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Okay, I have some progress to post, but no pictures yet, plus I'm saving up so I can do a nice solid update all at once.

Word floating around is that there is a local tourney kicking off in Feb, and I think I'm pretty keen to give it a go, so this has really put a timeline on getting some stuff completed..

The tourney is 1350 points, I've written up a quick draft army list which can be found here . Wouldn't mind some influence and suggestions.

I've just put an ebay order through to complete the first stage of my army.
I ordered,
Dark Angels Veterans (these will be the basis for my Chosen)
Bloodletters of Khorne (lesser daemon goodness!)
Empire Flaggerants (heretics, to count as daemons)
And a box of Chaos Terminators (speak for themselves really)

Kinda funny how 4 box sets, and not a single one from the same range as the rest..

Anyway, the waiting game begins, but this all means there should be some pretty steady progress coming soon!

I'll help you put together the tanks if you want.

So, my good mate, who also happens to be a manager at a GW store near me, got me this for my birthday today



But now, what we all (probably) came here for! Some awesome progress pictures!



Here we have the first squad! These are basically finished now. Some small details might need to be retouched/done, and some of the bases need to be finished, but that aside, this is it! Now for some individual shots!



This here is the aspiring champion The backpack has the flames around the skull, to mimic the legion's symbol. It could have come out better, but i think it's not too bad.



This is just to show how some of the script on the tabards etc has turned out. Overall I'm pretty happy with this, particuarly the one on the left in this picture .



And, here is my attempt at freehanding the legion symbol on the shoulder pads.

Annd, last but certainly not least,


Here we have the banner/icon bearer for squad 1.









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Next up, we have this



This is a WiP of the assembling of squad 2. To differ them a little from squad 1, I'm trying to focus them more towards looking combat orientated, even though they likely will be used the same as the first squad. So this means either wielding chainswords with their bolters, or having bayonets attatched, and maybe some other cool stuff I haven't figured out yet.

Here is my favourite of the second squad assembled so far, I really like his pose, he looks really mobile and just badass.

And lastly, a bit of a preview of what's also coming up next...


Ninja edit:

Here's some small detailing work I've started on the interior of my first Rhino..

Re: Spoiler One: Befriending GW/flgs staffers is a fist full of win

Re: Spoiler Two: That's a spicy meatball...

Really nice! What does the banner say?

Ooh... Nice edit, btw.

Cool, Your GW store manager must like you

These are looking awesome buddy. Really like the red you have and the banner is brilliant in its simplicity.

risewiththefallen wrote:Really nice! What does the banner say?

Thanks! The banner says;
'From the fire of betrayal..
Unto the blood of revenge..
We bring the word of Lorgar..
The Bearer of the Word..
The favoured son of Chaos..
To turn the galaxy red with blood..
And feed the hunger of the gods..'

It's an excerpt from a passage of the Book of Lorgar.

Capitansolstice wrote:Cool, Your GW store manager must like you

Haha, let me just reiterate. He is one of my closest mates, he just happens to work at a GW also
I haven't just become a really favoured customer or anything of his, I knew him for a while before I even knew he worked at GW, and when I found out, it was during my long hiatus away from the hobby. That being said, he's been really keen to help me out with getting back into the hobby.

Biohazard wrote:These are looking awesome buddy. Really like the red you have and the banner is brilliant in its simplicity.

Thanks mate, I was thinking of using banners to do some crazy and cool freehand stuff, but I figured, what are Word Bearers, without some Words to Bear?

Supply drop!

Your Word Bearers are really coming along! The banner is awesome and the individual litany scripts on each WB are very well done, really solid to the WB fluff.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Your Word Bearers are really coming along! The banner is awesome and the individual litany scripts on each WB are very well done, really solid to the WB fluff.

Thanks mate, much appreciated.. I've been spending a bit of time here and there in your plague marine thread.. Got some very cool stuff in there

Got some more pictoral goodness for the general internet public. Hazza!



This is where squad 2 is sitting at currently, the champion is just a dry fit until I find a robed chest. (or do you think the normal CSM chest works okay with the robed lower half?)



