Keeping in Theme with the World Eater Beserkers I decided to restart my Blood Pact Army and try to get it at least battle ready.
I have a Looted Mars Patern Leman Russ with just the right amount evil.
At the same time I am also painting the Vanquisher Command Turret.





I have have modeled The Blood Pact's answer to Pask,the brillant tank commander
Romellor.


Next are the Dreaded Blood Pact Grenadiers
I used the tiny Khorne symbol on all the helmets in place of the eagle



And I almost have one of every HW squad,just have two left bolter and mortar

Oh these are beautiful. The se of Krieg as Blood Pact is nigh perfect as these models really show brutal dedicated warriors rather than kill crazy slaughterers which too many supposed blood pact armies emphasise. I prefer the Khorne as a martial god including tactics look these imply.

These last two Heavy Weapons teams finishes them up.
I now have one of each type.
I also scuplted a grotesk over a Vostroyan Comm officer for use as either the Evil Master Of Ordinace.
I think tomarrow I bust out the airbrush for the tank and finish baseing the Grenadiers.

Here are the last few Grenadiers and the finished Comm Officer





I have also made decent progress on the Mars Pattern Leman Russ

That comm officer is excellent he really looks the part. The veterans are keeping up the same high standard. These are some of the finest renegades I've ever seen!

Here is the Leman Russ all finished and weathered minus tracks.
I painted and weathered them separately a long time ago in fact.
This has gone through what I call "The Process" a little bit of everything
Weathering Powders,Oil Paint,Verdi-Gris.
The idea with the icons is the top piece is also the comms anntena as I have it cabled up.

Looking very nice. I'm really liking seeing the Blood Pact, I'm on my second run through on the Gaunt's Ghost series. Are you using Imperial Guard rules with counts as or have you come across a Lost list that you can use?

I'm just curious because I'm looking into starting a traitor guard army myself.

Thanks,

Counts as IG List,I'll even have Evil Versions of Named Characrter as like with my tank commander Romellor or should I name him Paskor

Everything is looking really nice. I love the attention to detail you've gone into on the bases and the weathering on the tank looks excellent.

I like the variety of kits and the paintjob. Good looking renegades you have here. Blood for the Blood God!

I have finished off the Mars Pattern Leman Russ,tracks and all.
Finished off the small touches like smoke for the exhaust & barrel.
And some fine scratches using a silver pencil.
Please disregard the blank spot where the spare track has to go,forgot to glue it on ,before the pics

These are pretty decent! Where'd you get the "big nose" heads?

The comms guy is self scuplted, any one on the HW teams that are not FW renegades are from Max-mini fallen legionaire heads.

interesting take on these guys... looks like i'm not the only one doing them. not quite sure why you've got the undivided symbols going on? similarly not keen on the use of DKOK as blood pact minis.

that said, love the vox firstborn, and the oxidisation theme's pretty good!

-skrall

1. What is the undivided symbol?
2. I love the Kreig grenaiders
3. These are really cool!

I'm very happy to see you start working on your Blood Pact again, I really like the weathering on the tanks, especially the tracks and the bronze.

If you don't mind sharing I'd like to know how you weather it.

I think the heavy weapon guys are superb!!

Skrall it is not incorrect to put an Undivided symbol on Khorne Forces.
If it were the only symbol on the tank I would tend to agree with ya,but it shares the space with some pretty large Khorne symbols themselves.
The Undivided symbol is correct for all Chaos forces.
Your take on me using DkoK,well just have to agree to disagree on that one,If I could the enitre force would be made using DKoK Grenadiers.
Checked out your Pact,they are pretty good I might even steal the model you used for a priest for my WireWolves

The Weathering is something I call "The Process" I'll maybe do a tute one day,long story short
Black Primer,
Alclad 2 Steel(boltgun metal),
Latex Masking fluid with sponge,
Paint and Highlight Tank,
Add symbols&Text,
remove mask,
spray with glosscote until satin sheen,
Burnt Umber Oil Paint Pinwash
Spray with Dullcote
Dust Tank Lightly with MIG Industrial City Dirt (ICD)
Use Mona Lisa Thinner Damp brush not dripping and coat model going in the direction of runof(On top ,front to back and down the sides top to bottom to simulate rainmarks)
Dust Tracks Liberally with MIG ICD fix with thinner by barely touching thinner damp brush to model.
Crush up some graphite and apply to the area of track that makes contact with the ground
Use pencil to add fine scratches.
?????
Profit

Here is a Sons of Sek test model

good mask, and the color scheme is good, i like the looted cadian gun. Good work.

