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Thanks, bigfish!

Today's update is connected to my World Eaters in a rather roundabout way: I recently participated in the Tenth ToS Painting/Modelling contest over at Throne of Skulls . The subject of the contest was to build and paint a loyal Marine that had fallen under the corrupting influence of Khorne. Here's what I whipped up:











This guy made the mistake of wrestling a daemon sword from his opponent during combat. That was a bad idea

The piece was inspired by an old piece of fluff from the 3.5 Chaos Codex:

“Willingly you picked me up. Your first mistake. Willingly you drew me. Your second mistake. I do not allow my servants to make three mistakes, foolish mortal…”

I also won the competition too! Yay! Granted, there was only one other entry, but it was awesome.

Anyway, for more pictures and the full story, head over to my blog , in case you're interested. Apart from that, let me say that there's quite a bit of World Eaters related content on the way...

As always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

Kraut, that Space Wolve is EPIC! I love the idea, and the execution is great too! More!

Thanks a lot, MrMerlin! I'm glad somebody noticed the update

This model taught me that I really hate painting loyal Marines: All that edge highlighting necessary to make their plain armour more interesting drives me up the wall. That said, I quite like the new SW plastics and could see myself converting a squad of Dark Wolves -- one day in the far future, that is That said, I like sprinkling the odd SW bit into my World Eaters, seeing as they really fit the hunting theme I've got going on.

Oh, and while we are speaking of Khorne's Eternal Hunt, let me present you with a new update:

I promised some time ago that I would start showcasing my whole army soon, so here's the beginning of that. I originally had this planned as a huge chaos extravaganza in celebration of the new Chaos Codex’s imminent release. But then, GW decided to pull a rather big switcheroo and push back the new Chaos Space Marines in favour of a Daemon release. But with the first teaser pictures of the fantastic starter box models out today, and with the new book once again just around the corner. let's have a little "Roll Call for Chaos", shall we?

As you all know, I got back into the hobby in late 2010 and started work on the current version of my World Eaters at the beginning of 2011. I did however “salvage” some older models from my collection, if only for the reason that, being a rather slow painter, I needed them to swell the 4th assault company’s ranks. So the next few updates will deal with some of the old and some of the new. In all fairness, you will already have seen some of the models posted on this plog. However, the new photos are probably of a better quality, at least.

So for starters, let us take a look at the Skull Champions for my Berzerkers and the icons of glory their squads are carrying into battle.

The first two models I would like to show you are true classics: I bought these when I first started working on a small World Eaters force some time during the late 90s. This was soon after the plastic Khorne Berzerker kit had been released, and I tried to get hold of some of the older metal models to serve as champions. So I got these guys:





Two of the classic metal World Eaters champions released during the mid-90s. They are wielding standard chain weapons (though their size make them look like they could be chainaxe or chainsword of Khorne, respectively). I still like the sculpts a lot, even they tend to look a little two-dimensional when seen from the side.
I also painted these over a decade ago, so they look quite a bit rougher than my newer models if you take a closer look.

Anyway, they served as champions until I took my hobby hiatus during most of the 2000s. Then, when I got back to working on a World Eaters army, I realised the usefulness of Skull Champions wielding power fists, so I set out to build some new models:





Skull Champion Memnar here was built with parts from the regular Berzerker kit and some CSM bits. I added a torso with a chain tabard from the chaos vehicle sprue and a trophy pole, however, to make him easily identifiable as a squad leader. His helmet was spliced together from that of a WFB Chaos Warrior and the regular Khornate “bunny ears”.





Skull Champion Bruul follows the same basic recipe, although I went for a bare head from the Chaos Terminator Lord kit this time. His power fist was converted from that of a loyal Terminator, and I added a spike and a Chaos Marauder Buckler on the back in order to make it look a little more interesting:



These guys look a little more modern, and they added some much needed oomph to my Berzerkers unit during 5th edition. They were kind of useful to have in combat with vehicles and monstrous creatures. However, maybe I’ll have to build yet another set of models once the new rules are out. Let’s wait and see…

Then there’s the icons. I am a great fan of having icon bearers in my army, even in those cases where they are not actually necessary in a squad. I just think it adds some nice character to the army, and I also try to never repeat an icon design across the entire army.

