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Some great stuff in here mate, love the work on the dreadnoughts. One of my favourites is your Oblit champion. He looks great. Your Knights coming along really well too, where his head from? Love the tags as well.

 Biohazard wrote:
Some great stuff in here mate, love the work on the dreadnoughts. One of my favourites is your Oblit champion. He looks great. Your Knights coming along really well too, where his head from? Love the tags as well.

Thank you very much! My dreadnoughts were heavily inspired by yours if you didn't notice
And the head for my knight, is from the gundam ZAKU II kit, from their range of plastic miniatures (as far as "miniature" goes when describing giant goofy warmachines )

So i was reading through all the posts in this thread and i noticed i forgot to thank a few fellow dakkanauts for their comments on my work. I'd like to take this opportunity to say that as someone who cherishes feedback of all kinds, and kind words on his minis, it really means a lot So thanks to everyone for all that you've said! It keeps me motivated to keep working!

other than that, soon you'll receive another wave of new csm pictures but while i continue to prepare, i've got something i'd love to show you all!!
This is my Warpsmith... "Ostragoth Maternus".
He's going to be THE big bad leader of the Iron Warriors 10th Grand Company, and as you can see i put quite some work into him!

Fluffwise, i picture him originiating as a chaos marine during the heresy and he fled to the eye of terror with the rest of the iron warriors when the siege of terra didn't quite go to plan. From here on he progressed through the ranks until he became a chosen and eventually a warsmith... who then gradually continued to upgrade his cybernetically enhanced body until he evolved into a warpsmith (from a warsmith).
Due to this transition and newfound rank amongst the 10th grand company, he effectively usurped the current chaos lord with the help of his personal "Muscle" - a terminator champion named "Varduk Kazlek". To reinforce his usurping of the commanding position, he utilised a number of dark mechancius daemon engines of his own creation to reinforce his position of power through intimidation. (And who wants to overthrow theguy who leads the manufacture of all of the angry daemon dino bots?).
With the assistance of his comrade Varduk in effectively SIIINNNDRIIII-ing the chaos lord, Ostragoth allowed varduk to become the second in command of the grand company...up until ostragoth finds a suitable opportunity to backstab and dispose of him too. Possibly involving a faulty airlock or unrestrained helbrute..

I'm going to write a short story later in depth detailing the rise of Ostragoth at a later date, because it's something i'd personally love to do, just as a fun thing on the side
Back to modelling!
Now, the model itself is based on the chaos lord from WHFB, with cabling from a heldrake (on the cape), cabling from a sentinel (the mechadendrites), a chunk of eldar thingy (the spikey thing on the mechadendrites), gargoyle heads from the chaos vehicle sprue (also on the frickin mechadendrites).

The head is from the plague champion in the CSM kit with a rebreather from the cadian command squad and a cable from a stormfiend. The backpack is from a dark vengeance chosen with the sentinel chainsaws. The head of the axe is also from the aspiring champion kit and the other arm is made from the same aspiring champion kit with a hand from a space marine kit and the heavy flamer from the space wolf dreadnought kit i used to make my alphabrute, which will count as the burning brand of skalathrax.

I don't think there are any more parts to mention... but considering this is one of my favourite conversions, i'd love to hear any comments!

Progress on my renegade guard costume progresses and i've repainted my shotgun, by stippling silver all over the previous paintwork and flicking typhus corrosion and blood for the blood god all over it for that bloodied weathered look
Of course i kept the warning stripes and the gun looks fairly realistic atm in person, which i'm super happy with. In additon to this, i added a strap from a laptop carry bag as a sling for the weapon!
Other than that, i've also painted the helmet and gas mask (still need to do the rust effect on the helmet though) with the same technique as the shotgun which is to say, black undercoat, stipple silver everywhere and then typhus corrosion.

