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Another fine paint job although i find sm too popular id still like to do a khorn or night lords army myself

Worst thing about getting into the hobby again after a substantial hiatus? The MASSIVE price hikes! But plasticrack is what it is.

Loving your style of modeing and painting - I'm going to have to try the corkboard trick too - very effective

Ahh, cool - if I finish a necron army you never know, I may give you a game! I'll have to look at games clubs in the northeast, I'm not one for the GW kiddie scene.

Nice Zerker, good colours, I'd stick a penny to the underside of the base otherwise he may suffer from WMS.

KhornateKiller wrote:Great work on the zerker classic colours well painted.
World Eaters is what i collect so always good to see Zerkers on the screen

freakfish wrote:Another fine paint job although i find sm too popular id still like to do a khorn or night lords army myself

Thanks dudes

Million wrote:Worst thing about getting into the hobby again after a substantial hiatus? The MASSIVE price hikes! But plasticrack is what it is.

Loving your style of modeing and painting - I'm going to have to try the corkboard trick too - very effective

I'm trying not to think about the prices... plastic models when I last collected, were seen as the way to fill out massive fantasy army units or came in the big boxed games... I used to hate plastic!

SJM wrote:Ahh, cool - if I finish a necron army you never know, I may give you a game! I'll have to look at games clubs in the northeast, I'm not one for the GW kiddie scene.

Nice Zerker, good colours, I'd stick a penny to the underside of the base otherwise he may suffer from WMS.

Yeah you should do! I'm going to have a look up at a club in Blyth that seems popular (bit far from Sunderland?), everytime I go into a GW shop they keep harassing me to come down and play sometime but there's no way I want to end up facing a 12yr old kid across a table (I'm 35).

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So I finished the Berzerkers. Fairly happy with them, skin didn't come out as smooth as the Terminators for no apparent reason... smaller areas I don't know? But they look nice and dark and not at all cartoony (I hope) so mission accomplished. To scared to do the eyes so going to practice a bit more on Terry The Tactical Marine first. Also as with the Terminators they need decals and static grass but theyre not varnished yet so that will have to wait til it's warmer in the garage.


Icon of Wrath bearer on the right


Unit champion in the middle





And I couldn't resit an army shot! Had I not been a total div I would have also have a Chaos Terminator Lord and two more CSM in the shot... darn. Not bad though for three weeks effort I think?



Next? Pay day is soooo long away and that will mean vehicles and a new Lord I hope! In the meantime, Kranon is next and then some Bloodletters to assemble and paint!

Everything looks great even more so as a army one thing id do is use a wash to slightly darken the tuffs on the Berzerkers weapons but other than that great effort ya done well for 3 weeks work i started my lizardmen army round the same time and ive only managed to do a handfull of them

Great looking army , For 3 weeks work is fantastic,
Takes me forever to paint anything, What with work and a 14 month old, Painting tends to be an hour in the evening one twice a week before bed

32 Myself, yea I know the feeling, I go in GW for a few paints and maybe a brush, and some over excited sales dude is trying to sell me some LoTR stuff.


Army is starting the look great en masse, I really like the "action" you get into the zerker unit, gets the crazy chainaxe wielding freaks to a T.

I know what ya mean i hate going in to GW stores just for that fact yes i mr GW sales man i know youv got to try and up sell new products but you dnt have to talk to me like im a five year old and there prices all ways give me a shock as i get carryed away with the amount i buy .

Im really liking these! Its giving me alot of inspiration to start painting my hellbrute.

It must be pretty exciting to jump in again after so long. Going with chaos looks to be a good choice, your stuff looks great and the poses are really nice.

Cheers again cold daylight today = need to repaint the Berzerker face

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Well I'd now finished painting all of units, and until payday I'm not able to fortify the army any further. Or so I thought! Today I decided to sort of the missing two troopers from the standard marine squad. So re-built a heavy bolter dude (with old painted weapon)


Gave this version a more scary helmet than before, and an improved handle from the handguard off a chainsword.

Looks a regular badass, huh?

