Hindenburg wrote:Seppuku would certainly sit well with followers of the blood god though. After all it doesn't matter from where the blood flows. Suits their modus operandi!

True - as stated in the berzerker background, it happens that they sometimes fall upon their own blades in case no one else it at hand. How very fitting.

@ Saintspirit - DOH! I can't believe I got that wrong! Changed it. And yes I already have Kharne but you're right - that is one badass chain sword!

You should include summoned daemons in your army, but not regular daemons... bloodthirsty Khornate terracota warriors
now that's awesome!

also, for friendly games you always could invent your own rules that aren't OP or weird. That should spice up the gaming a little.

As soon as I've finished the samurai I'll be building a soul grinder and 10 bloodletters for a battle I've got coming up in a couple of weeks. I'll be going for a 50/50 split of CSM's and Daemons but using the Daemon codex (so deep striking them all in). Don't want to give too much more away in case my oppo reads this!

Hmmmm, Sounds like an interesting tactic

Phew - done 'em!

Outstanding work monkeyh... Wow they look really good. The whole squad together is just CHOICE!

Cheers Gits!

Awesomeness is the word!
Congratulation, It's an incredible squad!

Thanks Selvaggio. I've finished all my Berzerkers now but still have loads of things to do. I've just started a soul grinder. As I don't particularly want to start another thread, I've decided to keep this one going so I've just renamed it. Keep watching for updates!

Count on It

any Transports?

I've got a few Rhinos to build (and will probably get some more), as I said earlier, my emphasis at the moment is going to be building rather than painting as I've got so much stuff to do. My previous thinking was to build something and paint it before moving on - I like to battle with painted minis - but I've also got lots of stuff I want to unleash that's still in kit form! So I'm changing tac this year. And to start with here's the soulgrinder I built today...

Tripitaka would approve

Hehe, I was so confused when I saw the title in my subscribed threads.

I do the same thing you do... or did. It does make for very slow going though I'm always happy with having a nicely painted army on the tabletop.

You should make the soul grinder look more khornate...
bigger horns, khorne icons, axes and skulls... loads and loads of skulls.

You're right slugga', I probably will add something to it to make it look a bit more Khornate, but at the moment I just wanted to build it so I could use it in a battle I've got coming up. It needs a bit of work with green stuff etc to hide the joins. Half way through building a squad of bloodletters at the moment.

Build and paint is my preference Git's, but I'm just sooo slow at painting. Having said that, whilst I intend to build, build, build, I'll try and slip in some painting as well.

Sorry about any confusion caused with the name change, just thought I'd keep this thread going rather than start afresh. You never know, it may eventually run to a few hundred pages like a certain persons Mantis warriors thread

@ Skippy - I assume you're refering to the samurai rather that the soul grinder - not sure Tripitaka would want to rideto India and back on one of them!

This blog is so full of win. I am proud of you monkeyh.
Just Kidding/
But seriously though, Your samurais are looking really good

Cheers Captain' !

Not much to report, or rather not much for you to see. Build a unit of bloodletters ready for next weeks battle, and I'm putting together a few Rhinos, just been painting the internals. I'm not sure this 'just build stuff and not paint it yet' is really going to work for me, I keep looking at the soulgrinder and thinking "needs more skulls - needs some chains and spikey bits - needs painting!" Hoping to also start painting Fluffies internals soon too. I know that sounds gross, but for those of you who don't already know, Fluffy is my Chaos Warhound.

Can i ask where you got those chains from?
or was it handmade?

Right now I don't care about the rhinos... I want to get a closer look at that Nurgle daemon prince!

The tanks are looking pretty cool. I especially like the pre-heresy Death Guard feel to them, even it is made unintentionally.

??? I'm confused! 'Scuse me for being ignorant but....

@ sjan - what chains are you on about?

and @ slugga' - What Nurgle Daemon prince? I don't own such a thing?!!

What the is that thing on the top shelve then?
that painted thing in the same picture as the bloodletters.

I was talking about gold chains on the first page of the post, are those regular jewelry chains?

sluggaslugga wrote:What the is that thing on the top shelve then?
that painted thing in the same picture as the bloodletters.

Ah that! It's a Nurgle Terminator with lightning claws - check out page 2 for pics.

sjan1993 wrote:I was talking about gold chains on the first page of the post, are those regular jewelry chains?

Yes that's just jewellery chain, Mrs Monkeyh had a clearout and I scavenged anything useful.

Really? It looks much bigger in that picture
As for the mr. Soulgrinder, you could make spikes come out of his body, maybe a skull coming out of his mouth and maybe even axes in his front arc acting as a dozerblade of some sort.

Maybe it's the angle of the photo? But I agree, the mace above the hand looks like it's at a different angle than the rest of the haft.

Eh? What photo are you looking at Gits'? I'm confused again!

Sorry mate... I think I'm delusional. Either that or one too many windows open in the browser at the same time.

No worries mate - perhaps too much Dakka is overloading the brain!

And Lo - Monkeyh beheld all of Fluffies parts spread out before him and thought "Gadzooks! It'll take me fersluggin' ages to build and paint that!" Oh yeah, and, finished building the rhinos - not very interesting I know but that's what I've been doing for the last week.

OK, now I'm salivating.

Not made much progress on Fluffy - currently painting his innards. I'll post some pics once I've got something worth showing.

Battled at the weekend, sorry the pics aren't very good, but we had a good time. 2500pts of Space wolves and Crimson Fists vs CSM's and Daemons. They played it fairly cautious, I took my usual gung ho approach. I pushed up on the left flank but their jump infantry kept popping in and out and made short work of a squad of 5 chosen all armed with meltas. Sadly my Samurai Berkers were shot to pieces attempting to assault an objective deep in enemy territory, as their vindicators had cripppled the samurai's ride, they had to slog it on foot right into the jaws of the beast! I had a small squad holding onto an objective deep in my own half, which left the one in the middle of the table and the one on the left. Their dreadnought tied up my troops on the right, and a marauding landspeeder was knocking out stuff (inc my Landraider and deep striking soul grinder) in the middle. Deep striking all my bloodletters on the left flank resulted in contesting that objective . The real turning point arrived in the form of Uraka the warfiend. With the aid of my Daemon prince they made short work of a few terminators in the middle, Uraka then took out their Landraider and in the last turn the landspeeder. So we ended after turn 5 with one objective on the left being contested, them having one and me having two as I'd moved Berzerkers into the middle - victory was mine! - this time.

