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Very impressive as always

Hi, I really like the new terminator lord and you were saying that you were considering changing up the maul.
Is this the kind of thing you are thinking of?
I have no idea if it would be big enough or anything, but thought it might be worth a look/
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Warhammer-40K-Forgeworld-World-Eaters-Rampager-Squad-Meteor-Hammer-A-Bits-/360846323838?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item54041df07e#ht_0wt_0

Btw I was just browsing ebay, its not mine for selling

 KrautScientist wrote:



Next up, Brother Rask:













I knew I wanted to make use of the fantastic banner that came with the Blood Crushers, so Brother Rask became a favoured banner bearer of his god. To balance out the extra archaic element, I went for a chainsword in his left hand — the essential 40k weapon, if you ask me. The model also received a rebreather head as another piece of visual shorthand for the futuristic setting. I also like this particular head a lot, since it seems grizzled and scarred without being over the top.

The model was named for none other than the ever-inspirational GuitaRasmus, who owns some of the snazziest World Eaters on the interwebz and whose mindblowing kitbashes are a constant motivation for me to push the envelope on my own conversions instead of just settling for “good enough”.

I've only just seen this post, and I'm incredibly flattered, honoured and humbled to have a character in your army named after me. My thanks to you, good sir! I'll definitely have to look through your thread to see what you've been up to in my absence, since you do very inspiring work as well.

PS: What a great idea to name the characters in your army with inspirational blogger's names - I've never seen the nightlords blog before, but I am very very impressed. I'll have to think about doing this myself too.

Thanks a lot, gents!

@ dantay_xv: A meteor hammer, eh? That would make for a pretty cool way of adding some World Eater-esque flavour to the weapon after all. Interesting suggestion! More and more options, in fact, when I am trying to narrow it down -- damn you all!

@ GuitaRasmus: The honour is well deserved, mate! Your own thread is NUTS and has been such a source of inspiration for me! Plus you also happened to have a pretty World Eater-y name, so that helped as well!

Anything new in this neck of the woods?

 Crystal Geyser wrote:
Anything new in this neck of the woods?

Indeed, there is

I am away from home on job related business this week, so I only have time to sit down and do some hobby-related forum trawling and posting late in the evenings, so forgive my tardiness

Anyway, here's an update on my second test model for the results of using Agrellan Earth in order to create decaying, flaking armour. Like I said above, this time the paint was added to the unpainted model, and all the other colours went on after that:



As you can see, the crackle effect was far more pronounced this time around. But keeping the look even after adding multiple layers of paint on top? Well, quite a difficult task, once again:



Apart from that, I once again used several simple weathering effects (as well as a generous helping of Nurgle’s Rot) to make the model as disgusting and decayed as possible. Here’s the result:













From a crackle perspective, the effect is still not as pronounced as I would have liked. Nevertheless, I really like the overall look of the model — and Nurgle’s Rot once again performed admirably, as you can see, with green goo leaking from the model’s armour in many places. This guy may not have crackled as much as I had wanted him to, but he surely looks like a follower of Nurgle: As a matter of fact, I can almost see myself painting a small squad of Plague Marines, just for fun, crackle or not crackle.

Here are the two test models I have completed so far:



And a colour comparison with Nurglite champion Malchius Blight, completed as part of an earlier project :



As you can see, the colour is somewhat different, with Malchius much closer to the Nurgle Terminator Lord I build as a smaller side project:





You can learn more about this guy here and here.

Tell you what, seeing how this is turning into a bit of a Nurgle showcase, let’s throw in some of my really ancient Plague Marines from the 90s, complete with my vintage paintjobs, trying hard to emulate the “official” ‘Eavy Metal paintjobs from second edition 40k:



I still love that icon bearer model, by the way — maybe I should strip the paint from it and repaint it in the “modern” style?

Anyway, here’s one of those old guys with his “younger” brother:



I somehow can’t help feeling immensely fond of those simplistic early 90s plastics — at the very least, they have aged far better than their loyalist counterparts: Just take a look at the Space Marines that came with the 2nd edition starter box!

But wait, where does all of this leave us with regard to the crackle effect?

