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Nice. That Ultramarine’s seen better days

They are both quality works, but the new guy is a bit better. Subtly though.

Nice to see the Ultras representing on the base. A great warrior needs a worthy foe to reach his potential. One of these days you need to start a loyalist army and come to the blue side. We know how well you can paint Ultramarines...

Oh boy, it's more than a little embarrassing how much I have neglected this thread -- but I have such sights to show you, as I have been working on quite a few chaotic things of late. Hm, where to start?

Tell you what, let's begin with a nice bread-and-butter post: My first port of call when experimenting with the new CSM kits was to figure out a) which unpainted conversions from my collection could still make the transition to the "new" generation and b) whether the new kits could be used to come up with some new World Eaters.

Regarding question b), here's the first test model of a new generation of World Eaters (don't expect me to come up with an entire updated army, though: A Kill Team and maybe a couple of characters is a far likelier outcome):

Anyway, here's my test model conversion right before painting:



As you can see, a couple of Khornate bitz were used to make the model look less like a vanilla CSM. The majority of the bitz still came from the new kit, though.

And here's the finished model, painted in my shiny tweaked WE recipe that I also used on the FW Dreadnought I posted before:

























Here's a comparison picture showing both the height difference as well as the evolution of my personal World Eaters recipe:



On the left is one of the first Khorne Berzerkers I painted back in 1998 or so, back when the plastic kit was released. These guys still saw use in my modern army, mostly because I was too lazy to replace them. Next in line is the first World Eater I painted when getting back into the hobby after a longer hiatus, in 2010, but using a slightly tweaked recipe. The third guy was an experiment on replacing the – by then OOP – Blood Red with Mephiston Red, but back then I wasn’t quite happy with the effect. And there’s my new little guy — maybe this time I have finally managed to nail the recipe? What do you guys think?

Here's a picture with the test model next to that aforementioned WE Dreadnought:



As for the question as to which of my unpainted conversions I will still be able to use, the good news is that I found some guys that should still work rather well in this upscaled world. Call this my short list for a possible upcoming Kill Team (codename for now: "The Hateful Eight"):



Half of them are repurposed older models, but I think they are still cool enough to warrant a modern paintjob:



And these are the "new" guys, based heavily on the new CSM kits or simply newly built:



So yeah, that's it for today. As always, let me know what you think!

Great looking paint on the new guy. All the conversions look excellent as usual.

Good to see you still collecting skulls for the skull throne.

Thanks for the side-by-sides. Always nice to see progress over the years and get a window into someone else's hobby journey.

Cheers, guys!

So here's the next addition to my World Eaters collection. I recently vowed this gentleman here as my first contribution to the annual ETL community event over at The Bolter & Chainsword:









This is basically a Khornate version of Huron Blackheart I created a couple of years ago -- come to think of it, I believe I actually built him for one of the regular contests over at the - sadly defunct - Throne of Skulls forum. Ahh, the memories...

However, fellow hobbyists Captain Semper and Atia pointed out that, in order for this guy to really count as Huron, he needed something to represent his little Hamadrya pet. My proper plan of action would have been to use a model from the AoS Spirit Hosts, maybe with a Bloodletter head, but I didn’t want to have to pick up a box of them, so I had to get creative. But I was not without inspiration, so I created a suitable model using nothing but leftover bitz:



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The head is still a fairly standard Bloodletter head, whereas the spine came from the vivisected Genestealer that’s part of the 40k battlefield objective markers. My idea was for the “Almost-Hamadrya” to look like a daemonic spirit, some kind of Khornate familiar or even a half-formed Khornate Daemon.

Ironically enough, it was this model that I actually ended up painting first:

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To support the impression that this is not just a standard Bloodletter (or rather, half of a standard Bloodletter), but rather something unwholesome and half-formed, I went for an even more limited palette than the one I normally use on Khornate daemons: a mix of glossly blood and glowing ectoplasmic flesh, as the daemonic spirit is glowing with an inner malevolence…



Not bad for something that I had to come up with on the quick, if I do say so myself.

