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Thanks. So do I, it has been nearly a month since I received the original dread part. So i have been very happy to start applying the base-coat tonight.

But the finished work for this post is Virus :


Virus, also called Lord of the crawlers was once one of the Mill of sickness grain's most powerful psyker. As a librarian of the death guard he accumulated forbidden lore on the most dreadful affliction in the galaxy, and was copiously blessed by Nurgle. But a few millenia ago, as his power had kept growing, the one that would be named Virus tried to seize power on the ship. The folly of his rebellion against the demonic overlords that rule the Mill cost him highly. At the peak of the battle, the psyker was mortally wounded, and only survived by forsaking his Astartes body and transferring his twisted soul into the mortal one of an unfortunate cultist. He since then have been rambling in the darkest places of the ship, mutating and feeding on hate to try to rise back to his former glory. Wherever he goes, he is always followed by swarms of demonic flies from the warp, carrying the latest plagues born from Virus.

You're awesome.

Thanks man, glad you like them !

I know I've already commented on your other thread, but this mini looks putrid, just how Papa Nurgle demands it. That freehand on the cloak is a nice touch.

Thanks man !

All right, so that guy took a while to finish. I will keep him around my desk in order to look for points I might have missed, but the space crusade Dreadnought is about done. I am pretty happy with how it turned out in the end, that old dreadnought head still has it. Credits are due, to the bossfearless for telling me about the MSG guys, who made that sword, and to Ezra Tyrius who made me buy the random bit pack that contained the original dreadnought body. As always, thanks for watching, and let me know what you think !






That was a fun project, but I am pretty glad to be reaching the end o fit. Problem is, the other warbands should get dreadnoughts too...Especially since the vivisector cult will should soon welcome 6 more members, but I'll get to that... Here are some ideas I had so far fot the other dreads, even if these are long term projects, I have smaller models in mind next.

- Vivisector Cult : Iscariot - Space Crusade conversion
- Mill of sickness grains : Nurglify that (got it from the same random bit bag as the space crusade body) and give it super heavy legs equipped with turrets.
- Silent Reap : Revamp an old scholl dread, maybe going contemptor style...
- Sacrifice to Sin : Build two chapels on the shoulders of an hellbrute, one for Tzeentch with a psyker, and one for Slaanesh with a mad max flamethrowing guitar player.
- Asylum Knights : multiple arm dreadnought with a round back armor including an big ass gun (kind of a small reaver titan)

Monday is supply drop day !

That gets me the AOS box I knew I would eventually get. I just pride myself in resisting until Iscariot was finished (you take the victories you can ^^). Alongside this huge amount of guys to convert out of their righteous path, I also got a plaguebearer box, wanted to try something with these guys for a while, and an OOP terminator lord from ebay, that arrived at the same time.

But before getting started on these there is stuff that needs finishing, updates later on...

Fantastic work on that Dread, Kernel! Can't wait to see what the other Dreads will look like

Seems like you got a mighty fine supply drop too, what are you going to do with the AOS guys?

Thanks man, glad you like him !

Regarding the AOS box, a possible explanation might be "Out of love for fine looking bits" ^^. More seriously though, I already have some ideas.
Some of the khorne guys will logically join the Silent Reap, as Astartes or cultist, in both cases I will need to 40kify them.
I am also thinking of modifying a prosecutor as a slaanesh angel/raptor.
And finally the Khorgorath's pose reminded me of masss effect's Yahg. Not sure how doable that would be, the idea would be to civilize the beast a tiny bit in order to get some kind of a big demonic taskmaster for the Asylum Knights..


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Time for some work in progress posting, although it has not much to do with this morning's drop.

First I was not able to make something I like out of the weird axe DV chosen I posted before, so I went heretic and allowed a member of the silent reap to use something else than an axe. Might be for the better anyway, it will let me add more variety to the warband. Anyway, he is now unsheathing his weapon to deliver a blow. I will paint him before the assembly though, so it is still not attached.


And I started a first wave of reinforcement for the Vivisector cult : the Requisitors. These are a bunch of mechanically improved warriors that roam the galaxy in search of forbidden technology to bring back for study. Even if the cult widely experimented on them, they still are capable and intelligent artifact trackers capable of interacting with the locals on their own, a task the brainwashed servants of the cult are unable to achieve.

They are based on repositionned necron legs, plus a wide variety of bits, to represent warriors that have crossed the galaxy and the warp, equipping themselves with looted equipments of choice, and repairing their mechanical bodies with whatever was available. None of them are finished, they still miss guns, sculpting and moar bits. As always suggestions are welcome.