Well, I believe I will have to give a dedicated crackle medium a go next, maybe the one offered by Vallejo will do? I could also use Agrellan Earth and use washes and shades to do the actual colouring, as some of you suggested after my last post.

In any case, this experimentation has been quite a lot of fun so far, and definitely a much needed boost for my painting modjo!

As always, let me know what you think! Thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

Ah the Lunch Box Marines great for learning to paint mind. Equally they were still superior to the Orks and Grots from the same box.

I really like the Plague Marine style. Very cool techniques and thanks for the comparison of your new style vs the GW style of the 90s. Great blog overall.

Cheers, guys!

@ Llamahead: Aw, man, the greenskins from that time did have a pretty corny charm, though. The plastic starter box marines were the truly atrocious ones!

@ Sarigar: Well, to be perfectly accurate, those were only my meagre attempts at trying to replicate GW's 90s style, but thanks for the kind words all the same!

I love the Mk 1 lord. I can't put my finger on why... but I think it might be the bulkiness of the model. It looks like a ball of death coming your way.
I can't wait to see what you do with it next.

Cheers, mate! I don't believe it will be too long before we see more of the Doomwall, so don't worry!

For now, I am happy that my motivation for getting stuff painted seems to be returning. I have also caught the Nurgle bug, as it seems, so the next Plague Marine is already mostly finished, only missing his base:



The model was built from leftover parts some time in late 2010, so I was more than happy to finally slap some paint on it! I have also found out that my recipe for rusty and decayed Nurgle armour does a great job of blending together loyalist and chaos parts without much further need for conversion!

Anyway, hope you all have a great weekend!

Always nice to see some retro plague marines, the monopose plastics can even look pretty with a bit of tweaking!

great to see nurgle getting some love Kraut.
your stuff is always amazing.

Thanks a lot, guys!

And just a short while later, here's the third Plague Marine, now completely based:











And a closeup of his lovely face



Here are the three finished Plague Marines together:



Crackle or no crackle, painting these guys has really been a blast so far, so I am considering adding some more models to the squad: I have two of the 90s metal Plague Marines, plus that old icon bearer from the same time. Giving those models the updated painting treatment would bring the squad up to seven -- Nurgle's sacred number, conveniently enough

But that's a smaller project for the future! For now, let me know what you think! And have a great Sunday!

Sick... in a positive way.

I would never invite any of them for tea
But they look great nevertheless!!

This is some amazing stuff, I want to let you know I can't wait to see what you do next.

The latest Palgue Marine with the tentacle arm is so cool!

What an awesome conversion, and looking good with the rot and rust.

Thanks a lot, guys!

The funniest thing happened: While working on those Plague Marines, I caught a really bad case of the flu. Now whether this is a sign of Nurgle's favour or wrath, I cannot say, but it surely is one hell of a coincidence, isn't it

Anyway, today I want to show you a proper World Eater again, lest Khorne grow too angry with me for this lack of respect Some of you may already have wondered whether my recent focus on Plague Marines had made me forget about the 4th assault company altogether. Far from it! In fact, thoughts of Khorne’s Eternal Hunt have been slowly coagulating at the back of my head, and the recent rumours of possible new plastic kits to be released for Chaos Space Marines have only added to that pile of half-formed ideas. What’s more, I could never abandon this army, especially not in favour of followers of weak and inferior gods. Anyway, it’s time for another servant of Khorne to grace this blog! So, for now, let me show you a project that actually started quite a long while ago, but that only finally came to fruition in the last weeks:

Back in late 2012, I watched The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey – as, no doubt, many of you did. And one of the most interesting things about the film, at least in my opinion, was Azog. His character design had been kept a closely-guarded secret just up to the release of the model, and so he became one of the visually more surpising elements of the film, and one that really inspired me: There was something about that pale, overmuscled creature and the sheer audacity of going into battle stripped to the waist that really made me think of the World Eaters’ gladiatorial leanings — and as a matter of fact, I had already begun exploring that angle with my first gladiator models:



But what if I were to take that idea even further? What about a model straddling the line between those gladiatorial World Eaters and Azog? The idea fascinated me, to be honest! And the model resulting from such a project would be the perfect character to lead a squad of gladiators in battle.