And here's the finished counts-as Huron model:



„The burning never stops.“

This is the sentence he remembers above all else, because it has come to encapsulate his entire existence. While memory of an Astartes is eidetic in nature, his long life has become a number of disjointed, fragmented moments, with entire decades mostly unaccounted for. But one thing remains. One thing binds everything together and defines him. One sentence neatly summarises it all.

“The burning never stops.”

He remembers how the sentence from weapons instruction returned to him, at the very moment that he saw the phosphex charge go off. The bridge was a pandemonium of blood and death, but everything was frozen into place for just one instant. He saw everything in incredible detail. The battered VII Legion Breacher team that, against all odds, had made it to the bridge in an attempt to bring down a leviathan from within. The mangled face of the Fist throwing the phosphex grenade at him. The eyes already staring into infinity, waiting for a death that would come in mere seconds. The explosions of the weaponry discharged by the other surviving breachers. The chainblades of his brothers falling in slow motion, trying to bring down the enemy. But slow, far too slow. And the green white fire of the phosphex charge, enveloping him at last, and flooding his every fibre with liquid agony, just seconds before the main viewport burst into a million armourglass shards, opening the bridge to the void.

He remembers Terra. The Throneworld twisting below him, above him, behind a curtain of voidships on fire, as he tumbled into blackness. The cold void that was the only thing that could have extinguished the flames that were swallowing him. But even when the fires went out…

…the burning never stopped.

He remembers coming to in a red haze. The sounds of the Apothecarion. The klaxons and warning beeps. The mirrors above the surgical slab showing him a lump of molten, misshapen flesh that he did not recognise. And Deracin’s half-augmetic face floating above him, like a hint of things to come. The Forgemaster locked eyes with him and smiled. And he knew that he would not be allowed to die.

He was rebuilt. Into a strange amalgamation of oh so little flesh and bone, iron and pain. Oh so much pain. He became a construct. Like the gholam of old Terra. And through it all, the pain of an unquenchable fire kept coursing through him, racing along nerve clusters that should have been cauterised beyond any function. Along iron bones that shouldn’t have been able to feel but did. It has been thus ever since: His every waking moment is pure agony. Inhale. Pain. Exhale. Pain. The nails are but pinpricks to him. He is eternally on fire.

His wrath and pain almost seem like a separate entity. When he does battle, and his every cell is burning agony, he can almost see something taking shape from the corner of his eyes. Something rough and bloody that is glowing in its own inner malevolence. It is growing all the time. There will come a time when he will finally meet it face to face, this thing he keeps feeding with his pain and with the pain of others.

He keeps losing time. Battles often turn into disjointed shards of perception for him. When he sees glimpses of that strange spectre that seems to shadow him, inexplicable things happen, and he is merely a spectator in his own body: His flesh turns into liquid flame, and he becomes capable of feats that should be beyond his patchwork body. He awakens to arcs of warp fire cascading from his axe and augmetic fist. He comes to in a world of cinders and flaking ash, with his enemies’ lifeblood running down his chin in rivulets. He sees the wariness in his brothers’ eyes, and to see such emotion play across their ravaged features would make him smile, if that expression were not lost to him.

And through it all,
The burning never stops.











And here is “Not-Huron”, side by side with his “Not-Hamadrya”:



As always, let me know what you think!

Both the model and the backstory are epic.

Nice to see the Ultras still representing on your bases!

Good to have you back with more Chaos stuff! Everything looks stunning as always, I really like the new Chaos marines and the berserker you made out of them.
Keep up the great work

That is one angry looking familiar - with every right to be so

love it!

I absolutely love the vivid blue accents, they work perfectly, really draw the eye to the face and chest!

*blows dust off the thread*

Phew, it's been ages since the last update...

A belated happy new year, everyone!