Next up I've been wanting to add vintage Rogue Trader chaos models to the army since I first decided to even collect CSM... however the couple I have clearly look too small and really don't fit in too well so I've not gone any further with them. However I used to love the wacky looking possessed marines with Bloodthirster or Juggernaut heads etc... and then I remembered I had a box of Bloodletters I picked up for half-price... and because I used Chaos Warrior bodies for the marines I had everything but legs from the CSM boxset I also had leftover.

And so my own version of the those vintage Khorne-possessed models were born! A total accident, but I love the models (if I do say so myself). Bases are WIP, need a bit of Greenstuff doing (used it for the first time today), and one is missing backpack as I ran out of them. I've given them the legs and a cut off groin/waist from the Bloodletter, the chest from a CSM plus the backpack and shoulder pads, with a mix of Bloodletters arms with CSM gauntlets and upper arms. The neck was also cut off the Bloodletter and blended into a blob of greenstuff so the elongated heads fit over the backbacks. I'm going to paint them up as Iron Warriors but more battered and stained. With bloody hands and weapons!





Chainsword polearm... thingy.


More chainswords. Why have one when you're a daemon marine and two is so much more practical?



Unit champion with the standard massive Bloodletter sword and CSM champion torso and backpack.


Picture doesn't really capture the pose as well as a 3D viewing. He's has the decapitated head from a space marine in his hand with a little greenstuff windpipe hanging out! Nice!


And all together! I want to make another three to make up to the holy number of Khorne. But I've run out of backpacks so I need to wait til payday before they can be finished.

Possessed are quite expensive pts-wise considering they cant be equipped with firearms... but I love the fluff and the are a really fun infantry unit packed with special rules that are a bit more interesting than 10 lads with bolters. I think the idea will be to put them in a Land Raider with the Lord and just pile into whichever enemy unit gets in their way first!

I'd hate to run a Khorne fantasy army and have to assemble ranks of these models, so so fiddly to assemble!

Great, great builds on those possessed. Always fun and really let the modeller's style show through. I totally sympathise on building them, too, as I went through a boxful for basing up some GKs.

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Great, great builds on those possessed. Always fun and really let the modeller's style show through. I totally sympathise on building them, too, as I went through a boxful for basing up some GKs.

Thanks! Who in their right mind at GW thought such spindly, fiddly models should be assembled with each leg as a seperate piece, and the crotch slotting in between! They should have included a packet of greenstuff for free with them! And the head! Gaps everywhere! Aaaaaaargh! Cool looking sculpts though imho

Ahh, clever kit basing going on there,nice surprise getting a free unit! well kind of.

I still like the WFB CW mix on your heavy bolter guy, the Big fur cloaks look nice!

Those berzerkers poses are totally awesome, and the bloodletters look nice this way to, way better as their normal skinny shoulder look.
keep it up!

SJM wrote:Ahh, clever kit basing going on there,nice surprise getting a free unit! well kind of.

I still like the WFB CW mix on your heavy bolter guy, the Big fur cloaks look nice!

I don't think I could use the standard CSM models now without cloaks... but it's such a pain to do I don't think I could be bothered again ha ha

Big Boss Grimbad wrote:Those berzerkers poses are totally awesome, and the bloodletters look nice this way to, way better as their normal skinny shoulder look.
keep it up!

Thanks! I just wish I'd not rushed the Berzerkers as I wanted to just get them done, but after some little playtesting with them they're probably my favourite unit (aside from the Possessed!).

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So I finished my final 3 Possessed! I've been playing with my army list today, and working out a place for them and deciding what I'm going to buy after the Predator/LRaider/Rhino is done. The Possessed are going to be attached to the Lord as a personal honour guard of Khorne for him. Makes sense to me as he's Mark of Khorne'd, Gift of Mutation'd, and has taken Berzerkers as a troop choice! I'm going to try and mould the army around the idea of a Khornate Iron Warrior coven-warband. Ultimately I want a more Iron Warrior-y warlord, maybe a Warpsmith themed character. But for now I present to you, the Brotherhood of the Brass Citadel led by Exalted Champion of Khorne, of the Iron Warriors Legion, Oro Raptus (to be converted, or replaced...).



