ArbitorIan's FORCES OF CHAOS Mega-blog

This started out as a small repaint of my Noise Marines and has turned into a massive and sprawling Chaos thread. When I restarted this in Jan 2014, my plans were to strip and rebuild the army from scratch, getting rid of anything I don't want/need, to try out airbrushing and weathering as ways of increasing the speed of my painting and to get as many random models painted up and useable as possible, instead of sitting around in boxes. Since then the army has grown to hundreds of models and crazy conversions.

It can be configured in a load of different ways, and this blog covers:

- 40k Chaos Space Marines
- 40k Renegades & Heretics
- 30k Militia & Cults
- 30k Word Bearers (originally an allied force but now growing into a full army)
- Daemons!

In time, we'll have 30k Emperor's Children, 30k Mechanicum and Solar Auxilia in there too!



Contents

1 - Original Post, rebasing and dipping the old models, Daemon Prince conversion, Obliterators started
2 - Obliterators finished. End of Rebasing 2012. Start of NOISE MARINES Rhinos & Predators finished, Raptors, Sorcerers & Noise Marines finished.
3 - Terminators, Terminator Lord, Lucius, Havocs, Cultists, Bikers
4 - Dreadnoughts, Obliterators, Daemon Prince, Hell Blades / Drakes
5 - RENEGADES & HERETICSSpawn, Chaos Hounds, Cultist Champions, Beastmen, Cultist Heavy Weapon Teams
6 - Leman Russ Build, Artillery Build, Leman Russes Complete!
7 - Artillery Crew, Salamanders Build, All tanks complete, All renegade infantry complete, Massive photo post, Sentinels started.
8 - HERESY WORD BEARERS - Tacticals, Terminators and Deredeo built & completed
9 - Malcador Heavy Tanks, Mutant Rabble, Zardu Layak, Imperial Truth Event 2015, Chaos Knight, Sentinels, Khorne Berserkers, Artillery built
10 - Artillery & Rapiers, Gorgon Transport, Valdor Tank Hunter conversion, Thunderbolt, London 40k GT, Baneblade
11 - More Word Bearers! Zardu's Blade Slaves, Gal Vorbak, Assault Squad, Heavy Support Squad, Rapiers, Maxmini Jetbikes
12 - Renegade Stormlord, Word Bearers Breachers, Rhinos, Land Raiders and Spartans
13 - Renegade army shot, Leman Russ Tank Company complete, Hydra/Wyverns, Atlas Recovery Tank, Thunderer Siege Tanks, Deathstrike/Manticore

Models Painted





Paint Schemes Over Time

2014 Current Scheme - Pale Pink




2016 Word Bearers - Dark Red


Old schemes in the spoilers!


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They are what most chaos space marines should be like! Great work!

Really nice stuff, like them alot!

Looks really good! The Terminator Lord and Noise Marine with the banner are my favourites, nice conversion with Fabius too.
The pink is surprisingly subtle yet bright which I like and overall the look nice and 'gritty'; as Chaos Space Marines should!
The bases could do with some more love IMHO and maybe some more vibrant colours on the Noise Marines, but otherwise it's a really good job!
Love the old school figures btw (always liked the Havoc Champion and heavy bolter dude).

ORIGINAL POST

I've had this army for years, but never really taken good pics of them. I'm now updating them to match my Slaanesh Daemon army, with a complete rebase and some pretty intense washes to make them a bit grittier. I'm also reconverting some if the bits I'm not happy with and adding in a few bits I always wanted to do.The models are a mix of the 2ed metal and 3ed (sort of current) plastic CSMs, with plenty of the old mutation frame and bits from the old Slaanesh WHFB range and the Emperors Children box, back when you could order the bits you wanted from GW!

Terminator Lord - rebase and wash
Lord on Steed - rebase and wash
Sorcerer - rebase and wash
Daemon Prince - build, paint, wash
6 Terminators - rebase and wash
6 Noise Marines 1 - rebase and wash
6 Noise Marines 2 - rebase and wash
6 Noise Marines 3 - rebase and wash
6 Chaos Marines 1 - rebase and wash
6 Chaos Marines 2 - rebase and wash
12 Chaos Marines 3 - rebase and wash
6 Possessed - rebase and wash
6 Raptors - rebase and wash
Dreadnought - add new weapons, rebase and wash
Rhino - additional conversion and wash
Predator 1 - additional conversion and wash
Predator 2 - additional conversion and wash
3 Obliterators 1 - additional conversion, rebase and wash
3 Obliterators 2 - additional conversion, rebase and wash

Noise Marines & CSM






Lord and Terminators





Raptors





Havocs



Sorcerer

Norn King wrote:They are what most chaos space marines should be like! Great work!

Tortured-Robot wrote:

Really nice stuff, like them alot!

Thanks guys. It's amazing what a good dip in old, thickened Vallejo wash can do. Considering they looked like this before, it's a nice, simple update...

Just Dave wrote:Looks really good! The Terminator Lord and Noise Marine with the banner are my favourites, nice conversion with Fabius too.
The pink is surprisingly subtle yet bright which I like and overall the look nice and 'gritty'; as Chaos Space Marines should!
The bases could do with some more love IMHO and maybe some more vibrant colours on the Noise Marines, but otherwise it's a really good job!
Love the old school figures btw (always liked the Havoc Champion and heavy bolter dude).

Thanks Dave. The pink is the product of two touch-ups and refinements over about five years, so it's good that it still stands out. Originally, it was Tentacle Pink and Red Ink, then another Tentacle Pink highlighing update a few years later, and now the Vallejo Wash.

Regarding the bases, do you mean more touching up because they look a bit messy, or a more complex scheme? The simple scheme is mainly to keep them in line with my Daemons, but I could consider doing something more complex on some character models or fancy squads....

Love them, the only fault would be that the Lord's head is much too thin.

Noise Marine squad two...




The rest of the Terminators...

I like them. You got a nice 'genital flesh' tone on your pinks. The lord looks particularly phallic. Your color selections are gritty and Chaos-y, and you make it creepsome without being vulgar. Great work.

Jimsolo wrote:I like them. You got a nice 'genital flesh' tone on your pinks. The lord looks particularly phallic. Your color selections are gritty and Chaos-y, and you make it creepsome without being vulgar. Great work.

Thanks! Can't say I ever intended them to look too phallic but... you're right...

MOAR UPDATES

This is all the basic infantry completed. One squad of Chosen and the last squad of Noise Marines - these ones were going to be Havocs years ago but since you can't give them all Blastmasters any more I decided to use them as Sonic Blasters. Maybe the upcoming Chaos Codex will change that...!

Noise Marines




Chosen

And more! An alternative Chaos Lord on a Steed that I put together from bits once I found I had a spare Steed left over from my Daemon army.




And a Chaos Dreadnought I inherited from a friend about 15 years ago and went to town with. It's the base of an Epic Titan, with parts of the old metal Skeleton Chariot model as a hull. Just magnetised a couple of weapon options onto it, and hoping that the new Codex will allow me to put the Blastmaster back on...

Very old-school and cool, I'm loving the pinks.

Norn King wrote:They are what most chaos space marines should be like! Great work!

Agreed!!!!They look evil!

4oursword wrote:Very old-school and cool, I'm loving the pinks.

palehorse wrote:Agreed!!!!They look evil!

Thanks guys.

Here's a shot of everything completed so far - I now have to move onto the vehicles and obliterators, which need a bit of work. This one is zoomable in the gallery..

And finally, in time for a bit of gaming today, I've finished the three tanks. Two Predators and a Rhino.

The Rhino just got a bit of a wash and touch-up. No big changes from before. The tubes are made from crushed and cut copper piping - I used to use these as noise amps back in 3ed.




The Predator Destructor had it's noise amp added, in hope that these make a return, and then the dirge casters remouted onto the back of the chassis, and some general spikiness added. Need to clear up some wash pooling on this one...




And the Predator Annihilator had a whole new Lascannon assembly constructed, using one of the spiky halo things from the Chaos frame and some Leman Russ engine bits as the gun barrels.

So, I have been wanting a proper Daemon Prince for this army for ages, and there's ONE slot left in the carry case, so I thought I'd build one out of the contents of my Bitz Box. I based the model on some random bits of the old WHFB Azazel model I happened to have lying around - the body and the front leg. I have the head and one of the arms as well, but I'm not actually a big fan of the sculpt - and I wanted him to look a bit beefier and meaner - like a Space Marine.

After LOTS of rummaging, I came up with this.

Body/Front Leg - Azazel
Back Leg - Salvaged from a really old Daemon Prince.
Head - Ogre Irongut Helm with the face cut out and a GS 'fleshy maw' put in.
Left Arm - Eldar Avatar
Right Arm - Ogre arm with an Avatar sword




I need to thin out the Ogre arm a bit - it's a bit too large at the moment, and maybe find a large pauldron to complete the CSM look, but I think it's generally good. I'm going to give him big furry muscled shoulders so that I can have the option of magnetised wings, and (if I have the magnets to hold the weight) then I intend to use these old metal wings...



AND the newly painted CSM got their first game yesterday at the Overlords' event in Barking - battle report is at http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/431390.page

Well it seems like Slaanesh CSM aren't exactly capturing the minds of the Dakka Community at the moment, but I've started, and I'm almost finished, so onward we go!

Here are some Possessed marines I've rebased and washed. These had the heaviest wash of all - they look REALLY dirty (quite a bit dirtier than planned, actually). The bodies are the original Saurus Warriors from the old WHFB boxed set, with Mutation Frame arms and heads and Berserker legs..