Hopefully having an apocalyptic battle next time, one of my mates has nearly finished building his gargant so I'm trying to get Fluffy ready too!

Oh my gosh it's GREEN out there... I do miss that color about this time of year.

Ok, time for an update. All the internal bits which need painting are prepped and painting has commenced! Once I've done all the internals I can start putting Fluffy together. I've also ordered some 10mm and 20mm magnets as I intend to magnetize the weapons, the head and the torso at the waist.

That's.... tremendous... ly disgusting monkeyh. Wow.

I think the skeleton drivers need a bit of devlan mud on their skulls... awesome job on everything else though
couldn't have done it better

Those poor drivers... lovely!
Great job, now Fluffy has to get done eehehhe

All I can think of is the dr who episode with the clockwork men "we did not have the parts"

Creepy! I love it.

Thanks everyone. I've been thinking about what colour to paint Fluffy, Mrs monkeyh suggested afterburner fade (yellow through orange), I've seen a warhound done like this on Google images and it looks pretty good, but I was thinking something a bit more old and rusty looking. Any suggestions? The colour needs to fit in with both my Khorne and Nurgle armies but I don't want to specifically tie him to either one.

I would think an orange-brown rusted metallic would straddle the line between the Khorne's dark reds and the rotten browns and greens that typify Nurgle. This would be a good basis for making things look ancient, corrupted, and generally "Chaos-y."

Amazing work on the crew, btw. If that's the inside, can't wait to see what you do on the outside.

A blue - red colour??

Hmmm, not too keen on blue,but maybe some kind of rusted orange/brown type colour would work - I'll have to visit my local model shop and see what they've got. I can see I'll be doing a bit of experimenting first on this one.

I suggest a khornate red with a lot of oily and rusty places, It could be originally from Khorne with the influence of Nurgle.

I think Mrs. Monkeyh has the right of it.

How about Sunset?

Miss Dee wrote:How about Sunset?

I think you're talking about what I call afterburner fade - it's the colour of my mountain bike - looks like this (sadly mine doesn't have disc brakes - but I digress)

monkeyh wrote:Hmmm, not too keen on blue,but maybe some kind of rusted orange/brown type colour would work - I'll have to visit my local model shop and see what they've got. I can see I'll be doing a bit of experimenting first on this one.

rusted through then, with fleshy bits and looking like its weeping blood/oil. If you can make the red on it look like fleshy bits, or the blood of a thousand unfortunate martyred enemies, (legitimately, preferably without stringing 70 corpses off of its hull), you may have what you are looking for.

adendum:
extensive refurbishing (re-welded plates, re-attached plates, freshly-bolted on armor to the point where it looks orky, but cleanly done to make it look like a considered job... It makes sense for a khornate perspective, to thrust it back into battle repeatedly as fast as you can, and from a nurgle perspective it looks like minmum effort maintenance.... trouble is it can look orky, and i'd be terrified of attacking something so expensive...

Ooooo! Stringing dead corpses to the hull, now theres and idea!

Like in serenity, with serenities reaver disguise.....

What if the titan still bears markongs of the Astronomican Legion? (Blue/Gold)
But is rusted and some plates, perhaps mostly on the legs are covered with blood.

monkeyh wrote:Ooooo! Stringing dead corpses to the hull, now theres and idea!

Yes they normaly are dead ................

Miss Dee wrote:

monkeyh wrote:Ooooo! Stringing dead corpses to the hull, now theres and idea!

Yes they normaly are dead ................

Don't forget the universe you're talking about...sometimes they aren't!

Miss Dee wrote:

monkeyh wrote:Ooooo! Stringing dead corpses to the hull, now theres and idea!

Yes they normaly are dead ................

Doh!

Keep the ideas coming - hoping to finish all the internals tonight/tomorrow and start building this weekend.

nailed Zombies to the titan

What if you actually place dead space marines that are molten into the armour? (like han solo in carbonite )
It would really give it a creepy look.

Miss Dee wrote:

monkeyh wrote:Ooooo! Stringing dead corpses to the hull, now theres and idea!

Yes they normaly are dead ................

not unless they are nurgle corpses, in which case, they are very much alive and... umm... coughing....

Miss Dee wrote:nailed Zombies to the titan

There will be some zombies somewhere - I may hang a few from chains from the weapons as a kind of alternative kill banner.

sluggaslugga wrote:What if you actually place dead space marines that are molten into the armour? (like han solo in carbonite )
It would really give it a creepy look.

I really like this idea, and will try and incorporate it - somewhere.

Ooh. A titan...

(With echo-ish voice) FINISH HIM!

Here are some more pics. I've finished painting all the internals. The final picture of the whole torso is not glued together yet. Sadly, my magnets have still not turned up, so I wont be able to finish the build this weekend. You wouldn't believe how badly the two main parts of the body fitted together. I had to scrape away loads of material for a decent fit (even after originally remoulding parts in hot water). And by the way kids, if you use a really sharp craft knife to do this CUT AWAY FROM YOUR FINGERS. A sleep deprived monkeyh got a bit carried away at 3am, and received multiple wounds, failing any armour saving throw - mind you I always say if a jobs worth doing it's worth spilling a bit of blood for. Anyway, pictures....

Down boy!!!!!!

I really enjoyed some of your custom posing in the first page or two and your GS work it great as well. Excited to see the Titan painted as well mate. Always a joy to see another Chaos builder/player.

I think my original target of finishing the build this weekend may have been a bit ambitious! (even though I now can't anyway due to magnets not turning up ) Built the feet and preped all the leg parts, so I may have a pair of legs built tomorrow but it may take a while to fit all them little pistons - maybe finish build in the week (depending on magnets arriving). Ordered a load of skulls off e-bay the other day, some of which I'll add, but these are coming from China so may take a few weeks.

Quick update - got the legs built (still got to fit all the pistons though). The armour isn't fixed on as I want to paint it all before it's glued in place. Also, got me a new display cabinet at the car boot sale today (the one on the left of the pic) - a bargain at 10 quid! Room for at least another couple of hundred Berzerkers!

What colours you use on your zerkers?

Check out about half way down page 7 for how I did the red. The brass is 50/50 gold and silver, sepia ink wash and 50/50 gold silver highlights - all Vallejo paints.

