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Name: The Fingers of Angron
Patron God: Khorne
Short description: The veterans of the Horus heresy have resurfaced. Powerful Sergents have come into contact with their long despoiled primarch, and are attempting to return the World eaters legion to its prior glory. For the glory of Angron, Khorne, and the bring death to the emperor's dogs.
Battle Cry: For the Lord of Wrath and the God of Blood!

I shall be entering (horribly late for how long I need so no promise on a return).

Name: The Forgoers of Faith
Patron God: Malice
Short description: After being presumed dead by his chapter, the white shields, Lucius the Techmarine, who had been Magically altered by high levels of radiation into Lucius the Demonought, wandered the world he was stranded on. Over the years Lucius, although being invisible most of the time, gathered a following of cultists. In the wastes of his irradiated crucible only one Astartes was found a chaplain of the Imperial fists. Though being one of the marines who forced the change to Lucius, he quickly became a loyal servant of Lucius and his greater master, Malice.
Battle Cry: Repent the ruinous and forgo the faithful!

It will have:
Lucius (In no relation to the terrible Slannesh one. I am revitalising a character from a previous campaign)
Cherub ( I may accidentally refer to him as Charlie)
30 Cultists.


This is mostly an effort to revitalise some of my Dark Vengeance Models.

After a bit of work I have got most of the work done on Lucius my demon prince. He initially looked like this:



First I had to choose weapons (axe & Warp bolter)



These have/will be mounted on his body but first I have to finish the arm conversion that so far has not used any green stuff.


This has been done at a feverish pace and along with special modding to the base has got me to this point:


I realise that I probably overdid the basing for what is still essentially a dark vengeance helbrute but I don't think it looks that bad so far.

Started work yesterday on a chaos army to take to Mayhem next year, so might as well post stuff here.

The Iron Host is a warband of Iron Warriors under command of the tyrannical Warsmith Uragh the Maker. Binding daemonic entities to his demented constructs, Uragh is as paranoid as his former liegelord Perturabo and trusts noone save his automata. Serving him is a host of fleshmetal monstrosities and several squads of devoted Iron Warrior followers. In battle, Uragh and his brethren herd their worker slaves towards the frontlines to gauge the strenghts of the enemy and create oppertunities for automata assaults;

Project as it is is a 1k list consisting of the following:

Chaos spearhead detachment
Warsmight Uragh the Maker on his heretek abbeyant (I use a chaos sorcerer on nurgle palanquin statwise; the extra T & W represent his severe bionic & fleshmetal augmentation and the palanquin's attacks represent his snapping & stabbing mechadendrites)

The Brethren of Thunder, 5 members of the Lyssatra of old, guncrafters and marksmen whithout peer: 5man Havoc squad with 2 plasmaguns

Uragh's Menagerie: several of Uragh's crazed creations: a Soulgrinder, a forgefiend with hades autocannons and a hellbrute with fist & multimelta

Astra Militarum battalion detachment
Uragh's slavehost, goaded into battle by fanatical followers of the Host.
2 Company Commanders
4 10man infantry squads
1 heavy weapon squad with 3 lascannon teams.

Started working on this band of loons yesterday, kitbashing the rough base of the Abbeyant for Uragh himself. Haven't made pictures or anything just yet. Hope to get some work into this lot during this week.

Neat group Aameul. How do allies work in 8 anyway? Can you still use the renegade guard thing FW has?

I'm attempting to cast a clear carapace for my counts-as maulerfiend lobster. Am not an experienced caster and I have a shortage of materials, so not the most hopefull.

My painting thread was shitcanned when Photobucket went stupid.

Warband Name: (undetermined)
Preferred Chaos God: Nurgle
Theme: (undetermined)
Icons: A black diamond edged in pale green.

Special Notes: Army was intentionally made as non-Chaos as I could. I prefer a creepy unknown Chaos as opposed to skulls/spikes/blood/screaming etc. At a glance my opponents go "Oh, Chaos Marines?" and then realize there are almost no Chaos bits in the whole force (a few backpacks).

