the neck socket to accommodate a fantasy beastman head, rotate the sword arm and do a little ripped cloth, mixed with some other subtle parts and conversions and you get a figure that looks like we have below, something very quick, but yet different:







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Those shoulder guards remind me of the ones from halo. Great work so far, keep the pics coming!

Continuing the sometimes simple and subtle conversions can make things very different, here is another one where you do a head swap with a blood letter, rotate the bolt pistol arm and some other items and get a different looking figure:

Where are you getting the heads for the backpacks?

Where are you getting the heads for the backpacks?

Chaos Vehicle sprues

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A long time ago I built some chaos trolls for my beastmen army. I absolutely hated the models after I finished them, and they were quickly thrown out of the army.

When the spawn kit came out I built a couple and had all kinds of pieces left over and decided to strip the trolls down and see what I could do with them. The first turned out pretty cool.

This is the second one, chaos troll converted into chaos spawn. Now there was a bit of dremel work done grinding down a bunch a things, and a bit of GS work done to blend all of the parts to make a nasty looking bug. Now I really like the chaos trolls as chaos spawns, much better.









And another chaos spacemarine like the first couple of word bearer styled ones, no chaos warriors helmet on this one.

Im digging the chaos marines with the head swaps and the latest guy.. but somehow the latest guy looks a little short eh?

He is normal sized, no squat. I do understand what you mean, sometimes when you add all kinds of stuff it changes how a model appears in reality. Photos don't really help sometimes either. Next up a converted Khorne Doombull, as I try to liven up that old model a little.

I think its the crazy head things on the back that make it look small... totally love everything youve done tho!

When I started playing beastmen, I knew right away that did not like the looks of the old minotaur and doombull models, but I never really got around to finishing a Doombull that I was happy with while getting the army ready to play some tournaments. I started this a new Doombull conversion for my Khorne beastmen about 2 years ago, and never finished the modeling until now. It matches up pretty much all of my minotaurs and first Doombull, being Khorne themed and have long flowing hair.

I decided to arm him with a shield, give him neck, and get rid of those hideous feet. Originally I planned to give him a sword, but never got around to making one. Here's the final look of the model:









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Theres nothing on these three pages that i dont like alot. Especially the kit bashing and Balrog. Both the mamoth and doombull are awsome too

Several WIPs in this update, mostly what is on my table in various stages.

First up a Predator, I loved the movie, this thing has been on my desk for a couple years, so I decided its time to work on it a little bit. Not sure what I'll do for a weapon in the right hand yet.




And another incomplete movie icon in space marine armor, I'll let you figure it out, a No-Prize to the winner who guesses correctly.


I won't tell you which head it is. Also playing a bit with ProCreate on the Bloodletter, very nice putty.


Then some work on a nurgle marine, not sure what to do for a head at the moment:





On the Fantasy front a Chaos Knight of the Tzeentch variety. The build up on the back is for supporting a cape that I will add in the near future. One thing I'm finding with the knights is that there is so much detail on them that it makes it kind of hard to convert them. Sometimes simple is better, but I have a plan up my sleeve for my own army in the near future.




And then there is this, I found a bike laying the bottom of my bitz box, but wait a minute who let the bastard loyalist in:




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It is Fett. Keep up the good work, I love the Predator. Finish it!

I might have to 'borrow' the predator design if you don't mind.

SoG

crossbonesx11 wrote:It is Fett.

We have a winner.

I might have to 'borrow' the predator design if you don't mind.

Feel free to do so SoG.

Don't you dare to stop to share the updates on the predatormodel. It's awesome(I also love the predator movies)

Very cool stuff. Your GS tutorial was really solid by the way.

Thanks xenite.

As to the Predator there'll certainly be more on him. I just need to come up with some ideas on what to do weapon-wise in the right hand. Suggestions are welcome, my bitz box is deep. I'm kind of leaning towards Marauder Horseman spear or Chaos Knight lance.

I think the Lightning Claw might be a bit too big for the predator. What about a regular terminator arm with a couple blades on instead? As for his right arm, I think a marauder spear would be ace.

SoG

Give him a power spear or some sort of disk thrower, like a built'in bolter on a power fist

Been side-tracked a bit building many chaos related projects some for fun, some for commission, some for me. Most for commission lately.

Here are some of my latest bloodletters these are going to be for a 40k army, simillar to the ones in my fantasy army and from the armor tutorial. Making up 40 of these guys, here are the first of many:










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Oh yessssss.
That bloodletter champion/herald is truly lethal-looking. Well done, sir.

Some more progress shots of bloodletters a group of five more:





Been playing a little bit with pro-create, kind of like it, just getting acustomed to what you can do with it. Its a bit different than GS.

Your conversion work is amazing. You've definitely inspired some ideas for me. Your Bloodletters look tonked!

I've recently learned some things about Nurgle. I've been modeling quite a bit of it lately, and an opportunity came up to work with Forgeworld's Nurgle Ogryn. You can always learn somethings by trying a bit different style. The trick was to make it look like the Forgeworld style in this case. So...convert a 40k Nurgle Ogryn to a Fantasy Beast of Nurgle, get rid of the techno stuff, here is the first Beast of Nurgle conversion:







---PPC

Really enjoyed looking back through this log, your chaos stuff is always excellent PPC

Checking out your khorne army featured on GeeDub's site now, and I remember digging those blood-screamers first time around too

- Salvage

Thanks Boss, very much appreciated.

Beast of Nurgle #2, like the other one had to remove all of the tech stuff or cover it up. The one hose was in kind of a nice spot for recirculation of intestinal fluids so I utilized that. The pose of this model is not really conducive to ranking up with the others, as it has a huge wingspan, so I changed that about a little.

Where is that helmet from on that "predator" marine?

CSM squad sprue

enmitee is correct, simply a chaos space marine head, minus the horns.

Well here is the last of the Beast of Nurgle, minus his claw, and also shots of the entire unit







And the unit:

Woah, just woah!!!! I love those much bettter than GWs

Hah! I found your army to be the best of those featured on the GW website, and now I know who you are... Nice work by the way.

Buttlerthepug wrote:Woah, just woah!!!! I love those much bettter than GWs

Tim the Biovore wrote:Hah! I found your army to be the best of those featured on the GW website, and now I know who you are... Nice work by the way

Thanks guys, much appreciated. These are really cool models, was a pleasure to work on them. And thanks for the army comment. I like building cool armies.

i love your work so much it makes me ill inside from how happy updates make me. Bleeeeeurrrrrrghhhhh. thats what i sound like, that is.


cracking stuff.