So it was clear that my Berzerkers would also get some icon bearers, even though their perks are “built-in” and don’t require a special model. First up is another vintage metal World Eater from the mid-90s. I especially like this model (even though he’s even more two-dimensional than his buddies above). Even though I’ve owned this model for almost twenty years, I only painted him last year, so he holds up rather well in comparison with my newer models.



The Khorne Berzerkers were actually the only unit type to get a dedicated standard bearer back then. All the other standards used the same metal Chaos Space Marine, with just the actual icon on top of the pole god-specific and exchangeable. The Khorne icon also manages to look rather threatening, like it could actually be used as a weapon.

It’s also interesting to note how those three old metal Khorne Berzerkers share between them pretty much all of the visual elements that make up the late 90s Khorne Berzerker plastic kit — take a closer look, and you’ll recognise most of the details!

So it was clear that I had to built another icon bearer for my second squad of berzerkers. This time, I went for a mix of the old and the new:





The model was built by mixing berzerker parts with the dedicated Khorne bits from the regular Chaos Space Marines. The banner pole comes from some OOP WFB plastic Warriors of Chaos, and the icon itself is a true classic from the old metal Bloodletters of Khorne. I like how my two icon bearers are clearly distinguishable while sharing a similar overall look.

And finally, yet another classic:



Even though I am not a great fan of actually using Kharn in game (I prefer my own characters, even if they are just using standard rules), I really love the model, even after all these years. My Kharn was painted almost 15 years ago, so he looks pretty rough in places, which puts me in a bit of a fix: I’d like to paint him again, but I won’t strip the paint from this particular model for nostalgia reasons (I can still remember the night when, coming home semi-drunk from a party, I struggled to get this guy’s backpack painted). On the other hand, I definitely won’t pay silly money for a new Finecast Kharn just for the privilege of painting him again. Maybe there’ll be a new version released soon?

The only touchup I did was to go back and add a little lighting effect to his Plasma pistol. It’s a little thing, but it definitely adds some pop to the model:



And that concludes our little tour of my World Eaters’ middle management. Although I have one or two more Skull Champions, they haven’t been painted yet. My next update will deal with the squads commanded by these guys.

Until then, as always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

those look so cool!! i love them all.
im not really a fan of the kharn model, it looks to static to me, but your painting is brilliant (i probablly should put my own conversion up on dakka at some point).

sweet use of old models. My armies are littered with old 90's models. old dark elf models, dark Eldar, the orc cheerleader from blood bowl. nice to see your models and keep Karn as he is. the old paint job might not be as great as the rest but i personally think sentiment is always more important than a paint job

Really liking that space wolf, very dynamic and well posed. and i think i can safely say everyone as well as me would love to see you do a unit of converted to khorne wolfs. keep up the awesome

Thanks a lot, guys! Glad you like them!

 bigfish wrote:
i think i can safely say everyone as well as me would love to see you do a unit of converted to khorne wolfs. keep up the awesome

Ah HECK yeah!

So many things start like that though: you do a "one of" and it turns into a whole army

Oh, so violent and angry.. I love him

Khorne wolves are amazing, I would love to do an army of them!

Whoa there, guys! Don't tempt me

Honestly though: A whole army of corrupted wolves definitely won't be in the cards for quite a long time: I've got my hands full with my World Eaters, Traitor Guard, Custodes and my different INQ28 activities.

But like I said, I would like to do some "Dark Wolves" some day, but they would probably be painted in the colours of "Scyrar's Dark Wolves" from the codex.

What I can promise you is that some SW parts will keep appearing throughout my World Eaters: Their barbaric nature makes a rather nice fit with the "hunting party" fluff of Khorne's Eternal Hunt. In fact, I have a (yet unpainted) berzerker squad that relies rather heavily on SW parts for some extra oomph. I especially like some of the heads: They look sooo angry

 KrautScientist wrote:
I especially like some of the heads: They look sooo angry

I use SW heads all the time just for that reason! My Vostroyan army is full of them. They need a little cleaning up sometimes because, let's be honest, the hairstyles don't really fit any other army (and some of them don't even fit SWs ), but the facial expressions are fantastic!

Cheers, Rawson! Completely with you there

Last time, I showed you my skull champions. Now let’s take a look at their subordinates.

