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Looking fantastic there, any daemons?

Thanks, Miss Dee!

Any daemons I might include will probably be designed to integrate with my World Eaters. But for some reasons, I don't want to use standard daemons, so I'll come up with something that's more in line with my army's background. Currently I am thinking Chaos Hounds as Bloodletters (to pick up on the whole hunting theme), Brazen Knights as Bloodcrushers and perhaps a huge and hideous dog-beast as a "counts as" GD -- just a few, half-formed ideas so far...

In any case, I'll probably go and build some more World Eaters first

Really cool, man!
What's your photo setup like? An old bathtub in your garden? The lighting looks a little bit like blue sky. Great backdrop.

Outstanding work Brother. They all look great together. Still love the way you paint the 8 pointed star.

Thanks a lot, guys!

@ Baiyuan: Haha, you're quite close! I do indeed take most of my pictures in the garden, using either my crappy phone camera or, when I can borrow it, my cousin's much nicer Nikon digicam. The photos usually turn out well enough, but there are sometimes slight variations in colour and lighting (the background in all these photos is the same, but it sometimes comes out a little differently). The background is an old roll of cork wallpaper (probably from the 80s ) draped over a wooden garden bench. Not the least bit professional, I know, but it works for me

@ Biohazard: Cheers, buddy! The star is actually based on Dave Taylor's fantastic tutorial for painting Traitor Guard iconography. Maybe my favourite painting tutorial ever!

Ah, now I see it. I thought it was peeling paint, which I found very stylish. Still it's perfectly fine, most important feature of a background is being non-reflective and being subtle enough to not distract the eye, both of which your's covers well, so it's professional enough.

Good stuff! I am really impressed with the overal character of the army!

Krautscientist, I really love your army - both the world eaters and your renegades.
The colours you choose and the parts you put together creates a harmony (of chaos) and every single figure seems like a personal character and not just a line trooper.
The ideas you have for daemons sounds interesting, but I would have loved to see how you would make bloodletters.

I can't wait to get started on my chaos army. I have so many ideas, but I better finish my sons of sek first (which you are more than welcome to comment on).

Keep up the good work.

Amazing work once again man. You make me want to start Chaos in all its forms (Marines, Daemons, and Guard).
But alas, my wallet denies my heart once again...
Can't wait to see what's next!

Thanks a lot, guys! In the end, we are all drawn to chaos -- except for those like me who've been along from the start Don't fight it, it's the natural order of things

All the way f**king A man this army is off the chain.

loving this man all of it....

Such a tight looking force, on top of that the painting is amazing, be proud!

Want any more cultists ??

Very cool stuff indeed. The group shots look great.

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Very very cool.

Again, thanks a lot, everyone!

Right, time for a bigger update concerning my next plans for my various Chaos projects:

The new Codex: Chaos Space Marines has been with us for a while now, and I have spent quite some time browsing through it. It’s a beautiful book, to be sure, with all of the flexibility I liked about Gav Thorpe’s oft-maligned last edition codex coupled with some of the flavour everybody enjoyed about the 3.5 book. It also adds some new and quite individual selections that players can add to their force to make it more different from loyal Marines. It also murders a few darlings (*cough* champs with power fists *cough*), but that was to be expected. Granted, I couldn’t really tell you how thinks are looking on the tournament front, but then I couldn’t care less either: From a casual gamer’s perspective, there is a lot to like about the codex.

In any case, the new book has spurred chaos players the world over back into activity. And so I would like to use this post to try and collect my thoughts on the options before me and outline some of my next plans for my World Eaters:

I. The Fast

With assault becoming a little trickier in the new edition, fast units are now an even more interesting proposition.

The first way to make your army that much faster is the use of jump infantry, and considering my well-documented soft spot for Raptors as well as the fact that they received both a reduction in points as well as a spiffy new plastic kit, this is an avenue that I consider exploring to its fullest. So expect a closer look at the new Raptor/Warp Talon kit shortly!

And while we are on the subject of jump infantry, I finally managed to paint up one of my Raptor champions some time ago. Take a look:









As you can see, this guy was built with the tried and true tactics of 5th edition firmly in mind: I gave him a power fist to add a bit of oomph to a unit of tank killers. Alas, the new focus on issuing challenges means his weapon now makes him a less than optimal choice. Fortunately, I also have another champion wielding a pair of Lightning Claws — although that one yet has to be painted…

The other available option for more speed would be to add some bikes to my army. With a hefty reduction in points cost and a couple of nasty rules, bikes seem to be one of the winners of the recent update. I wouldn’t even have to start from zero, since I already have three bikes that I picked up as part of a huge army deal some time last year. They are already converted and ready to be painted.

