Been a long time KernelTerror, and in catching up all I can say is Wow! Your army is huge in total at this point! The warp is a truely mysterious place and that hellblade you call a tie, is it? Lol, really fun!

Thanks a lot genom.cor, glad you approve of my experiments. And you saw the weaponry of the TIE correctly, if it ever get fielded, it will be as an hellblade.

Today, I worked on the knight titan's weapons, building the beginning of some kind of plasma carbine and a sword :

Oooooh exciting!

Exciting indeed! I love how you manage to use such random household items in your models! Is that a bicycle handlebar plug I spy?

Cheers my friends !

@CorpusChain : The black plastic part on top of the gun ? No, it is a plastic furniture foot, the kind you insert into an hollow metal tube to not damage the floor.

But yeah, finding funny looking plastic parts is a part of modeling I may enjoy a bit too much ^^. On these last two weapons, you'll find two different kinds of superglue caps, a yogurt lid, different wall plugs, a broken metal chain, a wine cork, a beer wax top, a citadel paint pot, and some plastic that held my printer together during delivery.

Finished detailing the TIE's cockpit and its arm. Just need to finish the wings now...

Today I started doing some detailing on the TIE's wings :


But most importantly, I also finished the knight and started assembling it to see how it look and decide on a final pose. Clay in the joint between the legs and the torso is still being pressed into shape right now, hence the improvised scaffolding.

Finished assembling the knight today. I'll remove its limbs for painting, but it will stay mounted for a few days, see if it holds.


Took this opportunity to take a picture with the other one, and some mechanicus crew inspecting it :

Nice work on the tie wings.

If it weren't for the tentacles on the knight I'd be tempted to call it a looted ork version (That's a good thing by the way ) Good use of parts.

Thanks MonkeyTroll ! That might be because of the way I scratchbuild these things. While some people methodically measure and cut plasticard, I just loot any weird looking piece of plastic or metal I can find and cover them in glue and clay until they stop falling off. I guess that would make me the ork of the story... I'm fine with that ^^.

The warp is strong with you my friend! Also, those titans are scary. Call in the heavies!

Thank you very much genom.cor !
It is a good week for big vehicles, today, I finished the TIE Hellblade :


Don't worry if the wings are not aligned well, I am waiting till after paint before gluing them.

Started working on some topless berzerkers on reiver legs today :

Finished building the berzerkers today :


And also started working on a backdrop for my models, something that would belong in a dark mech lab, or on a chaos ship :

Finished this Rotten Factory demon today :

Like the look of the background piece - second shot shows it to be much bigger than I was thinking from the first

Rotten Factory hey? I'll have to look into tbem.....

Thanks MonkeyTroll ! Yeah, this way I can use it for pictures of chaos knights !


Today's progress consisted in adding more texture to the background :

Those topless berzerkers are freaking amazing! Love the poses. I also really like the size of the background drop, I do think 40k is the ideal place for this kind of gigantic buildingscapes but GW is kinda passing up on that potential (understandable, a plastic kit of that size would be expensive...).

Thanks Big Boss Grimbad, hopefully I'll have some of them painted before the end of the week.

And indeed, absurdly oversized structures are indeed part of the appeal of this universe.

The backdrop is now ready for paint :


Added heads, more texture, and a magnetized catwalk so that model can walk like cats. And probably fall to an horrible death :


Can't wait to see how all this will look once basecoated.

Finished painting two of the berzerks today :

And here comes a third Berzerk :


Also started building a bunker :

All looking good. I thought you might be going for a split level bunker from the first shot...wondered if you had built it up so you could have an entrance/firing-slit/tunnel at the bottom. But looks like it's going to be a Big Bunker instead

Thanks MonkeyTroll ! Yeah, just a big bunker, with a single opening long enough to let an entire platoon shoot ^^.

Finished the last Berzerks today :






And the entire squad :

very cool, I kinda like them more than the traditional bunny ear berzerkers

Thank you very much AlabamaHeretic, I am pretty happy with these helms too, gives them kind of a post apocalyptic barbarian look.

Finished painting the inner side of one of the wings of the Hellblade today

Made some progress on my bunker.

Since the main plastic parts are hollow, filled the top part with packing foam :



Then covered it with plaster


Also started making the back platform of the bunker, about the appropriate level to place some cultists behind it :

Made some progress on the bunker, now that both elements are dry :


In order to have the roof stand on its own, I screwed wooden structure at each extremity. Now the main window can be seen unobstructed :



Also started building the ramp at the back of the bunker, to let a rhino sized tank access it :

Evening Dakka ! The backdrop is finally finished :


The very limited palette helps highlighting models :



The magnetized catwalk lets models fall to their death


And it is big enough to accomodate a knight titan :


The floor can also be raised in order to use an upper part as a background :

Those berzerker conversions are really interesting, maybe I'll think of a reason to steal them.

Good work on the backdrop, nice bit of variety you've built into it

@TheEldanariPrince : Thank you very much ! You definitely should, the universe is a better place with more chainsaw wielding maniacs in it !

@MonkeyTroll : Cheers ! It was a lot of fun putting all these components together !

Finished the hellblade today !
It is even big enough to have cultists hitch a ride on it !

Fully approve of the tentacle frontage

Thanks monkeytroll ! Should probably come in handy in the warp ^^ !

Sooo, a few days back, I had a fully ready to be painted chaos knight.... And here it how it looked yesterday morning :


Yeaah, tried to take it apart for painting, realized the hip joint was too strong to properly dismount, then that the main blue component would make a nice turbine for a dreadclaw. Ended up destroying the whole torso.

However, I want to enter this knight in the dakka painting competition, so I quickly found this old bit of sander as a replacement :


And here it is, almost entirely assembled again :



Some more detailing to do, but it should soon be ready for paint...A second time !

Been away for a week, but I finally finished the repairs. The knight is receiving the first coats of paint tomorrow :

Wow that tie hellblade is epic! The kight looks solid, good as ever. Keep up the good work!

That is so random and excellent.

Thanks of the kind words genom.cor and Llamahead !

Since I entered the knight in the monthly competition, I started painting it right away, and was able to do quite a lot of progress over the weekend, both of the knight's weapons can be called finished, modulo some touchups here and there...

