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Mine are base troopers with resin bits.


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3 Vindicators to the squadron?

I'm planning on converting some Death Company marines into zerkers.

I'm not sure about three Vindicators as I have the defiler as well but the thought of a squadron of vindicators does sound good.

That sure sounds like a plan. Do you have any night lords planned ?

I keep getting vague ideas every now and then about them, the non feathered wings from the new Dark Eldar Scourges keep calling Night Lords to me!


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Oh there are two other minis on my painting table I forgot a primed Dreadnought and Khorne FW Daemon Prince.

A very small update for you today and this will probably be all I have for you this week as I came down with a migraine today which has put me out of action and I'm working tonight so there won’t be much of a chance of me finishing anything tomorrow.

So this is what I finished during the week, I have noticed that I forgot to go round the base in black which I shall do as soon as I can. There is also a blue mark on the bottom which you can see in the pic but doesn’t show up in real life and it will be too much hassle to fix it.

The crack through the middle of the base is filled with water effect but my camera doesnt pick it up for some reason.

So here is my first objective marker for my Thousand Sons, I'm planning on doing three in total. Would you ever need any more in a game for your own side?

Nice base, dark arts?

Thanks, its home made Miss Dee. Just a bit of plasticard cut to shape with some scratches scored in.

Excellent work GiraffeX, and most appropriate.

Really liking the colourscheme and that Vindicator looks striking, keep it up.

I love it, always good to have unique objective markers. makes pictures better.

Thanks all I have plans for the other two objectives, just need to put an order in for the models, which will be of a similar style as they are made by the same company. But they are in the US so will take a while to get to me and last time I ordered too much and was nabbed by customs fees

My heads were lost :(

Wow, apparently I have missed a lot!

The pearl effect on the vindicator looks great in the pic of it where it is outside

Keep up the thousand sons looove

Miss Dee wrote:My heads were lost :(

Oh Miss Dee thats not good, are they going to send out replacements?

logg_frogg wrote:Wow, apparently I have missed a lot!

The pearl effect on the vindicator looks great in the pic of it where it is outside

Keep up the thousand sons looove

Thanks logg_frogg, the love for the Thousand Sons is still going strong

A small update for you as I'm still busy painting my Thousand Sons squad, well I might have had it done today if I wasn't distracted by the below.

So today I have some WIP shots of a few minis I made when I should have been painting.

Now there is a story here last Friday (not the one just gone) I went to my local GW and picked up a Captain Stern model as I wanted to convert it into an obliterator, yeah expensive but i had an idea I wanted to try.

So I got the new mini home and was quite excited as it was my first finecast model. Got it out of the pack and my jaw dropped it was the worst mini I have ever seen so many miscasts and air bubbles, to say I was disappointed was an understatement. So I fired off an email to GW saying how unhappy I was with the purchase. I had a look on ebay and picked up a metal version instead (for nearly half the price) and returned my finecast model on Monday for a re-fund.

A few days ago my ebay Captain Stern arrived and all was good although it would be more work to convert it, then the next day GW responded to my email and said they would send me another copy, bargain.

My Finecast model arrived today and was free of flaws it was lovely.... and this is the results of a hard days work!

Metal Captain Stern



Finecast Captain Stern



I plan on getting the Astral Claws terminator from FW for my third Obliterator.

I also finished making Skyrar of the Dark Wolves today as well



The only down point to the day is my primer ran out so I now have a half primed Necrosphinx

Nice work on the conversions...

Lookin good !!!!

I forgot to ask about colour advice for the obliterators, I don't want to use any colours of the four gods of chaos so the below are out as they may be used for the other parts of my chaos hordes.

Blue/Gold
Pink/Turquoise/White
Red/Brass
Gold/Green/Black
Green/Brown
Darkgrey/Light Blue
Red/Black
Blue/Red

I have thought about purple but not sure what colour to combine with it, it would have to not be similar to Slannesh schemes though. I wouldn't want to use red as it would be too close to the Night Lords colours if I do them.

I finished my Second Thousand Sons squad tonight.

I decided to paint their left shoulder trims in white so I could tell the units apart on the battlefield. The sorcerer had a slight conversion at the last minute as I wanted to make him look a bit different to the other sorcerer (same model) so I changed his weapon.

Congrats Giraffex, they're looking great! Intimidating as all get out too!

I have never been a big fan of the Chaos Marines but these guys are certainly tempting me to rebel against the false-god emperor!

Gitsplitta wrote:Congrats Giraffex, they're looking great! Intimidating as all get out too!

Thanks Gits

Ssgt Carl wrote:I have never been a big fan of the Chaos Marines but these guys are certainly tempting me to rebel against the false-god emperor!

The changer of ways is spreading his influence far and wide it seems

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I've only the defiler and a chosen marine left now that need painting before my first game in August. I'm well on track at the moment although the place I order my black primer spray is out of stock which is a bit of a nightmare as they both need undercoating.

I only have two figures undercoated at the moment to paint a FW Khorne Daemon Prince and a Thousand Sons dreadnought, I expect I will start painting the dreadnought this weekend.