I've also based the Daemon Prince. Round one of magnetisation was a bit of a failure - the magnets were in the wrong place, and there's no way they're going to hold those giant metal wings. So, like my Daemons army, I'm going to use Gargoyle wings. They're not as big, but look suitably evil and ripped...

Prince looks good so far. How many nipples are you gonna add to it?

Swordwind wrote:Prince looks good so far. How many nipples are you gonna add to it?

Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. I guess he DOES need some, but his chest is pretty covered.... :/

Witches nipples could be any place (Satan or in this case Slaanesh didn't mind where he suckled in old folklore). Part of me thought this would be a day-glo army like the Daemons most of me is glad a more sensible approach was taken.............Another part of me thinks
INSANITY IS CHAOS

Llamahead wrote:Witches nipples could be any place (Satan or in this case Slaanesh didn't mind where he suckled in old folklore). Part of me thought this would be a day-glo army like the Daemons most of me is glad a more sensible approach was taken.............Another part of me thinks
INSANITY IS CHAOS

Thanks - yup, I have yet to see what they look like with the Dayglo Daemons. With the new Chaos Codex, I think I might be able to use them on the same table again soon...!

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No nipples yet, but some more bits box fun on the Daemon Prince. I dug out some old Chaos Warrior arms and scraped the shoulder pads out, to use as basic armour.



I took some spikes from a Chaos Vehicle sprue and put one at the end of the sword and one on the shoulder plates. He also has a new 'back' to his robe, taken from an Ogre bit (I think).



And the whole of the shoulder arrangement sits on a greenstuffed 'mane' of fur, into which is inset the magnets for the wings. I put a rough dob of GS down and put in the magnets first, and then positioned them with the wings attached. Once the GS was dry, I then took off the wings (since now the magents were 'stuck') and did all the fur around them..

Good stuff.

Can't wait to see how those wings work out on the DP

DAEMON PRINCE! Hey presto. Painted in an evening in time for today's game - a Daemon Prince made entirely out of bits from my bitz box. I've started work on the Obliterators next.

Llamahead wrote:Part of me thought this would be a day-glo army like the Daemons most of me is glad a more sensible approach was taken.............

Even through all the grime, there's so much skin on this that he still looks pretty Dayglo...

Henners91 wrote:Can't wait to see how those wings work out on the DP

I like them, but can't help thinking they're a LITTLE bit too small. What do you think? I'm not that worried about it - the only other ones were those huge metal ones which he magnets wouldn't support, so while I could have pinned them in place, he wouldn't fit in my carry case any more...!








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Also started work on the Obliterators. They were built in a bit of a rush a few years ago, again from spare parts. This time I'm going to be doing quite a lot of bulking out with power cables and fuel lines. I'm off to borrow some of those rolly-cable-making-plates from Panic this afternoon. For now, I've started on some big, bulky power packs, and scraping the old basing off...





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The original batch of Oblits had these bulkier should pads, which I think look much better (and provide flat surfaces to attach cables to)



But the problem was, these were old Exo-Squat shoulders, and I only had one left. I've press-molded this in Insta-Mold, and I'm going to make six copies to use for the other batch of Obliterators.



I've also made three more backpacks..

Those are some unique Oblits there. Like the idea.

Swordwind wrote:Those are some unique Oblits there. Like the idea.

Thanks! I've been spending my evening making them even more unique. I borrowed some of these Tube Tools from Panic yesterday to make some power cables to bulk out the Oblits.



And here's the first guy - with Insta-Molded shoulder pads and a fair amount of extra cable....




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More fun with the Tube Tool - only one more Oblit to go..

yeah,
Nice work dude! some nice cable results..

You should make 9 obliterators and another Daemon Prince just so you can run the bastard list...


Panic...

Very cool pipe detail, The whole concept of the obliterators is very tight. Works well with the lithe and slender aspect of slaanesh

The obliterators are interesting. How eactly does the tube tool work?

Panic wrote:You should make 9 obliterators and another Daemon Prince just so you can run the bastard list...

For the next couple of months until they change the damn Codex? Nah, I can't fit them in the box anyway, and you know the rule - if it can't fit in the case, it's not in the army..

djdutton wrote:Very cool pipe detail, The whole concept of the obliterators is very tight. Works well with the lithe and slender aspect of slaanesh

Thanks!

Llamahead wrote:The obliterators are interesting. How eactly does the tube tool work?

It's a set of small plastic 'plates' with ridges set into them (see pic above). You roll out a thin tube of green stuff with your hands, and then roll it in between the plates, and the plates push the ridges into it. You get three 'pairs' of plates in the set, with three different sized ridges. Takes a bit of practice to get the hang of, but after that it's easy.

This movie explains it quite well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkT63r1-7QI

Three of the Obliterators are finished, and much bulkier and scarier...

And the second squad...




And both squads together - which completes the whole army! I'll try and get a full army shot at some point...

Those Oblits are utterly sick. I love them. Even the Space Crusade missile launcher looks good.

In fact, I love all of the rank and file in this army.

Do you think there is any chance of adding some of the cabling to the Rhino and Predator? I feel they need a little something extra.

Fifty wrote:Those Oblits are utterly sick. I love them. Even the Space Crusade missile launcher looks good.

In fact, I love all of the rank and file in this army.

Do you think there is any chance of adding some of the cabling to the Rhino and Predator? I feel they need a little something extra.

Thanks Fifty! I'll have a look at adding come cabling around the tube stacks. One of the issues with the tube tools is that the plates are only about 1.5" square - so making long tubes is quite difficult...

2014! COMPLETE REBUILD!!!

So, the quick rebase and wash got me through the last couple of years but those 2005 paint jobs are still bothering me, a couple of codexes have come and gone and the army needs a rejig.

So, I thought I'd go the whole hog and do a complete rebuild and paint!

- New pale purple colour scheme to be achieved quickly with AIRBRUSHING and WEATHERING! (My first attempt)
- Make all the sonic weapons consistent across the army (recasting the old ones where necessary)
- Change the RT Rhino and Predator models for some conversions using Ramshackle vehicles (the original Preds are going into a pre-Heresy Imperial army)
- Massive bunch of Cultists from Necromunda models
- Heldrake, Helbrutes, Helmaulerfiend and other Heldaemonengines

The first step in this is to disassemble and strip the whole army. This task is what has stopped me doing this sooner - I just can't be bothered. But a quick internet search turned up these guys - http://www.iwantapaintedarmy.co.uk/services/paint-stripping-service - who offer a paint stripping service for a pretty reasonable price. Thus, every troop model has been boxed up and sent to Gateshead! I imagine they'll take a few weeks to get back, so in the meantime I'll start with the big models and try and get my painting method sorted.

This is the sort of scheme I'm looking at - from rwzimmerman and magic8ball (spoilered as they're not MY photos).

I want the same purple base, but much paler, and dirtier. I'm planning to spray lavender, airbrush highlight REALLY pale lavender, paint some gold/silver areas, then oil wash and dirt wash and weather with dusty grey ground.

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Phase 1 - Rhino Vehicles

Since all the basic troops are off being stripped, I'm going to start with the Rhino chassis. The new vehicles will be based on four Ramshackle Iron Grumler models I've had lying around since they were £8 each about four years ago! They're gonna need a lot of work, but I think they'll look good as weathered early-mark Rhinos. This is the Ramshackle image...



Now, some big changes need to be made. First, the body needs to sit lower (level with the tracks) and the nose pushed back a bit. This should be easy - the Iron Grumbler comes as four main pieces.



The thing is, it's also a little large for a Rhino, too. Here's it next to one of my Arbites chassis.



And moving the nose back makes it much longer. So, I'm planning to take the engine section and chop off the turbine/vent section, leaving only the raised 'back' bit. If anything, this will make it a couple of mm too short, but much closer to Rhino size. The turbines will become some interesting terrain!



The other thing about Ramshackle stuff is that the separate blocks are designed as conversion parts, so they have detail on sides you never usually see. I'm going to sand down a lot of the detail work on the inside of the track sections and outside of this body section so the overall width decreases and the parts fit together better.



And finally, I have four of the Iron Grumlber kits. Two will be turned into Rhinos and two will be turned into Predators, using these old boxy 2ed Predator turrets - I think they'll look good on the battered frame.



Should start the sanding and chopping later this morning...!



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Spent all day on the Rhinos, starting with using a large rotational sander on all the parts to remove the rivets that aren't seen, and chopping off the engine blocks. After this, the basic four parts were put together with green stuff and glue and all the extras attached. The two Rhinos have side hatches and circular hatches on top. The two Predators have the turret plates.



I then went and Chaosified them - all have smoke launchers and the two Rhinos have the old IG spiky Searchlights. Then various chaos accessories were added to make them spikier..



And finally, I removed the 'noise tubes' from my two old RT Preadators and attached them to the new turret.



There's still a lot of filling left to go, which I hope I'll get done during the week - a lot of the hatches and exhaust bits just 'bolt on' leaving a lot of gaps, and there are still gaps between the body and the track sections. So, lots of Milliput to start filling with!!

This evening, I'm going to strip the paint from the other turret and construct the Predators' side sponsons.


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And at the end of the day - TWO PREDATORS!

I made the side lascannons out of some long Chaos muzzles and some exhausts from the Leman Russ kit. The rest of the metal parts are the old 2ed Predator.

Nice work with the Iron Grumblers. I like the Ramshackle stuff I use their models as trucks in my Ork army. Good luck with the strippers.

Having missed the thread entirely the first time round very much looking forward to seeing how stuff progresses. Especially so now I've seen those tanks, had no idea they existed till you posted em and I'm rather the instant fan of the models.