My final three Possessed. Converting those Bloodletter sword hands to hold something else is a right pain as the fingers hold the big swords at an angle. But some swearing and Chaos Warrior swords later and I'm done. I really like the last one below. Backpacks needed, bases to be finished, bit of greenstuff. And then paint... in time for the weekend and my first game of 6th!

Am really liking the look of your models; nice clean kitbashing and very original from what I've seen of other CSM armies. I've just come back into the game recently and am going CSM too, however lack imagination and skill to do stuff to make them stand out like yours. Keep up the good work, subbed

WIN WIN WIN !!!!
Love those Bloodletter kit bashes
May have o ahummm (borrow) that idea
Keep it up mate loving what im seeing so far
Andy

j29reborn wrote:Am really liking the look of your models; nice clean kitbashing and very original from what I've seen of other CSM armies. I've just come back into the game recently and am going CSM too, however lack imagination and skill to do stuff to make them stand out like yours. Keep up the good work, subbed

Thanks dude My Berzerkers just are kitbashed from the standard Zerker box with some CSM bits and Space Wolf heads! Really easy but effective I think! Those CSM's though were an absolute ballache if I'm honest but look good I think. Bloodletters, again just kitbashed with some cutting... have a go mate! The satisfaction of having unique units is unbeatable imho. Do what I did, try and get a couple of boxes of models at the same time and just swap and play about with the bits.

KhornateKiller wrote:WIN WIN WIN !!!!
Love those Bloodletter kit bashes
May have o ahummm (borrow) that idea
Keep it up mate loving what im seeing so far
Andy

Ha go for it! And thanks! I'm looking forward to using them!

Update time, no more painting done... somehow managed to spend a couple of evening just doing two conversions and writing an army list...

First up, Oro Raptus, Exalted Champion of Khorne of the Iron Warrior Legion. Just the basic Kranon model from DV. Had first thought to just use as standard but the conversion itch won't let me leave it alone. After much pondering of the army list and Codex I decided to give him the Burning Brand of Skalathrax - an epic flamethrower used by Kharne. I really wanted to represent it on the model, but a decent flamer doesn;'t really exist for this sort of thing, so made my own. Standard CSM flamer, with the muzzle cut off and replaced with one from the Chaos tank sprue, with the flamers original pilot light (lol) glued back on underneath. I think it looks good, mean, a bit more interesting than a standard flamer and helped by the model holding it one handed outstretched like a pistol.



The plan is to use this model as a 2nd HQ in bigger games with the Possessed, as a scary shock troop unit.

Reason being I rescued my old Lord model after my nerd-rage post-painting. Dettol stripped it over night, some green stuff used to bulk out the torso (it's loads deeper chest to back) and set the head surround on the outside of the torso rather than inset to give it even more depth and the appearance of a massive bloke inside it; I also used a more basic looking chest piece that fits the Iron Warrior aesthetic better than the old one. Chaos warrior champion helmet for an Iron Warrior Warsmith look, single lightning claw with a combi-bolter added to the top, with ammo belt (two Khorne bolt pistols, smoothed off down one side and fitted together). Massive spikey Bloodletter sword, and custom non-hedgehog trophy racks.




This will be the army's Warlord and default HQ choice regardless of pts. He of course needs a ludicrous name... Archduke Malko Tarxus, Holy Terror of Stara Prime, High Lord of the Brotherhood of the Brass Citadel, Warsmith of the Iron Warrior Legion. Long enough for you?

He will be specced with a combi-bolter and the Daemon weapon the Axe of Blind Fury (represented by the huge sword). I wanted to use an axe on the model but refused to buy a £20 kit just for an axe head... but I hoped that the sword is so obviously Daemonic, opponents won't mind it not being axe shaped? In much larger games (2500 ish) I want to use him as a counts-as Abaddon but I need another standard troop choice or some Chosen first to make my list legal.

And finally my task for the next few days is putting this lot together


The Predator will be getting fully magnetised to swap between all-out dakka or tank-killing. Just waiting for the magnets to arrive.

Last word? I have one of these on the way from Forge World:

Sweet! I really like your subtle, effective conversions. And big fun with gribbly ahead, I reckon!

