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Ok! Its time to get me motivated!
I just recieved a text to say my first ever forge world order just arrived at home, so I'm eagerly typing this in my lunch break wishing 5pm woud hurry up and arrive

My grand plan is to make a 8500+ point LatD style Apocalypse army, using a combination of the Chaos Space Marine, Chaos Demon and Imperial Guard codecies, effectivly playing as all 3 races. CSM's as more of an Elite and HQ of the army, IG making up the bulk of the infantry and some Bloodletters just for flavour.

I've always loved the forge world Bloodthirster, and wanted him to be the focal point of my army. Luckily I came into £150 recently so took it as a sign and ordered him (after years of drooling over this page http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Chaos/DAEMONS_AND__BEASTS/BLOODTHIRSTER-GREATER-DAEMON-OF-KHORNE.html). I was truly amazed at how quick Its turned up (ordered on monday night, turned up wednesday morning), and cant wait to get home to take some pictures for you wonderful people .

More to come....


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No replies so far? how rude of you 40-something people that have viewed so far

Here come the photos!




So this is what I find awaiting me! just thought I'd take a few pic's of the bits (apologies about the pic's they were taken on my phone). This is what the beastie looks like!




^^The main body. I was really confused as to why the mouth was missing the bottom jaw until I found it lurking in another bag. Phew! Relief



^^The two legs and hands, just to give you an idea of size, the handle in the axe-less hand is the same size as a space marine!


I didn't get a picture of the wings annoyingly, but they were about the size of my hand I'm not lying when I say this is a HUGE "miniature".
I then went about cleaning all the pieces in warm soapy water to wash of any of the releasing agent that might be left from the casting. It doesn't take long and can make a real difference when getting that 1st coat of paint down. I then spent the next hour and a half filing bits and pieces down, clipping off all the excess bits, You really get to appreciate the detail when you spend that long checking it over. Then I was rudely interrupted buy my girlfriend who arrived in her new car, so I had to take a couple hours away from my desk to drive about and get drive thru

After my break I got on with assembling the few bits I could without needing to pin bits together, It was getting late so I didn't want to feth it up!
This is as far as I got this evening...Its always nice to round it off with some more photos, so here they come!


Shoulder guard - I think it looks awesome.



Both legs together from the front.


And from the back



Close up of the head with horns freshly in place!


Comments??

Wow it really looks like nobody is going to comment :(
I'll carry on anyway for the time being.

Okay, the assembling of my bloodthirster is really coming along now. I thought I'd take some pic's of the wings to give you a size comparison (these things are pretty massive, just one of them is bigger than my winged demon prince!)




I'm going to hold back from pinning and gluing the wings to the rest of the model and paint the body and wings individually, They are so big it would prevent me doing justice to the entire back side of the model!
Next I spent the best part of an hour trying to get the legs to attach to the base, It was heavily textured so getting a good enough bond to be able to support the rest of the models weight was the first really difficulty I came across. I ended up green stuff-ing two circular patches onto the base and putting a pin in both leg's to finally get it to hold. After all that time I ended up with this!



I kept all the green stuff hidden, which I was very glad about and I now have a nice sturdy base to assemble the rest of the beast on

After getting the bottom of the "mini" built I set about pinning the torso to the legs. This was another job that seemed to take much more time than expected, getting 3 pins to line up in a ball and socket type joint. For ways to make this a little easier I was searching Dakka (and the other inferior forums ), I found this article --> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/239928.page#713622 very handy so a big thank you to Cypher871 for that . Still it took the best part of a hour and several attempts to get to this stage



Now the model really seems to be coming together! a couple of pins later and this is as far as I've got so far...






HOPEFULLY I might get at least 1 comment before my next update! So please let me know what you think if you view it

Looking pretty cool.

As to why no one has commented until now, if I may put forward a possible reason?

Your initial post had no images etc, which in a P&M blog will turn most people off. When you added in your second post, it was automatically added to your first, which probably meant that it didn't pop up into the most recent threads, meaning people just weren't seeing your now updated post with pictures.

However, now you have pictures of shiny things, this state of affairs will probably not continue

Edit: Also, any chance you can please rotate your images before you upload them? You can do it with a single click using the image viewer that comes standard with windows.

like it! it is big and scary -when are you painting it? i will tune in for that.

I think the reason people can't really Comment is that there isn't much to Comment on. Right now, it's just an Un-Modified, Un-Converted and Un-Painted Forge World Model, and whilst I can't deny that it's really, really cool, it's not much for people to give you C&C on. However, I'll be a great many people are waiting for you to get some Paint slapped on; that's when the Comments will come flooding in, I assure you.

A freind of mine baught that bloodthrister, he uses it as Ang'grath the Unbound.

It is a great looking model.

For the love of all that is unholy, I hope you have cleaned him up, and given him a bath scrubng off all the mold stuff before you asembly him?
And I sugest you pin all his mayor parts, legs, body, arms wings ad feet to the base. You don't want him to break off anything becaue that will be a pain in the arse.
Looking forward to uptades on this.


