Hello!
You may know me off CDO forums or Warhammer Empire, as Theforgefather, and Progreen10 for all of you Minecraft players.


This is my sloooooowly growing 40k Blog of Renegades and Heretics.

I use the Siege of Vraks part I as my codex, and have a small infantry army to go with my chaos space marines, made up of Death Guard, World Eaters, and Alpha legion. I am also planning on making a small force of Luna Wolves

Most of this was converted when I first used greestuff, and I went a bit mad with it,
so lots of stuff needs re-sculpting.

I am also starting a combined blog with CSMs and will be updating both. My plan for the CSMs is on P.3

P1 and P3 have the most stuff on, my best stuff on 3

This is the colour scheme I have come up with (not my picture, but my colours and editing)



Revised GS skills:



Here are a few of my better minis; I will slowly show them as I near finish them, or when I get new stuff










Alpha legion WIP pics!

Champion:











OSL attempt



Alpha Legion lord, converted from the Wolf Lord I did:



Repainted Khorne Rhino:








Disciples of Xaphan: (from vostroyan firstborn)


DoX Champion:



please comment and criticise

thanks

Progreen10

I really like the colour scheme you are going for and the dirt and blood really lends itself to showing that they are traitors, are they nurgle alligned or undivided?

They are meant to be followers of Nurgle, but if you read the background info on the Renegade guard, many of them are unwilling converted to chaos when their commanding officers go evil. Most of the guard don't even know about the chaos gods.
Think of it as Anikan Skywalker and his clonetroopers.

Oh so your playing them As Vraksian renegades, not just using the rules and count as, it makes sense now

Any plans for the Ogryns or command squads/ vehicles etc.?

I have ordered a Chimera off eBay, which was meant to be posted today, and I'm 13 at the end of May (the 28th to be precise), and the FW renegade ogryns are amazing, (and overpriced ), so cash will be coming my way soon to get loads of new stuff.

Haha having money is always a bonus in this hobby

Out of interest are you using a basecoat or washes on your models?

Scorched brown, Calthan brown, then drybrush Gretchin green.
Whatever that is in new paints...
I then weather them with mud and blood, then watered down mix of calthan,
black, and a bit of scorched brown.
I might then redo some green, leaving dirty colours in the gaps.

I also do a rusty mix of yellow, brown and red for the armour
weathering

I haven't bought any new paints so i wouldn't know

How many points are you currently going for?

I see a chaos warrior helm on one of your models and from looking at your other blogs your green stuff skills are getting better. So, are you going to be doing much kit-bashing/ conversions with this army?

Boy am I going to kit bash it. As nice as FW models are, I can't always afford them. I was thinking of getting a FW renegade ogryn, then a pack of WFogres, and doing a squad of them. I would probably use the torso on one, the head on another, legs arms ETC, and gs the rest.

Sounds like a sound plan. Are you working on anything at the minute as i'm looking forward to seeing more painted stuff

Well, I have a pile of grey, green, and bad paint jobs sitting to my right on a shelf. Every time I turn to the right, it reminds me that I need to paint them...
I am still waiting for the chimera though...

Paint man, paint! - My work here is down *flies into the distance*

Well, this is but part of it...




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Please comment and criticise it!

Thanks

Progreen10

Impressive

What are the guys in the bottom left of the first picture?

Really like the chimera, looks very fitting, although i'd maybe give the red anoter coat to reallymake it 'pop', do you own any chaos vehicle upgrades as some spiky bits may be in order. That's only my opinion though

erm erm...
bottom left...

try again!

Psykers (with blue paperclip lightning!)


My WIP Disciples of Xaphan (with hats)


command squad


Chaos dwarfs and the cripple of an emperor


hope this helps


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And also, I prefer the "stolen and recoloured vehicle scheme, rather than "possessed with a daemon", seeing as they are only naughty guardsmen, not CSMs. When I get CSMs though, I will do possessed vehicles. I used to have a vindicator, but an ok conversion to having a thunderfire cannon on it, then a crap pre heresy death guard conversion took it's toll on it, so it is no longer with us...:(

By bottom left i meant right, sometimes i forget to think

That aside the paperclip lightining is a cool idea and i like your take on the emperor (did you make that yourself?)

Is that a terminator i spie in the picture with the psykers?

Erm...
This is a long story.
A loon time ago my local GW was holding a Horus Heresy campaign, so I put together Mortarian, Death Guard primarch.
Only then did they realise that it was on the 16+ thursday gaming night...

