KernelTerror to doing it better and better . Sculpting skills , and paint job i much better then year ago. I crazy to think what You will be able to do in the end of this year .
As always , great job !!

@Tipios : Glad you approve, almost changed my mind on that arm, but could not resist making another model out of bits separated by more than two decades.

@ROTTEN_FACTORY : Thanks a lot ! HWPO a they say, Heresy Work Pays Off !

Now time for an update on the long run projects :

The siamese demon started receiving armor plates here and there. The freshest ones are still in need of filing, and of course straps to hold them together. This should make for a nice slaaneshi look.


And then there is this, the first torso for my chaos knights. The chapel like plasticard thing in the middle is where the head will fit. The brown part on top is a disfunctionnal component I replaced from my girl's car. I will probably curse this choice later on, as it is very heavy, but I like the industrial look it has with its five "chimneys".


Thanks for looking !

That knights gonna be 'uge! Slaneshi daemons looking tits too, *raises eyebrows repeatedly* Those runes do a good job breaking up that space. Is there anything happening in between the heads? I feel like there is room for something there ... maybe those oop dark Eldar slave girls or something else from your twisted imagination? In anycase looking forward to seeing more!

Nice updates.

Love the corruptodes

EDC

Please ! more WIPs from chaos knights
How big is Your demon? (hmmm, it sounds weird ;P)

Cheers guys, much appreciated !

Not been able to build a lot these last days, just put some of the prospero marines together, love these old armor designs.


@genom.cor : There is room indeed, I was thinking something like 12 or so smaller necks with demon heads, 4 heads is clearly not enough ^^. Slave girls are a good idea though, might make a pendant or something out of one...

@ROTTEN_FACTORY: There should be some shortly, I need to search through my plastic pile and probably scavenge an old driller in order to get started on the two other torsos. But I can show the scale of the demon, he is a big chunk of magic sculpt :


Thanks for stopping by !

OMG those new marines are fantastic! They remind me of some of the mad creations in WD 202 (p.36).
If you have that issue, have a look. I'll try and scan it in the meantime.

Seconded, corpuschain! Great use of the Bretonnian man-at-arm weapons. I'll be nicking that idea, if you don't mind

-LostCarcosa

edit: stupid spelling mistake

Best use of distributer cap ever on the Knight.

Great idea for Daemon!!!

WOW it's big ! Hope to see more crazy stuff soon

@corpuschain : Thanks my friend !! Got my hands on a 202, there are some very inventive models in these pages, that is a reference to keep around for inspiration, I'll see if I find some of these images online...

@LostCarcosa25 : Cheers, of course, do knick the knife. Their polearms have interesting looking blades indeed, figured a chaos renegade could carry this kind of twisted looking weapon around.

@tipios : So that's the english name of the part. Thanks, really liked the shape of it, kind of reminded me of some old soviet spaceships.

@ ROTTEN_FACTORY : Thanks ! Yup, it should be a pretty large piece indeed.


In the mean time, progress is scarce due to me being out of glue. Still, was able to place the carnigroinsorceror on his base, and give him some tentacular wires as legs :


And chose the base for the other two knight torsos. Those are very early WIPs ,but I figured it could be nice to keep track of the original parts before covering them in plastic and resin.
So the first one is based on a blender rotor base, which should make a very nice vent pattern for the back of the knight.


And the second is based on a lamp part, looking kind of like a dome with vertical windows in it...



Thanks for watching !

Update Time !

The sorceror demon prince got some arms and additionnal tentacles/wires



Added some (yet unfiled) armor and a mouth to one of the bellies of the siamese demon.


And started on a squad of staff wielding marines. Those are actually pilgrimage staffs, that get garnished in heretical parchment, bones, chains and blades the further they get.

sorceror demon prince looks very promissing .
I have a question - what is this weird plastic thing which You use to build knight torso (first one). It's looks great . Imagine lots of wires going to the center part, and creepy engine in the middle

Thanks ROTTEN_FACTORY, the round blue part you mean ? It was a blender component, the engine rested on it. Yup absoluetely looks the part for an engine.

Wow, I really like the sorcerer demon, as well as the siamese dragon. Cant wait to see where it goes!

Thanks Lorax !

Tonight I worked on the pilgrim staffs of two chaos marines :

Loving the pilgrim marines! The detailing on the staffs is very nice, especially the green stuffed skulls.

-LostCarcosa

Thanks LostCarcosa, just finished two more, only their leader left :

Good evening lads, tonight I have some updates on the big guys.

With a mace and some more work on its back, the sorceror demon prince is done :


And the siamese demon received some more armor and a chest mouth :

That DP is one of the best dark mechanicus I've seen yet. I know he's a sorcerer but I just wanted to say that about the model. Really awesome. Also, good to see the big guy taking more detailed shape!

Thanks a lot genom.cor ! Come to think of it, my sorcery/demon oriented warband already has 4 demon princes, and two more to build... So you're right, this one should definitely by the dark arts master of my dark mechanicus warband !

Nice details on demon :O. I also like the mace - good idea

Thanks ROTTEN_FACTORY !

Today I worked on the junction between the knight legs and torso, here are some group shots on what I came up with







You'll also notice some progress, especially for the one on the lefts, receiving wires and some mutated flesh...

Finished the last pilgrim marine today, their leader :



And started on some tall terminator fellah :

Oh wow! Loving that!

Excellent bishop hat! The new guy looks huge and dim I like it!

10/10 on the staff wielding dude, they are bonkers good.

Loving the terminator freak thing too!

EDC

Thanks a lot my friends, glad you approve.

Today I started putting together some masked cultists/mutants







And progressed a bit with the decoration of on of the knights.

Loving your use of the new Tzeentch kits!

-LostCarcosa

Thanks a lot LostCarcosa !

Today was a productive day

This tall dude finally received his arms :


Also finished the terminator, with a new backpiece and the final wirings


Finished the last cultists,




Save for this last dude, remembering just now that I needed to sculpt him a new foot :


And these old school renegades are joining the next paint batch




Thanks for stopping by !