Llamahead wrote:Nice work with the Iron Grumblers. I like the Ramshackle stuff I use their models as trucks in my Ork army. Good luck with the strippers.

Thanks - yes, I'm not sure how long it will take for the stripping, but hopefully I'll get a nice shiny box of bits back in the next few weeks!

Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:Having missed the thread entirely the first time round very much looking forward to seeing how stuff progresses. Especially so now I've seen those tanks, had no idea they existed till you posted em and I'm rather the instant fan of the models.

Well, they can be found at http://ramshacklegames.co.uk along with lots of other things. I'm a big fan of these not-Rhinos - they look a bit like the oversized Heresy-era prototypes from the Visions of Heresy books.

I'd be aware, though, that they need a fair amount of work to get up to scratch - the resin is smelly, heavy and quite brittle and there are a lot of bumps, bubbles, etc. Not nearly as easy to work with as FW or Finecast resin!

MOAR WORK DONE!

I've finally got around to filling the vehicles - Milliput in all the cracks to make them look a bit better...



I've also drilled and added a flat magnetisation point to the back corner of the hull on every vehicle, for upgrades



And then built the first batch! Three Havoc Launchers and two Dirge Casters. The Havoc Launchers are built from IG Searchlight backs, some plastic tubing, some plasticard riveted sheeting and a variety of different missiles from the bits box...



Here's how they look on the vehicles

Massive gap while I was away for work and ordering LOTS of new toys and modelling supplies.

I've had my first ever go at airbrushing! I'm really getting to like my new airbrush setup after this - spray painted the tanks the base pink colour and then mixed up a paler shade for highlights and here's the progress so far.

(My good camera is at work so apologies for the dodgy-colour-balanced iPhone photos!)





I also sprayed the tracks and dozers silver, and I've started on the rest of the base colours - mostly silver and gold. Then I'm going to town on the weathering.

The airbrush makes things REALLY fast. I like this.

Congrats on the first airbrush experience! Will definitely need some more photos with colour balance when you can get em as it's hard to tell they're even pink in some of them

Looks like the colours went on nice and smooth though, airbrushing base coats does indeed make things really fast, and smoother, and easier to blend, I could go on about how much I love it too.

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
Congrats on the first airbrush experience! Will definitely need some more photos with colour balance when you can get em as it's hard to tell they're even pink in some of them

Looks like the colours went on nice and smooth though, airbrushing base coats does indeed make things really fast, and smoother, and easier to blend, I could go on about how much I love it too.

Thanks - yes, I'll get some better photos when I'm back in the country. The first image is closest to the real colour. The actual base layer is spray painted, and then I used the airbrush for panel highlighting and grading, which I've never tried before, and then to very quickly mask off and paint the tracks.

I've got a week off and I've been busy!

I've been away for a few weeks, during which time my minis arrived back from the stripper. He didn't charge me for most of the plastics as he said he was having a really hard time stripping them and once I got them back I could see why - not sure what method he was using but he seems to have been scraping the paint away? Seem like a terrible way to do it. Anyway, the majority of plastic were still paint covered, but all the expensive OOP metal parts came up really well.

So, I've taken all these bits and assembled the first part of the infantry, which will comprise..

24 x Noise Marines
12 x Raptors
2 x Sorcerers
1 x Jump Pack Lord
6 x Warp Talons



The bodies are mostly standard Chaos Marines or Berserkers (with the Khorne symbols taken off). This is the pile of arms, shoulder pads, heads and parts that need to be painted - OOP GW Noise marines of all eras, resin parts from Maxmini and Kromlech, all sorts.



I've also got Maxmini Jump Packs for the Raptors and Lord



The Lord himself is a conversion from an old Raptor Lord with various Slaanesh bits. I couldn't decide what to give him, so I magnetised one arms and made sword, claw and fist options.



The two Sorcerers are the old 2ed models



And the Warp Talons I'm not so sure about. I was gonna make them almost possessed with Gargoyle wings, but now I've actually done them, I think I prefer the jump pack look - the wings just look a bit silly. Might remove these and order more jump packs..



I then started CASTING! I want to use the 2ed-era Sonic weapons for all the Noise Marines. When I originally built this army, the GW Bitz service was still running and I ordered 12, which I still have, and then I filled in any Noise Marines built since with the newer weapons. The old ones are pretty hard to find now, especially as bits, so I've been recasting them to make up the numbers (along with the matching old Noise Marine backpack).



Here's an early attempt - lord of flash, but I think I can make it work...



More progress as the week goes on!

Assembly finished and I have the entire first batch ready for spraypainting.



The weapon arms for the Warp Talons



Noise Marine backpack casts



Icons from an old Chaos Warrior set

I love those old 2nd Ed Noisemarines bits! I'd have so many more if I could get my hands on them for a reasonable price.

And I really like your idea of using Daemonettes claws on the warp talons. I think you should stay with the wings on them.

Hmmm, tastes of chaos...yummy.

Like what you've done with the ramshackle grumblers, those really do have the feel of early marks

I like the gargoyle wings on the warp talons, the 'natural' winged look feels more Slaaneshi than jet packs to me.

I'm working on some Emperor's Children at the moment, too. Those old school metal noise marines are amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress on them.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Hmmm, tastes of chaos...yummy.

Like what you've done with the ramshackle grumblers, those really do have the feel of early marks

Thanks! I finished them the other day and was so pleased with my first weathering/airbrushing attempts that I made a Showcase thread. I might go back and dirty up the decals a bit more, though..


Predator 1




Predator 2



Rhino 1




Rhino 2




Upgrades

Those do look very nice indeed, some lovely weathering there, good job!

But, yeah, think you need to touch up the decals a bit, they seem to really stand out at present.

OKAY. Progress since last time - I've gone through and done all the base colours on the whole first Infantry batch. Here they are, no backpacks, base colours done



And the Lord, Sorcerers and Warp Talons, this time with quite a lot of airbrushing on the cloaks and talons - not looking that obvious in these rough photos.



And here's the whole batch awaiting backpacks and weathering/washing.



Speaking of which, I've decided to recast the old Slaanesh Lord backpack to use as Doom Sirens. Here's the casts, and the backpacks I need to paint next!!



I finally picked up the last five Maxmini Jump Packs for the Warp Talons at Salute this weekend (yes, going for Jump Packs instead of Wings I think).

I also had a bit of 'cool chemicals day' - there are so many small resellers at Salute that you can just browse all the weird and wonderful modelling product for ages. Here's my haul...



- 4 weathering powders from ProPigments - some of the military modelling guys sent me over to them when I was asking about powders - apparently a lot of them had switched over to ProPigments from MIG.
- 2 simple acrylic primers from Miniature Painter - cheap at £1.50 each, and always useful. I'll probably thin these down for airbrushing and put them in bigger dropper bottles.
- 4 weathering dyes from Modelmates - I have one of their pots and one of their sprays already. They're water soluble dye that works a bit like an oil wash, but is water-based - after it's dry, you can pull it around with a wet cotton bud. They also do spray cans of this stuff.
- 1 Modelmates Verdigris - this is another dye, but formulated thicker so that it paints straight onto opaque surfaces.
- 6 Vallejo bits - someone was selling Model Colour paints at 6 for £10, but the rack included all the technical stuff too - I'm not sure if those were meant to be on offer! Anyway, I got three washes, some Plastic Putty, Metallic Medium and Liquid Mask.

I also picked up some cheap MDF city terrain and some Maxmini GravPistols - successful trip!

yeah,
Looks great mate.

What mdf terrain?

PAnic...

Started the second batch of infantry!!



I finished the first batch and even got a game in with Panic - battle report up soon - but noticed a few tweaks and details I wanted to paint differently before photographing them properly, so I'll get them online in a few days.

In the meantime, I started the second batch, consisting of..

- 3 differently armed champions for Noise Marines and Raptors
- 1 spare Noise Marine, so I can combine units
- 7 Chaos Terminators and a Terminator Lord
- 12 Havocs with 6 Missile Launchers (or a small CSM squad)
- Lucius conversion.

Here's Lucius, made from the front of a DV Chosen I had lying around, an old Chaos Warrior whip, Slaanesh power sword, and a GS cloak. He'll have a head from the old mutations sprue.




Chaos Terminators made from the old metals. Abbadon has been converted into the unit champion with some old Chaos Warrior bits. I don't like trophy racks, so all the slots were filled with milliput.



I think this is the old Chaos Terminator Sorcerer (??), made into my Lord by stealing Drach'nyen from Abbadon.



All the gun arms are magnetised, including these combi-plasmas made from old plastic plasma pistols.



I made 12 regular Chaos Marines - 2 Champions, 4 Bolters and 6 with missile launchers. I can field them as either 2 x 6 Havocs with 3 ML each, One smaller squad of Havocs, or a cheap CSM unit. I wanted them all to have the old Missile Launcher, so recast the weapon and the corresponding backpack..



And finally, additional unit champions. Raptor champion with a power sword (to use up my last jump pack), so that I can split my 12 Raptors into 2 squads. Two Noise Marine Champions, one with a power fist and doom siren, and one with a combi-plasma.

Yeah,
Looking good. will try and get the battle report photos online tonight.

The recast missile pack looks great, but you'll need to GS the missile warheads.
I still think you should think about getting some of the FW hersey autocanons.

Panic...

 Panic wrote:
Yeah,
Looking good. will try and get the battle report photos online tonight.

The recast missile pack looks great, but you'll need to GS the missile warheads.
I still think you should think about getting some of the FW hersey autocanons.

Panic...

Actually, I reckon those auto cannons might be more fun in the Iron Hands army I've been planning for ever! Maybe I could get some anyway, though I'm in danger of just having a million heavy support options and nothing else!

