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So with the new Chaos Codex now available I have been distracting myself from the more involved Minotaurs project with these guys. Ever since reading First Heretic I have had an itch to field these guys. So what better place to start then a 20 man Blob of Power Armour.

Let me know what you guys think:





and a close up of the OSL guy. I need to glaze this down a little as the colour is too much.. some dark green on the edges should bring it back in line:



Thanks for looking guys hopefully I shall have some finished shots of these soon.

- Martok

Sex .... Pure sex...

I love thse models mate carry on doing what your doing and you could be onto a winner...

 ArchaonSon wrote:
Sex .... Pure sex...

I love thse models mate carry on doing what your doing and you could be onto a winner...

Cheers mate!!!! Very positive response to these more so than I was thinking. Hopefully when the arms are done and the battle damage etc starts to go down they will look more impressive!

Surprising how well the DA upgrade robe bits really mesh well in a chaos scheme.

haven't read the book your on about, but are these word bearers?

You should read First Heretic, it was a pretty decent book.

I really like all of this with one exception, the source lighting on the eyes doesn't do it for me.


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Porkandbeans wrote:Surprising how well the DA upgrade robe bits really mesh well in a chaos scheme.

haven't read the book your on about, but are these word bearers?

Thanks! Yes they are Word Bearers, their Primarch Lorgar had a couple of names Aurelian, Urizen etc hence the topic title.

Deathshead420 wrote:You should read First Heretic, it was a pretty decent book.

I really like all of this with one exception, the source lighting on the eyes doesn't do it for me.


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Thanks mate yeah to be honest that was my first ever attempt at OSL and I have made some progress from this.. essentially it was just one colour and the highlights merged to much so I shall be going back in and darkening the glow.

I have some updates on Ice just waiting to get the pics off the camera so keep an eye out.

- Martok

Hey,

I have made some more progress with this army this time putting a HQ together. This guy will be my Dark Apostle:





Let me know what you think and please give me some suggestions for something to put on his waist where the DA icon was removed.

- Martok

The limited edition Chaplain makes for a good dark apostle was one of my plans to start with like the conversion works very well.

Looks very nice, liking what you're doing with the DA robes and Chaplain in particular; very good looking!

My only suggestions would be to tone down the OSL on the eyes of the guy, 4th along (left-to-right) in the top image and I'd suggest removing the horn on the nurgle-helmet dude (middle in the top image); that helmet also looks good on a heavy weapons guy btw.

 Martok wrote:
Hey,

I have made some more progress with this army this time putting a HQ together. This guy will be my Dark Apostle:







Let me know what you think and please give me some suggestions for something to put on his waist where the DA icon was removed.

- Martok

Hey again Martok!
These Word Bearers are ace! It's amazing how seemlessly the Dark Angel pieces fit with the Chaos Space Marines, and how well they look when painted.
As a matter of fact I've done exactly the same as you in terms of the Chappy. Instead I gave him the bare head from the Chaos Terminators, replaced the staff head with the mechanicus-ish looking symbol from the Chaos Space Marines and took my files and clippers to the Dark Angel symbols and tore at them.

Man that turned out good. As for the middle section maybe bolt on a book/tome or maybe a long scroll.

I'm so happy with what you've got started, I've been thinking about getting that DA sprue for a while now, and you just sold me on it.

crimsonfist832 wrote:

Hey again Martok!
These Word Bearers are ace! It's amazing how seemlessly the Dark Angel pieces fit with the Chaos Space Marines, and how well they look when painted.
As a matter of fact I've done exactly the same as you in terms of the Chappy. Instead I gave him the bare head from the Chaos Terminators, replaced the staff head with the mechanicus-ish looking symbol from the Chaos Space Marines and took my files and clippers to the Dark Angel symbols and tore at them.

You got a link to your guy would love to take a look!

Chosen of Malal wrote:I'm so happy with what you've got started, I've been thinking about getting that DA sprue for a while now, and you just sold me on it.

It actually works out as relatively good value for money as you get pretty much everything you need to assemble units from that sprue as long as you have some bases kicking around.

Martok wrote:You got a link to your guy would love to take a look!

Ummm I don't really have one no I'm afraid. I posted him to a group on facebook a while ago. But I do have one on my desktop so here you are He's not quite finished but there's not much more that needs doing to him.

Damn those are some smooth conversions. Nicely done.

crimsonfist832 wrote:

Martok wrote:You got a link to your guy would love to take a look!

Ummm I don't really have one no I'm afraid. I posted him to a group on facebook a while ago. But I do have one on my desktop so here you are He's not quite finished but there's not much more that needs doing to him.

That is looking smooth! I was very tempted to do something similar with his head but felt bad not suing the great helmet supplied.. but now i am left wondering...

LoneLictor wrote:Damn those are some smooth conversions. Nicely done.

Thanks buddy I appreciate it

So I have continued to work on anything but the stuff above. So I have some more WIP models this time some Bikers/Cavalry:







These are still a WIP so any comments would be helpful to get these guys just right.

Martok

Very, very nice! Love the stormbolter arms for counts as bike bolters.

 JohnnoM wrote:
Very, very nice! Love the stormbolter arms for counts as bike bolters.

Yeah i played around with the idea of attaching bolters to the head having them slung etc then looked over at my bits box and saw a ton of Grey Knights parts, perfect!