For the helmet i'm going to do a long hazard stripe from the forehead of the helmet to the back with a chaos star in the middle of the pattern on the forehead, i'm not entirely sure how to explain it so yeah haha.
The pvc armour plates are almost in a presentable state, just gotta do a lot more cutting so they actually look like armour plates though
other than that, still need to find a big ol brown coat, i've got the paints and shirt sorted. After all of this i'll probably run out into my backyard and roll in the mud repeatedly before i go to the next big pop culture convention! Oh and i gotta do the other side of the shotgun - only one side has blood on it..

Let me know what you all think!

You are not wasting your time!
I like it!

Excellent work.

Same here. They're going to look great when painted. I like that you have included some Khorne Berserkers (for obvious reasons!).

The Cow Fiend and the Dark Apostle are a couple of my favourites. The pose on that aspiring champion you used for the Dark Apostle is absolutely superb. I have the same model but haven't decided what to do with it yet.

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen!

Work with my havocs continue, as well as my berzerkers and plague marines!
Today i'll be showing you some more little dudes i've been working on, however work has ceased due to a lack of Csm parts...So i'll need to pick up a bunch of chaos marine/raptor boxes soon as i'm sick of running of darn parts for conversions!
Funnily enough, a week ago i picked up a box of sternguard, chaos warriors and spess mareen tacticals, for conversions parts. My guys are slowly beginning to look loyalist as i'm running out of spiky parts

As said earlier, i'm really picky with how i'm making my plague marines look, but i am rather happy with how the champions are turning out, so i'm happy to show them in their current state, a similar deal with the berzerkers too, but i feel these ones are adequate to present!
However, my havocs are looking pretty loyalist-y currently, so i'm gonna need to spike them up soon with tropies and Iron Warrior them with hazard stripes and assorted military doodads.
This is a pretty small update in terms of text, as i don't really have much to say other than that! In regards to my plague marines, i'm dodging constantly between a diseased rotting look and a biohazard rebreather marine type of look, an my conversions are kind of mismatched between the two...and it's bothering my dilemma
I'll update once again tonight with more info!

Another smaller-ish update, with some chaos chosen in the pipelines! They're all still VERY WIP, in fact, i'm holding out on finishing them as i've ordered a bunch of parts from anvil industry and forge world to do so! For some reason i only took a couple pictures, but I've essentially got 2 chosen squads waiting to be built (on top of all my other numerous projects ) .
One squad will be using meltas, another using plasmas and the standard bearer will be an icon , either of vengeance or excess. Probably the latter because FNP In addition, the chosen champions will be converted into chaos apothecaries, as i recall reading about the iron warriors having some beforehand, as well as an interesting conversion project!

They'll be converted from anvil industry medieval legs as well as the new devastator legs (Because those things ooooooze iron warriors), some berzerker/loyalist torsos, raptor pauldrons and of course some capes too! The helmets will be any suitably intimidating helmet i have lying around, such as red scorpion command squad helmets, MKII command squad helmets and so on!


My renegade guardsman costume is progressing too, as i've fabricated some big PVC plates that i've moulded around my leg and battered, i then painted them using the same technique as my helmet and gas mask. More on that later though

I found da plog. Get painting maggot! (heh... maggot... nurgle...)

Hello everyone!

First off i would like to say that i'm sorry for not posting any updates in the recent months, Between my final school exams, work, social life and numerous other things getting in the way of modelling time i haven't really been doing as much as i'd like to, hobby wise, within the past few months.
Now, i have been making models here and there, and in my downtime I've mostly scratchbuilt ork vehicles as a way to relax as they are easy conversions to make, so expect to see some of those soon

But since all the silliness of late high school, and lots of other things that got in the way of hobby time is over, i'm back, and ready to post again!

So what have I actually started to do for the grand company lately?

Quite a bit! I've picked up numerous kits, such a betrayal at calth, loads more chaos marines, berzerkers as well as lots of fantasy kits too, including lizardmen saurus warriors which i hope to turn into bloodletters, dwarf gyrobombers to count as dark mechanicus styled "plague drones", vampire counts crypt horrors, and the hobbying train is picking up it's pace once again.