It was only quickly made from random bits box bits, so that is why it looks, erm, odd

Ah that must have sucked, still looks great anyway, although a picture of him may be in order (hint,hint)

Ok then, *wink, wink*





And my psykers!



I also redid the chimera bits








Oh, and another note, this thread seems to just be a conversation between only me and Bores...
Just saying

If it's any concelation, my thread is exactly the same

I like what you've done with the chimera, the rust effect in particular is really good.

One thing i will say is that the psyker (sp?) needs a bit of a touch up as some of the wood and skin is the same colour as the fatigues. Hope that helps

Could do with some OSL or a gradient of colour getting lighter on your psykers lightening effects, it'd really make them pop and give a good feel of the "power" coming out of them.

Other than that the models look great, very creative, a clear theme and well carried out throughout. Plus I'm always fond of renegade guard blogs popping up.

As a final note dont get disheartened if you dont get many comments, everyones blog is the same (in that people dont comment, not in content)

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Lol, there are a lot of renegade logs about...

BTW, I am still working on the psykers

No harm in alot of Renegade blogs, personally I find the fact that the mainstay of the chaos forces (cultists, mercs, rogues, renegades, pirates etc) are beyond a more noticable army is a great thing. I've personally played against a good few chaos marine or daemon forces but always felt it was lacking something in that "loyalist" guard were better represented than the traitorous kind.

The Psykers are a great start though, look forward to seeing them finished.

Chaos is at it's strongest!

Chaos will rise against the imperium and slaughter them!!

All we need now is another Eye of Terror or similar game to coincide with the launch of 6th ed and you'll get a chance to test your Renegades in a decent event

Do you intend to add in any Chaos Marines to your force? Not sure which of the Vraks lists number 1 is though I think Alpha Legion?

I think i remeber reading somewhere that you can take them as elites...

If not you could always make a small marine force for apoalypse games?

Yeah, in SoV part 1 (Siege of Vraks), the CSMs are Alpha Legion Squad. 5-10. I actually plan on getting a death guard army, in the same colours, to use as allies, and I will include CSMs in my Renegades list.

I believe in one of the other siege of vraks lists there is a nurgle one, though I may well be wrong, I havent picked up anything Vrakswise other than the part 1 pdf

Personally i think you should make slaanesh marines, although i'm biased

In all seriousness though, the colour scheme on your mortarian contrasted really well the grittyness of your guardsmen so the Deathguard might work really well.

I think the last one has a bit more Khorne in there. Well, there are the hounds of Xaphan, with Khorne ogryn.

Imperial Armour: Vraks 3 has a "servants of decay" list which seems nurgle oriented, might be worth a look

2 is Servants of Slaughter, i.e. Khorne

Bores:

The basic idea, is that the commander of the IG division that my dudes were in, was slowly becoming more corrupted by war, and eventually turned to Nurgle. Anyone that refused to join him would be executed, or handed over to the forces of chaos for biological testing. So lots of them are followers of Nurgle, whether they realise or want to be. So Nurgle is my main theme. For my CSMs to be, I may include some other god squads or whatever you want to call them


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Melcavuk wrote:Imperial Armour: Vraks 3 has a "servants of decay" list which seems nurgle oriented, might be worth a look

2 is Servants of Slaughter, i.e. Khorne

Ahh. I want all of them, but I don't have £120 to spend on books...

do you have 2 Melcavuk

Yeah maybe i should check out the siege of Vraks so i know whats going on...

progreen10 wrote:Bores:

The basic idea, is that the commander of the IG division that my dudes were in, was slowly becoming more corrupted by war, and eventually turned to Nurgle. Anyone that refused to join him would be executed, or handed over to the forces of chaos for biological testing. So lots of them are followers of Nurgle, whether they realise or want to be. So Nurgle is my main theme. For my CSMs to be, I may include some other god squads or whatever you want to call them


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Melcavuk wrote:Imperial Armour: Vraks 3 has a "servants of decay" list which seems nurgle oriented, might be worth a look

2 is Servants of Slaughter, i.e. Khorne

Ahh. I want all of them, but I don't have £120 to spend on books...

do you have 2 Melcavuk

Not yet, at the moment I'm holding off on vraks because it looks like none of them allow chaos rough riders

So out of interest do you use the imperial guard codex to represent your guys?