The next step towards transforming these half-baked ideas into an actual model was coming across kevinholcomb’s Angron conversion on CMoN. He had used the upper body of Hasslefree Miniatures’ “Wolf” barbarian model to great effect in order to come up with a model very similar to the look I was trying to achieve. So while ordering stuff via a big German hobby retailer some time ago, I picked up one of these as well, just in case:



I really love this sculpt, because while the model has the ‘roided-out look expected of an Astartes, there is also a certain nobility, even dignity, in both the pose and the face (on a mostly unrelated note, I found out by sheer coincidence that the model looks amazingly similar to this particular picture of Nathan Jones ).

But I still needed to find a suitable lower body for the model, and experimenting with various Terminator legs didn’t amount to much. So the project seemd to be on indefinite hold…

…until it picked up steam again when I purchased a rather beat-up, incomplete metal Abaddon as part of a bigger ebay auction:



As you can see, even after I had stripped the paint off it, the model remained pretty rough in places, and there was also the fact that the Abaddon model looks rather puny when placed next to more recent Terminators. So the model was basically surplus to requirements — until I put it next to the Hasslefree barbarian:



Dear old Abby might no longer cut it as a model in tactical dreadnought armour, but what if I were to use the legs as part of my Azog-inspired conversion to represent power armoured legs for a giant of an Astartes instead? Things just fell into place at this point…

One thing bothered me, though: Both models were made from metal, and I am certainly not a fan of conversions involving all-metal models. But this time, there seemed to be no easy way around that, so I started sawing. The first part was to slowly disassemble poor Abaddon piece by piece, so as not to damage any of the parts I wanted too heavily:



- The so-called Warmaster of Chaos, armless once more... -

Then I cut off the barbarian’s legs model, unfortunately taking off part of his lower stomach as well. Both halves were then pinned together using a piece of paperclip:



As you can see, both parts of the model had been slightly damaged during the sawing, so a touchup with liquid GS would be in order. Before that, though, I greenstuffed a stomach section to fill the gap between upper and lower body. Then I used some more GS to sculpt a Triumph Rope scar for the torso. And this obviously wouldn’t be one of my conversions without some additional plastic bitz stuck on. Here’s the finished conversion before painting:



I added a double-headed battle axe to the model — the bit, originally from the Marauder Horsemen kit, had been lounging in my bitzbox for quite a while, and this seemed to be the perfect opportunity to finally make good use of it! I also added a CSM shoulder pad and a Marauder shield to the left arm, both because I liked the asymmetrical look and because it was a nice way of making the guy look at least slightly more plausible. Most of the damage to the model was also repaired using Liquid GS.

When it came to painting the model, I really stuck to my usual formula, content in the knowledge that the contrast between the bare torso and armoured legs would make for an interesting effect. This being the first World Eaters model I painted in quite a while, the paintjob turned out slightly rough around the edges, but I didn’t mind too much.

So here he is, ladies and gentlemen:









Being my first (and quite likely my last) conversion involving metal models like this, I do of course realise that the model could look smoother. I am not to bothered with that, however, because I think that the overall effect still comes across rather nicely.

But who is this half-dressed giant of a man? As usual, figuring out a background for the model was the last stage of the project:



Vorl Dustwalker, Lord of the Pit

Some members of the War Hounds Astartes Legion may have loathed the brutal, gladiatorial style of warfare introduced by the Primarch Angron, but Vorl Dustwalker was not one of them. Even before the legion’s reunion with its Primarch, he had already established himself as a master of the fighting style that would become a trademark of the legion in later years. On the War Hounds’ vassal world of Bodt, Vorl was one of the Astartes tasked with training the legionaries in combat at close quarters. And many mighty champions of the World Eaters still hold in their hearts a feeling of shame at being brought low by him during sparring matches, the acrid taste of Bodt’s volcanic soil still etched into their memory as a reminder of their failure.

After gladiatorial fighting had become one of the mainstays of the World Eaters’ cobbled-together warrior culture, Vorl became known as the Dustwalker, a legend in the fighting pits, almost on par with mighty Delvarus, the legion’s uncontested champion on the Hot Dust.