Meant to ask you if you have any spare regular boring chos marine heads? I've run out!

Yeah, I'm going to have to go over a lot of the missiles - the missile luncher pieces came out really well, but the front of the missiles were often lost. Looks like I'm gonna have an afternoon of rolling green stuff into little cones...

Yeah,
Your still doing the iron hands? fYi Dark sphere have a few copies of Clan Raukaan. £24.

Panic...

Nice looking army really like the Lord

Finally got around to taking photos of the first batch.

Chaos Lord


Sorcerers



Warp Talons



Noise Marines Squad 1



Noise Marines Squad 2





Noise Marines Squad 3




Raptors

So cool.

Those Rhinos look great and very chaotic. Screams that they've been at war for thousands of years (Warp relative of course!).

The muted pink was an excellent choice. I feel your colour scheme and modelling has really brought all your bits together incredibly well.

Neo-Retro Noise Marines a go go!

Don't see Slanesh armies very often. Subbed!

 Medium of Death wrote:
So cool.

Those Rhinos look great and very chaotic. Screams that they've been at war for thousands of years (Warp relative of course!).

The muted pink was an excellent choice. I feel your colour scheme and modelling has really brought all your bits together incredibly well.

Neo-Retro Noise Marines a go go!

Thanks! I'm much happier with this scheme. As I've got better at painting over the years, paler armies have become the norm. Certianly when I painted this army the first time around, I wasn't aware of things like washes, and so having most of the model black was an easy way of getting them painted quickly. The weathering also really helps hide all the different bits and influences, as you say (and the fact that there are some dodgy recasts in there!!)

Updates! I've finished painting and sponge weathering the second batch. All that remains is the oil wash and the bases! Here they are all shiny and glossy ready for their oil bath...

Champions


Havocs


Lucius


Terminators

That's quite a bit of progress! Looking great!

Thanks! Here's even more progress - this batch is FINISHED!

So, we have the Terminator Lord - who can also stand in for Abaddon if needed.



And the Terminators - they all have magnetised right arms, except the Champion (converted from the real Abaddon model).






And here are the magnetised weapon options. Combi plasmas are converted from the Berserker plasma pistol.



Lucius, converted from a DV Chosen, Noise Marine Doom Siren and sword, an old Chaos Warrior whip arm, a mutation sprue head, and plenty of green stuff!





Then, back to the regular infantry. Using up some spare parts, I made an extra Noise Marine Champion and Raptor Champion




And then two squads of Havocs, each with three Missile Launchers. These can also be used as regular Chaos Marines if I needs a small squad.






And the Havoc Champions, with heads from the same Kromlech sprue as the Warp Talons

Wow... just wow!

And here's the whole army completed so far...

Looking great

The weathered pale pink is indeed an excellent choice. Nice to see a lot of love for the old-skool minis too!

Really going well

Thanks guys. I'm away for a few weeks now for work so I thought I'd get something tedious done while I'm there - something I can do for an hour every morning in the hotel room.

Soooo. CHAOS CULTISTS! 45 Cultists, stripped by the stripping service who did the rest of the army, assembled and based and ready for spraying. I want to get them sprayed pink and airbrush highlighted before I go, so that I can do all the brush work while I'm away.



Most are Necromunda Cawdor or Redemptionists




And these guys were Tallarns who had their heads cut off ages ago. I replaced them with Miniatures of the North cultist heads from Anvil Industry.




This is the first batch of regular guys. The intention is that this becomes a separate Guard / R&H army but I'll wait until FW update their list before doing all the special guys as a separate batch...

Stripping service??

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Stripping service??

Not THAT sort of service...

I sent all the minis originally to these guys - http://www.iwantapaintedarmy.co.uk/services/paint-stripping-service - who offer to strip the paint so you don't have to!

It turned out reasonably well - all the metals seem to have been chemical stripped and came back clean and shiny with paint, glue and GS all removed. I'm not sure what they attempted with the plastics, though. It looked like they were trying to scrape the paint off (!!), and in the end it took so long that I said just to stop and send them back. They only charged me for the metals.

I'm considering sending them an email telling them about the marvellous properties of Dettol, but SURELY they must have heard of this before...? Anyway, all the cultists are nice and clean, and any plastics I actually needed I just Dettoled myself...

Hmmm... interesting. Talk about a niche business!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Hmmm... interesting. Talk about a niche business!

Well, they're a painting service as well, so I guess this is just a little extra service. I'm not sure they were expecting me to send an entire army, though!

Gah, so work took over as always and I finally managed to get some geeing in last night. While away I got all the base colours on my cultists painted, and last night I did the shading.

I'm liking the oil wash method more and more - I've used it on this whole army and it makes shading and highlighting much easier since there's no need to go over and re-highlight each colour after the wash is put down. On these, removing the dried wash from the robes returns them to their natural pink and makes them stand out against all the other muted colours...

Basing and sealing still to go..





And I also got started on the Bike squad - assembled from various bits of Chaos and regular bikes.

Very nice... those cultists look great!

Chaos Cultists Complete!!

Or at least the main batch of 45 cultists, armed with various weapons, finally done after languishing in boxes for years. Some of them, in fact, were languishing with the very generous Mr. Notprop for years, who donated me the Redemptionists during a Necromunda league last year!

Cultists! (Redemptionists)




More Cultists!! (Cawdor)



Even More Cultists!!! (Converted from Tallarns & MOTN Heads)



And a sample mob!

Nice to see these great models returning to action the pale pink and muted tones works well on them

The cultist mobs look great, the muted tones work really well. Nice head swaps with the tallarn, they fit in perfectly wth the rest.

Thanks everyone!

My bikers have seen a bit of progress. All base colours done now, and ready for a bit of washing and weathering.

There are six, including one Champion with a Power Lance. Two of them have magnetic arms with options for an Icon, a Meltagun, and an additional power weapon (in case I want to use the Lance guy as a Lord).

After these are done, it's time to start on my Helfist Murderpack - I have five old Chaos Dreads soaking in Dettol as I type..

Love those cultist models! Great paint job on them too!

yeah,
The cultists are looking great, what are MOTN heads?

Panic...

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
The cultists are looking great, what are MOTN heads?

Panic...

Miniatures of The North make resin cultists, chaos dwarves and greatcoat troopers, and are distributed by Anvil Industry. http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=98

The bits section of the site sells 'Hooded Heads' - 2.50 for 6 - http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&filter_name=cultist+heads&product_id=191

Oh please tell me you mean the original RT chaos dreads, when you say you have them soaking. That would be awesome!

 monkeytroll wrote:
Oh please tell me you mean the original RT chaos dreads, when you say you have them soaking. That would be awesome!

Noo, unfortunately not. They're the 2ed solid metal dreads. Four of them and a fifth converted from various parts as the champion...

BIKERS DONE

Champion with Power Lance




Bikers



Meltagun Biker (can be swapped to an axe if he's being the Champion)



Biker Squad

Very gritty Ian... nice.

Nice job on the bikers. Like the use of the shield, that's given me some ideas

Shame about the dreads, but I thought that would be a bit much to hope for

Are you keeping the flail arms on the dreads - that was always the thing that put me off the 2ed ones.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Shame about the dreads, but I thought that would be a bit much to hope for Are you keeping the flail arms on the dreads - that was always the thing that put me off the 2ed ones.

WELL, I'm planning to magnetise everything, but I've actually come up with a little dread problem.

I wanted FIVE Helbrutes, so I can take a Murderpack. In a Murderpack, one of the Hellbrutes is a Champion. I had already won from an eBay auction a terribly converted plastic SM dread and I had two metal Chaos Dreads, so I bought two more, thinking that the plastic one could have some better conversion work and then made into the Champion.

So, here are the four metal 'not-Champion' dreads, semi-assembled. The gun arms will be magnetised, and the actual CCW on the other are will be magnetised.



The problem is, it turns out that those Chaos Dreads are a fair bit bigger than my 'Champion' conversion!!!



He looks a bit weedy next to four of them!

So, what do I do?

- Buy another metal dread and shelf this project until he arrives. They're quite cheap on eBay.
- Carry on with this guy and attempt to make him look bigger? This was my original idea, but I reckon it might just be too much a size difference for a bit of GS to fix.
- Just stick with 4. I have to Decimators on order, I could always use one of them as the Champion (though they are seriously MUCH bigger)

Yeah,
I thnk keep going! The murder pack is looking great.
That old model looks great in a pack! Although have you concidered head swaps?

Use the plastic dredd as the base layer on segregated armour like the metal ones.
Pick a awesome torso and use he cable tool to go mad and wire that sucker in there!

If that doesn't work you can always fall back on eBay and buy another...

Panic...

He's an inch shorter than everyone else!!!

I think you should carry on with the conversion and just try to add an inch to him, the area between the feet and metal supports looks rife for it. Maybe even something as simple as washers or spacers?

Love the rest of the army too.

If you put some washers between feet and legs and bulk up the shin pad (maybe swap the feet out for a pair of the chao ones?), and add a bit of height between pevis and torso it'll bring him nearer in height without having to chop up the legs. A champion doesn't have to be bigger, just cooler

And as panic suggests, you could use some plasticard to build a second layer on the torso to get a similar segmented look to the armour. That'll add a bit more.

Ok, thanks for the suggestions. I could really be bothered with all the plasticarding, especially when I had so many bits lying around, so I went to town with spare parts (and the Forgeplanet Cable Maker!).

Here he is!


And standing tall


So, those are the legs from my OLD Dread conversion, who is soon to become a Forgefiend. Originally they were from an EPIC Warlord titan. I also gave him quite a big boost at the ankles, covered up with the cabling.



