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 Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:09 am
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:54 am
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I have just finished my command squad for my chaos marines. Colour is based on the Extinction Angels from the painting guide at the back of Codex: Chaos Space Marines. My Lord was the hardest to convert. Firstly I had to order 3 seperate parts; Typhus' scythe, a marauder sprue and the old chaos lord plasma pistol. On top of that the new chaos lord. (the lord's power fist is used later) Firstly I have to remove Typhus' left hand from the scythe. I riskily used clippers (oh the folly of youth xd ) but luckily it came out fine and luckily the area had bandages so and joins looked like folds in the bandage/grip. Next I had to attach the arm. It has came off on several occasions though now its firmly on (i hope). Next I glued the plasma pistol on. Since the new lord and the old lord are pretty much the same it fitted with ease. Next was the marauders head. I chose the bearded/long hair marauder (on the sprue with the champions sword). This fitted easily and suits more than the new lords TINY head in my view (im fed up of marines fleshy parts looking way too small). Now since I was mounting my command squad on special bases (basically hacked at my 40k terrain from an old starter set and stuck it on bases) I had to remove some of the rubble the lords left leg is on, seeing as it was raised. So getting a church like arch, i tilted it on its side. Next I sawed through the lower part of rubble (yup, sawed) and then filed enough room out of the arch for the rubble to sit firmly. Now I painted. I went with liche purple for the main of the armour (warlock purple for highlights) and bleached bone for the armour trim. The rest of the army followed this original colour scheme. Now the bearded marauder had his skin done in a dawrf flesh, highlighted in elf flesh. The hair had to stand out from the armour. Always having a thing for the flamey orange/red hair of dwarf slayers he was given a bright ginger/red hair. His eyes are not too detailed, but were simply painted green, like other models in the army. The scythes shaft was painted bleach bone, which fits in the story of that it is a weapon, containing a daemon, trapped by the eldar. Wraith bone! Weee! Anyway I dry brushed the blade in tin bitz and then boltgun metal, highlighting with boltgun. I hightlighted some areas in shining gold however (the lord included). Next i painted runes (anglo-saxon runes) onto the blade in gore red. Once it had dried i went over the runes in flaming orange giving them a glowing effect and making the blade look like a truly special weapon (tbh the typhus scythe is underdone and looks like a scthe, not a daemon weapon). That was about it. Oh and his flag has a purple chaos star on it.
Now the first member of the Lords chosen is the model i call Horny. Unlike you sick perverted peeps its due to him having horns (from the mutation sprue). A quick conversion, i chopped off the horns and glued them on...no problems, no need for pinning, no need for green stuff. Next came the lord's fist conversion. Taking a chaos arm (cant remember which one), I cut the fore arm off to the elbow pad. Next I glued the power fist on. Using the chaos tank commanders elbow pad I gave the model a unique look. The body itself came from the tank commander. I simply timmed the back piece down so a back pack could fit.
Next came the fallen champion. My lord being a fallen decendent of the blood angels, he favours those who fall from high posistions in the imperium into the service of his dark gods. So I found an Emporers Champion in my bitz box (among the mauled marines, melted brettonians and badly damaged fantasy orcs *sniff* I miss ma green boyz!). I wanted to give the champion a clear mutation showing how he had lost all belief in the emporer. Using the HUGE arm on the mutation spure I glued it to his usual sword arm, putting a slightly damaged shoulder pad on to represent that the mutation had grown and destroyed his armour. His empty arm was bare. I didnt want to give him a gun so i looked to the chaos marine command sprue. I cut off his fore arm and replaced it with the fore arm with the chaos power sword. Lastly there was the black templar necklace (i think). I couldn't have someone who jumped teams in my lords retinue! So taking clippers again, I clipped it off. Finding a plastic skull i halved it and glued it where the templar logo once was. The gods work was complete...the champion of the flase emporer had fallen to the lure of the dark gods! twisted
*cough* anyway next I needed two simple members of the squad. One with an assault weapon (never hurts to put a hole in some power armour before you assualt) so taking an old chaos havoc (rocket havoc) I added some spare bolter arms and gave him a plasma gun. Placing a back pack on him, he was a nice blend of old and new and gave him a vetran look but still didn't look like he had just came out of the heresy. Finally i need a combat marine. With about enough parts to make 8 khorne beserkers I decided not to field the beserkers. Fistly I find them to un-certain...if I wanted that I would have played orcs rofl Anyway I took a beserkers body and running legs. I glued them together and filed off and khorne symbols. Next I used a pair of chaos marine arms. I wanted the marine to hold a chain axe so had to remove an arm and slightly file it on one side so it sat on the arm at an angel. The standard left arm for the chaos marine held the top of the chain axe (i removed any mechanic pieces on the chain axe) and the right arm held the handle giving a nice swinging look. To finish him I added the simple horn mutant head, giving a strong looking head to the marine.
All have different bases. I already said the lords. Horny is on a fallen wall (which is on an angle), the fallen chamion isnt mounted on a piece of scenery but casually walking past a piece of ruined building. The assault weapon marine is behind a fallen arch. (cover?) Finally the marine who used to be a beserker is mounted on a pillar giving him the look that he jumped from ruin to ruin giving him a predatory look (in my eyes).
Ill get pics soon
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:46 pm
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:23 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:18 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:32 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:09 pm
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DarkertheDragon Okay, I'm better at doing painting and conversions than gaming (but I'm getting better at the game part). My Necron army is the first army I did, half of it is painted black and gold, and the other half is rusted, because the story is that their tomb subsided and water flooded part of the tomb complex. My Chaos army has the most conversions (y'know, the old "it's a mutation" excsue to do whatever the hell you want). I'll get some pics of the best ones sometimes, but here's the dreadnought http://www.fictioneers.co.uk/carnage.htmlI've just started an Ork army for the fun of it. Most players I know are scared of Orks, but they get really scared of CLOWN Orks! Yes, I'm clowning up my Orks. The story is they saw some Harlequins and thought "tehy must be dat good cos ov der colourz!" so thats why. |
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:08 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:25 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:57 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:47 am
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