Tuesday, November 11, 2014
The Chaos Eldar Project - Possessed Eldar also known as Mandrakes
So I have started some possessed Eldar units. Since mandrakes are pretty close alread, they will likely be minor modifications.
The Chaos Eldar Project - Eldar Obliterators
So, I see no reason why Eldar could not be infected by the obliterator virus, so here is my first such creation. I still need to finish the head, and then it is off to painting. I will probably just end up using the regular obliterator rules. As for the model, it started as one of the warmachine light myrmadons which I added some greenstuff and dark/Eldar weaponry to.
UPDATE: 10.12.2014
Second one is started
UPDATE: 14.12.2014
First one is painted.
I thought dark blue with a little reddish/purple tint and glowing blue lines would look cool. It did, but it also came out "in midnight clad." Ah well, I think it looks good.
First one is painted.
I thought dark blue with a little reddish/purple tint and glowing blue lines would look cool. It did, but it also came out "in midnight clad." Ah well, I think it looks good.
Chaos Black Primer
Heavily watered down Enchanted Blue
Heavily watered down Liche Purple where that didn't end up in a splotchy type deal.
Heavily watered down Enchanted Blue
Heavily watered down Liche Purple where that didn't end up in a splotchy type deal.
I think I then put another level of the enchanted blue.
Then Carrionburg Crimson
Then Enchanted Blue lines.
Leadbelcher on guns.
Nuln Oil on guns.
Then Enchanted Blue lines.
Leadbelcher on guns.
Nuln Oil on guns.
Caliban Green on mutations
Nuln oil on everything but the mutations.
Skull White over the lines.
Goblin Green on the mutations.
Watered down Enchanted Blue over the white.
Two heavy coats of Reikland Fleshshade on the mutations.
Gems were then done with the 1.2/3.1/3.white highlight method with either Enchanted Blue with mixed in Skull White or for the eye lense, Scab Red, Red Gore, Blood Red. Some of the gems actually got started before the Nuln Oil, but I don't think it made a difference.
I still need to gloss varnish the gems. I think it looks pretty good if I say so myself, even if it is too much a Night Lord.
UPDATE: 19.01.2015
More work done on the second one, also the third one is beginning to form.
I have added some spilling out intestines to the second one, but pics will have to wait until they are more dry.
UPDATE: 10.02.2015
Second one is in a preprime state, I am pretty happy about the intestines.
Second one is in a preprime state, I am pretty happy about the intestines.
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Aelianus The Pristine
Aelianus the Pristine
He keeps his armour in brightest polish, even by the standards of the Hoardkeepers. He also continues to display the imperial aquila in mockery of his former masters. He wears a modified flamer of his own design, rather than shoot flaming promethium, it vomits forth a stream of molten gold supplied by great furnaces affixed to the back of his armour. It covers his enemies in a thick layer of optically pleasing gold as it muffles their dying screams. He often pauses in battle to admire such creations, the best of which he earmarks for future use as statues, the rest he hacks apart and throws back into the furnace to be melted down and weaponized once more, bone, flesh, blood, and gold.
Now fully based.
He keeps his armour in brightest polish, even by the standards of the Hoardkeepers. He also continues to display the imperial aquila in mockery of his former masters. He wears a modified flamer of his own design, rather than shoot flaming promethium, it vomits forth a stream of molten gold supplied by great furnaces affixed to the back of his armour. It covers his enemies in a thick layer of optically pleasing gold as it muffles their dying screams. He often pauses in battle to admire such creations, the best of which he earmarks for future use as statues, the rest he hacks apart and throws back into the furnace to be melted down and weaponized once more, bone, flesh, blood, and gold.
Now fully based.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Escharon
“When the Warmaster leaves for the Gate, we will fight for him. When the Warmaster strikes down planet after planet on his path to Terra we will fight for him. When the Warmaster lays siege to the imperial palace, we will fight for him. And all that with no expectation of thanks or gratitude in word, in action, or in object. But in the mean time, whilst Abbadon sends mewling pawns to beg for bread with nothing to offer but hollow words and empty promises; in the mean time, whilst he asks for my knights and my beasts and my weapons of war; in the mean time, whilst he wheedles and worms his way to power; he gets nothing from me he doesn’t pay for. Go back to your fell master and tell him that my price is not for negotiation.”
-King Escharon of the Tide of Blood
The Tide of Blood: Although nominally a force under the banner of the Black Legion, the Tide has much more in common, and perhaps better relations, with the warbands originally of the Word Bearers Legion. They make extensive use of daemons and daemonically possessed machines and have absorbed hundreds of warbands over the millennia. There name comes from a spell wrought by the sorcerous elite of any given detachment before battle. The skies fill with rains of blood over the Tide’s forces and the fields of battle are dyed red with it. (Note it has been suggested that the use of corrupted thunderhawk transporters or other technology to just physically dump large barrels of blood over the battlefield before battle may also occur.) After each battle, if possible, towers of arcane and foul design are set up over the battlefields and used to reabsorb the blood succored by the newly dead. WIP Pics:
-King Escharon of the Tide of Blood
Name: Escharon “The Cthonian” “The King of Scars”
Rank: King
"Warband": Tide of Blood
Gear: Stolen Grey Knight Terminator Armor, Combi Melta, Soulthief (Daemon Halberd), Power Fist
Rules: Hasn’t been used this edition.
