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Have you thought about trying to make him into something like a Kytan Demon Engine? I think it'd be around the right size

 War Kitten wrote:
Have you thought about trying to make him into something like a Kytan Demon Engine? I think it'd be around the right size

I think he's too small for a Kytan... He would be a perfect stand in for a Leviathan-pattern dreadnought, but unfortunately us devotees of chaos don't get those toys... Maybe a Decimator? I'm not sure yet of how much spikey bits I want to put on him... It does look a bit too clean as it is to be chaos-ey enough...

Work had started on the Noise Marines that will go in that rhino that I'll eventually paint in an awesome livery of purple and pink...



There is still much metal and gold to be added... The bling will ooze from them...

And then I'll do five more with a pack of the new sonic weapons that I ordered from GW.

Much fun, very chaos, such Slaanesh...


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Fantastic stuff, I have to say. I love variety in an army, and I can definitely say your's has a lot of it!

Keep it up, good work.

 QuazzaP wrote:
Fantastic stuff, I have to say. I love variety in an army, and I can definitely say your's has a lot of it!

Keep it up, good work.

Thanks!

I think that it's one of the good thing with building a chaos army: the fluff and the crunch both support a wide variety of things...
And I'm tremendously lucky to have landed a stash of wonderful miniatures, where I have all four chaos flavors represented. This helps a lot with the variety.

And it also help to have kids who approach this with a more playful eye than mine... I would have never dared to make the 'Iron Men' that my son is doing, and which brought about this hulkbuster/contemptor experiment that I'm doing.

I'm swimming in the hobby these days, there are two friends of my kids who are also getting into it, one with the dark Angels force from Dark Vengeance, and another with imperial guards. So I'm also keeping my eyes peeled for cool vehicles to convert/pervert to the use of the Guards...

And then we'll have to have a place to play, so I'm thinking about my options for a game board/table that I can easily fold or stow away when not playing, and all sorts of things to build terrain with... My living room in warhammer 40k central right now, good thing that I live alone half of the time...

The Noise Marines are ready for the battlefield:



And I also got around to painting the 10th man of my CSM squad, as well as the first of my bikes. I'm not entirely convinced about the plasma effect...



And finally, this guy... I had a gold paint spill a few days ago, and decided to put a base coat of gold on his armor. And from there a seed of fluff was planted. He is the Golden Sorceror of Im'BekThak, clad in his golden plate, with his gold-plated trophies... I guess I need to write more fluff for my guys, It's fun to do!





I now have 2 HQ painted up for my army, I think that my next step is to dive into the cultists so I have my second basic troop, and then I'll have a playable army! No fielding unpainted minis for this guy, no sir!...

All hails the Golden Sorcerer, He who will melt your idols to cover the corpses of his foes !

Great stuff !

Well well well, look what found its way to my table...





I've traded already a few of the Dark Angels against cultists and the Helbrute, and I'll use the other ones for building a Cypher and a squad of Fallen... That's the plan at least... a lot of chopping and greenstuffing will need to happen for that...

Well, here are the parts I have to work with to build a convincing Cypher...



After a couple of hours of chopping and filing, here is where the man stands...

I still need to fit in the sword that I'm going to put in place of the bolter he had strapped to his shoulder...



And I think that the sargeant has enough salvagable pieces to build him up again...

Awesome! Cypher is one of my favourite characters and you have really done him justice there!

Here he is, done, and with the remains of the company master and of the sargent, plus a few chaos-y bits, here is the first of the Fallen...




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I had put the finger in the gears of chopping up Dark Vengeance marines, so I got sucked into the machine and needed to complete the project of making the fallen for my Cypher...

So here are the first ones, mostly head swaps and the Chaos backpacks...



The next ones, including the champion posted earlier...



And finally the whole squad, as it will stand in my army...



They will be painted in black, with the Dark angel heraldry in red, in 30k-style...

I think that having nine fallen should be pleasing to the lord of change...

Great update and very nice cypher conversion, but by the golden faucet of the emprah's bidet that First Fallen is magnificent, that is one Walking blasphemy, an twisted icon laughing to the gods.

To put it simply, I am a great fan of the pose. Looking forward to see it painted.

Those Fallen are absolutely gorgeous! Really nice work

In the meantime, my daughter is making steady progress in painting up her marines, and we even found a name for her warband: the Equestria Destroyers...

Yes, I did paint Twilight Sparkle's Cutie Mark on their shoulder pads... Oh the Heresy!




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I got my hands on the tenth bike, and the implication is clear to me, the 10th biker of my squad is going to be a fallen, I'll just use the Sargent from the Dark Vengeance box... My son had a box of Fantasy Chaos Knights, so I'll probably add a few chaos bits in there to clearly make him a Fallen... Maybe change his chainsword for a nice long chaos-y spear...

"Leave no miniature unconverted" well... more or less...




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A better shot of the HQ:



And the painted army as it stands as of today, March 13th...

The mailman brought me some Orky parts for my son's upcoming Evil Suns detatchement...