Well I'm back to working on some of my own stuff for a little bit, along with finishing up some commission work. So I'm resurrecting my Warriors of Chaos - Mutant Marauders, I'm going to expand the army to full 2000 to 2250 pts. One unit of the marauders is shown back on page two, with some of the individual models shown on page 1. I have since dumped that centaur champion, but the rest of the unit stayed pretty much the same.

So far I have built and painted two units of marauders, a champion, a sorcerer on foot, two chariots, and two spawn.

The expansion will play off of that starting with the Heroes: This is the first one a nurgle sorcerer in WIP form. Still need to work on the staff, to make it a bit more nurgly. And I will be returning to the centaur idea with the new chaos knight horses, the plan of which to make some torso blanks and cast them.







Painted pics of the existing stuff to come.

I'm still struggling with what I want to do with the staff on the nurgle sorcerer, so ideas are welcome. I won't being using the original one.

So moving onto the next hero for my WoC army is going to be a hero on Tzeentch disc that I'm scratch building. Here's the disc so far.

I've always loved your stuff, Psch, but I have to say, that Tzeentch disc is particularly amazing. I really like the flow and form of the thing -- and the organically Tzeentchy menace it radiates. I'm really looking forward to watching it continue to take shape.

At first I thought 'Screamer', then I read what you said, and I must say I am impressed.

I really like the disk. Great work as always.

These guys look really nice!

What else can you say but good work, well done?

Please update soon so that we can admire your work and take inspiration bac to our own projects.

Thanks very much for the kind words guys, much appreciated. How's this for another update, as promised painted pics of the marauders.

Now I have had these guys done for a bit, and this will give some idea of where I'm going with them color scheme-wise, and I'm still adding models to them, so they are not completely done, but getting there. Originally these guys got there start as an Adepticon team effort with fellow Grumpy Old Coot, Mike Butcher, we went to Adepticon with a Chaos Mortals and Ogre army. Each half had to be 1000 pts apiece with one lord between the two armies. The centaur was my Tzeentch Aspiring champion and general at the time prior to the new chaos knights, and has since been retired.

Generals Unit:










Much Much more to follow soon.

Your flesh tones are amazing. Good job my friend.

incredible o.o
your talent is overwhelming

Cheers....

Thanks. My fleshtone painting improved greatly when I switched over to the Reaper Master Series Fleshtone triads. Really helped out.

Here are the flailing mutant marauder horde, and flail they do, don't hit much of anything.









A couple of modeling shots of that unit.

The disco hero. I'm torn on the hero at the moment, haven't played this army enough to decide what I want on the disc. So instead of making two discs, I'm going to magnetize the hero's arm giving him either a sorcerer staff or a flail to make him str 7 and an exalted hero.

This is really a true kit bash so far using parts from all over the place. I think it will be a very dynamic looking figure riding this ominous disc that I'm working on.









The head and cape are from the 40k Terminator Lord kit, a lot of awesome bitz in that kit, as G-M shown on the link. I'll be using more bits from there. The staff will be used with a magnetized arm.

The little exhaust like thingies may either get cut off and covered up or be used for some trophy back banner things. We'll see. I plan to make something to sort of cover the left shoulded joint so the seam between arm and torso is bit camouflaged.

I think he'd look better with two bloobletter legs than one warrior and one bloodletter. I loved that first image, but after scrolling a bit I was less sure.

I'm stealing the marauder torso on bloodletter legs idea though. For plaguebearers. Hah-let's see how that turns out!

SICKK SHAT!!! love this thread ^^

I built this recently on commission, of the horse bodies out there in the GW range the WE horse is certainly one of the more dynamic ones, makes for a neat looking centaur.







And speaking of Centaurs, I have a new one that I'm working on for myself:

Nice! These are really cool models all round. I particularly like the Disc riding tzeentch hero. His athrophied leg looks kinda disturbing in a good way.

Oftentimes, I find great converters are average painters, or vice-versa.

You my friend do both excellently! Original sculpts, even those that are only minorly modified are done so in a manner that really changes or enhances the feel of the original piece.

Very nice, you should be proud of your work!

jeezes.. going through this thread was like walking through a museum of all awesome and incredible in this world..

You, good sir, are a god.. really, your work is top notch, your painting is stunning, and most of all, your conversions are dead sexy..

I'll be watching this thread very closely..

Your stuff is incredible man. The mixture of beast & ogre bits with the marauders, and the interspersion of unit fillers makes for a great looking unit.

Wow, many thanks for the kind words, they are much appreciated.

Continuing the theme of building my warriors of chaos army the first of two chariots for the, semi-scratch built the chassis for this, then added the shaft and yoke system from the normal chaos chariot, paint scheme had to have the classic hot rod flames with a twist.
And yes if you look closely the halbreder in the back does have hooves. This was a fun conversion.











PPC

Had a chance to mess around with some Empire flaggees and convert them to a proper following of chaos. When I started these on commission, the guide was just to add a few horns and weapon conversions, but I had to do a bit more than that, there are going to be about 40 of them so many more to follow.

Next group of Flaggees, I really did not like this kit for awhile, but I have to say its starting to grow on me.

Hahaha, absolutely love the arm and head swap on the far right flag!!! The 2 faced guy is cool as well. Keep up the great work!

I like that chariot and the warrior on it, the flames on the cloak really pop. How did you do the blue armour?

Great stuff can't wait to see more

Thanks guys, much appreciated, much more to come.

Morgrim wrote:I like that chariot and the warrior on it, the flames on the cloak really pop. How did you do the blue armour?

Thanks, the blues are something I have done for a very long time. My approach is painting dark to light, sort of like a contour map, and I use a real small amount of glaze medium to help soften the highlight transitions.

The blues are Vallejo Model Color: Dark Prussian Blue, Dark Blue, Royal Blue, Medium Blue, Andrea Blue, and a small amount of Sky Blue.

Can't wait to see this army fully painted. What else can I say, this is one of the best armies I have ever seen on Dakka. Keep up the great work!

Cheers

Thanks. I have a few things up my sleeve on my Warriors of Chaos army that I'm not quite ready to show.

And those of you on the east coast, you'll be seeing many of those mutants and marauding centaurs, soon as they are all owned by one guy, who is very good player and painter. I'm looking forward to seeing them in paint.


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Next batch of the mutants, hand weapon/shield variety. I remember seeing some artwork somewhere that had two sets of eyes and noses so I had to do that using the flamed head.






And a detail shot of one of the dual armers:

Next group of 5, Continuing the theme of mutations. I think the musician turned out kind of cool with all of the bells. Another with two sets of eyes. The one with the big stick will be a bannerman eventually.