Brought the army down to a local club on Sunday, and had my first game of 6th and first of 40k in 15-16yrs? However I had my arse kicked all over the table by ssspectre and his goodie two shoes space marines. Having lots of close combat and not much shootie = lots of dead traitors. Deepstriking Terminators into a crater didn't help when rolling 1's for armour saves...

Onto the painting. I seem to have lots of unfinished units to finish. Decals, weathering, varnish... but my main focus has been getting some armour up and running, Landraider assembled and painted silver/washed etc, and the Predator has been assembled and fully magnetised - turret, turret lascannons and autocannon, all sponson weapons so I can choose lots of dakka or pop tanks or a mix.

Decimator still hasn't arrived from Forge World but I'm hopeful it will be here tomorrow. I have decided it will be my first bit of a Nurgle detachment for my army, afterall half the fun of Chaos is sampling the different Dark Gods right? So it will be a stripped down Nurgle Lord as HQ #2 (see Kranon with the flamethrower), the Decimator with a Dedication to Nurgle, plus I want one more unit in time for the weekend to round off the mini-Nurgle gang and fill out the 2000pts my goal has been to hit. Whatever it will be, lots of greenstuff will be involved - seven Plague Marines for £25 from GW? Nee chance. Bikes are a possibility, or Havocs. Or possibly just standard marines with Mark of Nurgle and lots of conversion... hmmm.

Anyway, pics. My first completed tank. Took this and the Landraider to my game on Sunday, literally painted it that morning - Halfords car body paint for a nice smooth silver and lots of washes. Very basic looking. So finished it off tonight with hazard stripes, weathering and details. Also added a magnetised Havoc launcher - 12pts seems worth a gamble for a bit of long range support pre the inevitable 'wrecked' status.









I didn't want perfect hazard stripes as I've underplayed them on the infantry. The problem is that adding paint chipped effects is tricky as it won't match the rest of the bare metal armour around it. So I used liquid masking to go round all the edges of the top hatch and the front armour panel. Quite randomly done. When I came to remove it when the stripes were done, it left a really nice worn, chipped off paint effect. Looks really weathered and chipped. Then Tamiya weathering powder to add the dusty sand effect to match the infantry bases (they will be getting the same dust treatment).

That tank looks killer. Love the chipped paint look on the hazard stripes. Really well done!

Smart lookng rhino, you have used fairly simple colours which really makes it work. I've not seen that FW model before, it looks great and should be alot of fun to make, I hope the resin behaves for you!

I've not actually finished painting a single model since the Rhino : as I've been busy completely reworking my army list as I was finding it too 'patchy' to use, a little bit of this and a little bit of that but not enough of anything in particular ) So I freed up a huge number of points by dropping upgrades I was forgetting I had, and I've put in a load more firepower and (as mentioned earlier) I'm now setup to use Abaddon-counts-as as my Warsmith HQ (hence how I modelled him). I've spent ages on my list now, the previous version was just cobbled together with what I thought was cool rather than thinking how I could use the units.

So here are the fruits of my labour model wise



One Forge World Decimator with Butcher Cannon and Seige Claw (will count as Helbrute in some games as I can use two Helbrutes with Reapers for the same pts cost) - the leg assembly was pretty stressful :

Two 'strike' squads of Chosen (counts as Troop choices under Abaddon), both will be expanded to 10 with extra bolters and one needs a better Champion to match the WFB Chaos Lord I used in the other. Both have the Mark of Nurgle as I really wanted some Nurgle in the army, but will be painted up like rusted and decayed Iron Warriors to fit my army. Lots of plasma and melta guns. Getting pulverised by multiple Dreadnoughts and all Terminator armies with Land Raiders showed me how lightweight my army was for shooting. All (bar the Champ) based on bog standard CSM sprues, loads of greenstuff for bloated bellies, intestines hanging out, growths, fungus, hooves etc. I also ended up having to make three plasma guns from plasma pistols and bits of flamers and bolters, plus some old Imperial Guard models. These guys took ages.