WOW DUDE !! I wasn't here only for two weeks and that the f@(& is goin on here . New WIPs are crazy. I love the cultists/mutants. But progress with knights blow my mind !

Loving those cultists, the stormcasts heads with the beaks looks amazing.

EDC

@Rotten_Factory : Thanks a lot, I am pretty happy with that batch too, painted started.

@EDC :Glad you approve, I was wondering what could possibly be done with all these very recognizable stormcast heads from the AOS box, once painted they should work nicely.

Finished an old school slaanesh marine tonight :

Nice very classic model.

Thank you very much Llamahead !

Tonight, I finished this chaos marine :

This blog just gets weirder and weirder, in the best possible way! Serious kudos for scratch building three Imperial Knights. Also, love the two-tone Mk III on that latest marine

Thanks a lot Kurnost, still loads to do on the knights, but things are going fine for now.

Here comes a second mutant marine :

And here comes the last member of the trio :



The complete team :

Finished an oldhammer Havoc tonight :

Looking fantastic as always, Kernel. The rusty blades are an awesome touch which evokes horrible images of tetanus (just what Papa Nurgle intended, I'm sure!).

And, where is that helmet on the third member of plague marines from?

-LostCarcosa

That's a nice Havoc. He seems so distorted it's kinda creepy... Which is great! Beautiful paint scheme too

@LostCarcosa : Thanks ! The helmet is from Anvil industry, as is the flamethrower.

@Kurnost : Thanks ! Yeah, these old school armors have a deformed, demonic look.

Tonight I finished the last Asylum Knight. Been a while since I did the other three, and the legs from the burning of prospero were the opportunity to try something new :


And some group shots :

I love how "messed up" some of their faces are!

 KernelTerror wrote:
Finished an oldhammer Havoc tonight

And he looks great! I'm a stupidly big fan of the 1988 CSM and have enjoyed seeing them slip in here, but this guy is particularly groovy. Might be the readout happening on his lens that does it for me

New orange dude is quite solid too, I'm impressed with how the tight painting pulled all the sculpting and weird bits together

- Salvage

Love the pilgrim staves and the bird mutants. Really excellent old school chaos stuff. Makes me want to work on mine.

@CorpusChain : Yup, staying in the eye of terror for too long will do that to you ^^.

@Boss Salvage : Glad you approve, I thought it would work nicely with its moder style helmet.

@Kestral : Thanks ! And you definitely should !

Finished the big possessed khornate word bearer today :



A scale shot :



And some shot with his brother :

Finished painting my corruptode this morning

Finished Two Oldhammer marines today :

Excellent

Thank you very much Llamahead !

Finished a pilgrim tonight :

And here comes another one :

The Dark Despots are terrifying! Not just the model, which is superbly done, but that fluff.. Yikes. More please!

 KernelTerror wrote:
Finished Two Oldhammer marines today

Good stuff dude

- Salvage

The hand coming out of the staff is just perfect

@Kurnost : Thanks a lot, Two more of them are planned for the next assembling batch (And by that I mean : "I chose the heads.")

@Boss Salvage : Thanks you very much.

@amazingturtles : Glad you approve, the Idea is that these staves are slowly becoming demons. Need to write the fluff in a next update.

A third pilgrim is finished now :


and some midway groupshots :

Damn you've been busy buddy.

Word Bearers are looking awesome, I'm loving all the scripture on the armour.

EDC

Yeah, the Word Bearers look great!

Thanks a lot EDC & CorpusChain, finished the fourth one tonight :


Only the leader with a bishop hat left to finish the squad.

Looks brilliant KT.

EDC

Real apocalyptic preacher word bearer vibe from these models.

Much appreciated EDC & Llamahead, the unholy pilgrims are now finally joined by their leader :


And group shots of the squad :

Awesome conversion work, just did a breeze through your blog and you are using a lot of the 3rd party models that I'm trying to get my hands on for my Dark Mech army!
Great models and conversions!

That's wonderfully unsettling fluff for the staffs (staves?).

@ChobitsCrazy : Thanks a lot ! Let me know if you want additional information on some bits.

@AmazingTurtles : Glad you think so, thank you.

First masked mutant finished :

And finished the two other cultists this morning :




Group shots :

And finished the dark mechanicus demon prince tonight


And a scale shot

Man that mixture of wires/tentacles/entrails? is perfect.

very, very nice. Gribbly genie vibe (mostly the skinny, cyclone-like legs)

That daemon prince! Wow!

The freehand on those chinese style runes is excellent

Thanks a lot my friends, means a lot.
I am currently traveling, so no update for at least a week. However, I already have a 1kg chunk of resin reserved for the knights, will get to it as soon as I come back.

Crazy stuff here, as always . I'm waiting for new updates !

Thanks a lot ROTTEN_FACTORY, finally back home, started working on the knights, two of the received some shoulders :




And did some scultping on the third :

Some progress on "smaller" models tonight, started placing an old chaos sorceror on a dark mechanicus platform :


And placed three of the heads of the siamese demon prince :

Oh, and I would like some input on the knight shoulders, I am now pretty sure they need to be reduced in width and lowered, what do you think about this crappy shop :

 KernelTerror wrote:
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Looking good! I particularly like the multi-headed daemon prince, might steal the principle for an Alpha Legion DP

Out of curiosity, what did you use for the large pipe going into the back of the sorcerer mini?

What the huge update ! I like the way it's going . Demon prince

@Nurgle5 : Thanks a lot, please do reuse the idea, there is never enough multi headed demons on the internet. The large pipe is custom made, with a pipe tool and the same "magic sculpt" resin used for the body of the siamese demon prince

@ROTTEN_FACTORY : Thanks a lot, yeah, that dude is getting crazier and crazier..And harder to photograph ^^ !

Tonight I went ahead and reduced the size of the knight shoulders, It looks much more harmonious I think. Sealed em in place with demon flesh (the kind of situation where chaos converter are happy not to be loyalist ^^).

