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So here's a picture showing the 4th assault company's commanding officers that I took yesterday:



In a way, this picture really serves as a short visual history of my last five years in the hobby, as the first of these guys must have been built shortly after I got back into the hobby in late 2010/early 2011, while the most recent one was finally finished this week.

As always, let me know what you think!

They look pretty badass all together! how do you come up with the names? theyre all suitably chaotic

Amazing group shot, very coherent look overall, but with each model having its own personality, as should be the case for Chaos. This is especially impressive considering the timespan over which they were painted.

Brilliant group shot. You can really see your progression in kit bashing skills from Bardolf through to those like Joras and Dumah. It is a testament to your creativity and skill also that they work to look cohesive side by side whilst still retaining truck loads of individual character

Theese are fantastic KS. Folk'd be hardpressed to find a more characterful and individual group that just screams its own attached tale. Great work

 KrautScientist wrote:
So here's a picture showing the 4th assault company's commanding officers ...

Definitely an epic lineup, wish I could exalt this harder

- Salvage

They look marvelous and very characterful. Where is Charun's jump pack from?

Cheers for the kind words, everyone!

@ STG: As I am fairly terrible at thinking up suitable names, I keep an ever-growing Word doc, and whenever I come across a name that might work, I chuck it in there with all the others. There are also all kinds of RPG name generators online that can help. For World Eaters, I generally make sure the names are suitably blunt and guttural, with that certain bit of chaotic "je ne sais quoi"

@ KernelTerror: Cheers, mate! The one thing I am actually the most happy about is that none of the models sticks out as particularly ancient or anything

@ Brother Payne januine & Boss Salvage: Thanks a lot, guys!

@ Ashenwyte: That jump pack is a conversion bit from MaxMini.eu


So I don't want to spam this thread with old content, but here's another picture from the same shooting, albeit taken against a diffferent background. I wanted to share it because it rguably does a much better job of showing off the colours as they are looking in real life:



As always, let me know what you think!

 KrautScientist wrote:
Cheers, mate! It's merely a mix of Stormvermin Fur and Abaddon Black, with more black added to the mix for the tips of the smoke. By being quick about painting it, I've managed to pull off a fairly smooth transition.

Cheers mate,

I Shall give it a shot when I need to paint some smoke .

I'm in the process of painting up 7 more warders. I Hope I can finish them in 15 more days!

Edit: Whoa, what a cool group shot right there! - And Kudos on the names (and that file you keep updated with them )

Man those character group shots look awesome. So much character in each model.

EDC

Cheers, guys!

So here's another small update for you: A lack of Chaos Black spray currently prevents me from tackling my next ETL model. However, in order to at least keep my painting momentum going, I quickly started to paint a model for my Traitor Guard that I have wanted to paint for quite a while now -- and it had the advantage of already being undercoated as well Take a look:







This guy is the icon bearer for my converted, chaotic Tempestus Scions, and I am pretty pleased with the conversion, to be honest. He's still missing a bit of detail work (and a suitably heretical design on that banner of his), but you get the idea.

As always, let me know what you think!

makes the scions look cool, nice change well done!

Love the painting of that flesh banner. The trimming on the scions' armour actually works incredibly well on a chaos-aligned model, almost as though it was meant to be I look forward to seeing the completed guy with banner detailing

Thanks a lot, guys!

So a short while later, here's the finished model:









I decided to recreate an effect that I had used on my Traitor basilisk, painting the banner to look like flayed skin and then using Tamiya Clear Red to dab on chaotic icons. The general idea of using incomplete circles like that originally came from Dave Taylor's Blood Pact, possibly the coolest Traitor Guard army in existence.

And this means I now have a full squad of these guys, too. Take a look:



This squad has taken quite a while to come together, but I am actually really, really happy with the result: The squad has a certain look of uniformity about it, while also being feral and vicious (and, well, chaotic) enough to read as an archenemy unit.

Anyway, as always, let me know what you think!

They suck



Ok seriously, I really like the mix of red, blue, grey (bases) and bronze/metal you use. Especially the blue is just striking. The squad looks great as a unit.

Sometimes conversions like the head on the right cultist and the plasma gun look a bit out of place or too big but when you show the painted squad they blend in nicely because of the selected colours. It works really well.

This Golden Demon '93 army is one of my alltime favourite depictions of Worldeaters

http://www.warfactory.co.uk/gallery/scifi/galpic8.html

http://www.warfactory.co.uk/gallery/standards/galpic1.html

and your's is beating it, with a similiar vibe of CSM craziness but a larger variety of converted units - not even considering your excellent Knight. Keep on the good work

Turnpelt - nice name

I can't be doing with coloured sprays. Aerosols are great primers, but terrible base coats IMO.

