I've got this Forgeworld World Eater conversion set and I'm making a squad of Bezerkers. I've built the squad leader with a 'power fist' which I've used from the Possessed set but I'm not sure if it looks right. What do you think? - comments please. If any one is interested, I can post more pics as I build & paint them.

looking good cant wait to see that painted!

Looks fine to me! And we always want more pics!

metalhead wrote:looking good cant wait to see that painted!

Emperors_Champion wrote:Looks fine to me! And we always want more pics!

Cheers guys, I'll post more pics as I build stuff. It's going to take me a while to complete these, but I'll try and stick with it until they're done (I've got several half finished projects I need to complete - I'll make sure this doesn't become another!)

monkeyh wrote:

metalhead wrote:looking good cant wait to see that painted!

Emperors_Champion wrote:Looks fine to me! And we always want more pics!

Cheers guys, I'll post more pics as I build stuff. It's going to take me a while to complete these, but I'll try and stick with it until they're done (I've got several half finished projects I need to complete - I'll make sure this doesn't become another!)

heres hoping!

So here are a few pics of the next two Bezerkers I've built - only 7 more to go! As each one is taking me a couple of hours - I should hopefully be done building about this time next week.

Awsome bezerkers, may they spill plenty of blood when they are on the gaming table,
blood for the blood god, an whatnot

Yeah, these guys look great. I may even steal your concepts on the off-chance I ever get my own Berserkers done...

scipio.au wrote:Yeah, these guys look great. I may even steal your concepts on the off-chance I ever get my own Berserkers done...

I can't take credit for the one with the chain glaive, I got that idea from the examples in the 40K rule book. I did another like this that I painted for the space marine conclave that Smurfwedge is currently running, so if you want to see one already painted there are pics there (I think it may also be in my gallery). I've built another but I need better light to photograph it - will post pics soon.

Love the berserker's you have some really nice stances there, I'm currently building two units of them at the moment myself.

Wow, this will be an army worth taking to a tournament and showing off if the conversion quality stays like this.

Thanks for the praise guys. I include photos of the next two. Five done - five to go! I'm now thinking if they look good I may treat them to a land raider with FW bits (yes them not me - it's a bit like when you buy a new Amp or DVD player and you have to tell your missus "I didn't buy it for me! It's for the house!"). Anyway, enough of me lamenting about what I can't really afford - here are the pics:

Love the double headed axe. Where did the head for it come from?

Im on a iphone and cant really see if its converted from two heads or not.

Excellent! They are all, but especially the last two are very brutal looking! very nice! I have been looking at those FW conversions, but limited money has forced me to convert most of my army from old 2nd ed. minis. And my Zerkers are just the standard plastic models. But yours have got me salivating over them, and I may have to find the money somehow! Great job, keep it up!

Love these models. More!

Stevey293 wrote:Love the double headed axe. Where did the head for it come from?

Im on a iphone and cant really see if its converted from two heads or not.

Cheers Stevey, and yes, it's just two chain axes cobbled together into one. And now for my latest offering. I must admit I'm quite pleased how this one turned out. Used possessed legs with a bit of green stuff to fill in some of the details so the model didn't look too out of place compared to the others. I must admit, whilst I like the CSM models, GW could do with producing some more arms and legs in more dynamic poses. I don't like the ones that come with the standard Bezerkers where they are running - they just don't look right. Anyway, here we are:

Hope you like.

a note on your double-headed chain-axe: YOINK!

As for combining posessed with berzerkers: I have done this across the board wit hall of my berzerkers. I dont see how the slide into khornate insanty wouldn't be accompanied by khornate mutations and strength boosters.

Here are my latest offerings. Used up the last two pairs of possessed legs I had. Only two more to build - aim to complete them sometime this weekend.

Thrusting pose: that is frakking sexy. That is real nice

poda_t wrote:Thrusting pose: that is frakking sexy. That is real nice

Seconded

These guys are amazing!
Lets hope that your painting is as good or better than your awesome modelling

Thanks for your comments. Here's the latest. Chain-scythe anyone? It's not perfect but it looks better than the first version where the blade was longer than the marine was tall! I've never seen anything like this and I wanted something a bit different. One more to go!

You should use two chain swords back to back (Cut half of them and make them point in a triangle) or maybe axe+chainsword and some bone for the tip on the scythe.

Other than that, really cool stuff

All looking good! just need some paint now!

Im interested to see how the scythe turns out. Im going to guess you will be adding all the usual things: studs and an arrow along the blade

poda_t wrote:Im interested to see how the scythe turns out. Im going to guess you will be adding all the usual things: studs and an arrow along the blade

Hmmm, yes you're right, it does need a bit of something else. I'll see what I can do before I start painting. Should hopefully finish building the last one tonight then I can get cracking on the paint.

Here's the last one! Now to start painting.

The head of the ''mace'' is a bit crooked...
Also make it a chainmace

How about a group shot?

sluggaslugga wrote:The head of the ''mace'' is a bit crooked...
Also make it a chainmace

I'm not disagreeing with your comments, but for some reason this one took me ages to get the arms in the right position so I'm a bit reluctant to change anything on it although - chainmace, hmmm.......

monkeyh wrote:

sluggaslugga wrote:The head of the ''mace'' is a bit crooked...
Also make it a chainmace

I'm not disagreeing with your comments, but for some reason this one took me ages to get the arms in the right position so I'm a bit reluctant to change anything on it although - chainmace, hmmm.......

I feel your pain (with the marine arms).
Also, like said above a group shot would be cool!

PS: your next mission would be to make some World Eater Terminators

Slugga. I'll post more pics and some group shots when I've started painting for real, I am, as I write this waiting for the primer to dry. As for terminators, check out my gallery for a squad of five FW World Eaters with lightning claws.

What exactly do you get with that Forgeworld kit? Unfortunately they don't really tell you exactly what the components are and all oo the pics show constructed figures with none of exactly what you get.

I'm not gonna lie, the front-on shot of the 'Zerker who's charging/thrusting is absolutely terrifying. Fantastic minis all around. Can't wait to see them painted.

Jon

AAAAAARGH! DISASTER HAS STRUCK! Primed them all and the primer came out all lumpy! There was alot of cussin I can tell you. Undercoat didn't help, and shading with and ink wash made it worse! Tried scraping some paint of one and repriming it by brush but it just looks Gack Investigating stripping them all with 'simple green', if anybody can offer any further advice (Have just read WarOne's article) then it would be much appreciated. AAAAAARGH!

scipio.au wrote:What exactly do you get with that Forgeworld kit? Unfortunately they don't really tell you exactly what the components are and all oo the pics show constructed figures with none of exactly what you get.

Scipio, in this kit, you get: 10 heads, 10 torsos and 10 sets of shoulder pads. You need to supply arms, legs, bases, weapons and backpacks. They do look much better than the standard marines, as long as you don't f them up with dodgy primer.

monkeyh wrote:AAAAAARGH! DISASTER HAS STRUCK! Primed them all and the primer came out all lumpy! There was alot of cussin I can tell you. Undercoat didn't help, and shading with and ink wash made it worse! Tried scraping some paint of one and repriming it by brush but it just looks Gack Investigating stripping them all with 'simple green', if anybody can offer any further advice (Have just read WarOne's article) then it would be much appreciated. AAAAAARGH!

scipio.au wrote:What exactly do you get with that Forgeworld kit? Unfortunately they don't really tell you exactly what the components are and all oo the pics show constructed figures with none of exactly what you get.

