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Who needs glossy wet blood? Just get some dark brown-red wash and dab it in the crevices of the non-power weapon heads. Dried blood not cleaned out yet.

Anvildude wrote:
Who needs glossy wet blood? Just get some dark brown-red wash and dab it in the crevices of the non-power weapon heads. Dried blood not cleaned out yet.

Never tried that before! Will certainly do.

Amazing as usual Kraut!!! Hey I wanted to see move of Biohazards build. Where can I find that thread?? Anyone know?

Again, thanks for the kind words, everyone!

@ JeffyP: That is the biggest imaginable compliment, mate! Thanks a lot!

@ Anvildude: While that might indeed work, none of these guys has anything other than a power or daemon weapon, and I imagine they just boil away the blood, once activated/let loose

@ Cave Johnson: Cheers, mate! Biohazard's - excellent - thread can be found here

how do you make your pics with the background a filters? They look awesome!!!

I'll second that.

Bravo. There's nothing else to say really.

Cheers for the kind words, guys! And don't worry, a detailed tutorial on the image editing is on the way

Aaaanyway, a small update today: Here's a small project I started yesterday: Barras Ergha, the 4th assault company's Master of Signal:







Granted, Master of Signal may not be the most obvious battlefield role for a World Eaters, but seeing how I imagine the 4th to be a bit more disciplined and focused than your average force of bloodcrazed madmen, I thought it was fun to have them retain some of the command structure of a Pre-Heresy legion, including the various specialists. At the same time, this guy is still a World Eater, so he needed to look like a true warrior. I think I've managed a pretty good balance.

Oh, the right arm, head and legs came from that sweet stash of bitz Commissar Molotov recently sent me -- credit where credit is due

As always, let me know what you think!

Wow! Where do you get your bitz from? How do you just see some guy on this blog, then poof! Instant bitz!

Haha, I am an unrepetant bitz hoarder, after all.

A small update on the Master of Signal: I tidied up some parts of the conversion, especially the cabling on his backpack.





Some of you may have noticed the helmet mag-locked to his belt. I added it because, even though I am a huge fan of bareheaded Marines, it seemed sensible for a comms-officer to have the option of donning a helmet that certainly has some additional sensors and communications functionality. Speaking of which, I lost my marbles a bit and obsessively added some comms-equipment and additional sensors to the helmet to make it look more plausible:

Good lord that helmet is a work of art. And what legs are those!? I must borrow these for my iron warriors!
(My champions all have mounted voxes)

..and where is THAT vox from? It's such a beautiful model!

Lorimar and his group just ooze character and they boast a awesome paint job.

Man great conversion again... Very imposing and command inspiring miniature. Good Job
@ThunderFury 2575: the legs come from the secondd of a set of 2 Ltd SM Captains released last year, so i'll wish you the best of luck finding it since it's going to be a very rare piece

Cheers, guys!

Legio Ultra is right about those legs -- which is why I had to use them for a special character, seeing how I will probably never own another pair The vox is an optional part from the new AdMech Skitarii, btw.

I seem to be on a bit of a roll today, so I'll just leave this here:





...and with the characteristic neck frills:





Still quite a bit of fine tuning left to do, but it's a start

i prefer it with out the neck frills much more menacing

Cheers, mate! The neck frill needs to be there, however, in order for the creature to read as a Flesh Hound of Khorne

Great Work once again.

That's awesome, love the attention to detail on the master of signal! You must be loving all the new Khorne bits coming out.

Comms officer and the ghostbusters Khorne dog are great, that head really fits on the beast and personally I like the frills

Cheers, guys!

Here's a small daemon doggie update: Sorted out the neck frills and collar of Khorne, so the model's mostly there now:









In case anyone was wondering, I did actually try both leftover 'thirster heads, but while the second one was also rather bestial, it was also decidedly less canine. Plus I really wanted to use that fabulous RoC/HeroQuest style bone crown on a model -- it really makes the hound look like the king of Flesh Hounds, doesn't it?

As always, let me know what you think!

He looks like an old 60's or 70's Monster Movie monster. Sort of semi-human proportions compared to how a lizard or beast would normally work- mostly in the hips, I think. Are the flesh-hounds, perchance, mutated men?

Any plans to do an Arbaal The Undefeated inspired conversion?

That is a good model!

I agree with you, Kraut: the frills really sell it as a Khorne doggie. Keep it up!

KS, the master of signals is great and that helmet is amazing and even more so because it is just a minor detail on the model.

The real question though is what body is that you used for the dogs?

Oddly enough, I had thought of an Arbaal conversion I had seen recently and was interested in seeing if the heads would match a maulerfiend, but I think that is a 50mm base, which is still great as I have some khorne specific dogs of my own to make.

Body is from the Dragon Ogres, unless I'm mistaken. Head is from Bloodthirster? Not a bad idea Kraut. Not bad 'tall

That Fleshound is amazing I'd love a unit of those.

Doggie looks great, my knowledge isn't to hot on fantasy, is that the actually Khorne hound model or have I missed the point?

Cheers for the feedback, guys!

Archmagos_Amadeus is right, of course: The Flesh Hound's body came from the Dragon Ogres, while the head is that of a Bloodletter.I am really happy I had this idea, because the Dragon Ogres were sitting in my bitzbox more or less unused: I originally bought them because I thought they might become daemon princes -- alas, they were a little too small for that. And while the kit has quite a few useful bitz, it's great to have found a useful function for those reptilian lower bodies.

Here's a size comparison with a regular Marine -- I've also snuck in a first piece of cork, although nothing has been glued down yet:



As you can see, the Flesh Hound is quite a beast...

In other news, I have returned to some older models in order to give them a tweak or two:

First up, this Iron Warriors Warsmith:







I just keep coming back to this guy, changing details about the model (new pauldrons in this case), but this will be the last round of tweaks, because the Warsmith will serve as my test model for the new Leadbelcher spraypaint, before I (hopefully) use it on my Chaos Knight.

And there's another prospective member of Lorimar's Terminator retinue, now with a new weapon:





The idea with Lorimar's retinue is that each of the members should have a distinct set of weapons (not because it would make any sense rules-wise, but rather to make these guys look more gladiatorial), and so I've added a meteor hammer to this model, courtesy of the new Skullreaper/Wrathmonger kit

Oh, and one last thing: I promised you a "Glamour shot tutorial" about how to touch up photos of your models like I have, right? You'll find that promised tutorial here, for future reference.

As always, let me know what you think!

The cork was a good call with the flesh hound! That leg looked so awkward hanging out there. Well done

Cheers
Rawson