I feel like that dread needs a topless slaaneshi cultist riding on top. Maybe preaching about the glory of cocaine and vaginas. I've often toyed with the idea of a CSM army and I think we have similar ideas, small warbands that go together to form a larger army.



Might I suggest a squad of heavy metal marines drawn from the various characters of Rob Zombie's album Hellbilly Deluxe (living dead girl, dragula, resurrection joe and rosa whore, cyclone jack, the superbeast, spookshow baby, just to name a few)?

 bossfearless wrote:
I feel like that dread needs a topless slaaneshi cultist riding on top. Maybe preaching about the glory of cocaine and vaginas. I've often toyed with the idea of a CSM army and I think we have similar ideas, small warbands that go together to form a larger army.



Might I suggest a squad of heavy metal marines drawn from the various characters of Rob Zombie's album Hellbilly Deluxe (living dead girl, dragula, resurrection joe and rosa whore, cyclone jack, the superbeast, spookshow baby, just to name a few)?

Ok then...

Hehehe, yeah that could work Boss. As I mentioned earlier the slaanesh/tzeentch warband should get a dreadnought that feature "Chapels" with two characters on top presenting different aspects of the sect. One could be a flamethrower/guitar player, standing for the aspects of sound and fire. And the second one could be psychic dancer daemonette...

And Rob Zombie does have a lot of inspiring material with for example the colorful characters of house of a thousand corpse or the animated Superbeasto. It also true on stage; I had the chance to see him a few years back, and he was fully exploiting the giant screen to play horror videos alongside the show. It was as much a video event as it was a music show.

Oooooohhh...dreads with chapels atop. That's like miniature Imperator Titans, I like it! But now I feel like the dread platform might be too small. Maybe if you bulk it out a bit, build a plasticard "deck" on top with some railings. That would give you room to work. Dammit, I thrice curse my current location. This is exactly the sort of project I would want to collaborate on.


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Liking the basket hilt on that dual-sword Requisitors (hereafter referred to as ghost-pirates). I think that you need some more foppish details on these guys. I would direct you to the feathers on the caps of Empire archers. You can get packs of the hats and heads and you can use the feathers to give them some serious plumage (like I did with Shagnasty). I really think that the second one, the one with the cleaver-sword and the ork armor plate, is missing the theme that's developing with the rest. If it were me, I would avoid the big Ork plate and go with a much less blocky shoulderpad, something more like a Spanish conquistador or a Florentine fop. This unit could be all rapiers and swashbuckling and gentleman-piracy and badassery. Definitely check out some Empire plastics, they should be super cheap on Hoard o Bits on eBay, and should provide for all of your techno-heretic-fop needs.

 bossfearless wrote:
Oooooohhh...dreads with chapels atop. That's like miniature Imperator Titans, I like it! But now I feel like the dread platform might be too small. Maybe if you bulk it out a bit, build a plasticard "deck" on top with some railings. That would give you room to work. Dammit, I thrice curse my current location. This is exactly the sort of project I would want to collaborate on.

Yes ! Precisely like an imperator Titan, always loved that design of building an heavily gunned church on a mech. But yeah, the hellbrute will need to be reinforced and widened at the shoulder level. I guess I'll need to do a cardboard prototype to make sure. On an other hand, I do not plan on putting termies in these chapels, by some more decent sized gals :

The banshee will be appropriately vilified, headswapped, and equipped with a flamethrower guitar. The daemonette will get tentacles instead of the right claw in order to poledance for Slaanesh. Once I get my table cleaned up of WIPs, I'll start on that.

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Liking the basket hilt on that dual-sword Requisitors (hereafter referred to as ghost-pirates). I think that you need some more foppish details on these guys. I would direct you to the feathers on the caps of Empire archers. You can get packs of the hats and heads and you can use the feathers to give them some serious plumage (like I did with Shagnasty). I really think that the second one, the one with the cleaver-sword and the ork armor plate, is missing the theme that's developing with the rest. If it were me, I would avoid the big Ork plate and go with a much less blocky shoulderpad, something more like a Spanish conquistador or a Florentine fop. This unit could be all rapiers and swashbuckling and gentleman-piracy and badassery. Definitely check out some Empire plastics, they should be super cheap on Hoard o Bits on eBay, and should provide for all of your techno-heretic-fop needs.