Scipio, in this kit, you get: 10 heads, 10 torsos and 10 sets of shoulder pads. You need to supply arms, legs, bases, weapons and backpacks. They do look much better than the standard marines, as long as you don't f them up with dodgy primer.

Oh no!

WarOne's article is pretty much the best way to do it IMHO.
I hope the models will be ok.

This thread makes me weep salty tears of nerd joy.

coolyo294 wrote:This thread makes me weep salty tears of nerd joy.

Joy? read the 2 comments before you, and the tears of joy will be turned into tears of sorrow.

EDIT: forgot the second ''m'' on the ''comment'' word.

Nooooooooooo!

Be cool everyone - I will salvage these no matter how long it takes!

Simple green works. It might take several baths for you to get there, but it does work. Just be *incredibly* careful when you are brushing it clean so you don't snap anything


On that note, i been told superclean works too.... except.. its a bit caustic, so you may find yourself having to reassemble everything depending on what glue you used if you used superclean.

Thanks poda_t, a litre of simple green is winging its way to me as we speak. Feeling a bit better about it today, knowing I should be able to salvage them. Also feeling good 'cause the land raider I won on e-bay for the unit turned up today! - just got to order the FW bits.

Really sorry to hear about the disaster. I overcame a smiliar situation not long ago with my FW Eldar Titans. I have since used Gunze Sangyo 'Mr. Surfacer 1000' ever since. Probably the best primer I've ever used.

Just be sure to be _incredibly_ ptient. Don't expect everything to lift off immediately. Drop it in for a week, carefully brush down, rinse off, and plop it back in. I always take a month to strip my minies because after that month, it always pays off.

I've done the rush 24-hour jobs, it works, but this is a hobby where many many things need doing. At any given time I am running 30 models through stripping, and trying to paint up 60, complete building another 20.... planning conversions, schematizing buildings.... the list is long.... better just to be patient and give the chemichals more time to do their magick properly.

Salvation is at hand! Just in case anyone is still watching, the Simple Green has worked its magic, most of the disastrous primer is removed. I've still got a little bit of scraping to do, but hopefully I should have some primed and under coated, lump free Bezerkers over the weekend. In the meantime - I've painted this (still got another 9 to do!)

I'm sorry if someone already asked this, but where did you get the poles/handles you used for the two handed chain axes? I love how they look but I've never quite known how to do them personally

He's looking very nice I really like the yellowish colour is that with a slight green highlight in places?

Glad you managed to sort out the berserkers.

Dual Face wrote:I'm sorry if someone already asked this, but where did you get the poles/handles you used for the two handed chain axes? I love how they look but I've never quite known how to do them personally

These are actually bits of bike spoke, it's just the right diameter and is really strong, the only problem is it's quite hard to cut.

GiraffeX wrote:He's looking very nice I really like the yellowish colour is that with a slight green highlight in places?

Glad you managed to sort out the berserkers.

Thanks GiraffeX. The armour is dead flesh base (Vallejo), washed with skin wash ink (Vallejo) shaded a bit with a mix of dead flesh and an unlabelled pot of darkish green I got from a car boot sale, then all the edges of the damage etc highlighted with more dead flesh.

monkeyh wrote:

Dual Face wrote:I'm sorry if someone already asked this, but where did you get the poles/handles you used for the two handed chain axes? I love how they look but I've never quite known how to do them personally

These are actually bits of bike spoke, it's just the right diameter and is really strong, the only problem is it's quite hard to cut.

bike spoke, from the chaos marines and space marines bike sets?

Very nice poses on the berzerkers. I like how the FW upgrade set looks even though you have your models in non-static positions.

The double handed chain axes, the chain glaive and the thrusting poses are my favorites.

Sorry to hear of the primer troubles but glad to know you were able to salvage the terminators.

I'll look forward to seeing the squad painted.

Thanks,
Tom

Amazing dynamic posing

Dual Face wrote:

monkeyh wrote:

Dual Face wrote:I'm sorry if someone already asked this, but where did you get the poles/handles you used for the two handed chain axes? I love how they look but I've never quite known how to do them personally

These are actually bits of bike spoke, it's just the right diameter and is really strong, the only problem is it's quite hard to cut.

bike spoke, from the chaos marines and space marines bike sets?

No! From a bicycle that you ride! But don't cut some out of your bike wheel or it may collapse! (actually you could sacrifice a spoke - but you may get a bit of a kick/buckle in your wheel), go to a bike shop and get one, they only cost a pound or two.

BrningHalo wrote:Very nice poses on the berzerkers. I like how the FW upgrade set looks even though you have your models in non-static positions.

The double handed chain axes, the chain glaive and the thrusting poses are my favorites.

Sorry to hear of the primer troubles but glad to know you were able to salvage the terminators.

I'll look forward to seeing the squad painted.

Thanks,
Tom

The terminators were ok - I primed these after I ditched the can of bum primer. Now primer troubles are hopefully over - I've just finished scraping off the last of the paint and have re-primed the Bezerkers - they are drying as I type this. Hopefully basecoat tomorrow and the real painting can begin!

Capitansolstice wrote:Amazing dynamic posing

Thanks! I'm gonna do another 10 as I've just taken delivery of another land raider for them (can't have an empty land raider - mind you I've got plenty of terminators to fill it with) and my mate gave me some more Orky chain axe type bits - it would be a waste if I didn't make use of them.

That's an awesome (khornate) Nurgle Terminator! makes me wanna buy some.

One of the best topics ever! You have no idea how much i just nerded all over the floor, if i collected chaos i would soooooooo have to have myself a coupkle of these!

I like the stabby dude

sluggaslugga wrote:That's an awesome (khornate) Nurgle Terminator! makes me wanna buy some.

The terminator is just Nurgle - it's got nothing to do with Khorne! It was just something I was doing whilst the bezerkers where having a bath in Simple Green. But thanks for all your comments. If anybody wants to get these they are again the FW conversion kits - I just added a few bits like the heads hanging off the chain around his waist, the disease/pustules on his arms and legs etc.

Update on the 'zerkers - I've now successfully primed them - base layer going on today

I only put the "khornate", because this thread is about Khorne...

I hope you get the models done soon!

Great models! You've inspired me to start Khorne. (again )

GuitaRasmus wrote:Great models! You've inspired me to start Khorne. (again )

Actually, me too... When I get enough money, I'm buying 2 squads of these bad boys, along with a Dreadnought and Zhufor the Impaler (all from FW)

Haven't decided on Pre, of Post heresy colour scheme yet though.

are they really better than the plastic ones

Capitansolstice wrote:are they really better than the plastic ones?

YES!

So as to avoid the same pitfall ... what primer did you use that screwed up on you?

Apologies if you've already named and shamed.

The Zerks look terrifying, btw (in a good sense).

sluggaslugga wrote:

GuitaRasmus wrote:Great models! You've inspired me to start Khorne. (again )

Actually, me too... When I get enough money, I'm buying 2 squads of these bad boys, along with a Dreadnought and Zhufor the Impaler (all from FW)

Haven't decided on Pre, of Post heresy colour scheme yet though.

Slugga - you may be interested in the pic below then...

Capitansolstice wrote:are they really better than the plastic ones

Definitely - but EVEN MORE expensive (just in case you thought it wasn't possible!)

Necroagogo wrote:So as to avoid the same pitfall ... what primer did you use that screwed up on you?

Apologies if you've already named and shamed.

The Zerks look terrifying, btw (in a good sense).

Can't say for certain - the accursed primer has been disposed of. But it was a small tin of cheap nasty stuff I'd never heard of before - sticking with Vallejo now - it's tried and trusted.