Those Marauders are just fantastic, well everything on your blog is fantastic, can't wait to see these guys painted. Will you be matching their paint scheme to the other Chaos?

Nice work so far.

Continuation of the mutant empire flaggelants. Some like the one with the two faces is kind of freaky. Been mixing up the weapons a little bit, incorporating some easy conversions as we go...

Really nice work!

And thanks for the tutorial!
It gave me some usefull tips on how to improve my modeling.

Very nice, i love the conversion work

Nice work as always! Did you complete the Bloodthirster? That conversion was fantastic! Vastly better than the standard model in my opinion.

Thanks guys, much appreciated. Glad you liked the tutorial IPS and if you like mine you should checkout xenite's armor tutorial also as its very good one too.

--->xenite: Yea, I completed just the modeling for the commission work. The person that took out the commission is a very skilled painter out on the east coast. He did a very nice paint job on it, the owner is GeneralofChaos who frequents the forums: Daemonic Legion and the Herdstone.

Adding the horns to the head is surprisingly effective, and it'd probably be a pretty easy thing too. *steals*

Nice work with the green stuff looking amazing.

Morgrim wrote:Adding the horns to the head is surprisingly effective, and it'd probably be a pretty easy thing too. *steals*

Yep. I agree completely. Steal away.

Some REALLY nice work here, looking forward to seeing more, keep it up.

Really enjoyed looking at your work, some very nice concepts and very well finished.

Bringing this to a close, final batch of crazies, some multi-arm types and one that is just flat wrong. I've had a blast with these and look forward to one day getting pictures of them painted by the owner, who will provide the paintwork.







Moving onto the next project.

Started this figure months ago, got buried on my desk, and I recently found it and thought I would finish him up.
Obviously Boba Fett inspired.





It was a fun figure to build.

Just a bit that is a good conversion though, looking forward to seeing the finished disc guy and the preadtor

nice. Big up

Love the boba fig

He needs a combi-flamer, lol. Great job on all of these.

Thanks for the comments guys, the Predator Marine and the disc will be joining us soon, but a couple of wordbearers have side tracked me...I enjoy making various chaos spacemarines, Wordbearers are probably my favorites, always lots of character, always lots of conversion possibilities, this is one of two of the latest ones, the other coming very soon:





For the GS pieces, I lay out a bit of putty on a plastic piece of film that the GS comes with. Wet the film, flatten out the putty, cut to shape, add the tears and then peel and apply to the mini. I actually add the wrinkles and folds and such on the miniature.

brilliant greenstuff work!

I second that. Big Up

Thanks again.

I decided while working on the disc rider that I needed to expand my marauders and Warriors of Chaos army, unlike most of the spacemarines, I'll be painting these guys up for my own army. Here are the WIP shots.
Adding a small unit of 10 to my chaos army, some marauders with great weapons and will be khorne marked.

Basically anything chaos goes with my marauders, so alot of them are combined components of all the lines including beastman.

Here are the first few with the great weapons,










More of them to follow soon. I'll also be adding two units of Chaos Knights and a unit of chaos warriors/chosen, and a Khorne marked character on a juggernaut. That should get me close to 2000 points and ready get my butt kicked for 8th edition.

Your armor sculpting tutorial gave me great inspiration, when I found this thread I was blown away by your impressive greenstuffing (trying to not exaggerate that much). The combination of really good bitz and models with great attention to detail and sculpting skills makes quite the neat army. Mind doing a complete tutorial on dead flesh (which I frequently see flapping from your miniatures), chainmail sculpting and fur? It's a humble request, I'm specifically interested in how to achieve that tear effect on the flesh. Looking forward to more updates

PS. Ever tried sculpting fire? Now that's a real challenge worthy of a master. Try it and post results DS.

Thanks Izirath. I'll certainly take those tutorial requests under consideration.

I have in the past sculpted flames, both fire and traditional hot rod flames. They do take patience and a bit of forethought as to how and what you are attempting to achieve.

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Next up another Wordbearer. Note I cheated on the flames for this one. The burst effect is from Armorcast, I believe, it was something I received in a gift bag from Adepticon.




And a number of other choice bits used

nice!

Awesome from the very beginning...

Your kitbashing skills and sculpting prowesses are truly inspiring!!!

Will follow your work with attention!!!

That bit of cloth/skin with the bones hanging fro it is really effective. I can see it painted as tanned human skin. Where is it from?

Morgrim wrote:That bit of cloth/skin with the bones hanging fro it is really effective. I can see it painted as tanned human skin. Where is it from?

If I'm not mistaken, that's a bit from Kroot sprues... They do have a lot of barbed & wicked details, as carnivorous Xenos should have!!!

And indeed, they fit really well on a "maybe-"carnivorous Hereticus!!!

So very cool!

Wow, just wow. Jaw dropping work. I can't wait to see what you come up with next.
I wish I had a bits box as deep and plentiful as yours. Keep up the superb work!

I know late post... but awsome greenstuff pox and black fly plooms.

Yggdrasil is correct that bit is from the Kroot. When you do a lot of chaos like what I do covering both Fantasy and 40k you do get a very deep bitz box and you are always looking at kit bashing them and cherry picking bits from elsewhere. The neatest thing about chaos is that all the way across the line the bits are virtually interchangeable.

I'm using kroot and bloodletter bits with Maruaders and Chaos warriors to make mutations, and 40k possessed bits with Chaos warriors for chosen, and left over chaos knights and marauders bits with chaos space marines.

And I do feel that my nurgle sculpting keeps getting better as a result of viewing Mike "The King of Nurgle" Butcher's stuff in person for many years on the gaming table and in his display case, and messing around with some of the Forgeworld Nurgle. If you get the feeling of nasuea and throw-up in your mouth just a little bit when you are doing Nurgle, that's a good thing. j/k

Thanks again for the many kind words. These are what I enjoy doing probably the most. As always more to come, and I've also entered paint mode with the Mutant Marauders. I have 35 of them on my desk getting assembly line painted, and I recruited some minis from Tre Manor's Reaper Barbarians and Red Box Games to help with filling of that roster. He is a really cool barbarian sculpter in my opinion.

Skaven War Litter....

I'm not really a rat guy, but a person that I've done some commission work in the past asked if I would be interested in this project. Matter of fact I hate playing against them, really don't like all of their special rules and such. I read the description and thought it would be a cool project using the plastic storm vermin, turned out to be a lot of fun.


The litter is a piece of plastic card with some plastic strips and then a GS overlay with sculpted wood grain.




Made it to fit a 40mm base, basing was going to be by the guy who took out the commission.