Dismembered and rebuilt two plaguebearers today. Pretty happy with the grotesque poses.

Evening Dakka, Update time !

Almost finished the plaguebearer with a gun, only the hood armor missing


Progressed on dark mechanicus time


Started a second corruptode


And finally, started some weapons for the siamese demon prince :

By all that is heretical, Kernel, does your wicked imagination know no bounds?

Fantastic work all around, I'm really curious to see what the sorcerer on his platform and the siamese demon prince will look like when they're painted

Also, the Unholy Pilgrimage is giving me ideas for my Word Bearers...

Keep up the good work

Thanks a lot my friend, glad to provide inspiration for your word bearers. More heresy soon...

Glorious, Kernel! Gritty, grotesque and fully in the Chaotic vibe. The Eye of Terror would have highly corrupting influences on the bodies of mortals (and semi-mortals..) and you captured that very nicely! I will have to take a few ideas for my sorcerers and Daemon Princes from your lot!

"Eye"-ing this thread, my good sir.

Thank you very much and welcome aboard RenegadeBoy !

Got some work done this weekend. First, I finished the elongated plaguebearer :


Also made some progress on his brother :


Some lazy conversion of archo flagellant, should make some decent dark mech slaves :


And started putting together this thing :

That thing at the end is hideously freaky. Well done.

Thanks a lot Llamahead !

Finished the flying chair sorceror tonight.

Evening Dakka. Finally finished the siamese demon tonight. Taking pictures of this thing is a nightmare, and painting it will probably be even worse ^^ ! Looking forward to it.



Also finished the second corruptode :

Hot damn sir! I bow humbly to to your macabre visions and their flawless executions... those Daemons look mighty warp-ified! What is the "clay"-like substance you used for sculpting their bodies?

Truly awesome work; that daemon beast is going to look unholy with some paint!

Minigun Bayonet screams 40k

@r3n3g8b0y : Thanks a lot my friend ! The body of the siamese demon ? It is Magic Scuplt, dries slower and is structurally stronger than GS once dry. Or are you thinking about the white resin used on the knight ? It is plastiroc, very cheap (5€ / kg), dries pretty fast but has poorer resolution, so more useful for large scultps.

@Kurnost : Much appreciated !
@Llamahead : Indeed, not necesarrily usable, but required nonetheless.

MASSIVE UPDATE !! Everything looks crazy Great work KernelTerror

Thanks a lot ROTTEN_FACTORY !
Speaking of whom, something arrived from Poland today ^^. As expected, content is awesome.
These guys will make some brilliant nurgle warriors, here are shots of them




I'll probably start with that guy, giving him a big gun for him to rest on his shoulder should let it keep its badass pose...


And an awesome bonus content in this package, some gun parts, that will be very usefull for the Chaos Knight


And a third part immediately found its place as the head of a Chaos Knight


And finally, something homebrew, a kind of dark mechanicus fetus, probably hard to read without paint, but I am pretty happy with it.

Which lot is the Polish stuff from? Don't recognise the models.

It is from Rotten Factory Llamahead, but I heard about them here when the guy started his blog around the same time I got back into the hobby. Go check him out, I have not bought (yet) all the cool stuff available on his store ^^.

Update time, here is what I did over the weekend :

As promised, gave a gun to that RottenFactory dude :


Finished that other guy


Made the two following spawns out of old school tyranid gargoyles bodies, a third one is on the way



Simple headswap on that TitanForge not plaguebearer, he should make a nice darkmech slave.


Thanks for watching !

And here comes the last chaos spawn. Now I'll start painting all these creeps !

Breath taking work as usual. Top work with the conversion of the Rotten Factory stuff.

I reckon the Nurgle Knight will look totally epic!

EDC

Thanks a lot EDC !

Painted the converted archoflagellant and the TitanForge guy today :

Nice and gritty, as always! The last dude's my favourite of the bunch, there's just something so ominous and wrong about him (or should I say 'it'?)

@EzraTyrius : Thanks a lot my friend !

Finished painting the RottenFactory cyclop conversion tonight

So much weirdness on one page! Your models get creepier and creepier!

Cheer CorpusChain, weird and creepy is what I aim for !

Speaking of which :

And finished painting his brother :


Group shots :




And with the older versions I made way back :

OMG. I really shouldn't look at this thread before bedtime!
Keep it up! These are amazing!

Thanks a lot my friend, finished this spawn this morning :

Evening Dakka !
Finished my second corrupted custodes tonight


Group shots with his brother :




And finished a second chaos spawn :

Finished the last spawn this evening


And a group shot :

Finished the demon fetus tonight :

Brilliant stuff your sculpting has improved a lot recently.

Thanks Llamahead, glad to hear that practice pays off.

Good day Dakka, took a while, but finished the dark mechanicus sorceror on a chair today :

 KernelTerror wrote:
Update time, here is what I did over the weekend :
As promised, gave a gun to that RottenFactory dude :

I love this conversion !!

Lot's of new great miniatures!

The last guy (this one on flying platform) looks awesome !!

Thanks you very much Rotten Factory, glad you approve. I'll convert some more of your stuff in the next batch.
But for now, I have a big guy to present.


And some group shots, this guy dwarves even the demon princes, no wonder it took a while to finish

Good to see the tripledaemon painted and done, been a long time in the works and came out great. Really imposing too, much larger than I realized!

- Salvage

Thanks a lot Boss Salvage ! And yeah, I started sculpting its legs around last september, so I am pretty happy to see it finished.

Worked on some ROTTEN_FACTORY stuff today, first, I converted the demon model :


Gave one of the swords of the dark imperium box to that dude :


And assembled these two guys, who will stay unconverted :

Brilliant stuff as ever that siamese daemon is epic.

Very cool work with the rotten forge stuff; but that daemon is all shades of AWESOME

Looks good, I particularly like the spindly conversion with the wide mawed musket.

Thanks a lot everyone, glad to hear this !

