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Update!
I dont eften havee a day off and i havent been painting as much as i should have been but when i do i pain all in one; like all basecoat ect. it is currently:
basecoate everyone red
layer of red gore

THEN after that i'll paint the trim and then add a layr of scab red on on the armor, then detail and touch up and wash with babab black

Anyhing painted yet?

Woo! My models actually get screen time on the internet. Hahaha.

Are you the owner of the smurfs? If so I love the landraider with all of the nid bits on it. Even though I love my little xenos critters, I like the trophies even better!

Yeah those are his smurfs... damn them!


so tony i got more pinted well more progress but nothing fully painted, starting the trim this weekend then hopefully detail on all my troops, i have given up on dipping all but my deamons, i find it too risky for a n00b like me.

ALSO: in the game portion of my army i am less and less relying on oblits and moreso focusing on defilers and in the future maybe a vindi or two, but what about havoks? i have a few heavy weapons but idk maybe 2x2 autocannosn and 2x2 ML in a squad of 10? just an idea and obviously not for every match.


ALSO! i realized what i can do with my bikers now... well the bikes and then the CSM models for: i saw the spure for the new bloodcriushers first hand and i think for my C:CD army if i buy the set and put 4 BL on bikes and 3 CSM on the juggernaughts then by the MFB Lord on juggy it would be a full squad of techno-organic goodness! toughts?

Loving it, How many words would a word bearer bear if a word bearer could bear words?

I think that chaos bike are nasty and bloodcrushers are crazy!. I'm actually giving some thoughts to starting a chaos deamon army for 40k after I finish my nids.

Cadet_Commissar_Ludd wrote:Loving it, How many words would a word bearer bear if a word bearer could bear words?

What are you "loving" particularly?

tony_nids_10 wrote:I think that chaos bike are nasty and bloodcrushers are crazy!. I'm actually giving some thoughts to starting a chaos deamon army for 40k after I finish my nids.

yeah i will hopefully have 8 of them and if im lucky eventually a sweet deathstar with 10 crushers; 1 MOK herald on juggy, 1 Skulltaker on juggy, 8 crushers all options! win!

Wow, that just sounds so very mean!

hey everyone guess what?

I HATE PAINTING CHAINMAIL TRIM!!

my fingers are like too big for it maybe? i think im good with my hands so to speak but idk it just gets really irritating. Worst case scenario i will do everything but it then comission the trim which would be selling out sort of.... but any advice? maybe i needa new brush but i find it so god damn tedious! damn trim!

When are we going to see some of this much hated chainmail trim? I WANT PICS!

IT TAKES FOREVER TONYNIDS!

therefore.... untill i can figure out how to do this better; and possibly get a better brush... i will postpone trim until then.... mainly also because i rediscovered my 360 and started playing oblivion again...for shame i know :( but i'll try again haha. i need more dextarity.

I'm with you there! I hate some of that fine detail work. I love painting but my hands start shaking after awhile.

I just read this entire thread from start to finish. It caught my eye because I am working on a 1,500 WB for a 40K campaign we are starting this fall. I've been struggling with staying focused because I have way too many distractions w/ other projects. I think this thread is going to be a renewed inspiration.

The conversion you did w/ the guitar string was awesome. I have got to try that on my next addition to my Nurgle army. I like taking the plastics and trying to make them look as warped as the old Rogue Trader CSM I have, they had a lot of cables and I have an idea (take my Dremel and rout out channels on the arms and legs, then fill with slightly raised guitar string). If I ever get to that I'll post pics.

Back on topic... I've been having a hard time trying to decide what I want to do for my Chaplins. I've been looking at the old Dark Angels. I think the cowled robes are very cool, but concerned that it'll just look like a Dark Angel in Word Bearers colors. I thought about doing cowls myself but after a few attempts I was reminded that my skill w/ green stuff is better suited for Nurgle. I have some old ISM in Mk5 & 6 armor, have been thinking about the possibilities there.

I've been working mostly w/ plastics and have opted for a very clean look, no mutations and uniform helmets (w/ different sets for AC). I've been designing back banners to be scattered throughout the squads (randomly and for no special reason other than following the spirit of the zealous approach towards faith and worship by the WB).

If you'd like I'll post a few pics of my WIP here.

Yes post pics!


I thought of going unmutated, but the diea of having some CSM that are able to pose as possessed and save some cash was too sweet for me. Also i was going to make uniformed squads and no horned helmets but i just didnt do it

Take your own advice Ironfront! POST SOME PICS!

TONY I'll post pics when i make progress! im a busy guy!

Do you hear that Ironfront? I think its the WAAmbulance off to pick up another guy burried alive by his own excuses... I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

that creature with walker legs and slannish symbols is awesome!

It's my Greater deamon and its magnetized!

I also am a huge fan of your GD. I wish you lived nearby Ironfront. I want to play against a chaos army.

Which GD?

UPDATE: Pickless though :( had to give my gf her camera back.

I bought 5 chaos marines and a squad of devistators, i will make all of them save the plasma cannons which will go to making 2 additional oblits, the HBs will also have extended plasticard tubing and become autocannons.