It's finally time for some new content over here as well, especially since I have actually managed to paint a few more World Eaters since my last update! I mostly stuck to painting the mix of refurbished older conversions and new kitbashes that were created using the new CSM kits. So here are the new guys:

First off, one of my previously unpainted Dark Vengeance Chosen conversions from way back when -- it felt so good to finally get some paint on this guy!











One of the things I really want to push with my new batch of World Eaters is a certain variety of skin tones, at least where unhelmeted heads and bare arms are concerned: The World Eaters are, canonically, an ethnically diverse legion that recruited from many different homeworlds during the Great Crusade (and probably still does, given the scavenger nature of most traitor legions in the 40k timescale). Only my World Eaters never bore out that diversity because I would always use the same, greyish skin tone for all of my older models — pretty effective as far as paint schemes go, but seeing how I am trying to evolve my painting for these new models, it seemed like the perfect excuse to experiment with a wider set of skin tones as well. So I went with black skin on this model, and I am very happy with the result — even moreso because the recipe was almost laughably simple: Just basecoat with GW Doombull Brown, wash with a Fleshtone and mix the base colour with a bit of white for the highlights — done! I also used the highlight colour to add some nicks and scratches to the face to suggest old scars.

The next model I decided to tackle was also a neglected conversion, although a more recent one: The model was created using a Blood Warrior from the Age of Sigmar 1st edition starter box, the legs from the CSM Vrash Tattersoul model and a couple of additional chaos bitz (chief among them a Raptor chainsword arm):













It’s a conversion I am really fond of, if I do say so myself, maybe because it’s almost a bit of a shout out to the classic early 90s metal berzerker champions that would always have some kind of running pose going on
I am maybe a bit too in love with the model, but it’s honestly really close to what I think a 40k World Eater should look like: a massive, baroque monster in serrated crimson warplate.

Next up, yet another older conversion created using one of the DV Chosen models. This time around, the model was loosely based on a piece of artwork by Diego Gisbert Llorens:



And here's the model in question:









And finally, a model built mostly from the new vanilla CSM kit to serve as a tribute to this iconic illustration by Mark Gibbons:



And here's the model:















And here, just to round things out, are all the little rascals I have so far:



I also have a couple of new WIPs to share with you all, but I'll save them for a future update. For now, as always, please let me know what you think!

You make it real hard not to slip into heresy, claim a few skulls, and devote my soul to blood and brass. Amazing work as always.

Those are fantastic, it's rare i see berzerkers I actually like but these do it!

Stunning work as always. I’ve just been bit by the Khorne bug, but I’ve been going with non standard colors (no red ). Been watching over on B&C. You’ve been very inspiring over all these years.

It's great to see you back and adding to your World Eaters again. I love the conversion work as usual

Nice to see you are posting again here! Always loved your work, when I was only lurking here, especially the Inq28 and Deathwatch minis. But even as a loyalist I have to say that your World Eater's look stunning!

I really love how you describe your Berserker's as little rascals.

Blood for the Blood God, the scamps.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! I really appreciate it, and it's good to be back!

On the painting front, I have been making some pretty good progress on yet another World Eater this week:







This is one of the conversions shown a bit further up in this thread, although the model has since been tweaked so as to be wielding a meteor hammer -- I think the gladiatorial weapon suits the flair of the armour

As for additional conversions and kitbashes, here's another World Eaters related model that I don't think I've shared over here yet:







As you can see, it's the Venomcrawler from the Shadowspear boxed set, although I couldn't help myself -- I just had to give the think a slightly more Khornate head

As always, let me know what you think!

The Khornate head looks much better and more demonic, good call

I like your Khornate warrior with the meteor hammer, it does suit him and gives a good flair to the model.

Blood sucker for the blood sucking god .

Looks great with this new head.

I've long admired your heretical ways, Kraut. You've always delivered high quality content and this latest batch is no different.