Converted a primaris today :

Uuuuu nice.
What you have done with the demon! Hmmm it looks better now . Awesome conversion!

Thanks for supporting the project!

p.s. ROTTEN FACTORY, not rotten forge;P

Lot of new stuff here! As usual super cool characters, I personally especially like the ones based on the plaguebearers and the rotten factory guy with the gun!

Amazing! I sold off my primaris marines, but had I kept them, I might have done something like this!

@ROTTEN_FACTORY : What was I thinking, of course not Rotten Forge, I must have mixed things up because of the titanforge stuff lying around. Glad you approve the demon, I am merciless with miniatures when I have a blade and an idea.

@b-tone : Thanks ! Yeah, had a lot of fun with these plaguebearers, probably some of my favorite recent stuff.

@corpuschain : Cheers ! And I would have loved to see some bloodstorm primaris, next time maybe ^^ ?

Today I worked on converting one of the death guard HQ :

Started converting another primaris to chaos :


And started building a gun for the knight, based of course on a ROTTEN_FACTORY cannon :

I'm Back !

Been a bit idle lately, as I had to move my hobby workshop from one room to another, and my previous was not moveable.
So I built a rolling metal table, just at the right level between my fishing chair and computer screens, pretty happy with it so far.


But back to the mater at hand, this :

The knight is getting a powerfist, jointing is still drying but I should soon be able to post a pic of the assembled knight with both his weapons...

Finished the second corrupted primaris, by working on his shoulder


And started on a third one, with a flamer and a tzeentchian head


Also started playing with the dark imperium nurgle mutants, with that tall guy

They'll be very fun to play with I reckon, so many intereste mutated bits and poses..

The death guard marines on the other hand, I am pretty underwhelmed actually, can't really figure out why...But maybe I am just pissed because they are not as tall as the primaris..Yeah, I am that petty... In any was, just needed to make em bigger then, this is what I started :


Thanks for stopping by !

Great work with Dark Imperium and reminding me how the Chaos range has grown recently.

Thanks Llamahead !

Did some detailing work on the knight today, including work on the joints, meaning I can now place it standing up with both its weapons !
Sorry about the crappy lighting, but that guy does not fit into the lighbox anymore, will have to think of something...

Lots to do still, but looks like I'll be able to finish building this one pretty soon...


And also finished this plague marine,

Woah, so much to see since I last checked this blog!
It's all fantastic, as always! I really like the massive daemons in particular. The Knight is coming along nicely, and some of the infantry are suitably unique.
One thing that stood out was how your spawn has a similar shape and pose to the daemon engine I just created (take a look in my latest update). It's strange since I haven't looked at your blog in a while and you definitely haven't seen mine! Great minds think alike!

Thanks ! And yeah I can see it, there is a common twisted stance on both models indeed ! Yours is clearly bigger though ^^ !

Big day today, finished the knight, crowning it with additional pipes, flags and pikes. Can't wait to start painting that guy !

Good havens, you have made a lot of progress my friend. I especially love your Death Guard HQ, the rip cage gun is as sickening as it is fitting for the blessed of father nurgle.

As for the knight, i hate to tell you so, but i think its legs look a bit too thin and fragile for such a massive model. Almost like he's about to topple over. Adding some putty to it and adding additional mass (and dead flesh) to the legs would certainly improve this, as far as i'm concerned.

Thanks for the advice Vyra, It is actually a point I was concerned about 4 month ago, when I first fitted the torsos to the legs, and because of that reduces the width of the shoulder plates.
I value you opinion, let's debate reworking them. Here are some arguments in favour of me not doing more work ^^ :
- The GW imperial knight seems to have reasonably thin legs too behind its armor plates, anyone has a measurement ?
- The model is structurally strong. Everything is pinned and balanced. Right now the torso and weapons stay in place on the legs without glue, putty or magnets. I am confident that the model will stay this way.
- I like the skeletal look of it. Good think about this army is that chaos lets me get away with weirdly sized limb and grotesque looks ^^ !

In any case, thanks a lot for the constructive criticism, do not hesitate to respond the points above. If I were to rework the legs, I'd most probably go the road of frontal armor plates, like on the GW Imperial Knight model...

While I think about it, the opinion on that matter of any dakkanaut passing by is more than welcome.

Currently working on frontal armor plates for the knight's legs. Not 100% sold on the Idea yet, but I'll see what it looks like
In the meantime, I finished these two nurgle guys :

Finished the leg armor plates for the knight. I'll admit I was reluctant at first, but I know like the look of it, so they stay on, thanks VyRa ! Some more sealing and joints to do and it'll be good to go.

Emperor preserve me... that knight looks wicked! Wouldn't want to face that on the battlefield, that's for sure!

Amazing work, as always!

Thanks a lot my friend !

And one double headed ROTTEN_FACTORY warrior painted, loved that model, the sculpt work on the flesh melting down was a pleasure to work with. Plus, there is some kind of decayed nobility about that model...

Finished a second Rotten Factory model tonight :



And some group shots with the three finished so far :

Finished painting a corrupted primaris tonight

Finished the rotten factory demon today.

And then they were four :


On another note, I had my first game in over 10 years today, as a childhood friend visited. His dark eldars faced my heretic astartes in a 500 points deathmatch. We slaughtered these sneaky xenos with the purulent might of Nurgle ! These new 8th ed rules are a lot of fun, I'll definitely try to play again.

Finished painting the headsman today :


And this conclude this painting batch's ROTTEN FACTORY models, but I have plenty more from the kickstarter that I'll get working on soon.

Excellent stuff nice change in styles between the Primaris and the Rotten Factory stuff.

Thanks Llamahead ! Different styles for different squads, two more primaris will follow !

Looks awesome! Hope to see more converted miniatures.

Thanks ROTTEN_FACTORY, definitely more of your stuff on the menu for the next building session !


Finished a plague marine today

Wow, such dark and menacing models!
Those converted primaris are barely recognisable from the original models!