Mel: Sorry, no R riders in sov 1 at least.
Bores: I actually lost mine when I moved bedrooms but a week later got sov, so no.

I like the codex personally, especially straken who has the stats of a space marine captain so i'm not complaining

Yeah, that's because most of him is a dirty great robo-arm!

He is pretty cool

I just found the siege of Vraks on scribd and the army list looks really good. Are you planning on modelling the cardinal or buying the FW enforcer models?

Well, I have a stand in...
Until my b-day



I have brightened it on photobucket editing options. Oh, and his arms aren't coming out his head. He has a hunched back

Looks cool, nearly tribal in appearance, not sure if you've done tattoos painted on before but if you could pull off war paint/tattoes over his arms it'd really kick up a very tribal chieftan look.

I second what melcavuk said about tribal tattoos; it'd make him look alot cooler aswell as break up the flesh.

Yeah, the flesh looks like that because there is no daylight, which is what I normally rely on for a decent photo. The editing removed all 3d ness from it...


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Oh, and also, how do some of you seem to have traitor guard rankings? Just wondering

Being a slaanesh player; more bling = higher rank. For example, my PCS have better armour than my regular guard and my commander has the best and most ornate armour of the lot.

Although an undivided or nurgly force would probably use more mutations to show greater status.

I would never be able to work out a ranking system, other than the different units in the book ...

Cool stuff, Currently working on a Vraksian Renegade force as well, using the Vraks Servants of Decay List.

Thanks, I am looking forward to seeing your stuff, as your other work is very good. I really like your Salamander stuff

In case you were wondering, here is the style of traitor I am going for. This is some of the coolest artwork GW/FW has produced

Guardsman



A buzzsaw for an ogryn hand. Genius

looking Good bud! which book are those pics from?

Siege of Vraks part 1, imperial armour volume 5


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Actually, this is what I am going for. More green-y



there you go!

Looking at those images you've got it nearly spot on. Have you tried using Catachan arms and green stuff to make the cut up sleaves that the guy is wearing?

Yeah, my camera is out of charge at the moment. Pics of my sleeve-less dudes will be up after 10. But they are cadian with the wrists scraped down.

I'll be waiting with anticipation if i can stay up that long...

hmm...
Can I take pics and charge it at the same time?

Edit: It will be earlier, because I was going to watch CSI, but I realised it was a repeat from last night..

It's probably worth a try

Yeah,
or that..


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Here are my sleeveless dudes, and a reloading guy.




(still WIP)

I like the new guys and you've done well with the sleeves. Although these guys aren't as muddy or gritty as the first lot; are you planning on adding it or are you gonna leave themas they are?

Edit: just saw that they're WIP, nevermind...

I have given the reloading guy finished eyes and highlighted all of them a bit.

Not sure if its the pictures or not but you might need to thin your paints down a little, the colour is coming through true but it is also obscuring some minor details and adding texture to flat surfaces. A few thin layers work better than a single heavy layer and leave you with a tonne more detail.

That said they continue to look good.

What're the things in the pictures next to your guardsmen?

progreen10 wrote:

What? These?

It's a dead smurf and nid, he's in a "yeah! you want this, PUNK?"


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Here is some more stuff:

A CSM nurgle lord still WIP









A SW Wolf Lord



Glowing blue hammer







Orky friendship!

"Don't leave me here... *Starts vomiting blood*"

Your painting is getting better. I like the highlights on the space wolf; They're very crisp.

Is that a bit of wood in that Orks neck?!

Yeah, There are large splinters of wood everywhere, the idea being that the evil sunz ork got caught up in an explosion, and he's pleading for the bad moon ork to help him! (which would never happen!)

Original 1984 high elf fighter



Here is my new WD subscriber's model:









And some more stuff...

Pre heresy Death Guard (I painted this a while ago, so I need to redo the white)



Company commander



Another one





More Disciples of Xaphan







Oh, and... MINE!!!...the preeeeeecccccciiiiooouuus!

I love the burst cannon death guard! I always thought imperium needs more gatling guns. Maybe some ratlings with gatlings? Haha

Thanks,

More stuff planned for the CSM side of things.

The ogres are for renegade ogryns (i'll GS them), how does this look for an army? (model-wise, I'll post a full army list up later)

I'm only doing this because it's a bank holiday and I have nothing at all to do.

The huron blackheart is actually lucius the eternal, but I hate the model. I am discussing it over here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/447923.page

I'd say needs more rhinos, or alternate transport for the bezerkers (landraiders?)