And my most recent project, a Forgefiend with two Hades Autocannons. I went for the Hades over the Ectoplasma for range and avoiding my customary snakes-eyes roll to hits killing my own models. Rather than the four legged Fiend I converted it to have six legs (what a pain) and mounted the two Hades cannons on the carapace using cut down Magma Cutters and greenstuff. It looks awesome in my opinion, making the model almost an inch taller.

My job today is try and paint as much of these models as possible.

This is a brilliant thread, and for somebody who has recently started painting again its really good well done. I also love the Forgefiend conversion, its nice to see a different take on the model.
Also the decimator, is it worth getting? I really like the model (other than the wierd snippy claw things) what are your thoughts

Young Logan

If I'm honest, I don't think it's worth the £60 it cost me from FW. It's a nice model, the body detail is lovely, but it's not earth shattering imho. I think it depends on how used to paying huge money for resin models you are... I'm not, and so until I paint it properly I'm not in love with it, it's a great model, but I actually like the Forgefiend model more and it was £20 less.

Also, in the first and only game I have used it, it was killed outright before my first turn by a squad of deepstriking Deathwing Terminators So it has a lot to make up for...

That Iron Warriors Rhino looks great mate! The hazard stripes look fantastic - very realistic. You should put up a little tutorial on using the liquid mask as I may well steal that idea at some point!

Can't wait to c more

Pomyboy wrote:Can't wait to c more

Stonie wrote:That Iron Warriors Rhino looks great mate! The hazard stripes look fantastic - very realistic. You should put up a little tutorial on using the liquid mask as I may well steal that idea at some point!

Thanks and thanks! It's really simple to be honest to do the stripes, just depends how work you want them to look.

1. Paint the tanks/figure minus weathering.
2. Paint (thickly) liquid mark where you think paint would come off and expose the metal underneath - lots of edges or raised surfaces, around badges etc.
3. For my stripes I did a thick coat of grey first, then the yellow. Don't be scared of lots of layers of paint... see later.
4. Washes on the stripes gives them depth - it will look odd until the masking is removed. I used Agrax watered a bit on the yellow. Very light drybrush of dark grey down the centre of the black stripe (with a massive drybrush).
5. Remove the masking tape if used, then peel the liquid mask. I found the trick to avoid sharp painted shaped edges was the thick paint over the top, as it pulls off paint within the mask TOO. So rather than leave the shape of the masked area, you're trying to get it to rip off paint it shouldn't too, leaving irregular shapes, plus even revealing (in my case) the yellow UNDER the black, not just the silver under the yellow!
6. They I used Tamiya weathering powder on a little dab on sponge to fade out the edges and dust up the colour.

Simple!

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Couple of REALLY bad photos of my models in 'action'. Game three of my 6th Edition career - comprehensive defeat of 2000pts of tactical squad-heavy Space Marines with very similar heavy support composition to my own - Chosen strike squads and deepstrike tTerminators swung the contest with my opponent using cover and a jump squad very effectively to claim two early full squad annihilations.



Next time I play against powerarmour, this bad boy will be using a mouth full of Ectoplasma as the Hades cannons weren't that effective against non-vehicle targets


(peek-a-boo!)

Played a fourth game straight after this one. Typhus plus 40 plague marines, Terminators, Oblits and a Land Raider. Close combat was scary against the plague marines as they rolled over me after a sudden Rhino led Blitzkrieg with methodical ease (FNP was insanely good for them), but lots of big guns on my side and tons of plasma (and plasma suicides...) gave me a second victory. Very pleased with today after two consecutive thrashings from a Deathwing army and another Rhino/Tactical squad/Dreadnought force previously. Must more streamlined army I could actually remember all the special rules for ha ha

Picked up a five man pre-Heresy jump pack CC assauly squad - Mk2 and Mk5 armour. Already re-based and reposed (a little bit) with an added powerfist for Land Raider hunting. 125pts (w/ Icon of Vengeance) should make it a great reactionary stormtrooper unit. Armour Mk's suit the Iron Warrior army perfectly as their version of Raptors. Really looking forward to painting them as the FW sculpts are very pretty. Aim this week (off for a few days) is to finish my army - lots of WIPs need completing and rounded off.

I can't think of a new way to say awesome. That is a great Forgefiend conversion, I don't think I have seen anything else like it. Looks fantastic.