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Hey all, just quickly posting this thread, although not gona put up too much for the moment, coz it's 2:30 am here, I have to work in 6 hours or so, and I'm about to head to bed.

As much as I know everyone (well, me at least) loves pic heavy threads, I'm gona have to start this one off with some text, just so you can get a bit of an idea of who I am and where my hobby is at. HOWEVER, I will endevour to keep this thread picture heavy, and word... not so heavy.

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So basically, many years ago, I was into this hobby. My first ever bought kit was the old box of plague marines, with basically one pose, and a up-and-down boltpistol arm. I bought and painted models (mostly chaos marines, but at times extremely haphazardly, I remember buying a box of Dark Elves and the Army book, even though I had no intention of playing Fantasy) In general, I didn't really play the game, but I really did enjoy the painting/modelling aspect of the hobby. I thought, at the time, that I was quite a decent painter. Looking back now, I was pretty average, at best (at worst, not so much)

I eventually wrote up an army list for Empere's Children, build a couple of squads, and played some small 500 point games with them, but that was about as far as my gaming side ever went. After about 2 years, I dropped out of the hobby completely.

Until, a month or so ago, I got the hobby itch again. Once again, I had no intention of playing the game, in fact I decided I would only buy models that I liked the look of, to paint them. Generally this would mean buying blisters and cool monsters, no point buying squads..

After painting one or two models, I was at home, reading 'The First Heretic' when I read this:

'You are not intitled to watch over me me like a pack of prison wardens. I am the Emperor's son, formed by his mastery in order to carry out his will. You are a flock of genetic toys pieced together in a laboratory from vials of biological scrap. You are so far beneath me that I wouldn't piss on your bodies even if you were aflame. So... let me be clear, in the spirit of preventing future misunderstandings.'

And, I decided Lorgar was a badass, and that I wanted to build a Word Bearer army.

I have a mate (omgitsduane), who I had been dragging along with me to GW to paint some stuff, who also plays, and I think at some point in the past had tried to convert me to play some games, and I had never wanted to before, so now he has someone he can play some regular games with, keeping him happy. He was also the one that was constantly at me to start a blog, even when all I was doing was painting.

That's basically my story, so this will be the first army I've built in a long time (realistically the first proper army ever) and I thought I'd succumb to the blog idea, and show you all some stuff.
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So this isn't a complete waste of a thread/post, so early on.. I'll leave you with this....


Guesses to all what this is...! :O

Jarrod.

P.S, Thanks to 'Omgitsduane' for a) Getting me to sign up on here, and b) partly reintrouducing me to the hobby.
His blog can be found http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/386133.page << Here

Update as of 7/2/212

Welcome mate. Can't wait to see your army come together and start collecting many-a-skull for the dark gods.

I saw this model in omgitsduane's thrread and said out loud "wow that is an awesome...wait, that's not his!"



Then I followed the link here.

If the rest of your army turns out to be even 1/2 as cool as that Dark Apostle is, you're going to have a great force.

Welcome to Dakka! Subbed, and I'll be back.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I saw this model in omgitsduane's thrread and said out loud "wow that is an awesome...wait, that's not his!"



Then I followed the link here.

If the rest of your army turns out to be even 1/2 as cool as that Dark Apostle is, you're going to have a great force.

I cant remember but i think the model was made using my generous bits and a battleforce. I have ownership thusly.
And trust me, from what ive seen the rest of his army is nicely detailed so far. Baby steps.

So here is the first model I painted after getting back into the hobby, just an example of the work I've done. I'm hoping to make this Bearer army of similar quality, I'm quite happy with how this turned out..

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

If the rest of your army turns out to be even 1/2 as cool as that Dark Apostle is, you're going to have a great force.

Welcome to Dakka! Subbed, and I'll be back.

Thanks man, much appreciated! Hope I can keep the standard up!

That is brilliant I take it it's a DE Lahmia. Really liking the look of the CSM is he planned to be a Dark Apostle. Although I can't look at a model in that pose without thinking he's brandishing his shopping list....

Some more pictoral goodies!


This fella here is my concept model for counts-as Bezerkers, known as 'Fanatics', the idea being that these are the most zealous in spreading the Word, by wanting to tear up everything that won't listen.
Ideally, they will be covered in more scrolls, purity seals etc than the normal marines, and all of them will have the shrine type thing on their backpack, or something similar.
I'm not sure if I will even have a place for Bezerkers in my army, but I really just wanted to make a model to conceptualise the idea I had.


