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Killmaimburnkillmaimburn wrote:Pure awesome! Are you going to make Tzeentch and Slaanesh themed armies as well since I would love to see how you tackle them?

I also would be on board to see such undertakings!

Thanks for the kind words, all. I've gotten the land raider built, and am starting to get paint on it - It'll look good, but it's been many years since I painted a tank - I forgot how big a project it is.

Cutthroatcure wrote:

Killmaimburnkillmaimburn wrote:Pure awesome! Are you going to make Tzeentch and Slaanesh themed armies as well since I would love to see how you tackle them?

I also would be on board to see such undertakings!

Perhaps - we'll see. A buddy of mine wants to start Slaanesh and Tzeentch armies, to compliment mine, with a little help from me - he's a very good painter, but doesn't have too much experience with conversions. He's just ordered parts for the Slaanesh daemon prince I'm making for him, which will consist of no less than 4(!) GW kits. Manticore wings, Daemon prince torso/arms, Trygon tail, and a Talos kit, thrown in for good measure and cutty parts.

So, we'll see - I could see them in the future, but right now I want to focus on Khorne and Nurgle. I still have a long way to go on the death guard army, but I'm loving it - it's great to be back in the hobby.

I guess my comment was to see if you had some aversion to doing them or if you had plans, but trust me I won't complain because I rather enjoy the work I see on this page!

GuitaRasmus wrote:

I've been quiet and lurked, absorbing the brilliance of your blog, but this DP has pushed me over. Awesome sculpting backed up with rock solid painting and started off with inspired bits selection means you're putting out some of the most amazing chaos dudes I've seen in some time - thank you sir

(Side comment: I now have to find a use for that HPA claw. I liked it before but I have no choice any longer )

- Salvage

Wow, truely amazing stuff! I am totally jealous of your bitz box though, it appears to be bottomless!!!!!

Thanks a lot.

As mentioned before, I'm lucky to be a part of a gaming community that's very keen on sharing bits, and some kits I buy just for bitz - I'm lucky to be an adult with a reasonable income, and not too many expenses, so I can indulge and build the army I couldn't when I was a kid.

I'm busy painting the land raider at the moment - I forgot how big a project such a vehicle is, but I think it'll look great.

Awesome daemon prince, land raider, dreadnought and everything else you've made! I'm drooling at the thought of the painted raider and daemon prince!

Wow, just wow. I'm loving the DP! That spine looks great, I don't remember reading about it, did you sculpt it?

Still waiting to see the torso with the teeth!

Thanks RSJake. I didn't sculpt it, only the back and flesh surrounding it - I think it's a nice theme for the dread and the DP.

I'm doing great painting the land raider - the basic colours are blotted in, and washed - I'm getting to the fun stuff now; drips, runs, goo, dirt, and corpses!

<-----Excited!

That DP is excellent, I'm not a big fan of the recent flying WFB monsters but that's a great use of those wings.

I thought you did amazing with those Khorne units. Then you show up and make these brilliant Nurgle units!

Your army is absolutely amazing!

It's been a bit tough for me to get motivated to build a new CSM army with the current codex, but seeing your work reminds me the fun of Chaos is the conversions, and a unit's effectiveness in-game should come second. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation!


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Your army is absolutely amazing!

It's been a bit tough for me to get motivated to build a new CSM army with the current codex, but seeing your work reminds me the fun of Chaos is the conversions, and a unit's effectiveness in-game should come second. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation!

Cadaver wrote:Your army is absolutely amazing!

It's been a bit tough for me to get motivated to build a new CSM army with the current codex, but seeing your work reminds me the fun of Chaos is the conversions, and a unit's effectiveness in-game should come second. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation!

Thanks a lot! Yup, I also had to remind myself of that. I originally planned on using the BA codex for my World Eaters, since I thought the chaos dex was so dull, but some of the guys at the gaming community I'm part of convinced me that I should be true to the Chaos dex - there's a lot of stuff in the chaos dex that can't be properly represented by the BA dex. Besides, it'll be so much cooler that I stick to the chaos dex until the new one comes out.

Yep, the best thing about chaos is the possibility of the conversions - I couldn't see myself modelling, painting and playing any other army.

Your becoming my favourite bloggers to date. loving how you model and paint.
Peace

Thanks a lot man, really appreciate the kind words.

Bah, it's been 3 weeks since the last update! I demand moar Death Guard! You can't just make something that awesome and leave us hanging!

