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"We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood... 'cause we're gonna find out who's the thing..."

Welcome to my blog! If you like all things Chaos then you have came to the right place! I have been collecting and playing 40k for approximately four/five years now. The thing that first got me into miniature wargaming was a Robogear boxed set which I had got for Christmas when I about 10 years of age. At the time I thought that it was the coolest thing ever; It was one of the best Christmas presents I had ever got :').



Unfortunately I was not that good at painting and was quite a perfectionist at the time, resulting in me losing my patience with them. They were left gathering dust til the end of primary school. My interest in miniature wargaming had started growing again at the end of year six, when I was choosing which secondary school I wanted to attend. What happened was I went to a open-evening at one of the secondary schools and had the usual tour around and speech explaining why I should go there, but towards the end of the tour we were guided into a room which was full of scenic tables. On these tables were 40k miniatures and I thought they were the coolest thing I had ever seen. Then I started secondary school and I forgot about miniature wargaming.

In year 8 my parents bought miniature wargaming back up when they were searching on eBay for Warhammer miniatures for me. I think they felt worried about me because I was quite a shy person in school, didn't have many friends and was overall a bit of a social outcast as well as being picked on quite a bit as well. My parents thought that it would be good for me to join some kind of club where I could interact with like-minded people and I would be an environment where I would feel safe of prejudice and stereotyping and Gamesworkshop looked like the best candidate. So when it was nearing Christmas my parents bought Assault on Black Reach and the painting starter set whilst I played an intro game with a GW staff member. Games-Workshop had truly felt like my home away from home; I felt as though I was welcomed there even though I was shy and didn't live up to the mainstream contemporary trends. On that day I walked home happy with my GW bag in hand with all of the 40k goodies inside. Some grown men had sniggered because I was carrying a GW bag, that got to me a little after all, I was only 13 at the time.

For about a year I played Orks. I loved everything about the Orks; the Mad Max feel, how there were hordes of them, their football hooligan speech. I had quite a collection of Orks.
Here was one of my Stormboyz [Excuse the bad paint-job!] X-D

My interest for Orks started dwindling when I saw the Chaos Space Marine kits though. In 2009 I picked up my first Chaos box... the Khorne Berzerkers. I thought they looked so cool with the massive chain-axes and the 'ears' on the helmets making the Khorne icon. I had originally painted up those guys red. Then I painted them blue because I wanted to do Chaos Ultramarines (lame idea, I know!). Luckily I saw something that was so cool that it saved me from doing horrendous blue Khorne Berzerkers... what I saw was a Nurgle Rhino. I was so inspired by that Rhino that I just had to create an entire Nurgle army of my own so that is what I set about doing. As a result my Khorne Berzerkers went from being blue to this [Once again, sorry for bad paint-job, I was still getting used to convering and painting]...



Next I had started converting up some of my old Space Marines from the Assault on Black Reach kit into more followers of Nurgle. I had converted up the Captain into a Plague Champion and some of the Terminators into Obliterators. I even won an under 16's painting competition at the local GW with them and got a 2008 Gamesday Space Marine captain which later became my Chaos Lord one of my all-time favourite minis which I still play to this day.



I had so much fun converting and painting up Nurgle miniatures that I wanted more, so I bought the Chaos Space Marine codex and the next addition to my growing force, which was the plastic terminator Lord/Sorcerer kit. I had such fun converting and painting the Nurgle sorcerer; I even started watching Zombie films to gain inspiration. As a result I created this:



Time started flying by and month after month my army grew larger. This army has truly been a labour of love; every miniature has been converted in some way, I have spent a lot of time developing my colour scheme and fluff behind my army . This army really has a story to tell and also shows my progression of my painting skills. So where am I now with my army? Still adding more and more to it; I am working on Nurgle Daemon allies and finishing off some units which have been sitting on the back-burner for a while. Here are some of the most recent pictures of my army:











Here is some fluff behind my legion 'The Sons of Davin'