Here’s a (unfortunately quite fuzzy) impression of my converted Lord on bike:



Unfortunately, those three would need quite a few additional buddies to be truly effective. And while the option of getting into combat really fast does, of course, appeal to me, I feel a little apathetic about building and painting a lot of bikes — especially now that the box containing three of them is no longer available.
All in all, unless a cheap way of picking up several bikes presents itself, I think I’ll just wait a while to see whether any new models come along. It would be a shame to get lots of old bikes now only to have the new ones released right after that…

2.) The Furious

I really want to add some Daemon Engines to my army! And since I know my own lack of discipline, I used the Eleventh Throne of Skulls Painting/Converting Contest to help my resolve: You see, having won the last contest, I get to choose the next subject. So I chose Khornate Daemon Engines to basically force myself into building and painting one in the near future.

But which one to choose? Get the Heldrake kit and try to make it work visually? Or use a fiend, which looks much cooler out of the box, but is probably quite a bit more different to convert and individualise? Decisions, decisions…

Having spent quite some time thinking about what Daemon Engine to build, I took the easy way out:



Yeah, I know: A bit of an overkill, maybe. Let’s see how these guys shape up…

3.) The Negligible

Well, from an avid converter’s perspective, the award for the least interesting unit types goes to the Obliterators and to their more CC-oriented kin, the Mutilators. With the official models still so very ugly, I was actually rather stoked for a while at the prospect of converting my own version of the Mutilators, with a look more in line with my own aesthetic preferences. But seeing as the rules are just as lacklustre as the models, I have redirected my modelling efforts in this respect towards another project (see below).

4.) The Rest

First of all, I finally caved in: I am going to build a squad of World Eaters Havocs. There’s enough precedent in the older fluff for this (Teeth of Khorne, anyone?), and I will try my best to make them look great. Just you wait

Ever since GW released the Vargheist/Crypt Horror kit I have been thinking of using it as conversion fodder for my World Eaters: I really like the lean, emaciated look of the models, and I think could be made to resemble Astartes that had become raging beasts. The resulting models could be used as Chaos spawn, since, even though I like the kit, I’m not a big fan of creepy crawly mutations). Anyway, I started building the models and then messed around with a couple of Minotaur bitz I still had lying around, and this was the result:









More on this as it develops…

And I am still happily plugging away at the remaining contents of the Dark Vengeance box: For instance, I worked some more on the models I already showed you some time ago.



This guy received some impromptu head surgery as an addition to the added icon.

I also wanted to change the look of the cultist wielding the flamer, and what better to use than a head sporting a gas mask?





He looks pretty similar to the Pyro now, don’t you think?

Meanwhile, the head’s original owner received a replacement courtesy of the Crypt Ghoul kit. While the head is a rather nice fit, I’ll still need to use some GS to build up a neck portion. I also added a new CC weapon, originally from the WFB Chaos Marauders. The weapon nicely fits the “repurposed tools” look, though.



The next guy also received a new head (from the WFB Empire flagellants) and yet another CC weapon:



You know things are really going to hell in a handbasket once people start using shovels as weapons…



I really didn’t want to cut off this guy’s head, seeing how that would have created a huge, damaged area to take care of. So I just added a Marauder shoulderpad and a small bayonet to his gun and called it a day. I am pretty confident that I’ll be able to make his paintjob look different enough from that of his “twin”, though.



Yet another headswap. In this case, it took a bit of work to make sure all the small cables to the side of the model’s head remained undamaged and were properly attached to the “new” body. The leftover head and body were then used to build this guy:



I also added another amour plate and a small chain dangling from the barrel of the autogun.

And finally, the second cultist champion:



I did a rather subtle conversion on the model’s right arm, replacing the original axe (and the hand holding it in a rather infuringly awkward way) with a weapon from the WFB Marauder Horsemen.



The left forearm was replaced with that of the other cultist champ. I think this guy with his disheveled zealot look looks rather convincing wielding a shotgun! The menacing clawed gauntlet went into the bitzbox for a future project.