How the Dustwalker came to be a member of Lorimar’s 4th assault company after the madness at Skalathrax is difficult to ascertain. But ever since, he has been serving as a combat instructor and an insurmountable contestant in the fighting pits nestled in the bowels of the company’s capital ship.

Vorl Dustwalker is not often seen outside the pits, for ordinary fights tend to be beneath his notice. Once the Dustwalker’s interest is piqued by a battle or an adversary, however, he may take to the field, accompanied by a coterie of his most talented gladiators. Their only partly armoured bodies and comparatively primitive weapons are both a mockery of their opponents and a testament to their skill, and Vorl is the first among these capricious warriors.



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

These are great any thoughts of others to add a Retiarius and Secutor themed pair would be cool.

This guy is big...and he means like he really means business
As for the flu, i suspect it was the result of Khorne withdrawing his favor which made you vulnerable to magic once more
But with offerings like this i am sure he will once again bestow all his gifts upon you

Cheers, guys!

@ Llamahead: The plan had always been to use each new model in the gladiator squad to add another variant of gladiator to the mix. And as a matter of fact, there already exists a pile of bitz that will turn into a Retiarius-based model That said, your comment really spurred me into action, so I did a quick mockup of an "almost Secutor". Take a look:





Still quite a few things to smooth out, of course, but I think you get the idea. Thanks for the inspiration, mate!

Together with a WIP gladiator I built earlier (and already posted in this thread), these will probably be the next additions to the squad:



@ Legio Ultra: You know, seeing it spelled out like that, your explanation makes perfect sense! Seeing how I am happily kitbashing new gladiators atm, I should be safe, right? Even if I sneak in a Plague Marine here and there...

Vorl Dustwalker is one seriously dangerous looking dude! Very effective conversion, particularly when painted up in your World Eaters scheme. Very fine work, characteristically characterful.

Cool always been fascinated by Gladiators. To my mind the most intriguing part of the World Eaters background is the Spartacus storyline of his origins. If the Emperor had any brains he'd have just backed the rebellion and had a loyal son at his back. Frankly since starting to read the heresy novels I've come to realise he's arguably the villain of the piece. There's a reason my Chaos titan legion are called "The Truth Bringers"

WOW!!! What an amazing thread, a beautiful army. It's a real joy to read through this and to take inspiration from. Clearly this wonderful army and collection is a real labour of love. It all looks fantastic from the fluff to the conversions to the painting amazing job. This inspires me to keep going with my own Space Marine project, I cant wait to see what's next.

Again, thanks a lot, guys! I really appreciate it!

@ Llamahead: You know, I think the potential beauty is really how the whole piece really lacks any true villain (the chaos gods withstanding) but is rather a chain of unfortunate decisions and coincidences: Imagine the Emperor, fully convinced (and possibly rightly so) that his Imperial Truth will bring an age of enlightenment to the galaxy. It goes without saying that the Emperor needs a certain ruthlessness to make it all work, and it is this ruthlessness that provokes the first mistakes: Failing to bond with Angron and antagonising him instead. Failing to see the true nature of the chaos gods and the warp and alienating yet another son by branding him a heretic when he tries to warn the Emperor. And so on, and so forth.

That said, treating Angron the way he did really was a bit of a dick move, wasn't it?

@ Brother Ectus: Cheers, mate! That's really nice of you to say.

Anyway, I spent some more time on the Secutor-inspired gladiator I built yesterday, due to Llamahead's suggestion:







As always, let me know what you think!

Love the guy sporting the "big boy" pants , who needs armor when your such a badass also really like what you've done with this guys helmet.

Amazing stuff, Kraut...Your conversions look like they happen so seamlessly (which I have no doubt they do not). Really like the ashen skin tones.

Vorl looks AMAZING!! if azog and kratos somehow had a child (bad mental image there ) I would say he would look something like that!
Sublime as always!!

These Gladiators are truly a feast of the eye!!! Your thread inspires me to abandon any plans for a Dark Angels force and go straight to Khorne after my Ultramarines are finished....