The gap at the top was filled over by these spare armoured plates I had from the Ramshackle Rhino conversions.



And I used a regular Chaos Dread power plant, which means I'm gonna have to recast one to make up the numbers. Speaking of which, I've already started on the arms.

MOAR ARMS!

Casting Day! Replicating the housings from the original dreads to finish the champion and make more weapon arms.

So, magnetising these buggers has been a NIGHTMARE, taking me all week on and off.

So, I started by magnetising the main bodies - they have a point on the CCW arm, a point on the plug for the main weapon arm, and a point on the hull for upgrades. Annoyingly, the addition of the magnet cause the plug to be too long, so I had to go back and do them all again!





Here's the champion again, this time with a proper left arm.



And then, the weapons. Here they all are. I recast the Autocannon arm to use as a base for all my weapon additions. I also used some old SM Dreadnought arms, as I have no other use for them.



Everything has it's socket widened and a magnet inside.



And the close combat weapons have a point for affixing to the left arms. At some point I want to do some mini-missile launchers and some Thunder Hammers, but I'm not sure how yet.



The Lascannons are 1ed Land Raider bases with chaos nozzles.



And these fethers were what took me so long. Close combat right arms using some old metal Kan arms donated by Panic. I should have done them all like the ones on the left, because the ones on the right were an absolute nightmare to get balanced and sitting correctly - I must have pulled them apart four or five times and re-greenstuffed them...!




RIGHT. Off to be sprayed pink.

yeah,
Looking awesome!

I have a dremel bit that's perfect for that size of magnets if you wanna embed those?

Gonna be doing my overlords dredds arms too.

Panic...

DREMEL bit? This is with a 9mm drill bit, with a bloody great drill! Big magnets.

They're all embedded except the CCW ones, which don't really need it...

Yeah,
Cool cool, we can have a mega magnatized walker battle soon!
I gotta get a morkaKan!


Panic!!!!

You've got a stompa, right? I'll need to get my decimator knight built!!

OK, I'm away again for work, but I've taken a little box of toys so I can make some progress. Once I get back I'll only have a couple of weeks until NOVA, and I have whole Heldrakes to cast/convert/build.

So, I've started on some Spawn, converted from some Mantic Trolls and Ogres that I got free in their KoW Kickstarter. They look suitably gribbly, and I like that they have plates of armour still riveted to them. Very basic at the moment, I'll get some extra GS muscle sculpted this week to cover the joins.





And I've also started updating the Obliterators - some Maxmini shoulder pads and Anvil Industry heads and backpacks to make them look a bit less messy and more intentional. More cabling to go on later in the week.

Looking great are the trolls proper plastic or restic and how bad are they to work with?

 Llamahead wrote:
Looking great are the trolls proper plastic or restic and how bad are they to work with?

They're restic but they seem fine. No more mold lines than a plastic model and the odd tag like you get on a FW model. The only annoying thing I've noticed is that the restic is a lot harder to cut than either plastic or resin, making the conversion or prep work a bit more annoying.

Useful to know

So, back from work and I have two weeks before I leave for California, followed by the NOVA open. Here's the list I'm planning on taking...

CAD - Crimson Slaughter
- Belakor [350]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 12 Cultists [58]
- 2 Obliterators, MoN [152]
- 2 Obliterators, MoN [152]
- 1 Obliterators, MoN [76]
- Heldrake (Baleflamer) [170]
- Heldrake (Baleflamer) [170]

Formation - Hellfist Murderpack
- Helbrute Champion (Multimelta, Power Scourge) [110]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Powerfist, Hvy Flamer) [115]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Powerfist, Hvy Flamer) [115]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Powerfist) [100]
- Helbrute (Multimelta, Thunder Hammer) [105]

Total : 1847

So, I need to get a few things painted and I've been having an assembling day to get started.

I need more cultists. All my guys have pretty random weapons (shotguns, rifles, pistols, axes, exterminators, etc), so I'm probably ok to just say 'these are all pistols', but I'm going to have to leave the obvious heavies at home, so I've assembled ten more random guys from various places. A last few Redemptionists, a DV Cultist, some WHFB Beastmen and Flagellants. Anything in a robe, really!




The Obliterators are all assembled!





I need a couple of extra weapons for the Dreads - a Thunder Hammer and more Multimeltas!



And finally, I got two Hell Blades that I've been meaning to convert into Heldrakes, so cast up their pointy bits to use as extra wings and bulk them out a bit!




A few hours later....

OKAY. I've spent all day on these guys and I have massive amounts of complicated progress to show. Here goes.

I started by filling the cockpit area with a aluminium-laced modelling putty from Sylmasta. I'm going to paint the 'glass' sinister green like all the other lenses in the army. The thin resin that is inside the window frames needs a bit of support to not just break at the first sign of a breeze.




But most importantly, this is a pre-flying-stand model and has nowhere good on the underside to put a massive cross-shaped flight stand. So, I'm going to drill a bit hole and mount it on a length of plastic rod, but I need quite a deep hole, which the putty will provide. PLUS, the centre of balance is quite odd, and the metallic putty will add more weight directly above the rod.



I cut down a length of 10mm plastic rod to test.




Fast forward a few hours, and I've bent, cleaned up and assembled the rest of the bits. The tails needed to be bent into shape, but the rest went together really easily.



I built three magnets into each of the wing recesses, which will be where the additional cast Heldrake wings sit. I smoothed over the area with Milliput afterwards. The mechanisms for these additional wings are made from some old Leman Russ wheels.




I placed magnets on the underside so that I can switch between Autocannons or a Baleflamer. I had to scrape off the little mounting bars to the outside and mount the weapons wider than usual to accommodate my massive pole (hee!!).




I then made two big flamers out of some old FW Heavy Flamers and Sentinel flamer tanks.




And finally, drilled through the bases and mounted the plastic rod inside and tested with a fully built Helblade.




Only the additional Heldrake wings to do next!!

More progress on the Hellblades. Here's a dry fit of the wing assemblies.




In the end, I needed the three magnets and some long pins to keep them in place and secure.



And, after some Milliput work to seal gaps, here they are sprayed pink!






Returns and extra borders were made from Milliput to fill the gaps, and massive cables added to make it feel a bit more detailed. Turns out cable-making is a lot easier in Milliput than in Green Stuff.

Nice work on the 'drakes, that's a pretty cool design

yeah,
The Drake-Blades look great!
Very nice.

Panic...

Getting there! I've got today to get these finished for the HATE Club Killzone Escalation tournament tomorrow (and then the NOVA Open - I leave for a holiday around the US on Tuesday).

Here are the Hellblades - painted, glossed, oil washed and I'm just going around removing the excess wash.


Dreads have been painted and washed and are now just awaiting matt varnishing.



And the Oblits are almost base coloured, ready for weathering.

Those Hellblades looks amazing I wish the actual Heldrake kit looked like that.

Ok, getting there...

HELBRUTES DONE (for now) - Five dreadnoughts, mutlimeltas and powerfists, one thunder hammer, Champion with power scourge and power fist.

All looking great!

Are the dreads going with you to NOVA? That's going to eat into your luggae allowance if so.....

 monkeytroll wrote:
All looking great!

Are the dreads going with you to NOVA? That's going to eat into your luggae allowance if so.....

Yeah, that and the 50 metal Necromunda cultists!! :/

Beautiful conversions. Especially on those fliers.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Beautiful conversions. Especially on those fliers.

Thanks! They're on their way as soon as it's daylight - they won't fit in my lightbox!!!

In the meantime... OBLITERATORS!

So, the tournament went well. I'll do a proper report at some point, but for now, here are some photos of the army in action!









I realised I was missing a few Cultists and that my Daemon Prince (not yet updated to the new scheme) really stuck out, so I did some last minute painting last night!



The Daemon Prince has had some much larger wings added and pinned in place, and a complete repaint.





I'm leaving for the US this afternoon. Bay Area for this week and then DC in the middle of next week for the NOVA Open! All packed and fitting into my carry-on bag..

Awesome plog, ArbitorIan! I really wish I was going to be at Nova this year to see it and you in-person. It's literally in my backyard, but I'm out of town... take lots of pics for us of your experience

yeah,
Good Luck - Kick Ass!

Panic...

*DREADGASM*

One hell of a project dude, I can't imagine a total army repaint, but it makes for good reading (and a great 'final' project)

(Good call on the DP repaint, I was just about to call you out on that after the tournament report )

- Salvage

5 dreads against one little jet-packer?

Last minute changes look good, have fun!

Fantastic looking stuff on the tabletop Ian!

Long time no update!

So, I went to NOVA and lost five of my six games! Go Dreadnoughts! You can read the full report here but it isn't pretty - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/613694.page





In addition, I finally got around to taking some photos of the Hell Blades. They wouldn't fit in my lightbox so I had to improvise with paper.

Great job on those hellblades AI. Really nice!

Sorry to hear the heavy metal all got trampled - hope you still had a lot of fun though.

The hellblades look very nice, great job there. Good choice on the cockpit glass colour too, wouldn't have thought of that but it does work really well against the pastel pink.

I thought that army on the frontline battle report looked ruddy familiar, big bonus on using the hellblades for drakes is that the hellblades just got rather good (looking at IA13 right now) for when you don't want the extra blades on. One of these days I'll have to drag myself to one of those tournaments I always get a little jealous looking at the reports after.

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
I thought that army on the frontline battle report looked ruddy familiar, big bonus on using the hellblades for drakes is that the hellblades just got rather good (looking at IA13 right now) for when you don't want the extra blades on. One of these days I'll have to drag myself to one of those tournaments I always get a little jealous looking at the reports after.