Banners are pinned to brass tube with GS overlay and removal, bit of poster putty holding the one in place.


I'll probalby do another of these to use up the rest of the vermin. The halbred blades that I cut off are so cool that I've come up with a good chaos use for them, more on that later.

Excellent stuff keep up the good work

Thanks much appreciated.

Something can be said about Khorne. Of the warhammer realm of chaos, Khorne has always had the most appeal to me visually. The shear barbarity and deadliness of it, strikes me quite often.

So messing with chaos has moved in Khorney direction. Next couple of 40k minis are just that. The first a simple kitbash, but its got that look about it.

Let the paint commence on my Warriors of Chaos Army expansion. Here are some WIP paint shots of painted marauders:






This is pretty early in my painting process. The Fleshtones I've pretty much finished all of the highlights on, except on the faces. The steel is based and highlighted twice which is all the further I'll go with the highlights, they'll get a series of washes once everything else is done to do the weathering and further defining. The Blues are essentially done, as are the burnt oranges. I typically paint dark to light, building sort of a contour map of color. Leather will probably be next. Fur and Hair will be one of the last things I do.



I'm also using a few choice pieces from other manufacturer's mostly pieces sculpted by Tre Manor. This one is Reaper Miniature, with no conversion work. I think he fits the bill.

I'm not going to lie, I love when things go in a Khorney direction! Nice kitbash btw!

Thanks man.

More work in progress on my Warriors of Chaos Army, like the previous post, I have quite a bit left to do with these, very much in the early stages, but I'm liking the looks of them so far as they develop, so I thought I would show some of the WIPs. First up, some WIP shots of a Red Box Games miniatures. Tre Manor's sculpts of these models are really good. They have really opened my eyes in how to successfully sculpt the exaggerated musculature of barbarians, something that really appeals to me. These sculpts kind of scream Conan which is also really appealing to me.


I have 8-9 of these guys, and boy they are easy to paint in my typical style of painting. They practically paint themselves.


This one is another Reaper Miniature, sculpted by a buddy of mine, Matt Gubser.

Its quickly becoming a favorite of mine, something about the pose, it will be positioned of on one of the flanks when the unit gets ranked up.

Also note the stylized hot rod flames on a couple of the minis. This is another carry over from the previous group of miniatures in this army. I plan to carry the flames throughout the army on capes, banners, shields and tabbards and such.

The next model is another GW kit bash mutant. I really liking the looks of this mini, quickly becoming a favorite of mine.



Leather, fur, hair, horn/bone, etc. to follow.

Damn son. To notch modeling and painting.

Excellent work. I especially like your fantasy Chaos warbands, they look very chaotic. Definitely capture the feel of the background.

Nicely done!

FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Thanks guys much appreciated. More progress on my army to follow soon.

Your models are AMAZING!

Thanks, Muppas.

Not sure this model will get used much in my new warriors of chaos army, but I like the model none the less. Not sure how exactly I plan to use him, but I wanted a test piece that was smaller than a chariot sitting on my desk for painting the knights, chosen, and chaos warriors that I'm building and preparing for paint:

I love it! But, idk, there's something that doesn't look right with the eye on the shield.

Nice updates. Keep it up.

Yeah, he's great!!! Tzeentch must be proud of his warrior!!

Thanks guys. Back to building for this army a little bit. A pair of WIP spawn. I almost always try to run a pair in my armies, mainly because they are fun to model and paint.

I really dislike the chaos trolls model, but I do think they make a nice spawn body.







And the other just your run of the mill spawn:

Can you ever get a 'run of the mill' spawn?!

Loving your army progress, especially the statically posed reaper mini marauder.

Cool stuff!

Excellent Spawn conversions!

Gives more of a sense of 'story' versus 'random blob of spikey bits' that the stock models portrays.

I finally got to spend a bit of time on the maruaders and got a bit further with the paint on 35 of them.

Here's an update. Still not done, but getting there, pretty much left is detail work and washes.

First up one of the Red Box Games minis. I'm really liking all of these guys, they are so cool, have some much neat stuff on them and strong detail work.


I love the backside of these guys, great detail with the bones and skulls.

I did not forget the shield backside:


I'm liking this guy, Conrad the Crazed is what I think Tre Manor named, good name in my opinion:


Shown this guy before, made good progress on him since last posting:

Love the conversions and the blue in your fantasy army, keep up the good work. Also your green stuff modeling is impressive.

Much like the previous update, some more progress updates on various models out of the 35. Again there is still quite a ways to go as I really have not addressed the metallics yet, nor have I addressed the faces. But its getting there.

We saw this Reaper Miniature in an earlier post, here is the update on him, continuing that blue hot rod flame treatment through the army, I'll probably reverse the color scheme at some point just to keep it fresh.



Another of my mutants, this one I used blood letter legs merged with the marauder torso, painted in a flesh tone, kind of makes for a creepy look.



Next mutant, haven't shown this guy yet. I've done this mini, primarily to get someone aggravated. :lol



And then one of the old beastmen. I still like these guys, he'll fit with the rest of my rabble.

With the one with the bloodletter legs, I'd do something more with the feet, at the moment it kind of looks like he's got skinny stumps that end several inches along the ground. Not quite the tone you want I suspect. Even with the nice rest of the model my eyes kept getting drawn there in a negative way.

Morgrim wrote:With the one with the bloodletter legs, I'd do something more with the feet, at the moment it kind of looks like he's got skinny stumps that end several inches along the ground. Not quite the tone you want I suspect. Even with the nice rest of the model my eyes kept getting drawn there in a negative way.

I hear you, I think part of the problem is that I've not painted the claws/talons yet.

Next,
This is the first of the two spawn, painted up in a brown paint scheme. I originally thought about painting the back spines on the model in the horn and claw paint colors, but thought it need a bit more color, was looking slightly drab.

Awesome spawn! I have no complaints!

Thanks Munch.

Very much like the exalted on foot, I wanted to have a test knight for paint scheme, prior to building the others...and an interim exalted. I sculpted the Slaanesh symbols on the shoulder pads, and added the jewels elsewhere on the horse. And I did a bit of freehand work on the cape, which I made out of brownstuff. I think he turned out okay and the head I think is a good choice for my mutated army. That shield is absolutely grizzly and so I think it fit well with what I'm doing. Most of my future knights will be tzeentch or khorne marked, but this is a long term project and will probably cap out at about 3000+ pts by the time I'm done.

This is Blue Spawn. I really like the look of the model, ut in hindsight I wish I would have changed how the troll body leans so far forward. I also attempted to subdue my normal approach to painting blue, making it pop less and also more flat in appearance, which I think worked for what I was trying to do.