Here is my first Rhino, with some interior painting done.. This is my first Rhino, in fact first vehicle really, so has been a learning experience.. I'm happy to let this one not be 100%, so that my next couple might be..



And.. here is a Chaos Terminator.. with a Space Wolves head!

That's me for now!

JBrehaut wrote:


This is where squad 2 is sitting at currently, the champion is just a dry fit until I find a robed chest. (or do you think the normal CSM chest works okay with the robed lower half?)

I love the fist champion. Quite a nice pose and pretty intimidating. And the chest without robes isnt a big deal. If it bothers you that much i'll sculpt over it for free.

Yer army is amazing. There aren't enough Traitor Legion based armies these days, especially Word Bearer ones.

just finished looking through and THIS IS AWESOME cant wait to see more

I think the lower half robe and regular chest is fine. I've been collecting models like that for over a year now, I have a Word Bearers project I plan on starting when the Plague Marines are done.

Done. Ha. Yeah, that'll happen. I'm a bit obsessed there I think.

Anyway, yes the robes look good, and I really like the Terminator you've built.

As for the Rhino, it's cool that you're experimenting w/ it and learned the tricks of building one instead of laboring over it. Your next few will go together all the faster / better.

I really love the look of that squad with the fist guy. Get em done bro! Hopefully your bits arrive and you can get it started because I'm eager to see it all come together. When do we have to sign up for this tourney?

Bit of a mini update, not much is happening while I'm waiting for the rest of my army to FINALLY show up from Ebay (apparently ordering 2 weeks before Christmas is a bitch)



The interior of one of my three rhinos.. Word Bearers getting up to more of their pesky daemon summoning naughtiness

Next up, we have, my concept/idea for a 60mm based objective I need for the upcoming tourney



The idea is that this is either a captured loyalist, or a sweet talked allied traitor, that is being used to summon a daemon(s).
There will be a chaos star around him, the main 4 points of which line up with the candles, similar to the Rhino interior, and the lesser 4 points will line up with the skulls.
Ideally, I'm going to put a bloodthirster arm reacing out of the stomach/chest of him too, but we'll see how that goes.
There will be a heap of chains etc binding him to the pole also. Huzzah!

And thirdly, a 40 mm objective, for the same tourney. The flag is not currently actually glued, coz the thing will be spray undercoated.



Also a Happy New Year to all you Dakka-ites out there, here's to a new year of hobby related goodness!

C&C, questions, and general ranting welcome as always.

Happy new buddy! I like mr legs akimbo, although they're a little too splayed for my tastes, the basic principle is very cool.

I would hate to be that guardsmen!
Cool Objectives bro! Happy New Years!

I respect how you are going about this project. It's so much more that just an "army", you really understand the spirit behind it. Very well done on so many levels.

Thanks for all the comments guys.

Skalk, I think it's partly from the fact that my first models ever bought, were Chaos Marines (Plague Marines in fact, I think you'll be happy to hear) and Chaos is basically the only army I've ever collected and painted, and also the fact that my inspiration for starting Word Bearers was reading The First Heretic, this pretty much means that the sotry line/fluff and character behind the army is something I feel I can grasp pretty strongly..

Anyway, replies aside, onto some fun stuff!


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Here is, finally, a big army wide shot of what my initial 1350 force, this will be built up to 1500, then 1750, 2,000... and from there who knows



A. Chaos Space Marines Squad1
B. Chaos Space Marines Squad2
C. Chaos Space Marines Squad 3
D. Chosen Chaos Space Marines
E. Dark Apostle (Chaos Lord)
F. Chaos Havocs (w/ autocannons)
G. Lesser Daemons Unit1
H. Lesser Daemons Unit2 (These will not actually be Horrors, these will be Uni3 in my first army expansion, I just picked up a box of them to start on while I waited for my goodies to arrive in the mail)
Also here, in the middle, are terminators, which I forgot to code, but there will be three with multimeltas and one will also have a chainfist..

Just gotta get to working on them now!


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My finished first objective, pretty happy with how this has turned out.