I was originally a Luna Wolf, but I got dragged under the swamp on Davins Moon by the minions of Nurgle. I thought I was dead, but then a warm, loving voice broke the silence, it was papa Nurgle himself, convincing me to join his ranks of immortal warriors; he would give me more compassion and love than the Emperor would give his own sons, as well as the gift being able to withstand more pain than any space marine could. I was not convinced by this, I knew who I was devoted to, and would not let the cunning voice deceive me. Nurgle was not pleased with this at all, you could tell, he became hesitant and could hear a false tone of calmness in his voice, yet he carried on trying to deceive. Somehow he had gotten inside of my head; I was seeing all of these different visions of worlds being exterminated and the Imperium wiping out whole alien races in the name of the Emperor. After a while the visions had ceased and the warm voice spoke up again, it said 'The Emperor deceives you, he is not as godly as you may think, he had bargained with the Chaos Gods for immense power before turning his back on them' I could not believe this, and I kept on trying to block out the voice, trying not to listen to the foul content that defiles Emperor's name, but yet there had become a growing essence of doubt in my mind, doubt that he Emperor wasn't Godly as everyone thinks he is and that maybe the voice is telling the truth.

It had felt like I spent millennia under that swamp. My eyes slowly eased open; a searing light burned my eyes. Luckily my eyesight adjusted in seconds thanks to the occulobe implant which gave me far more superior eyesight than any mortal man. I slowly clawed my way out of the murky swamp and observed my surroundings. Thick yellow smog hugged the ground, blurred outlines of figures moving within it. All of a sudden my vox crackled into life. At first the message being broadcasted across it was incomprehensible, but soon the message became clearer...

"Rise my sons, rise from your death for you are alive again...the Emperor has betrayed you, he has let you die and rot, but together we shall strike him down and crush the Imperium!"

A ball of rage was slowly building up in my mind; I was furious that the Emperor had turned his back on me and the countless other marines dragged under the swamp to rot. My power armour was stinking and had fungi sprouting from the recesses. Horns erupted from my shoulder pads and knees. My whole armour had gone from a gleaming white to a filthy green thanks to the bacteria clinging to the armour like a leech to a wound. Tumours broke through the armour. My face was scarred and swollen, my jaw broken. I was hideous but I didn't care, for all I cared about was killing the Emperor. I started walking, finding my neglected battle brothers, re-grouping, re arming ready to fight. We re-grouped and were about 10 men strong, it wasn't much, but these ten men including myself would slowly grow into thousands of men... from a tiny mustard seed would grow a huge tree.

We started slowly foot-slogging through the swamps, seeking out survivors, recruits and slaves. We had been walking for appropriately 30 minutes when we suddenly stumbled into an abandoned imperial garrison. It was made up of a couple of ruins surrounding what appeared to be a cathedral. The ruins were stark and unwelcoming, fortified with sandbags, a sea of razor wire which could challenge even the most experienced of space marines. But the most chilling discoveries were found in the cathedral itself.

We approached the Cathedral doors, bolters drawn. I unbuckled my multi-scanner from my waist and got no heat readings. We moved tactfully and carefully inside ready to engage any hostiles inside. The cathedral looked Gothic from the outside, with columns, arches and snarling gargoyles. Inside though was a completely different story. The interior was completely gutted out and replaced by huge machinery and flashing control panels with great lengths of wire snaking out and feeing into a great oval shaped ring, as big as a space marine. Inside this oval was a shimmering glossy surface. It was certainly out of the ordinary at the time because every now and then we would see shadows of figures moving within this shimmering oval. All of a sudden the surface started rippling... something was emerging from it...


All of a sudden a great shadowy mass burst through the portal! I barked orders for my men to get into cover and fire at whatever the hell had emerged. Space Marine Calculus had the biggest gun; a Mark V heavy bolter, so he took the highest ground which was the gallery, above the main hall. As for the rest of us, we were on the ground floor, battling off whatever beast had come through the portal employing short range fire-fights and close combat. I unloaded the rest of my ammo into the shadowy mass. It fell back, crippled, with every bolter-round it took. All of a sudden it flew up into the air and straight towards one of my battle brothers. The Space Marine was forced off his feet and slammed against the wall, armour buckling and bones crunching. The seething mass then started for Brother Calculus firing from the gallery. I took this opportunity to ready my power fists. Great arcs of energy rippled across my grotesque mutated power fist. Maggots sizzled and fried as they got caught in the energy field created. The beast was done with Calculus and was now surging towards me. I roared with anger and ran straight for the beast...the ultimate battle was about to begin...