And finished painting the legs tonight :

All things considered, this went pretty fast ^^ !
The second knight titan is painted and ready for battle !






















And here it is with its older brother, ready to bring destruction upon the servants of the corpse god :

*Cues More human than human as Kernel's theme song*

Ahaha Thanks AlabamaHeretic ! That feels/sounds perfectly appropriate for the chaos freakshow I am trying to build here !

Suitably gribbly

Thank you very much MonkeyTroll !

Some progress on the bunker. The texture of the lower half is done, and I applied some first layer of paint, mostly to locate area that needed further texture work. Next step, finishing the upper half...

Good Emperor those knights are terrifying! Charge the Shadowsword volcano cannon and lock on!
The bunker looks ace too! Good work all around, as usual.

Thanks genom.cor !
Shadowsword you say ? Hmmm, I'm afraid you are right, better build a third knight to be on the safe side...

Made progress on my bunker earlier, by applying plaster to the buttresses. A plastic bag separates the two parts, but should let the top half dry into shape and stay in place on its own.

Progress on the bunker, the buttresses are dry, making the top half ready to receive its basecoat :

Also finished setting up my new modeling lair, so regular modeling should soon restart ^^ !

The base colors are applied on the bunker. Still need some detailing/grotesquification !

FInal additions to the bunker, some giant heads statues

Aaand bunker all done :







The roof can also be removed, in case I ever want to put big guns behind it. (note to self, build big guns !)


And for scale, here are a few cultists holding the line :






Allright, now for something completely different, time to send the warp wanderers into space !

Finished a first ship tonight, painted in some kind of nurgley scheme :

In awe of how quickly you produce high quality results. Nice dude!

BFG! Good little fleet there. I like the color scheme. The bunker is really impressive by the way! Very cyber-horror. Love the propaganda posters.

Thanks Karimabuseer, very kind of you to say !

Cheers genom.cor, glad you approve ! I have had been collecting these ships for quite a while, it was about time they started to receive some paint.

Finished a cobra today :


Both ships together :

Neat terrain! Gives me some ideas to test eventually when I have my own table...

Thank you very much Zid ! I actually do not have a table, but building these were really fun, and gave me the itch to make more of them ^^ !
At least, they'll be great to take pictures of finished models !

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Thank you very much Zid ! I actually do not have a table, but building these were really fun, and gave me the itch to make more of them ^^ !
At least, they'll be great to take pictures of finished models !

Very true! I need some scenery for mine too, I always hate having to set up a light box everytime I take pics to make mine look good haha

Excellent style to the Chaos ships.

@Zid : Looking forward to what you'll come up with !

@Llamahead : Thank you very much, glad that the paintshop sells their chaos allegiance !

Three more cobras finished tonight :


And on another scale, I am getting started on Galrauch, yet an other long overdue model :

Great looking terrain, nice and bleak colour scheme which fits in well with the cultists!

Interested to see what you do with the BFG stuff, I've always been interested in collecting a few ships but decided to hold out until GW eventually decides to reboot it in 5 years or so

Thanks Commander Cain !

Yeah, I too would be very happy to see a reboot of BFG, the general aesthetic of their ships is too good to be left untapped. In the mean time, I've kept an eye on ebay and secured some ships at a reasonnable price...Then, scratch build with heavy use of molds should follow !

I haven't gone back through the old stuff yet, but I'm enjoying your BFG stuff that you've been doing lately. I don't play Age of Sigmar, but that Galrauch model looks cool.

Cheers Syro_ ! If I field Old Galrauch, it will probably be as a Helldrake, he'll look the part just fine. Ooooor may in BFG ? as a gigantic demon beast that preys on ships entering the warp ^^.

^ That would make a cool helldrake, but now I really want to see in BFG

By all the Gods in the Warp, Kernel, I am in absolute awe of your work I'm loving the Berzerkers, the new Knight, that amazing backdrop you've created (an idea that I'm totally going to steal, by the way), it's all so wonderfully weird and deliciously heretical

Keep up the good work, and may the Eye watch over you in all you do!

@Syro_ : Thanks ! I promise I'll feed him some ships once he is painted !

@Ezra Tyrius : Much appreciated mate, always glad to see you come by. I am definitely looking forward to seeing the a backdrop from you, that was definitely a fun build !

Finished two more frigates tonight :






I unfortunately do not have access to the third sword and cobras right now, so the group shot will have to wait...

Finished a strike cruiser today, not that happy with the freehanded khorne icon at the prow, but that will do...


Also, the group shot of the plague ships together :

I think the Khorne icon turned out well, especially considering how small BFG ships are. I'm impressed

Thanks Syro_ ! Well I am no that unhappy with it, but if I were to paint it again, I'd probably try to align it with the disc below it...

Tonight I finished painting these three Idolators, love this ship design :

Those Idolators look nice! And I think the freehand icon of Khorne looks fine the way it is, considering the small scale; and it's not like blood-worshipping madmen are known for being very tidy with a paintbrush

Cheers Ezra Tyrius !

Finished painting a cruiser today :



I also entered for the second time in the LOER challenge, and started building arches out of a box of sweets.

Nice looking cruiser.

Those arches look a lot like the cruiser too, if I'm honest.

Ahaha, Thanks for warning me monkeytroll ! Seems that Tzeentch has been messing with my copypasting skills ^^ !
That or lack of sleep. Surely Tzeentch though.

Nice KernelTerror, the arches are a very original idea. I like the cruiser too. Slaanesh?

Thanks Syro_ ! Yes, definitely slaanesh !

Finished painting the Galrauch this last weekend :


And as promised, here is is in the warp, encountering an unlucky ship :

The color choices make that guy look very gribbley, nice job. That last pic made me smile, thanks for doing a shot of the space encounter

Thanks Syro_ !

Finished my repulsive cruiser today :


Both cruisers so far :


And different kinds of ships, I am really fond of the sense of scale these BFG models give :

Short update, just adding a second box of sweets to my Loer entry :

Time for something big, I had this plant stump in storage since extracting it. Today I cleaned it and added legs to it :

Galrauch looks ace And I think few captains would consider themselves lucky to encounter a Warp Dragon indeed!

