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I think the difference between the regular and fancy version of the chariot is the regular version just has 2 mounts and one set of spikes, it's much smaller looking:

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Chaos-Daemons-Seeker-Chariot-of-Slaanesh

Apparently you can build it two ways, as a Seeker Chariot or Hellflayer:



Will think about it but the regular one definitely isn't as bad - she will need something to go with her though!

Maybe instead of the Steeds replace it with flying Brooms!? Cheesy Logan idea

In all seriousness though have 4-5 Witches on brooms pulling a "flying" chariot with her riding in it. Or just brooms since Witches could control multiple brooms I'm sure.

Hmmmmm.....

... and Harumph even.

I dunno, I envisage something more corpse cart like for this. Also, you may be an idiot, but at least it's your wife's fault this time

You can tell just from the pose on the Contemptor that this is going to be an excellent army. Best of luck getting it done in the allotted time, seems like one hell of a challenge.

You know, even though it would've been nice to have it as a Slaanesh model, I think a herald of Tzeentch on disc is actually a better fit (it flies!) and matches what you want to do for it with base size and modeling:

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Chaos-Daemons-Herald-of-Tzeentch-on-Disc-40K


And it even works since she's a witch, and Tzeentch are basically wizards.

So, I'd say just change what you are going to use it as. You'll likely save some points this way so could use those points towards the extra daemon prince and extra nurglings (and maybe it'll wash out closer to the higher total you wanted since the daemon prince is likely pretty pricey).

That seems like a good swap RiTides. I'll do it.

Coven throne from the vampire counts range?

Here you can see the two types of bats I have available for the Chaos Furies. The white one (right) is a cloud of bats over a gravestone from the bones series. Really neat idea but a bit hard to discern, the large bat is from the vampire counts army & CO a local friend of mine. Both are OK on their own but I don't really like either one.



Combine them however... and you get a really interesting effect.



Lastly, here's a shot of the army to date. While I will give you regular progress shots of the units... every once in a while I'll give you a pic of the whole thing. As you can see I did finish building the wolves which will probably be the first things to be painted as it will complete the entire wolf faction of the army. My friend also contributed the rats and spiders. The back-up demon prince can also be seen in this pic.

Looking very cool indeed. Where did those little spiders come from? They're super cool.

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Love the skin wolf. Really cool model.

The Bat added to the swam works really well.

Hah, that army shot is looking great! Theme is coming out well and it's clear what things are going to count as

evildrcheese wrote:Looking very cool indeed. Where did those little spiders come from? They're super cool. D

Not sure since they were donated. I'm assuming they're something out of the vampire counts range.

Archer wrote:Love the skin wolf. Really cool model. The Bat added to the swam works really well.

Thanks Archer. I wasn't sure about it but so far the modeling of this army has all been about taking risks. So far it's paid off.

RiTides wrote:Hah, that army shot is looking great! Theme is coming out well and it's clear what things are going to count as

I think I'm also going to write the name of the unit on the front of each base so it's clear to my opponent what everything is supposed to be without constantly asking me. It's only fair after all.

GW used to make a swarm sprue, which included the big bat you have, the rats, spider, and I think a snotling. I picked up a box years ago, still have a chunk of it unpainted. I think you got 5 sprues to the box, but am uncertain.

THe spiders, bats and rats I think also came with heroquest or one of the other killed off box sets from GW.

If your still looking for ideas for the Lillith Base how about her doing a fly over the car from Army of Darkness:Evil Dead. THe one with the windmill on the front. Other wise you might be able to source a John Deere Combine for relatively inexpensive price and put it on a base coming out of a corn field. Maybe even make it look like lillith is controlling it with her magics

Favorite is still Frankenstein's Monster, he looks so awesome! Love the head, almost bought some for my Kastelan Robots.

Spiders do look really good, not OTT, very subtle. Good luck with Lilith still!

Thanks guys:

@Theo: Well, here are my "rules" for building. Things out of the Chaos Space Marine codex can have obvious signs of technology.... the marine (Dracula), the dread (Frankenstein's monster) are good examples. Even the zombies are "modern" humans. Anything out of the chaos demons dex must be bestial or primitive (non-technological) human.

So... looking into the future, and obvious add is a Helldrake to represent a dragon. I'll need to come up with some sort of traditional dragon's tail for it... but it's clearly a mechanized machine... which fits the dex it's from. If I was going to add a vehicle of some sort, the one that jumps into my head is Christine.... which could proxy as a chaos rhino with a dozer blade and extra armor. That being said, I don't think Christine is likely due to a variety of modeling and scale issues that would arise.


@Spacewolverine: Yeah... friend of mine had picked some up for his bots and I really love them. Have 3 left-over in case I decide to add some Kastelan's to my AdMech (eventually).

Re: Names on bases, I think that is very smart if you can get it to look good. I am doing this for my gator army that Ramos painted (or planning to, anyway - it will likely happen in November / December when I've got a little bit of time to model!) and using bases that Jin modeled and Wehrkind cast with a raised nameplate area:


I plan to laser cut the names, but to do so I've actually got to cut out a curved shape... I did a few tests and it looked cool, but trickier than I had initially thought!

I just don't like it when names are scrawled on the front - maybe you could use an airbrush letter stencil and spray them? Still tedious to do a letter at a time, but if you had enough spare letters perhaps you could construct the words onto a piece of flexible backing material, put it on the base edge and then spray the whole word on. Probably good to plan for that now...

Wolves are done! They're drying from their wash tonight. I'll finish up the bases tomorrow morning and post then.

OH, the bloodletters arrived today. They look good. Also enough snotlings arrived to do 4 more nurgling bases.

So far, so good. Tomorrow's jobs are to finish the wolves (including bases), build and paint the 8 nurglings & whatever else I think I can get done (or feel like doing).

Excellent, looking forward to seeing them! You certainly took the bull by the horns the first painting day of October

LEGEND!!!! Loving this already - go to it Count Gitsula

Man, that contemptor has such a "real" stance, you'd swear it's a real walking zombie. Absolutely great, keep it up Gits

3 more nurgling bases done... Just waiting for orders to arrive to make more.

A day or two away and a new Git's blog is already two pages long!

Like the idea, will properly browse and come back later!

Thanks LT, and thanks for the bump!

Couple of photos for you. My bloodletters came in yesterday. Keep in mind this isn't my work, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Decently painted so I'm pleased.




I finished my wolves. I swear the basing takes longer than the painting does.

Love the Wolves, they turned out fantastic! You know I am going to agree about the basing taking almost as long

Looks amazing so far

Those wolves are amazing. The basing may have been a pain, but the festive autumn foliage adds a lot to the theme.

Just thinking of your wife's idea for attack of the killer tomato. Great unclean one of Nurgle's painted red.... Or just have attack of the green tomato. Fits the demon army profile. Or you could paint the GUO Orange and have him be the great pumpkin, maybe with a squad of Nurgle's marines painted up like the Peanuts gang. One with a moldy blanket (Linus), one with a pestilential cloud around him (Pig Pen), maybe a noise marine playing a small piano (Schroder), Captain Charles brown with his zigzag shirt. Could have a plague drone or three painted yellow flying over a dog house too.

Thanks guys!

@brushcommando: All I did was follow the instructions. As you can see, mine don't hold a candle to his.



@Theo: Ahhhhh.... no. Though I do like the GUO/killer tomato idea. That's one of those I'll save for later.


Nurgling bases are airbrushed. Will finish them tomorrow and post a pic. Hoping some other of the e-bay ordered figures arrive tomorrow.