While i don't have any fresh pictures at this very moment to post, i still thought i would post this update as i don't intend to disappear any time soon

An update should soon be within the next few days (Hopefully) and i can present what my latest works are. In addition i hope to do a large army shot as it occured to me that most of my updates have only been a couple figures or so each time and i think it's time to get all my little dudes onto the dining room table and say cheese!

I should probably finish that frickin hell talon too. It's literally collecting dust in my display cabinet and it's been unfinished for two years O.o

Hell yeah you are back !
Looking forward to you next WIP then, sounds like loads of great ideas !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Hell yeah you are back !
Looking forward to you next WIP then, sounds like loads of great ideas !

Cheers buddy, it means a lot

I recall saying a few things in my last post about betrayal at calth, assorted orky goodies and even a counts as blight drone..

So needless to say, i've picked up betrayal at calth, a few CSM boxes as well as a Berzerker kit. Hopefully this will supply me with enough chaos marines for quite some time, and the intention is to divide the parts and create some more cult marines down the line, most likely being noise marines next as i really want to have a go at painting those vibrant colours.
The two chaos tactical marine squads i've started assembling are still rather WIP and some of them need touching up with items such as trophies/baggage and others are even still in need of an arm But so far i'm building the two squads to be of this loadout-

10 CSMs
1 x Plasma Gun
1 x Autocannon
Icon of vengeance
Champ with Combi Plasma
Rhino with Havoc Launcher

This loadout is the same as my melta chaos marines, but obviously packing plasma instead.
I've also made another Chaos apothecary out of spare parts and i intend to use this as another chosen champion, as well as a new potential forum/steam avatar once painted. You'll see more on that later
And finally, on the chaos front we have a Blight drone (still VERY heavy WIP) count as made from a dwarf gyrobomber. I still need to add chaos icons and stuff to make it rather evident of it's allegiance. Currently the pilot only has a head swap to tie him in with the rest of my chaos guardsmen. I picture it being some sort of hive/forgeworld helicopter used for transporting goods such as food or materials, that the forces of chaos have hijacked and converted to use in warfare.

Now, with DEM SPIKEH BOYS OUDDAH DA WAY i'd like to present an assortment of ork vehicles i've scratchbuilt over the past several months of hobby downtime. They're all nowhere near done, aside from the truck battlewagon and the tracked wartrukk as they've basically just been mashed together with parts when i've been bored or otherwise procrastinating to study (I mean finished my studying *cough cough*) as well as just a good way to relieve stress. I didnt originally intend to present them, and since i've been slowly starting more and more ork vehicles over the weeks i'm tempted to set up another thread purely for them.

From today's selection of pictures, we have:
- A Wartrukk which was built from the chassis of an old toy panzer IV
- A Battlewagon made from some weird amphibious APC from the second world war
- Another battlewagon, this time made from an american military truck
- A Kustom Battlefortress underway
- And 3 Big Trakks, all going to be sporting dual big shootas and Supa Kannons.

So it seems there is a photo limit per post...

Oh my gawd! Brilliant Ork vehicle conversions, especially the battle fortress, can't wait to see how that progresses.

EDC

Man, i didn't realize I'd missed so much on your blog. Some awesome stuff!

That Knight! Where are you currently at with it? And thanks for the shoutout to my own!

Glad to see you're rolling with Orks too. They're just so much damn fun it's unbelievable. Being a heavy chaos converter yourself, I think you'll agree that Ork conversions are a breath of fresh air.

Nice update ! These ork vehicles make for a very madmaxesque road crew ! Agreeing with EDC, first place goes to the battle fortress.
I also especially like the apothecary, what is coming out of his backpack ?
Is leaving some of the khorne icons intentional ?

Keep it up !