Great Scott! This is some awesome stuff. Love all the custom work your doing KernalTerror. Are you us No strait milliput while sculpting or are you mixing it 50/50 with green Stuff?

@sennacherib : Cheers ! I have actually never tried milliput products, I probably should. To sculpt the more precise stuff I use greenstuff. For the large pieces such as the knight titan, or when resolution is not require, I use clay from Giotto (5€ a kilo). I also use magic sculpt resin, that dries slower than greenstuff and is tougher.

@corpuschain : Thanks a lot ! Yeah, the primaris are quite plain models, so it is not too hard to deface them, will definitely do more !

For the update of the evening, here is a second painted chaos primaris, pretty happy about that one actually...


Both chaos primaris


And the three painted dark imperium models so far

Just a teaser of some massive incoming heresy...

Loving this.

Beautiful work. It's great seeing so many diseperate pieces fit together with such a cohesive style. Love it. Can't wait to see the knight completed.

Thanks Sennacherib ! Can't wait either, I still have to finish painting the torso, but completion is near !

Finished the second dark imperium plague marine today :


Group shot :

Finished my third chaos primaris tonight :


Some group shot with the other primaris


and with his dark despots brothers in arms

That swords some of your best work.

Thanks LLamahead, I actually stripped it twice before ending up with something I was happy with ^^.

Well, one year, fourh month and 13 pages ago, I started building three knights. And I finally put the last paint drops on the first of them.



Unfortunately, my lightbox is too small for that model, so I improvised some lighting in my living room... Hopefully the pictures are readable.
For those joining in, this model is almost entirely scratch build, with wood, electric wire, plastic bits of various origins including a chocolate egg, and a part of my wife's car. The only 'real' bits are the flags, bolters, skulls, fangs, and of course the ROTTEN_FACTORY cannon (also used for the head).















Might have overdone it with the pictures^^ , hope you enjoy !

Back to assembling stuff, started a squad of Primaris Noise marines today.

I say that all the time, but I really love cultists. However, since the release of the 8th and the three games I had, I realized I really lacked cultists with long range rifles. So, let's make some more cultists.

They will be bases on these ~40 old school elves I just received, the long robes and small size look appropriate for them.


While the anvil industry guns arrive, time to get chopping heads and arms !

Looking forward to seeing your take on those Elves; your Primaris are awesome. That Knight is just amazing; it's like a massivedaemon used random knight parts as a suit of armour. Very very coool

Thank you very much Kurnost. Much appreciated coming from someone who appreciates big machinery !

Tonight, I started converting a ROTTEN_FACTORY sorceror into an heretic magos. He'll naturally receive even more tentacles and the robes will be prolongated over the joint. I also repositionned the right hand to fit the new pose :


I also worked on decapitating the elves, getting them one step closer to cultists :


I then inserted metal rods into their necks


And glued some painting tissues on them :


After a dip in PVA they are now drying, and should provide me with a nice base to build organic looking demon helmets.

Today, I worked on this RottenFactory conversion, he'll make a pretty badass squad leader for one of the cultist squads currently being built


Also added tentacles to the heretic magos and details the bottom of his cloak :


And the cultists are now dry, these should make for nice bases while sculpting the helmets

Good evening Dakka, I finished some primaris noise marines today.

First the champion :


Then one with an old schoold sonic blaster



I also moved my old plague marines to 30mm bases. In their last battle they managed to pass all of their disgustingly resilient saves, making my opponent very sad.


Side by side with the dark imperium conversions :

Lot's of new stuff here. The knight looks great! I love the conversion of ONEYE . Hope to see it painted.

Thanks a lot ROTTEN_FACTORY, you definitely will, I also like how he is turning out.

Tonight I finished building a Berzerk out of a reiver.

Evening dakka, I finished 5 cultists today, the pics don't really show the faces, the hoods are probably to blame for that. It will get much more readable once painted.


Also had an unpleasant surprise this morning, as my knight fell from a two meter high shelf, and shattered to the ground. Most probably, an ankle joint gave up, probably earning me a big cup of "I told you so !" . Aaanyway, most of it is already fixed, but just gluing it back gave a pretty wobbly model as a result. At that point, I considered turning in into a Lord Of Skull, but that's no game, I wanted a top heavy knight, I shall get one ! (Although now, I want to build some lord of skull....stupid Kernel Terror !)

In order to get a more stable result, I placed four big woodworking screws through the legs. They go through wood parts on one side, and plastic plates on the other, and the result seems much more stable. Just need to camouflage them with some demonic flesh, and paint it back, it should be good as new).

Evening Dakka ! Tonight, I finished converting the ROTTEN_FACTORY OneEye into this heretic magos :


Also finished a primaris noise marine :


And finished camouflaging the repairs on the knight. This new setup feels stronger than the previous one, we'll see if it holds ^^.

Another day, another noise marine. Really love these forgeworld sonic guns...


I also started on a pretty nut project; building some kind of dark mech belisarus cawl based on a necron plane and some roots : here are the first steps :

WOW! I must say this "kind of dark mech belisarus cawl" looks very interesting . It reminds me some illustrations made by Ian Miller.

Thanks a lot ! Yeah that should be an interesting build. The base sealant is currently drying, after that I'll be able to mix industrial wires with the roots and shape them all properly, can't wait !

In the mean time, I finished my fifth and last primaris noise marine :

Made some progress on the second knight's torso today, slowly taking shape.

Added more tentacles to the belisarius chaowl, and started working on the body's stance. The gaunt summoner's head will be perfect for that dude.


And added armor plates to the legs of the current WIP knight. the lefs still needs widening aroung the waist.

I really like how the chaos Belisarius Cawl conversion is looking, can't wait to see it more complete.

Ok using tree roots thats crazy insane genius!!!!

Thanks Llamahead and ph34r !

Added a layer of rolled up clay tentacles tonight. I'll then finish with a last layer of roots. This is going to be a nightmare to paint ^^ !

Wow. Lots of progress on so many fronts. I have to admit. Painting 60 pox walkers has killed my creative juices.

