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Every army I've ever collected has been inspired by a particular model. For my Iron Pact, it was the soulgrinder. For my DarkBloodDeathAngelWing, it was the vindicator. When the new Grey Knights were released, it was the Dreadknight that captured my imagination...

While I've always had a soft spot for the 666th chapter, due to the overwhelming popularity of the codex, I decided to instead create a force representing an Inquisitor's warband that has fallen to Chaos. For this project, I've set myself a few rules/goals:

1) No power armor (having had two complete SM armies in the past, I have zero interest in ever assembling/painting any power armor for the foreseeable future).
2) No psyflemen (most of the bad rep that GK receive seems to stem from these guys)
3) Everything must look like its falling apart / scavenged / defiled by cultists.

Here is my progress so far. Feedback/Critique is always welcome.

Dreadknights



Razorbacks





Stormraven (pimped by Chapterhouse)



Warrior Acolytes


Deathcult Assassins (WIP)


Ogrenators / counts-as Terminators (WIP, with Counts-as Coteaz)








Counts-as Renegade Inquisitor (WIP)

This is already one of the best threads I've seen - paintwork perfect, model choices perfect, army concept perfect!

Looking forward to what's next

Laney

yeah, i am with 02laney. Nice idea and concept. cant wait to see it finished. BTW, do transport capacities increase when you are fielding non power armor models?

While the thought of dropping 20+ models out of a stormraven leaves me all tingly...not to my knowledge, no.

Damn your stuff is amazing

Very nice!

5/7/12 Update: Finished the conversion work on the 5-man paladin/terminator squad. One more w/psycannon still to come.

I'm really digging the army concept!

How did you paint your vehicles like that? What paints did you use?

Love the dreadknights!!!!

Very nice! I do love me some renegades.

OMG I love this please keep up the great work!

Phyrexia wrote:How did you paint your vehicles like that? What paints did you use?

Hmmm....that's a little complicated (having been in the hobby since '89, my collection of paints is fairly eclectic).

My rust method is pretty straightforward: the basecoat was a dark brown (espresso, maybe?) krylon spray, followed by a heavy wash of an orangey-brown vallejo paint (the label has rubbed off, unfortunately, but it's pretty close to the old GW vermin fur), finished with some random scrapes of P3 pig iron. If the mood strikes, I'll hit some additional highs & lows with either thinned blazing orange or brown/sepia wash.

For the 'paint' on the vehicles, I essentially stippled thinned bone-colored paint (also vallejo, pretty close to GW's bleached bone), taking care not to hit any of the edges or crevices. A bit of rust streaks here and there with sepia wash on the bolts and battle-damage and I called it good.

As for the blood inscriptions, I just thinned some dark red paint with red ink (rather than water), and used a fine detail brush.

When that was all done, I did a light drybrushing of bubonic brown (an old GW color, 2-3 'versions' ago...back when they had hex-pots) on the lower third or so to represent dust.

The models are looking great what are the Death Cult Asassins based on?

CatPeeler wrote:
the basecoat was a dark brown (espresso, maybe?) krylon spray,

Are you talking about this spray paint?

http://www.krylon.com/products/fusion_for_plastic/

Llamahead wrote:The models are looking great what are the Death Cult Asassins based on?

They're Hellions with their ankles cut & repositioned to stand on flat ground, with Scourge heads. Super simple, not easily confused with anything else, and a double-headed weapon is pretty WYSIWYG for dual power weapons.

Phyrexia wrote:Are you talking about this spray paint?

Bingo. 'Satin espresso,' ftw.