Awwww, it's a cute little murderous mass destroyer named fluffy

Anyways, looking really good. I can't wait to see it painted.

Fluffy gott legless or headless

love the flesh on the titan cockpit! how did you get that disgusting colour blend? though i think it needs some gloss in patches

The Titan is coming along beautifully!

WAAAAGGHH-god wrote:love the flesh on the titan cockpit! how did you get that disgusting colour blend? though i think it needs some gloss in patches

It's just flesh paint washed with skin wash ink then red ink and highlighted with more flesh paint. Some areas I washed a little green or purple ink in too just for good measure.

aah, cool. i'm thinking about getting a chaos warhound in the future just to have as a display piece (or if i like the look of the rumored chaos legion codex) how hard is it to build?

To be honest building it hasn't been too bad, I found the legs and all the pistons fairly straight forward, the worst bit so far has been the body where I found the parts didn't fit together too well - even after softening parts up in hot water. Had to use some green stuff to fill in especially around the bit between the two internal compartments. I've actually now ground to a halt until my magnets arrive. Whenever I check the tracking record on the Royal Mail website it tells me the parcel cannot be tracked until it's been delivered??!!! WTF!!! Why would I want to track it once I've received it? I want to know where they are now - not once I've get them!

So what are you thinking about on the base of the titan?
How about a ruined building?
Or a BIG pile of skulls?

My Feancee sent me a package from Canada 3 weeks ago, I sent her a card last monday, ...........


She got the card saturday and the package is a no show.

sluggaslugga wrote:So what are you thinking about on the base of the titan?
How about a ruined building?
Or a BIG pile of skulls?

Err, what base?

Miss Dee wrote:My Feancee sent me a package from Canada 3 weeks ago, I sent her a card last monday, ...........


She got the card saturday and the package is a no show.

Good ol' postal service - still no sign - they're probably stuck to the inside of a Royal Mail van somewhere.......

Titans need a base too...
You need to buy it for them from a hardware store etc.
I get my large bases from Hobby Point

Not sure about a base - if Fluffy stands up OK on his own I probably wont worry - but we'll see how it goes. If the magnets don't turn up soon he wont be getting built any time soon anyway.

What if you magnetize fluffy to the base aswell?
You could even build the base as a diorama, and whenever you are going to play, just take fluffy off the base and put it on the table.
That would be a pretty awesome thing to do.

I like your idea Slugga' - maybe if I get time - and if my magnets ever turn up!

What size magnets did you order?

10 & 20mm round ones, should be big enough to magnetize the body, head and weapons. Unfortunately I need to wait another week before the supplier will send replacements!

Hmm... Then you should consider pinning fluffy on the base.
It would be easier to take it off and put it back.

So fluffy's head can move to snarl at her opponents?

Capitansolstice wrote:So fluffy's head can move to snarl at her opponents?

Kind of. It was more actually for ease of transport etc and magnetising the weapons so I can change them round and accomodate the inevitable 'weapon destroyed' results. Hopefully gonna add some paint tomorrow - trying for rust + green.

Not quite finished yet but here's the first panel I've been painting for Fluffy. I know I said I didn't want it red or green but the green kind of works with the 'old rust bucket' scheme. Any thoughts before I paint more?

You gonna give fluffy a dog coller with "Fluffy" on the tag?

Not exactly, but I intend to have some banners hanging down from the guns etc.

I don't see the green... Then again that just may be my phone.

It is quite dark green!

So, the banners will say "Fluffy" in the runes of chaos?
you can find the runes in the WoC army book.. There are also alot of good symbols you might get inspired by.

WOW! Its just how I imagined it

looking great so far, keep it up!

I love the color scheme of the first panel, It's gonna be awesome!

Thanks everyone. Made quite good progress yesterday, everything is base coated and done quite a bit of the green. Hope to get more done over the next few evenings. And Slugga' - no the banners wont say 'Fluffy' on them! I decided on 'Crinitus Rex' (Latin for 'Fluffy the King'! - I think).

Update time! We have legs! I'm hoping to finish the painting this weekend - however I still can't finish building as I'm STILL waiting for magnets (good ol' Royal Mail) - and I've got a battle coming up next weekend against a mates Ork horde (4500 pts) and it's looking increasingly likely that Fluffy wont be ready in time Aaaaargh!

EXCELLENT Paintjob there sir. I usually don't have any particular affinity for Nurgle colors as they can easily be overdone an unbalanced. Yours however is spot on, really outstanding work. And play your mate with him, he'll just have painted legs and an unpainted top...like he's wearing knickers.

Looks incredible so far. I love those colors.

Good Lord man that's awesome! I know... kind of weak sauce, but it's what I've got...

I knew You would give us awesomeness with Fluffy, well.. You delivered much more till now!

Do I hear a tutorial coming on?

Great work!
Although, you might want to wash the big icon with the grin
Gryphonne Sepia should make it a bit more seperated than the rest of the model. Only a light coat would be enough.

I'm actually okay with the face being brighter. I'm just a tad miffed that this isn't as gory, and it really is more nurgly than khornate... I'll refrain from making a judgment on this till its finished though.

Thanks everybody. I'll try and get some more pictures on this weekend.

@ Captainsolstice - No plans for a tutorial - but if there's anything in particular you'd like to know, just ask.

I would love to see how you did the armor step by step, I think I plan on using it in chaos tanks.

There was great excitement today - a parcel arrived! But it wasn't magnets But it was a load of skulls!

Anyway, for the armour - all paints are Vallejo and you'll need an airbrush, it goes without saying let one coat dry before applying the next stage:

I primed Fluffy white but any colour will do.
Mix 'rust' and black airbrush paints approx 50/50 and spray the whole thing.
Then, lightly airbrush gun metal all over - do it unevenly to get slightly different tones of colour on the armour
Then VERY lightly spray with very thinned yellow ink, then very thin purple ink - again spraying unevenly to give different tones of colour.
Then spray with satin varnish.
Then spray with hairspray.
Then spray on your desired colour - Fluffy was done with a mix of interior green airbrush paint with a small amount (20%?) or regular dead flesh paint mixed in to lighten it up a bit.
Then get some warm water and an old paint brush and start scrubbin'! The harder you rub the more of the colour will be removed - this gives it the worn paint effect - but don't scrub too hard or you'll go right down to the plastic!
Then wash over light and dark rust weathering powders (I used the MIG ones) by mixing it with water and just brushing it on, paint it on thick if you want a heavily rusted look, add more powder depending on how rusty you want it to look.
Finally airbrush with some more varnish - I actually used matt varnish - Job done!