And that tree stump By the Throne, that thing gives me nightmares by itself! Perfect Chaos spawn/gribbly material, can't wait to see what you do with it!

That stump looks cool, I'm also looking forward to seeing what you do with it

Oooh, that stump looks like Yog-Sothoth, excited to see where it goes

Thanks a lot friends, glad you are intrigued by this project, I certainly am ^^ ! Its new legs are drying at the moment, I'll soon be able to take a picture with them attached :


Also continued on the LoER competition, by flushing some liquid candy down the drain and attaching them to my building :

Legs are dry and attached, time to be adding more chaos to this thing !

Liking where this is going

Glad to hear it MonkeyTroll !

It now has a face and a gun :

More wires to the face, replace its small tongue with two long ones, and now some hands !

Looking very cool. Is this a chaos biotitan? It looks like the scary big brother of a tyranid hierophant

Thanks a lot SYro_ ! I have yet to decide on the fluff behind that thing, I am more leaning towards an ascended heretek magos !

Still on that matter, it's almost been two weeks, and all I have to show for is stuff being glued to the back of the beast :

Started on something else. I salvaged the plastic wrappings of a egg shaped kid toy glued it, and filled it with expanding foam. I am now wiring a corpse to it, in order to build something inspired by MonkeyTroll's hierarchs.

Wow, almost twenty days without an update, the dark gods will not be pleased !

Anyway, attaching stuff to that stump is a tedious work indeed, but I am slowly making progress, here is the current look of the beast :

Coming on nicely...

That thing looks like absolute madness. Which is perfect for a chaos piece

Thanks a lot folks !
Did some work on the temple tonight, adding some niches and part of an audy for the roof. Also started glueing some wires together, that will come toughen up the pillars.
Here are some very poorly lighted pictures of it :

And finally, that thing is built !
It is going to be such a nightmare to paint ^^ ....

Wonderful stuff, absolutely love it

Every time I come back here it gets grosser and more chaotic and more awesome!

Deliciously chaotic Good luck with the painting!

Thanks a lot for the kind works folks, always supports the heresy !

Worked on the chaos temple today, plaster, and hot glue guns to add wires to the thing

Added some ribcages tonight :

Been following your thread for a little bit and having checked in last time, I was wondering what you were planning with that stump. Gotta say, blown away by the detail you've put into it!

Really liking the look of your temple too, really cool use of the hubcap (?) from your Audi

Thanks a lot for the support Tyranid horde, put a lot into that project, glad you think it was worth it !

Not my Audi ^^, I just have a condition (as many people here I suspect) that makes me pick up and store most of the plastic bits I encounter (it was on the sidewalk mind you, not on someone's Audi). Now I also have a hubcap of the wife's Dacia, that should soon be made into a dreadclaw, but that is another story....

That big gribbly beastly reminds me of the big nasty things from Princess Mononoke.

The terrain is coming together very nicely for a daemon worldscape KT! Also, that ascended magos looks like it's going to be good! Definately be scary seeing that down range as a guardsman, though I think a squadron of gunships should handle it...
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Guardsman Jenkins! Vox me in to Aeronautica command. Call sign Hounds tooth eight niner. Contact, grid coordinates 45.668. Massive hostile... erm ... titan class...thing. Requesting immediate ASS!
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Copy Hounds Tooth 89. Vendetta squadron Brimstone15 reporting. We are in the pipe with the Handsome Boys, Scions 2 twenty 2... we are go for thouchdown on hostiles in 30 ... 29... Whoa that sucker is big! Fire at will boys!

Well thought Fifty ! A bit rounder but between the humanoid hands and the back tentacles, there is a common look indeed !

Thanks genom.cor ! Hahahah, yeah even him should not venture where an airstike can reach him, misses some ground to air defenses, should have thought about that ^^. Definitely see a cloverfield like battle between it and a few Valkyries. Lore wise, this thing should be of the sneaky type though, I can imagine him popping unexpected on the outside of an imperial spaceship though... Knock knock, guess who the warp brought ?

Did some more progress on the temple today :


The expanding foam has filled most od the recesses nicely, and was ready for cleaning.



After that, is was time to start applying some texture with the usual pva/dirt/water mix, in order to tie all the pieces together :


Tomorrow, I flip it and to the same !

And basecoated !
Also applied a quick drubrush to have a first look at the textures and surfaces.

Started with the detailing today, demon portals, statues, and column joints :

Your stuff is incredible! That chaos temple is so dark, so inspired, so gothic and yet so sci-fi.... Like something HR Giger might dream up. Fantastic work!

Thanks a lot tinfoil, mentioning Giger is one of the highest praise I can think of ! Means a lot coming from you, The Harrowed has been one of the blogs that got me back into the hobby back in 2015 !

Getting close to finishing the temple, added around a hundred faces on the main arches, base paints and washes applied, only some details and highlight to do and that will be it :

That wash really brought out the Giger Tin was talking about, that sick brown-green black tone, especially with all those faces. Great progress Kernel.

Thanks Boss !

Finally received some beads today, that I used to make some vases :

And the temple is finished !
















Pictures with models inside :




Here is a image with indications about some of the components used in this build :


Also had to take a picture with a perspective of all three terrains I have build so far :


And for the dark mechanicus beast, I just finished a base !

And finished the giant beast !













And a few silly cloverfield shots :

Now this thing, looks positively cuthuluesque.
Now, is it just a model made or are you intending to actually run it as a giant Chaos spawn.

Thanks Not Online !
Not sure what size a giant spawn is, but I feel this would be a bit big, it sits on a custom base, and in terms of size, sits between a knigt and a warhound I'd say ^^. So probably no matched up play for this dude I'm affraid.

But thinking about what genom.cor said earlier, I think I'd love to field it against a bunch of imperial chopper-style fliers in a densely built area ^^ !

That is incredible KernelTerror! The giant beast looks so good, and the paintjob pulls it together beautifully. You've really outdone yourself IMO.

Excellent job on the wee beastie. Looks lovely!

Thanks a lot Syro and MonkeyTroll, merry christmas from the warp !