How do 4 days become 3 weeks?

the demon prins was awsome, good job on him. and i like the easy paint style you are doing on them.

GuitaRasmus wrote:How do 4 days become 3 weeks?

Oops, I mistyped that. I meant 3 days. And now it's 4 days. XD.

A new bit of fluff, this time DG inspired.

Kant looked at the sky, dark with clouds and except for the sparse light coming from the two moons of Skylaxis, this hellridden planet, it was pitch black. The heavy rain that soaked his trenchcoat had been coming down on them for 3 weeks straight. He felt the sticky, smelly mud of the trenches give in to his combat boots. The air was thick with gunsmoke from mortars and autocannons, and the smell of rotting corpses of their enemies, lying massacred in piles in front of the trenches. Kant could smell it, even through his rebreather unit. “Well, I won’t live long enough to get a lung infection anyway”, Kant callously thought. The sergeant of the 534th infantry battalion was only 34 standard years, but he looked at least 20 older. Years of exposure to the elements of countless battlefields on forsaken planets had taken its toll, and his face bore marks of toxic rain, freezing wind and frag shrapnel in equal measure. A guardsmans life was short and brutal. For a moment Kant felt compelled to compare his life to an ancient citate from Terra; “It is better to burn bright and briefly, than to...” He shrugged and collected his thoughts – If he was to survive this hellhole, he had better get his gak together, and focus on the job at hand.

Their enemies were nothing like what he had fought before. Pre battle mass briefings had informed him that these foes were once guardsmen like himself, traitors, turned away from the Emperors light, and were to be purged to the very last one. He had seen the orbital picts and the once beautiful fields of Skylaxis were a mockery of what once was – every plant, tree and patch of grass rotted away, the skies blackened with clouds of dust, smog and rain, and not a sight of living creature anywere. They had barely been deployed before meeting the first assailants. They had obviously been human, once, but now a shadow of their former selves. Kant had heard tales of walking corpses before, victims of some nightmarish plague virus, but had dismissed them as old wives tales. Until 3 weeks ago. Until he had seen corpses of long dead planetary defense guards, limbering, crawling and running towards them, a moving mockery of life. The first drop troops had barely touched ground before he had heard the gargling yells of his troopers in utter terror, as they had seen the undying, as they had dubbed them, take dozens of las shots, without flinching. Holes had burst through head, chest, and belly, entrails scorched or hanging out, arms blasted off, and still they had kept coming towards them, like a wave of death. Worst of all was the stench. The horrible stench of death, rot and disease. It hung in the air everywhere, and Kant could barely stand it anymore. The drop troopers that had ripped off their rebreathers to vomit at the sight, had, almost instantly, choked on the vile air, and Kant had fought the urge to empty his stomach himself, as he saw some of his veteran troopers throw up their own intestines. The vision still plagued him in his sleep – scarce as it was. He rarely slept more than an hour at most, his dreams interrupted by nightmarish visions of sickness, disease and the rotting corpses of his former platoon members, calling out to him; “Join us, sarge. You will never feel pain, cold or burn again.”

The dreams unnerved him, but he was a soldier of the Emperor, having met more Xenos than most his age, and he’d be damned if he’d let a dream get to him.

“Incoming!” a voice shouted.
A heavy shell hissed through the air, lunging into a trench 50 metres from him, and a bilious green gas cloud exploded out of it. Kant gasped as he saw the guardsmen in it, running out, screaming in pain as the cloud entered every orifice in their bodies. The mens screams turned to gargles as their larynxes turned to liquid and they ripped at their boiling skin, tearing it from their rotting muscles and bones.
“Emperor save us”, Kant whispered underneath his rebreather mask.

The terror unfolding in the trench had blocked out a sound unfamiliar in this hellhole of a warzone. It was distant, but unmistakable; the sound of a bell. Slow, ponderous and dissonant. Kant peeked out of the trench. At first he saw nothing but darkness, but he saw what appeared to be shades walking in the distance. He heard the bell draw closer, and it rang much louder than it should have, from this far away. He saw his platoon next to him looking transfixed at the shades in the distance as well, and snapped to attention.
“Be ready, men!” he yelled “Enemies approaching!”

