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Hell yeah old school dreads, pretty fond of the static poses actually, this is part of their charm and mechanical aspect (opposed to the most demonic look of the current hellbrutes)

Nice carving on the rhino too, never thought about doing that but I like the result.

Yay! I got my hands on a box of old minis of mine that i was searching for for a while, and I wasn't sure what was in there... I must say that I'm quite happy with the haul...

A few Orks for my son, with some examples of where I was, painting-wise when I stopped, twenty years ago:



And some classic chaos marines, a renegade that I'll field as a cultist, a classic guitar noise marine! And a metal Ragnar Blackmane...

The Space Wolf will have to wait patiently in the box again, since I have no plan to play wolves anytime soon, but I might want to pull him out and paint him one of those days...



I'm one happy 40k hobbyist today for just having found a few miniatures...


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I've put a few more hours of work on the Noise Rhino, doing some highlighting and painting the "noise" soundwave on the sides...

I dare say I'm pretty happy about it, it will deffinitely transport the noise marines in style...

That is an awesome looking ride indeed, well done !

Damn that rhino looks amazing! Great work!

EDC

Loving that rhino! Fantastic work!

Your blog is giving me flashbacks! I started late in the Rogue Trader era, and a number of the figures you've posted were once part of my collection or an army I went up against. Those orks! Good fun... takes me back to the days of buying metal blisters with piles of loose change. I'll keep following for sure!

KernelTerror wrote:That is an awesome looking ride indeed, well done !

evildrcheese wrote:Damn that rhino looks amazing! Great work!

EDC

l0k1 wrote:Loving that rhino! Fantastic work!

Thanks a lot, guys, it's very encouraging! I've realised that this blog is a very good motivator to keep painting and to push the level of my painting up... Now that i have a basic force painted I can slow down and spend more time on each model, and push things up...

MacPhail wrote:Your blog is giving me flashbacks! I started late in the Rogue Trader era, and a number of the figures you've posted were once part of my collection or an army I went up against. Those orks! Good fun... takes me back to the days of buying metal blisters with piles of loose change. I'll keep following for sure!

Well, it was those same flashbacks that got me back into the hobby just a few short months ago... Thanks for following!

And then the big mek showed up...



Yeah... well, chaos is allied with the orks, and my son has started painting his way through a few orks... Me, I just couldn't resist the call of the stomp, I'll probably be the Bad Moon to his Evil Suns...

I've started working on Cypher and the Fallen...

Here is Cypher, all painted up...

Great stuff you've got here! Really digging the conversions

Cypher looks ace. Nice work.

EDC

A long-awaited update: I've done the rest of the Fallen...



I think that they are tabletop-serviceable, but I think that I need another highlighting session to get them finished at a level i'll be really happy with...

And they will go well with the inquisition army that I'm building:

evildrcheese wrote:Sounds like an interesting project. Subbed.

EDC

ChaosDad wrote:I've been building the squad...

Here are the girls, they are going to be a squad of AM veterans, with a heavy flamer, a plasma gun and a melta gun. Sargent with a plasma pistol and a powersword...

ChaosDad wrote:The first trooper is done, I feel, although maybe I'll touch her up once I've done the rest of the squad...

Here she is next to my converted Cypher...

ChaosDad wrote:I've been washing resin and assembling miniatures...

Here are a few of my characters:

A Sniper, who will likely be part of the command squad, a vindicare assassin (she is tiny!), the commissar, and the commander.



I still have four psykers, six servitors, a mechanicum adept, and ten tempestus scions to build, along with a master of ordnance... This will conclude the first wave of this army, the second coming when Raging Heroes start shipping the minis of their TGG2 kickstarter...

In the back you see three repentias, and I also have a penitent engine (missing its legs, sadly...) that will likely be the only GW miniatures in the army...

Next step will be painting all of those ladies...

ChaosDad wrote:If that feels heretic, wait until I get my hands on my demonhost...