*BWAAAAAAAAAAM*

Sweet hell, Kernal, that giant chaos whatever really came together with paint. Stunningly monstrous

Thanks you so much Boss ! More madness to start soon !

Mate that warp beast is incredible. I love seeing people explore different avenues of Chaos, and this fleshy daddy long legs is just great. I love that the smaller tendrils look like limbs at first glance when you cast your eye over the underside of the walker - makes you really want to look at the beast or else you end up double-guessing what you're seeing - pure chaos.

Temple is also a nice terrain piece. Getting a cool giger vibe and the little statues on the shelf are a nice touch!

I love your take on Chaos too - that stuff is crazy good. I agree about the "double take on what you're seeing" effect that is so awesome with the big thing. Love the corpse wired in the egg and the gateway especially.

Thanks a lot tzurk, glad to hear the pictures let the viewer get lost in the amount of cables, tentacles and claws that constitute this beast, I certainly did while building it ^^ !

Thanks kestral, much appreciated ! I'll get back to working on the egg soon, I reckon its place in line was stolen by the temple and big beast !

And as is tradition, here is group shot of all the models I finished in 2018, quite a bunch of mutated freaks I'd say !

Not a bad haul of finished work, and they look like they belong together, which is always nice

Thanks monkeytroll ! Yeah, I tend to reuse color recipes a lot, even between different chaos sub-faction, so that helps ^^ !

Good day everyone ! Been neglecting to update this blog lately, but I have not been idle.

First, a project I had for a while, which is to turn this plastic wrapping into an enormous BFG dark mech barge :


First components added to the thing :




Also started on my third knight, placing new armord plates on its legs, started detailing the body and built a first gatling.






And I also want to enter the latest LoER round, by building an arena out of these bits. Still a bit hesitant on the size of the whole thing to be honest, it will require at least an 80 by 80cm base... Still need to work out the general look of the outside of the thing.

Some progress tonight, I started on a winged chaos lord :


And finally decided on a head style for the knight :

What's the torso on the flying lord? A primaris something? I dig the segmented ab armor and can't quite place it.

But yea, scratchbuilt knight #3?? Shaping up

Thanks boss ! And yes, that is the torso of the primaris captain from the dark imperium box, with the aquila covered with a more appropriate design of course.

By the Unholy Pantheon, Kernel, you truly out-do yourself every time! The giant Chaos beast is simply a work of art, and the temple is delightfully sinister

Seriously, I bet that there's a plaque floating around in the Warp somewhere that reads: "Heretic of the Month: KernelTerror"

Loving the winged Chaos Lord too, reminds me a bit of the old metal Raptors

Keep up the good work, and keep spreading the Word of Chaos like the glorious heretic you are!

Means a lot Ezra Tyrius, thank you so much !

Both knight gatlings were given mountpoints today :





And I started attaching tentacle to the dark mech egg :

Kernel, when did you asscend to the rank of 6th Chaos god?

Outstanding as always btw.

Those gatlings are coming along nicely

And I never knew eggs could be this terrifying Wonder what that's going to look like in the end!

@Not Online: Ahaha thanks ! Descent into madness and chaos spawnhood is also a possibility I'm afraid ^^ !

@Ezra : Thanks ! I was actually a bit unsure about that egg design, but with the latest tentacle additions I am feeling more confident in it ! More soon on that one.

In the mean time, I finished the flying lord :

Real life getting in the way of the warp these days, but tonight, I managed to work a little bit on my LOeR entry, by slicing the arena in 4 quarters, and covering them with plaster, to add strength, texture, and protect the polystyrene from the spray paint.

Cool stuff

Thanks a lot Llamahead !

Made some progress on the Dark Mechanicus barge, still lots of detailing to do, but getting there, with the addition of prow features, pits, ventral guns an more...

Love the chaos lord's pose - very avian! The barge is sure to be amazing! How big is it?

Thanks a lot Kestral ! It is (as often in the thread) unreasonably large, here are a few scale shots with other ships for scale :


Also worked some more on the egg, with finally a weapon design I liked, with some kind of multi jaw thing...I still need to build a second one :

How have I missed this blog for so long?

Love the upcycled Chaos barge!

Thanks a lot Kid Kyoto, welcome aboard !

Some progress on the barge, mainly around the engines.

Oh look who has decided to bless us again with his apperance.
I had a hunch that'd you show up with pics

Are you going to make the whole sides with that greenstuff?

That might happen yes ^^ !
My plan is to cram the thing with as many plastic bits as I can, then basecoat it to see how much more details it requiers.

At that point, I might cry a bit.

Or conclude how many more molds I need to make in order to make the thing believeable. But to answer your original question, yes, if I have to cast original BFG things onto that plastic squeleton in order to finish it, I shall !

Allright, time for an Arena update, made some progress adding the main features to all four quarters of the thing :




To fulfill the LoER's gaming related material, I bought some cheap casino chip trays :


That I integrated into the walls. It does not show well right now, as the things are transparent, but they should make nice alcoves where to put statues :


The second tray is located right below an extended terrace, hope the thing will hold...


I still have to flatten the arena's inner walls, but they now have two doors :

Nice progress KernelTerror! I always enjoy your epic builds

Thanks a lot Syro ! That one is indeed quite reasonnable ^^ !

Finished the Egg tonight :


And also worked on the arena over the weekend, by smoothing the inner walls of the arena :


Also added some walls and more plaster to the interior of the opened section :


And finally, all sections now have external floor texture, and the columns were jointed to the walls, again, with plaster.


With all these steps done, I still have to find a way to do some clean seats for the entire thing. For which I do not have a plan yet, should be fun ^^ !
After that, I should be able to basecoat.

Benches? Or plastic spoons for seats?

Also, well done on the egg!

Much appreciated Not Online.
Hmmmm, plastic spoon, that is a quite brilliant idea actually, I'll keep that in mind, thanks !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Much appreciated Not Online.
Hmmmm, plastic spoon, that is a quite brilliant idea actually, I'll keep that in mind, thanks !

No worries, hope that helps.

I already commented on the arena in the contest thread, but wow, that egg turned out really cool and good. I couldn't really see where you were going with it for the longest time, but I should have know it would be impressive keeping your past creations in mind.