Thanks Sennacherib ! Well I am supposed to be making cultists instead of being silly with roots and half a necron ship ^^. Looking forward to see your zombie tide painted, I have no doubt it'll be worth it.

Wow, the Knight is absolutely revolting! In a good way Sorry to hear about the accident :(

I'm always amazed how, when you convert marines and other infantry, it's really hard to tell what the original model was. That's the sign of an excellent conversion!

Inspirational as always!

Thanks a lot for these kind words CorpusChain, means a lot. And regarding the knight, this is what happens when you incorporate automotive parts in a model ^^. No worries though, the repair looks stronger now !

If I want my magos to be a chaos belisarus cawl, he needs a fancy looking gun and an axe. Here are early versions of both. In each case, I'll be adding more wires, skulls, root tentacles...


And I also duplicated a daemonette claw in order to equip some of the magos' tentacles. I used the following setup based on a hinge and some resin. The results are not exact copies, but in that case, it is a plus.

Really glorious creations, Kernel! Very very imaginative and realistic in their corrupted and warped nature... it would be a pleasure to see these across the tabletop!
How did you manage to make the green stuff stick to the plastic so well? If I try it it usually falls off when it dries....

 r3n3g8b0y wrote:
Really glorious creations, Kernel! Very very imaginative and realistic in their corrupted and warped nature... it would be a pleasure to see these across the tabletop!
How did you manage to make the green stuff stick to the plastic so well? If I try it it usually falls off when it dries....

Thanks a lot r3n3g8b0y !
Regarding greenstuff I never really ran into that issue, does this happen regularly ? Aside from solidarizing it to the surface by pressing the borders of the resin with a tool, I do not do anything special to it.

Of course it is not as resilient as glue, and I would not trust it for an heavily solicited area.
For the noise marines above I sculpted the joints, then removed the weapons once it dried. Only after painting will they be glued back into place.

Let me know if I am being unclear.


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Finished the tentacle batch holding the gun, and the arm holding the axe.


I'll then work on modifying the axe to make it look a bit mode darkmechlordish and on adding some skulls to the gun.

more work on the axe, and start of side plates for the back armor.

Good evening Dakka ! Tonight I started dressing the magos, placed the top front plates and finished the axe. As is custom in this blog, another chaosy oversized weapon ^^ !

Love the imagination on display here. And the execution is great too. : )

Wow. Some really over the top (or should that be above and beyond) conversion work you've done! Loving the old school (2nd edition) Chaos vibe these models are giving me.

And those flaming swords on the Primaris guys? Fantastic!

Thanks a lot Kestral and Craggy, much appreciated !

Wired the front chapel of the chaos belisarius, and placed most of the plates. Also shamelessely copypasted faces as top ornament and placed wires into their mouth. The magos's body can still be removed, as well as the axe, that should make for a less nightmarish painting experience...

With the frontal chapel finished, I started working on the back of the magos, adding dorsal sensors and some arcs on the side. Added the sigmarine reliquary, I think it works nicely...

Good evening Dakka !

Last weekend, my folks visited, and brought back tons of models from my high school years, including my old black legions.

Pictures are below, those guys were tabletop at best, and I had a tendency to overdarken everything. Still, It was funny deploying them once again. I'll probably repaint the tanks and defiler, and salvage the berzerkers for chainaxes !

Good evening Dakka ! I just finished the last details on the chaos belisarius cawl. You may notice that I eventually got rid of the stormcast shield, did not fit the general shape, it was replaced by moar tentacles !







Now I need to paint this.....




Why do I do this to myself ?
Thanks for stopping by !

Looks insane considered entering it intoFright Night?

Thanks Llamahead ! It definitely fits the challenge, but with eleven days to go ? Allright, let's try ^^.

That's an awesome model

Thanks a lot Wargaming Warrior ! Earlier on I airsprayed the primer, hopefully that will make my life easier ^^.

You're a madman, KT

- Salvage

I don't know how I have missed your work so far during my random wandering around dakka KernelTerror, but it's awesome, it's amazing, and a lot of times quite frightening too. I'll guess I'll have to backtrack trough your thread someday, it's all so amazing! Really really great work (this is an understatement)

Thanks a lot for the kind words Boss Salvage and Big Boss Grimbad. These are very heartwarming while racing to finish the spaghetti magos before the end of the month ^^.

Goos evening Dakka !
I finished the Dark Mechanicus magos tonight, pretty happy how it turned out !



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forgot to upload the mandatory heretics & friends pictures :

Back to more humble projects, and what is more humble than cultists ?





These two are joining two previous cultists with a similar look to form a new warband : The Ghoul Company

Three more to paint, and thirty two more to assemble.

Two more cultists, including the squad leader :

And finished the Ghoul Company cultists. At least for this painting batch...

And here comes the RottenFactory magos conversion :

Love the ghoul company!

Cheers Kestral ! There will be many more, no other choice with the average cultist lifespan...

Tonight I finished painting this primaris berzerker :

Finished the first noise marine today :

I really need to work on a better photo boot though, the teal on the shoulder is clearly overlighted


Quite a different paint style from the berzerker just before I reckon :

And then they were two :

And two more noise marines for tonight :

Impressively sinister.

Thank you very much Llamahead. Only the aspiring champion left and the squad will be complete. Then It will be cultist assembly time again !

I am loving those Noise Marines.

Thank you very much Wargaming warrior.

I finished the repairs on the titan, so took the opportunity to snap a few more pics :

Back to working on the Ghoul company, by corrupting the rest of the old school elf warriors I secured earlier.

Some of them received a sigmarine shield, stole that iead from a brilliant blog somewhere, unfortunately cannot remember which one...


The imperial gun is pretty long, so these guys will be using them with the help of different kinds of tentacles :


And with seven shields done, I can already deploy a nice looking squad, should be appropriate to "hold the line" in this month's painting challenge



Also gave faces to the remaining cultists, although I'll probably leave those for the next buildinging batch.


