Due to my introverted nature, I never actually played any tabletop, but during the prolonged period that I had an excess of time and no idea what to do with it, I did quite enjoy collecting and painting the occasional model. Well, I say Occasional...
I ended up with about 105 fully painted models in the end.
And then I didn't even paint a whole bunch of them.
These were the models I wouldn't mind painting still, provided in some strange future that would allow that.
Wordbearer Soul Grinder, middling conversion, and half painted, originally in Black legion colours.
An unpainted Night Lord raptor, of which I'm pretty proud, extensive conversion, almost a diorama.
Unpainted other models, you can see for yourself, either word bearers, some night lords and an Ahriman and Thousand Son sorcerer, some cultists. One Iron Warrior, in metal.
These four factions have definite themes and I wanted to have something suitable for each of them; a phrase that could work on its own while still fitting into a greater whole.
"All things dark and terrible pray for the end, screaming in rage; This day all gods die!"
The Night Lords are dark and terrible, the Word Bearers pray for the end, the World Eaters scream in rage and the Death Guard; as the avatars of entropy and decay, will witness even the death of the Gods.
The individual titles from left to right are Lord of the Night, Bearer of the Word, Eaters of Worlds and lastly; Dead Rot's Dreamer. The first three of these need no explanation but the last one merits a few words:"Rot" stands of course for Nurgle and the Death Guard, the "Dead" and the "Dreamer" point to the Chulhu mythos, which I homaged with my Death Guard Sorcerer conversion.
Black Legion (38)
The Lord, of course, needs his sorcerer, but I bought this one way, way later, and I think it's probably the last Black Legion model that I painted. My ideas for paint schemes restricted themselves to the main 5 factions, and any models would get divided into the factions they most fitted into. Turns out I also made Night Lords and Word Bearers in the end, but, I think you know what I'm getting at here: if it looks like it should be in a particular legion, you paint it to fit in that legion.
hence, that's why this sorcerer fits most in the Black Legion.
Here is my group of Bikers, no funny names here, never had a penchant for that.
You'll notice immediately that I wanted some variety in my bike stances; the Leader is accommodating his power sword strike by tilting his bike to the left, and the bolt pistol Biker has only his hind wheel glued to the ground, which enables me to change his position whenever I want (as I illustrated).
I actually didn't have enough bases, so I cut one small round base in the middle, and then glued it to a larger old warhammer base. it worked out... I think.
Black Legion Possessed, which are different from Word bearer Possessed.
You see: Word Bearer Possessed actually have the space marine synergize with the demon, altering everything about them (in my head canon at least); while the Black Legion possessed have the demon take over entirely.
In reality, the reason these look so different that the current possessed roster, is that these are the older metal possessed models, fitting more with what the fanbase thought that possessions would be like. That'd be before Bowden wrote his phenomenal First Heretic.
I just love this model. And, I kept seeing it in the White Dwarfs my brother bought, so when I finally bought it I couldn't paint it in any other colours than what I'd seen. I did eventually end up painting another Daemon Prince in Word Bearer colours. There's pictures of that one way below.
That rock at the back, I'm super proud of, because I had the shading from dark to light down perfectly, somehow. It almost looks real even, looks better in the flesh.
Down here are two troupes of... Specials? ... Havocs? ... I don't know, these were either extras I got from someone or metal models I got on the cheap so I either didn't alter the paint job that came with them, or I ended up doing absolutely minimal work on them. The VERY old models are more of an object of curiosity than something I'm actually pleased with to have in my army. I might have some early edition Bloodletters lying around come to think of it.
Rocket Launcher Havocs.
Flamer Havocs... I wish these had been heavy flamers... but you rows with the flamers you got, I guess.
Up next; the Bolter team, 9 of 'em.
Here come the two baddest of the Bolter team. Really nice paint jobs on the two, they're the only ones of the bolter team I'm acutally happy with. The one with the face is a repaint from one of my earliest models. It got so clotted with paint I had to strip the paint of it. And still, it came out pretty damn good.
Standard Bearer, which is also pretty cool.
The rest of the bolter team. I like the Heavy Bolter, though the horns on all of these aren't greatly well painted either.