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Oh, I apologies. I read now hat you DO pin him, I'm embarassed xD

Woo finally some response

@SilverMK2- noted about rotating the images, completely slipped my mind. I will do that from now on.

@VikingScott- I'll be using him as An'ggrath as well when I eventually play with him, I bought it 90% for painting 10% gaming. I hadn't even seen his stats before I bought it weighing in at 888 points its fair to say it wont be a common sight in my army!

@Rose_Mountainz- Yep, cleaning him was the first job, pinning was a pain in the arse but it was nothing compared to what I'd have to do if it broke once he was fully painted!

@Popsicle and weetyskemian44 - I've just this second gone outside to spray him up :thumbs up:. I'm not going to have much more time today to get paint on him so it will be next week some time before the really interesting stuff starts

Thanks for the comments guys

(WOO 1000th POST)

How big is this thing? From what ive seen its quite big so good luck!

Well, each wing looks to be as big as a human hand, so it is pretty big

It's taller then the Imperial bastion.
And widerr too.

Alright, I look forward to Progress and Paint!

As a side note, though, I don't think I could ever justify spending, what, £150 on a Greater Daemon? I know, it's Kick-Ass, but I'd either buy this, which is only £50, and could be fielded in Standard Missions, and has a Herald 'Letter as well, and then splurge on 2 Battleforces to back him up. That's, like... the entire Force, for what you're paying for your HQ.

Still, if it floats your Resin-Crackhouse Boat.

Ya know that friend I mentioned.
Yep he has that one tooo.
Use that one as Uriek? I know i begins with a U.

Looks awesome!

A torrential, sinewey rage!

wow, that demon is epic!

Just one question: your IG will you make them chaos guard? to fit your chaos themed apoc-army?

@indiana1000- From base to the tip of his axe he's 10" tall, I haven't got his whip and wings attached yet but when I do he will be considerably wider than he is tall.

@Popsicle- He's sprayed up and partly base coated so far. I'll upload pic's later this evening hopefully.

@sillyboy- Yeah, I'm going to get the Forge world command squads to replace the normal ones. I'm still struggling to find a colour scheme I like for the rest of the guardsmen though


Hold tight, I've base coated him scorched brown so far and I'm going to be working that up with scorched brown/red gore and then progressively lightening with scorched/bestial brown + red gore to give a similar (but more red rather than brown/orange colour than the one on the forge world site. I've base coated some of his armour too, that's going to end up brass + tin bitz-y. Just to get the mental images going for you

I'm going to warn you now my painting looks pretty shocking until it nears completion when I tie it all together, so try not to be too brutal when I update later

More to come...

@sillyboy- Yeah, I'm going to get the Forge world command squads to replace the normal ones. I'm still struggling to find a colour scheme I like for the rest of the guardsmen though

Nice, I like their chaos guard models to , or you going to use their own written chaos guard codex, or are you just going with the original one?

Hold tight, I've base coated him scorched brown so far and I'm going to be working that up with scorched brown/red gore and then progressively lightening with scorched/bestial brown + red gore to give a similar (but more red rather than brown/orange colour than the one on the forge world site. I've base coated some of his armour too, that's going to end up brass + tin bitz-y. Just to get the mental images going for you

*imagination kicks in*
can't wait to see some pic's

I'm going to warn you now my painting looks pretty shocking until it nears completion when I tie it all together, so try not to be too brutal when I update later

Must restrain myself.
No just kidding, post pic's and we (me and other friendly dakkites) will give you advice to become a good painter.
p.s. i'm not so good either, but practise does make art (belgian saying

That model really is big cant wait to see it painted

Okay, so as promised, here is the first (of many) stages of painting. As I said in my last post, Its probably going to look a little messy until the closing stages so try not to be to ruthless with your comments

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...I want this guy looking as good as I can possibly get him so any advice would be awesome.



Here's the front after base coating. Doesn't look all that different, but no matter how much time I spend working on him I still love seeing his bad-ass angry-ness (especially rotated as per SilverMK2's request )


I stuck some blu-tack over the points where the wings will eventually be placed to stop it being entirely filled with spray and ensure I can get a decent join later.


After removing all the blu-tack This is what I was left with, Nice clean spaces to (eventually) attach the huge evil bat wings to.


Much later I reached this stage. All the skin has been based in scorched brown (with the exception of a few little spots around his "back mohawk" (can't think of a better way to describe it ) that I'll be tidying up either tomorrow or Wednesday. The Armour that I managed to give a very rough base coat to (bestial brown) is eventually going to to be bronze/brass colours, so a brown seemed the most logical colour to start with.





And that's as much as I could do before forcing myself to stop! Hopefully I'll have all of Wednesday after work to really crack on with the painting, so I'll try and update then, but If not it will be the day after. Any advice or C+C before then could really help so feel free to throw any suggestions at me
Hope you like it so far!