And this bad boy is a standard marine, who will be armed with a meltagun. The backpack decoration is to mark him out easier mid game as a special weapon carrier.

Unfortunately, none of the models are fully built and ready to paint, I'm waiting for a delivery of Word Bearers shoulder pads from GW, I've decided to go all out on these guys..
I also have roughly $70 of bitz coming in from ebay at some point, hopefully within the next couple of weeks.


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Llamahead wrote:That is brilliant I take it it's a DE Lahmia.

It's a DE Sslyth I liked the model and thought it might paint up nice.. and voila!

Llamahead wrote:Really liking the look of the CSM is he planned to be a Dark Apostle. Although I can't look at a model in that pose without thinking he's brandishing his shopping list....

Thanks! As of now, he is a Dark Apostle.. As I build the army more, he might get demoted to an Aspiring Champ when I decide to make a more kick-ass Apostle.

As for the shopping list, lmao I can just see it now..

WE NEED MORE MILK!
AND BREAD!
AND SKULLS FOR THE...

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I saw this model in omgitsduane's thrread and said out loud "wow that is an awesome...wait, that's not his!"



Then I followed the link here.

If the rest of your army turns out to be even 1/2 as cool as that Dark Apostle is, you're going to have a great force.

Welcome to Dakka! Subbed, and I'll be back.

Caption: Imperial Guard 298th Regiment try to stop the Word Bearer applying a parking ticket to their Chimera. Alas, it is in vain.

"Scum of the False Emperor may not park here from 7am-10pm!"

Valkyrie wrote:

Caption: Imperial Guard 298th Regiment try to stop the Word Bearer applying a parking ticket to their Chimera. Alas, it is in vain.

"Scum of the False Emperor may not park here from 7am-10pm!"

I lol'd ^_^

Another chaos blog with some excellent conversions, I'm really liking what you've done so far.

The Sslyth is excellently painted really looking forward to the progress of this blog.

Blood for the Blood God

Thought I'd post one last group shot, this is everything I have, at it's current point of progress. As soon as these bitz arive, I'll be able to build some marines at a much faster rate!

Thanks for all of the replies so far, really encouraging

Looking forward to seeing these guys painted, very nice work so far.

JBrehaut wrote:

Valkyrie wrote:

Caption: Imperial Guard 298th Regiment try to stop the Word Bearer applying a parking ticket to their Chimera. Alas, it is in vain.

"Scum of the False Emperor may not park here from 7am-10pm!"

I lol'd ^_^

Getting weird looks from people now for laughing randomly at work!

Great looking csm dude! Keep up the cool conversions!

Valkyrie wrote:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I saw this model in omgitsduane's thrread and said out loud "wow that is an awesome...wait, that's not his!"



Then I followed the link here.

If the rest of your army turns out to be even 1/2 as cool as that Dark Apostle is, you're going to have a great force.

Welcome to Dakka! Subbed, and I'll be back.

Caption: Imperial Guard 298th Regiment try to stop the Word Bearer applying a parking ticket to their Chimera. Alas, it is in vain.

"Scum of the False Emperor may not park here from 7am-10pm!"

Have you heard of the one true Lord?

Good work mate. Looking forward to more games, my veterans will one day account for lots of deaths in your ranks!

Also in another note, you mentioned that you said I was hassling you to make a blog "when all I did was paint" PFFFT There are plenty of people with bad-ass blogs that only paint.

omgitsduane wrote:Good work mate. Looking forward to more games, my veterans will one day account for lots of deaths in your ranks!

Not if I can help it!!

Unfortunately, I'm not planning on posting any updates until I get my bitz, as I don't plan on building any more models until I have what I want to use..
On that note, this just showed up


Not sure if you can tell, but here we have a couple of grey knight heads (not sure if I want to use them yet, but I thought they looked regal-ish like), three pairs of Grey Knight legs (I mainly chose these for their tabards, but I might leave some of them with the engraved script in their armor, the rest I'll GS over) a Black Templar robed body (the imperial markings will have to come off, but this should be good for a champ, or for chosen, no? My mate thinks he might have some robed DA bodies spare, so might hit him up), and lastly a DA book.. Not sure what that's going to be used for yet, but can never have enough Books of Lorgar!

This is only a tiny portion of the bitz I ordered, however, posting from the UK to my tiny little island (Australia) takes forever, so I can expecting to wait a while for the rest :(

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okay, I said I wouldn't update until I had some models finally built, but, I lied.. I just wanted to share some things.