Some Bionic Orky goodness... At least one nice Mek will be assembled from these parts....

Well, we started putting orks together, my son and I, and damn my shiny chaos ass, those things are fun to build!

First a squad of warbikes;



And yes, number three is a converted chaos marines bike, with the Cannon from a battle wagon... Because Dakka...



Next we have a pair of Meks on traks:



And finally, and most fun of all, we have a squad of lootas mounted on wheels... This is going to be a Kult of Speed- themed army, after all...



I really have to restrain myself from just building all the things... so much fun!

Your Cypher conversion is totally boss.

Also loving the uni-track orks.

EDC

This thread is full of heresy. It must be purged....


Basically those bikers are super cool! Really nice work

I needed parts to finish up a few squads that needed a few models, so I bought a box of Chaos Space Marines. There is some very good stuff in there...

Like this guy, who, with his combi-melta, is going to be the champion of my plague marines :



But what I mostly needed the parts for was to complete my noise marines, bringing the total up to eleven... I know that only ten can fit in the metal box, but they have to go to eleven. That guy with the blastmaster certainly goes to eleven and beyond...



I've also continues working on the Dark Vengeance models, Turning the Lord into a Sorcerer. I would like to have him on a disk of tzeench, but that is going to wait until I get my burning chariot...



And speaking of Dark Vengeance, my bike project is slowly moving forward. I now have all ten models built, although some might get converted a bit further to better reflect the Legion's personality of each bike.

The Dark Vengeance bikes have been Chaos-i-fied..



And here are the nine "legion bikes"



For some of then it is very clear which legion they are going to represent, for instance the champion with his khorne helmet and his axe is clearly going to be World Eaters, and there is one that I built today, with the "third eye" helmet who is clearly going to be Thousand Sons. The one that is already painted in Black Legion colors will likely stay that way, but will receive a re-paint...

Should I post pictures of each of the ten so you can help me decide which goes with which legion? I have four clearly decided and six still up in the air...

Lots of very cool builds in this last update. These bikes will look great, 9 is already a lot of them.
Yeah do post, it can be interesting to decide who goes to what legion.

Here are all the bikes and which Legion they are assigned to so far, I don't have detailed pictures for all just yet but I'll start here, and I'll update this post a bit later today with all the squad:



Let's start with those that are already assigned a legion:

2- Thousand Sons:



3- World Eaters



7- Black Legion - painted by the previous owner, I'll fix it up and make it pretty, but will keep the general scheme



9- My painted Alpha Legion Bike



And this one is going to be bike 10 - Fallen angel



And now those who are not yet assigned:

1- One guy with a flamer, I've thought about making him Word Bearers, for the flaming book theme...



4- One guy with a big Chopper, with the wooden shield bit in front I'm tempted to make him Death Guard



5- One guy with a powersword (although it's not going to be a powersword in games term, since he's not the champion...)



6-One generic Chaos biker



8-A dark vengeance plasma-gun biker, with no conversions. With the wings i thought of making him Emperor's Children, following their old pre-heresy heraldry...



So I still need to have a bike assigned to:

a- Night Lords
b- Death Guard
c- Emperor's Children
d- Iron Warriors
e- Word Bearers

Your thoughts and suggestions are more than welcome!



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And look at what the mailman brought me!

A package from Ka-Bu-Ki models!


It's the "Anubis" and "Steam Knight" miniatures. The steam knight is meant to represent Mortarion, but I'll use him as Typhus in my army, and the Anubis will probably gain a numer of wings and become a Tzeenchian deamon prince...




They are hard resin, harder than what I've seen from GW or Kromlech (so far it's the only two I've seen, I'm only starting in the resin world....), but I guess that means that the level of detail is much finer than what I've seen so far...



The Anubis is about the right size for a deamon prince



And again, the level of detail is impressive



I'm very happy with those two, I'll keep them in reserve for when I feel like really spending some time on a miniature...
For the moment I'm still in "getting the bulk of my army painted" mode...

Allright, my two cents :

a- Night Lords (4 or 5)
These maniacs would gladly decorate a bike with body parts of capture prisoners, if you have squeleton bits lying around...

b- Death Guard (4 or 8)
That could be your bonus bike. If one of them have already have heavy layers of paint and cannot be stripped, you can always add plague growths in greenstuff over them. But indeed I see what you mean with the wooden shield, and that could definitely work. That depends on the state of bike 8 i'd say, given that you also should camouflage the aquila on the driver's chest, Nurgle could also help there

c- Emperor's Children (8)
If you have the demon speaker from the chaos vehicle sprues, that would let that slaaneshy bastard ride in music. The idea with the wings would definitely work, you also have some ravenwing icons on 4 that could be defiled in the same way (but the axe is not subtle enough for slaanesh I'd say)

d- Iron Warriors ( 5 )
Finding one the bikes with large empty surfaces, to paint hazard stripes. 5 has a skull on the front that couls be painted like the Iron Warrior icon.

e- Word Bearers (bike 1)
The flamer guy would definitely work, then if you have loyalist bits such as purity seals, scrolls of fire that would do the trick.

