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Thanks guys. I hadn't even noticed the conversion, Salvage, my wife did it years ago and they have since been stripped and reconstructed with some new parts.

Today we have a Chaos dread I tried to make a bit more dynamic and a Abaddon himself. How can we have a Black Crusade without him?

Nice baneblade and stuff, its crazy work you do and its all great, hope it turns out well for you, i mean, its looking wonderful so far

I didn't even know your wife was in the hobby, scarab!

I don't know how others feel, but personally I hate Abaddon's stupid mohawk/tower haircut thingy

His topknot and his heads-on-a-stick things are too big.

Love the adjustment on his arm.

so far so good

Nice conversions and paint jobs on show.Can't wait for an update,give us one soon oh mighty Scarab!

Thanks gents!

malfred wrote:I didn't even know your wife was in the hobby, scarab!

She's more of a WHFB player. While I have been working on my Chaos she's been working on a very gorgeous Bretonnian army.

grimz wrote:I don't know how others feel, but personally I hate Abaddon's stupid mohawk/tower haircut thingy

person person wrote:His topknot and his heads-on-a-stick things are too big.

I don't disagree, but he really stands out that way, which is good at least. If I had more time I'd see what else I could do.

will a terminator head fit for his nogin?

Just a quick suggestion here about abaddon.
Maybe the plastic chaos termie lord model, but using the head and arms (hands) from the origional model?
this should make him stand a fair bit taller and look a hell of a lot more daunting.

As for what you have done so far, it looks fething amazing, cant pick fault with anything except you have too much money to burn

Yeah, I bet I could make a termie head work and a whole new approach based on the termie lord would be cool as well. Having read the first three Horus Heresy books I think I'll just keep him in his (over the) top-knotted splendor for this go-round.

Update for today is a unit of Thousand Sons. The Sons are pretty bland fare, but I like how the Aspiring Sorcerer came out! I have been wanting to make a conversion based on this model for a long time.

10 Sons + sorcerer! That's a meaty squad of AP3 love! The champ is a way groovy conversion, especially set off by all those 1k Son clones

I'll second that you could do a much better Abby by combining the plastic lord kit with the metal head + weapons - and I once posted a pretty EPIC post of other modelers' custom Ababdbdbadons somewhere on here. It sounds like you're more interested in getting a very identifiable Abby on the table, and yea, the old shorty model works

Dig the dready, second chaos dread in 24 hours I've seen with asymmetrical ccw (and one with a heavy flamer welded to it), nice look. You didn't build up his waist, did you? Looks less hideously stunted than usual.

- Salvage

Great work TG! How about a group photo so we can see the scale of the army to date - am eagerly awaiting WIP shots of the titan

agreed.

Salvage, he's not built up per se, but as he's tipped at the waist it makes him taller.

Thanks Kaiser. As you saw today, the force is finally fully assembled except for the Titan, which is well underway. Hopefully I can get full army pics and a finished titan up soon.

Tonight I have a rather crummy pic of Dierer Wallbreaker, the other co-leader of the Iron Hydras with Kiergar the Snake. Also up are a unit of old school raptors. Not my favorite models, but cool in their way and you don't want to leave anything our when you are going for 11,000+ points. I was happy with how the came out relative to the bases and they are pretty well centered and not too too tippy.

Those raptors look fantastic

You are an AMAZING converter!

AWESOME

You gave some old school models an update.

Thanks guys!

Looking for some suggestions this time around - what to do with my Thousand Sons/Ahriman? I'll have the Iron Hydras painted in the worn green tone shown on the Land Raider at the beginning of this thread. The followers of the blood god will be in deep red with similar wear. The Nurgle guys are all rusty. I tend to like brighter looks for Tzeentch stuff, but I want it to fit in and I already have these:





So I am looking to do something different. Grittier, darker, but still fitting. Deeper blue and more toward brass than gold, maybe? Any suggestions appreciated.

I don't really have any suggestions on how to get a nice gritty dark blue.Yet I would like to say I love those raptors and the thousand sons stuff,keep up the good work.

Thanks man!

On another note: my wallet is in great peril: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/chaosreaver.htm

I was looking at the non-Chaos version yesterday and discussing with my wife that I could easily stave off buying one only because a chaos version was not available. This one is not as aged and weather beaten as the Warhound, which is disappointing, but it's still pretty cool. Hopefully some other arms will be available. CC weapons at this scale are of limited value, I think.

I might have to get one for this army, but first I have a few things to paint.

Try a stargate Gou'ald flamboyant colours

Thanks for the suggestion: I am not familiar with them so I went and had a look for pics. Seems like they have sort of Egyptian themed technology. Cool. More metal and not too colorful based on a google search? Gives me the idea to try the T-sons in sand color with silver accents. Could be nice and not too much flashy gold. Maybe some blue accents too?

yes that sounds cool, dont forget there is "white" gold as well.

Good point.

While I am at the computer, let me share some models my wife painted for a friend that will also be taking part in the battle on the Chaos team.

Are those old-style plague bearers or are they scratch built?

As for the stargate like Gou' ald theme,I like it.

Old school plague bearers.

Started work on the 8x12' table for the big game this morning.

They are nice.

Yeah they look cool,as for the table good luck in building it and give us an update soon.

Table is underway. So far I am just building the surface itself, nothing too exciting. The titan may be finished (building phase) tonight - or at least enough for a photo. It's a bigger job than I anticipated!