The marine based on Mark Gibbons artwork is so fething good. It's simple, it's menacing and the colours really work harmoniously together. He's my favourite of the latest crop.
Good call on the venomcrawler headswap too. Thing looks proper evil with that head.

Love the little Khorne Tilt plate

Cheers for the kind words, guys!

@ Srnub: That's very nice of you to say! Incidentally, I tried to build a model inspired by that particular piece of artwork using the old CSM parts at one point, but the weird, squatty pose of the older models and less impressive scale made sure the project never quite got off the ground -- the new parts worked like a charm, though, and I am happy to finally have built that model

So I should have pictures of the completed "ball & chain" guy on his finished base tomorrow -- until then, I just couldn't stop myself and had to build another World Eater:





As always, let me know what you think!

Alright, everyone, I have literally had to scrounge for scraps of hobby time lately, but it's time for another update:

First up, I have managed to finish the meteor hammer-wielding World Eater shown above -- he only really needed a base, so yeah...

It was always clear that I would want to add some kind of "special effect" to the base, and the idea of a trail of blood had indeed already occured to me. I did, however, want to take things just a bit further still...





The idea was to make it look as though the World Eater had just crushed some unfortunate opponent's skull and was dragging his still-bloody weapon behinf him, but I also tried to go the extra mile and include some bone shards

And here's the finished model:

















And here's a closer look at the base again, now with the meteor hammer in place, obviously





And here's another group picture of the new World Eaters models I have managed to finish so far:



It's also painfully obvious that I'll be ending up with more than eight models, mostly because I cannot stop building stuff. Case in point, here are the next guys in line for the painting desk:



I also converted another model when I realised I still needed some kind of icon bearer -- I am a bit of a traditionalist in that respect: Every squad of traitor legionaries needs an icon bearer, and those new-fangled, backpack-mounted icons just don't cut it for me.

On the other hand, the idea of a World Eater lugging around a massive standard always seems a bit iffy. However, there was one model I have always loved for striking just the right balance in this respect: the metal World Eaters icon bearer from the mid-90s. And seeing how one side objective of this particular project has been to give shout outs to classic models or artwork, I couldn't resist the temptation to just rebuild that particular model for the new millennium. Take a look:



I've had to flip the model horizontally for logistical reasons, but apart from that, the new guy is a fairly involved attempt at a proper re-interpretation of the classic sculpt. I didn't have one of those old banner tops, unfortunately, so I used what felt like the next-best thing: a Wrathmonger/Skullreaper standard that seems like it could be used as a weapon in its own right with its many vicious barbs and bladed edges.

Here's a closer look at the new model:







And finally, to wrap things up for today, here's aa PIP of the guy with the two-handed axe that is reasonably close to being finished -- still missing some detail work and cleanup, though:







As always, let me know what you think!

That's a fantastic concept on the meteor hammer! Execution is flawless too!

Cheers, mate!

I have performed the odd bit of cleanup -- and, of course, added the blood

Here's the mostly finished model:









As always, let me know what you think!

So much character! Compared to the current Berzerker box, really makes you crave for an updated official box for them, seeing what can be done with the newer styles!

Thanks a lot, man!

As for the prospect of a new Berzerker kit, I actually have conflicting feelings about that: The Khorne fanatic in me says "BRING IT ON!", while my inner kitbasher is actually relishing the rare opportunity to have to come up with suitable conversions: These days, we are getting dedicated kits for near everything, with kitbashing and converting sometimes no longer even seeming necessary -- so I like to have an area where I still get to come up with conversions of my own

Anyway, here's a short update: Behold the finished axeman, now complete with base:













In a definite case of subverted expectations, this is probably the one model in the squad whose base actually *doesn't* feature a skull. You can still see his last opponent's breastplate, though (that head probably flew quite a ways when it was lopped off... )



I am actually really happy with the way this model has turned out! And here's the squad so far:



If I count my counts-as Huron, those are actually eight finished models. Yay!
As always, let me know what you think!