Thanks for the valuable input. Yeah the basket hilt and the the hats were the whole reason for these guys, been watching too much of a musketeer TV show I guess.
So regarding plumage on the hats I agree they needed some, but I had already gone for something slightly different. The first one will be painted as a dorsal column, and the second as a wire, joining the ones the dude already has in the back.


You will also notice I followed you advice and got rid of the ork plate. An empire arm would indeed have been perfect, but I would have had to wait for it to be delivered, and the I have a chapel dreadnought to get to ^^ ! So I went for some greenstuff instead, once the lower part of the arm is cleaned it should work.

The dude also got himself a sword to carry on his belt, greenstuffing is still required on the hilt.

And finally the leader got a shuriken pistol, I think it fits the squad's style.

And now, some finished work for the Mill of Sickness:


Interrogator Symbiosis was once a front line brute, rampaging the enemy lines in his terminator armor. But after he was stranded and left for dead on a demon world, his personality, madness, and devotion to Nurgle all got to new dark depths. After taking six centuries getting back to the Mill, the armor of the one that should soon be known as the interrogator was changed. Be it from demonic possession, xenos corruption or both, it was now alive, with squirming tentacles, and an eye that lets him see who is really a chosen of Nurgle. As so, he leads his own investigations inside and outside of the ship, as some kind of plagued inquisitor. Some say he was truly blessed and that he actually has the power of truth seeking he claims, whereas other defend he still is the brute he always was, and that tentacles just made him better at torture.

Short update today, I just finished this bloke for the Silent Reap warband. The challenging part was the replacement of the bolter holding arms that were stuck to the body with the new ones.




Iaimaster Kargan of the Silent Reap fancies himself as an artist of killing by the blade. He usually slays common opponent with his very first blow, when pulling his sword right out of its sheath. Kargan will feel blessed by Khorne If a battle grants him the opportunity to meet someone able to withstand his first attack, and display more of his perfection. On the cursed homeworld of the Silent Reap, Kargan established an estate that welcomes the most talented demonic blacksmith of the eye of terror, a place of perfection that allows them to produce masterpieces. However, perfection needs to be put to the test, and an entire aisle of the estate is filled with headless corpses brought back from the campaigns of Kargan. Those corpses, armored or not, are used to assert how perfectly a blade can slice through flesh. Unsuccessful smith usually remain in the aisle of headless corpses.

Good evening Dakka. The Requisitors are done !



Most members of the Vivisector cult only reluctantly leave their labs in dark demon worlds in the eye of terror. Out of need for interaction with the worst elements of the Imperium and xenos races, the Requisitors were created. Mercenaries that performed well enough to be noticed can be integrated to this organization, after a long an painful amelioration phase. They then move throughout the galaxy, in quest of information, forbidden lore, or corrupted artifacts. Despite being an assembly of forbidden technology and corrupted flesh, they emphasize on infiltration and patience, often making use of disposable personnel.


Lord Procello is one of the eldest member of the Requisitors, once a wealthy trader that developed an unhealthy fascination for heretic artifacts, he was saved from the wrath of the ecclesiarchy by the creator of the Requisitors himself. Unlike many of his peers, the mind of lord Procello was respected and kept almost intact. Mad as he is, he still has knowledge as valuable as his informator network.





Malatesta crossed path with the cult as a bounty hunter, sent after an heretic magos, on a fleeing run to the eye of terror. Although he did complete his mission, he was unable to escape the ship before it entered the warp. After capture and 'amelioration' by the cult, he joined the Requisitors as one of its most deadly fighters and effective assassin. Not much but a twisted sense of martial honor remains in Malatesta's twisted carcass.




Sicario was already doomed before its integration to the Requisitors. Product of a failed experiment aiming to control demonic possession by mechanizing the body of the host. Armed with a demonic gun discovered on some dark mission, he is used when senseless violence is required. His 'amelioration' seems to make him just controllable enough for the Requisitors.



In parallel I was able to paint that terminator lord for the Silent Reap. It is a miniature I wanted to get before my hobby break, but never hurried up. Now it is OOP, so I had to go to ebay. Because of that, It is not converted, I was just happy to leave it as such.

Bishop Malthus, who takes his pious behavior in his Word Bearer origin, is one of the founding member of the Silent Reap. He played a noticeable role during the second schism of the Reap. At that time, around half of the faction claimed that the Axe was the only weapon blessed by Khorne, and demanded the right to annihilate the other half. Theological discussion inside the reap are made in an arena on their homeworld. By his faith, eloquence and martial strength, Malthus played an important role in maintaining various weapons in the reap, as well as executing many members of the heretic half of the warband.