It sound alot of work but it's actually very easy to do.

Now for updates. The body is essentially done although not fixed because I don't have any magnets yet!

(I'd like to just big up the guys at 'Gfts for Geeks' - ordered a load of Daemon stuff from them last weekend, still waiting for one item that was out of stock but the rest arrived really quickly, good prices and very reasonable delivery price too - thanks chaps!)

Great execution on my idea
No, but really that looks amazing
Makes me want to get my DKOK one of the imperial versions.
You should do the sensors and visors with Blazing Orange (or equavilent).
It would give Fluffy some "shock" colours and would fit with the nurgle theme.
Also, check my gallery for the Nurgle Super-Heavy. You mght get some last minute ideas.

That's brilliant work monkeyh! Really, really love the way it looks. Man, you could build an entire army around that model!

B00m. Those are the colors I was waiting for to pop up. I'm sold on it.

sluggaslugga wrote:Great execution on my idea
No, but really that looks amazing
Makes me want to get my DKOK one of the imperial versions.
You should do the sensors and visors with Blazing Orange (or equavilent).
It would give Fluffy some "shock" colours and would fit with the nurgle theme.
Also, check my gallery for the Nurgle Super-Heavy. You mght get some last minute ideas.

Cherrs Slugga' - to be fair I got the idea from the Forgeworld book, I've tried it before on other models but it's worked best here - your gallery is awesome by the way.

Gitsplitta wrote:That's brilliant work monkeyh! Really, really love the way it looks. Man, you could build an entire army around that model!

I more or less have, when Fluffy is finished I'll do a group shot with my Death Guard army - not as big as my Khorne army but I'm working on it.

Sooooo cool keep up the excellent work!

Amazing job and great choice of color and execution!

Darn you airbrushers!!

Capitansolstice wrote:Darn you airbrushers!!

They are a worth while investment - and very cheap on e-bay.

I use mine for tanks ...... if the weather is good I do it outside

Turbo laser time! I've gone for the 'gets hot' look. I wanted it to look like the body was translucent and you can see the laser power inside - besides - Slugga wanted some colour so I give you colour! Nearly finished the plasm blast gun too - going for blue OSL on that.

Like said before... "damn you airbrushers!!"
Seriously though, the red looks really clear and vibrant.
Good job.

Cheers slugga - here's the plasma blast gun. Also news on the magnets - as 15 working days has elapsed they are now officially 'lost' and some more are being sent today - so I could have Fluffy built (if not quite finished) for this weekends Apocalyptic battle! Also I've just seen the new Decimator Daemon Engine on the FW website - you can bet your pants I'll be having one of those in my Khorne army!

Man I love the way that turbo laser looks... plasma's coming along nicely too.

That plasma...

Well, that settles it I'm getting an airbrush

sluggaslugga wrote:That plasma...

Well, that settles it I'm getting an airbrush

1+ This and Eggroll's BA's pushed me over the edge

mm... not sure if its the lighting, but that plasma cannon looks like a flop top me.

I would like to see another shot of the plasma cannon the angle on that pic doesn't do it justice I think.

Chers Gits', Slugga' and Captain' - sorry to hear you don't like it poda_t - I guess you can't please all of the people all of the time! Here's another pic for JunkyOrk, the lighting is a bit rubbish - I could do with a light box really - so I tried shining a torch on it instead!

That's better 'n I could do.

Gitsplitta wrote:That's better 'n I could do.

I doubt that very much - I'm well aware of how good your painting is Gits'

OSL is my demon...

I'm wondering if the area in the very middle of the top of the gun should be glowing though.... wouldn't the parallel structures flanking it block out the light?

It's actually mostly drybrush work - I started with the airbrush, then shaded with ink, and then finished with drybrushing.

It's nicely done to be sure.

there we go, 'twas the lighting after all. It looks much better now.

still not sure about the OSL on it though. It puts me much more in mind of frost than light, but i have this problem with blue in general, so its a bit of a moot argument.

the twin lasers put me in a seething rage of jealousy though, those are gorgeous.

it's gorgeous work, to be sure, but for some reason this makes me think it's coated in frost more than glowing with plasma power.

Cheers Gits'

Glad you like it after all poda_t, although I think you and varl have a point - it does look a bit 'frosty' - with hind sight maybe I sould have done it red or green - but hey, it's done now and I'm not repainting it!

Good news! Got my magnets today - this means Fluffy will live! MWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA! Will post more pics tomorrow/Friday - got to get him ready for Saturday

monkeyh wrote:Chers Here's another pic for JunkyOrk, the lighting is a bit rubbish - I could do with a light box really - so I tried shining a torch on it instead!

The lighting looked fine to me, thanks for tossing up another picture. It looks much better in this shot. Your Osl work is quite impressive as is your whole army so far.

Cheers JunkyOrk.

Can't wait to see Fluffy freeze , i mean kill all your opponent in all His splendor

Pics tomorrow. Fluffy is now built and ready for action. I've still got a few details to do, but he is pretty much finished.

FLUFFY LIVES! A few little details left to do - I want to add a/some banners, and there's some cables to fit (although I may not worry about these)

OH MAN he look incredible!! Fantastic work my friend! Holy smokes would I love (hate) to play against a model like that!

Shes beautiful...

Here fluffy good girl



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Miss Dee wrote:Here fluffy good girl



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In this case Fluffy snacks would be... Khorne Flakes?

Love the bright, contrasting colors on the weapons. They look like they're really glowing. Amazing work.

you know, i don't like that plasma gun, (i think i know why it has that frosty look, (the spar between the two sets of coils should have retained more of its own color)

but now with the whole thing together and the contrast between the blue and the red, I find I am actually quite fond of it

very well done

Thanks everybody - but it's a him! Fluffy is male. He's the dogs.............

I have to say as far as the plasma blast gun goes, Mrs monkeyh said "Is that some kind of freeze gun?" Me "Er, no, it's a PLASMA BLAST GUN! " (10" blast template - can't wait to dish that one out tomorrow)

That's a good job mate, Fluffy looks amazing!

