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@lostcarcosa: Thank you friend! *Wheezes* I mix all blood just before hand in a beer bottle cap (preferably a freshly opened one that still has a drop worth of beer residue) then i add my paint, water and inks. It's not a precise recipe for blood but I go between a very brown dried blood and a fresher bleeder. For older dried blood I add in more brown and ochre ink to the mix and conversely I add in more red and salmon inks for fresh blood. If you can point out a mini you were specifically looking at I can try to give you an aproximate recipe. Hobby supply stores should have various dropper bottles of inks, which gives it that wet look.
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Just wow, these are great shots. The cultists with the chopped of corpse is a true heretic maniac. And the psyker's paintjob is a perfect rendering of a possessed.

Very evocative shots!

@KernelTerror: Thanks brother! That means alot coming from you, seriously!
@b-tone: Thank you kindly!

Some work done on the Blight Drone and the zombies.

Thanks for checking me out!

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Cool stuff, some really cool shot. I really like all the cultists, especially the leader type dude.

Hopefully the assassins didn't get to him!

EDC

Thanks EDC! He seems okay ...

...nope ... they're all in trouble!

Greetings one and all! Gods be praised its a great time for Chaos! *takes deep breath then launches into horrific coughing fit* Pardon us. We are ill. Though we have been pouring over the new tome of Legions and are reconfiguring our forces. I am happy to report that all affected Chaos warbands are looking very good. Very strong indeed! *Insane laughter*
With the books in hand I'm making lists! Shall I post what I come up with?

Dakka dakka dakka! Hey everybody! Small posting hiatus but I've got work to show for it.
First up is the beginnings of a Warpsmith for the Black Legion


Next we have the Son's of the Cyclops, featuring converted 30k/40k Ahriman's! Here is the conversion laid out as planned, I'm excited to finally do the build, I've been planning it for a while.


The theme for my Thousand son's is red marble fyi. Not sure I'm totally feeling it but I may try some final washes to see if I can set a satisfying finish to them. Any thoughts on this would be really appreciated










Still need to get my hands on a bunch of 32mm bases and go to work redoing all these chaos bases ... daunting task but I'll get to it. Stay tuned for more work at as I finish stuff up! Thanks for looking and as always any C&C or general chit chat is more than welcome. Have a good one!

Pretty cool. The armour seems a bit too splotchy to me. I think some solid edge highlighting may help and potentially for more definition on the 'seams' that run through marble. Saying that I think the shoulderpads look really cool, the effect just didn't quite translate over the rest of the armour.

Keep at it though, there's certainly a lot of promise for the concept.

EDC

Interesting models, the warpsmith and Ahrimans will be interesting to follow.

Regarding the red marble, this is a ballsy move and great Idea, and as EDC said, with a lot of potential. But as EDC also said, I am not convinced with all the areas where you applied this texture.

On one hand, this shoulder is brilliant (damn, again, paraphrasing EDC ^^ ) :


On another hand, I am less fond of that leg :

I think I would like it better with well defined metal trims, and maybe a whiter leg upper half.

Another though, how about focusing on some specific armor parts (shoulders, elbow, gun top, lower leg) and leave the rest in plain white (or red). This might improve readability.

Out of curiosity, what are the steps you used for this effect ?

Keep it up, I am sure the final result will be brilliant.

Red marble is definitely a bold choice. I'd be inclined to google image search it, and do five or ten test minis based on different results. I'd love to see some of the deeper and richer varieties - I'm going to blog how I paint my bright red Word Bearers in the coming weeks, myself.

BTW every time your blog comes up on my subscriptions I hum Cher's 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves'

Thanks for all the help guys! I appreciate the feedback!

@EDC: Yeah I'm feeling the same way, this effect is extremely time consuming as I basically have to let every layer dry before I can see how it looks at all. Your definitely right about the seems and color crack lines. I'm planning on coming back through for thin edging cracks in white when I get the red's where I want them so I was worried too much white on the shoulder pads but I'm sure I can make it look like veins extend from the whites.

@kernelTerror: So this style is completely new and experimental but I'm basically going for almost watercolor type mixing. So with the different red's I'll heavily water with at most a 1:1, usually 1:2 or 3. I lay down a very heavy stroke leading the water to pool on the model where I want it and then leave it to dry. You and EDC both seem to dig the shoulder pad which is good because that is the parts on the model where I experimented with red ink in a second layer and another layer of white but I was uncertain if I should continue this process all over. So now I think I'll continue adding in more white as veins and definitely do a layer of red ink over the reds. The leg you pointed out is an example of a first layer of red that will benefit from the ink. Which I'm thinking very seriously about also applying to the metals in the manner of the TS whose shoulder pad you like. What do you think of the redish metal on that one?

@lindsay40k::haha as a kid I used to think it was "Gypsy Trampoline" and I still sing it to myself. .. alot. The red of your Word Bearers are rocking! Looking forward to that

Ahriman's coming along, still haven't anchored the head. Waiting till undercoat.

And more Ahriman. Final pose here, trying to make it have the feel that he's firing off a spell from his staff mid sprint or that he is the middle of a duel and about to pull off an epic kung-fu staff attack lol. What you think?