Warlord _______


Chaos Sorcerer


Warpsmith


Chaos Marines


Chaos Marines


Chaos Marines


Terminators


Plague Marines


Plaguebearers


Cultists


Dreadnought


Rhino


Predator


Vindicator

Very nice! I shall update the original post to sa you are finished.

Wow! They are freaking fantastic, Elbows!

I love the weathering, it is awesome.

Alright, painted these other three figures real fast this morning. Sorry, pictures aren't the best. Here's the four figures I built for this before running out of legs and shoulders and torsos. I gave them each one pauldron because I only had three normal marine pauldrons, and one chaos star pauldron that was easily enough made plain. I would like to put some chapter image on the blank pauldrons, but I've yet to think of one that I truly like. The silver fish thing exists because I was having too much trouble thinking of something else. My criterion was that it had to not be a lobster, because the Sabers of Clamagore would have had the symbol before they became afflicted with lobster craziness. A fish seems suitable at least. The eyes are candy corn. Their ceruleanish armor color is inconsistent because I kept trying to remix the paint, rather than do all four of these at once like a smart person. I admit to being fond of nothing poses. The figures are on Boylan rootbeer caps because the beach bases I started to make were not working as planned, and basing marines on bottle caps seems funny to me. They're the wrong size under new and old basing guidelines!

The leader is tis fake apothecary, I think. He'd actually be a warpsmith since chaos apothecaries don't leave the house. He'd probably use his powers for the lobster maulerfiend which I was unable to finish. Name? Uh uh uh, Calod Homarus the Migration's Witness. Calod never appears without his helmet, defying HQ tradition of exposing unprotected brain cases to enemy fire. This is because, though he does not show any obvious anatomical changes like many of his battle brothers, his multi-lung did unexpectedly partially break down while consuming his original lungs, leaving him with a frilly gill structure that only allows him to breathe water. Thus, his armor is flooded at all times. He is the member who first observed the emperor's new body while tending the lobster stock, and he accompanies its host lobster into battle. The narthecum thing is a bit off of an old Necron wraith's hand. I was pretty happy at managing a proper fade from red to black on his sword. He's got some tanks on his backpack to make it looks more like an apothecary's, as well as a leather bag thing on his assplate which presumably has some medical goodies in it, or grenades.


I started making this one maybe last year, sculpting the lobster tail after I got the claw arms from Spellcrow. Somehow it's impossible to catch any evidence of the tail existing with a shot from the front, and I managed to fail to focus from the back. I'd run out of normal backpacks at this point, hence he is wearing a chaos backpack with the arched pipes cut down and the exhaust ports reglued at a normal position. It actually does make for a cool backpack. I guess this guy would be a possessed marine, and hopefully those are usable at all in this edition.




This guy is still the first one I painted. No change. Of course I couldn't exactly replicate his armor color.


They need a standard bearer of course. As I said, the happy fish isn't genuinely what I want to use, but I wanted to try making one of those greenstuff banners. In the future, I'd try to make these thinner and try to add folds and such before curing. Couldn't get it out of the mold intact before curing, though. I avoid these unhelmeted heads if I can, because I haven't figured out how to paint eyes yet, as you can see in the second image.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/896389-.html?m=2

Group image, in which you can see that I needed to add more green to the armor paint for the later three figures. Hrmmm, and it's making me want to go back and paint over the spikes on the apothecary's shoulder. In person they managed to catch paint from the airbrush to give them a neat faceted color thing, but it doesn't come through in these terrible images of course.


This is the lobster maulerfiend thing in its current state. I don't have casting materials, which I wanted to use to replicate the legs and claw so as to waste less putty, and do a clear version of the carapace to stick the horrid lobster fetus of the fake xenospawned emperor under.

Finished!

I really enjoyed this project. Normally, I spend a lot of time on one model, so it was a really nice change of pace to build and paint a whole warband.
I also really loved painting the new Dark Imperium models. I didn't get the promised Daemon finished, but I did a Plague Drone instead.