I am going to have to remember in my future spawn making to do conversion of the lacerated skin like what this former chaos troll model has. I think that is a cool effect.

That's it for a little while on my warriors of chaos. I need to get caught up on commission work and bolster my Demons of Chaos for 8th edition tournament season, since its the only army I have that is playable at the moment, and with 8th it needs a bit of tweaking.

Next quick Khorne conversion, this using a spare face plate from the blood letters.

The slaaneshi knight is fantastic. Will be goind through this blog page by page and enjoying every bit of it.

The skin on the reaper miniature with the blue flame is fantastically well done considering there does not seem to be many highlight layers, it really pops.

Great work!

The mamath is the best i might try it when i get more money
cheers for the inspiration

Many thanks guys.

Ifalna wrote:
The skin on the reaper miniature with the blue flame is fantastically well done considering there does not seem to be many highlight layers, it really pops.

The skin is not completely done yet on any of the marauders, I still have to do the washes yet. But I will get there.

Whoah, I love the Khornate CSM!!! So brutal, and the head adds a lot to it!!

Thanks man.

My Khorne Demon army is in need of reinforcements and a bit of restructuring to be playable in 8th edition while I build my Warrior of Chaos. Definitely need more infantry, and I also decided to build some heralds on foot. So some additions are in the works...This is the first herald on foot.

If you are going to give them Armor of Khorne, then give them armor. Basically with this guy I decided to armor him up a bit more than my regular bloodletters.


Also sticking with what I previously did on my Khorne heralds that were mounted on juggers, I decided to paint the weapons in the orangish hues. Definitely makes the characters standout from the rest of the bloodletters.

love your models!

I really like the bloodletter.

And then, I really, really like the Blue Spawn.

This plog continues to intimidate, inspire and instruct.

awesome bloodletters dude!

You've given me ideas on how to do my chosen now regarding backpacks! Use the left over muzzle pieces. Many thanks!

Thanks guys, very much appreciate the compliments.

youve got a gift with the green stuff! Fantastic work.. I love the first model in the group....did you convert the helmet or does GW make a face piece like that?

PsychosisPC wrote:

You talking about this guy? If so that is a head from GW's fantasy Chaos Knights. Hope that helps.

The next of my Khorne Heralds on foot. Like the previous I wanted to armor him up a bit more than my regular blood letters.

Also thought about changing up the weapons to make him stand out a bit more. This one I gave an axe. A sort of brutal looking axe. Something I have had for awhile. Its from Reaper Miniatures.

The basing is done up like the rest of my minis in this army, blood pools with heads and sometimes demonic hands reaching up from the depths of hell.


Another view of the head in the blood pool and the oposite side of the axe.

The other reason to paint your weapons like this is to play up the whole Hellstorm Blade demonic weapon bit.

That is superbly done! I especially like the armour.

Agreed, the armour is a *simple* addition, yet it makes the Heralds really stand out!!

I love how your bloodletters stand up. Makes them look almost nice miniatures. I just really hate their faces. Not to diverge though, I think giving the heralds vibrant weapons really works to make them stand out from the crowd.

Thanks guys, very much appreciate the comments.


I really do love these old models, they have so much more character than the plastics. As I stated previously when I was building and converting the plastics these models are what influenced me to take the naked plastics and add armor and tabbards to them. I needed to bolster the ranks of my army a little to make it more playable for 8th edition.

Well here they are...almost done. As you can see the banner is bare. Eventually I will put something on that, but for now it is as bare as it gets.













---PPC

Whoah they're fantastic!!! The red is brightly awesome, and the base is... Bloody awesome!!!!

You managed to make them look like they are ankle-deep in pools of blood, that's a great feat!! Congratulations!

Also, I have a small question... Is your username by any chance related to Battletech? As a long-ago fan of the universe, Particle Projector Cannon instantly springs to mind whenever I see any "PPC" around...

This thread rocks. Thats exactly the kind of work I hope to do after I finish my current chaos project. LOVE the Chaos Knight heads and marauder bits added to CSM. You've definently given me the inclination to run over to the game store and snatch up more sprues of parts!

Thanks guys.

PPC? Nope, dates way back to the early days of Id's Quake and the gaming group or clan that I played with with was the Psycho Circus, that's what the PC stands for, just sort of stuck with the on-line handle, we were all Kiss fans.

Some detail shots of my favorite of the group the musician:

The puddle of blood is fantastic!!!! Love the hand!

Thanks man. Been a while since I updated things. But I'm getting back into the flow of chaos. Want to finish up my expansion of my Warriors of Chaos army before moving onto my orc army and a new 40k space marine army.

For Knights I have decided to go with two units of six. One unit will be tzeentch marked and the other Khorne marked and both will be in the same paint scheme as the rest of my army seen in this blog.

For my tzeentch I decided to use the Maxmini heads as I think they look appropriate. I decided my knights need some converting and capes are an obvious thing to do.




Then the banner man, needed a small bit of converting.




I haven't decided if I like the GS on the horse or not. If it does not look good in paint, I'll peel it off and do it freehand. Slow start but much more to come on these. I'll be sculpting Tzeentch symbols on a few of them.

The Khorne ones will be semi traditional in a sense. Here is the first model.

I had a few left over bloodletter arms from my Khorne Demon army. I think the swords work better with the knights.

I wanted a nice smooth panel so that is why I GS smooth the damage in this armor. Remember my paint scheme is a burnt orange and blue, and the Hot Rod stylized flames. Even my Khorne will follow this scheme. The large panels may get some freehand details.

I'm also using the Forgeworld Khorne brass etch for some of the symbols. And of course lots of skulls and chains.

I've also decided to convert up a bunch of helmets to look similar to some of the artwork, but a bit simpler than Adrian Smith's artwork for the Tzeentch and Slaanesh Knights. Capes will also be added like the tzeentch stuff.

And speaking of the tzeentch knights, here is another. I've added the symbols out of GS.

My movement trays are pretty wide, and the knights are kind of hard to rank up so that is why I'm mounting this figure far forward. Hopefully this will give the unit some more dynamic look, rather than the rigid trot.
And here is the backside of the model. This pic shows the support I use under the capes. This is like what I did with the my caped black orcs in my Orc Plog.

The Tzeentch unit nears completion, still have the cape to do for the one miniature. The Max-mini heads really set these apart and make them look good. I have a chaos warrior unit and a chosen unit, those will have plenty of the warrior heads on them, so these knights had to be different.


This is not the movement tray that I will use for these, this is one of the spares that was from a junked project.