Thanks a lot Syro_ !

So after spending way to much money on random plastic bits from the hardware store, and looking for spoons that would be small enough yet not too recognizable, I finally gave up and built a tool to make seats :


And here is a first quarter of the arena with some seats rows. Once dry it will need a second pass in order to make it look cleaner, but quite happy with how that turned out :

Note that the steps are of different heights, thought that would make the thing more interesting, hope that'll still look good.

Nice! I love seeming custom made tools made for a particular job. It looks like it worked well. Sorry to hear about the wasted money though

Thanks Syro_ ! Glad you approve.
And no worries about the stupid buys, it's part of the game I guess ^^.

There are now seats all over the arena !


Tomorrow, I should get some time to power up the sander, and work on the contact surfaces of the four blocks, in order for them to connect properly, then finally, on to basecoating !

Sides sanded, base coat applied, and a quick and dirty drybrush to have a better view of the textures and of areas that need improvements.

Now I can start adding details to the thing !

And detailing work almost done on one quarter of the arena :

Well done absolutement superbé.

Thanks a lot NotOnline !

Second quarter of the arena now detailed, but I need to pick up the pace...


More material already used, or to be used later...

Third quarter done, not a lot to do on that one though, just a few addition to delimit the balcony properly (more jointing will follow), some alcoves, and a mass of wires...

Seems to go well enough.
Also Mon Ami, quand a nous jouons une partie du Roulette ou eile mit weile?

Tout à fait mon cher, jouons terra à la roulette du Chaos !

Finally finished the detailing of the fourth quarter of the arena. Some more joint work to do to properly integrate some of the pieces, then on to painting !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Tout à fait mon cher, jouons terra à la roulette du Chaos !

Finally finished the detailing of the fourth quarter of the arena. Some more joint work to do to properly integrate some of the pieces, then on to painting !

Meanwhile i thought i was productive then you show up and just slam that down.

Also rien ne vas plus. You have won spawnhood

Spawnhood yay ! More appendices to sculpt greenstuff !

Reworked the arena floor today, making it completely flat. While the original setting with kind of a platform was interesting to let some models have the higher ground during battle, it also proved terrible to have the different quarters properly fit together. With a bit of cutting and the addition of aluminium pieces, it now connects better. I just have to redo the texture...

And finally finished the arena, just in time for the LoER deadline, damn that was a hard one, lesson learned I guess, next time I will not be attempting a 80 by 80 cm build...

There are definitely places that would justify more touch ups, and I clearly gave up on more details that I initially thought of, but it is at a state were I feel happy about it. It will be nice to work on something else too I reckon !

Looks great! And looks like a lot of work since your last update. it must have been quite a push finishing that in time, congratulations

Thanks a lot Syro ! It was quite a push indeed !

Nice work on the trophies / gribbly things in particular

 KernelTerror wrote:
And finally finished the arena, just in time for the LoER deadline, damn that was a hard one, lesson learned I guess, next time I will not be attempting a 80 by 80 cm build...

There are definitely places that would justify more touch ups, and I clearly gave up on more details that I initially thought of, but it is at a state were I feel happy about it. It will be nice to work on something else too I reckon !

Now this, this i like.
Soon you can play an apocalypse game over a whole dark mechanicum battlefield the seize off a room!
Impressive.

Thanks folks !
I can't wait to see what the next LoER challenge will be, so I can add more insanity to the city !

Have not posted in a while, but have made some progress nonetheless, with more wiring, demon faces and ribcages added to my knight :


And the start of a dark mech mortar team (chain to be added obviously) :

Dark mechanicum mortar Team?
Ok now my interest is piqued.

I expect the LoER contest kept you pretty busy. I'm glad you're back to working on one of your chaos knights, the others you made amazed me. I have high expectations for how this one will turn out.

Thanks for the support Syro_, it did take all of my time yes ^^ ! That knight trio is an humongous project too though, I'm glad to be reaching the final steps of that one !

Thanks Not Online !, here is that team in its final stage, still questioning replacing the mortar's mouth with a more demonic one, but we'll see how it looks with paint on it. And then build 9 more maybe...

And yet another grotesque knight assembled, tomorrow, I'll start painting it !

He seems malnourished, have you tried feeding him beer?

Woooo! Congratulations on finishing!

Ahaha Not Online !, regarding the waist size ? Yeah, that comes with the design of these knights, but of the three this one probably has the widest shoulders, and thinner waist. I'll see as painting goes along wether a rework of that area feels necessary...

Thanks Syro_ ! Just in time for the new chaos knight codex, hopefully they do not make that dual gatling setup illegal ^^ !

He why not making it skelletal?
just a thought.

Could be interesting yes, if you have further ideas on that I'd be interested . Tbh I already kind of thought the thing semi-skeletal, with parts that are but metal limbs, while other are covered in demon flesh.

 KernelTerror wrote:
Could be interesting yes, if you have further ideas on that I'd be interested . Tbh I already kind of thought the thing semi-skeletal, with parts that are but metal limbs, while other are covered in demon flesh.

You could also make guts?
Plastic straws?
Cables etc that drop out of it? Maybee a nurgling or two could be in there?

Oh for sure. Thing is, it will be much simpler to paint the thing as long as I can separate its legs from its torso, so I'll keep these ideas in mind, but first finish painting it.
Then we'll see if further rework of the waist is needed, which may indeed be the case.

This here Post was a mistake.

Ahaha the Warp Wanderers are being raided by the Khornate mechanized legions, power up the titans ! Fire at will !

Really fond of that ribcage idea actually, I'll give it a try.

Wait what?!? How, i could've sworn?
Edit,

Finished a first gatling today :

And here is my mortar !

 KernelTerror wrote:
And here is my mortar !

I like it very much, gotta ask though, how did you build your knights exactly?
And would you consider it possible to make them cuthuluesque looking with cables?

Thanks a lot !

How I built these knights ? Well almost "entirely from scratch" would be the short answer ^^ !

Otherwise although all three are quite different, there are some common patterns... Each legs is for example are all built around a wooden skeleton in each time two custom carved bits. They are then glued to soft plastic component around which the foot is build, making it easy to then screw the foot into the base.
Legs are covered in shields made from PVC tubes and finally screwed using long woodworking screws into the pelvic part.