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ChaosDad wrote:Here are my servitors:





And my master of ordnance, she's about to call a pieplate down on your hear from orbit...

They look pretty spiffing to me!

EDC

I'm gearing up for a big game this week with my kids, to celebrate the end of the school year and kick off the summer holidays with a bang (well, several bangs, most likely, from an urreasonnable number of very large guns... I'll play Chaos Marines, and they'll play Eldar...

We're gonna fill the table with all the Eldar we can field (there is about 3700 points worth of it), and I'll be fielding about half of my chaos Marines/Deamons... (damn, i did buy a lot of miniatures in the last five months!!!)

Here are the lists

Eldar:



Primary Detachement
Pale Host Court (from doom of Mymeara)
(with the Aspect and Harlequin options...)

1 Farseer
4 Dark reapers with exarch
4 Dark reapers with Exarch
5 Dark Reaper with Exarch
13 Harlequins

Seer Council
Eldrad (Warlord)
Farseer
9 Warlocks, 4 with spears

Living Legends
Avatar of Khaine

Living Legends
Mugan Ra

Aspect Shrine
6 Banshees with exarch
10 Dire Avengers with exarch
6 Fire Dragons with exarch

Wraith Constructs
Wraithlord

Wraith Constructs
Wraithlord

Second Detachement (CAD)
Jain Zar
Autarch with wings and fusion gun
7 Rangers
10 Guardians
10 Guardians
10 Guardians
5 Dire Avengers
3 Falcons
5 Striking Scorpions
5 Swooping Hawks

For a total of 3689 points, and 121 miniatures...

For the Chaos side:



Primary Detatchement (CAD)
Abbaddon (Warlord)
Sorcerer in Terminator Armor
10 CSM
10 CSM
10 CSM
10 Noise marines in Rhino
5 Possessed
12 Plague Marines
10 Raptors
10 Chaos Bikers
3 Obliterators
5 Havocs

Hellfist Murderpack
5 Hellbrutes

Cypher and chosen
Cypher
9 Chosen

Secondary Detatchement
1 Deamon prince of Khorne
10 CSM
16 Cultists

For a total of 3687 points and 129 miniatures...

I have two breakfast trays filled to the brim of miniatures, most of them unpainted, but a significant portion of my chaos army is painted, enough at least to make me happy with the result...

I'll take pictures during the game and I'll keep you posted... It's going to be ugly, look-wise, with all those unpainted minis, but hey, at least we're rolling dice and moving miniatures...

The generals of both armies have been painted for this month's painting challenge, which means that they are going to be fabulous on the battlefield...



It's very encouraging to see that if need be, I now have a properly painted CSM force, including a powerful Warlord... I need to do some basing on the miniatures that were painted by my kids (that are not amazingly painted, but I'll happily keep them in all their badly-painted glory because they were painted by my kids... )

I've realized in the last few days and weeks that I have a lower treshold of starting to get things done for the building models part than for the painting part, but that once I get started on the painting, I can keep at it longer...

Now I just need to get things into some sort of organization so I have a few things to put together, which gets me into hobby mode, and then I just get on with the painting...




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Well, the battle has started! It will take a few days to get through the whole thing, one turn at a time, since there are so many things to move/shoot/fight... The beggining of the game took about three hours, and we made it to the end of the first turn.

So, here is the board and the Chaos side of the table:



The object of the game is to be the player controlling the upper platform of the central building at the end of the game, so turn 5, 6, or 7...

The Eldar (played by my daughter...) deployment:



And she has in reserve three Falcons, one with the fire dragons, one with a squad of Dark Reapers, and one with a squad of scorpions, I have the impression that I'm not going to appreciate when these come into play.

So, the board is bare apart from the central building, which will make for a lot of shooting things down before we get into assault. With about 3700 points each, there is simply not enough room on my small-ish table for additional scenery... Besides, cover is for cowards, right?