The banner man and the unit champ are mounted a bit forward. The one benefit of doing this is that it does help with the ranking up of some crazy poses. This won't work as well for you if you do not make a movement trays a bit wider.

Pic of the musician and banner man.

The musician is just pinned to the base so that I can remove him for painting and then reassemble.



And I love this shield, had it for quite a while now, and thought this would put it to good use. A no-prize for who can name who makes this shield.

Lovin all the great little conversions, and the red on the 'letters is perfect, not overly orange, which keeps it more 'blood' looking. Great work!

By the Emperor! Love this thread! The max-mini heads on the Tzeentch Knights work perfectly. Cant wait to see them painted.

Can't believe I missed this blog for so long your chaos work is fantastic!

Outstanding work! Really exquisite craftsmanship.

Personally, I love the greenstuff work on the armor -- I'd definitely keep it.

Really like those knights, the GS icons and the resin helms really separate them from just a repose on the basic kit nicework...
I tried to do a Tzeentch army once but just couldn't get it to look how I liked, I just kept changing everything all the time.

Many thanks for the compliments guys. Much more to follow, next will be the Khorne Knight Unit and some progress on the disco rider.

A little bit of progress to report on the disc-o-riding sorcerer lord, mostly just on the disc.

One of the comments was that the disc looks too much like a 40k Tyranid (not a bad thing in my opinion) and another was what about a tail. Then as I was working on the knights I saw the musician’s horn.

So, that led to a slight change in modeling to where I came up with this. And you guessed it, some of the horns that I cut off the knights/chaos warriors heads make an appearance (don’t throw anything away). That needs a bit of touch up. Still need to work on the model and base so more.

As things come together, you always get new ideas and the Tzeentch disc that was previously shown gave me some ideas on a new chaos spawn. The ideas were mainly to help tie more of this stuff together in the army. My previous chaos spawn for this army, affectionately known as Blue Spawn and Brown Spawn, were based on the metal chaos troll bodies and current plastic spawn kit, respectively. I do very much like both of them and I am always toying with the ideas of how to include more spawn in my army lists. They are very quirky in games and cause havoc in both sides, and I enjoy running them as a pair.

So, how to do that? Well, my buddy Mike Butcher created some wonderful looking models back a few years ago for his Nurgle Demon army, that can be seen in an old issue of White Dwarf and was on GW's U.S. web site for awhile.
This model is partially inspired by his conversions. And my Blue Spawn uses an ogre head on the chaos troll body, so combining all that I came up with this…

It uses a rat ogre body left over from the Warhammer Fantasy boxed set. I particularly liked how Mike tied together the ogre head and the lower jaw of the tyranid heads on his models, so I attempted to do something very similar in hopes that this ties together better with my disc.


Not sure what I will do with the paint schemes just yet, but they should all tie together with the other spawn. I do really like the use of the armor on these rat ogres, they do kind of resemble the armor on some of my marauders. I’ll probably incorporate some of the armor elements into my Chaos Ogres down the road.

This will be one of those freaky models. I'm very much looking forward to the completion of it. For the second spawn, I will go back to the rat ogre body from the box set and combined in some more tyranid pieces in the conversion.

Looks really awsome, but really wierd at the moment (which is also good since its a spawn). The face looks really awkword but I have a feeling that after it gets primed or painted it will look alot more fluid.

That spawn looks awesome!

I am unsure about the head only since the orge's eyes look a bit funny next to that gaping maw, but the conversion ability here is astounding and i think with a good paint job it could look really nice!

That spawn reminds me of everything I love about Chaos.... and I think might have been just inspiring enough to build a Chaos army again. Always a pleasure seeing what you create, Psychosis.

Nice work!

Your latest work on the disc and spawn is awesome. Nice use of tyranid heads. I really like the spawn chap, massive jaw spanwing out of a normal face really is pure chaos and the choice of body fits nicely, great converting.

Just stumbled onto this thread, very nice. As a fellow spawn lover and converter, I salute you!

I have a few spawn I am planning on making from the ogre kits, but they look nothing like yours. Interesting to note the process is mostly the same though: Bash pieces together, then get out a LOT of greenstuff.

I forgot how much i adore Pyschosis PC's work! And how much I love the older Blood Letter models

Thanks very much for the compliments. I have a second one that I'm working on, not quite as nasty as this one, but definitely cool.

I like your old Bloodletters. I think their design is much better than the new Bloodletters. Great stuff!

Loving the new spawn, a great use of kit bashing, can't wait to see it painted.

A new skaven war litter. I've done two other conversions of Skaven Warlitters. While I thought they were good conversions, I was not entirely happy with how the litter looked. The model below is stuck to the base with some poster putty.

The primary reason for me not really caring for the way the litter turned out, was the poles were upright that the Storm Vermin carrying the litter were holding on to. A few people mentioned that to me that they may look a bit better this way as a handle.

For the Lord model I used the one out of the basic boxed set. Its a very cool looking model, for a simplistic two piece miniature.

The Lord model does lean way forward so I knew I need to compensate for that by leaning the entire platform forward. Did this by building up the base with Apoxie Sculp. The Lord model is also on this big rock, I removed that with my dremel and then sculpted in the wood grain of the platform. This one I'm happy with. The base and big rat are one piece. The front bearer platform and Lord are another piece. The storm vermin in the back is separate. And the banner is brass tube and removable, pinned to the platform. Doing it in pieces like this will make it much easier to paint. Assemble after painting.

More pics can be seen at my blog, link in my signature.

I like it, except for the banner. It feels wobbly and out of place. Maybe if it was slightly shorter, and looked more fixed to the platform.

As I build various things, I will often assemble a Chaos Space Marine leftover from 40k never played nor built in my bitz box, and use up left over bits of GS or other types of putty. I'm still a fan of 40k models and the fluff. So this is my latest creation, meant to be another in an endless line of Word Bearers. I do like the possessed bits, lot of fun those are.

This is sort of a primer of sorts. I'm planning a return to 40k, building a new "Insert Color Here" Templar army. I've been working on the vehicles this past week, and they should be interesting, as I'm attempting to recapture the sort of ramshackle look that my Cerulean Templar motor pool had. My new breed of 40k Templars will certainly not be Black and White and will not even be Blue and White.

The drapings on this marine are something that I will use with the Templars. All the new Templar bitz, will definitely make me sharpen up my game a bit, so that my sculpting won't look completely out of place.

As I'm going along building my marauding horde, I decided that I was going to cherry pick a whole lot of miniatures that I liked from other manufacturers as well. Stuff that has caught my eye and that I have wanted to paint for quite some time. I'm not concerned about size as I'm already using everything GW makes in a mix, and besides barbarians and mutants are all the same size anyways.