Then regarding the torso, they are all build around a solid central piece, respectively a car engine part, a power sander and a lamp, and on two specrical parts for the shoulders, for the first two there were salvaged on a giand kinder easter egg, and on the last one from a funnel.

Then of course loads of random bits, resin, clay, wiring, glue and some bits here and there.

The cuthuluesque bit sounds very feasible yes in case you are going for the classical tentacle face I would suggest starting with some very thick gardening wiring, that you can use as tutor for plants, and start gluing different kind of wires around that.

Sounds like a great project for you army, let me know if I can provide more details on how mine went.

 KernelTerror wrote:
Thanks a lot !

How I built these knights ? Well almost "entirely from scratch" would be the short answer ^^ !

Otherwise although all three are quite different, there are some common patterns... Each legs is for example are all built around a wooden skeleton in each time two custom carved bits. They are then glued to soft plastic component around which the foot is build, making it easy to then screw the foot into the base.
Legs are covered in shields made from PVC tubes and finally screwed using long woodworking screws into the pelvic part.

Then regarding the torso, they are all build around a solid central piece, respectively a car engine part, a power sander and a lamp, and on two specrical parts for the shoulders, for the first two there were salvaged on a giand kinder easter egg, and on the last one from a funnel.

Then of course loads of random bits, resin, clay, wiring, glue and some bits here and there.

The cuthuluesque bit sounds very feasible yes in case you are going for the classical tentacle face I would suggest starting with some very thick gardening wiring, that you can use as tutor for plants, and start gluing different kind of wires around that.

Sounds like a great project for you army, let me know if I can provide more details on how mine went.

I will probably get myself two off the big renegade knights, one will be normal everyday use the other though will have his arms and face probably cabled.
Atm i am Stuck at the drawing board though, maybee i will just do some smaller hellverins instead.

That mortar is so perfectly Chaos and Dark Mechanicum. Great work!

Thanks Syro ! Much appreciated !

And @Not Online! : hellverins are cool indeed, but bigger knights mean better knights ! But indeed scratch build can sometimes get stuck in design. I usually start dismantling various appliances when I am stuck on a build, usually provides nice bits...

FInished the second gatling today :


And started on my LoER entry :

The gattling looks great You have such a knack for chaos esthetic

That new entry looks more like a Dark Mechanicum Sales building.

You gotta have a PR department it seems, even in the Eye off terror

Very kind of you to say Syro_ !

@Not Online : Would you be interested in our insurance plan for defilers ? It comes with a 12 month heretek support plan and a free reaper autocannon.


Progressed on the knight, by adding the first elements of the ribcage suggested by NotOnline. I thing it nicely eases the transition from the the legs to the shoulder line. More guts and wires to be added of course.


And the tower now has windows :

@Not Online : Would you be interested in our insurance plan for defilers ? It comes with a 12 month heretek support plan and a free reaper autocannon.

only if I get 10 reaper chaincannons instead of the reaper.

@Not Online ! 15 chaincannons and you insure your knights with us ?

The knight's legs are now painted !
Only the torso/head to go !

 KernelTerror wrote:
@Not Online ! 15 chaincannons and you insure your knights with us ?

The knight's legs are now painted !
Only the torso/head to go !

I am sold on it
Well on both.

Now just missing some brass Accessoires and he would be the perfect khornate knight i'd imagine.

Thanks !
Although that might be impacted by the chaos knights codex, but Khorne scartch built a very likely to be next, I am thinking kytan and LoS...

Evening folks ! The thing is finally finished !














I reckon the design of the top of the thing may look weird, but with that, my warlord can now ride a titan into battle !




And of course, Had to take a picture of the three scratch built chaos knight I now have :


And in case that post was not picture heavy enough, let me repost some pictures from the beginning of that project, three years ago :





Toook a bit longer than expected tbh, but now what should I do next ? Kytan ? LoS ? Warhound ?

A huge piece of artillery?

Hmmm, would make sense yes, my next goal for troops is to have more mortars. Would make sense to integrate them in an artillery section also featuring the mandatory big long range guns...

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_cm_Kanone_(E)_Schwerer_Gustav
Something like this? But chaosified?

Something like that would make for great terrain imo.

The type of gun I love, but that might start causing some storage issue, and I still do not have a durable storage plan for my arena either...
Maybe a minotaur artillery would be nice ? Or might be worth looking at the old Epic vehicles, there is always some inspiration there...

 KernelTerror wrote:
The type of gun I love, but that might start causing some storage issue, and I still do not have a durable storage plan for my arena either...
Maybe a minotaur artillery would be nice ? Or might be worth looking at the old Epic vehicles, there is always some inspiration there...

Ayy, actually wasn't there a nurgle apocalypse unit that was basically a driving siegetower?
Minotaur would be great though.

Oooh, yes the nurgle plague tower would definitely be fun to build...
And in terms of absurd artillery, the doom blaster could be a challenge ^^

 KernelTerror wrote:
Oooh, yes the nurgle plague tower would definitely be fun to build...
And in terms of absurd artillery, the doom blaster could be a challenge ^^

Altough a basic minotaur might be a challenge for you, would completly go out of your style.

Ahaha, weeeeell, to me Minotaur just means two earthshakers on something, could be a tank, or a bunch of tentacles and rotten flesh...
Nurgle tower would need a chassis though...

 KernelTerror wrote:
Ahaha, weeeeell, to me Minotaur just means two earthshakers on something, could be a tank, or a bunch of tentacles and rotten flesh...
Nurgle tower would need a chassis though...

Normally the Baneblade gets used for it

And back to working on the loer entry, with a few weeks left to complete that tower.
Here it is with the basecoat applied.

Ah the great buisnesstower of the dark mechanicum insurance branch gets a coat.

We now declare the Insurancetower of chaos opened for buisness ! We accept cash, souls or tzeentchcoins !

Tzeentchcoins are not an acceptable currency Mister!
Way to changey

Not Online!!! wrote:
Tzeentchcoins are not an acceptable currency Mister!
Way to changey

Best post of the thread. *slow claps with three hands and a tentacle*

That made me think, souls are used as a Kind of currency in the warp right? Who's the banker, do they Need one and if it is a minor deeity of chaotic banksaves of DOOM?