As of now, there are two painted squads of Khorne Berzerkers in my army. For some, two troop choices may look a little thin, but Berzerkers tend to be a bit of a one trick pony, so I usually prefer diversifying a bit instead of sinking huge amounts of points into more Berzerker units. After all, holding objectives doesn’t sit well with a World Eater in the first place, so I usually tend to go for total annihilation of my opponent. Sometimes, it even works out

Quite a few of these Berzerkers were painted in the 90s, so they don’t hold up too well compared to my newer models. Fortunately, the pictures are rather advantageous, so the models don’t clash too much.

Here’s my first squad of Berzerkers, Hunting Pack Bruul:



About two thirds of this squad were actually painted fairly recently, so it looks alright. You can see skull champion Bruul and the icon bearer among the guys there.

And my second Berzerker squad: Hunting Pack Memnar:



Most of these are old models, and the paintjobs on some of them really show their age. Looking at the bareheaded legionnaire in the middle ground, you can see that my recipe for skin has changed quite a bit, and some of the other guys look really rough. One day, when I have lots of time, I may repaint them, but it actually seems far more probable that I’ll just “phase them out”, replacing them with newer models over time. Again, you can see the Skull Champion and icon bearer from the last post.

So last but not least, I’ll also include my squad of Possessed into this post. I built them from a mix of Berzerker and CSM parts and used Ork arms and old chaos mutations to show their possessions. Compared to the newer plastic kit, those look very restrained, though, so they end up being used as regular Berzerkers as often as not.

Anyway, meet Huntmaster Kharduun the Hunter and the Lost Brethren:



All of these last models were painted last year, so they are the most “modern” Berzerker unit in my army at this point. I am still rather pleased with some of the conversions, I especially like the guy on the right. Fun fact: Huntmaster Kharduun was the first World Eater I built in late 2010, after my hobby hiatus.

Something I will have to do for all of these models is to go back and touch up their bases. Most of them were originally based in the classic “early 90s’ GW” style (painted Goblin Green and flocked with cheap modelling grass), so I at least changed that. However, I hadn’t settled on a recipe for my basing then, so I’ll just have to take these guys and work on their bases — probably in one or two longer sittings.

My Berzerker squads are usually accompanied into battle by dedicated transports. I already converted the Rhinos in question, but have yet to paint one — to tell you the truth, I am rather nervous at the prospect, since vehicles are definitely not my strong suit…

Anyway, so much for the basic, footslogging troops. Next up: some heavy hitters.

Until then, as always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

Those squads look amazing!!!
would love to see a pic of your rhino!!

nice painting, by the way. even the older ones are good!

Cheers, mate!

You'd probably be pretty disappointed by the Rhinos: They are fairly straight builds. I only added some Spiky Bitz here and there and a stylised World Eaters legion badge crudely cut from plasticard And like I said, they haven't been painted yet. However, I've lately begun experimenting with another tank, and the prospect of having to paint a vehicle is no longer that frigthening to me, so I may actually tackle them pretty soon. We'll see...

Right, with the grunts out of the way, let’s take a look at the big bruisers:

And who would be first but the officers of the 4th assault company. Ladies and Gentlemen, give it up for Huntmasters Bardolf, Isgarad and Charun:



You already know these guys of couse, although I rather like the “family portrait” above: They look like they’re ready for a spot of skulltaking, am I right?

Charun and Isgarad were built to wield Daemon weapons, although I am not entirely sold on the new rules (AP3), so I may just use what works. Charun ends up using twin Lightning claws most of the time. I am lucky to be playing with a rather laidback group when it comes to WYSIWYG.

Speaking of dear old friends, these two gentlemen should seem familiar as well:



Khoron the Undying and Marax the Fallen, my Chaos Dreadnoughts. I won’t put you through having to look at all the different Dreadnought weapons again, though — all the more so since it remains to be seen whether any of these options will remain legal in the new book: Will there still be a regular Dread, or will all Chaos Dreads be counted as “Hellbrutes”? And while we are on that subject, let me just say that the Hellbrute from the starter box will definitely join those two sooner rather than later: Let’s just hope that Marax and Khoron will hold up when compared to that awesome new model…

Then there’s the lone Brazen Knight, hopefully soon to be joined by his squadmates (and a set of official rules):



Like I previously said, the other models are built and ready for painting. And even if the new book doesn’t offer any rules for Brazen Knights, I’ll maybe just use them as (allied) Bloodcrushers.