Thanks a lot for the kind words, people!

@ Warhams-77: That's certainly an iconic classic World Eaters army, and I am honoured that you should consider my own army on par with it!

@ lindsay40k: Yeah, I am still kinda proud of having come up with that name, to be honest

You may have a point about the spray paint, although I'd argue the Leadbelcher spray works exceedingly well as a basecoat. The Mephiston Red, though? From my painful exerience, not so much

Hey guys,

so here's a small addendum to that plastic Angron conversion I shared with you fairly recently: I was incredibly lucky enough to be sent a nearly complete Angron model by fellow hobbyist Adam (of Between the Bolter And Me ): The model is merely missing a few bitz and bobs, and it's certainly a great feeling to be in the possession of the Lord of the Red Sands now As an unexpected bonus, this has also allowed me to take some comparison pictures featuring both FW's stock Angron and my own plastic version. Take a look:







Now it's not an easy comparison to make, given the stock Angron's very crouched pose, but I think the FW model would be a bit taller, if both were to stand up straight. However, the difference in height is not nearly as extreme as one might have expected, while the difference in bulk is easy enough to explain away by the FW version being fully armoured. So all in all, I am fairly confident that my plastic conversion is actually tall enough to work as a Primarch, after all!

Nice comparison pics. Your’s holds his own against the official model.

As I looked at the pics, I heard them having a conversation, in nothing but angry, primal, screams.

RARRRGGGGGG!! (Hey, who are you?)
GRAAAHHHHH!!! (I’m you!)

GRRAARRRGGGG (We’re surrounded by a whole lot of non-us, who are still breathing)
ARGGG (Let’s fix that)

RAHHHHHHH (Attack!)

<sounds of murder and mayhem>

Nice to see a comparison between yours and the official, and it is even nicer that yours holds up so well despite your original fears. Now he needs a suitably scenic base. Also did you change his shoulder pad? Which one did you use?
On another note (since I'm late to the earlier party), very nice work on both Dumah and your traitor Tempestus Standard Bearer

This blog is awesome. I hope one day to have a force that comes close

Brilliant work on the Traitor Guard squad, the blood splattered banner with the chaos symbol looks particularly awesome.

EDC

Nice comparison shots! Not only does yours hold it's own... I think I might prefer it almost definitely!

I find that the custom Angron could serve quite well as a pre-discovery version of the Primarch. Everything's lookin' well bloodied. Keep it up man!

 Brother Payne wrote:
Nice comparison shots! Not only does yours hold it's own... I think I might prefer it almost definitely!

QFT! I have to agree, I love the conversion! I watch this plog from the shadows, and every single model is awesome to the highest degree humbling work, sir!

Your converted Angron really compares well with the official one. I'd be very proud of it if it was mine! Those AoS Bloodbound models really do have good uses as Khorne-themed 40k guys. Lots of inspiration in this blog, so thanks for that!

Cheers for all the positive feedback, guys! I really appreciate it! And I also have something new to share with you:

To be perfectly honest, I've spent most of yesterday watching the news of Brexit hollow-eyed and with a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach -- what an utterly awful day! But after moping about for a couple of hours, I decided I might as well try to transform my sadness into something more productive and started working on my converted Kastelan.

One funny thing is that the model basically looked almost like a standard Kastelan during painting, because I had taken off virtually all of the armour plates to have an easier time painting the thing:



But they came back on quickly enough, as a motivation fueled by a particularly mixture of sadness and madness saw me complete the model in record time. Now be advised that the following photos certainly arent't brilliant, on account of the perpetual rain over here and the overall gloomy weather, but anyway: My Counts As Contemptor (I yet have to settle on a snappy name):









And since this model formed the final missing part of my first vow in this year's ETL event over at The Bolter & Chainsword, this also means that my first vow has finally been finished:




And there's more: While I originally didn't want to risk a second vow, there is one particular model that I really want to see finished, and the ETL just happens to provide the perfect incentive. It'smy bestial Daemon Prince conversion here:





The black undercoat and dark brown paint are remnants of an ill-fated previous attempt at painting this beast. I'll be painting right over them Wish me luck!

So yeah, that's it for today -- as always, let me know what you think!

Damn that kastelan is looking hot, as well as that daemon prince. I particularly love the head on the kastelan though.

I feel it could benefit from some bunny ears, but that's just my 2 cents

Keep up the fabtabulous work!

Glorious KS!!! Simply glorious

Thanks a lot, guys!

@ ThunderFury2575: I actually thought the same thing and looked into many, many different ways of adding bunny ears to that head, and they all ended up looking silly and messing with the model's silhouette -- so no bunny ears, just this once