And here are the ones I'm very pleased with. painted way, way after the Bolter team. This was when I had a bunch of spare parts lying around and I could just go nuts on making the coolest team I could think of, and as you can see, my painting had also improved by this time.
Chosen Chaos Marines.
And yes, you'll notice that these are absolute not made according to the rules, but then I wasn't much of a tabletop gamer anyway, so I just set out to make some cool looking models.
Bad-ass close combat experts.
Love the eyes, looks way better in person.
The command Team, captain and Shield Anvil.
Conversion made with a lot of Chaos Knight parts.
Heavy weapons team, I always was a fan of meltaguns... until I saw them in action (Warhammer Martyr).
And the rest of these are dudes with bolt pistols and chainswords.
Dude with bloody chainsword and metal mohawk, and even though it looks silly, I'm still pretty fond of him.
And these last three were just dynamically posed.
The smallest force you ever did see.
I loved the idea of a group of flamers, and the look and paintjob of these bastards was copied pretty much exactly from the standard one on the box.
A test to see if I could achieve the same vibrant and clashing colours as depicted there.
Turns out it wasn't even that hard to do.
Some wear and tear on these babies. Half of these are resin, half are metal. These are also just older models as I really don't dig the look of the new flamers. I find the flames themselves just a little too... off.
The Kharnate Horde (27)
Here's my bunch of Khorne Lovers.
I started out collecting World Eaters, and of course no army of the Blood God is complete without his foot soldiers; the Bloodletters.
I only made ten of these because I got tired of painting them pretty quick as there's not much possibility of variation in their assembly which means there's not much chance of experimentation.
10 in total, on their apt Khornate battleground.
And of course, since I got myself a troop of Bloodletters, I also needed someone to lead them.
Enter the Taker of Skulls.
Again, I chose to make the blade contrast with the rest of it. It's what I like to see and all.
Loved painting him but I admit, it did take some time.
Here's another hero, kit-bashed and filled with some lovely contrast.
Khorne Lord with Nurgle helmet and cloak, taken as trophies of course, and seated on an Old-world Juggernaught.
I got him a glaive, unpowered, because we wouldn't want to vaporize all that lovely blood now, would we?
Custom base, with extra skulls.
Aaaand yet another hero. Terminator Lord with combi-bolter and power axe (golden).
This one is actually the first one (I think) I ever painted. Might even have been the first model too.
Loved messing around with the cloak, and believe it or not but the rock is painted by hand as well.
I was so happy with it that I never actually repainted the rock to fit with what is now my regular destroyed city base make-up. It's why this one is still brown stone based. That used to be my initial theme.
Khorne Lord with Daemon Weapon. Not much to say here.
This here is a captain, and one of my absolute favourite models.
Mutation Power glaive and mutation in the armpit to cover up some shoddy greenstuffing.
Custom chain skirt and a regular backpacktrophy. One of the first ones I made.
Love everything about this model. From the grille that makes it seem as if he's screaming, to the classic warhammer-pose, to the cool melee weapon mutation.
And of course, you can't go World Eater without actually getting the most iconic World Eater Ever.
Kharn the Betrayer.
Very basic paintjob, nothing special.
I made his naked arm fish-belly white, believing that 10 000 years of warfare would bleach one of colour; an unhealthy dead-looking colour.
I tried to make Gorechild stand out with red washes on Mithril Silver but it ended up not looking much like anything.
And of course, Kharn, as a Berzerker, needs some Berzekers to fit in with, if only to kill some of them whenever the Butcher's Nails get the better of him.
And, though I'm not too fond of how I either painted or kitbashed 'em, here they are nonetheless. 11 in total.
Captains with Plasma guns.
Standard Berzekers, nothing fancy.
These are slightly more special, as I did have some ideas on stuff I wanted to do.
But my lack of experience betrays me in all of these models, both in the paintjob and the conversion.
I wanted to do something special with the weapons, so I converted a boltpistol to make it look like a skull spitting out boltrounds. And of course I also had to have a 2 bladed chainsword-type thing.
Results are... not very great but there you have it.
And, since I thought that the helmets all looked very similar I tried to make some modest conversions to make them seem more original. Not great either but who cares, really?