That model is amazing! can't wait to see the rest.

sluggaslugga wrote:

That model is amazing! can't wait to see the rest.

I'd better sign off and go and get on with them then! About to start highlighting the first one.

yes please

Ok my friends - the time has come, here is the first of my Bezerkers. Generally I'm quite pleased with him, although I'm still unsure if the 'glow' around the eyes really works:

That mini looks awesome! The glow is perfect. Understated, and not too powerfull. It doesn't pull your eye from the fine job you did on the rest of the mini. I had not visited your blog in a while and did not realize your close-call with disaster. I'm glad it all came out OK. Can't wait to see the rest!

Nice work on the chaos guys monkeyh!

I think the glow around the eyes turned out just right. Sinister, and not unnecessarily exaggerated.

I love the red, and gold colours, and the glow is not bad either.

Although, you could have made the front side of the backpack (the side facing the back of the torso) more colourful. I see some wires there, that you should paint gold too.

If the others are going to be as good as this, then I don't think I can survive the awesomeness

Thanks for all your kind comments - and slugga - prepare for more awesomeness! (although you've probably got a few days before the next one is ready!)

Also, this time take a picture of the World being eaten (AKA the logo).


Mustn't... start... World Eater... army...

While I cannot compete with the quality of your work, im tempted to show off my thousand sons theme...

poda_t wrote:While I cannot compete with the quality of your work, im tempted to show off my thousand sons theme...

Dont just talk about it poda_t, do it! Would love to see them.

Monkey. What are you doing online?
You should paint your miniatures

Jokes aside, do you have any transportation for the Khornate marines?

sluggaslugga wrote:Monkey. What are you doing online?
You should paint your miniatures

Jokes aside, do you have any transportation for the Khornate marines?

Land Raider with FW tracks and World Eater Doors at the ready! When I say at the ready - I mean it's still in kit form, but it's 'ready' for me to start building. In fact two. Yes - another Land Raider ready for the next squad I'm planning - just got to get more doors and tracks for that - and got to get the FW conversion kit for the Bezerkers - I just hope my wife doesn't find out how much I've been spending recently (Mind you - she is about to buy a new car so I think I can justify it )

Holy mother! Those are SO detailed. I want some now. I despise the plastic berserkers

They look fantastic! Great work

As you are probably all aware, Gitsplitta is doing a excellent thread on his Mantis Warriors. In said thread, BLACKHAND posted a picture of these samurai bits. What do you think about my next squad of Bezerkers having a Samurai theme? Also I like these big swords. (Apologies - I don't know how you put in text then pictures, then more text and pictures)

They're mine.... mine, mine, mine!!! Stay back!!

(makes sign of the cross with fingers)

Hissssss.....

Gitsplitta wrote:They're mine.... mine, mine, mine!!! Stay back!!

(makes sign of the cross with fingers)

Hissssss.....

Available on e-bay - I'm sure there'll be plenty to share between us! (A good find - the Kromlech stuff is really nice - a friend who is building an Ork army will probably be very interested in some of their stuff)

I agree completely. Eventually you're likely to see a variety of their products appearing in my armies.

If I do go down the samurai route, does anybody know where I can get some 28mm scale samurai style swords?

Paulson Games Katanas

They have other sized Japanese swords as well.

Cheers Gitsplitta - they look the business!

They do!

Just finished another two Bezerkers. Here are the pics:

They looks AWESOME!

Nice work. Man your red is just sweet!

Very nicely done! really like the poses, there's nothing I like more than a good dynamic pose on a marine! wish i had the patience to do that to my models! I think you nailed the right amount of glow from the lenses too and the double head chainaxe..... brilliant!


Nerdfest09

Absolutely beautiful... You know, in a scary, maiming, killing sort of way

Great poses - I'll definately base a couple of mine on yours!

The berserkers are looking great, the one with the sword reminds me of Achilles from Troy (Brad Pitt)

Thanks to everybody for your kind comments, especially welcome from those of you who have gallery images 'cause I know you all paint really well Hope to have some more done later this week.

I love the sword wielding Berzerker, the pose just makes it look like an agile combat expert unlike the standard Berzerker poses

Here is the latest installment, half way there!

I know I'm just repeating myself, but these are ing amazing!

Great looking poses - I might have to steal the running pose, with the possessed legs.

Two thumbs up! Continuous, excellent work... gotta love it!

Cheers slugga and Gitspiltta, and GuitaRasmus, feel free to copy what you like!

I've been wating to see a log where someone uses these parts - I've wanted to do a World Eaters army with them for a long time. Good to see.

On top of that, absolutely outstanding conversions. The guy thrusting and the guy with 2 chain axes standing his ground are superb. A lot of character.

This is also making me want to short-list that World Eaters army I had planned. I'm getting a lot of practice painting dirty red doing my Behemoth army...

Thanks Loki - I think it's always good to have a guy thrusting in your army!

How did you make the brass/bronze/gold effect on them?

sluggaslugga wrote:How did you make the brass/bronze/gold effect on them?

Vallejo paint - a mix of shining gold and silver (50/50 mix) but using the airbrush silver paint. Wash with Sepia ink, highlight with more 50/50 gold/silver mix.

Cool, all Vallejo paints then?
Better go buy some from my FLGS

You know monkeyh, they remind me of the paint jobs on my original sternguard... before I got an airbrush. I't a good look.

The models are simply amazing conversions. I was curious though as to what you used for the shoulder joints. I can see that you put a piece in there which would seem much simpler than greenstuffing, but I'm unfamiliar with what you used.

Enthingow wrote:The models are simply amazing conversions. I was curious though as to what you used for the shoulder joints. I can see that you put a piece in there which would seem much simpler than greenstuffing, but I'm unfamiliar with what you used.

Aha! I was wondering if somebody would ask about them! The joints are cunningly made from bits of nylon screws (you may know them as machine screws - they're the sort that a nut would go on - NOT a wood screw), cut to the appropriate angle. You can buy these from any decent hardware store, you want to get either M5 or M6 size (that's 5 or 6mm diameter ones to all you non engineers). They're fairly easy to cut and trim to the angle you want. The great thing with them is, they look like a joint should look, and you can instantly fix them with superglue, no need to wait hours for green stuff to dry! Glad you like the models.

Here, for your viewing pleasure, are the next two. Only three more to go, hoping to try and get them ready for next weekends impending battle! Also more good news. Bits for another batch of 10 are ordered - these will be done with a samurai them as mentioned earlier in the thread (Gitsplitta - if you're reading this I did leave you some!)

Thanks monkeyh, I appreciate that. New minis look great. That scythe is wicked!

Cheers Gitsplitta. Well - you've gotta have a chain scythe in a Bezerker squad/Khorne army haven't you?

No chainmace?

I guess you do. That looks custom-built...

sluggaslugga wrote: No chainmace?

What I haven't told you is I'm actually planning another twenty Bezerkers! Ten samurai themed Bezerkers and ten along the same lines as what I've already done, and yes, I do plan to have a least one chain mace although I'm still hunting for suitable bits at the moment.

monkeyh wrote:

sluggaslugga wrote: No chainmace?

What I haven't told you is I'm actually planning another twenty Bezerkers! Ten samurai themed Bezerkers and ten along the same lines as what I've already done, and yes, I do plan to have a least one chain mace although I'm still hunting for suitable bits at the moment.

Wouldn't it be possible to take the tips of 4 of the backward curving blades and place them in tandem? Either that or maybe something that replicates an industrial drill/boring bit?