But speaking of cover and cowards, we each have positioned our infiltrating units (her scouts and my Cypher/Chosen) on each side of the central building, out of sight of the other army.



I have the initiative and I go first, pushing forward with my bikes on the left flank, and drawing first blood when my helbrutes manage to take out a couple of Dire Avengers. The missile launcher of the rhino hits the Banshees, and take out three of them.

On her turn, she moves carefully forward, and then proceeds to get rid of my bikes. Psychic powers, Suncannons, Reaper Launchers, she guns them down very effectively. Somehow I had thought that hey would make it at least to turn two to run a little disruption in her ranks before being taken out... With all of her psykers, she has nineteen levels of psykers that generate dice, and so with that alone she took out three of my bikes...



So, here it it at the end of the first turn:



Losses:
Chaos: 5 chosen, 7 cultists, 9 bikes
Eldar: 2 dire avengers, 3 Banshees...

Cypher is just around the bend to bring some pain on the next turn, let's see how many pointy-eared pansies he can bring down before he's gunned down by Reaper launcher fire...



Tune in next time for turn 2...

Well, unfortunately the kids are going to their mother's for two weeks, and we didn't manege to finish the full game. The turn three arrival of the Falcons behind my back was a blow that took a solid hit on my helbrutes, and they fell under the fire of the squad of fire dragons that proceeded to disbark...

We played through to turn four, at the end of which my daughter was in control of the central structure with a squad of swooping hawks and the autarch...

It was a bit too big of a game for her, she was a bit too bored during my turn. We'll scale it back next time to something a bit more manageable. I think 1000 point is a good target for now in our "metagame"... We're still learning the mechanics of the game, so it's going to be a while until we get everything just right...

I did get some hobbytime in, though:

 ChaosDad wrote:
Today I got my first inquisitor, the female inquisitor miniature from "Another world".

She is just as finely built as the Raging Heroes girls, Her right hand is holding a somewhat unimpressive sword, I guess that I'll use some of the arms left over from my raging heroes to give her something a bit more... impressive...

And I also made my order for about 300$ worth of Raging Heroes miniatures from their second kickstarter wave, so i'll be glueing and painting little resin ladies for a few months...

So, now that this thread is no more just the chaos thread, expect eldar and orks and imperium agents to appear from time to time...

I started work on my old school Bloodthirster.



I pinned the wings, those large metal things are just so heavy, there is no way that they can hold with only glue...

I was frankly quite intimidated by the large model, just as I am intimidated my all the other large models of my army like the helbrutes, the deamon prince and my new penitent engine... I guess that the scale of them makes them more the focus of attention on a battlefield, and that I'm afraid that my painting will not pass muster under the close scrutiny that a centerpiece model is under...

I guess that gaining confidence in my painting is part of the hobby process.


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And here it is after a day of painting, while listening to "Angel Exterminatus"...

Here is a little pet project of mine: a harlequin wraithlord made using the hood of the old harlequin jetbike as a head... I know it's been done before, but I like the idea too much to not give it a try myself...

The base is a resin base from tiny worlds, the decor piece is part of a falcon that I'm using as a crashed piece of terrain...

The arms are bits from the new wraithlord, since the old metal wraithlord's arms are a bit too static, and don't carry cool swords...









It still needs a bit of greenstuffing and adjustment before being painted, and then I'll let loose on the colors for the paint...

The Bloodthirster looks great! I know what you mean when you say the bigger models are intimidating, they can be quite the challenge (as my Hellbrute and Ork Deff dread can attest)

How are you planning on basing him?

I've ordered a few of the chaos-themed bases from scibor miniatures, I'll see when they get here which one will be used...

I have a number of large miniatures on my "to do" list (not the least of which is an Ork Stompa!), deamon princes, helbrutes, a tzeench herald on a flaming chariot (and a penitent engine...), that i never get around to doing, and so the rank-and-file get painted, but not the big things... Hopefully this deamon paint job will give me the confidence to tackle the rest of the big things...