Word Bearers (9)
My Word Bearer chaplain.
No conversions whatsoever. just a specific paintjob of a Dark Vengeance model.
Word Bearer Marine painted as-is from the Dark vengeance set. What can I say, if it looks infused with daemonic shit, it's gotta be a word bearer.
Last stand Word Bearer.
My attempt to achieve some dynamic posing on a regular kitbashed marine. Nothing special but still quite pleased.
My Word Bearer Daemon Prince with Balrog wings conversion. Arrowhead Tail conversion. Heavy conversion on the Staff, inspired by the Anthony Reynolds's Word Bearer Trilogy, specifically Icon-bearing champion Burias drak'Shall. Staff cobbled together from I don't know how many different pieces. Kitbashing and slight sculpting. I'm not very good at the latter.
The idea of the icon is so simple but I can't recall ever having seen it anywhere else. A staff with iconhead that is a direct portal into the warp out of which two daemon-heads poke wreathed in flame. Things don't get much more Word Bearer than that. |
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Possessed Lobster.
I had alot of fun making these possessed. Their painting process wasn't as much fun though. They kept having to go through revisions.
Posessed Champion. Again, this one in particular went through alot of revisions, both in painting and in kitbashing.
Possessed Necromorph. Well duh, I mean, look at that thing.
What else was I going to call it?
The second I saw the various bits I knew what I was going to make with it.
One of the models I was pleased with from the start.
Surprised Possessed Marine with Screaming Daemon Head.
This was also one of those ideas that arrive full-formed in your head. Never revised, still funny.
Regular possessed Word Bearer. Nothing too fancy about this one, but I love his energy.
Cultists (12)
These belong technically with the Word Bearers, but they're supposed to be interchangable with any force really. But it was my reasoning that these guys belonged more with the Bearers of the Word than with anyone else. Hence the colouring.
Any force needs a leader, and I found mine in some place that wasn't Warhammer. He's way too tall to count as a foot soldier but I guess he could count as an ogryn or something.
I thought he had something of the ol' Pyramidhead about him, except a lot less rapey... probably.
He came from this thing, which I recently found, coincidentally, in one of the old boxes I still had lying around.
The rest of them didn't have too much going on but I did make sure they all wouldn't look too much alike. All models from the Dark Vengeance set.
The head mutation originally came from, I think, a seperate mutation set. It was supposed to be an arm but you know how this type of thing goes. You take it how you sees it.
I love the flesh mask on the left one.
The inflamed chaos star on the one's shoulder. It looks really glistening-nasty in real life.
And here's another few of them. Custom (shoddy) hood to make him look different.
I tried to incorporate my usual contrast points, blue to red, but where I could't I just relied on the flesh-tint to make the contrast. The point of cultists anyway, is to make it a veritable horde. Ogryn flesh and dirty red all the way. Wish I could remember what exactly my paint scheme was here because I still have some unpainted models lying around.
Night Lords (10)
Do not go into the long grass!
What? Wrong franchise, you say?
Ah whatever, these are way cooler anyway.
Pretty standard, pretty straightforward these. 5 old school (only real night lord) raptors in total. 1 with a plasma pistol, red glow, 1 with a flamer.
I am very fond of the lightning effect on some of them.
I was always of the school of deliberate lightning. Not chaos infused though.
just some specific type of armour letting electricity crackle over the outside of the armour.
This directly contradicts Bowden's trilogy and doesn't help with being stealthy but damnit, I gotta have some cool stuff too.
Boss with lightning claws. All metal models.
And here, finally, is my baby, the motherfucking Night Lord Dreadnought.
Man, this was such a fun model to do.
I got an old metal Chaos dreadnought on the cheap. Mainly because nobody wanted it.
The old things looked squat and stupid, really, with a helmet rather than a coffinplate.
Wasn't happy with that either. But I had plans.
I increased its size in three ways. One; by putting him on a custom base. Two; by giving him a banner, and what do you mean my freehand skills aren't up to snuff? And thirdly; by adding a piece of chassis from an old ork model to go between the legs and central coffin part.
Worked like a charm, you can't even tell that it wasn't supposed to be there.