Well that was one wall of text. Anyway, now I can go work on the dreadnought mentioned above... But I might go another way, I'll try to post a first rough build tomorrow. Anyway, thanks for looking; let me know what you think.

Alright so I was reading my subscribed feeds and noticed I was reaching my hundredth post on Dakka. So I decided to take pictures of all four original warbands in their current states. But I got lazy, did not use proper lighting and ended up with crappy pictures... So I ended up building a lightbox out of cardboard and of a led strip I had laying around. Now they look better.

Looking good! I like the new additions, those Requisitors are awesome (and pretty creepy)! I feel Lord Procello deserves some more screen time in the future though, he just looks absolutely boss

I'm really digging the fluff on the Silent Reap by the way, it's not so often you see religion playing much of a role in Chaos warbands nowadays (with the exception of the Word Bearers, of course), especially in Khornate ones

Glad to see this still going strong. The Dreadnaught is awesome and the Requisitors are gleefully twisted

Thanks fellas, glad you appreciate these last additions.

So between a music festival and a bachelor party in Barcelona, I did not get much time to worship the dark lords. Still, I started working on that bloke based on a AOS khorne guy. He should join the Silent Reap as a different take on possessed marines.


I also started on the Sacrifice to Sin dreadnought, based on an DV Hellbrute. I did some leg repositioning in order to straighten him up and placed additional plates in order to widen it so that he chapels have somewhere to sit.

Zoom on the two platforms, the dancing daemonette will be in the one on the left, and the one on the right with the amps will have the guitar player. The pole is not glued yet, but obviously will be properly vertical in the end.


That is all for tonight, thanks for watching, and input is always appreciated.

One more WIP update, with what I just realize may be hard to read pics, sorry about that, I was taking picture while attempting to stop my cat from entering the lightbox...

First off is that defiled sigmar dude, that will join the Sacrifice to Sin warband as I feel his arrogant stance fits.


And next are these guys, the Hooded Artillery, who are the reason I bought that plaguebearer box a few weeks back. Basically they are technology enhanced possessed weapon servitors for the Vivisector cult. They are built around a plaguebearer body and three old metal devastator weapons I think look good.


Well, thanks for watching guys, see you around.

Dangit, stop making me want to build a CSM army!

 bossfearless wrote:
Dangit, stop making me want to build a CSM army!

DO IT! Heavy Metal Chaos vs Dubstep Tau!

 LeCacty wrote:

 bossfearless wrote:
Dangit, stop making me want to build a CSM army!

DO IT! Heavy Metal Chaos vs Dubstep Tau!

Maybe, and I mean MAYBE if there's a new CSM squad kit released. Or something. I don't know.

 bossfearless wrote:

 LeCacty wrote:

 bossfearless wrote:
Dangit, stop making me want to build a CSM army!

DO IT! Heavy Metal Chaos vs Dubstep Tau!

Maybe, and I mean MAYBE if there's a new CSM squad kit released. Or something. I don't know.

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!

Hell yeah ! Do It Boss ! (As long as you can keep on producing giant mechs of awesome alongside of course.)
And yeah, a new squad kit would be very much appreciated.

Good morning Dakka. I was pretty happy with my hooded artillery, plus because I wanted to build these guys for a while, they jumped right in first position of the paint queue. Anyway, here they are.

In the Vivisector curl, what is known as The Hooded Artillery is more a tool that an actual squad. When a servant is injured in service, or makes one too many mistake, he might be offered to one of the oldest magos of the cult, known as the Repurposer. Details of the process to produce an hooded artillery member from a discarded servant are known only by the Repurposer, but the core concept is a long sequence of demonic possessions of the servant, followed by banishments. By serving as host to a long list of different warp entities, the subject usually dies mad and in pain. But those who survive often end up an used shell with interesting remaining gift such as strength, endurance, and absence of fear. On an other hand, discipline drugs make them easy to control and trade for other goods among the cult. If only such a skill for demonic banishment had been used for the sake of the imperium...

You really have a way of making Chaos even more grimdark than it already is, you know that, right?

The Hooded Artillery look pretty damn awesome (and quite unnervingly grotesque), the paintjob really brings them to life

Can't wait to see what rolls out of your daemonic forge next

Oh lawdy lawd.

Thanks a lot mates !
Well, next updates will probably feature the AOS conversions mentioned above and some WIP on the Sacrifice to Sin Dread. I also have some "antiques" in the mail, I'll let you know when they get here ^^.