Thanks for looking! Happy hobbying!

I like it, he's got a serious lean going on! I think an outstretched arm with an open hand would be better than a bolt pistol for his left arm. Otherwise looking good.

EDC

Funny how the camera angle can give different feeling. The first picture definitely gives a very dynamic pose, probably dodging backwards given the flow of the cloth. The second picture on another hand shows quite a lean indeed (and I swear I am not only posting here to agree with EDC.), that might be inconsistent with the position of his left leg.

You're probably onto something though, and very cool backpack.

@EDC: Cool thanks! The thing is, the concept of this conversion was an Ahriman 30k/40k body swap using recognizable parts from the original metal model, also I had to put some effort to get it.

@kernelTerror: Yeah it does change a bit huh irl it looks like he's either jumping a bit or in full knees up run. I could try to pivot a leg though idk if it's worth the effort.

Here's the Exalted sorcerer on the other side of the Ahriman body swap. Trying to make it look like he's casting a summoning spell. What you think?

Those cultists are fantastic, as are the assassins.
I was lured in by the Wizard of Oz title, but I didn't expect the contents to be this interesting and diverse! Loving it.

Sweet, I can definitely see him raising demons trough a demonic portal in front of him, excellent.
Here is a thought, how about making two or three demons with only their torsos/arms/heads coming out of the base (like undeads rising from a grave if you will, xcept they're demons and there is no grave).
If you have the bits to spare, putting them in front of that sorceror could look pretty cool.

@corpuschain: Thanks very much!

@kernelTerror:: Cool ideas! I was going to keep these bases but have since decided not too, so when I get to new bases I'll try to make a warp portal base

Here is Exalted Sorcerer number 2! He's casting a ... cotton candy spell? Idk what kind of spell it looks like come to think of it, tbh I just really had fun making it. ... what kind of spell do you think it is?

Nice ! I'd say it is definitely a toxic fume spell, get targeted and it will rot your brain !
And I see you are getting the hang of that red marble texture, well done !

Thanks KernelTerror, I've been laying down the basecoats of the marble first on everything then I'll come back to darken the red's and add in the cracks but I want to do it all at the same time so they have a consistent look. I've done another 20 bolter TS. I'll post pictures asap.

Hmm, I think the summoner could benefit from work on his posture. He seems to be looking at the ground; I can't see the vintage Ahriman figure supporting many directions of facing other than forwards, so perhaps he might benefit from doing so - and his casting hand being repositioned so as to appear to be projecting incantations in the direction he's looking?

There's a Forge World traitor librarian summoning a Daemon whom I'm planning to riff on with a spare Daemon torso being projected from a casting hand, it's a handy way to add motion to a model with a fairly static pose.

Exalted Sorcerers look awesome. I really like the dude with his arm out like he's summoning something.

Now it's my turn to agree with KernelTerror, the second sorcerer looks like a cool toxic fume.

EDC

@lindsay40k: I appreciate that. But do me a favor and imagine that the summoner is closing his eye's and bowing his head while muttering the spell. He's wearing a helmet so we can't see it, but I actually based his head on the position of my head when I took the same body posture of the old Ahriman and held my hand up then imagined myself summoning Daemons. It takes some effort to cast summoning btw, i've only managed to spawn 2 daemons personally. But also, the theme of this army is that they are 30k Thousand son's just after Prospero but before Ahriman cast the Rubric. Change rips through the legion as their primarch and his closest sorcerers all ascend to daemonhood, all except for Ahriman and his Coven, who must keep their horror from drawing down the wrath of Magnus while at the same time seeking for some way to master their new found powers rather than become hosts for daemons like their mutated albeit powerful brothers in arms. So half the army will be Ahriman and company while the other half are "the changed" and of course I have to do Big Red himself. All this is to say that casting the more exotic spells are quite difficult still for these relatively novice sorcerers amd take a great deal of concentration lol.

@EDC: Cheers buddy! So among the responses to what spell that is I got, toxic fume, soul burn and a blessing spell. So I guess it can count for any spell lol

Speaking of Big Red, i got the Primarch yesterday

So much to consider as far as build options and paint scheme. I know I'm going to have a fireball rising out of his right hand, and I'm leaning towards the Cyclops face. Im not super into the horney titties either but they are kind of iconic.... argh. Also thinking about pale cream/grey skin and red hair, magnus the ginger? The only thing im fairly sure about is matching the armor to the rest of the thousand son's obviously... or should.Magnus be special? AARRRGGHH! THE VOICES OF THE WARP ARE MADDENING? Do you have any good painting or modeling ideas for Magnus?

I don't take enough wip shots so I'm just gonna throw some snaps from the work bench up here. Thousands keep on keeping on with new bases, Scarab terminators and then big red himself next. I'll show more of the prince asap, pretty happy with him. Bonus internet points if anyone can tell the base model!



War Cabal

Squad 1

Squad 2

Squad 3


Thanks for looking! Happy hobbying!

I had not realized the amount of models you had in this batch, daymn, they will make a majestic sight !