Consider me subscribed

Here is the second test model.
I am improving on him,adding blades to armor and using plastic glue to roughcast the body armor and helmet,because we all know evil hates smooth objects

Eisenhorn wrote:Here is the second test model.
I using plastic glue to roughcast the body armor and helmet,because we all know evil hates smooth objects

what is roughcasting?

A method from the fine scale community.
For instance the WWII tanks where the armor has a slightly pitted or rough texture like on the sherman.
You take plastic glue and paint it on a plastic model where you want the texturemlet it get soft for about a minute then using an old cut down brush like used to stippling you well stipple it.
It gives the armor a hammer beaten look to it.

Eisenhorn wrote:Skrall it is not incorrect to put an Undivided symbol on Khorne Forces.
If it were the only symbol on the tank I would tend to agree with ya,but it shares the space with some pretty large Khorne symbols themselves.
The Undivided symbol is correct for all Chaos forces.
Your take on me using DkoK,well just have to agree to disagree on that one,If I could the enitre force would be made using DKoK Grenadiers.
Checked out your Pact,they are pretty good I might even steal the model you used for a priest for my WireWolves

thanks man! however, i disagree on the symbology logic. if blood pact are the forces of urlock guar, and he in turn is a world eater (or one hell of khorne devotee murhen) then why would they worship other gods? khorne wouldn't be too happy that they are giving his tithe to other gods, especially since he is the guy who provides them with certain things. just from a fluff stance that is, from a modelling point of view. from a modelling point of view; what ever floats your boat

As for the sek.. pretty good, could use something to make it more khornate though... probably just a symbol or something.

refrence of sek himself';



-skrall

Hoy there,
Gorgeous blood pact! Very nice indeed. You may well find these heads useful:
http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=47_48&zenid=v0fltce796n8supbb35mhvrp23
The two variations on Oni Masks. I'm using them for mad-ass non-traitor guard, but they seem custom made purely for blood pact. Getting them onto Cadian bodies requires a bit of filing and fitting, but they look great when they're done.

Also, I like the Son of Sek, although the impression I've got from the books - I may be totally wrong, just talking my gut - is that they're heavy troops, with Carapace armour. I will re-read and check it out, it's high time I did that anyway

Oh, and I am indeed also subscribed. Keep it up!

Thanks for the link.
I finished off a 10 man Sons of Sek squad,I have my method of modeling renegades down now.
I add armor plate like the FW renegades,knee/elbow pads maybe a groin protector,I like to switch it up not every guy will have kneepads for instance
The latest thing I am working on is the Chimera and what better time than to post up my Armor Painting Tutorial "The Method".
Optimum results are achieved with an airbrush but it is not necessary for most steps.
The only thing I would do differently next time is paint the track separate from the tank for an easier job,I'll just have to be careful on this one.
Taking a black primed tank paint the whole thing a steel color.
I use an airbrush and Alclad II steel but Boltgun Metal will work just as well a good solid coat




Then use Liquid Latex masking fluid and apply with a sponge,do not go crazy less is more.
It really helps to take pictures of this stage like I have done so you can see where all the mask is,some is hard too see once painted over.






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I then used Testors Model Master Olvie Drab enamel to spray the tank olive drab,then using Faded olive drab to dust over the tank after the olive drabwas touch dry.
This can also be made using 3 parts Catachan Grenn with 1 part Charadon Granite.
You want a good solid coat.