And here’s the whole squad, basically ready for painting:



It has to be said that these guys are rather easy to convert: You can get some real variety by just swapping out a few weapons and heads and by adding the odd bit from another kit, like I did. And that’s not even counting the option of doing far more involved conversions (you can see some pretty great ones in this thread, over at GW Fanworld). I guess once these are all painted up, I’ll do a number of side by side comparison shots of the duplicates

In addition to this, I have managed to amass quite a number of unpainted models in my cupboard of shame, among them…

a pretty sweet Lord on Juggernaut (that may admittedly be somewhat less original, now that the WFB Skullcrushers have been released…)
a squad of Chosen I built some time ago. While they may lack the fantastic detail of the Dark Vengeance Chosen, they are a rather nice fit for my army fluff.
a pretty big number of Chaos Terminators – expect a detailed post on these rather soon…
a couple of unpainted Lords, in keeping with my addiction to converting Chaos Lords.

Fortunately, the new codex has made none of these units any less viable — indeed, quite the opposite in some cases. So expect me to start working on some of those long time projects as well

Last but not least, let me present you with some recent additions to my collection. Thanks to my fellow World Eater Khorga cleaning out his deep bitz box, I was able to purchase these:



First up is what may be my favourite metal World Eater ever. It’s hard to believe how crisp the detail on this guy looks, especially considering the model is from 1990! That’s vintage Jes Goodwin for you! It looks much cooler than some of the more recent metal World Eaters. In fact, my only nitpick would be the slightly hunched pose. Apart from that, this guy is damn near perfect!

Then there’s this guy:



That’s right, a complete Legion of the Damned Sergeant Centurius! Now I am a little torn about this model: Should I leave it as it is and paint it in its “intended” colours, or should I make it into a skull champion and induct it into the ranks of Khorne’s Eternal Hunt?

As you can see, I have a lot on my plate right now. So expect a slew of chaotic updates! Yay! And let me know your opinion in the comments section!

As always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

 KrautScientist wrote:
Again, thanks a lot, everyone!

Unfortunately, those three would need quite a few additional buddies to be truly effective. And while the option of getting into combat really fast does, of course, appeal to me, I feel a little apathetic about building and painting a lot of bikes — especially now that the box containing three of them is no longer available.
All in all, unless a cheap way of picking up several bikes presents itself, I think I’ll just wait a while to see whether any new models come along. It would be a shame to get lots of old bikes now only to have the new ones released right after that…

The rules for bikes are rather good. I'm not quite so impressed with those for raptors... why must they pay 2 points for vets of the long war??

For a Khorne army you simply need something to get you into combat...

Why not convert up something to count as spawn? They don't need to look like the kit really... you could make big beasty dudes.

I've converted up some spawn to ride with a Lord mounted on a juggernaught. Then give him the axe of blind fury or the black mace. It's a solid unit to use, very fun in competitive or friendly games.

Yeah, I know: A bit of an overkill, maybe. Let’s see how these guys shape up…

what? no converting from scratch?

Ever since GW released the Vargheist/Crypt Horror kit I have been thinking of using it as conversion fodder for my World Eaters: I really like the lean, emaciated look of the models, and I think could be made to resemble Astartes that had become raging beasts. The resulting models could be used as Chaos spawn, since, even though I like the kit, I’m not a big fan of creepy crawly mutations). Anyway, I started building the models and then messed around with a couple of Minotaur bitz I still had lying around, and this was the result:

Awesome! I really love the body you used, and the twin axes. If I had one quibble it would be that the arms are a bit too big for the emaciated body, but hey, it works. Make some spawn out of them! It's a great unit... they will actually get into combat and not just be shot walking across the table, and probably tie up units for a few turns.

You know things are really going to hell in a handbasket once people start using shovels as weapons…

You have impeccable taste sir. I did the same thing... my cultist champ is wielding a shovel in one hand and a shotgun in the other

Dude, your amazing work is seriously making me think heretical thoughts, drawing me to chaos!

 dsteingass wrote:
Dude, your amazing work is seriously making me think heretical thoughts, drawing me to chaos!

...skulls...skulls...skulls...skulls...

Thanks a lot, guys!

@ Meade: I just love Raptors, I just can't help it. Point costs be damned And yeah, that hulking brute will probably end up as Chaos Spawn alright! I had considered using models like that as Mutilators, but the rules are so bad that it makes far more sense to use them as spawn.

 dsteingass wrote:
Dude, your amazing work is seriously making me think heretical thoughts, drawing me to chaos!

All is as it should be, then

Well done man! I really like the cultists. I love those models and look forward to what you do next!

 KrautScientist wrote:
Thanks a lot, guys!

@ Meade: I just love Raptors, I just can't help it. Point costs be damned And yeah, that hulking brute will probably end up as Chaos Spawn alright! I had considered using models like that as Mutilators, but the rules are so bad that it makes far more sense to use them as spawn.