As I ran closer to the shadowy mass of the beast, a sudden realisation struck me, the beast was not one whole creature, it was a swarm, a swarm made up of billions of tiny flies. I threw a punch at the swarm, the rippling energy of my power-fist sparking as the flies popped and fried. The seething body of insects fell back and re-grouped, rushing head-long towards me. All of a sudden BANG! I was pinned up against the wall by the raw force of billions of flies. I could hear the sickening crunch of bones breaking. Yet I still tried to swing my fist at them, trying to beat them back. I summoned up all my strength, and with sheer determination and a grunt of effort I swung one last almighty punch. Flies exploded; bile and the remains of dead insects splattered across my face. The bloated flies fell back and I came clattering to the ground. Slowly I staggered up. It would take more than one blow to take me down!

I started for the swarm again, bringing my power-fist to bear on the dark cloud of pestilent flies. A wretched stench filled the air as flies sparked and popped in the energy field. Parts of the swarm flew off in different directions before re-grouping at the other end of the cathedral. I limped into the aisle; blood oozing from my mangled leg, bone jutting out like the teeth jutting out from an Ork's jaw. I turned and faced the seething dark mass which was re-grouping, getting ready for a fight. I stood there motionless, my hand poised, ready to whip out my bolt pistol. The swarm hurtled towards me. I whipped out my bolt pistol. Gun shots echoed throughout the Cathedral. This however did not stop the seething dark mass; I dropped my weapon and accepted my fate...

The swarm knocked me back into the warping face of the portal; my hulking body shattering the silky shimmering surface. Everything went black for a moment, then I found myself in a twilight gloom on a barren wasteland. I looked up at the sky, it had streaks of every colour imaginable, as though a frenzied painter had wielded brush strokes across the heavens. I felt a sinking feeling. I looked down to see the ground swallowing me up; grotesque faces appear to be eating my legs. I tried to pull free but I was stuck fast; I could not move. A purple-neon fog drifted over the landscape, like a silent killer. I could see and hear figures within, laughing, whispering with a malicious intent in their voices. All of a sudden, something emerged from the fog...

The thing that had emerged from the fog was a diseased-ridden jittering beast. It was relatively short with a burst pot-belly; guts and sinew trailing out behind the foul creature. It limped over to me, I had tried struggling free but I was still stuck fast. The plague Daemon placed one hand upon my forehead. I felt sudden warmth through my body, followed by a long, agonising pain. I tried to push the creature away but my arms did not work, they just hung there, limp by the side of my body. I glanced down, my already horribly grotesque armour swelling... 'What monstrosity am I to become this time' I thought to myself. My armour buckled, ripping apart, bolts exploding off in all directions exposing great swelling arms, like tree-trunks, veins snaking up them like ivy. A fresh burst of pain coursed through my face. I could feel my bones turning to liquid and re-forming into a new shape, my skin folding over, creating furrows and pits of eternal darkness. My vision blurred as my eyes slowly drifted to the middle only to meet and become one. The ground was suddenly further away; everything was becoming smaller.

I felt like a true god. My whole being infused with dark energy buzzing like a thousand flies, I looked down at the deadly claws on my gnarled grotesque feet, seemingly an eternity away. Giant leathery wings unfolded from my back as I screamed my rage to the twisted sky above.

Thanks for reading this very long introduction and I hope you stay tuned for more updates.

Also, if you want to see other work I do, check out my DeviantART gallery...
http://metal-oxide.deviantart.com/gallery/

- MetalOxide

Oh them rhinos looks way good.
Nice army mate, keep it up.

 Novelist47 wrote:
Oh them rhinos looks way good.
Nice army mate, keep it up.

Thanks very much! I appreciate it!