I've also been thinking about what to do with this blog when I've finished painting my Thousand Sons. I do plan on doing lots of other Chaos warbands as below although they are still in the thought process although I have purchased some bits for some of them.

Should I change this blog into an all powers chaos blog and take over the universe or seperate them into individual blogs?

Heres an update on what I have planned/painted so far

Thousand Sons

Chaos Sorcerer - painted
Daemon Prince - painted
Chosen - painted bar one
Thousand Sons Squad - painted
Thousand Sons Squad - painted
Raptors - painted
Havocs - painted
Vindicator - painted
Vindicator - not purchased yet
Defiler - Waiting to be painted
Dreadnought - Waiting to be painted
Lesser Daemons - not purchased yet
Greater Daemon - not purchased yet
Magnus the Red (counts as Daemon Prince) - not purchased yet
Terminators - not purchased yet

The Reborn (Nurgle)

Daemon Prince - in conversion stage
Chaos Lord (terminator armour) -
Chaos Lord (on bike) - Purchased (KAZYK THE BEFOULED ON ROT BEAST)
Chaos Marine Squad + Rhino -
Plague Marines -
Plague Marines -
Plague Marines Bike Squad -
Terminators (LC)-
Dreadnought -
Typhus Herald of Nurgle -

Khorne - Chapter not decided yet

Daemon Prince - purchased
Berzerker Squad + Rhino -
Lesser Daemons -

Slannesh - Chapter not decided yet

Terminators -
Chaos Lord -
Lesser Daemons - Purchased
Lucius the Eternal -

Night Lords - thinking of basing these on the assault side of the Blood angel codex

Red Corsairs

Predator -
Chaos Marine Squad -
Huron Blackheart -

Iron Warriors- I might use units from both the Imperial and Chaos codexs due to better tech in the imperial codex.

Daemon Prince -
Land Raider -
Land Raider -
Warsmith -

Skyrar's Dark Wolves - thinking of basing these on the space wolf codex

Skyrar - purchased

Other

Obliterators - in conversion stage
Horus -

I think this lot will keep me going for years but its going to be fun and thats not including the other armies I want to do on the imperial side. When I get into a hobby I get rather addicted!

All hail the dark gods

Well, as a Chaos Fanatic I had to check this out. So, I've just read through the entire blog. There is some excellent stuff here, particularly those Thousand Sons. The blues are nicely done and the gold is pretty crisp and shiny.

The Tzeentchian Daemon Prince looks brilliant, kind of how I originally wanted my DP's to look.

Anyway, it's great to see another Chaos devotee. And, I think your right, Tzeentch's influence spreads and corrupts the best of us.

For slaanesh you should go with emporers children in my opinion because you it is a chance to paint somthing totally different.

Do you want me to do your Night Lords for you?

Gathering Storm wrote:Well, as a Chaos Fanatic I had to check this out. So, I've just read through the entire blog. There is some excellent stuff here, particularly those Thousand Sons. The blues are nicely done and the gold is pretty crisp and shiny.

The Tzeentchian Daemon Prince looks brilliant, kind of how I originally wanted my DP's to look.

Anyway, it's great to see another Chaos devotee. And, I think your right, Tzeentch's influence spreads and corrupts the best of us.

Really glad you like the army so far, the defiler should be really special.

moonshine wrote:For slaanesh you should go with emporers children in my opinion because you it is a chance to paint somthing totally different.

Yeah I do need to paint something different Emperors Children or The Flawless Host is what I've been thinking of lately.

The Slaanesh (must start spelling it right) models will incorporate a lot of Warmachine conversions from the ideas I've had so far.

Miss Dee wrote:Do you want me to do your Night Lords for you?

Thanks for the offer Miss Dee but I'm ok doing the Night Lords, in fact I'm really looking forward to doing them. I need to pick up a BA codex to see if I can pull it off though. I want to have the models in dynamic poses but I'm a bit worried if I put them on bases with high scenery like bits of buildings it might cause los complaints in tournaments.

If the codex works out I'm looking at running the Sanguinary Guard as gargoyles for the Night Lords , need to pick up some Scourge wings for those.

I'm also going to read the Night Lord books to get more of a feel for them.

I really need to sort myself out and decide which force to do after I've finished the Thousand Sons, otherwise I'll try and do them all at once and have a melt down

Those are some lovely painted models you have there. I like the idea of running a squadron of vindicators, 3 big templates at a higher BS than the defeiler, plus if you get a weapon destroyed and loose the cannon, as long as you put the siege shield on, tank shock and ram everything else.

I've just sent off my entry for the monthly Dakka painting competition, this month it's best WIP.

My entry is my Nurgle Daemon Prince as below, I doubt I'll get a mention but theres no harm in trying.

Oh man I LOVE that model! Great build GiraffeX! Can't stand the left demon hand, but that's not your fault.

Thanks, I'm not keen on that arm either but it suited the movement of the model.

I just hope I can do the model justice when I paint it.