Doesn't really fit a mutilator IMO. Would have to be heavily armored, and either heavily mutated or heavily mechanoid. It's much better as a spawn... a big, ragey, unarmored monstrosity.

My goodnes, a complete Sergeant Centurius! You are a very lucky man, that guy is incredibly rare. I would paint him as Centurius, it's too valuable to convert.

The Cultists look great, as does the bike lord. The Raptor champion is OK, but the skull hanging from his waist is unfortunately positioned, and looks a bit like a literal boner (harharhar seewutIdidthar). Cut it off and he should look OK.

May I ask as to what Teeth of Khorne are? I'm not familiar with the older fluff.

I must admit, whilst I think the Mutilators are a tiny bit goofy, I actually love the Obliterators. I admit the GW paint scheme for them sucks a bit (the flesh needs painting to look like part of the armour) but I adore the sheer grotesqueness of them. Especially the faces.

And I can't wait to see what you do with the Daemon engines!

Nice idea for the spawn, I also like those kits and it's nice to see them getting converted into some decent 40k models.

The cultists are looking super aswell.

That Sergeant Centurius is an awesome model, I don't think I've seen that before. I think he needs to join the forces of Khorne personally, those bones in the armour will look great with the red.

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eldartau1987 wrote:Well done man! I really like the cultists. I love those models and look forward to what you do next!

Cheers, mate!

Meade wrote: Doesn't really fit a mutilator IMO. Would have to be heavily armored, and either heavily mutated or heavily mechanoid. It's much better as a spawn... a big, ragey, unarmored monstrosity.

Actually, after I had decided to use this guy as spawn, thinks just started to click from a fluff perspective as well, so it was probably the right decision

Squigsquasher wrote:My goodnes, a complete Sergeant Centurius! You are a very lucky man, that guy is incredibly rare. I would paint him as Centurius, it's too valuable to convert.

On the one hand, I feel you're right. And yet, there's this, and it's awesome:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/lonewolf_dcc/006-6-1.jpg

It'll be a tough call to make, in any case. I think I'll let it rest for a bit...

Squigsquasher wrote:May I ask as to what Teeth of Khorne are? I'm not familiar with the older fluff.

In the older fluff, the Teeth of Khorne were the World Eaters' dedicated Devastator units. The old fluff made a point of the fact that Khorne is only interested in bloodshed, no matter how it is accomplished.

evildrcheese wrote:Nice idea for the spawn, I also like those kits and it's nice to see them getting converted into some decent 40k models.

Oh, those guys are great! I could easily see them being used as daemonic heralds in a Daemon army. Or even as DPs (although they may be a little small for that). And they make for fantastic Dark Eldar Grotesques and/or beasts as well!

Holy gak, how are you so creative? It seems like every goddamn model you make has some sort of original twist/conversion I could never think of.

I really love the cultist with the icon.

I think the cryptghoul/ monster berserker, should definitely be a spawn, I'm getting these weird Scylla vibes from your mock up, which is totally in theme. That was going to be my next question actually. I'm not sure if you've addressed this yet, but with the new additions to the warriors of Chaos line, are we about to see some new monsters? The Khorne skull crushers, Scylla, Valkia... Do they have a place in your world eaters?

A huge update to comment on so I`ll settle on saying that the bike and the khornified spawn is ace! More of those please

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Thanks a lot, guys!

@ LoneLictor: Dude, I just discovered your ongoing World Eaters' fiction thread. And you are calling me creative? Don't sell yourself short! That stuff is compelling!

@ ghosty: Yes, the new WFB chaos releases will probably be useful, although they'll hurt my wallet even more I do have some mixed feelings about the release, though:

- The Skullcrushers are obviously a no brainer (if only for the excellent helmets).
- The new Scylla is actually a bit of a step back, in my opinion: The model looks like it was designed in the 90s, alongside the old Greater Daemons. I'm also not a big fan of the short legs...
- I love Festus, although there is no immediate use for him in my 40k force. I may end up converting an INQ28 model from him, though.
- Valkia is a nice model, although she doesn't really fit ithe look and fluff of my World Eaters, so I think I'll pass.
- The Warshrine is an utter trainwreck as a model, although some of the bitz are completely fantastic, and I'd love to be able to use them for something (the priest, the mutants and the huge icons, especially). But I don't see myself coughing up 46 Euros for the kit anytime soon...

So all in all, I think I'll wait some time until buying any of that stuff. I have quite a lot on my plate as it is.

Oh, and yeah: The Vargheist conversion will definitely end up being played as chaos spawn, so stop trying to convince me already!