So I have been working on the plastic Chaos Champion GW put out as a little painting treat because I'm also painting up hordes of troops. Here is the champion so far...

I had just finished making the trail of poison coming from his weapon and thought it would be good to get some feedback on it. I used the hair and superglue technique as I did on the Isabella von Carstein Diorama.

The hair and superglue technique was something I heard from a fellow hobbyist who goes to my local GW. It is basically where you superglue a strand or two of hair to the blade of the weapon in the direction that they were swinging it and leave it to dry, making sure that the hair stays in place. Then you add blobs of superglue along the hair and leave it to dry, making sure it stays in position. Then you paint it. I'll be doing a visual tutorial for this technique soon so keep an eye out for that.

- MetalOxide

UPDATE! I have now started work on my Nurgle Herald.

I love the poison coming from the blade. It looks great. Is it not a bit fragile though? Especially at that thin point...

Awesome stuff here, looks really really cool.
The fluff is really cool to, I've just read false gods and it is a nice continueing of the storyline behind those unlucky marines who got pulled under the swamps.
Keep up the good work

 Fifty wrote:
I love the poison coming from the blade. It looks great. Is it not a bit fragile though? Especially at that thin point...

 Big Boss Grimbad wrote:
Awesome stuff here, looks really really cool.
The fluff is really cool to, I've just read false gods and it is a nice continueing of the storyline behind those unlucky marines who got pulled under the swamps.
Keep up the good work

Thank you very much guys!

Here is a photo of a Havoc squad which I am working on along side the Plague Drones and Herald of Nurgle...

Here is a photograph compilation of a Nurgle Havoc squad which I am working on. (A heavy weapons team). I made this squad because I had plenty of spare bits laying around and I didn't want those bits to go to waste. The squad it armed with three heavy bolters, a missile launcher and 6 bolt-guns. The champion has a basic melee weapon to deal with any small skirmishes and a bolt pistol. The photographs on the right-hand side, feature three fully painted havocs. The photograph on the left are the rest of the havocs, partially painted.

Here are some close-up photos of some completed members of the Havos squad...






Stay tuned for more updates

I have made some more progress in painting my Havoc Squad. I have painted the trim gold and the pustules my signature bright pink.



It would be great to get some feedback and stay tuned for more!

UPDATE! I have been working some more on my Chaos Havocs. Now I only have two dudes from this squad left to finish.






The havoc squad has:
3 Heavy Bolters
1 Missile Launcher
1 Aspiring Champion
6 Boltgun dudes
The Mark of Nurgle

This squad will add more bodies and sit on objectives in my deployment zone as well as operating the quad-gun if I use an aegis defense line.

What do you guys think?

I have nearly finished painting up the bulk of my army, I just have a handful of marines left to paint. What I have been workig on at the moment is my banner/icon bearer for my Nurgle Raptors which will accompany the Chaos Lord into glorious warfare.

Love the chaos sisters, that kit is so good for bashing, almost makes you wonder why GW doesn't o more like it, or expand on them more. Maybe when eldar comes out well get more female parts.

The nurgle stuff is fantastic as well. Where did you get the clear bug wings? I looked for toy nests, but could never find any hat would fit convincingly.

 Theophony wrote:
Love the chaos sisters, that kit is so good for bashing, almost makes you wonder why GW doesn't o more like it, or expand on them more. Maybe when eldar comes out well get more female parts.

The nurgle stuff is fantastic as well. Where did you get the clear bug wings? I looked for toy nests, but could never find any hat would fit convincingly.

Thanks very much! I am seriously looking forward to the Eldar releases, hopefully there will be some new, cool female parts. I'm still waiting for Plastic Sisters of Battle, I recon I'll be waiting a long time lol

I got a large toy bug from a toy shop, clipped off the wings and stuck them onto the mini. Search for toy insects that are roughly 28mm or bigger in your local toy shop. Or you could use wings from the Nurgle Plague Drones kit.

I have finally finished the Havoc squad...



What do you think? There will be more pics up soon.

Here is some fluff behind my Legion...