And finally, maybe the heaviest hitter of them all (provided it actually manages to hit anything, that is):



My defiler, the Daemon Engine “Unending Bloodlust”. Some of the more recent rumours maintain that daemon engines will truly return to form in the new codex, and this guy will be right there when it happens…

Anyway, while you should already know most of these models, some definitely profit from the better photography this time around ;-)

Alright, next stop: a couple of group shots.

Until then, as always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

Holy gak those Huntermasters are badass.

KrautScientist wrote:
Then there’s the lone Brazen Knight, hopefully soon to be joined by his squadmates (and a set of official rules):

One of my favorites! Such great contrast between the red and blue, unique, super dynamic pose... Great work on this one!

You gonna put any deamons in there?

Thanks a lot, guys!

@ Rawson: I hate to disappoint you, but the Brazen Knight's pose isn't really that unique: I lifted it wholesale from one of Sprugly's models over at Warseer, so I really can't take credit for it. The paintjob's all mine, though

@ Miss Dee: Hmm, daemons aren't a priority at the moment, since Traitor Guard allies are currently more fun to build/convert. That said, I would like to have a small detachment of daemonic allies, if only for added flexibility. However, I am probably going to try something different with them: Instead of regular Bloodletters, I will probably use packs of chaos hounds, and a particularly huge beast could be used as a DP/greater daemon. That would fit the army's fluff as a hunting party much better, in my opinion. I could also use the Brazen Knights as daemons, if there are no rules for them in the new codex.

 KrautScientist wrote:
@ Rawson: I hate to disappoint you, but the Brazen Knight's pose isn't really that unique: I lifted it wholesale from one of Sprugly's models over at Warseer, so I really can't take credit for it. The paintjob's all mine, though

Nice of you to give kudos where kudos are due I guess I'll rephrase to "pretty unique"

Have you considered seeing if anyone has a Kharn to trade on the dakka swap shop?
Might be better than spending silly money on fine cast.

Oh and your models rock!!!! Cant wait to see more.

Thanks, dantay_xv!

Maybe I'll just wait until the new codex hits: There's bound to be a new Kharn model anyway, right?

We'll see, but there has been no new Ragnar, Logan, Eldrad Ulthran, Abaddon etc and thay have been around a long time.... but you never know maybe Khorne will scare them into making a new one.

I'll keep my fingers crossed

Anyway, todays's the day: I promised you pictures of the whole army, and here they are

Before I show you the whole hog, though, I almost forgot my Harriers (Raptors). There’s a completed five man squad at the moment, as you already know:



And then there’s these guys that I didn’t manage to squeeze in anywhere else:



You should recognise the models in the middle and on the right: On the right is an old, mid-90s plastic Berzerker, kindly sponsored by my fellow World Eater Biohazard. In the middle you can see a gladiatorial World Eater that I converted and painted some time ago.

The guy on the left is a test model for my chosen, the “Sons of Cron”. I converted the squad some time ago, but have yet to paint it. Until it’s finished, the model can serve as a “regular” Skull Champion with a power fist.

Okay, everyone, without further ado, here’s a couple of pictures of all my painted World Eaters together. Enjoy!











I really get a certain sense of achievement from seeing all those guys collected like that. All those models add up to about 2100 points fully kitted out. But then, that’s a bit of a naïve fallacy of course, since I couldn’t really use them like that (too many HQ selections for one, a recurring problem of mine). But all things considered, I suppose these guys would make up a legal army of about 1,500 points.

The really bad news is that there’s at least an equal amount of stuff that I haven’t yet managed to paint, so it seems that I have my work cut out for me:

All those unpainted models form a “Parade of shame” that I’ll show you another time. Until then, there’s more painted stuff to look at, though: In my next update, I'll show you my custom objective markers in more detail.



Until then, let me know what you think!

 KrautScientist wrote:
I really get a certain sense of achievement from seeing all those guys collected like that. All those models add up to about 2100 points fully kitted out. But then, that’s a bit of a naïve fallacy of course, since I couldn’t really use them like that (too many HQ selections for one, a recurring problem of mine

too many HQ's are a problem of mine as well. i've got three sorcerors, six standerd chaos lords, a terminator lord and a raptor lord. one or two of my lords haved deamon weapons, one sorceror has a familiar, and all the marks on top, which all all adds up to a load of points on lords alone.

your army looks intimidating i must say!!

Thanks, Chaos Emperor!