Then once touch dry remove the latex mask exposing the steel underneath.
It is important to remove the mask when the model is touch dry the longer you let dry the harder it is to remove the mask.
Keep in mind it takes most paints 24 hours to fully cure,GW included





For the light hearted you can stop right here,add unit markings,pick out a few small details and you are good to go with a better than standard paintjob that would impress anyone.

Great! The blood pact masks are great, did you make them yourself??

The weathering on that Russ is beautiful.

Great work all round, in fact!

I only made the mask for the Vostroyan Comms Trooper,the ones on the HW teams that are on cadian bodys are max-mini fallen legionaire heads.
The Sons of Sek have skeleton warrior hands for thier masks
Here is the Segeant of the Sons of Sek squad



I have also figured out a really cool retro way to represent penal legion troops.
Chaos Beastmen with Catachan Arms.
A little putty work is nessessary for the shoulders since they dont line up quite right.
But when covered with fur Impossible to tell.
The guns do not work without chopping the stock off,so I went further and beat the hell up out of it.
With the Catachan camo on the barrel it looks like it is being held togther with tape.
I figure they would give beasts the worst gear.

I finished off the Sons of Sek squad today,good feeling when you finish a unit
I modeled them as a regular lasgun unit to help boost the numbers and shake it up a little.

looking good, but perhaps find yourself some guitar wire? the sek masks are closer to rebreathers, it'd also add a nice little touch to them. overall though, i like the copper oxidization thing going on, pretty cool.

-skrall

That squad is looking good!

I can do better than that Skall,I have Dragonforge cable.
White metal guitar wire that is extreamly bendable and poseable.
Check out the power cables
http://www.dragonforge.com/Painting%20service/for%20sale/sculpting_supplies.htm
I have also recently seen molds where you press them yourself out of g/s,
I like to think with Chaos its evil influences all around it even to the point where metal tarnishes and rusts in its presense.
Great idea BTW

Here is a Chimera transport nearly finished.
I was going to to a step by step further but things started moving fast,batteries died so it did'nt really materialize the way I wanted.
But this tank did,I did'nt go crazy like some of my other stuff with tons of gear,just an extra track on a bracket made by cutting the tab off a track link.
Speaking of which the new kits tracks fit like a dream but no extra kink anymore,that sucks.
I also used .020 plastic rod along the edges of the fron then softened with with Tenax Liquid Plasic Glue.
Once soft I stippled with a brass rod cut to an angle to simulate rough welds.
I also coated and stippled the turret to give it a roughcast texture
I used ForgeWorld Khorne and Renegade brass etch to finish it off





I have also almost finshed a few more Beastmen penal legionaires

40k definitely needs more Beastmen

Lovely work!

Very nice. Lovely to look at. Might I ask what is going on with the Grenadier's guns? Some of the barrels appear to be pointing up at a 90 degree angle.

Wow, really nice work... I would love to run my Tanith Army against those. Continue to post, I am looking forward to see what other havok you can create.

Once I finish off the beastmen it will be another 10 man squad.(It takes alot of rifles to get an honest platoon going)
Then...Then maybe the top Command Vehicle

i always pictured the masks on the Sons as horizontal. they arent really rebreathers either- they are described as elaborate chin-straps holding their helmets in place (whch makes sense, since if you try it your thumbs kind of reach far enough to be used as straps). they are made of real human flesh as well, a glossy brown human leather.

Easy man. I love your gaurd guys only cos there chaos.
tanks have nice reaistic rusty feel and your weapon teams look dirty and grimy i a good way. subscribed.
do you cast your own symbols?
peace

I love looking through renegades threads. It's always a great inspiration for my own traitor guard. Thanks for posting.

You are 110% correct on the mask, they are described as human hand chin-straps,I remember one of the Ghosts noticed this themselves,I just took artistic licence there,the metal seems to work better.

I do not cast my the symbols they are FW Khorne and Renegade brass etch,I recommend them highly.