Thanks for stopping by.

Finished a large part of the gang, including the shield frontline. But it looks that I'll try to finish all 37 of them this month...silly me.

Aaand all 32 of them assembled.

I hope you guys like cultists ^^. Finished a batch of ghoul company soldiers tonight.













The 24 others should follow soon...

Dude. Seriously you are crazy. Not only the volume of models you have finished but in sheer creativity. Love the colors you choose. Seriously awesome.

Thanks a lot my friend. Went on full warhammer fordism on these ones, all 37 of them received the base colors and washes, now I only have the detailing work to do. Meaning, I can present 8 more cultists today :

Are you guys sick of cultist yet ? Well that's too bad, I finished 16 more of them.



And with that bath, the squad is complete, here are the group shots I am presenting to the dakka 'Hold the line 'challenge, wish me luck !







And since I am a very silly person, here are the individual shots of each cultist :

It's been far too long since I last visited this thread!

Amazing work, as always; I love those Noise Marines, the massive Knight and your Chaosified Belisarius Cawl (brilliant use of bits by the way)

The cultists look cool, too; their faces are delightfully sinister...

Keep up the good work!

Thank you very much Ezra Tyrius, and welcome back !

Finished the Noise marine aspiring champion tonight.


And with him, the squad is complete :

Good evening fellas, tonight I finished a dark eldar haemonculus.

This is for a friend's birthday', who I am trying to get back into the hobby with absolutely zero subtlety by giving him unpainted models. Back in they days, my Black Legions often faced his dark eldars, leading to epic duels between Chaos lords and Wyches.

Hopefully I'll get to face that haemonculus one of these days, and shoot him in the face !



Next update, back to chaos I promise.

A while back, I converted some sigmarines into two battle magos. I started completing the squad today, with three similar models :

Holiday season always takes a toll on productivity, but I am back !

Made some progress on the heretek battlemagos, this one only needs a head and should be ready.


Also assembled one of my favourite ROTTEN FACTORY model, and gave it some tentacles that should mirror nicely the ones coming out of his belly...


And prepared daemonettes of various origins, who will be the first of a batch of 30... And I thought I was done with tedious infantry works after my cultist project...

Good day dakka, finished one of the sigmarine dark mechanicus today :


Assembled another daemonette, from the latest models. Not fond of the monbreast look, so I added a new one, and some tentacles :


Also started working on this ROTTEN_FACTORY dude :


Since I like it a lot, I sliced it in two, and placed him on new legs :

Those noise marines are looking great, and I like the rotten factory model that is walking on tentacles.

Thank you very much ph34r !

Finished a second dark mech marine tonight :


And reworked this demon prince from a few month back. I was never really convinced by the mace I made him back then, and this axe should look much better :

Evening Dakka !

Today, I started working on the head for my second knight titan. Yup, that's an empty bottle of soy sauce....


And the third battle magos is assembled :

Good evening Dakka !

Finished converting three reiver berzerkers tonight :

One more primaris berzerk,


And a familiar for the fallen inquisitor.


And since a new year is beginning, here is all I finished in 2017. Around 90 models, allmost all of them converted. Many good things happened this year, between the Dark imperium box, arrival of the ROTTEN_FACTORY models, or the completion of some messed up project, such as the dark mech overlord, the renegade knight, or the quadruple demon.

Happy new year Dakka !

The cultists are fantastic! They're really freaky!

Thanks Corpuschain, they were a very satisfying project. I'll surely make more.

Tonight, I finished painting a battlemagos :


He is supposed to be fighting alongside these guys from a while back :

And here comes the second one :

Got distracted on the way, but the third battle magos is finally done :

Lovely glow effect shoulder pads

Thank you very much Llamahead. Finished a demonic cherub today :

Finished this tentacled fella tonight :


Mandatory group shots with his Rotten Factory friends, and with some cultists




Also painted the new axe for this demon prince, I really like this weapon more than the mace he had before.

Sorry I haven't commented properly recently! I just had a good look through some of your recent work and it's as good as ever.

The old Black Legion army: it was interesting to see these. I find it fascinating to see where people started from (or where they've been) on their modelling journeys, particularly when their current work is of great interest to me. The Black Legion seems like such a standard looking force compared to your current work! Did you change direction one day, or was it gradual evolution?

The Cawl model is fantastic. I just decided myself to make a magos on dark abeyant, with lots and lots of tentacles, so looking at your Cawl has given me inspiration for what works in a dark mechanicus setting at what doesn't.
I like the little details such as the face with a pipe/tendril coming out of the mouth. Little details like this are what make these kinds of models so rich and characterful.

The Ghoul Company are great. They're unique, but have that typical KT feel of being slightly creepy and odd. I particularly love the tentacle arms holding weapons.


My favourite recent additions, however, are the hooded cultists - particularly the one with the torch and the gun over their shoulder. Something about that model conjures an image of cultists making their way through tunnels, shooting loyalists and burning them while they chant. Fabulous.

Keep up the great work! Yours is the first thread I come to on Dakka. It's inspirational when I need inspiration most!

Thanks for these very heartwarming words my friend, this encourages me to commit even more heresy.

Regarding my old Black Legion, it was used for gaming every week, modeling was just a bonus activity. While now, I almost never play and build models for the sake of it, and to discuss them on dakka. Well there is also the fact that I can now afford to buy a ludicrous amount of used models from ebay as conversion fodder, that surely helps.

I am looking forward to seeing your take on a Dark Mech Magos on Abeyant, that is a very promising project indeed !

That cherub is terrifying.


Nice work!

Thank you very much Insaniak ! Glad to have found a reasonnable use for that plaguecaster head.

Tonight, I finished a Berzerk :



With his brother from a few days back :

Good day dakka, I finished painting my corrupted inquisitor today :

That is an utterly creepy model.

Thanks Llamahead, that was the intent ^^ !

Put the finishing touches to the three last primaris berzerks tonight :





The whole squad :


And for fun, having them face another squad of primaris traitors :

Finished a demonette tonight

That was the test model for the color scheme, and aside from adding more contrast, I think it will do.