Good idea poda-t, but to be honest I know exactly how I want to make a chain mace it's just finding the bits as they are from the original 'beaky' mkVI space marines box set - I think somebody I know may have what I'm after.

Oh.... I see I see what youre getting at... failing that its... well..... in resin from FW, which is kind of infuriating....

Finished 'em! Well this batch anyway - took delivery of some more FW conversion bits ready for the next ten. Apologies for the groupshot pic - it's not great. Begin Landraider next! We'll see how well these do in this weekends impending battle.

I've been wondering why these guys looked so brilliant.. but I think I've got it now. You barely used any parts from the khorne berserker kit!

that box needs an overhaul.

I didn't use ANY parts from the Khorne Bezerkers kit. IMO they should all be incinerated.

monkeyh wrote:I didn't use ANY parts from the Khorne Bezerkers kit. IMO they should all be incinerated.

Even the running legs?

Well hopefully they'll make a new Berserker plastic kit along with Noise Marines and Thousand Sons.

sluggaslugga wrote:

monkeyh wrote:I didn't use ANY parts from the Khorne Bezerkers kit. IMO they should all be incinerated.

Even the running legs?

pointy mc thrusterson has posessed legs, the rest look like reposes of the line-CSMs

Great looking models, keep up the great work look forward to updates.

poda_t wrote:

sluggaslugga wrote:

monkeyh wrote:I didn't use ANY parts from the Khorne Bezerkers kit. IMO they should all be incinerated.

Even the running legs?

pointy mc thrusterson has posessed legs, the rest look like reposes of the line-CSMs

You got it in one poda_t, they are a mixture of standard marine and possessed legs - the same will go for the next batch.

Inquisitor13x wrote:Great looking models, keep up the great work look forward to updates.

Thanks inquisitor13x - keep watch for LandRaiders coming next - then more Bezerkers - then Terminators with lightning claws!

PS - Battled today - Bezerkers slaughtered a whole squad or Orks in one turn! sadly the inevitable assault from eight Nobz resulted in their demise Good battle - even though I (narrowly) lost!

If anybody is still watching this thread apologies for the lack of posting but there's been a lack of progress. Still building land raiders - these take bloody ages to do! A few pics of WIP attached (sorry the pics are a bit rubbish). It took quite a while to paint all the internals (not that you can see much of them). All the FW tracks are preped, just got to finish getting the las cannon sponsons ready then I can start painting the externals. Magnetised the las cannon mounts so they can be easily removed (for when the inevitable 'weapon destroyed' result is rolled), assault ramps are fully functional and the heavy bolter sponsons and cupolas are removable. I estimate these will take another couple of weeks (wifes birthday this weekend so not much progress then) and then - more Bezerkers! Got the Samurai heads and back packs, just got to sort out weapons.

You're not getting off that easy monkeyh... we're still watching! Build looks really good!

If you want to make them even more Khornate, buy the Corpse Cart Fantasy Battle kit. You can make great decoration from it.

Hey! love the Bezerkers Monkeyh!!! The chain-scythe has caught my eye, how did you make the teeth for it?? looks really cool!

Thanks for the support Gits' slugga' and tipios. The chain scythe was made from a thin (about 20 micron/ half a mm) thick sheet of plastic bought for a few pence at a local model shop, just cut the shape of the blade and the teeth out with a sharp knife and stick another couple of bits cut to the shape of the blade on each side. Arrows cut from thin card from a box of energy bars and superglued in place, rivets made from my old favourite - the little beady bits from the inside of a Brita filter. Hope to post more pics of Land Raiders next week.

Oh, also if you want to make them demonically posessed, put plasticard inside them glued to the doors (maybe a bit too late for that), so when you open them, you can paint it like there is this type of Warp Maelstorm in it... I hope you got it

I see you discovered as I did the FW ramp doors are too narrow, I puttied the side frames out a bit the same way.

Brotherjulian wrote: I see you discovered as I did the FW ramp doors are too narrow, I puttied the side frames out a bit the same way.

really?

how do the doors compare with rhinos then? I'm curious...

sluggaslugga wrote:Oh, also if you want to make them demonically posessed, put plasticard inside them glued to the doors (maybe a bit too late for that), so when you open them, you can paint it like there is this type of Warp Maelstorm in it... I hope you got it

Cheers slugga but yes - too late - nice idea though and I do usually have them as demonically possessed - maybe when I do some more...

Brotherjulian wrote: I see you discovered as I did the FW ramp doors are too narrow, I puttied the side frames out a bit the same way.

Yes the FW doors aren't a great fit, to be honest, for what they cost - I don't think I'll bother again - I'll just modify the ones that come with the kit with some chaos icons. I had to make one of the hinges longer as it didn't reach the lever mechanism to connect it to the lower door - a bit poor really.

poda_t wrote:

Brotherjulian wrote: I see you discovered as I did the FW ramp doors are too narrow, I puttied the side frames out a bit the same way.

really?

how do the doors compare with rhinos then? I'm curious...

Have got some rhinos and FW doors but haven't built the kits yet, I just hope they fit better than the land raider ones!

Well I've ground to a halt with the land raiders, they're all built (apart from the bits I'll glue in place after painting), but I need to find some time to spend getting them primed and base coated - hopefully later this week. In the meantime I've recommenced the building of Bezerkers. Now I've always thought the chaos chainswords were a little bit lacking in something that I just couldn't quite put my finger on - then it dawned on me - they're too small! - I mean, if you're gonna have a chainsword you want a ruddy great huge one like this guy, right?

LOL! Like him... like him a lot. Great pose.

Well I'm hoping to get some paint on the Land Raiders today - but in the meantime here's a couple more bezerkers including the first of my Forgeworld/Kromlech samurai bezerkers. I thought the swords I'd got hold of from Perry miniatures might be a bit small but overall I'm pleased with how the first of these has turned out. Need to get hold of some more arms and legs before I can complete this lot though.

Battled yesterday - forced a draw. Bezerker squad got obliterated by a demolisher cannon! Anyway - completed first land raider today! Yay! Generally I'm quite pleased with it. Got the week off - half term - Yay! So hopefully I'll get the other one done soon, then I can get on with more bezerkers (got all the bits I need now). Anyway - here are the pics:

Nice Land Raider!

Blood for the Blood God....

Lookin' sweet mon, like the crustiness around the base of the side armor. Lot's of spikey bitz too!

Cheers SBK and Gits. The second LR is slowly coming along. But in the meantime heres my second Samurai Bezerker:

Didn't get as much done this week as anticipated - mainly 'cause I've spent most of the week in various stages of inebriation (beer festival at the pub ) Anyway - finished the other Land Raider today and built the squad leader for the Samurai Bezerkers:

Nice! The Termies are lookin' great!

Really like the stances on them.

Beautiful job on the Raider and I love that berserker!

A few more bezerkers built. Many thanks to MissDee for supplying the chain blade attachments for the chain mace (Slugga - if you're still watching - this ones for you!):

Finally! Awesome job on the chainmace!

Very nice builds monkeyh... I think I've used that same katana with my Mantis Warriors. It's very understated for a 40k weapon, but it's very well proportioned and a much more realistic looking weapon than most. Good call.

Cheers Gits' and Slugga' - hope to get a few more built this weekend.

Just looked over this thread and I really like it, Subscribing..

Thanks Magnus. Didn't get much done this weekend and the light's too crappy to take photos so I'll post some later this week once I've got a bit more done and when I see the light of day again!

Niiiiice!!