Fair enough, they look epic anyway

Always a fan and loving the facemasks

Here are four of the finished Penal Beastguardsmen.
They do not have explosive collars,but they are considered expendable just like criminal scum.

This is a nice multi-use model I made up,i it could either be a priest or medic for command squad.
The idea is a dirty white robe that will be splattered with blood both old and fresh.
I forgot how much a pain white robe are until I busted out the oil paints.
It behaves differently than acryilic you can manipulate it more.
The dryback is drying time,this model is on hold now for about 48 hours

I like it alot! The Concept is sound as well!

Traitors! Traitors all!!!

Very nice blood pact and sons! I'm very impressed with what I'm seeing. This force is gonna look nice on the table. Consider me subscribed

Eisenhorn wrote:Here is a Sons of Sek test model

Bane from Dark Knight Rises

First, I want to selfishly say that I am disturbed by the number of my friends that are posting on this AMAZING blog that didn't bother to drop me a line and say "Hey Skalk, check out the awesome Traitor Guard thread Eisenhorn is doing!"



Ok. Enough about me. I absolutely love Traitor / Cult projects and I am really enjoying this one so far. Your conversions are solid, the color scheme is excellent, and of all the "Guard gone bad" threads I've seen, this is the first one that I can remember where they dedicated themselves to the Blood God.



Looking forward to seeing more, and SUBBED!

Worked on the Banner and metallics a bit.
These I was careful not to get any oil paint on so I could work on them in the meantime.
Better Pics this time around too.

I finished the Penal Legion Squad of Beastmen.
I like using the Enforcers as the evil version of commissars and penal custodians
Like I said earlier this was a mix of Gors and Catachans.
I had to buy a second box to get enough minotaur horns,now I am selling a box of straight horned Gors on E-bay.






I came across this scratchbuild of an automated sentry gun.Keeping with 40ks no robots rule the cpu is a servo-skull.




I came across this great old technicains briefcase that I now use to hold all my brushes and hobby gear




The Tacklebox holds the blades,drills,files,glues

beastmen have turned out pretty good. nice work!

-skrall

Here is the finished Blood Priest and finished sentry gun.

Lovely stuff, the beastmen are really nice - i like your metal weathering too!

The preist and gun are sweet!

This is amazing work, simply amazing. Great job.

The priest looks great.
I'd love it if you could go into further details about how you painted the white robe.

i think what you have done here is fantastic... so you just got a subscriber! although im still not convinced by the skull hand masks

Sadly I forget the exact recipe,I started using Astro Grey working up to white,but did not like that,I think I went over that with P3 Menoth White Highlight then I used a burnt umber oil wash,let that dry a couple hours then used a thinner damp brush to remove the paint the the highest ridges,reverse drybrushing if you will.

That is awsome work again brother. love the green rust on the end the ball things.
are you cleaning up your base?
peace

Will just echo everyone else - great work

Wanted to pick you up on something though. Whats the deal with no robots in 40K? is there an official line on that? Thats coming from someone who remembers when robots walked alongside marines on the battlefield

The AI on robots went wrong on one occasion iirc, then everyone got paranoid and the AdMech outlawed sentient robots. Or something like that!

OMG! Excellent Sons Pheguth!
The Servitor-maned autocannon is just badassery too! Great work! I'd love to see your take on a Stalk Tank!

Lemme see if I can find the old commission pics.
I am so mad I sold off the nits to make them last year,did'nt think I was gonna need them again,more the fool me.

Yeah with the robots,I think the Matrix just about happened for real but in 40k the human won and outlawed A.I.
The reconn with the robots is that they have organic cpu chips that AD-Mech cultures/creates I believe they call them Doctrina Wafers

ah here we are all the way back on pg 30ish
I never made the Stalk Tank so thanks a ton,thats like offering a guy tring to quit smoking, a cigarette.
Now I just Have to make one,as well as the Demon Tank that was Hunting the Ghosts in that book.
I did however make my version of the AT-70 MBT


And while I am not going to run them I also did Loaxal for the same buyer

Wow! Great work! Really great work!

