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Going with the glowy eye slit was definitely the way to go. Your mate is pretty good at the YouTubery, your beard seems to be coming on pretty well too!

Haha, the beard is definitely just laziness!

I've kept the glowy eyes, but I have toned them down. Much happier now. I have done quite a bit more Chaos Warrior painting, but I'll save those updates for next time.



I spent some time being OCD about bases. I am using round bases for this army, so I want my cavalry bases to be rounded too... It is fairly straightforward for the doggies whose tabs were already snipped as I just shortened some 70x25mm bases, but I hate cutting off tabs unless I absolutely must so the others were... fiddly. If this looks unnecessary, just wait until you see the lengths I am going to for my metal Chaos Knights...





I now have four Minospawn waiting for undercoating. Balloonbull won't get his balloon glued in place until after painting. Clawarm and Clawneck need rebasing. Neckbiter is good to go.







And two more are making good progress... For Bellymouth I just need to decide how much arm to have extending from the neck before reaching the hand. I am nervous to cut ANY wire off incase I cut too much!





The hand is not perfect, but it'll do.




Eyeball proceeds...



And I have four more victims... volunteers... villains... ready for modification. I don't want to cut into those C25 chaps, so I'll mainly just be pinning on some bits and sculpting over what is there. Axedude is going to get ONE wing and some tentacles. Headless won't stay headless - he'll be getting a Venus Flytrap style head. Fatbelly and Blackbull need somme ideas. I'll probably just hold some bits from the bits box next to them and see what looks good...

Wow, nice work!

I love your passionate oldhammer madness, and the basing dedication is... Impressive. Not inspiring, no way am I doing that, but impressive!

Oh! Just thought! Returning to an old idea from ThumpingBear, I think I'll give the black one a torn up parasol!

Cheers for that Gits. Graven, I reckon it might just be madness.

Cool stuff!

That’s some serious base butchery, I take it you’ll be using movement trays to get the authentic unit formations? The Minospawn keep looking better, will the parasol be a cocktail umbrella?

Cheers, Warboss.

Yes, I will either construct my own movement trays, or get some knocked up at Illusionary Terrain as I am friends with the guys. They already make some of what I need and it would be simple to modify their files to produce the other bits I need, or so I am told.

As for the parasol, I MIGHT use a cocktail umbrella, but am leaning towards making my own from styrene rods and greenstuff.

How about using paperclips or fine florist's wire to make the arms, and hold the whole assembly inside a styrene tube to be the handle? Like a skeletal brolly? And you could always do pva and tissue for the "fabric" if you wish?

Surely cutting slots into new bases would be easier? Last time I tried to modify a base like that, trying to get all the joins smooth was a real pain.

inmygravenimage wrote:How about using paperclips or fine florist's wire to make the arms, and hold the whole assembly inside a styrene tube to be the handle? Like a skeletal brolly? And you could always do pva and tissue for the "fabric" if you wish?

My first plan so to try and make it entirely from styrene. I have a hexagonal bit of rod which might help. Of not, that is an alternative I have considered.

Arakasi wrote:Surely cutting slots into new bases would be easier? Last time I tried to modify a base like that, trying to get all the joins smooth was a real pain.

Probably, and having done it the hard way a few times, I might switch to that. I have limited bike bases to hack apart and essentially unlimited square and round bases though, so...

Skillfull stuff, those extended bases. Regarding the Axe Minotaur, perhaps he might enjoy a guitar!

Good thing Dakka was all for glowy eyes on tiger guy, it worked out really well. And love the continuing madness with those chaos sculpts. Axe guy from the new batch to be converted made me chuckle "Do I hold this the right way?"

Updates on the Chaos Warriors. Damn, these guys are going slow!

Loving all of the different colours, very oldhammer! I guess that could also be why they’re taking a while though

Loving the leopard fur on the turquoise armour. Great contrast combo. All the furry boots are fun too. Any more animal patterns in mind?

Thanks. Yeah, Green armour is going to get cheetah spots.

Great work. Wish I had your painting skills

Work continues apace! All progress is progress, no matter how slow. So far my favorite is the teal cheetah.

Ed, it isn't so much skill as dumb perseverance!

Don, that is what I keep telling myself. And tealy is great. I am not sure about the final highlights though. I might go for a fattrr finish.

I have another spawn ready...

Nice one! It puts me in mind of The Evil Dead

I posted Bellymouth on the Facebook Oldhammer Community pages. He got almost three hundred likes. I was well chuffed.

Eyeball is nearly done. Depending on how I paint his eyes, he'll either be The Watcher or Crosseye once finished.

I need to sculpt the tentacles and eyelids on the arm-cluster, and at least some eyelids and whatnot of the leg-cluster. I haven't decided yet how much though. It might look nice to have a cluster of unlidded eyes on the back of the leg, or it might just look half-finished...

These are so delightfully bonkers. Love them.

Really wonderful progress Fifty.

Dang, those cluster of eyes just scream Oldhammer to me. This is great. This is like one of those fun articles they used to run in White Dwarf, when they actually encouraged conversions! I meant to ask earlier, where's the power klaw for Eye-leen come from?

Eye think it is from a short-lived Ork Nob in Mega-Armour set. I had to file some orky glyphs off. Not confident in answer though. Might not even be GW, though I think it is.

Here is the latest Tale of Four Gamers video from Arbitor Ian!




And here are all of the images of my models featured in the video, plus a few more that weren't. Forgive the repetition of a few of them, but these all have a better background.








Here is my colouring in so far








Here are two from the early nineties who need rebasing and a little more work on them




Here is my what's coming up; my marauder mob, an unstripped test model for my marauder horsemen and the first of my chaos hound squads



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Great stuff! It's nice to be able to put faces and voices to people from Dakka.

Those spawn are inspired, love seeing oldhammer done up with modern techniques

What a cool update, the warriors group shot is great and those spawns really scream chaos. Lovely seeing what the future has in store for this project.