I altered its combat weapon by letting it be a mix of chain and power weaponry.
I see now that I should have switched those around: smaller powerclaws on the outside, longer chainswords in the center... ah well.
Oh yeah. And the coffin, took a lot of drilling to get the ridiculous helmet down to a size where I could add one of the chaos knight shields on top of it.
It worked out quite well, and this is still one of the models that I'm all-round pleased with.
Nothing fancy here. Just a transport rhino.
Not a tank man, but I got 2 from the friend of a friend, so why not practice some lightning patterns, right?
Night Lord Champion... but really... they're all champions...
You hear that? ...you're all diamonds.
Original power or lightning claw removed to add yet another shield.
I always envisioned my Night Lords to have something knightly ancient about them. baroque-chique maybe.
Heavily altered Dark Vengeance model.
Heavily altered because my Night Lords hold no truck with Chaos, yow, and all the Dark Vengeance models had extensive Chaos mutations. Took way too much time and you can still easily spot what I altered.
Same deal here.
Except instead of the normal Baroque marine we have one who's definitely into bones.
Night Lord through and through.
Death Guard (3)
Plague Marine Sorcerer via Forge World. Started out as an idea into giving a Cthulhu homage.
Face modelled after Davy Jones as depicted by Bill Nighy in Pirates of the Carribean.
Not sure why I picked that scythe in the end. Probably because of how awesome the Typhus model is.
A virtually unaltered Typhus Model. Made of metal.
Bought it because I liked it and I still do.
Must be the first hero I painted. This isn't the original paintjob but one I changed a bit over the years.
Improvements included the basing. The wires of slime have bent over the years and I can't seem to get them to stay the way I wanted anymore.
Regular Death Guard bastard, slightly altered from its original Dark Vengeance model to have a bloated belly.
Note the bile draining from his right leg, out of the demon's open mouth.
Warriors of Chaos (6)
Here's a model that I worked on for three days in a very elaborate way, enjoying it all the while. I let the colours fade into on another on the shield and carried that through on the rest of the armour. It's some of my favourite work. Axe was meant to be a magical weapon, presumably taken from a Tzeentchian warrior as spoils of war. A khornate lord with a sorcerous weapon, I hear you say, Heresy! Sure.
But let's grow up and admit that the contrast is lovely. Contrasting colours is something I have in all the models I'm proud of. Lightning was supposed to play around the axehead but I'm not sure if I've done that good a job of it.
I also always envisioned Chaos Warriors in red cloaks trudging through the snow. The base was only coated long afterward in a poor attempt at that.
And here's my lonely troop of Chaos Knights.
Led by their champion with the sword that is nothing at all like a miniature version of Archaon's.
You know how this goes; if you don't have a definite idea when you kitbash a new box of models you start out by making one a completely badass son of a bitch who has all your favourite pieces of armour.
I think this one's head got swapped out for my khorne lord on juggernaught though.
Contrasting colours on a chaos knight, whose idea was that?
I never was too pleased with the dark gunmetal grey colour scheme. Not dark enough.
When you've finally got your badass one ready, you just have to o and create an absolute batshit crazy one. One that the other knights don't really want to ride alongside, and avoid eyecontact with, and whose jokes even thy find in poor taste.
Shield draped with bloody skin, metal face-grille that just screams 'Judge Fear', broken halberd for just that little bit of extra tetanus, and even the horse looks like it's up for some weird shenanigans, with its weird forked tongue poking out.
When the attributes of the crazy and the lord have been assigned (preferably on the same model), all that needs giving a place is banner and horn, before you just glue together whatever's left into semi-servicable models.
As this was early days I put both banner and horn on the same model, despite of this, of course, being wildly impractical.
This here's the capable one.
No-nonsense horse, badass helmet + mean-looking halberd.
And then there's the one where everything that's left is just dreck no matter what you do.
And that's it, bitches. I might make some more in the future, but definitely not immediately. Thanks for visiting, don't be afraid to leave a comment.
Sehr shoon! More models pleez
ReplyDeleteThank you Roebans,
DeleteI regularly update my pages. There's alot of models still to go so Stay Tuned!