Crazy conversions! Terrific eye candy there!

HOLY CRAP THAT ZOOM!

I love Plague Marine Champion 1 WIP. He is just so nurgly! Good choice of base model.

Thanks a bunch fellas, it means a lot!

While the progress of Ork stuff is mostly dormant for the time being (it's a 'pet' project remember? ) My chaos is going strong with new goodies.

I've pretty much finished constructing my two Iron Warrior Squads and here is a group shot of 4 built squads. I just need to buy two more rhinos to complete all 4 squads' loadout, and i've also finally decided to make my chaos squad champions chaos apothecaries, originally that was intended for just the chosen squads. Havoc champions shall remain the pseudo warpsmiths though. Really all that remains now is to finish off the champions, base and then paint my little power armoured dudes!

In case you forgot, the loadouts they are running is -

10 x Csms
1 x Plasma/Melta
1 x Autocannon
Champ w/ Combi Plasma/Melta
Rhino with Havoc Launcher

In addition, i have also acquired a 3d printer.... so...FUN TIMES AHEAD!!

First off i printed a wrecked dreadnought terrain piece. Which is of an astounding quality. I still need to do a teensy bit of sanding here and there though. After that i also made a chaos pendant but knowing my reliability i managed to misplace that already!


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 JeffyP wrote:
Man, i didn't realize I'd missed so much on your blog. Some awesome stuff!

That Knight! Where are you currently at with it? And thanks for the shoutout to my own!

Glad to see you're rolling with Orks too. They're just so much damn fun it's unbelievable. Being a heavy chaos converter yourself, I think you'll agree that Ork conversions are a breath of fresh air.

No worries with the shoutout, credit where credit is due right! Currently the knight is the same as what you see in on the thread, i havent really progressed on it. I hope to base it some time this weekend and at the least undercoat it. Because i need to undercoat a LOT of things so that i can paint them during the harsh Aussie winter, (we get pretty cold too ) and undercoating is awful when it's frickin freezing outside.

And in regards to ork conversions....They're DAMN FUN!!!


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 KernelTerror wrote:
Nice update ! These ork vehicles make for a very madmaxesque road crew ! Agreeing with EDC, first place goes to the battle fortress.
I also especially like the apothecary, what is coming out of his backpack ?
Is leaving some of the khorne icons intentional ?

Keep it up !

Next time i do some ork stuff i think i'll continue the battle fortress then

The apothecary's backpack is using the scrawny arms from the dark eldar talos kit as a sort of biological servo arm type doodad to assist him in his experiments....i mean...assistance of injured comrades.
And in regards to the Khorne icons...Yes and no, i normally file them off to make room for hazard stripes but sometimes i keep them because a few of my squads will be marked by certain gods

Look forward to seeing how that comes out once painted.

Woooo 3D printing!

That printed Dreadnought does look great. Just out of curiosity, how long did the printing take?

Thanks folks!!

Printing the dreadnought wreck took about 3 hours if i recall correctly.

That's many awesomes.

EDC

Cheers buddy

I've also revived another old project of mine - my death guard, to fight alongside my iron warriors.

I'm converting Blight Drones out of CD Plague Drones (something i've been wanting to do for a very very long time) , with space marine stalker autocannons as the guns and the 3d printing continues as i'm currently in the process of printing some rotors for the little fellas.

To go with my Blight Drones i'm also heavily kitbashing a few Plague Marine squads from chaos possessed, chaos tacticals, chaos raptors and even stormvermin and 30k legion destroyers. They'll be run in small squads of 6, toting special weapons and rhinos. My death guard list will be largely centered around daemon engines and mechanised warfare. But i've still to actually write a list for it

This plague marine squad is planned to run -

6 x Plague Marines
2 x Meltaguns or Plasma guns
champ with combigun and powerfist (Or meltabomb, not sure yet)
Rhino (not sure about upgrades yet)


Hopefully next update i can hopefully have the blight drones in a proper, presentable state as well as the plague marines. In addition, start painting the dreadnought wreck. Because it looks like it'd be wonderful to work on!