Battled today - Fluffy performed really well. Sorry the pics aren't that good. 4500pts Orks vs CSM's. His plan was simple, charge everything forward and overwhelm me with sheer weight of numbers, my plan was equally simple, keep them at arms length and blast the crap out of everything - and it worked quite well for me - well to start with. After about turn three I thought I had it in the bag, his super kustom battle fortess was wrecked, my scorpion had his gargant tied up in the middle, and Fluffy and the plague tower were causing chaos. Then the scorpion got destroyed (by his killa canz of all things) and the pendulum swung in the orks favour. I couldn't believe it when a mob of ork nobz destroyed the plague tower which had already lost a few build points, I was running out of troops and armour and suddenly battlewagons were disgorging loads of the little green blighters. In the end it was two objectives to one, a narrow win for the orks. Great battle though and good fun had by both sides - and I'm pleased to say Fluffy came through it unscathed (void shields are great! Wait 'til I get a reaver which has even more of them!)

Nice job on the Vulcan mega bolter. I dont know how I feel about the blue and red glow... seems like they need a dark wash or something to lower the lighting effects. Looks great!

Fluffy looks awesome on the table!

Um, could we get some pics of the scorpion? Or did I miss that?

There are a few pics of the scorpion in my gallery. If you want any others let me know and I'll take a few more and post them. I'd built and painted it way before I started this thread.

Wont more !!!!!!!!

So, what will your next project be?

I'm going to attempt to catch up with some stuff that's been half painted for ages - I had originally planned to build, build, build this year - but I hate having lots of unpainted stuff - so I'm going to do a few more Nurgle terminators and the Nurgle Daemon Mamon. The next thing I plan on building is the new FW Decimator if I can get my hands on one at the FW open day in a couple of weeks I will as usual post pics as work as I progress.

Here's a pic of the 2nd of 10 terminators. Base coated Mamon and hope to do some more on him this weekend.

Love the color gradation monkeyh, nice work.

A very nice different Nurgle color scheme, Like It!

I don't know why... but he looks happy, almost jovial.
Anyways, good job on the armour, looks very nurglish.

Glad you all liked him, here's another one:

That's a big boy! Ufda!

Cheers Gits' - I think (not sure what Ufda means ). Anyway - here's Mamon, he turned out a bit 'greener' than I had originally planned but I'm fairly happy with the end result:

"Toxic" or Nuclear waste

Nice work.... in a "Nurgly" sort of way...

Oh man I love your Nurgle Deamon Prince! The yellow barrel on the back is awesome!

Cheers Gits' and MrMerlin.

@ Miss Dee - If you're asking is it toxic or nuclear waste? Yeah OK it should really be toxic (a skull and cross bones) but I think the Radioactive symbol is instantly more identifiable even if I haven't painted it very well.

Went to the FW open day on Sunday - the new Storm Eagle is lovely! I may consider a chaos version at some point. Also keep an eye out for the new spartan (based on the old MK1 land raider but with a longer body) It's a really nice kit - and it weighs about as much as a house brick so if you're loosing you can always bludgeon your opponent with it.

As a result of that visit and other things I didn't do any painting at the weekend - so I'll go and get on with some - as I want to start new projects on account of me adding a few things to my pending pile.

Two more Nurgle terminators. Tempted to move onto something else for a bit before doing the other 5.

Great stuff monkeyh ive being following this since before I made an account and your stuff is simply awesome.

Nice work monkeyh-man! Very grim.

No painting to show (although I am halfway through painting a herald of Nurgle) but I have been busy! Battle planned for next month, and I've been telling my opponents for ages "It'll be all Daemons next time", well this time I'm determined it will be. So here we have a unit of Blood crushers and a unit of Daemonettes (Slaanesh isn't really my thing, but a mate bought these for me ages ago and they're really nice models). Only another unit of bloodletters, two blight drones and a blood slaughterer to go! Then I can get back to painting stuff - there's a lot of grey plastic in my display cabinet at the mo' and I don't like it!

How are you planning to paint them?

With glue?



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sluggaslugga wrote:How are you planning to paint them?

The blood crushers I plan to do a mix of colours: red/brass/black etc The Daemonettes I've got no idea! I'm not used to painting anything other than red & brass (Khorne) or green (Nurgle)

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Eh? er yes I used glue?

The daemonettes should have vibrant purples and light silvers.
Make them look like they are beautiful and horrific at the same time.

hey monkeyh just went through your thread love the chaos stuff everything looks spended in thier own way. i'm still trying to talk my gf into letting me get a titan and it wont be as cool as fluffy but i'll think of something. any way great stuff looking forward to seeing some daemons painted up have you thought about painting your daemonettes white and inking them purple and doing a graident of white to purple? eh, its a thought either way good luck with all them projects i got stuff piled high myself. take it easy.

These are great. I hope to see them painted soon. Chain mace? Keep it up dude.

Cheers alabama' and battlematt! Glad you like what I've been doing. Building (another) unit of bloodletters at the moment. Not too much more to do before I start painting again. Still not sure about the daemonettes - I'm too used to painting the green anfd rust for nurgle or red and brass for Khorne! As for the titan alabama' - buy it!

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't posted for a while - I have been busy building, but still nothing painted - but I thought I'd just put a photo of this bad boy in - my new chaos terminator lord:

monkeyh wrote:Hi everyone, sorry I haven't posted for a while - I have been busy building, but still nothing painted - but I thought I'd just put a photo of this bad boy in - my new chaos terminator lord:

That is one serious looking dude...

Cheers Mad'. And now for something I have actually painted:

monkey my question what is it? it looks cool what ever it is...

Wow, awesome work fellow Chaos player!

alabamaheretic wrote:monkey my question what is it? it looks cool what ever it is...

It's the herald of Nurgle that comes with the Forgeworld Daemon prince Mamon. Imagine a large slug with arms (one mechanical) and a shroud of flayed flesh covering it's head.

Arm.chair.general wrote:Wow, awesome work fellow Chaos player!

Cheers Arm.chair' - always good to have support from a fellow chaos player.

tbh monkey it looks like something that came out of a pimple...and it has a face. so very nurgley i approve.