Following the advice received in the P&M Showcase thread, I replaced the backpacks of my primaris berzerks with classic ones. Definitely looks better now :








And for fun : Inquisitor Malemort in bad company :

Finished two more demonettes tonight :




So that makes three of them :

Finished another demonette tonight, this time from the TGG2 range :



The last additions, alongside one from long ago

Back to assembling models, here are the rest of the TGG2 not daemonettes :


Also bought a demon mount, whose head I replaced with that of a seeker.


It came with a rider, whose face will also be replaced. I will, however, need a second rider for this older mount :

More daemonettes assembled tonight :


Including these four, who missed some limbs and required transplants :

Good evening Dakka, finished converting a squad of titanforge not plaguebearers into masked hereteks tonight :


Another Titanforge model is this demon queen. I wanted to fit her with wings, so I had to remove her hair and an arm :


Also recruited this ROTTENFACTORY priest into my corrupted inquisitoral warband, by replacing his arm with a gun.


And last but not least, some progress on the knight titan, with the plate holding the head drying into shape. I'll the remove it to finish modeling the head properly. Also added some ROTTEN FACTORY shields to the shoulder :


Thanks for stopping by

Excellent stuff especially the Titanforge not Plaguebearers.

Thanks Llamhead !

Not much to report today, just took this hammerhead from ebay out of storage,


And I sliced it in half !


Tend to to that to a lot of models thinking about it...

Added a rear engine, a backbone and a some frontal armor to the sliced hammerdead


Ad gave some wings to the demon queen :

Progress on different fronts today, starting with a rib cage sculpted on top of the half hammerhead :


Gave a daemonette face to the TGG2 demon rider


Started the wiring work on the knight titan's head


And added cages and demon skulls on the knight's thighs

Neat stuff! The heretecs and ghouls are my favorites so far, but the mechanicus stuff is not far behind. I particularly like your scratch built guns.

Thank you very much Kestral !

Finished the head of the knight today :

Update time on the demon queen. I almost entirely redid the wings, doing the tentacles out of clay and expecting to model their points out of greenstuff was delusional, and, I'll admit, cheap. I also added some demonic faces to the wing borders, and some spikes.

Finished a demon rider tonight :


And also started assembling that old fella, still debating whether I use the provided scenic base, or use a flying one.

I feel like ol' gangly Galrauch is like the grandfather of your Warp Wanderers, with all the strange design touches and wiggly mutation bits and odd textures

- Salvage

Thanks for the kind words Boss Salvage, I am very fond of that model. He should fit in allright with my band of chaos freaks.

Speaking of which, dug out this old possessed champion for the monthly challenge, should be fun to paint :

Finished three titanforge not plaguebearers today :







And a last one with the mutant I made last year as a 'prototype' for this squad

Using Galrauch as a Heldrake just makes sense ad loving the daemonette rider.

Nice work on the Reiver-zerkers. The daemons are very cool, and those bird-masked dudes are quite unsettling! Can't wait to see how you do Galrauch up!

Thanks a lot Llamahead and Kurnost !

I haven't stop by for a while, my fault! A lot of cool things going on here. Love those masked-mutants, and thanks 'cause I didn't know about titanforge minis. Your titan is coming along so scary, with those teeth and the new cages. And I'm really curious about what will that sliced hammerhead become!

Much appreciated B-Tone, the fate of the hammerhead should become clearer in the next step, let's just say it has some common ground with one of your recent builds...

Finished the rest of the squad tonight :





All ready for slaughter !

Those dudes are some of my favorite TF sculpts - certainly favorite lesser demon. Dig the creepy masks you've added

- Salvage

Amazing squad! Now you made me seriously curious about the hammerhead!

@Boss Salvage : Thanks a lot ! Pretty happy with how they turned out myself, and the colors show nicely in the picture.

@b-tone : Thanks ! Well in that case I won't make you wait any longer, here it is with a (roughly cut) wing (temporarily) attached :



Incoming demon tie fighter !

I reckon that kind of crossover will not be to everyone's taste, we'll see whether it looks good or silly in the end ^^ !

And finished painting this ROTTEN FACTORY conversion, should make for a fine addition to my lost inquisitor's retinue :

Yeah! Man we should make them race!
Very good ob on the rotten factory conversion!

Good Idea !
*attaches more guns to the TIE*

Finished painting some demonettes tonight :

20 more daemonettes to paint, so it is taking a while. I however, managed to finish a demon mount tonight :

And two more demonettes tonight :

Finished this old school possessed champion today :

Nice work. Bumping up the slannesh in your forces.

Thanks Sennacherib ! Absolutely, one of the reason is that my main opponent used to play dark eldar. If we ever have a chance to play again, these daemonettes will strike first, which will most certainly make him very sad ^^.

Cool daemons! Hope the tie fighter is receiving some attentions too!

Thanks B-Tone. But unfortunately no progress to report on the TIE, I am kind of using it as a reward for when I finish this slaanesh demon infantry project. I did some decent progress this weekend, with 9 more daemonettes painted :

That's quite a speed painting, still with a very good quality result!
Nice tactic to reward yourself that way, I do it too sometimes!

Thanks ! Yeah the next building batch should be pretty fun, I plan on finishing the TIE as well as finishing a knight titan, two big unreasonable projects as I like !

Finished painting the demon rider tonight :

Very chaotic and ladylike....

Thank you very much Llamahead.

Finished five raging heroes daemonettes today :

Finished the raging heroes daemonette leader and musician tonight :

Those are some good daemonettes, I really like the claws. Quality sculpts from Raging Heroes seems like.

Thanks a lot ph34r !
Yeah these models are pretty badass, and very creative too, maybe one day I'll get some of their centaurs...

I love thechoice of a fiddle for the musician.

Yeah, that is a very good call on Raging Heroes' part, it absolutely fits the look and lightness of these models, as well as their general slaanesh vibe.