Below are The Sons of Rust. Trapped in the Eye of Terror for more than a millennium, they finally made their way out aboard their battlebarge 'The Bucket'. A thousand years under a thousand stars has bleached their armour the colour of bone, whilst bright orange and brown rust has eaten away all but the barest hint of metals. The Sons of Rust see these corrosions as Nurgle's gifts however, blessing their blades and bolters with unholy power. Severathon's followers see their thousand years of entrapment as a kind of pilgrimage, a trial-by-fire that strengthened their resolve to destroy the false god-emperor and his sycophantic followers.
The Sons of Rust place great importance upon the number 3, their squads always grouped in multiples of three to worship Father Nurgle's Rust, Rot and Ruin.


Thanks to EmberlordofFire for running this thread - I have really enjoyed the project and working to a timeline with a bunch of other interested folk has proven a genuine inspiration. I'm tempted to do a similar thing with AOS skirmish warbands. I also look forward to seeing everyone's entries!
Thanks heaps, EmberlordofFire!

Fantastic work, guys! Glad you managed to finish in time...

Seeing as most of the others haven't finished yet, I've decided to move the deadline forward a bit (also because my last cultist's legs are still in the mail...). So the 12th of september will be the FINAL DEADLINE, and everyone who doesn't finish by then will have the wrath of all 5 chaos gods to deal with...

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
Fantastic work, guys! Glad you managed to finish in time...

Seeing as most of the others haven't finished yet, I've decided to move the deadline forward a bit (also because my last cultist's legs are still in the mail...). So the 12th of september will be the FINAL DEADLINE, and everyone who doesn't finish by then will have the wrath of all 5 chaos gods to deal with...

But, muh shipments!

I think we might have passed the deadline...

 Drakeslayer wrote:
I think we might have passed the deadline...

Aye and I still haven't finished painting up everything (in fact I lost the head to my Juggerlord so technically I've gone back a step).

Awesome stuff and a great idea - wish I'd seen it earlier!

 mrhappyface wrote:

 Drakeslayer wrote:
I think we might have passed the deadline...

Aye and I still haven't finished painting up everything (in fact I lost the head to my Juggerlord so technically I've gone back a step).

Ok, I still need to base my war band so if you guys want we can move the deadline forward again...

This thread is awesome. Big fan of the lobster marines though!

Gonna have to drop out of this I'm afraid, new codex just depresses me to the point where I'm not feeling the hobby rush anymore

YOU KNOW WHAT?! LET'S JUST KEEP THIS THREAD GOING UNTIL JANUARY 1ST!! AND THAT IS THE LAST DEADLINE I AM SETTING FOR MYSELF

Kool, I'm in. Somebody say Khorne or Nurgle.

Charax wrote:
Gonna have to drop out of this I'm afraid, new codex just depresses me to the point where I'm not feeling the hobby rush anymore

What's wrong with the new codex?

Which faction got it the worst in the new codex?

 kestral wrote:
Which faction got it the worst in the new codex?

None, they're all pretty good.

I don't know what Charax is upset about.

New Year's I might actually get my conscripts/cultists finished by that point.

And I might have some resin. I'm cheating too, gonna just do them all on Boylan bottle caps.

No one has said Nurgle or Khorne yet. Just sayin'.

Khorne. There, you're welcome.

Nice! No one will survive my Chaos Squart Artificers and their murder machines. Skulls for the skull throne!

New job happened, and then new new job happened, alongside models I was paid for. I haven't made much progress on my guys, except the demon's sort of coming along. I am in the process of figuring out how to actually put legs on my giant lobster. I'll say if I can actually do it.

I might as well join, Christmas holidays and all, here goes.

Splinter cell delta-34
offshoot of the main legion tasked with assassinations of "hard targets", these guys are the cream of the legions assassination experts
will have about 5 guys maybe more, does a possessed marine count as a daemon?
Do I need to devote these guys to a god, and if so, does it have to be one of the big four?, drachny'en might be worthy of worship by these guys if a deity is required.