Battled today - 2500 pts Daemons vs Wolves and Crimson Fists. Sadly I lost heavily. I got shot up pretty bad before I could get my Daemons into close combat. Good game though. Trouble is I lost a unit of plague bearers and Uraka in deep strike tragedies. I think I need to rethink my strategy - perhaps risk deep striking all the heavy stuff first to try and open up all the Rhinos. When I did get into close combat I kicked ass - it just didn't happen much - not enough shooty stuff either - well, those are my excuses, here are a few pics:

Ah... but the painted bits are very nice. That means a win no matter the score!

Cheers Gits'. We're thinking about doing some kind of seige next time, maybe another chance to un-leash some super heavies! As for the Daemons - I need to have a rethink and get in some more fire power. Maybe I'll enlist some Tzeentch for this.

Some nice work.

Cheers combat engineer. I'm back on the painting trail now. Primed loads of stuff and am about to start a couple of blight drones.

Hey there ... Loving the army - amazing posing!

Just a quick question: Which swords did you use for the samurai berserkers? I cannot find them on Perry miniatures

Thanks

Hi WingWong, check out this link:

http://www.perry-miniatures.com/product_info.php?cPath=23_38&products_id=2325

But I have to say if I made some more I'd use these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kromlech-Vibro-Katanas-/160785582038?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item256f9147d6

from Kromlech which look a bit more like a power weapon.

Awesome. Thanks mate. I have my next army

monkey any new goodies in the works or like wise?

Not posted much as I've been really busy with work and stuff, but I've nearly finished the first of two blight drones, painting all done just waiting for the base to dry before I finish painting that - hopefully pics tomorrow. The second of the two is also well underway.

Question - I was in Bucharest in Romania on business at the start of the week - I think it's one of the first cities I've ever been to where I didn't find a GW store! (except maybe Nairobi in Kenya) - do they have Warhammer in Romania?

...Nurgle blight drone - slight conversion as I didn't want it to look exactly like my other one:

awesome looking blight drones how did you get that mottled armor look on them?

I think they come like that

Vallejo paints (as usual) - dead flesh base - washed with brown ink, washed with MIG light and dark rust, highlighted with more dead flesh - easy - that why I like painting Nurgle!

I just love those drones... nice job on the converting & painting monkeyh!

Cheers Gits'!

Can you take a scale picture? I was going to buy one and cant seem to figure out how giant it is

You want a picture with a mini or a rule next to it?

Awesome conversion on the eyes there mate. Looks great!

a Mini would be great!

OK. So here we have the final blight drone, the finished unit and a pic with other minis for an idea of scale especially for Captain s' - you planning on scratch building some of these? It's something I'd like to do instead of buying more (three units each of three blight drones would be great!) In the siege of Vraks book 3 there are some nice alternative ideas for blight drones (you may find this page on Google images). But now I'm working on my Khorne terminator lord with lightning claws.

Oh my goodness! It's huge~
I was planning on buying at least one squadron of FW ones, and converting them. I'll check vraks for scratch ideas, but we'll see

Capitansolstice wrote:Oh my goodness! It's huge~

That's exactly what my wife tells me!

I am so jealous right now... those Nurgle units look bloody fantastic together! *applause*

I join in with Gits applause!

Wow that thing is fracking big! great job *beers all around*

Quick update. Here's the Chaos Lord I've been working on. The cloak is detachable.

Oh MAN! That looks really sweet! I like how the cloak and tabard look like they may have been white at one point. And the claws are really looking great! Do all of those skulls come on that model or did you add a bunch?

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Nevermind, I just realized the base model is Zhufor, and I answered my own question. You can hardly even tell what the base model was! Nice!

GOOD GOD MAN! thats freaking awesome

Oh MAN that's cool!

(and that was my honest reaction... not just copying they guys above me... it's that kind of figure)

Very nice Lord Monkeyh!

Cheers everyone, and yes, I did add loads of skulls! (there are 16 on the model and just one on the base) - Skulls for the skull throne!

This is a really good link to get more skulls
Also, great work on the miniature!

That lord is fantastic! How did you add all that to Zhufor? Is it green stuffed on?

Cheers slugga - the skulls I got were from e-bay - I think Gitsplitta put me on to them, they come from China but are cheap and well detailed.

@ TheAngrySquig (can we call you TAS for short?) It's just Zhufors body and trophy racks, lightning claws from the chaos terminator lord model, a head from the FW terminator conversion set, and extra skulls as already mentioned. The only bit I green stuffed was the cloak. Glad you like it.

Here's a couple of traitors I've just finished.

looking good monkey, really like how the trim work is done.

Nice work monkeyh, they're both looking very nice!

I'm back! It's been a long time since I've posted on my chaos thread, but I've spent a lot of time working away. Two weeks in China, then a week at home, then a week in Mexico, then a week at home, then three weeks in China and a week at home before a weeks holiday in Scotland hasn't left much time for painting but I'm finally back on program! Battled with the new rules for the first time yesterday against space wolves and blood angels (not too tough then). Sadly I got hammered. I'd built my 2000pts around taking and holding objectives but we ended up playing an anihilation (purge the alien?) game. Blood angels deep striking right behind you on the first turn is no laughing matter (not when you're on the receiving end anyway). Although my chaos lord did alright with his bloodfeeder (+2D6 attacks) taking out 8 blood angels in one round! I'm now looking forward to gettingmy hands on the new codex - some of the new models look nice - I think I'll be giving them a go. Anyway, here's a rhino I've just finished. I've got a couple more in progress but I may divert onto something else as I'm in the mood for building. Watch this space!

Ooooh.... shiny!

^Quite so

And Spikie

Here's the decimator I've been working on. Everything is magnetised so I can change the weapons, move the head, take the body off. Sadly no more painting for a few weeks as my boss is sending me back to China! Oh and I'm not very happy with the new CSM codex - damn you GW!

Phew! Just read through the entire thread, and boy is it impressive! My personal favourite is the Berzerker with the mace.

Subscribed!

Really nice work monkeyh... the OSL really gives him that menacing quality when combined with the darker tones of the rest of the paint job. Well done my friend.

Sorry to hear about your dex, you guys have been overdue for a good one.

Welcome squigsquasher and thanks, glad you like it.

Cheers Gits' the more I read the new codex the more I think it may be OK. Perhaps I'm one of those people that doesn't deal with change very well!

good or Bad ??? the new Dex?