ALSO! i'll post pics when i can but i am currently camera less. But today at a bbizzare bazzar i got a looted vindicator for free! simple fix for it to be new, made some good $$ and sold my old zoanthrope too! i got $48 bucks in GW giftcards, what should i get?

I have:
2 chaos lords
2 Sorcerers
Kharn
2 DP's
2 GD's
2 Dreds
12 termis
8 posessed
12 plague marines/genetic monstrocities
30 CSM
3 defilers
32 lesser deamons
3 rhinos
1 pred/vindi
vindi
1 LR
6 oblits


hmmm?

Are you going to grab any nurgle bikers or bloodcrushers?

no bikers, im actually converting my bikes a little... off and having bloodletters ride them... 4 techno/organic blood crushers then i want to buy the ner crushers but have CSM riding them... 3 more, then i wanna get the WHFB lord on crusher, 8 crushers 1 of which is a herald!


but no; bikes are too expensive

Where did you go Ironfront? Come back and post updates!

some of you might think i am dead but I AM NOT! lol...

I wont be getting pics taken till friday sorry guys! but i want to repose SM legs and i cant gfind any good tutorials! can someone link me please? ive seen a few and looking for more, no more spread eagle marines!

Also i have the new plastic DP already! i converted it to havee a defiler helm and a sword in one hand and an axe in the other; but i hate the legs too! any tutorials on that or is it too early?

Hello again. Took longer than I expected to post here again. I've been collecting the models I'm using for my WB army. I'm building it for a campaign that is starting this fall.

My army has a very specific theme to reflect the nature of the campaign. The cabal of Word Bearers have landed on a remote plant (system and planet unknown as of yet, still waiting for more details from the GM) to perform a ritual that (if successful) will open another gate to the Warp. A representative host unit of each known chapter aspect is present.

To this end I have a (mostly) clear vision for what I want to do and what I need to accomplish to build this army. I will have 4 units (hosts) of CSM, each representing a different aspect of the Word Bearers chapter. There will be 12 models per unit w/ an Aspiring Champion (Coryphaus) leading them.

I will also have a unit of Chosen are to represent the Dark Apostles from each aspect. One will be upgraded to an Aspiring Champion (representing the 5th model) and while each Dark Apostle is from a different aspect, for the purposes of the game they have banded into a single unit to perform the ritual. Side note- while not "list legal", all of my Dark Apostles (Chosen) will carry a Power Weapon (to represent their Accursed Crozius). This is in lieu of taking a heavy weapon (similar point cost and works better w/ the scenario).

My Chaos Lord represents a Black Cardinal. He will have Terminator armor.

I haven't decided on an individual squad of Terminators yet.

I will be fielding a unit (or two) of summoned Lesser Daemons as they figure so prominently in the Word Bearers. I am creating "undivided" daemons. I am thinking about the plastic Beastmen bodies (with heavily converted features) but I've also considered converting Genestealers. Haven't planned that far ahead yet.

I am not using any vehicles in this campaign.

The miniatures I am using for my Dark Apostle unit are all Dark Angel Veterans, but they won't carry that resemblance for long. I have a friend that is very skilled at fabrication w/ Green Stuff, they will all have cowls and all Imperial iconography is being removed or modeled over. I just picked them up on eBay a couple days ago. I'll post pics the next time I am here. I'm taking care to ensure I have pics of before / during / after as this is the first time I have collected an army for a specific purpose and army list instead of just collecting a huge assortment of miniatures and the creating a list from what I have available.

no mech? hmmmmmm and dark apostles with only 1 wound?!

those are my only qualms! but nice!!!


I need a cameria.... and motivation!! im making chosen and magnetizing backpacks for rapotrs based off of the death company models and soon to be FW crusade armor and maximini jump packs!

Hmm. Good point.

In retrospect, I'm rethinking my list. Reassign the Black Cardinal in Terminator as a sole Dark Apostle. I'm using the body of an early Chaos Lord in Terminator armor w/ the arms from a later 2nd Ed. Terminator. What was once a Power Maul (w/ minor conversion) will become his Accursed Crozius. The soon-to-be-converted Dark Angel Veterans will become an "honor guard" of Chosen lead by a Coryphaus (Aspiring Champion). The rest of the list will remain the same. This will allow me to build a 100% "list legal" army and I'll be adding a Heavy Bolter to my "honor guard". I'll research and find a more appropriate name for them.

I've decided to go w/ the Beastmen plastic bodies as the base for my Lesser Daemons. Unsure of the arms and heads yet, will be looking through my bitz box for inspiration. Whatever direction I go in I'm going to make an intentional effort to create something neutral, no possible association w/ any of the "big 4" Chaos gods.

I know my force is going to be unbalanced in that it has no heavy support, armor, or fast attack. Once I have completed my army for campaign purposes I'll most likely expand it out and include some heavier stuff.

Still no mech. : )

(I posted from work so no pics right now but will try to get back online tonight and post. It's a very raw WIP but it'll give an idea of where this is going)