The Loaxl would look badass climbing a wall too

Ahh yes, that sneaky living, breathing tank from Gereon!

If I can snag a Blood Slaughter on the cheap from ebay,I think that would make a good chassis for the chaos tank
Right now I am finishing off the last Ogryn I had to do,the Bone'Ed using the Gamesday model
I am painting that guy being choked as a Blood Pact,theme of this model is this ogryn really hats being whipped and is about to cut his custodian in half

Digging the AT-70

I miss this thread and there's so much awesome that I don't know where to start! The Beastmen are GREAT! Now I have to try the same thing. Oh good. Another project. I really like the tech case you have, brilliant idea, compleyely organized, and such a space-saver! I'm going to look into something similar becasue that is a really good idea! The Thrall came out gross and scary and is the sort of thing I'd expect to see in a horror movie. Very well done. The "not a robot" gun is excellent... the.... the.... gaahhhhhh!!!!

Since I had a second turret,I bought a second chassis off ebay.
It is all prepped up to be welded.
I am using the plastic rod/plastic glue technique,however regular plastic glue is too thick and it would make a mess.
I am using Tenax 7r to weld the rods,Tenax has the consistancy of water but is strong as hell.

oh Wow! That is a cool technique! I have never seen that before. 1mm?

,020 plastic rod plastruct or evergreen both sell em,though in the middle of welding so to speak .015 rod might be a tad easier to work with.

Eisenhorn wrote:,020 plastic rod plastruct or evergreen both sell em,though in the middle of welding so to speak .015 rod might be a tad easier to work with.

lol, yeah I think I have a few

Here she is after the welding treatment.
I coated the rod in Tenax then used a brass rod cut at a 45 degree angle to push the weld pattern into the plastic rod..

That looks sooo much easier than putty or GS welding!

yes and no
It takes a little practice to get the feel of it,how long to leave the glue on for,(about a min then I add a second coat and start welding).
But done correctly I like this way best,it feels like part of the model,the techneque in gereral is a good way to hide slight gaps if a mistake was made building it.
It mainly takes patience like all things 40k

I'm more of a rivet-man myself, but likewise, patience is needed to rivet.

Who says I'm not a rivet man
I have a whole bags of tricks for that have no fear.
Wait til I show you how to make nuts and bolt fasteners !!!!
In the mean time I gave the model the primer and baseoat.
I used Alclad II Duraluminum it is a little bright than the steel.
The last two tanks,metal damage blends in a bit too much IMO.
I am hoping once weathered the brighter Duraluminum will turn out the right shade.



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I was also determined to finish this guy,before he gets lost in the armor shuffle.
Going to start on a new tank company,hopefully olive drab winter camo,trying new things and all that jazz.
Painting the guardsmen a Blood Pact just made more sense to me and better keeps the army uniform.
This MoFo is just so beserk he does'nt care from where the blood flows.

Those welds are really quite subtle but very cool and different, Liking that a lot

Looks good! I also have methods.

Hex rod/round rod or Grahnt line?

All styrene rod. You might be interested in my Necro terrain thread

Thats funny I never look at names only projects,I have been checking that thread out,very nice.
I always wanted to see more Pimpcromunda though,They're in Miami Bit$#
I wish I had room for terrain,always wanted the Trenches of Terra board.Then the top would come off to have a Space Hulk board underneath.

Here are probally the last two Blood Pact I make for a little bit.
The Second Leman Russ Hull and the Renegade Ogryn Bone'Ed









I just got all the AK Interactive weathering effects and I just got a new Tank Company.
I think I am making an Olive Drab Winter Camo force.
Not sure who its gonna be
Lucky 13's
Necromunda Crazy 8's
Merican First(Big Red One) leaning heavily toward since I already have the command squad figures.

Merican first!
The ogryn is sweet! Where did you get him?

Forge World chaos ogryn, and yes it looks fantastic

Was it limited edition? Because it is not on their site.

Yeah that was a GD only model.