As they levelled their lasguns at the approaching figures, Kant heard the roar of an engine and a massive tank, looking like an Astartes pattern vehicle raced towards another trench. As it drew closer, he saw a large bell mounted at the top of the hull, and Kant realised that it was the origin of the bell sound he had heard. The vehicle was huge, looking like a moving fortress, second in size only to a Baneblade. However, that was the only thing about it that was remotely Astartes. The hull was scarred, blown apart and rusty to such a degree that he found himself wondering how it could even move. The tracks were ridden with spikes and blades and protruding from the front was two massive maws, impossibly growing straight out of the ceramite itself. This disturbing image, however, paled at the sight of dozens of bodies, impaled and lying on large wooden stakes on both sides of the tank. Some were actually moving and writhing, their bodies contorted in agony – entrails and blood leaking out them, eyeless sockets and mouths open, wrenched in pain.

The tank, utterly ignoring the countless lasgun and autocannon shots ripping at it, ground to a halt right in front of the trench, and the front door rammed open. Massive figures roared out of it, some twice the height of a guardsman. “A...Astartes...” Kant gasped. The figures were huge, wearing rotted filthy bone and green armour, but their heads were without helmets and bald, skin in sickly colours. Masks connected to big tubes connected to tanks with fluorescent liquid on their backs, and arms brandishing crude swordlike weapons, attached to their wrists like xenos claws. They launched towards the poor guardsmen in the trench, ripping them to pieces with the crude weapons, slicing several in half, blood splattering everywhere. A gaunt figure wandered calmly out of the vehicle, almost curiously observing the slaughter – another Astartes, that appeared to be their leader – wearing a rotten cowl and strange mechanical arms, laden with blades and syringes filled with foul liquid, emerging from his back. The guardsmens screams silenced, but the warriors kept hacking at the corpses, chomping the remains to pieces. With a silent wave, the leader sent the warriors storming towards a trench further away, the leader calmly walking behind.

As Kant fell down into the trench, sick to his stomach, he heard a buzzing. A big wasplike creature appeared in front of him, almost the size of his hand – startled, he waved it away, trying to smash it, but it evaded and flew away. Now he heard the buzzing turn into a roar, and saw the air above him fill with thousands of the disgusting creatures, hovering around him, as waiting for a chance to strike. He saw a massive shadow blocking the light, and instinctively turned around, bringing his bolt pistol to aim. He was frozen with terror at the sight.


More to come.

I like how you approached from a third party viewing your army from afar, adds a more sinister feeling!

I like it!

Awesome fluff there. Its a great story.


I would like to ask for you advice, Guita. I am building a khorne lord, and want to know how to "fix" him so to speak. Sorry to plug like this, but i believe you would be perfect to help X3

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/426524.page

Thanks a lot - I've just commented in your thread.

Unfortunately there's not been a lot of progress this week - I've been quite busy at work, and played two concerts this weekend, but I'll try to make up for it this week.

A bit of progress.

I'm busy painting my terminators, a unit of plague marines I put together, and my land raider. Everything is starting to look pretty good, but all the details are taking longer than I expected - anyway, these are MUCH more enjoyable to paint than my Khorne army - mainly because the colour scheme means I don't have to be so careful not to mess up the highlights.

The land raider is starting to look really good as well - I'm looking forward to showing it off.

I also had a great idea (or so I think). Remember the movie 28 days later? I want to have rage-zombie-space marines! I'm thinking about taking a 7 man unit, and using them as Berzerkers - I'll be converting some really crazy running space marines, with disgusting masks with tubes running out from them, and savage blades chained to their forearms.

Anyway, I got inspired with the defiler project, and got a lot further - this time I based it on the soul grinder, since I wanted fleshy parts on the legs, and the jaws are two different trygon lower jaws glued together:






I'm in doubt as what to do with the battlecannon. Wrist mounted? Shoulder Mounted? Other?

Your imagination is crazy good buddy. i love the look of this defiler just as I love most of your conversions. A man after my own heart who doesnt look at a bit as it is but what it CAN be.
Is there any way of making the battle cannon mounted in the jaws of that beast? Failing that I would go for shoulder mounted. I reckon you can come up with something pretty sweet for that.........no pressure

*edit*
Looking at it again the defilers left arm looks like its in a prime position to act as a cradle for the cannon. I would work around that.

Thanks a lot - yeah, I've probably got a pretty twisted imagination.

Jeez...that thing scared me when I saw the face...nice work!

I would go with tail mounted or maybe a giant hand cannon for your Defiler! Such as a 6-shooter of sorts cannon held on one of the arms...

Holy gak, that Defiler is badass.