I just recieved a trio of gorgeous resin bases from scibor miniatures, the one on the right with the big spikes will very likely go to the bloodthirster I'm currently working on, One of the other two will go, I think, to my deamon prince, and the third, I'm not sure yet, I would think that it should also go to a deamon, and I have a Tzeench-like anubis creature that I want to put together, and the "ancient temple" look would be perfect...



So many things to paint, so little time...

Here he is, in his completed glory!






I'm quite happy with the result, and I will be more confident with my painting for large models in the future...

My next project is to finish and base my son's Iron Men so that I have a full Khorne Deamonkin force...


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Oh, and on another note, I created a new hobby space in my appartment, a table where I can leave my current projects lying about...



The pile of bags is a bunch of BattleFoam bags that I managed to snag during their spring clearance, and I'm very happy with them... Now I almost have enough bags for my whole collection....

While gathering the miniatures that I have lying around the house, I got my hands again on one of the most cost effective kit that I have bought: the tzeench flaming chariot...

Out of that kit I got:

A flamer, an herald of chariot, a few horrors (there are still enough hands and heads and tentacles to build another one with greenstuff for the body....), and a flying disk for one of my sorcerers...





I really like the look of this one...



I magnetized the disk, so it will be easier to put him in storage...

Got started painting the sorcerer, I'm getting sucked into tzeenchian joyness...

The sorcerer's coming along nicely! Great choice of bits, too.

Is his left hand from the DE Wracks kit? I've seen it before, but I can't remember where

His left hand is from a Dark Vengeance cultist (the one with the axe...)



It's getting close to completion...




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And here is a shot of my Chaos painted HQ:



Cypher, a pair of sorcerers, Abbaddon, and Huron...

Awesome great job on these last marines. The black bloodthirster is a great idea, something of an oriental demon that fits that classical model...

Thanks!

With all the painting that I've done in the last months, I calculated that I had about 2500 points worth of chaos painted (plus about 500 painted by my kids...), I should really get everything out and do a proper army picture...

Well, this has found its way to my door, fueled by my tax return...



I will be starting my journey into the 30k...



And I even got myself the forgeworld GamesWorkshop store exclusive praetor...



I have the impression that it's going to take a while to get everything built and painted, but I'll look through the rules to see if I can put together the proper forces from my already painted chaos marines and play a few games while I create my legion forces...

I'm really tempted by blackshields, the customization options and the modeling possibilities are just too tempting for this chaos player...

I also bought a catachan command squad to get the bare muscly arms for the pariah armors, the bare heads, the flamers, even the banner... All the good stuff, and the remaining bits will be fed to the cultists... !

So, here is the fluff from my band of blackshields:

A Death Guard expeditionary force is sent to the outskirts of the galaxy, into the halo. They are geared towards void warfare and boarding space hulks. So there is a lot of terminator plate (of all patterns) and breachers. They are hardened veterans, many recall the days before the Primarch, when the Legion was called the Dusk Raiders. When the heresy breaks out and they finally hear of it, they simply cannot go along with it, and they decide to take back the grey and red of the Dusk Raiders. They become the Sunless. Still exploring deep space, still just a handfull of ships. They have limited supplies, so they canibalize the armors of their foes, for one, and even their own, and that is how they develop their version of the pariah plate. They need the parts for those who are the breachers and the void fighters, so there are squads who forego some parts of their armor so that their battle brothers can be protected.

So, with the Cataphractii terminators of the calth set, there are a full set of five pairs of lightning claws, and it kind of defeats the purpose of assault weapons if, well, you can't actually assault very well... So I'll give the shooty stuff to the cataphractii, and use some good old chaos terminator bodies for the claws...

So, here is the first of the sunless...

There will be more... Bwahahahaha!!!