Managed to get a few more done but progress has been quite slow. Been really tired and not stayed up late building Anyway, this squad is nearly done, only two more to do then I'll crack on with the rest of the samurai:

All your work so far is amazing! The poses and converted weapons really gave the Khorne Berzerkers that certain brutality the GW models clearly lack. Great job, I've been trying to find this post again for some time, ill be subscribing now

Wow! you keep suprising me all the time. I kinda like the head on the gun barrel too...

Cheers stasis and slugga, the gun is just one of the standard plasma pistols you get with the chaos space marine set. Thought I'd give this squad a little extra fire power!

I just love those builds... Are you using anything for inspiration or just making these up as you go?

Just kind of making it up as I go, although some of the poses I've 'borrowed' from other minis, this next one being a case in point. I once had some old Warhammer fantasy battle chaos knights and one had this big old chain with some kind of weight attached to it for clobbering the enemy - so I thought 'I'll have one of those'. I've been resisting using the chainswords that come with the chaos marines and tried to make each one a little bit unique. I'm experimenting with making a large whip for the last model in this unit, if that doesn't work it's a big old Ork chain axe!

Now that's what I call a ''Chain'' mace!
Pretty awesome job on it. Did you glue the chains completely, or does the middle part move?

It did move but I didn't like it swinging around so I added a little bit of superglue to fix it in place.

Very characterful monkeyh... well done mate.

Cheers Gits'. Still waiting for green stuff to fully set for the last one of the conventional squad so I've re-started the samurai. Here are the next two I've done:

I really like the Flail, I am doing something similar with wire in a meganob conversion (Wrecking ball arm)

Very nice... and Khornate samurai just make sense on some level.

AWESOME!!!
I really love the samurai berserkers!

Sorry to go OT but what transporter do you use for your LR's?

Vendetta 476 wrote:AWESOME!!!
I really love the samurai berserkers!

Sorry to go OT but what transporter do you use for your LR's?

Thanks guys, appended are a couple more picks. The ordinary squad is now fully built and only two more samurai to do then I can start slapping on paint!

@ vendetta 476 - sorry if I'm being a bit thick but I don't understand your question - what do you mean by "what transporter do you use for your land raider's?" ? Are you talking about carry cases?

Beautiful work monkeyh. I should be mad at you because I was eventually planning on doing some samurai marines... but I just can't. I may never get to the project and your stuff is great (as your GS foo is much stronger than mine).

Cheers Gits'! Day off today - yay! Finished my chores so finished building the samurai - now I'm off to try and get them primed and based before the missus gets home from the outlaws!

THose are bad

monkeyh wrote:

Vendetta 476 wrote:AWESOME!!!
I really love the samurai berserkers!

Sorry to go OT but what transporter do you use for your LR's?

Thanks guys, appended are a couple more picks. The ordinary squad is now fully built and only two more samurai to do then I can start slapping on paint!

@ vendetta 476 - sorry if I'm being a bit thick but I don't understand your question - what do you mean by "what transporter do you use for your land raider's?" ? Are you talking about carry cases?

Yeah, reason why I'm asking is that my rhino bitz keeps on breaking wherever it travels around in.


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Capitansolstice wrote:THose are bad

Keep it to yourself 'bud.

Vendetta 476 wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:THose are bad

Keep it to yourself 'bud.

I think he meant badass, completely intended as a compliment..

Anyway, I must say, I quite agree. These models are all amazing. I love the use of FW bitz, I love the dynamic poses, I love the weapon conversions...
And the best thing yet is that you have the painting skills to bring out everything you've done modelling wise..

Great army!

JBrehaut wrote:

Vendetta 476 wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:THose are bad

Keep it to yourself 'bud.

I think he meant badass, completely intended as a compliment..

Anyway, I must say, I quite agree. These models are all amazing. I love the use of FW bitz, I love the dynamic poses, I love the weapon conversions...
And the best thing yet is that you have the painting skills to bring out everything you've done modelling wise..

Great army!

JBrehaut wrote:

Vendetta 476 wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:THose are bad

Keep it to yourself 'bud.

I think he meant badass, completely intended as a compliment..

Anyway, I must say, I quite agree. These models are all amazing. I love the use of FW bitz, I love the dynamic poses, I love the weapon conversions...
And the best thing yet is that you have the painting skills to bring out everything you've done modelling wise..

Great army!

Yes, I was trying to not swear and describe my feelings of how awesome they are! LOL

I love FW tutorials, especially this one!

Vendetta 476 wrote:

monkeyh wrote:

Vendetta 476 wrote:AWESOME!!!
I really love the samurai berserkers!

Sorry to go OT but what transporter do you use for your LR's?

Thanks guys, appended are a couple more picks. The ordinary squad is now fully built and only two more samurai to do then I can start slapping on paint!

@ vendetta 476 - sorry if I'm being a bit thick but I don't understand your question - what do you mean by "what transporter do you use for your land raider's?" ? Are you talking about carry cases?

Yeah, reason why I'm asking is that my rhino bitz keeps on breaking wherever it travels around in.


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Capitansolstice wrote:THose are bad

Keep it to yourself 'bud.

Well, the truth of it is I have nothing to carry them round in at all because whenever we battle it's always round mine (got the biggest kitchen table) so I only have to carry them through from the spare room! Sorry I can't help, however look through the adds at the top of Dakka and there are quite a few companies who offer carry cases with foam that has been specially cut for 40K vehicles although they are quite pricey

At Captainsolstice - yes they are indeed badass! (he says with a smug grin)

Battled yesterday. 2500pts CSM's vs Space wolves. Me and a mate had split force of my CSM's, half Khorne half Nurgle. Unleashed the Bezerkers and they did alright, although were in the end overwhelmed by a huge squad of wolves. We thought we were gonna cruise at after two turns as we'd trashed on of the wolves LR's and a vindicator but he fought back gallantly and at the end of turn 5 it was a bit nip and tuck. However as it was getting late we called it a draw with all three objectives contested. Fun was had by all although it was a bit of a slog! Here's a couple of pics:

Thanks for that,

Nice little batrep!

Well I didn't want to bore you with the details so I thought I'd just cut to the chase!

Some close-up pictures would have been nice...

Well to be fair, most of his stuff isn't painted and most of mine is either in this thread or on my gallery, but never fear, next time I battle I'll do a few close ups!

Yay! also, if you could build a terrain board which is fully painted to maximum awesomeness, that wouldn't be bad

sluggaslugga wrote:Yay! also, if you could build a terrain board which is fully painted to maximum awesomeness, that wouldn't be bad

If only I had the time......(sighs)

Actually, if you can paint your guys faster there won't be a problem...
The way I learned to be a fast painter is, I started making half an hour projects, where I take a random model, and paint it as best as I can in 30 minutes. I actually have a whole load of them in my gallery.

Had a look through your gallery sugga' - nice work! I particularly like the renegade bane blade (got one of those myself to turn into a plague reaper at some point - Oh god! - don't tell me you did that in 30 minutes too! )

Seriously though - I don't think I'll ever paint a mini in under 30 mins but I'll time myself the next bezerker I start (half way through one at the moment)

Noo... That baneblade took me a whole hour
Of course, I built it in 3 hours, because of my habit to not read the instructions...

3 hours! Lol! It would take me that long to cut it off the sprue!

Well... I aim to please
and I always thought that I was the slow painter...

The painting begins.....

Again, amazing work!
Maybe other green spots on the model, to lower the green/red contrast on the axe.