When I first looked through I was like "WTF! they've changed things that worked and made them worse!" The things I'm most unhappy about are the fact that mark of Khorne no longer gives +1A, icons no longer allow you to deep strike without deviating, and berzerkers have one less attack. These are things I relied heavily on. So now I have to rethink. I've been doing some sums. Most stuff is about the same points value, or in some cases a bit less, except terminators seem to cost more. Raptors are cheaper, bikers are way cheaper - so I may be investing in some of these. I like the fact that if dreadnoughts - sorry - 'helbrutes' go crazy you no longer target your own troops, defilers are better but more expensive, and with how they've changed the options I'll have to do some remodelling. The more I read it the more I think it will work, but there are still some things that suck. I think it will work best if you have an army specific to one chaos power, as things like berzerkers, plague marines etc are now elite choices but you can 'un-lock' them and make them troop choices if you have the appropriate HQ choice (i.e. Kharne or a Khorne lord to make bezerkers troop choices). There's a lot more options but we could have done with more transport choices (still would love to have razorbacks). Also only havocs can have flakk missiles, would like this option for all missile launchers. All in all, I've decided to reserve judgement until I've actually battled with it. Unfortunately this won't be for a while as I'm working away for the rest of the month.

Great army, really well done!

As for Zerkers, yea they lost that 1 base attack but gained 2 or an additional if they get charged. So on the charge they have 5 attacks a piece, or 3 if they get charged. Problem is they still just get shot into small peices because of no assulting from rhinos so :/

Cheers stroodles1! I'm actually looking forward to battling using the new codex to see if I do any better than usual - which shouldn't be difficult considering I got battered last time!

You are a very talented person!

Cheers fat guy! When I get back in the UK I'll get back to painting some more stuff.

SUPER COOL STUFF!! Im not a big fan of Khorne, but your boys look AWESOME!! Get 'em painted up and send us some pics!!

I looked through your newer miniatures, and I noticed that your painting skills have rapidly increased.
But you are still using that semi-realistic painting style.
I love them!
as I've probably said alot of times before on this thread, keep up the good work!

Thanks FarseerAndyMan and Slugga' - I'll be doing the chosen from the Dark Vengeance box set next (probably)

 monkeyh wrote:
except terminators seem to cost more

Actually, Chaos Terminators are the cheapest of the Terminators in most situations AND you get the ability to add marks.

· A basic set of five CSM Terminators will run you a little over 40 points less than the SM/BA/BT counter-parts. They're even slightly cheaper than SW. Granted, CSM and SW come with power weapons and not power fists, so it's not a completely fair comparison.

· A set of five CSM Terminators with 4 power fists and a power weapon for the Champ will run you 15 points less than SM/BA/BT. For 25 points more you can get a 2+/4++ save. For 30 points more, you can give them T5 with a 2+/5++ save. It's not ATSKNF, but it's useful in a different way. It's my opinion, but debatable, that storm bolters are better than combi-bolters.

Yeah, CSM lack some sort of answer to a CML, but I'd rather have the Reaper Autocannon over the Assault Cannon and the ability to take combi-weapons.

I might be in the minority, but I'm actually quite happy with the Chaos Terminators. Could GW have done something better or included options for cultists Terminators? Yeah, absolutely. There'd have been money in there for them with more Finecast upgrade kits, but they didn't, so we have to look at what we DO have.

By the way, your modeling is absolutely awesome. I borrowed the chainsword halberd idea because that just looks badass. Can't wait to field it.

Cheers for the termie facts kcwm. I'll still be using terminators as I've got loads of them (including my favourite unit with LC's - which will be expanding to 10 at some point) - but I've never had my hands on the other codices to compare (even though I battle SW and BA most of the time. So are you prefering the new CSM codex to the old one? I haven't battled with it yet so am reserving final judgement. Glad you like what I'm doing, feel free to pinch as many ideas as you like - I do!

OK, so it's been a while since I've had anything to show. Anybody whose looked through my gallery may recognise this. If you've read the new CSM codex you'll know you can't have a defiler with an extra power fist and a T/L autocannon - so I had to modify this chap. Power scourges sound cool - S8 AP2 and they reduce your opponents WS by D3! He had to have one. I just had to build it from scratch as the one you get with the model is rubbish. This is what I ended up with:

That looks really nice!

Outstanding work monkeyh.

Cheers guys, more to come soon!

So this guy will be leading my chaos army in the next battle. I'm quite pleased with how he turned out, although I have seen better. Nice mini though. Daemon prince next.

Nice work. Is all the stuff on the cloak free-hand?

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Nice work. Is all the stuff on the cloak free-hand?

That mini has that pattern built in on the cloak; it's slightly raised from the rest.

Yes, vanadium' is right. I only wish my free hand work was that good!

So I'm battling on Saturday - first play with the new Chaos codex - 2500pts against Orks who I rarely prevail against. Anyway, I've just finished this bad boy who will hopefully be opening a big can of whoopass on the day! I'm also gonna try throwing a couple of cuddly chaos spawn into the fray (as well as some cultists) as cannon fodder to soak things up a bit whilst I use heavy support to open up all the trucks in an attempt to empty out contents and give them a good pounding before the inevitable close combat!

Very nice monkeyh. Good luck in your game!

Did you win ;D

Cheers Gits' - Battling this Saturday - I'll let you both know how I get on!

Nice prince, and good luck

Victory was mine! A good start for the new codex - to be honest it was fairly close at the end, we were playing big guns never tire and I only won by virtue of getting more victory points by killing off a couple more heavy units than they did. Highlights for me were Daemon prince destroying a unit of nearly 20 orks in one go (got a high roll with his daemon weapon, they died, ran, then were caught by a sweeping advance) then taking on and killing three killa kans - sadly he was eventually overcome by enemy fire. Also the decimator assaulting a battle wagon and incinerating all but two occupants with heavy flamers in the siege claws - then taking out their deffdread in close combat. It was good fun. Now I begin work on some more Nurgle stuff - a winged Daemon prince (they rock!), bikers, assualt troops and heavy support. The Khorne side of my army is more than twice the size of the Nurgle half - so time to even things up a bit.

Sh*t do your 'Zerkers look nice, mine are just GM models ...
You should custom make a Kharn, I can't even begin to imagine how badass you would make him.