The Sons of Davin is my own custom warband dedicated to Nurgle. The founders of the warband are the Luna Wolves who were dragged under the swamps by plague zombies on Davins moon when Horus was hunting down the traitor Eugen Temba. The fallen Luna Wolves grew grotesque features as they lay under the swamp, as papa Nurgle whispered heretical messages into the ear of every Marine with sickening delight. Once the Luna Wolves had awoken from their sleep they were horrified at what they had become; some went insane, unable to comprehend that they had become traitors. Some were delighted with their new powers and not having to serve the false Emperor. The corrupted Luna Wolves found a way to leave the moon using a rift in time and space that ad been opened up when Eugen Temba had been corrupted and let Nurgle's powers loose turning the moon into a diseased, festering rock. The corrupt Luna wolves made their way into the warp where they re-named themselves the Sons of Davin, after the planet that the moon was orbiting around. The small force first started off as a mercenary force, working closely with the Black Legion and Death Guard and got more soldiers and weaponry in return. Slowly but surely the Sons of Davin grew, becoming more and more self sustainable. The legion is still growing to this day.

What do you think?

Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been busy with college so work on my miniatures has pretty much grounded to a halt. Although I have done a little painting today, painting up the banner bearer of a Raptors squad and finished the champion which accompanies my Nurgle Lord into glorious warfare.

Once I've seen them on DeviantArt, and I've said, they look great ;-) Still they're THE best Nurgle army I've ever seen.

maciek wrote:
Once I've seen them on DeviantArt, and I've said, they look great ;-) Still they're THE best Nurgle army I've ever seen.

Thanks very much for the compliment!

Just finished painting another member of the Raptor squad which will accompany my Chaos Lord into battle.



Here is a photo compilation of my recently finished Plague Raptor with icon. The banner is painted up to match my online alias 'Metal Oxide' and the Oxidizing symbol I use as my avatar. The text on the banner says "Metal Oxide" "productum ex cruciata cerebum" (Latin for "The product of a tortured brains").

Stay tuned for more updates...

The Nurgle Raptors are now finished...

They are painted up painted differently than the rest of my Nurgle army to indicate their elite status; the accompany my Chaos Lord with wings into warfare.

I have been down to the local gaming club and made a video showing off my army, I'll post a link as soon as it is uploaded.

Hi I guys! On the weekend I took my army down to the gaming club Iron Forest Games . We filmed an army showcase, with me talking about my army and how I made it.

I have now finished painting up the plastic Nurgle Herald, the start of my Nurgle Daemons force and the allies to my Chaos Marine army.

UPDATE TIME! Today I have been finishing off the sculpting and priming of two scratch-built obliterators. The two obliterators started off as cheap plastic toys from a toy shop. I cut off the hands and glued on a ton of weapons. Then I sculpted on details such as rotting flesh to blend the weapons to the body, making it look like the weapons had grown out from the body.

Hello everyone! Sorry this blog has been dead for a while, I have been really busy due to college enrolment and life getting in the way. But now I'm back with a finished miniature that I want to show you.
Below are some photos of my Chaos Sorcerer. I made him because I have a Terminator armoured version so I thought it would be nice to have one in normal power armour in case I didn't want to take Terminator armour. He was made using Chaos bits from my bitz box. This is also the second time I tried doing some OSL so feedback on that would be great.

I'm a big fan of the nurgle oblitiators, and the rocket launcher conversion on the havoc squad.
By the way how do you get that nice rust effect?

 Psycho_Mantis wrote:
I'm a big fan of the nurgle oblitiators, and the rocket launcher conversion on the havoc squad.
By the way how do you get that nice rust effect?

Thanks very much.
For the rust effect I mixed a little bit of brown paint with some orange paint and painted it on to the metal areas. Then I gave it a brown wash to blend it in with the surrounding metal areas.

That is one very nice looking Nurgle army you have there!

I have always been a fan of the death guard, yet I have since decided to collect an Iron Warriors themed chaos army.

I am considering doing a unit of bionic plague marines though, using the basic chaos marines and a set of iron hands upgrade parts.