What do you use for your vibrant red?
I may steal a few ideas for my Seige of Terra World Eaters
the double headed axe in particular.
Your WE are so nice they almost make me want to give you my Angron.
I bet the new Grey Knight kit has lots of good arms,they don't all have to have gloves

Nice pic!

sluggaslugga wrote:Again, amazing work!
Maybe other green spots on the model, to lower the green/red contrast on the axe.

There is some green and blue on the world eater symbol on the right shoulder pad, you just can't see it in the pic - by the way - this took me more than 30 minutes!

Eisenhorn wrote:What do you use for your vibrant red?
I may steal a few ideas for my Seige of Terra World Eaters
the double headed axe in particular.
Your WE are so nice they almost make me want to give you my Angron.
I bet the new Grey Knight kit has lots of good arms,they don't all have to have gloves

Steal away mate.
Colour for the red is all Vallejo paint: White primer, Italian red base (airbrushed on) Sepia ink wash for shade. Then build up highlights with gory red, then 50/50 gory red/bloody red, then bloody red, then bloody red and plague brown just on some of the edges of the armour, then washed with red ink (this is important to get the bright finish). I'll gladly have your Angron (is this the pre-heresey Ronin one or a post heresey Daemon?) - if not, I plan building one (post heresey Daemon) in the future. All the arms are the standard CSM ones, I've just taken a knife to them to get them how I want.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice pic!

Cheers Gits'!

How long did it take?
If you practise for long ebough, you could even do one of those in 10 minutes
If you want, I could find myself a marine (all my Khorne Berzerkers have extremely thick paint layers on them, since my friend gave them to me), and try to copy your painting in 10 minutes.

Really good!

SIMPLE GREEN FTW

Italian Red is that from Panzer Aces line?whats is the number on it.
My Angron is an UltraForge Conversion and I did say almost
However I do have a second model that I was dooing as a Bloodthrister but he is still early enough for me to convert if interested.
Here is a link to him
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/410268.page

sluggaslugga wrote:How long did it take?
If you practise for long ebough, you could even do one of those in 10 minutes
If you want, I could find myself a marine (all my Khorne Berzerkers have extremely thick paint layers on them, since my friend gave them to me), and try to copy your painting in 10 minutes.

Please don't do this. If you succeed (and knowing you, you will) I may have to kill myself. At least if you do this, then don't tell me. (Each one takes me about 1.5 - 2 hours - did I mention I'm not very fast at painting?)

Norn King wrote:Really good!

Thanks Norn King.

Capitansolstice wrote:SIMPLE GREEN FTW

It saved my first bunch of bezerkers!

Eisenhorn wrote:Italian Red is that from Panzer Aces line?whats is the number on it.
My Angron is an UltraForge Conversion and I did say almost
However I do have a second model that I was dooing as a Bloodthrister but he is still early enough for me to convert if interested.
Here is a link to him
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/410268.page

Remember this is air brush paint, number is 71085. Like your Angron. Tell me more about those metallic/rust paints (brand name etc) they look like they work really well. I'm gonna (eventually) build Angron based around the Warhammer Daemon kit (I think).

If it makes you feel better, today I was painting a tyranumid termagant for 3 hours, and the paintjob was completely awful (I have to do 19 more)

Love the newly painted model.

sluggaslugga wrote:If it makes you feel better, today I was painting a tyranumid termagant for 3 hours, and the paintjob was completely awful (I have to do 19 more)

I shall sleep easier tonight knowing now that you are only human after all

Ogryn wrote:Love the newly painted model.

Chees Ogryn - here's another to feast your eyes on - aplogies to everybody if I don't post much over the next week but my computer keeps crashing and I may have to take it into the shop for them to sort:

I'm loving the OSL effect on that one!

Sluggaslugga I wish you lived near me I would love to race you.
They call me, "The Quick Model Kid"

Monkeyh the paint is from a line called sophisticated finishes
I bought mine at a craft store called Michaels but here is the link
http://www.patina.com/index.html

For GW legal Angron check out the deamon prince Be'Lakor that what I'm gonna use when I get around to doing that myself
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat500024a&prodId=prod1110281

Eisenhorn wrote:Sluggaslugga I wish you lived near me I would love to race you.
They call me, "The Quick Model Kid"

Monkeyh the paint is from a line called sophisticated finishes
I bought mine at a craft store called Michaels but here is the link
http://www.patina.com/index.html

For GW legal Angron check out the deamon prince Be'Lakor that what I'm gonna use when I get around to doing that myself
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat500024a&prodId=prod1110281

That could be arranged
I actually won a speedpainting competition painting with my left hand, and my eyes closed (literally )

That would of been fun to see.
A few years back my hand was busted up,I could'nt do that at all.
Funny the things you take for granted like even starting a car
I was getting good playing video games lefty though.
We could have a contest though it would be easy,the same stock model primed then post when finished.
These posts are time coded we do not even have to do it at the same time.
However I am not going to hijack the thread anymore.
Hit me up on my WE thread if you want to battle

Let's get back to the subject...

sluggaslugga wrote:I'm loving the OSL effect on that one!

No prizes for guessing where I got the idea for that one!

Eisenhorn wrote:Sluggaslugga I wish you lived near me I would love to race you.
They call me, "The Quick Model Kid"

Monkeyh the paint is from a line called sophisticated finishes
I bought mine at a craft store called Michaels but here is the link
http://www.patina.com/index.html

For GW legal Angron check out the deamon prince Be'Lakor that what I'm gonna use when I get around to doing that myself
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat500024a&prodId=prod1110281

Cheers Eisenhorn - that looks like a good model to start with.

Your Khorne stuff is awesome!

Cheers evil'!

Man, I so want to see the Samurai squad finished and posted up. If the paintjob's the equal of the posing, they'll be top-notch.

Thanks Necro' - once I've finished the regular squad I'll start on the samurai. Here's my latest offering. As mentioned earlier, the computer has been playing up so I'm taking it in today to be sorted, so it may be a little while before I post again - hopefully by the time I do I'll have a few more done!

Amazing work! (as always )

Just love the concept of chainsword halberds.... it's so gruesome.

I also really like the chain halberds, they look really awesome, and so fitting..

So I got my computer back today.......and it still keeps crashing on me So before I take it BACK to the shop for them to have ANOTHER look at, I thought I'd quickly shoot in some picks of the latest Bezerkers. Hopefully I wont have to wait ANOTHER week to get it fixed.

The guy with the whip needs a cowboy hat...
This time the work is good... not amazing as always
The guy with the flail looks a bit messy to me, but the rest seems good.

Looking good

The pics are a bit blurry which does confuse the images a bit... I do love the guy with the whip.

Gitsplitta wrote:The pics are a bit blurry which does confuse the images a bit... I do love the guy with the whip.

I have to agree with Gits' - the dodgy photography doesn't do justice to their true brilliance only three more to do in this squad! Wondering whether to do the samurai slightly different (must say I'm getting a bit bored with red and gold) - any ideas anyone? (I lack any real imagination)

Wow they are getting better and better the more you do.

Those Berzerkers have amazing poses and the excellent paint jobs just make 'em even better. Love the unique weaponry.

Cheers Eisenhorn & LoneLictor, once I've done the next three I'll do a group shot of all 20!

Just a quick update. Got this fella done, just two more to go. Got my pooter back too - so far it's behaving itself (fingers crossed). Probably wont get much more painted in the next couple of days as I'm taking Mrs monkeyh on a dirty weekend away

Here are the last two Bezerkers in the squad. I've also included some photos of my Khorne army - sorry - I know they're rubbish photos but the light wasn't very good (well that'smy excuse)

Look nice, hope you get many skulls for the skull throne.