Warp stock exchanges populated only by nurglings !

Wow! That's some awesome terrain!

Thanks a lot WargamingWarrior ! They take up space but make for a quite satisfactory sight. I ought to take a picture of all of them together at some point.

Finished painting my flying chaos lord !

Wow.
Isn't that more of a daemon prince?

Thanks !
Yeah, that guy has been blessed by the dark lords and is probably on the way to ascending... And indeed, the wings are from an old school DP.

I knew i had deja - vu somewhere!
Question, how high is the helldrake up?

WArf, unfortunately I do not own an Helldrake model, I am using an old galrauch when in need. You have an Heldrake on the way right ?

 KernelTerror wrote:
WArf, unfortunately I do not own an Helldrake model, I am using an old galrauch when in need. You have an Heldrake on the way right ?

Ayy, i need the size mostly for well something
Galrauchs nice.

Looking forward to finding out what it is !
If it helps, my chaos tie fighter uses the base of a necron doom scythe, it flies at 12.5cm from the ground. No idea wether helldrakes have similar bases...

And finished my dark mechanicum egg thing :



And mandatory scale shot freakshow :

But can you make sweet sweet toaster love with it?Does it have cyberdongs?

Weeeell, it does have the minimal dark mech amount of tentacles, I guess...Not that I'd try, you go first ^^ !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Weeeell, it does have the minimal dark mech amount of tentacles, I guess...Not that I'd try, you go first ^^ !

But you are the french not me!
Stellar work though, must resist in copying it, must resist!

Ahaahah well played, and Thanks ! Copy anything you want of course, but I think you already have a bunch of lord discordant anyway no ?

Very cool, I'm glad you were able to get back to that and finish now that yur LoER entry is done.

Much appreciated Syro_ !
I indeed need to limit oversized builds in the LoER comp, I also need time to build all the messed up models I've been planning lately ^^ !

And finished some raiders today !

Awesome! It's great seeing some BFG models being worked on

Thanks Syro_ ! I really glad to have found these, really love their fat prow.

That was all I had assembled, so back to building stuff, with the weaponand leg replacement on a Rotten Factory model :


And much more mortars on the way !

Wow, I actually won the LoER constest with that keg tower !
I am honestly suprised, since the other entrants has some quite brilliant designs, and realization, but well, all these sacrifices to the chaos gods must have paid off !

To celebrate, here is a group shot of all my 4 LoER entries :








And also, the new shelves I just installed in the man-cave, on must make room for the next warp wanderers !

(Yeah, one knight is missing, it is having unplanned knee surgery...)

So a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Since I get to run the next LoER contest, that might leave me some spare time to build the two other stories I had originally planned for that keg tower...

Dude, that is one magnificent table. I'd love to throw down on that setup, and I don't even play 40K anymore!

Did you just doubt your ability Kernel?

Just do it

Already mentioned this on the LoER thread, but great job KernelTerror! The four pieces you made in the last four contests look great together and made a beautiful table all on their own. And like Josh said, it would be great to play on.

Thanks a lot fellas, much appreciated !
More heresy soon...

I think I've said it before, but your work does a great job of capturing the "chaos" of Chaos, instead of just making them seem evil.

Thanks a lot Fifty, here is some more chaos randomness :

Found some cool looking piece of wood, so intergrated it as part of my next dark mech archmagos :


Made some decent progress on the mortars


And placed a raging hero model on some tentacles :

So, Kernel, when will you delve into the insanity that is a renegade and heretics Mutant army, that would be right up your ally now wouldn't it be?

Also a valid point for your mortars

Oh but this is ! These mortars are the proper base size and will receive a second servant in order to be heavy weapon teams.

I hope 9 of em is enough ?

 KernelTerror wrote:
Oh but this is ! These mortars are the proper base size and will receive a second servant in order to be heavy weapon teams.

I hope 9 of em is enough ?

Not really mortars are one of the few good r&H units and can be taken in groups of 3-6 per slot.
And believe me, go for an optimized list, field the full 18 mortars.
(also only 144 pts soooooo)

Good to know ! If I like the look of that first batch I might then go for 9 more then ! But trying bigger guns in the meantime, like basiliks or hellhounds would be fun too...

 KernelTerror wrote:
Good to know ! If I like the look of that first batch I might then go for 9 more then ! But trying bigger guns in the meantime, like basiliks or hellhounds would be fun too...

Heavy mortars aren't half bad, atleast from my experience with them.
They also aren't great but they do allright and their profile fits anything from a siege mortar to a fieldhowitzer. Which leaves alot of room for kit-bashing, modelling and 3rd party involevement. And in your case probably to a wierd tentacles based trebuchet

You could go 18 mortars. 9 heavy mortars and 3 Earthshaker based guns and then fill the rest up with mutants and enforcers.

What did Napoléon call such a formation? Grandé Batterie?

Most probably yes ^^ ! Apparently he also had "artillery on horseback" whatever that means ^^ !
Starting to have some ideas for a very big gun....

 KernelTerror wrote:
Most probably yes ^^ ! Apparently he also had "artillery on horseback" whatever that means ^^ !
Starting to have some ideas for a very big gun....

So the schwerer gustav idea just got revived? Ohhh boi.
Now I am curious

Not exactly the gustav, but something alongside the same class of gun yes. Don't hold your breath though, I still have a bunch of component to locate, and many legs to build....

Today was more about tentacles !

What diameter barrel do you want?
Got a plumber in my family that has plastic (well the industrial one for canalisation) pipes, i am pretty sure I could whip up some?

Oh, that is very kind of you to offer, thanks !That part however is already taken care off, the barrel will be around 5.5cm in outer diameter, and will shoot 3.5/4cm diameter shells, for which I just ordered some platic parts...

Wont be too long of a gun either, I am thinking something looking like an oversized sturmtiger gun...If it was made in the warp.

 KernelTerror wrote:
Oh, that is very kind of you to offer, thanks !That part however is already taken care off, the barrel will be around 5.5cm in outer diameter, and will shoot 3.5/4cm diameter shells, for which I just ordered some platic parts...