Really excited to see how the drones work out!

Trust me, they'll be good

So i've begun writing my death guard themed list and this is what i have so far...

HQ -

Chaos Lord
- Mark of Nurgle
- Blight Grenades
- Burning Brand of Skalathrax
- Chaos Bike
- Sigil of Corruption
-160

TROOPS -

6 x Plague Marines
- 2 x Meltaguns
- Rhino Transport
- Champion with Combi-gun and Melta Bombs
- 214 Pts

6 x Plague Marines
- 2 x Meltaguns
- Rhino Transport
- Champion with Combi-gun and Melta Bombs
- 214 Pts

6 x Plague Marines
- 2 x Plasma Guns
- Rhino Transport
- Champion with Combi-gun and Melta Bombs
- 224 Pts

ELITE -

FAST ATTACK -

1 x Blight Drones
-125Pts

1 x Blight Drones
-125Pts

HellDrake
-170 Pts

HEAVY SUPPORT -

-1232

I'm thinking of finishing off the list with 2 obliterator squads of 2, a bunch of cultists and maybe a chaos knight. I'm not really sure yet. But any suggestions would be more than welcome!!

That heldrake better turn out to be a helworm!!!

Howdy folks, sorry for being quiet again for a little bit. But i've got a new phone with a splendid camera and so this thread will be continuously updated again as it's going to be far easier to take photos and copy them to my computer now! Because my previous phone's camera was really bad and i had to use my big camera to take pictures and it was a pain in the butt to copy them and compress the file size blah blah blah

Anyhow, I managed to finish my army list for my death guard

HQ -

Chaos Lord
- Bike
- Mark of Nurgle
- Sigil
- Blight Grenades
- Power Axe
- Burning Brand
- Melta Bombs
- 180

Elites -

Helbrute w/ Reaper Autocannon
-110

Helbrute w/ Reaper Autocannon
-110

TROOPS -

6 x Plague Marines
- 2 x Meltaguns
- Rhino Transport
- Champion with Combi-gun and Melta Bombs
- 214 Pts

6 x Plague Marines
- 2 x Meltaguns
- Rhino Transport
- Champion with Combi-gun and Melta Bombs
- 214 Pts

6 x Plague Marines
- 2 x Plasma Guns
- Rhino Transport
- Champion with Combi-gun and Melta Bombs
- 224 Pts

10 x Cultists
8 x Autoguns
1 x Heavy Stubber
Champion w/ Shotgun
-65

10 x Cultists
8 x Autoguns
1 x Heavy Stubber
Champion w/ Shotgun
-65

ELITE -

FAST ATTACK -

1 x Blight Drone
-125Pts

1 x Blight Drone
-125Pts

Hell Talon
-185Pts

HEAVY SUPPORT -

Chaos Predator Tank
- Lascannon Sponsons
-115

Chaos Predator Tank
- Lascannon Sponsons
-115

2 X Obliterators
-Mark of Nurgle
-152 Pts

- 1999

I dumped the heldrake in favour of extra firepower in the shape of the hell talon. And also gives me a reason to finish off that hell talon conversion i started AAAAAAGES ago and still haven't finished


In addition I completed a few plague marines a little while ago. Originally i was going to give them respirator type helmets, but due to not being able to find any in bulk, and also because the good ones on the internet (such as maxmini or kromlech) were awesome but not standardised enough for me. So i decided to do something different and give them chaos warrior heads! yay!

I also managed to do some drilling work on the Blight Drone for the flying stand, and attach the gun which was a real pain to do. But it was still a blast making it. Now i've just got to attach the rotors i've 3d printed, give it some eyes and then mount whatever little doodads i need to finish it off!

Next update i'll show you my cultist conversions! Hope to see you there