Epic... truly epic...

I stand in awe.

The weapons conversions ideas are all fantastic, from the mass and chain to the chain polearms.

Put that and incredibly dynamic movements and you got a winner !!!

OK, #1 - I didn't realize how huge the brass scorpion model is! Holy Jeebus!

And #2 - That is one amazing army! I love the mix of old and new you have going on! From the Old Dreadnaught, to the OOP metal Juggernaught! And everything in between! Awesome!

Thanks everyone!

@ Godric - I'll do my best for skulls for the throne.

@ Gits' - Cheers! It'll look even better once I've finished it (OK, that will never really happen -but it's a nice idea! After the rest of the 'zerkers got more termies and rhinos to do)

@ Seb - glad you like it all

@ RSJake - All the old RT stuff I did when I first got into warhammer years ago when I was younger and skinnier - one or two of them are my favourites, and that greater brass scorpion took ages!

The Nurgle part of the army is only about half this size - got loads of stuff in kit form or unpainted - I'm one of those people that buys stuff much quicker than I can paint it - my objective is 20,000 points +, not that I know anybody with an army big enough to take on - but they are working on it. Basically I saw the army in the Apocalypse rule book and thought "I want an army that big!".

Now that is amazing

Cheers Slugga'. Now for the first of the Samurai. Not quite finished yet as I've only done one side of the banner - opinions please - does it look OK? I started off with an oriental style symbol of Khorne which looked rubbish so decided to try something else drawing ideas from tattoo art, what do you think?

Really like the way are turning out.
For the banner I would anyway try to incorporate the classic Khorne symbolism IMO.
It will make more part of the army.

Your army is just .... WOW

I agree with SelvaggioSaky... you should check the WoC army book for khorne symbolism
btw, that green daemon picture on the banner looks like it's trolling

Cool monkeyh, never seen anyone attempt anything like that. Very nice.

sluggaslugga wrote:I agree with SelvaggioSaky... you should check the WoC army book for khorne symbolism
btw, that green daemon picture on the banner looks like it's trolling

Is this good or bad - what's trolling?

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

This is a trollface

marry christmas to you too

Ah I see - so I need to make it look a bit more evil and less jolly! Agree about the Khorne symbol. May have a bit of practice before trying to re-do this one - even if I end up just sticking the symbol in the corner (may even use a transfer!)

definetly... also, I noticed that I wrote ''marry christmas''
let me fix that...

Merry christmas to you kind sir

They look sweet I can't wait to see the finished project

Quality work on everything in here.

Although I must say one thing that's bugging me is the Sashimonos facing forward instead of backwards. Brilliant freehand on the one you painted.

sluggaslugga wrote:definetly... also, I noticed that I wrote ''marry christmas''
let me fix that...

Merry christmas to you kind sir

Merry Christmas to you too - and I can assure you, I'm not planning on marrying anybody else in the near future!

epie44 wrote:They look sweet I can't wait to see the finished project

Thanks epie' - As usual, I'll post more pics as and when I get stuff done

VikingScott wrote:Quality work on everything in here.

Although I must say one thing that's bugging me is the Sashimonos facing forward instead of backwards. Brilliant freehand on the one you painted.

Cheers Viking' to be honest before I read this I had no idea what a Sashimono was, and you're quite right, it is on the wrong way (now I've checked them out on Google), but for me, it kind of looks right - anyone else got thoughts on this? Also have to say I've scraped off the one I'd done as I wasn't entirely happy with it. I'm still playing around with trying to incorporate the Khorne symbol (so far unsuccessfully) - I may end up going for demonic face one side, Khorne symbol the other (still considering breaking an all time rule and using transfers).

Anyway, I'm gonna enjoy some festive cheer before I get back back into painting - it's almost boxing day and I still haven't unwrapped any pressies! Merry Christmas everyone!

OMG! Was happy with the horus heresey and space marine battle books, was really happy when I unwrapped a soul grinder, blood letters and blood crushers, but when I unwrapped a large box containing a choas warhound titan, I *** dakka apologises but it has had to censor some input as normal dakka users do not have the necessary constitution to withstand this** *, it was amazing!

Lucky.

Would this warhound become themed like one of your squads? Lucky you. Enjoy.

Samurai Chaos Warhoud?

Themed? No, it'll just be a plain old warhound. Although to my horror:

Mrs monkeyh said "being as I bought it I get to name it"
Me "Err - OK"
Mrs monkeyh "we'll call him fluffy"
Me "WHAT?!!"
Mrs monkeyh "you know - like the three headed dog in Harry Potter"
Me "How am I to strike fear in my enemies if they find out he's called fluffy?"
There then follows a number of other equally rubbish suggestions as to what to call him. So any sensible suggestions would be appreciated

"Fluffy" it is then.

Can't argue with Mrs Monkeyh...
A) she bought it
B) she has decent logic for her decision
and
C) domestic tranquility is to be promoted at all costs... if you're wise.

Gitsplitta wrote:"Fluffy" it is then.

Can't argue with Mrs Monkeyh...
A) she bought it
B) she has decent logic for her decision
and
C) domestic tranquility is to be promoted at all costs... if you're wise.

I agree with gits and Mrs Monkeyh

Besides the fact that people would have to live with the fact they got bested by a Warhound named "Fluffy" would make it well worth it.

Hmm - So far 3-1 in favour of fluffy, not entirely happy with this although it got a cheer from Mrs monkeyh, although there is something in humiliating my opponents by them being destroyed by 'fluffy'. Not convinced but Im wavering.....

Wow! That is one awesome lady you have there! I would definately let her name the Warhound whatever she wants to. Besides, you can paint the name on a banner or something, and use REALLY intricate script and no one will be able to read it anyway!

And if a gamer asks, tell they are runes, and it means "destroyer of worlds" or something!

Bit late to the party, but I have to follow this thread. Your models have so much character. The samurai are particularly inspired. Can't wait to see more!

How about go the the real name of that adorable three headed pup, Cerebus?

your opponents will be humiliated if they get destroyed by something called ''fluffy''

Agree on the opponent humiliation mate!!!
"Fluffy just destroyed YOU MUHAHAHAHAHA"

Fluffy gets my vote, that or tinkledeath. How can you not like tinkledeath

@ RSJake - Like the idea - I may well run with this.

@ Whigwam - welcome! More on the way soon - still trying to get the back banners how I like them.

@ King Pariah - Also like this idea

@ Slugga & Selvaggio - Yes I am swinging towards this way of thinking - always up for humiliating the opposition

@ prototype_X - Will tinkledeath be humiliating enough though?

It does look like it's heading the way of 'Fluffy', however I may take the liberty of extending it to Fluffy the Destroyer


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Just popped 'fluffy' into google translator and in latin it comes out as Crinitus - maybe Crinitus Rex? (Fluffy the king) or Crinitus quae Exterminatore? (Fluffy the Destroyer)

Crinitus Rex... definitely.

Gitsplitta wrote:Crinitus Rex... definitely.

I'll see what Mrs monkeyh thinks.

And now - my first complete Samurai with a banner I'm actually happy with (and is on the right way round this time):

monkeyh wrote:Crinitus quae Exterminatore? (Fluffy the Destroyer)

This! ^^ Very much so! But the Warhoud's Operators affectionately call it Fluffy!

Also, the latest Samurai looks great! Love the banner!

That's a Khorne Samurai!

monkeyh wrote:

Gitsplitta wrote:Crinitus Rex... definitely.

I'll see what Mrs monkeyh thinks.