Damn, now I want to get myself some bikes...

 KernelTerror wrote:
Allright, my two cents :

a- Night Lords (4 or 5)
These maniacs would gladly decorate a bike with body parts of capture prisoners, if you have squeleton bits lying around...

The guy with the Generic bike could be used for that, and yes, I do have a bunch of fantasy skeletons that could be chopped up in little pieces to decorate the bike and make it less generic... Good idea!

 KernelTerror wrote:

b- Death Guard (4 or 8)
That could be your bonus bike. If one of them have already have heavy layers of paint and cannot be stripped, you can always add plague growths in greenstuff over them. But indeed I see what you mean with the wooden shield, and that could definitely work. That depends on the state of bike 8 i'd say, given that you also should camouflage the aquila on the driver's chest, Nurgle could also help there

Nurgling up number 4 would be my preference, since 8 seems like the logical choice for:

 KernelTerror wrote:


c- Emperor's Children (8)
If you have the demon speaker from the chaos vehicle sprues, that would let that slaaneshy bastard ride in music. The idea with the wings would definitely work, you also have some ravenwing icons on 4 that could be defiled in the same way (but the axe is not subtle enough for slaanesh I'd say)

Hear you loud and clear on the cleaver/axe, not slaneshi enough...

 KernelTerror wrote:


d- Iron Warriors ( 5 )
Finding one the bikes with large empty surfaces, to paint hazard stripes. 5 has a skull on the front that couls be painted like the Iron Warrior icon.

The Horns do feel "iron warrior" to me, i need to train my hazard stripe skills for that one...

 KernelTerror wrote:


e- Word Bearers (bike 1)
The flamer guy would definitely work, then if you have loyalist bits such as purity seals, scrolls of fire that would do the trick.

Damn, now I want to get myself some bikes...

Bands of greenstuff parchement flittering in the wing seem like a splendid idea...

And yes, get some bikes...


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dug up a skeleton, used it as hood ornament...





This is all kinds of funny to me...

Today I painted a couple of bikes of the squad, this way at least I have three painted that I can field...

Here is the thousand son:



And the World Eater Champion:



And here is what the squad looks like at the present moment:



I'm liking where this is going...

Looking good, that old school world eater is especially brilliant.

Fourth bike, painted this afternoon to kind of keep my mind off of the situation here is brussels today...

So this is the Iron Warrior bike, happy with the hazard stripes:


And the Word Bearer bike has been greenstuffed with long bands of parchement...



And a new squad shot:



And the whole project as it stands now:

Nice work on the bikes . I like how you've got one of each chapter, all lined up next to each other.

 hk1x1 wrote:
Nice work on the bikes . I like how you've got one of each chapter, all lined up next to each other.

Thanks! Some legions will be (I think) a bit more challenging to my limited painting skills... The night lords lightning bolts are going to be problemetic, likely, as is the nurgling up of the Death Guard Bike...

Speaking of the Death Guard, I've been practicing the paint scheme that I want to put on the bike on some old school plastic plague marines...



And I've been trying to figure out how to do the weathering and rust that comes with nurglification...



The first one on the left is just basecoat and a black wash, the second one is a dash of rust-color drybrush, and the third has a generous helping of weathering powder added to the mix... Not sure yet if it's too much or if it's just enough...

I've continued on the Death Guard over the last few days, and I must say that I'm very happy with the result...

Here are the first few, including the aspiring champ and his combi melta...



and the others, with the Icon Bearer...



And a shot of the whole squad, to give an idea of how they'll look on the gaming table...



Next, I have a Herald of Tzeench on a Chariot that I want to put together, and the spare parts from the kit will be used to make a disk for the Sorcerer I made from the Dark Vengeance Lord, as well as Horrors and a Flamer to complete the squads I need so I can field a deamon allied force for my CSM army...

So far I think I have enough painted minis for a 1000-point game, It's a start...

Well, these two guys walked unto my work table...



I tried to give the one with the scourge a bit of a more dynamic pose, but the posability of these metal dreadnoughts/hellbrutes is not really condusive to very dynamic anything... I still have to think about how to paint them, though... I think I'll paint them in Alpha legion livery, and will call them Alpharius and Omegon...

I did get started on the Noise Marine's Rhino, carving out and painting the top star, in addition to the purple-to-pink gradation of color... That was much harder than I had anticipated, and made me wish very hard for an airbrush...



The blue star on top I first traced out with a pen, then carved out with a dremel, to get some "depth" to it. It made it much easier to paint and it looks like it was scratched on the rhino's armor...



There is still quite a bit of work to do on that rhino, including the "soundwave" pattern that I wanted to paint on the sides... I've also started basing my army in the same style as the plague marines, and the unity in bases does bring the whole group together nicely...

There have also been more orks added to my son's pile of things to paint, and a few eldars for my daughter, I'll need to get more storage space for all of those miniatures soon...