Wont be too long of a gun either, I am thinking something looking like an oversized sturmtiger gun...If it was made in the warp.

You remember my Eyechild.
Why not make one but bigger? The tentacle legs would surely not be a problem for you.
Your warbands have a lack of big spidery things

Edit: now that I think of it, i probably know what my table project is going to be

Of course, the eyechild is imho one of your best models, a giant version of it would definitely be a sight to behold.
But for this build, the plan is to go even more spiderish. For now, I started to make a leg :


The main problem is to have some kind of repeatable recipe, because I want the thing to have 20 of them. Components so far are some washers, aluminium and wooden rod, and some kind of plastic bag closing things. I have decent amount of all that. Just need one more raid to the hardware store to see whether I can find some sem circular piece to do some frontal armor and to build some claws out of plasticard...Should then be ready for painting that first prototype...

20 legs.
?!?
Someones going to get slightly insane.

Meh, I'm beyond redemption...

 KernelTerror wrote:
Meh, I'm beyond redemption...

I kinda feel bad now for instigating further insanity.
I should attempt to balance it out

You're going to build twenty of those? NotOnline is right, your mind has been tainted by the warp...

Sounds pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress

Thanks a lot folks, the idea is to have simple easy steps in order to build those.
Today I build half of the pistons, and assembled the leg structures

Now that sounds more reasonable

Right ? Now half of the pistons are attached, sounds like a good way to spend one weekend's hobby time !

Pah. All the more reason I live out my sudden burst of bunkermania

And all 20 leg skeletons assembled, now I have to rivet all that...

Primaris scum for scale

Have you allready thought about mandibles?

Mandibles would have been cool, but the plan is to stick to ranged weapons. Maybe it will get an axe though, but will be mostly ceremonial, or to beat the servants into loading the big gun...

All legs complete and attached to the chassis now, starting to look like something. And yes, had to remove 20 of the 40 leg pistons when I decided to attach them inside the chassis...But looks better really...


And also started working on this ships. I got it off ebay for a fair price, but it lacked several components, which I now have to build :

Those legs are looking creepy... love it!

Thanks a lot Mellon !

I have been terrible at finding hobby time these last weeks, but here is finally some time to log some progress.

My big spidery thing finally has an upper half and a gun. Well, the beginning of them anyway :


That thing is based on a big chunk of expanding foam I had removed from a LoER entry month ago...Yeah, I keep everything.


And my dark mech barge is receiving more and more components from time to time

Wow, yur dark mech barge looks like it has way more detail and compnents than I remember it having last time. It's cool seeing your chaos spidery thing taking shape. Keep up the good work

that thing is awesome.

Brilliant stuff. That scuttler is insane

Thanks a lot folks !

@Syro, I have slowly been collecting and adding various plastic bits for that cruiser, and indeed, just pulled the previous WIP pictures, it did change quite a lot in a few month :

Limited progress today, but added some fins on the barge's belly, and some additionnal texture in places that will be ruined/warp-tainted :

I failed to update this blog regularly these last days, almost as badly as I failed to make time for hobby...

Nonetheless, the following modesl are ready for paint, hopefully that will get the heresy train restarted !

A chaos battleship with a silly bridge



An heretek



And some dark mech mortar teams:

That bridge is impressively silly, suited for an admiral.

Mortars and heretek also came out looking good, will be nice to see painted.

oh fancy.
How's the spider coming along?

Thanks Vejut, the first coats have been applied, more soon !

Thanks too Not Online ! Not a lot of displayable progress on the spidery thing, I have mostly been scuplting the joints between organic and mechanic parts and finding some new bits. But It will get there eventually !

Also in this painting batch, a slightly converted old demon prince :

Good to see you back KernelTerror, I assumed running the latest LoER contest was keeping you too busy to work on your own blog.

Thanks Syro_ !
Not that much no, real life and work was to blame, as well as me for not make the time. But I'm back to painting now, more soon !

This is going to look great when painted

Thanks a lot Not Online, hope it will !

Finished five mortars today :








And the 6 mortars I have so far, I know @NotOnline, I need ten times that !

Great looking. Really

Thanks Not Online !

Finished some raiders today !

And some more ships !

Aaand more small ships ! Bigger things to follow...

Nice! Always wanted to goof about with BFG, but never got around to doing it before it died out. Good to see some more ships hit the table. Start of a fleet with some cruisers and such, or just some fun little guys?

Thanks Vejut ! I am building a fleet indeed ! For this painting batch I have the battleship above and the scratch built space hulk, then I still have a bunch of plastic cruisers waiting for their turns...And more scratch build ideas ^^ !

Short break from BFG, finished the demon prince today !

And finished two raging heroes models today, will end up being a rogue trader and a navigator.

They look really good, nice shading, characterful models, and I'm a sucker for nice abs on a model. The only thing I'd suggest would be changing the color on at least the inside of the cloaks--the shapes come through very well from the shading, but the boots/bodies and the cloaks aren't quite separating from each other like they should.

Thanks a lot Vejut ! Your point on colour choices is probably very true, I might have been influenced by the fact that these are nun models, and stuck to black. I have a few more, so I'll try richer patterns next.

But back to BFG, here is my crown of oppression battleship, with its scratch built quill and bridge :


And with some escort :

Those nuns and the demon turned out nicely. The colors remind me of John Blanche illustrations.

The daemon, nuns, and battleship all turned out nicely. I like the color choices for the two girls. The model for that daemon looks old school, is it from a while ago?

Thanks a lot Josh and Syro_ ! And yes Syro_, that is an old school metal demon prince, I just sculpted it a new neck to that it actually looks at its foes, and added the tail and sword.

On other news, the wife just offered be an airbrush for christmas, can't wait to try it. It will sureley alleviate a lot of the misery when basecoating builds made out of silly material or bloated with tentacles !

Only finished painting a side of my scratch build dark mech barge, but could not resist posting a teaser



More soon...

Excellent stuff but wheres the Heresy Train?

Hahah, thanks Llamahead !
A litteral heresy train would indeed look nice, I'll have to think about it ^^ !

Hmm, i like the ships.