This model is one of Tre Manor's Red Box Games, Helsvakt, miniatures and it is absolutely stunning in detail and a blast to paint. There is so much detail on it. The skulls on the cape in the back is really cool looking. I'm really loving all of the stuff Tre is doing for his own company and for Reaper Miniatures.

The shield below had a bunch of scars in the surface sculpted into it. So, I thought I would accentuate that in my color scheme and make the shield sort of glow a little.



Next up is another of Tre Manor's sculpts, this time from Reaper Miniatures. This model is huge. The Helsvakt is about 25 mm, this model is probably around 32 mm.

I believe the name of this miniature is Kord the Destroyer. The face detail just screams at me, I love it. The model itself is very reminiscent of his Helsvakt models.


I'll be using both of these models on the extreme flanks of the units. I'm very much looking forward to assembling the units in whole. The Blue and Burnt Orange paint schemes are getting carried all the way through the army. Both of these models are really going to influence me in my conversion and sculpting work in the future. Tre's technique for doing fur is definitely making me rethink how I have been doing it. The detail is top notch in my book.


---PPC

I love this blog... your work is awesome!

Helsvakt is definitely a great evil barbarian sculpt, and your paint on him (and his bro) is rocking as usual. Your continued CSM work has also convinced me to invest in yet another box of possessed bits, as I'd like to work on getting a squad or two of CSM built and painted to a higher level than my formal armies, this time largely divorced from game concerns ...

Anyway, keep up the great work PPC

- Salvage

Thanks guys....many more to come, especially of the barbarians. I have a few more CSMs also.

Some of more my barbarians...

This is another of Tre Manor's Red Box Games Miniatures. And its quickly become another favorite of mine. I think it has a rather cool pose, I can see the awesome downward swing of that cleever like sword.


I'm continuing my paint scheme throughout everything, so the panels on the shield just had to be that glowing like blue.

"the Crazed" is very fitting for this Red Box Games, Tre Manor miniature. Just look at that face.

You cannot help but have an evil smile on your face while painting this miniature's melon. Like the rest of the Helsvakt line and some of his Reaper sculpts, I really love this armor and its what I would envision Chaos Marauders wearing to battle, spiky and gladiatorial like.


And one that I will use in my great weapon unit.

I've worked with Matt Gubser quite a few years ago, helping him out of a jam. It was good experience. Matt's been sculpting miniatures for years and has done lots of work for Reaper Miniatures. This mini is one of his sculpts. I thought about converting the miniature and giving it some hair, but in the end left it alone. This model wll be part of my marauder great weapon unit. Its a large model somewhere around 30-32 mm tall, bigger than a GW Marauder, but that is okay in my book.

It also has very good musculature. Matt did a very nice job with that.

As you can see, I've kept the Hot Rod Flames scheme. And continuing the burnt orange and blue paint colors. This unit will be marked with Khorne.

More marauders are still coming.

---PPC

I have been following your progress over on your blog. The marauders are fantastic looking especially. Could you post a pic of them ranked up with a gw mini?

I love your spawn. I'm sorry man I'm going to have to use that I'm sorry because I got those jaw bits at home and they are not being used. Tyranid bits + chaos spawn = winning combo. Plus, I want to make another little head coming out of the gaping jaw like in the movie Alien

Thanks guys.

@ephrael: Yep, that will be coming. I'll be doing a tutorial on how I do movement trays soon and will be ranking up the new with the old and getting the Great Weapon unit all together. There are more marauders coming.

Do you know the name of that latest sculpt? It's especially rocking, with the manica-esque armor and the 'Death Dealer' style axe, and might need to find its way into my collection ... Either way, rock on PPC.

- Salvage

Looks bad-a$$ indeed, and the flames are exquisite !

Great model PPC !

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Boss Salvage wrote:Do you know the name of that latest sculpt? It's especially rocking, with the manica-esque armor and the 'Death Dealer' style axe, and might need to find its way into my collection ... Either way, rock on PPC.

- Salvage

The last Reaper mini - Goldar the Barbarian, I believe they have two versions in different casting materials.

Lovely sir, thanks for the assist. Reaper is super easy to pick up too

- Salvage

This model has quickly become one of my favorites. I love the faces from the GW Maruader horsemen. They have very good detail.

This is also the first time I have do the shaven head look. Having a lot of 5 o'clock shadow moments maybe helps, but understanding the paint washes helps more.


The shield strapped to the back sort of gives that Norse flavor, and I do like this shield with all of its gore.


---PPC

Well they wouldn't be mutants and barbarians without some mutants. I need to get back to the mutant portion of the theme also, so these are some of the mutated ones.

This pair. A converted Gor from 2003 that I never used in my Beastmen Army, so I popped off the head and fixed him up. I have also used a few flagellants in the previous group of marauders so this will just be another addition. The weapon head is actually from skaven left over bits.




The mini above is another left over from my beastmen army back in 2003 that never got used.

Awhile back I converted a whole lot of flaggelants into mutated chaos models on commission. I thought it worked well and decided to use up some left over stuff.


While doing that years ago, I determined that Ungor and Flaggelants are roughly the same size. and the parts are virtually interchangeable.



The old metal bestigors are also very different from the current line of minis, so they also make nice additions without any real work other than paint.

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Can't see any of your beautiful work! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

urgh photobucket sucks....
use image shack for such public posts^^

nevertheless, awesome models there : )
I really like how unique their fecial expressions and details are.

The painting is quite nice as well.

Or, just use Dakka's excellent Gallery!!

Or easier yet click the link to my blog.

If I remember correctly, both photobucket and imageshack have a 10GB monthly bandwidth limit.

I'll probably start using both, because I'm exceeding one on a more regular basis, and I won't be paying for upgrades anytime soon. As far as Dakka's gallery, I post on numerous other forums, not just Dakka.

Been awhile since I updated. But I have been messing with Chaos Space Marines a bit.

I've had these Slaanesh bits for years and never really had a use for them until now. I love doing poses like this one. It screams chaos and come challenge me.



Again you don't always have to go completely over the top with green stuff sculpting to make interesting characters. Lots of times using the right bits in combination make for a very unique miniature. Also, had an Iron Warrior in mind while doing this one. Bionics and mail. An old OOP metal horned head. Possessed legs. The axe is a leftover Chaos Warrior Champion bit from Warhammer Fantasy. Some metal piping from Dragon Forge. Not much of anything in GS. Don't always need GS.

I'm digging deep in the bitz box and found this power maul. Very appropriate for bashing thos Imperial Loyalists.

