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Here's an update shot of another one of the legionaries. Still WIP, not done with the eyes and other details, or the base, but i wanted to be steadier with the updates.

I hope fluff posts aren't going to be a problem. It actually helps a lot with my enjoyment of the hobby and all the stories behind the armies are inspired from actual tabletop battles. I write it anyway and since it cant hurt (you guys can just opt not to read it) I'll probably be posting more. This week-end ill take the time to flick one of the other WIP armies, since I just posted their fluff, I think it's going to be the "good guys". In the actual battles they were up against the Dark Eldar. In case anyone was wondering what happened, the Dark Eldar attacked at dawn but our hero's took out Duke Sliscus and his Incubi and Warriors as well as his Ravagers getting taken out by a surprise intervention from a lone squad of 5 stormtroopers grav chuting in. I've only played the one game with them so far.

Quick update of progress on the entire squad. From here ill be working on each one individually, more to come. Thanks for looking!

Your squad is looking really good. Dirty, gritty, angry Chaos.

Thanks Skalk, I'm always happy to see you have stopped by! I look forward to you getting back to your stuff too.

Today i've got some shots of Legionnaire Trecius. A former Ultramarine neophyte. He along with several others in the unit were among those that defected after the massacre of the rest of their 10th co. detachment on Elnour Delta during the Gothic War (aka the 12th Black Crusade). Drackkiz and the others in the unit at that time, fought a proxy war with the Ultramarines via several lesser cults and defeated the Ultramarines by opening a warp portal and summoning a cohort of Slaaneshi daemons, Drackkiz's favored method of attack. Upon their surrender, the neophytes had to commit a further 13 atrocities before being given the honor of taking the power armor from a loyalist marine that they killed. It is unknown when he and his fellow surviving neophytes succeeded in joining Drackkiz., however, it is known that at least 25 neophytes went missing that day. Since then, he and the 2 others of his cohort strive to prove themselves to their ancient and terrible brothers by any means necessary.




I'm pretty happy with the lighting around the eyes, i didn't want to do too much but now that i look at it i think ill hit it with a finial hint of red. I'm hoping the rest of the model pop's when contrasted with a light base. Thanks for the look

Chain is a nice addition, the eyes look really good, and the fluff is pretty cool. Digging this all around!

Thanks Skalk. One of the chains is going to be attached to the other side of the shoulder pad so it will look more like a trophy chain and less like 2 chains hanging side by side. I've gotten more work done on the Raptors, ill post pics when i get the chance.

Hi DakkaDakka! More Black Legion... Raptors!






I anticipate these guys falling over alot, so its a good thing they are metal. Every bit is going to have to be pinned for sure. I've weighted the bases with nickels and carefully positioned them to balance. I think they look good enough to be worth the constant falling.

And here's some progress shots of the squad.



At this point everyone has had the gold treatment. Still got weapons, clean-up, highlighting and damage to do on most of them. Also got to finish the faces. There are a bunch of old metal terminators I plan to re-new and a Slaneesh sorcerer/lord and a Daemon Prince waiting in the wings too. So, you know... more to come.

I recognize these traitors, a true hive of scum and villainy. Great to see your work again brother, Local guys are ridin' me to post pics so I'll try to post some of my armies soon. Stay in touch.

Brother Paen!!! Great to see you! How goes things and the family? Yes, you must post your stuff but where to begin? The superheavy tank company ... Or the Cadian Special Forces ... Or the many many scratch builds you have? ... Or the new stuff you've no doubt been working on? lol I look forward to whatever it is you post! Knowing that I got you around is going to motivate me to stay consistent with the updates and start posting my non-chaos stuff too. So stoked to see you on here and totally looking forward to the coming madness!

Hey Dakka Folks. I thought that i'd post something a bit different tonight. I happened to have the Raptors at the various stages of my gold recipe at the time so I took pictures.
I start with bubonic brown, then sunburst yellow, then dwarf bronze, I follow this up with a 50/50 dawrf bronze/shining gold. I think one of the harder aspects of painting is coming to grips with the fact that almost every color needs to be brought out through layers. These shots are a bit washed out, but in real light, I think it makes for an eye catching gold.

Here is a collection of the Shoulderpad's that I sculpted all painted. As you all can tell some "came before" others. Im pretty happy with the last few of them, others are pretty bad but meh, good enough for the tabletop I think.




Thanks for checking in, have a good one!

Wow, they all look really good, the army is really shaping up!

Thanks Capitansolstice!

Falling-over Raptors...that's why I'm glad they're Finecast now (if I ever go back to using them! XD)

Im not convinced that they will fall over any less as finecast, i can guarantee that they will not survive all the falling if they are resin though. As metal, they may fall, but its not an issue. At least that was logic behind the scenic raptor bases. In either case there is a boatload of pinning to be done though. lol

Must.... resist.... starting Traitor army..... willpower... falling...
CHAOS!!!!!