They go for $80 these days on Ebay

Eisenhorn wrote:They go for $80 these days on Ebay

Dang.

my GF and I both bought last year's GD skaven model at GD. I don't plan on building them, not really into Skaven, but just to resell for that sort of profit

For the first time I took an Army so far shot.
Wow this army is starting to get big.
Blood Pact army so far
Mars Pattern Leman Russ Vanquisher
Leman Russ with Sponsons
Chimera Transport
Dark Mechanicus Enginseer
Armored Sentinel Squadron,leader is fully magnetized can take all options including open-top


Command Squad the World Eater is a Straken Stand-in and Grenadiers

The troops with penal legion Beastmen Squad

Ogryns with Enforcer/Commissar


Heavy Weapon Teams one of each kind with Thudd Gun

Looking awesome and very fluffy. You may have mentioned earlier, what ruleset are you using? FW renegades?

Where do you get the stuff for your bases?
The ruins are very characterful

Cites of death sprues,chunks of plaster,2 sizes of basing medium and course.
Treat the bases as models in thier own right,try to have a common theme.
For these bases there is jade rubble make from broken off plaster of paris.
Pour some plastic of paris in a shallow container,hit with a hammer viola instant heavy rubble.
Another trick to spruce up a base take .030 plastic rod and cut off into bolter shell sized bits,makes for spent shells.

Lovely work, and nice tips on the basing, thanks!

I WANT A ARMY LIKE YOURS.
Lovley work everywhere,
Keep it up
Peace

you need more infantry lol

Tell me about it,at least another squad to round out a proper 30 man platoon.
If rumors of FW model rules becoming mainstream are true,I,d like to scratchbuild a minotaur.
Also the third Leman Russ will be a stalk tank.

Wow, that is just ACE man! Your army Really shows off your talents well!

Wait, They sell COD sprues?
Finally what weathering powder do you use?

Great looking force all around.

I really like the scratch built sentry gun. The paint scheme turned out very well on that.

I would like know how you created the knee pads for the Sons of Sek squad? Are they GS or a particular bit? Are
they bits of plastic-card cut to shap?

Thanks,
Tom

I just buy a cites of death building usually the basticalla one,they're cheap enough like $25 and a box will last a while.
I use MIG powder,the Industrial city dirt is the one I use on the cityfight bases.
The kneepads are just a tiny blob of g/s shaped with the blade of my exacto.
The battered armor is by coating the armor in a light coat of plastic glue then poke it with the en of a paintbrush
If you get the enforcers they come with a small sprue with bits that fit on the hip that are very easy to make a one piece cast of.Great use for Instant Mold.

Cool! Thanks Eisenhorn. You have been a real inspiration for my chaos guard.

Eisenhorn wrote:Tell me about it,at least another squad to round out a proper 30 man platoon.
If rumors of FW model rules becoming mainstream are true,I,d like to scratchbuild a minotaur.
Also the third Leman Russ will be a stalk tank.

Stalk Tanks aren't really equal to Russes- they are armed with Multilasers and such so sentinels would be a better counts-as rules-wise for them.

Then the Deamon Tank from Gheron it is then

I loved that daemon-tank.

i like how Abnett portrays daemon engines: the tanks and ships acting like predators, and the titanic screaming their names over comm-channels. Epicness.

What model to base it off of though?
In my minds eye the tank was not very big,I have to reread that book to get a good decription.
Am I crazy for thinking a grot tank might make a good starting base?
I need to see how big a guard model is next to one.

Edit: Found this pic online

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner
That is the size I see it as,big but not big enough for crew.
Just have to find someone who is selling just one.

Thats a nice looking army!

Well, it was hidden under tall grass, so think more like a tank-hunter, large gun mounted in the chassis, no turret, low profile.

I love this army

dsteingass wrote:Well, it was hidden under tall grass, so think more like a tank-hunter, large gun mounted in the chassis, no turret, low profile.

indeed, perhaps something based on the Chimera chassis? with teeth and a cannon sticking directly out of the hull instead of on a turret?