While too many HQ models may indeed be a problem from a gaming perspective, I usually relish building new models: With Chaos Space Marines, it's really all about the character for me: Those are milennia-old warriors, so there's too much narrative potential there to just represent them by cookie-cutter models My different Chaos Lords also help me to explore different angles and archetypes from my army's fluff, so I guess it's quite alright after all

 KrautScientist wrote:

Okay, everyone, without further ado, here’s a couple of pictures of all my painted World Eaters together. Enjoy!



I really get a certain sense of achievement from seeing all those guys collected like that. All those models add up to about 2100 points fully kitted out. But then, that’s a bit of a naïve fallacy of course, since I couldn’t really use them like that (too many HQ selections for one, a recurring problem of mine). But all things considered, I suppose these guys would make up a legal army of about 1,500 points.

Cool > Rules every time, and the Eternal Hunt is definately cool!

Your World Eater army is coming along very nicely. Looking forward to seeing the objective markers.

Clean and mean, man, clean and mean. I'm still loving this army. Particularly the skin tones and the way they play against the armor. Marshaled up and baying for blood, they look especially fierce. Well done.

Cheers, guys! Glad you like them!

 GiraffeX wrote:
Your World Eater army is coming along very nicely. Looking forward to seeing the objective markers.

Well, who am I to keep you waiting? Here we go:

I am a great fan of building my own objective markers. It’s easy, fun and adds a nice touch of individuality to your army. I’d go as far as saying that every self-respecting hobbyist should have a set of objective markers that matches their army, but that’s just me.

Anyway, having said that, it should be no surprise that I set out building some markers for my World Eaters as well. Here they are:



This first one is obviously a pretty straight example: It’s an axe resting atop a pile of skulls. The resin skulls are from the GW 40k basing set while the axe came from the WFB Marauder horsemen. Simple, but rather effective.



The second one is a banner of chaos rammed into the cracked earth. Again, I used bits from the different WFB Marauder kits. It’s also a nice bit of synergy that both these markers can be used for my World Eaters and Traitor Guard alike.

Then there’s this guy:







A World Eater towering above a defeated loyal Marine, ready to pull the trigger on him. I like this objective marker for the simple reason that it was almost completely build from scrap parts that I wouldn’t have been able to use otherwise (the Marine’s twisted and broken legs were actually the result of an attempt at repositioning gone wrong, for example).



I quite like the World Eater’s show of contempt, pinning his foe to the ground with an armoured boot…

And here’s all three objectives together:



I appreciate how there’s a certain sense of escalation ;-)

I also built some more fallen foes. Everything started with this guy:





As you can see, it’s a fallen Eldar guardian, bagged like an animal by the proud warriors of Khorne’s Eternal Hunt.



I built this after winning a campaign game against one of cousin Andy’s buddies and his Eldar army. I tried to emulate his paint scheme, although my version is quite a bit more rough and dirty. I plan to build an objective for every army I defeat during the campaign — not only is this a very nice way of “honouring” your foes, it also allows you to add some narrative elements to your force.

I believe I already posted this guy some time ago:



I built this fallen Marine to complement one of my Dreadnoughts (both of them together form some kind of “instant mini-Diorama” which you can see further up in this thread or here ). Again, the model was built completely from leftover parts.

And finally, I did a couple of minefield markers for use in our campaign (the 5th edition rulebook has some rules for minefields which we have been using up to now):



I had to use WFB bases for these because I had run out of round bases at that time. I bet you haven’t heard that one before ;-)

I used cork, leftover sprue and a couple of bits to build the markers. The mines themselves are parts of the magna grapple from the Furioso kit, and the warning shields wrre originally shields from the WFB snap fit Skeleton warriors.

While we only get to use these every once in a blue moon, it’s still nice to have something more exciting than some dice on hand in order to represent mines. Cousin Andy even did some corresponding markers for his Dark Eldar army.

Like I said, building objective markers is a fun way to add some extra shine to your army. And it’s usually easy and inexpensive too! You should definitely give it a try, if you haven’t already. Whether you want to poke fun at an opponent’s former mishaps, inject some humour into your army or just have the desire to be fighting over something more interesting than a six-sided die, individual objectives are the way to go!

And with that, you’ve seen everything there is to see about my World Eaters — everything that’s painted, that is. I hope that it’s been a fun ride! If you have any questions, criticism or words of encouragement, let me know!
As always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!