Yes! That was one of their first outings!

And double yes - I got the new IA13 book at WHFest and they've become quite good. Just a simple change that suddenly makes them worth their points. Still fragile, but 6 S7 AP4 TL Rending shots is pretty good...

So, the next batch is in-progress. I've got a bit of green stuffing to do, and then out with the pink...

Finally finished the Spawn, made from various bits. They need some GS to blend in the various parts.



And they've got some Chaos Hound buddies. The one at the back is a Bones mini. Useable as more spawn or combat familiars until I get my Ogryn Brutes up and running.



Speaking of Renegades, here are the parts for their Heavy Weapon Teams. Six auto cannon, three lascannon and three mortars. Some of the wheels had to be recast to make up numbers.



I converted some kneeling gunners for the mortars and lascannons, using Highlander legs.



And recast some gunner bodies for the auto cannons



And then made some more random guys from anything with a cloak, including a couple of loaders.




I then drilled 26mm holes in all the 60mm bases.



These cheap MDF bases are slightly smaller, and will fit inside the plastic ones.



Which means that I can make the loaders removable!!



Now to GS and then to spray...

cool on the removable loaders, I'd been intending to try that myself at some point, glad to see the nice execution.

I'm late, but love the look of the army you took to Nova! Do Chaos get to put their dreads in drop pods? Seems to make SM dreads way more viable (imo).

 RiTides wrote:
I'm late, but love the look of the army you took to Nova! Do Chaos get to put their dreads in drop pods? Seems to make SM dreads way more viable (imo).

They get Dreadclaws now, which are good, but pricey at 100-ish points!

----

MORE STUFF DONE - I used the Hounds, Beastmen and Spawn as attempts to paint skin tones using only the airbrush and oil wash - no real brushes involved. I'm trying to figure out the recipe for my daemonettes, and I don't think I've got there yet. The spawn are closest but still too dark, and the beast men/hounds I think suffer from a lack of differentiation in the colours used on them.

But yes, all done! Next!

Chaos Hounds




Beastmen, for use as Cultist characters and champions




Chaos Spawn, converted mostly from Mantic Ogres and Trolls with various other mutation bits thrown in

I think what I love most about you armies is the way you re-purpose all these old miniatures and end up with a unique army full of character.

Bravo Sir, BRAVO!

 Regnak wrote:
I think what I love most about you armies is the way you re-purpose all these old miniatures and end up with a unique army full of character.

Bravo Sir, BRAVO!

Thanks! I think, with this army, the point was very much to use up all the old random models I had lying around, and not just buy a load of new ones.

I've still ended up buying cool new toys ANYWAY, but it's kinda working out....

Tried out the new Spawn and Dogs against Panic's Greencrons at the weekend. Dogs helped by being Spell Familars..

And more Cultists finally finished! The Renegades section of the army is growing by the day...

First up, some leaders and a Rogue Psyker



Then, some loaders for the Heavy Weapon Teams. These are made from Empire Flagellants and MotN heads.



Then, the Heavy Weapon Teams! I have three Lascannons, three Mortars and six Autocannon Teams in total. Here's the first Lascannon, and how it looks with the loader removed.





And the whole Lascannon squad.


And then some Mortars




And some Autocannons

Those are excellent... truly.

Next stage has begun. The Cultists need a ride, so I've started construction on the Renegade Chimeras from a load of old models, bits and plasticard.




The lasguns ports are filled in with black card - I don't like the pokey Lasguns sticking out.


The front hull weapons are magnetised (some bits taken from my old Suicide Legion vehicles), so I can swap in Heavy Flamers if I want - might be useful on BS2 renegade tanks!



Some Chaosification was achieved using these old Terminator trophy racks on the turrets.



And I had to reconstruct the underside of some of the turrets. I'll aim to have a selection of different turret pieces.



I've also rescued these side skirts from an old project




Which will attach to these rails on the sides of the tanks, made from bits of sprue.

Nobody is responding, but I BUILT MORE STUFF ANYWAY!!!!

Hellhounds! I was inspired by this conversion, but I'm not as good with plasticard and rivets.



So, built my own version using spare hull weapon mounts from the Leman Russ kit, and the back of the 'turret' section bulked out with the Chimera side boxes I didn't use.





Added some Chaossy chains to the sides using jewellery chain and flagellant weapons.



And also built another four Chimera turrets. Two heavy flamers, one auto cannon and one massive twin-linked Heavy Bolter for my command tank (using the old Hellhound turret bits.



Now, off to find some sandpaper...

Great work, nice to see some 2nd Edition and Necromunda fugures getting some love

Nice variety in those chimera turrets.

They are looking good so far, I think they will really shine once they are painted.

yeah,
Dude they look great but I'm calling it your modelling for disadvantage!
HellHounds should have 360 fire!

I have the rear metal fuel tank parts for another hell hound if you want them?

Have you thought about the FW ones?


Panic...

Ooh maybe on the third Hellhound. I might have to see what Chimera bits I have left after all the Basilisks! Three Basilisks, a Medusa and a Griffon to go, and then I'll build the rest out of whatever is left over!

I have two of the fancy FW ones but they're getting wheels attached for the Arbites

Yeah,
Lol crowd control in the grim dark doesn't involve water!

Panic...

 Panic wrote:
Yeah,
Lol crowd control in the grim dark doesn't involve water!

Panic...

cleanse with fire, they are really Sisters at heart.

I don't know....I think there's always a place for tesla coils and water in a riot control situation....

Great work on the chimeras and hellhounds.

Very nice work indeed! The Hellhounds have a Crassus feel to them.

The Hellhounds and Chimeras are painted and just awaiting the final washes. While the varnish dries, I've been setting up some head recasting.

I got a hold (at great expense) a set of the newer-model Redemptionists with the separate head and weapons. They're really hard to find now, as they were never really released for very long.



Anyway, I want to use their pointy heads for my Veteran section, so I'll need to make some more. I've lined them all up on a lollipop stick with sprue as the funnel. You get a huge selection of heads for only eight miniatures.



And cast using these cool not-Lego blocks I found in a Japanese hobby store. They're in a one piece mold - hopefully I'll be able to get them out again easily!

I'm very anxious to see how your recasting attempt turns out. Looks like a good set-up from here.

Oh, you bugger! Now I need to find me some of those heads, that is a good selection you get there.

yeah,
This looks promising.
I think if you give the resin long enough to set proper hard you should be able to pop them out with out breakage.
Just lube the mold up slightly.

I really like the juves in that set. very nice.

Panic...

Actually, the moulding has gone wrong. All cast nicely, but I can't seem to get anything in without air bubbles. I've even widened all the entry points, but no success.

Might have to try insta-molding it. Or redoing them as a two-part with escape channels cut in.

:/

To distract from the casting woes... TANKS! First up, three Chimeras, marked by their old Imperial owners as A, B and C for easy recognition. The side skirts are actually just made from mounting board - if I was making them now I'd use plasticard and do a bit more detailing, but I made them years ago for a different army and just wanted to get some use out of them.










And with some alternate turrets. Twin heavy bolter leader turret converted from the old Hellhound base and still legal as per the FW rules.


Some weathering detail on the rear hatch and the side skirts. I decided to try some actual airbrush graffiti since I just started using a 0.2mm Iwata. It looks pretty convincing!



And the Hellhounds - the hull conversions blend in much better with all the weathering. The main weapon and hull weapons are all magnetised, though I haven't assembled any Chem-cannons yet.







And got them finished just in time to play some games with them at the Overlords Christmas Party!




Which then inspired me to start the next batch - the Leman Russ hulls! Five tanks in total - three regular Russ bodies, one with side skirts and track guards and an old FW Laser Destroyer!

Chimeras turned out great. Side skirts look good indeed, seeming a later addition to a "recovered" tank. Re-turreted Hell Hounds are spot on as well.

And nice "next batch" too, will be waiting to see what comes up with those!

Those look great Ian. Really gritty... just right for the feel of it.

Good job on the tanks, the weathered and graffiti'd look works really well on them. The hellhounds are great, paintjob brings the whole thing together nicely.

Very cool tanks. Suitably Renegade-y.

Nifty reminds me of the old epic Hellhounds

 ArbitorIan wrote:
Actually, the moulding has gone wrong. All cast nicely, but I can't seem to get anything in without air bubbles. I've even widened all the entry points, but no success.

Might have to try insta-molding it. Or redoing them as a two-part with escape channels cut in.

:/

do you use a vibrating mechanism or a vacuum bowl to get the bubbles out?

yeah
I think you need space below the parts so that resin flows past the heads?

If you bring them to mine I can try?

Panic...

They are looking very cool now they are painted.

monkeytroll wrote:Good job on the tanks, the weathered and graffiti'd look works really well on them. The hellhounds are great, paintjob brings the whole thing together nicely.

Yeah, that amount of weathering hides a multitude of sins. It's probably the only way I'm getting way with building these out of bits and pieces...,

Jehan-reznor wrote:

 ArbitorIan wrote:
Actually, the moulding has gone wrong. All cast nicely, but I can't seem to get anything in without air bubbles. I've even widened all the entry points, but no success.

Might have to try insta-molding it. Or redoing them as a two-part with escape channels cut in.

:/

do you use a vibrating mechanism or a vacuum bowl to get the bubbles out?

If a vibrating mechanism means 'tapping it up and down on the table' then yes, yes I did

Maybe that would help. I got the impression the bubbles were getting trapped in the entry points because of their size though (since a
To of the pointy hats are fine but the faces fethed) but maybe a quick vibrate would help.

Panic wrote:yeah
I think you need space below the parts so that resin flows past the heads?