I love this head, it screams chaos to me. The drapings are using a similar technique shown in my tutorial on sculpting cloth with GS.
http://psychosispc-themadhouseworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/green-stuff-cloth-tutorial-space.html

The rivets/pins that look to be holding the cloth are done with a mechanical pencil. The spikes are favorite thing of mine for adding to the backpacks, they come from the chaos vehicle spike sprue.

---PPC

That guy looks like a boss! Nice use of bits and great cloth effects with the green stuff.

I am in awe of some of the amazing stuff you have here, as well as being totally jealous of your greenstuffing skills, and general ability to kitbash, as well as being jealous at your obviously infinite bitzbox...

Would love to see more!

My bitz box is getting very small, less and less pieces all of time. Once gone I have no future plans to do chaos space marines.

As I was building the Crusaders and doing the tutorial on tabards and other cloth things in green stuff, I did up a bunch of little conversions. This is just one of that group. I used the techniques demonstrated in my tutorial for both the tabard and the draping on the leg.


More of these one shot chaos space marines to come.

So nice to see this thread back!

You have definately sold your soul to chaos! All your conversions and ideas are brilliant and offer alot of inspiration. I kind of makes me wish I had gone down the mutated chaos route for my marines rather than the minimalist approach. The cloth looks like it was sculpted on the models by the designer its that well done. The ogre/fex spawn reminds me of the creature from the movie the Thing which can only be a good thing when designing a spawn! As someone else said its always such a relief when someone is a very good converter and they turn out to be also a great painter, it provides the models and armies that make people spend hours on these forums. Great work all round.

You are amazing with greenstuff. Keep up the amazing work!

Thanks guys your comments are much appreciated. I do enjoy the darkness of chaos, its been a blast thus far. Have a lot more to do.

This one is more or less an excercise in use of special left over bits. As with a couple of this batch not really using a lot of GS.


The tabbard again is done using the same method I used in my tutorial on my blog for making GS cloth and such....
http://psychosispc-themadhouseworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/green-stuff-cloth-tutorial-space.html

I've been building more mutants for my warriors of chaos marauders which are mix of virtually everything chaos. I picked up an ultra cool Avatars of War plastic Dwarf Berserkers box set. I decided that I was going to taint them with chaos. So to start I wanted to do a very straightforward simple conversions to see how gor stuff looked with the berserkers.

Consequently, I came up with midgetgor.





Still more taint to go.

The possessed bits are very awesome looking pieces. I thought this made for an interesting pose. And I do like this head. A lot times your conversions do not need to be completely over the top. Very subtle ones often work, and give you that dynamic that you are looking for.





---PPC

PsychosisPC wrote:

Everything about this guy is epic.

Still more taint to go.

That got me laughing. .... What? It's still funny to me....

PsychosisPC wrote:
I love this head, it screams chaos to me.

Amen on the head, and the power maul too is one of the most distinctively chaos weapons in my mind. Love seeing your CSM dudes, thanks for continuing to post them up. I always feel inspired to build / paint some more of my own chaos lads when I see your work ... but then the state of the codex and 40k tend to de-inspire me

Anyway keep up the chaotic work PPC. Digging that midget gor as well, though you've got other gears turning in my head now, as I too have been looking for something to do with those plastic dwarfs ...

- Salvage

I hear you there Boss. Although I think the state of 8th edition Fantasy is far worse than 40k. Its to the point I really don't want to play the game anymore.

Anyways, more Midgetgors. More of a traditional beastman head look, and my weapon is bigger than yours...



And if you call me cute, one more time well.....

Sorry I just had to do it....

The little rune things can be covered easily with chaos bits. I knew that I had to use the screaming gor head with the #1 salute, it was just too obvious. I do like Avatars of War's sense of humor.



After doing these, they have given me some other ideas. Its a really nice kit that they put together. And I can not wait to see what their Warriors of Apoc look like in person.

Loving the midgetaurs! Great idea, looking really sharp!

Just went through the whole blog, some really awesome stuff here! You capture chaos very well for me.


I must ask, how do you make that GS cloth? Its awesome. would it be beyond a new sculptors skills?

Sorry haven't updated in awhile, but I'm getting back to things Chaos....

As to cloth here is a link to my blog that has a tutorial on how I do cloth with GS:
http://psychosispc-themadhouseworkshop.blogspot.com/p/tutorial.html

And on to the warp....
So I have been working on my Warriors of Chaos army a bit. Then I got sidetracked on a different project as well as continuing my work on the Vikings.

James Craig, a friend of mine, and of the 'Lost In the Warp' fame asked if I would build him a beastman. James and I had taken part in the whole North American Primarch Chicago Gamesday thing where the group of us would each build and enter a Primarch in the Golden Demon contest. Anyways, I thought this project would be cool to do. He is a much more accomplished painter than I am, having won numerous Golden Demons for various elements of his Beastmen army. So the model I build will be painted by James to match up with his army. Having done tons of commission building work over the years, I always enjoy seeing how people paint things that I have built for them. The thing about building is that I have this image of what the final look will be in my head in color, and when someone else paints that piece it gives me a very fresh perspective. In turn I asked James to build something for this army that I would paint.

So below are a couple pics of my build:

And the something extra, a midgetgor:

And the following are links to the blogs, mine were I discuss the build and James who gives his thoughts and announces some other stuff that he has coming up.
http://psychosispc-themadhouseworkshop.blogspot.com/
http://www.lostinthewarp.com/

Of course it doesn't stop there as we also got Mike 'The King of Nurgle' Butcher to build James a cool nurgle piece. At some point Mike will discuss the build at his blog:
http://mikebutcher-thebutchersbill.blogspot.com/2012/10/something-little-wicked-this-way-comes.html#more

So in exchange for the beastmen models that I built for James, he built me a model for my warriors of chaos army. The model he built is shown here at his blog.... http://www.lostinthewarp.com/2012/11/with-little-help-from-my-friends-part-2.html
I'll be basing the model and will show a couple pics of that later. I'll also be painting this model myself to add it to my army of mutants.

Well I finally got back to some painting, this time on the Chaos Chosen, well lucky number 13 of them. Haven't got the command ready just yet. These are the metal ones, I attempted to make each one a little bit unique by adding in some head swaps, otherwise no major conversion work. So below are all the rank filers that I got done, in the blue and burnt orange paint scheme.




---PPC

Nice job, psychosis. The uniform blue scheme works really well with this regiment. and the bases are simple, but quite effective. Glad to see you got back to painting. I've been missing your eye candy.

Thanks man.

I'm getting back in the groove of things. A few more pics of the models. These took forever to paint, lots of details on them.





-PPC