First up, this.

Here is an image I came across, that's given me a bit of inspiration. I relaly like the look of the traitors here, and really wanna make a squad up. I might use them as a summoned daemon unit for the army, or just as a side project for myself. I think they'd be simple enough using guardsmen torsos and legs, and catachan arms.. I'd need some badass heads though..

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Next up, this
I just decided tonight to paint one of the bases I have sitting here waiting for a marine to go on it, I just wanted to practice the effect I wanted to paint on the tile portions of the base, and this is what I came up with. (Note; the base will have sand/rubble etc on it, not just be tiles, as is the case at the moment)
Please, give me some feedback on what you think.



The first picture was my original attempt, just a basecoat and simple highlight.. The grey I think is maybe too sharp a highlight to the black, but that's easily fixed.
The second picture, was the same base, after a Devlan Mud wash all over. I definitely liked the shading this brought to it.
Lastly, I wanted to try to create a dirtier tile effect, so tried giving it a drybrush type effect with some Scorched Brown, this is how it came out.

I'm thinking I want something between step 2 and 3 possibly for the final effect to be used across the army.. What do you all think?

JBrehaut said:

First up, this.



Here is an image I came across, that's given me a bit of inspiration. I relaly like the look of the traitors here, and really wanna make a squad up. I might use them as a summoned daemon unit for the army, or just as a side project for myself. I think they'd be simple enough using guardsmen torsos and legs, and catachan arms.. I'd need some badass heads though..

The traitors are modelled on the forgeworld renegade militia enforcers.

Loving the Dark Apostle and the conversions so far mate. The tiled base looks good and I'm interested to see what you come up with for your traitor guard. Will be watching.

Looking good!

I know you can only see very little from the picture, but this just arrived today, which means, my Word Bearers are about to go get done did!

Just a quick picture of an Aspiring Champion for squad 1. This is only a dry-fit, as I'm not completely commited to the pose and bitz used.. Any thoughts?

Bit of an update here, since my bitz showed up, I've been doing a bit of assembling.
So far this is my first squad, at the stage they are now, in various stages of being fully glued together.



And today I also painted up one of my squad, as a test paint scheme. This is how it turned out. I would love some C&C on him before I start to paint the others (once they've been assembled completely of course!)


I'm pretty happy with how he turned out, the red seems to have worked nicely, the green on the cables works well as a complimentary colour, and you can see the chequered effect on the tiling on the base. Again I stress, I would love to hear some feedback.

Thanks all!

J

This stuff is looking great. I like the pose of the aspiring champion. I would maybe add a few scrolls or impurity seals though as the Word Bearers are usually described as being cover in the txts of Lorgar. For your painted test mini I personally would add a further highlight around the face apart from that you have a nice deep red there and the loin cloth has come well. The green is a perfect contrast.

Biohazard wrote:This stuff is looking great. I like the pose of the aspiring champion. I would maybe add a few scrolls or impurity seals though as the Word Bearers are usually described as being cover in the txts of Lorgar. For your painted test mini I personally would add a further highlight around the face apart from that you have a nice deep red there and the loin cloth has come well. The green is a perfect contrast.

Thanks! The photo looks to be quite darker than the actual model in person, as usually seems to be the case.
I know what you mean about more scrolls etc.. Will definitely look into sprucing that look up a bit more!
Thanks for the comments!

I'm loving all the work here. There are some awesome conversions here.
Subscribed, I'll be back!

Just a quick update, here's a better picture of the test scheme marine, with some better light. He's also had an teempted freehand legion design put on the shoulder pad... The shoulder pad is only temporarily stuck there, until I decide whether I'm going to use the GW sculpted pads on every model, or just the Aspiring Champs on HQ choices....

Edit: Forgot the pic... duh!

That's a nice scheme you've got there. That red is really nice and the silver, cream and green colours complement it well!

its good i have to admit the red is spot on but im not a fan of green details

i swear if red and green weren't Christmas colors they would bomb

if its just the exposed wiring my suggestion is to make them different colors that contrast (blue, yellow, purple, maybe green)

for the seals and such i hope you khornify them first then maybe just the trim color or brass

overall i think its a great first attempt well done

Your Word Bearers are inspiring and very well done. It makes me want to take mine off the Shelf of Shame and get to work on them, but I have too many other projects I'm commited to right now.

I am really enjoying this thread.