.......My Grey Knights are not going to be happy with me...

Love the shoulder pad work man.Nice way to get that extra bit of detail .Keep it coming.

@InquisitorRoeth: Yes, feel the exquisite freedom of the chaos gods! MUHAHAHA!

@Brother Paen: Mahalo Brother! I just got a metric boatload of chaos bits in a trade so, there will be more i just need to get some glue.

My dark and twisted brothers of Dakka... during the lack of posting, I tell you the madness has truly begun. I got a great deal in a trade and over the last week i've been disassembling and planning the Black Legion army further, much much further. The modelling concept for the army is to combine the huge array of old and new chaos bits (i've accumulated through this trade, several chaos army builds and a collection that goes back to 2nd ed) to build the army of Ygethmor, Sorceror Lord of the Black Legion, circa the 13th Black Crusade(m41.8-9 era).

This army will include Ygethmor the Deciever and his personal bodyguard (30 terminators), Warmaster Abaddon himself, and several attendant Black Legion lieutenants and their retinues or warbands. I'm pretty happy with the test models (the legionaries done so far) and i'm fairly sure I got the paint scheme down to the point where I could finish this army in its entirety within 6 month (we'll see if i can stick to the schedule). I'm about to head full swing into the modelling phase for the over 6,000 pt army now. Its more like 3 armies since the Slaanesh and Khorne cohorts top 2k. I plan to build the cohorts and retinues together to help maintain coherency in the themes. I plan to include any new releases that tickle me when they come out but ideally this army will be well on the way to finished by then. I'm really excited about this army because the Slaaneshi and Khorneate theme combined with my existing Death Guard and Thousand Sons will round out the Carnival of Chaos nicely.

So, for this project update I thought I would post the full army build list, including character names and wargear as well as some shots of the bits box for this project for fun and a few shots of some recent noise marines. Again, this is not a wish-list, this is the master build list. I do have all of this...this madness... I will post updates of wip's as usual but without much in the way of commentary, I must toil.. for the Dark Gods...

Warmaster Abaddon
Ygethmor the Deciever: (based on the GW sorceror lord model)
-10 man Terminator squad (old metal termies with revamp)
-10 man Terminator squad (old metal termies with revamp)
-10 man Terminator squad (old metal termies with revamp)
-10 man Legionnaire squad
-10 man Legionnaire squad

Sorcerer Lord Ga'ahn's Slaneshi Cohort
-Gaa'hn: Sorcerer Lord/Lord on daemonic steed (based on the fantasy model. Its so good not much conversion will be necessary)
-20 man Noise Marine squad: 1 Champion w/ Doomsiren & plasma/power-fist, 16 Slaaneshi Legionaries w/ Sonic-Blaster's, 3 Legionaries w/ Bolters
-5 man Noise Marine squad: 1 Champion w/ Doomsiren & plasma/power-fist or weapon, 1 Slaaneshi Legionnaire w/ Blastmaster, 3 Legionaries w/ Bolters
-5 man Noise Marine squad: 1 Champion w/ Doomsiren & plasma/power-fist or weapon, 1 Slaaneshi Legionnaire w/ Blastmaster, 3 Legionaries w/ Bolters
-5 man Noise Marine squad: 1 Champion w/ Doomsiren & plasma/power-fist or weapon, 1 Slaaneshi Legionnaire w/ Blastmaster, 3 Legionaries w/ Bolters
-5 man Noise Marine squad: 1 Champion w/ Doomsiren & plasma/power-fist or weapon, 1 Slaaneshi Legionnaire w/ Blastmaster, 3 Legionaries w/ Bolters

Daemon Prince Dri'ikuht's Khorneate Cohort
Driikuht: wings, mark of Khorne
-8 man Khorne Berserker squad: 1 champion w/ plasma/power-fist, 2 Legionaries w/ Plasma Pistols, 5 Legionaries with ccw's
-8 man Khorne Berserker squad: 1 champion w/ plasma/power-fist, 2 Legionaries w/ Plasma Pistols, 5 Legionaries with ccw's
-8 man Khorne Berserker squad: 1 champion w/ plasma/power-fist, 2 Legionaries w/ Plasma Pistols, 5 Legionaries with ccw's
-8 man Khorne Berserker squad: 1 champion w/ plasma/power-fist, 2 Legionaries w/ Plasma Pistols, 5 Legionaries with ccw's
-Rhino, Havok missile
-Rhino, Havok missile
-Rhino, Havok missile
-Rhino, Havok missile