Cheers Novelist' - glad you like 'em. I think somebody else mentioned doing a custom Kharne but whilst I like the idea I've already got the original and have got so much other stuff to do it would be well down the priority list! I've started building Nurgle heavy support and assault marines.

Just a quick update, as I said before I've started building the Nurgle side of my army, raptors, havocs and bikes. Here's the first few. The non GW bits are very cool bits from Maxmini (on e-bay).

Here's a few more...

Lookin' mighty fine monkeyh!

HOLY GAK!!! those jumppacks are massive! Thanks for showing the scale of those on the models, very much appreciated.

I would love to see these painted!

All in good time tom' - still building stuff at the moment. More build pics to follow.

Man this looks amazing well done for winning the game

Great work mate, i particularly like the berserkers! Well everything is really nice. Where did you get the chain you used to put on the bezerkers?

Cheers BaconUprising!

@SargentWhiskey - thanks mate, the chain is just cheap jewellery Mrs Monkeyh was gettting rid of.

Hi everybody (if you're still watching!). So I haven't posted for a while but I have been busy! More Nurgle Raptors, bikers and Havocs - a whole load of buildings and have nearly finished my Heldrake. Here's a few pic's. Battled today too. It was really good fun. 2500pts Nurgle CSM's versus Orks playing 'the scouring'. The flow of the battle ebbed this way and that, I thought I was done for at one point then had a really good shooting round, then after my chaos lord was victorius in battle he got turned into chaos spawn! In the end lots of objectives went begging but I lost 2 points to four by virtue of the fact I lost two fast attack units Killed lots of Orks though More pics soon of the Heldrake.....

Finished the Heldrake - in 'afterburner fade'! (same colour as my mountain bike!)

lookin' good! very smooth blend. I like the red in the mouth, too. that's a great touch that I haven't seen other's do before.

Beautiful blending there! Very nicely done!

Cheers Varl & Gits' - hurrah for airbrushes!

Love the Helldrake's colour. The mix of the blended flame and metal ribs is very effective.

Good way to make someone jeliy :(

This Chaos army looks terrifying. My Unforgiven may be coming for you soon....

Thanks for all your comments, now I'm painting again! Been busy building stuff since the Heldrake - lots of Nurgle troops, raptors and bikers. Here are the first couple - more to follow.....

More troops to bolster the forces of Nurgle.....

Cool beans! Like those monkeyh... nice job. Pappa Nurgle would be pleased.

Cheers Gits'. Glad to see somebody is still watching after me not posting much lately! Battled again today - the Relic, hammer and anvil. 2500pts Khorne vs. Space Wolves. I'm pleased to say a narrow win for me! I have to say the veterans of the long war rule made a huge difference. The Heldrake with Baleflamer did quite well and as my force was mostly close combat biased with three units of berzerkers and terminators with LC's I did OK when I got into close combat. A few pics below. It was pretty nip and tuck, I thought I was a gonner after turn 2 but did well well in round 3. It was close and I didn't have many troops left at the end but a few lucky roles at the end saw me with the relic and a 4 - 2 victory. And with the new Daemon codex out I've got that to look forward to aswell.

Looks like a lot of fun monkeyh... and your chaos forces are looking just great! I usually shy away from really big battles as I find running that many troops makes me prone to making dumb mistakes. Terrific when a game that size comes off nicely though.

fear not, monkeyh. plenty of us still watching

Cheers guys. It was good fun, mainly because it was pretty tight. As far as the size of the army goes, the bigger the better as far as I'm concerned, then you don't need to worry too much when you loose a unit! It also allows you to be a bit more gung ho which is how I like to play it - I'm not one for skulking around!

A few more.....

And a few more....

would love to see the true colors on these guys. do you have access to software that will let you correct the white balance on your photos?

Here's what I could do fiddlin' around in photoshop...

Cheers for the edit Gits, colour looks about right. I'll try and get some better pictures of the next ones and use some better lighting.

Battled today - it Didn't go well. 2500pts Khorne and Nurgle vs Wolves and BA's playing the scouring. I think I lacked enough fire power and dice which roll anything above a 2! It was good fun but all over early on when I lost my beatstick (Daemon Prince with axe of blind fury) to sniper fire (of all things). End result 10 - 4. One thing that was quite good, in this mission we didn't flip the objectives over until the end of the battle so we had no idea exactly what we were fighting for! Here's a few picks.....

ouch, that's a lot of enemy armor. how big an impact did the stormraven have on the game?

The storm raven took out quite a few troops and a dreadnought (helbrute). It had quite a presence on the table, not sure on the points value but as I hadn't anticipated any fliers I hadn't taken any skyfire options, and my flying Daemon prince got wiped out early on so I couldn't vector strike it either. I think having flyers is going to be a necessity in the future - I used my heldrake in the last game to good effect (think I may get another). It adds a new dimension to the game (GW obviously want to sell lots of flyers) which I like - I just hope they don't start to dominate the game.

Your skills have improved rapidly over time, I love everything about your new models.
Still doing great!

Cheers Slugga' - nice to hear from you again - I'm in the process of building a Forgefiend at the moment, just not sure what colour to do it.

I think you should make it something magma-like. Dark browns and reds, with bright red and orange crackling/highlights.
But this is just my opinion

I'm back! How long for I can't say - been working away again and may be off again soon. Attached are a few more Nurgly nasties I've just finished off. I'm slowly getting through them.Not sure what's next - I may have another go at trying to get my maulerfiend painted, just having trouble finding the time with summer here (sort of) and all that.

And a few more.....

Wow these are amazing!

Nice Mon... Great look to them.

Wow, just read through the whole thing, loving those KB's!! They look great, love the GW/FW kitmash ;D Subscribed!!

Thanks Bacon', Gits' and Bro'. I've been a bit slack in posting lately. I'll try and keep it going again, got loads more Nurgle stuff to paint, I've also resurrected a long dormant Eldar army which I've made a few additions to and will be battling with in a couple of weeks. I will paint that Maulerfiend soon too.....

Finally some Nurgle awesomeness again!

Good to see your painting on these pages mate, long time...

Thanks Selvaggio'. I'm currently working on my last Nurgle terminator and Necrosius. Hopefully I'll have some more done this weekend

Yay! It has taken me over a year and a half to paint this unit of 10 Nurgle terminators! Here is the last one, and also here is Typhus with his 'honour guard' of terminators.