My first painted Horror.. The highlights look a lot more stark than they look irl, the model looks a lot nicer in person..
You can see here, I've used some very thin plasticard, to model some scrolls onto the arm, to help tie it into my army a little more. I'm really really happy with how the scroll turned out, it looks even better in person than the picture..



And here you can see the second Horror in the background..



And this is a model I picked up to represent a 'messenger' which I apparently need for the tourney..
It's got tons of scrolls, tomes/books, etc etc, Just needa lop off the top of the pole with the Inquisitor ][ and the imperieagle..


Kickin this thang into overdrive now,
Comments more than welcome, would love to hear back!

Where did you get the messenger? I would like to find one

Capitansolstice wrote:Where did you get the messenger? I would like to find one

I was lucky enough to find it while trawling through an ebay bits store, the link to mine is Here, might be worth messaging him to see if he has others?
But after a bit of searching, I found the model is originally sold as part of a set Here from Forgeworld..

JBrehaut wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:Where did you get the messenger? I would like to find one

I was lucky enough to find it while trawling through an ebay bits store, the link to mine is Here, might be worth messaging him to see if he has others?
But after a bit of searching, I found the model is originally sold as part of a set Here from Forgeworld..

I have always wanted hector rex, I now have a reason! Thanks Jbrehaut

Hey jarrod, everything is looking great here. We'll have to find time to head to a games workshop and have a game together with out mostly painted armies... When you get to that point at least.

One thing though... did you blutac those skulls and helmets to that objective and just greenstuff liquid over it?

These doods are pretty cool Jbrehaut. The painting is solid and there is some nifty conversion work.

In anticipation for Chaos legions i am playing with some ideas for a word bearers force, so its great for some inspiration.I have really wanted to do some Word bearers ever since i saw this pic a few years ago

Holy feth, those Horrors are amazing and I love the objective marker thingies. Keep up the amazing work!

Capitansolstice wrote:

JBrehaut wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:Where did you get the messenger? I would like to find one

I was lucky enough to find it while trawling through an ebay bits store, the link to mine is Here, might be worth messaging him to see if he has others?
But after a bit of searching, I found the model is originally sold as part of a set Here from Forgeworld..

I have always wanted hector rex, I now have a reason! Thanks Jbrehaut

No worries! If only I earned commissions! But it definitely looks like a cool set of models.

LoneLictor wrote:Holy feth, those Horrors are amazing and I love the objective marker thingies. Keep up the amazing work!

Thanks heaps man! Much appreciated

Perkustin wrote:These doods are pretty cool Jbrehaut. The painting is solid and there is some nifty conversion work.

In anticipation for Chaos legions i am playing with some ideas for a word bearers force, so its great for some inspiration.I have really wanted to do some Word bearers ever since i saw this pic a few years ago

Spoiler:

Thanks for the comments man, would love to see what you come up with! The Legions Codex is sounding pretty awesome..

omgitsduane wrote:Hey jarrod, everything is looking great here. We'll have to find time to head to a games workshop and have a game together with out mostly painted armies... When you get to that point at least.

One thing though... did you blutac those skulls and helmets to that objective and just greenstuff liquid over it?

Lmao.. no.
I made a base out of some layered plasticard, cut into progressively smaller pieces as the base, glued some skulls/helmets around it, then put some greenstuff over the top, and then embedded some more skulls into the greenstuff.. Doesn't look 100% clean, but it works for what I need.

That aside, some more pictures!
omgitsduane has been hassling me at uploading some photos of my Havocs, so here we go!



Here is the current assembling progression on my heretics (counts-as daemons)


And working on some bloodletters

I've cut down the horns, and the head, going to round out the head a bit more, and maybe greenstuff his eyes sealed, as a further emphasis on WORD bearer daemons, these are all about speaking blasphemies, so emphasising their mouths..

I am loving the conversion here! And I also really like how you do the scrolls/paper. It looks really decrepit and convincing. Great job!

Spent tonight painting up the first bloodletter-based generic Lesser Daemon..
Still deciding if I like it enough to paint up a full unit, or just assemble and paint them as standard bloodletters.. Which I'll eventaully be doing a unit of anyway...
Thoughts?