Hmm...

That might cost a bit...
10 plague marines would go in the rhino, the other 18 on foot.
Here's my purchasing plan:
-1 CSM battleforce
-1 CSM Berzerkers pack
-1 Huron blackheart
-and the 18 eBay plague marines

The rest is not essential for the CSM stuff.

I'm not sure what to do with the other 5 normal CSMs though...

The other plague marines would be made from the standard CSMs

I have an update!

My 1st Plague marine!





Tell me what you think!

Progreen10

DEfinatly one of your best so far

Yeah, I have 17 more to do...

I have some more renegades:

Hello again!

I got 7/18 CSM death guard done:

Wow! Your army awesome

Thanks! I have the others, which will be done soon, but 1 week till my bday, so more will be coming.

On another note, this cracked me up!

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/warhammer-more-than-just-a-hobby-says-miliband-2012052127935

My two favorite armies in one thread. Excellent work, really feel the Chaos aspect in your modeling and painting style, it's perfect. Looking forward to seeing more of your work. Subbed and will be back for more.

Thanks, I really like your work as well. Got to love oop death guard.

After cycling home from school with a heavy carrier bag on my handlebars, with an even heavier bag on my back, and carrying a pizza in a box in one hand, I was relieved to discover that a sentinel, rhino, 2 dwarf cannons, 1 empire cannon, and 1/2 a defiler had arrived, I felt quite a bit better.

I would post pics now, but (once again) the camera is out of power Stay tuned, until thy camera be charged!

Sounds like a fun afternoon

Look forward to updates!

Here you go,

Here is my Renegade Guard Sentinel. It took me about an hour to paint, but it was 2nd hand and had a horrible white undercoat on it, which took a long time to cover up...

There is also directional lighting from the lights.







MMM... Meaty...



As always, please comment and criticise it!

Oh, and the Rhino
It took about 1 hour 10mins to paint and weather, but like the sentinel that I also did, It had a white undercoat. This also has directional lighting coming from the lights.
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Hmm...

The DL dosen't show up much on the sentinel, and not at all on the rhino....

Here is how I now plan on doing Lucius now, using the WoC Nurgle Chaos Lord: (No, I don't want to do slaanesh...)

Why don't you connect the whip to his backpack/ face pipe as it'll look like the whip is covered in Nurgley germs abnd will therefore explain its killyness

Bores

Yeah, I plan on doing something like that.
It's my Bday today, so I will be getting many goodies in about 2 hours when we go into town!

Yay!

Happy Birthday!

Did you get anything good whilst on your trip to town?

@Bores Yes! Lots! And I don't plan on spending too much all at once, because otherwise if I buy it all at once it seems like waste of money.
Phew!
1 CSM battleforce, 1 berzerkers, 1 SM devastator squad to be converted havocs, and 1 WF Nurgle chaos lord.

I will try to get some pics of what I have built so far later.

Wow big haul

Are you planning on making the Beserkers look more Nurgly and play them as count as or are you planning on keeping them 'traditional' with Reds and Golds and BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

I'm going for the BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!! approach. They might be a bit rusty at the joints to represent being around nurgle for a long time.

Here is my Lucius (at last)

Before painting:

I have got some better pics of the chimera, lighting in GW is soooooo much better than a shelf!

I heard rumours about next edition of CSM, you can't have multi-chaos god armies. Is this true?

I can't face changing my army!!!

I haven't painted much lately (renegades that is), because all my time has been focused on my death guard

Happy birthday, and nice loot!

The Rhino looks really good, and I just did this:

WHY haven't I put a combi-flamer on my pintle mount?????????

That's going to change before my next game. Oh yeah.

Thanks, (although loot makes it sound stolen )Meh, just say he's holding it inside the rhino!

Today I did a game with my friend, and I won. Not many picks, but we had to finish early. Here is it afterwards, he had SMs and dark eldar, I had vraksians and CSMs.

My dead pile



What I had left

Updates, man?

Right! Sorry I've not been posting much/anything lately, I've spent too much time actually painting the stuff instead!

Enjoy!

Alpha legion WIP pics!

Champion:











OSL attempt



Alpha Legion lord, converted from the Wolf Lord I did:



Repainted Khorne Rhino:







I'll put more posts up later ;D

Thanks


Progreen10


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Khornate Termie Flamer



And an outdated pic of what I HAD so far.