And now - my first complete Samurai with a banner I'm actually happy with (and is on the right way round this time):

Looks so much more right. Gotta be said. Damn fine work.

Thanks chaps - I'm planning on doing each banner different - and doing some of them as the demon faces - I just need a bit more practice painting them first.

Your next project would be a Khorne samurai Dreadknight
not dreadnought, but the GK Dreadknight

Slugga - I like the idea - I had considered converting one of those dreadknights into a chaos contemptor dreadnought (don't like the forgeworld contemptor model much), but to be honest, with everything I've currently got boxed up and awaiting work: 1 Chaos warhound, 1 box of bloodcrushers, 1 box of bloodletters, 1 soul grinder, 3 rhinos, 1 box of Daemonettes, 1 baneblade to convert into a plague-reaper, 1 FW Nurgle sorcerer, 12 raptors to finish painting, 9 Nurgle terminators to finish painting, 1 Nurgle Daemon Mamon and herald to paint, 1 great unclean one to strip and repaint, 16 metal plague bearers to paint, 5 terminators with lightning claws to build, plus 2 old land raiders, 2 rhinos, 1 vindicator and 1 predator I got from a car boot sale to repaint/convert to Nurgle, 10 thousand sons, 1 fw Thousand sons dread, 1 blood slaughterer and a partidge in a pear tree - I don't realy fancy taking on any more projects just yet! Sadly I buy stuff quicker than I can build and paint!

Oh. My. Gawd.
Exalted.

That is... Alot of models

monkeyh wrote:Slugga - I like the idea - I had considered converting one of those dreadknights into a chaos contemptor dreadnought (don't like the forgeworld contemptor model much), but to be honest, with everything I've currently got boxed up and awaiting work: 1 Chaos warhound, 1 box of bloodcrushers, 1 box of bloodletters, 1 soul grinder, 3 rhinos, 1 box of Daemonettes, 1 baneblade to convert into a plague-reaper, 1 FW Nurgle sorcerer, 12 raptors to finish painting, 9 Nurgle terminators to finish painting, 1 Nurgle Daemon Mamon and herald to paint, 1 great unclean one to strip and repaint, 16 metal plague bearers to paint, 5 terminators with lightning claws to build, plus 2 old land raiders, 2 rhinos, 1 vindicator and 1 predator I got from a car boot sale to repaint/convert to Nurgle, 10 thousand sons, 1 fw Thousand sons dread, 1 blood slaughterer and a partidge in a pear tree - I don't realy fancy taking on any more projects just yet! Sadly I buy stuff quicker than I can build and paint!

holy mother fething... That is a lot of models!

Yes - that is a lot - it will probably keep me going until I die! Anyway - back to what I'm working on now - here's a couple of pics of the second finished samurai, I've tried to incorporate the world eater symbol with a Japanese style demon face - I'm reasonably pleased with it. If this is my last post of the year (which it probably will be - as I'm off to the pub shortly) - then happy new year to everyone and thanks for all your contributions and interest in 2011

That is awesome!
and happy new year to you too

Excellent!

Happy 2012 everyone. We've had a bit of a rough start, Mrs Monkeyh had to pay £300 to get her car fixed after the electric window packed up, a huge tree blew down in the garden narrowly missing the house (plenty of fire wood now though) so now I've got to chop that up, and there's "trouble at 'mill" with things not going too well at work (pay cuts/job losses on the cards). But looking on the bright side, here's the next samurai. I've tried to make the banner look a bit fleshy like it's made from skin, but I've now got it into my head that this guy looks like he's about to use his sword to bat that marine helmet back into the enemy ranks!

Home run for the Khorne team!

LOL! He DOES look like that.... and I love the idea of it.

Haha! That pose is great. Also, I really like how the banner is both a face and a Khorne icon this time.

Here's my latest effort. Picture's a bit rubbish as I had no natural light (well that's my excuse). This one reminds me a bit of Judge Dredd - I think it's the face. The banner is a bit basic, but I wanted variety - it is after all the spice of life!

Yet again another awesome and bloodthirsty marine
I really like the simplicity of the banner... it really is good

WOW fabtastic

Thanks Slugga and Miss Dee. As always, progress is slow. But I'm determined to get these done as I've lots of other tasty projects I want to get started with.

Just a quick update with the latest samurai. Here's a couple of (blurred) pic's! :

I must say, monkeyh - your models here have seriously given me some inspiration. I want to convert berzerkers now. Preferably with possessed parts.

A +++ to the last banner mate!

Just love that pose monkeyh... they're really coming out true to form. Well done!

Cheers everyone!

@Saintspirit - I have to say the possessed bits are great and are more like what I would expect a regular chaos marine to be like.

@Selvaggio' - 'Fraid I cheated on the banner - it's a transfer from the old chaos space marine transfer sheet! May use a few more as I'm feeling lazy and just want to get the last five done and dusted so I can move onto new things.

@Gits' - I'm pleased with how they're turning out - those samurai bits work really well.

are they from Blighted Nyss them swords?

These swords are from perry miniatures:

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

Looked high and low for samurai swords - not many places seem to do them, but this lot specialise in old Napoleonic, American civil war, English civil war miniatures etc. They're £6.50 for 30 metal ones. But if you need some I've got some spare I can send you if you pm me an address (being as I owe you some bits for those chain blades you sent me).

I've used those same swords with my Mantis Warriors. I really like them.

And a bargain compared to what some companies where asking for a single sword.

No kidding. They are very reasonable sized too. In the world of stupid-large 40k weapons, there is something very elegant and somewhat menacing about a normally sized blade.

I can see you have really improved in making OSL
you should consider maybe updating more models at a time

Cheers slugga', I've got another one in this unit with a plasma pistol so we'll see how he turns out. After slow progress of about (ok - maybe less than) one mini a week - I'm boldly attempting to complete the last five by this time next week! My prefered method of doing one at a time is proving far too slow. I've got the next five based, shaded and the gold highlighted and hopefully I should get some time at the weekend to finish them off. Then I'm going to lay off the painting for a while, whilst I concentrate on building some of my huge backlog of stuff so I can at least use it in battle even if I have to endure things being naked!

Nothing new to tell you - but this is my 500th post!

Loving the samurai theme you've got going here monkeyh, first time i've seen your thread but your mental chain weapons and the size of the brass scorpion are almost swaying me from the imperium and my ad mech....damn it! oh and gz on the 500th post.

I need to do alot of OSL myself pretty soon, and I can't wait for it!
I love doing plasma glow and other things like that. Deathwatch ain't that easy to paint, so it might be a longer while though

Congrats on your 500th post!!!

Congrats on your 500th... and unlike mine they're almost all quality posts too!

I like them. Do they commit seppuku if they lose a round of close combat?

Hindenburg wrote:I like them. Do they commit seppuku if they lose a round of close combat?

They should

Hindenburg wrote:I like them. Do they commit seppuku if they lose a round of close combat?

Where else would No Retreat! wounds come from?

@ J-paint - Thanks - come over to the dark side!

@ Slugga' - Wait 'til I do the plasma blast gun on Fluffy my warhound - there'll be OSL aplenty then!

@ Gits' - You're too kind sir! Your mantis warrior thread is quality.

@ Hindenburg & whigwam - Yeah - but last time my oppo didn't leave much left for me to take many fearless wounds!

You have anyone to use as Khârn yet (if you are going to include him, but why should you not?)? if you want him to look samurai-ish, I suggest you use this one:

because that is one evil sword.

Also, do me a favour and type it "berzerkers"

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!