Very very excellent! I really like FW´s greater demons, they should get better stats then the regular ones, just for being soooo much bigger and cooler!

The painting looks interesting too, will be cool to see where you go with this.

Oh, and as for the lack of comments, a contributing factor could be the summer vacation. With many people on holidays, or outside enjoying the warm weather, there aren´t many folks on the forums...

All that is changing within a month or so when school and work cuts back in.

Wow, I must say that I'm impressed. I did not realize that the Daemon model was so big. I really don't care for Chaos models, but I am looking forward to see how this turns out.

Looks promising I'll follow this one.
Just one question, seeing as you're gonna use it for 40K, why not mount it on a round base ??

Hell I'm really not a Chaos fan but seeing someone not only buy, but assemble and paint one of these beasts is a rare treat.

Consider me tuned in!

Great work so, far by the way.

Keep it up!

WOW. I'm really jealous. It's such a sex model. Probably my favorite forgeworld model too. Good luck! Make that skin really good for me

Popsicle wrote:Alright, I look forward to Progress and Paint!

As a side note, though, I don't think I could ever justify spending, what, £150 on a Greater Daemon? I know, it's Kick-Ass, but I'd either buy this, which is only £50, and could be fielded in Standard Missions, and has a Herald 'Letter as well, and then splurge on 2 Battleforces to back him up. That's, like... the entire Force, for what you're paying for your HQ.

Still, if it floats your Resin-Crackhouse Boat.

I Concor

@Xanthos - They do have better rules if you use Imperial armour 7 Using him as a normal bloodthirster would be stupid, being so huge, pretty much anything on the board can get LOS to him

@Darkwulf - I wil be giving him a round base, im going to build off the one that comes with the model as the texture and rocky theme of the base is the same as my board. No point wasting it

@squilverine - Thanks

@Samus_aran115 - I've wanted it for years so I thought it's best to just go for it now instead of leaving myself just staring at the pics every time of go on the FW site As far as the skin goes, I'll do my best, wouldn't want to dissapoint!

@Popsicle + JDM- yes this does float my resin crack-house boat Whats the point of playing apocalypse if your not going to really go for it?!

Hopefully this won't link to my last post!

Okay, so as promised, here is my work so far. Whilst I'm still not 100% on how I intend to paint the skin I decided to crack on with all the armour.

First of all I gave it a base coat of Bestial Brown all over, I wasn't overly careful or trying to get a consistent cover across the different plates so that there would be a less plain flat finish.
I then gave it all a layer of Dwarf Bronze. This coat I was more careful to get even coverage, but the brown underneath provided subtle differences of light and shade. You'll have to take my word for it, my phone camera isn't anywhere near good enough to pick up the difference
After getting to this point I decided to concentrate purely on his big ornate shoulder pad so I (and you) could have an idea of what it would eventually look like.
I gave two over all coats of Devlan Mud to dull down the armour. I then used Badab Black to paint in the recesses to create some shading.
I then did some highlighting with a 50-50 mix of Dwarf bronze and Bestial Brown on the raised areas, then a further highlight with an even mixture of the two previous colours and Burnished Gold.
Nearly getting to the end...I then used some more Devlan Mud, this time watered down over the whole area and left it to dry before finally adding a very light drybrush of just Burnished Gold.

I then started this process again on part of his chest, one of his legs and his wrist guard, but didn't finish these areas before I had to get ready for a battle (not using the Demon though unfortunately) .

Here's the pictures


The body, this is before I had finished doing all the Dwarf Bronze.


This is him mostly bronzed up and with one layer lot of wash on his right leg.


The arm guard after a bit of Devlan Mud


Close-up of his leg before I took to it with Badab black


Shoulder pad after all the washes and highlights (sorry its a little out of focus)


Shoulder after the dry brushing (again sorry its a little fuzzy)


And the final one! shows more clearly the finished effect on the armour, I think the lighting makes it look a little off, but it gives you the overall feel




So that's how far I've made it up to now C+C or advice greatly appreciated.
...Now, off to slaughter some Space Marines

Looks great! Honestly, it looks kind of like a beastman with brown skin

That shoulder is simply brutal!!! And you have done it great justice with your choice of coulors on it, good job. Keep the picks coming!

Hey all
Thought I would do another very quick update so you can see what I've managed to get done. All the armour (with the exception of the plate on the top of his left leg) Is done. Using the same method I used on his shoulder pad. There will still be little bits to touch up but I will do all of that at the end once I've done the skin, weapons, hair, wings ect, just to tie the whole piece together.

This is what he's looking like now:





Now I'm really struggling for what to do with the skin, I wan't a reddy-brown finish and have been playing around with a few ideas but none of them have struck me as being the definite effect I want. So if anybody has any suggestions or examples I would be VERY grateful

Hopefully I'll update again this weekend. I look forward to all your comments