Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hi guys,
I'm coming back to my 40k minis after a 2 year hiatus, now that i have finally some time, disposable income and space to tackle my hobby.
All that time ago, i started building a chaos guard army. Two years later, I realised that the last actual game of 40k that i played was still under 4th edition rules, so the minis are not so much built with a definitive army list or codex in mind, they are more of a creative outlet.
I decided early on that i wanted to convert each infantryman after a couple of guidelines:
- nonstandard weapons
- robe/trenchcoat for that cult look
- rebreather/gasmask.

so far i have (re)assembled two squads, tentatively conforming to veterans, penal legionnaires and battle psykers:

Vets

Rabble

Weirds


so far, i used the few assembled minis for my rpg group, which is why this little guy here already has a little paint on him


since most of them suffer from a bad case of frankenmini syndrome, i gave them all a light basecoat of german grey to unify them visually.
I hope i'll be able to post some PIP pics and/or vehicles tomorrow or until friday. I know the picture quality is below average, i am (once again) in the process of acquiring a working digicam.

Cheers, and thanks for reading

Looks awesome mate. Traitor guard really interest me so I'll be keeping an eye on this Great job so far

Nice, i like our work so far. Some of the models are a little hard to make out, but from what i have seen I am impressed.

Will follow

Good start. Great things to come.

thanks for the replies, guys.
just a small update for today, sadly havent been able to do some real painting.
instead, have this cyclop war walker:



currently i have another two in stages of mostly-finishedness. another SRML walker and a rifleman.
tomorrow, i'll try and post some tests for the paint scheme.

It all looks fairly awesome. The cyclop war walker looks the business mate. Nice mash of kits.

Stop posting! get assembling! .... show us more!

Nice work I like!

It looks like you are filled with good ideas and the skills to carry them out. I will be following this!

small updatefor today, i'm knackered from 8 hours of studying.



the brave cyclop warwalker section faces a mighty felinesque xeno monster. the monster ignores them, mostly.

LOVE the gasmask conversions on those weirds. Clever use of Necron heads

Now I love that walker design, I demand a tutorial for that!

Can't make out the infantry that well in the pics but from what I can see they are looking great as well!

Keep up the good work, I look forward to more...

Very interesting looking forward of seeing more

I would love a tutorial on the walkers as well.

Love those walkers, can't wait to see what they'll look like painted

a tutorial it is, then. although it's really short.
the basic components are (evidently) an ork deff dread body and valkyrie missile pods or an aegis quad gun. i didnt use anything fancy, as that makes the chance of repeating a build really small.

the flamer is a guard flamer nozzle on a chimera ball mount the searchlight is from the new chimera, i guess. not sure though, but i had a couple of them lying around.
the deff dread really has slim legs, especially since the leg armour was not included in the bitz package. :/ that's why my trusty chimaera left-overs donated that angled armour plate that you need for building the basilisk to make the samurai pants style leg armour.

to fill out the legs some more and to angle the plates precisely, i used half of a tank shell. vindicator or baneblade, not sure on that one either.
the heat sinks are old tank wheels with the nub removed. the original smokestacks looked way too orky for my taste, i prefer this more beefy/diesel looking solution.
Later today, i might get to finally post the colour scheme tester, or alternatively another walker, which would ruleswise become a contemptor dread.
cheers

Looks good to me, smart use of different kits
keep up the good work

apart from finally seeing skyfall, today i managed to put some finishing touches on this bad boy:



contemptor dread/iron warriors daemon prince aka the taskmaster.

i really like the dreadknight kit and the concept, but not for grey knights. at half the size and as something like the new IG sentinel, it would have been awesome. as it is, it looks like the big frame brought little termi for bring-your-kids-to-work-day. yo dawg, i herd you liek armor, so we put this armor on that armor, so you can wear armor while wearing armor.

 TheMightyWarhamster wrote:

Whoa, more pics of this dude please. He looks rad, is he an ogryn? A spawn?

I really like the cyclop war walkers.

Looking forward to painted stuff!

thanks for the encouragement.

 A Kvlt Ghost wrote:

Whoa, more pics of this dude please. He looks rad, is he an ogryn? A spawn?

yes, he is. as i said, not really a codex in mind. this guy and his bros might be
- plague ogryns
- chaos spawn
- grotesques.

i remember now why i have about twenty times more converted unpainted models than painted models: that painting thing is really hard. still, here are the five guys who drew the short straw and became the official militia 2.0 colour scheme testers.
i was going for dirty white robes here, but it came out kind of weird in the pictures.

i really need to get a decent camera and build a lightbox again...

this was a triumph...
well, not really, but this is the most scratchbuilt tank i've ever done, the mini-mach demolisher:



for that hot plasma goodness.