If you bring them to mine I can try?

Panic...

This might actually be what I do. Make a proper two part mood with an escape channel linking the points of the hoods and coming back up the sides, and wider entry points on all the heads

Laser destroyer! Lovely lavender tanks Ian, keep up the fine salvage work

- Salvage

SO, more progress on the tanks. I'd left some bits in Dettol for a while to re=use, and started with some stripping. The metal stuff came out fine, but some of the tank turrets are just a mess of old paint.



So, I decided to do some more casting. I guess I should have taken 'before' photos, but this is the (handily) single-piece turret from an old FW Exterminator in a two-part silicon mold.



And while I was there I put the cultists heads back in. Two parts with a piece of cable threaded through the end as an escape channel.



And then I used the rest of some quick-set putty I had to make a press mold for the Leman Russ sponsons.



While they all set, I assembled the last three Russes. These ones have magents inside the tracks to accept sponsons.



And after a bit of casting, I have five sets! Three sets of heavy bolters, one of heavy flamers, and one of plasma cannon.



They all have magnets on the inside to attach to the tanks.

Very clever Ian. Those look great!

yeah,
They look amazing.
Did you set the sponson magnets when the resin was soft?

Panic...

Panic wrote:Did you set the sponson magnets when the resin was soft?

No, drilled into them after. Though I made sure to fill the molds slightly under-level and then move them around to get it coating the sides, which makes the centre recessed (just like the real ones).

Also, TURRETS DONE.

I really couldn't be bothered to magnetise weapons on these, and just building tons of turrets was easier. The cast came out really well, though had to be filled in two parts to let air escape first before topping up. I then converted them with some big old weapons from a Robogear set.

I have ten in all, for four tanks! Three battle cannons, one old FW vanquisher, two punishers, one nova eradicator, one plasma annihilator, one old FW TL auto cannon, and an old metal demolisher.


The Punisher guns and Nova Eradicator are conversions from Robogear bits


And the Plasma Annihilator is an old Conversion Beamer


The old Demolisher kit is so front-heavy I had to weigh it down with coins on the bottom to get it to sit straight!

Swapable turrets beat magnetized guns every time. Good casts, and great kitbash and recovery!

Great job with the sponsons and turrets, that gives you plenty of options to play with.

And agreed, swappable turrets comes in ahead of magnetised weapons

Thanks guys. I agree, just having loads of turrets is MUCH better.

So, while I was priming and then spraying the Leman Russ batch, I got bored and started AND FINISHED the next batch.

Artillery!


Three Basilisks, one FW Medusa and one old Griffon. These were much faster to assemble because they don't have any options or magnets. Most of the hulls were already built, so just a few repair jobs here and there.


Two of the ordnance pieces were missing their platforms, so I fabricated them some more out of plasticard and textured rivet-plate. Of course, all four ordnance pieces have their safety rails replaced with spikes because Chaos. This is the back of the medusa, with extended track guard because the track assembly work I must have done ten years ago was pretty terrible!


For some reason, this one has two left supports for the gun. Weird. I'm gonna make it work anyway, because none of the bits sites have any supports in stock.


And finally - the guns! I'm tempted to spray all these tonight too, and then spend Christmas week on an epic ten-tank production line. By the end of the week I could have a finished Armoured Company!


EDIT: Ok, I did it. Here's this week's work, all in beautiful pink.

The Hello Kitty armour company

Impressive. Good going

I've decided to time all the different sections of this, so I can figure out how long I've got the painting process to take.

First, I spray highlighted all of the tanks with the pale pink colour, which took me 1.5 hours this morning. It's very quick when you've got the hang, just spraying softly round the edges and filling in an big armour plates.




After letting this dry for ten minutes, I spent a long time masking off all the pink areas so that I could spray the tracks and other metal bits silver. This took a while, but I hate painting tracks, so worth it! The actual spraying took about 20 mins, but the whole process was about 2 hours. So, 3.5 hours into painting and I'll finally get out the paintbrush!

Oh yes a pink tank/artillery company will look very grand, Slaanesh will be pleased.

Yesterday's progress. Went through and did all the base colours - probably the most laborious bit of actual painting, but at least they're done!



Probably spent around 4 hours in all painting silver, yellow, black, gold and various spot colours.




And then I used the airbrush to do a bit of early weathering on the longer barrels, and then spent an hour or so this morning applying transfers. The barrels were sprayed a little gold, then dark brown near the tip, then black around the end.




Next, to dig out the Micron Pens and start with the graffiti.

You know Ian... it's the scale of what you're doing that just kills me. Pretty darn amazing.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
You know Ian... it's the scale of what you're doing that just kills me. Pretty darn amazing.

Ha! It's kind of a final test of what I've been trying all year - trying to get my painting time down further and further. I started this project with my first go at weathering and airbrushing, and as I use more and more weird chemicals and tools that aren't 'brush painting' it goes down more.

This afternoon I did the first stage of weathering. Graffiti using the airbrush and some brown and orange Sigma Micron pens, and then some rust and oil using Modelmates Dyes. First, up, the graffiti. The chaos symbols are deliberately quite light as I want them to get lost in the rest of the weathering. The Sigma Pens are used because, unlike normal fineliners, the varnish that goes on afterwards won't dissolve the ink.





Then I used the dyes to put some rust and oil grime on the metallic areas. These are water-based dyes, which you can rub off or move around afterwards with a wet cotton bud - so, kinda like the oil washes but not quite as pliable. They have quite a good 'sheen' to them, though, and are ridiculously easy to apply. Each of these tanks probably took me two minutes of wiggling the brush around the tracks, trying to be as random as possible.






The whole process took another three hours. Next, out with the sponges...



UPDATE: Sponging done this morning. Four colours in about an hour and a half, thanks to my fantastic new tool - foam brushes!!



First, Minitaire Saddle Brown over all of it, concentrated around the edges with the occasional big splurge to cover up earlier mistakes.




Than, much quicker passes with Coal, Bloody Earth and Model Air Steel to make it more interesting, concentrating on the same areas. The Steel, being much paler, helps to blend back in any areas that look too splotchy from the darker colours.

MORE UPDATES. Christmas Eve is nice and quiet for me, so I've got lots done. Everything is assembled and gloss varnished, and ready to start with the oil washes. I'll give it a few hours just to make sure the varnish is completely dry.

These are progressing really quick, it would take me months to do this many by hand.

Very gritty.

Which tank is that at the bottom Arbitor?

Excellent work on the tanks, and speedy too! Always good to see which tricks peeps use to cut down the time.

How do you find cleaning the foam brushes? Ive wondered a few times about picking some up, I tend to just use pieces I've torn off packing foam for sponging.

The gold, brown, black on the barrels is very effective, like that a lot

angelofvengeance wrote:Which tank is that at the bottom Arbitor?

That is a Destroyer Tank Hunter from forge world, though the side skirts are scratch builds.

monkeytroll wrote:Excellent work on the tanks, and speedy too! Always good to see which tricks peeps use to cut down the time.

How do you find cleaning the foam brushes? Ive wondered a few times about picking some up, I tend to just use pieces I've torn off packing foam for sponging.

The gold, brown, black on the barrels is very effective, like that a lot

Yes, I hadn't tried the barrel thing before, and just looked at a couple of images online, and then gave it a go. It was actually really simple and seems to have achieved the right effect!

Regarding the foam brushes, I haven't tried to clean them - I saw them in an art shop the other day and, at 50p a brush, just assumed they were meant to be disposable! I did all my weathering in one go with one brush (now dead), but I reckon I could get two or three uses out of each one, trimming away more each time. I looked on eBay, and it's about £4 for 20. Before this I was using packing foam held between a set of pliers, but this was much faster and easier to manipulate.

TANKS!

So, I did the final stages of oil washing and blending over the end of Xmas Day and all today. The whole house smells of whit spirit, but I've now finished all the Leman Russes! The artillery section is done too, but I've got to make the crew before I photograph them.

I picked up some blue card, and colour matched a bit better, so these should be more accurate colour representations than the white photos. However, it looks to me like they're a bit crushed in levels. What do you think? Better or worse than the white?

Destroyer Tank Hunter




Then, the 'Command Tank' with the side skirts, here set up as a Demolisher and as a Vanquisher.





Then, the three regular tanks with swappable sponsons. First, as basic Leman Russ Battle Tanks.



Punisher


Eradicator



Exterminator



Executioner

Nice. Very, very nice. Can't wait for the artillery now.

(There seem to be some blue/cyan shadows on some of them - besides the plasmas' glow, of course! - that didn't seem to be there before. Is it?)

 Littletower wrote:
Nice. Very, very nice. Can't wait for the artillery now.

(There seem to be some blue/cyan shadows on some of them - besides the plasmas' glow, of course! - that didn't seem to be there before. Is it?)

That really confused me until I remembered that some of the graffiti chaos symbols are cyan! Yes, possibly a bad colour choice for the background, then. It makes them look like a bad colour key!

And yes, the plasma glow was the last thing I did before varnishing. A mix of the airbrush and the miniature ghost tints.


.

Excellent work Ian, those look really great. Make sure you do a battle report the first time they hit the table so we can see them in action!

I wouldn't have mentioned it if you hadn't brought up the backdrop before. It looked painted on, though subtly, but it could have been a ghost reflex from a hard to nail colour balance.

Having cleared that out, looking great!

Since I'm on a tank-based roll, I thought I'd carry straight on with the next batch, fuelled slightly by my DCM Secret Santa gifts..

So, first, some crew. Twelve crew in all for all of the tanks, converted from a mix of flagellants, empire militia, anvil heads and some saxon-style guys given to me by ElderCaveman, along with some old rokkits Panic originally cast for his Grot Kan Wall.