Black Legion Sorcerer Vandiroz and Retinue
Sorcerer Vandiroz: Force-weapon, plasma pistol, wings
-5 man Raptor squad: 1 champion w/ lightning claws, 2 special weapons, 2 ccw's
-5 man Raptor squad: 1 champion w/ lightning claws, 2 special weapons, 2 ccw's
-5 man Raptor squad: 1 champion w/ lightning claws, 2 special weapons, 2 ccw's

Dark Magos Di'irindez's Daemon Engines
Di'irindez: Full sctratch build, terminator armor, unknown loadout
-Di'irindez's Retinue: 3 Obliterator's
-Vindicator: Havok, Daemonic Possession
-Predator Annihilator: Havok, Daemonic Possession
-Predator Destructor: Havok, Daemonic Possession












I see the thread is past 10,000 views now and I just wanted to thank everyone for looking! As always, questions, suggestions, comments and general conversation about this or anything is most welcome. Happy gaming!

That's a lot of bitz....Good luck getting through them all

WOW the mother load!

Heh, yup. I'm sure ill have some leftovers. At this rate though i should be on track, 4 more legionaries so far tonight.

Wow. Helluva lot of bits my friend.

Hey all, im back to work again. Pulled out the Apostles of Contagion and looking to finish up a squad of 10, a Champion and Necrosius. So, here's the first almost finished plague marine. More shots in the gallery, i realized there was no reason to let this thread die (that and I lost some of the pictures that are in here) but i will also have seperate threads for the armies. Its all very wip, thanks for looking.

Very nice rust effect. Looks like you might need to get a tetanus shot.

Okay, this multiple plog thing is not going to work. I've got a bunch of different projects barreling down so i'm just going to revive this trusty old plog, post the recent stuff i've been working on and try to do as much picture taking as possible on whatever I'm working on from here on out. For now finishing the work to bring the Apostles of Contagion into C:CSM 6th really has my attention.

Heres the 2k list along with the most recent wip pics:
Necrosius, the Hand of Nurgle
Counts as Typhus when not using his actual rules.


Champion of the Apostles
Sorcerer:Mark of Nurgle, +1 Level, Plasma Pistol, Lightning Claw, Sigil of Corruption


The Apostles of Contagion
Plague Marines: x10, x2 plasma, aspiring champion with power sword/master-crafted bolter(combi-bolter)







The Cult (1 squad of 10 zombies & 6 squads of 10 cultists: mark of nurgle, flamer/stubber & shotgun for the aspiring champion)
The aspiring champions

A shot of some of the horde.


The Mutants (2 units of 5 chaos spawn)
the Muties from gorkamorka posted earlier in this thread. i'll get some paint on them and put new pics up soon.

Chaos Air Support (2 Helldrakes)


So far i've played 3 games with the list and won 2 drew 1. That is with autocannons on the hellblades not flamers, as they are not fluffy for this army. I find that toughness 4 cultists are well worth the points, especially with the nurgle sorcerers backing them up with gift of contagion. When i go up against a death stary unit i carefully feed them cultists and bog them down with spawn, finally sending in Necrosius, the champion and the apostles to finish the job. So far, the 10 man unit of PM's has not been completely destroyed. I'd have a hard time dealing with mass armor and flyer spam, the air support can only do so much. I think its a fluffy army, definitely fun to play if not actually competitive.

I've got more pics in the gallery if your interested. Plog planning wise, after the apostles of contagion it's on to finish up both The Tainted and The Blood Pact (IG allies detatchment), which are both rather close to done actually, then back to the Black Legion. This is why I've resurected this plog and ditched the idea of doing multiples, one plog is hard enough to maintain and i've got a bunch of different things finishing up at the same time. I'd really appreciate any feed back, either on modeling, painting or the list and tactics for horde cultists. Thanks for stopping by.

Hey, good to see you back around again. Looks like you've been busy. I really like the effts you have going on w/ the Plague Marines. And congrads on the wins!

Well, what can I say? This blog is awesome and I'm subscribing to it!

Hey Skalk, good to see you too buddy! Happy holidays and all that jazz, for chaos. Thanks. Yeah at 2k i have to take two force orgs to essentially bring 1 extra squad of spawn. Kinda silly but i'm stickler. The Tainted are the more legion like warband, I like the idea of Necrosius just doing his own thing with cultists and zombies.

Thanks squigsquasher. I'll do my best to keep it coming.

Here's some more of the Apostles, the second Plasma gunner and the Icon bearer. Still working on lighting for plasma gunners eyes and gun. Also, not super happy with the tarnish on the icon bearer so i'm going to have to do another layer, plasma too. So close to finishing this army ...





Thanks for looking. Have a good one!

loving the icon bearer you can really feel the pestilence in the model, along with your other creations (in a good way btw)