I received quite a bit of advice with this guy and some suggested I should remove the words etc around the edge of the cape as they indicated Imperial Allegiance so that is gone. Does "feel" better this way. Also I added a Skull to cover up the DA icon on his waist. Most significant of all the changes however, was the Angelus Bolter in place of the Powerfist. This came about as I was unaware that Dark Apostles could not take anything from the Melee Weapon Wargear list.



I am glad for the advice received and I am very happy with the new look. He somehow looks more stocky without the fist? All in all I am happy with it and cannot wait to get paint on him.

have been working on this model for about 2 years with very little time actually having been spent working on it. However, it is starting to get their. This Daemon Engine is affectionately called "The Freak" and is a Defiler with Power Scourge:







He is still far from perfect but I think the weapon arms are almost done. The chimney sorts out this issues I was having building some kind of power supply/exhaust system.I think next to see some work will be the head as he needs to look far more Daemonic. The feet need widening, the shoulder pads need green stuff rivets and I am hoping to use the Braziers from the Warshrine on them:



I could see the front of the shrine making a good part for the Defilers head. Maybe even the Stone Horn's head?



I shall have to work something out soon as I really need this guy before I can think about playing a game with the Word Bearers.

I have been putting paint to the Dark Apostle have a look and let me know what you think:



I am not sure about the cloak the purple does not seem to be working...

More pics on BLOODYdice

Martok

In this post I am taking a slightly different approach to modeling Obliterators than usual.

I picked up the WFB Chaos War Shrine for some cool parts to go on my Defiler Biped and thought the Mutants would make for good Nurgle Obliterator stand ins. With a little bit of tweaking I have them to a playable state:




I still have a lot of work to do on these... some cabling being a good start and also gap filling. Also after taking these pictures I noticed the Aquila on the Plasma Cannon so that is now gone.
Any thoughts on how I could integrate the weapons with the mutant?
- Martok

This long term project is starting to take shape with some dry fitting of parts in this post.
I finally received my bits order for the Stonehorn head. Currently it is just tacked on and I think I need to make some changes to get it to fit right.







Any suggestions? I seem to be a bit snow blind by this thing at the moment.

- Martok

I have been plugging away at this Dark Apostle for awhile now.
The blending was started with an airbrush with final highlights done with a brush:




I really want to add some freehand on the cloak but thus far I have not found anything that I want to use. Annoyingly I have noticed the uneven surfaces from where I did not sand the modeling work smooth so i think I shall be finding some finer sandpaper now for future projects.

- Martok

I decided to pick up the Heldrake. After this thing literally cutting me while building it (so many spikes/blades) I put the airbrush coats of red down and I am now detailing.

The silver detailing is taking a very very long time and I am really regretting the fact that I did not lay varnish down before starting as every mistake will need to be fixed at the end with a brush... I might put Varnish down tonight before doing any more actually. Here he is:





These are obviously iPhone pics taken while I was at the FLGS I shall get some better pics when he has moved along a bit.

- Martok

Really dig these conversions, looking forward to seeing where the Defiler-Knight goes. Absolutely love the paintjobs on the Apostle and the CSMs, great red.

 RazakelXIII wrote:
Really dig these conversions, looking forward to seeing where the Defiler-Knight goes. Absolutely love the paintjobs on the Apostle and the CSMs, great red.

Thanks! The red seems to be getting lighter with each unit though... not sure if that is a good ting or whether i should knock it back down. The darker tone just doesn't work as well on vehicles.

Finally I have an update!



Quick post today just to show what I have been working on this weekend. Above you can see the current state of my Chaos Lord for the Word Bearers army I am working on. Below is a First draft as it were while I played around with some alternative parts. Oddly, i bought the model as I thought the Deamonic Head would be perfect for Word Bearers and then after a few head swap tests I found the trusty Chaos Knight heads looked much more appropriate.



- Martok

I have been trying to push the boat out on the Word Bearers Conversions. Above is the finalized version of my Chaos Lord although I may consider adding a Trophy Rack to his backpack as no self respecting Chaos Warlord can go without a few loyalists skulls about his person.



I saw this model and thought it would make a good Sorceror. My plan was to remove the freak from his side and covert it up as a more traditional model. However, when I started working on the model I jsut couldn't bring myself to do it. So now this guy shall be taking a Familiar as his wargear seeing as I have really warmed to the lil weirdo.



Next is a Chaos Champion Conversion. I had built and almost painted a squad of Word Bearers converted from Dark Angel Veteran Bodies but with the new Warriors of Chaos Conversions I have added to the army they just didn't fit in anymore (I shall be finishing them and putting them on Ebay though so if anyone wants them let me know).



I am really quite happy with this guy. Proper kitbash here with a variety of parts... head from Chaos Warshrine, body from Chaos Warriors, backpack and shoulder pad from Chaos Space Marines, claws from the Raptors and Legion pad is actually a Grey Knight pad (open book is the old Word Bearers symbol).



Green stuff work was needed to patch up the hacked up areas of the Warrior of Chaos body. This will become a little more precise as I work through the models but I am quite happy with the result.



Personally I love the combination of the evil looking helmet and scissor hands claws. He screams Chaos Barbarian to me which is what I was aiming for.



I have had this banner from Tabletop art for a long time now waiting for the right project and this was perfect for the Word Bearers conversions. Only problem now is if I want another squad I need to find an equally epic Chaos Banner... anyone able to link me to something suitable?



Of course the mandatory full squad shot. Hopefully I shall have these guys up to a 10 man unit this eve and start work on the next squad.

- Martok