Then, while I'm doing some regular guys, I thought I'd get a few more in - two Chaos Sigil bearers and five more Tallarns. The bearers are converted from some sort of Dark Elf guy and a Greek Philosopher I got in the Secret Santa from SinfulHero (I think). I actually have another twenty more Tallarns, but unlike the original batch, these guys actually have their heads attached. Which is a dilemma - do I chop off the heads of some pristine 90s minis to make them fit, or will they blend in as they are? These five are a test, to see if they blend in.



And the FINAL TWO TANKS! After which, the Armoured Company is done. Two Salamanders with magnetised weapons.



The Heavy Flamers needed a bit of work to move their mounting point further forward, so that both weapons have the same length behind the magnet point, and the crewman can stay in the same place.



And two more Chimera turrets I found, just to get them in use.

IN BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR!

Got everything finished (and more besides) - I have an armoured company! I also tried using a black background and completely manual camera settings, which actually looks a lot better and more 'accurate'. At some point, I might go through and do everything like this.

Ok. Here goes.

GRIFFON. God knows how many times I've repainted this - I bought this model when it was released in the 90s!





MEDUSA. The only one I've left the gun shield on, since it doesn't affect the height of the model.






BASILISK BATTERY. Three tanks, with A having the dodgy two-right-mountings. First, Tank A.




Tank B






Tank C





SALAMANDERS. Magnetised for Heavy Flamers or Autocannon.








I then finished the alternate weapon options for the other tanks - here is the Bane Wolf nozzle, and the two extra Chimera turrets.





Then, infantry. Here are five 'regular' Tallarns. I'm gonna have to see how well they fit in with the rest of the cultists before I decide if I'm gonna replace the heads on the other (unpainted) ones.



Here are two more Sigil Bearers - one converted from a Dark Elf and one from a greek philosopher I got in the DCM Secret Santa this year.



And, while waiting for various things to dry, I did a quick repaint of bit of my old Suicide Legion psykers to bring them in line with this army. New robes and gold bits.



And here's the whole lot together! Pretty good for a christmas project, with many thanks to the DCM Secret Santas for various crew and spiky bits. I now have a lot less stuff hanging around in bits and bags...

That tank force is GLORIOUS.

 Briancj wrote:
That tank force is GLORIOUS.

+1

Always enjoy perusing your thread dude, and REALLY like those tanks

Happy New Year to you...

please tell me you have your army somewhere near DC hahah, i need a renegaed guard player for siege of vraks! i have the DKOK and the marine i just need a legit renegade guard player
fmj

Arbitor- you are a machine!Nice work traitor scum!

Simply astounding!

They look excellent, looking forward to seeing them in action.

I've never seen pink weathered, and at such speed. You pulled it off really well !!!

I'd leave the Tallarn alone and with there heads on, be a shame if you change your mind in a year or two !!! Cut up some plastics instead !

Happy New Year !

Thanks for the comments, guys, and Happy New Year.

fullmetaljacket wrote:please tell me you have your army somewhere near DC hahah, i need a renegaed guard player for siege of vraks! i have the DKOK and the marine i just need a legit renegade guard player
fmj

Aha - only a few thousand miles away. Should be easy...

Big H wrote:I've never seen pink weathered, and at such speed. You pulled it off really well !!!
I'd leave the Tallarn alone and with there heads on, be a shame if you change your mind in a year or two !!! Cut up some plastics instead !

Thanks!

Yeah, I think you're right. I'm going to get them into a few games and see how they look. Maybe I'll just convert a couple of duplicate lasgunners to mix it up a bit and leave the majority intact.

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Yeah, I think you're right. I'm going to get them into a few games and see how they look. Maybe I'll just convert a couple of duplicate lasgunners to mix it up a bit and leave the majority intact.

Started on a small batch of guys today. First, a few Dark Vengeance cultists I got in the Secret Santa. I've just done enough to finish my tray of three 'Cultist' squads with auto guns.



Then, converted some more DV Cultists into Enforcers! They all have Commissar-style heads from the old Warzone Imperial sergeants, and various flails and mauls.




And then made these guys as a test for my Mutant Rabble. I have loads of old Mantic ghouls and zombies lying around which are finally going to get some use, along with some Pig Iron gas mask heads.

Mini-batch done. I had a slight problem with a grainy white undercoat on a few of them, visible on the photos, but not really visible from table distance.

Here's the four DV guys - I now have a single KR tray containing three squads of 10 renegades with lasguns or autoguns, leader and heavy stubber. I can pop them in my Marine case whenever I want to use cultists



The Mutant Rabble were fun - thought I wanted to try out some outlandish mixed skin colours with the airbrush and it's hasn't really shone through. These guys are painted bright orange, then paler orangey/skin, then white. But, after the wash, it doesn't really look that different to the regular skintone?




The Enforcers also look good. Hopefully their dark hats will make them obvious on the tabletop. Apologies for the second photo, which seems to be more interested in the plasma pistol than the guy holding it!

The enforcers look kinda like cyber-beavers... you should give them broad tails just to complete the image.

Kidding aside, lovely work on the paint.

Great stuff

Decided to see what I've got - this is the full army as of this month. I'll be going back and photographing all the individual units as I put them away, on the same black background as above...

Click through, as this image is massive and zoomable!

I'm loving this. As a primary Nurglite who is currently dabbling into some purple Undivided I must confess, the pink gets me. Or I get it. Love the renegades.

Admittedly mine won't be as...flamboyant. More muted tones of black and grey so they can fit in with my Imperials if need be.

So, I posted a little showcase last week after photographing all my army on the black background. Time to fold it into this thread and carry on with the army. Here's all the old units in new, glorious, LIGHTBOX colour!

Lucius the Eternal


Chaos Sorcerers


Daemon Prince




Noise Marines










Terminator Lord


Terminators



Chaos Lord with Jump Pack


Raptors







Warp Talons




Chaos Lord on Bike



Chaos Bikers





Obliterators





Chaos Dreadnoughts / Hellbrutes






Chaos Spawn






Chaos Hounds



Havocs




Hell Blades





Chaos Rhinos






Chaos Predators



Chaos Cultists (or Renegade Infantry)








Renegade Heavy Weapon Teams











Renegade Chimeras









Renegade Hellhounds






Renegade Leman Russ Variants

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Renegade Destroyer Tank Hunter

 ArbitorIan wrote:
Chaos Dreadnoughts / Hellbrutes

*swoooooon*



^ Also

- Salvage

Good job !

Well worth the new photoshoot in the lightbox

Wow. Amazing conversions and beautiful paintjobs. Well done.

Thanks guys - I've been doing a bit of random assembling over the last few weeks. When I get some more together I'll spray a whole bunch and start painting, but I'm enjoying building at the moment.

First, another 8 Berserkers. I still haven't painted the last ones I built, but maybe these will convince me. Really built from the dregs of the bit box!


And then 6 Renegade Sentinels, with bars on top. I'm going to use PVA and tracing paper to make some canvas covers so they can convincingly be armoured or unarmored.



And I picked up five more Terminators for £2 at a bring-and-buy, so I've bashed them together with any old spare terminator bits to make some regular combi-bolter guys. Together with my magnetised ones, this makes 12.

Ok, still building, building. I've decided to do a big batch of infantry to finish off all my regular renegade infantry. Here they are sprayed pink, ready to go.

As always, these are a mix of Cultists, Redemptionists, Tallarns and random cloaked guys. Once this is done, I should have one 'Traitor Guard' platoon of 3 x 10-man Cultists/Renegade squads built from the Tallarns, and then a second platoon of 3 x 20-man Renegade squads built from robed Necromunda/Cawdor/Cultist models.


I'm also including these brilliant second-edition Redemptionist models as 'Disciples' - good as a separate unit or as the Command HQ.


And these are the first test models for my Renegade Veterans - the base models are Warzone plastics with Cadian arms and recast heads from the 2ed Redemptionists.


The hot-shot lasguns are the base Cadian lasgun with Anvil Industry gunsights. The barrels have been extended using their Silencer parts, and the original lasgun tip stuck on the end of the silencer.

MOAR! Dig those recast heads on the vets, as well as the shiny metal redemptionists

- Salvage

Ok, the Renegade Infantry are finally finished! This gives me one small platoon (which I can also use as Cultists) and one large platoon, plus a good group of leaders and command options.

Here's the small platoon - three 10-man squads of Cultists with a Heavy Stubber in each squad. They're all old Tallarn models with Al'Rahem as their Demagogue.




And here's the big platoon - three 20-man squads of Renegades. 20 with CC weapons, including three flamers and a sigil, 20 with Shotguns, including three meltas, and 20 with lasguns, including two grenade launchers and a sigil.




Some of the shotgun guys were converted from DV cultists and old Necromunda weapons to make up the numbers.


And here's some of the newer Necromunda Redemptionists, serving in my CC squad


And the final batch of loaders was completed for the Heavy Weapons teams, converted from some 28mm Persians


And finally, the Disciples - I'll mostly use these as an easily-identifiable Command Squad, hence their range of weapons and black hats. All new-model Redemptionists with the exception of the Tallarn auto cannon.





And here's them all packed - takes up half a KR Multicase along with the Enforcers and Psykers. The top two are the big platoon, the bottom left is the small platoon - all in one tray for easy transfer to the CSM case - and the bottom right is Disciples, commanders, psykers, etc...

yeah,
Simply amazing how fast you turn these guys out.
The mix of guys works so well and the recast heads are fricking sweet.

And they look fricking amazing all together!

Panic...