King Escharon was the son of one of the barbarian kings of Cthonis. He was one of the first to be inducted into Horus’s legion, for he knew power was that way. He fought strongly and valiantly to protect the freedoms of the imperial people during the crusades, and was very close with several members of the XVII legion. He also was one of the first to turn to the dark gods after the events of Davin’s Moon.
As he saw the uprising failing, he went into the Eye of Terror in the hopes of being flung back in time to a place where he could assure Horus’s victory. Unsurprisingly, he failed, but he has never stopped. The years have been long for him. The time he spends in the unstable portions of the warp mean he has spent 20,000 years traveling since the heresy, kept alive by the will of the four. He has outlasted many suits of power armour, and has recently hunted down Grey Knights to keep himself stocked with armour better able to survive the rigors of the Tzeentchian warpspace he often frequents.
His travels have taught him much. He has learned to tame a great number of warpspawn and other foul creatures, a massive possessed Land Raider called simply the Beast, has served as his mount on many an occasion. After falling out with the rest of the Black Legion due to their lack of honor for their forefather, he has attracted to himself a great many warlords with his philosophy of faith. “All death pleases the four, the spilt blood and sundered body please the lord of battle, the rotting corpse pleases the lord of decay, the pain and suffering inflicted please the lord of excess, and the transitions from life to death and those that occur in the tide of battle please the lord of change.”
Recently, Escharon has been looking for a way to open a portal back to the original siege of Terra. Ideally he would open it when the hordes of Abbadon’s thirteenth black crusade are once more at the gate. Escharon fights to find a way to undo the past and create a truly free empire of men, lead in the name of Horus. And of course, no man better understands his primarch than Escharon, the Cthonian.
Escharon’s gifts in dealing with beasts have lead him to amass an enormous host of daemon engines, some created from Titans. He seeks out the most difficult to control and offers to take them or tame them for a price. But many will only follow his will alone. Over time he has collected many like minded individuals and now has no need for ties with the dark mechanicus to keep his armies supplied. He does keep loose ties though, because the dark mechanicus are often a good source of recruits and inspiration for Escharon, and they seek to understand how he controls such creatures as it would make it much easier than the bindings they use, which while much more effective on a wide scale, are perhaps not quite as efficient in terms of sacrifices.
The Tide of Blood: Although nominally a force under the banner of the Black Legion, the Tide has much more in common, and perhaps better relations, with the warbands originally of the Word Bearers Legion. They make extensive use of daemons and daemonically possessed machines and have absorbed hundreds of warbands over the millennia. There name comes from a spell wrought by the sorcerous elite of any given detachment before battle. The skies fill with rains of blood over the Tide’s forces and the fields of battle are dyed red with it. (Note it has been suggested that the use of corrupted thunderhawk transporters or other technology to just physically dump large barrels of blood over the battlefield before battle may also occur.) After each battle, if possible, towers of arcane and foul design are set up over the battlefields and used to reabsorb the blood succored by the newly dead. WIP Pics:
Monday, November 3, 2014
Plasma Cannon Servitor
So I scratch built this from some base sprue and some index cards a while back. I finally got around to painting it.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Balgo's Thrice Cursed
So this is a unit of 20 chaos space marines that I told myself I would convert every one. Some are painted, some aren't and a bit here or there may have fallen off a few of them, but I wanted to post up the group shots as I realized such shots don't exist anywhere just yet.
Their aspiring champion is Balgo. The story behind the thrice cursed name is as follows. Balgo was a sargeant of a squad of space marines from the third company of an [as yet unnamed] Ultramarines successor chapter. When the captain of the third company turned on an attached Ecclesiarchy group the chapter was split between those who supported the captain and those who supported the Ecclesiarchy. Since the loyalist faction were eventually victorious and the chapter master had been a staunch supporter of the Ecclesiarchy, the chapter was allowed to engage in a penitent crusade in and around the Maelstrom to reclaim its honor. Balgo was promoted to the head of the remains of the third company. Because that company had been the greatest supporters of their first traitorous captain they were thrown into the vanguard of battle after battle.
Not only were they thus cursed by heavy casualties they began to suffer from subtle mutations and gene-seed corruption. Balgo, recognizing that the worst of these mutations could never be allowed to be seen by the rest of his chapter started to cleanse his own ranks. The third company accepted their fate and began to keep the names of the lost within their armor, so as to not forget that they were fighting for not just their own honor, but that of their fallen brethren. Miraculously the chapter managed to survive toward the end of its crusade. Unfortunately, upon investigations into the high rate of inoperable wounds and geneseed destruction in the second company, the chapter master discovered what Balgo had really been doing. In horror, he ordered the second and fourth companies to destroy what he saw as mutant harborors and traitors, the third company. Balgo and his troops received early warning from one of the ships sent to destroy them and fled into the Maelstrom. There, whether on his own accord or perhaps due to whispers of some denizen of the warp he nurtured a deep bitterness.
When next the third company returned to realspace, they did so in a raid on an imperial planet. They used their mutations as powerful if unwanted weapons and several chaos spawn were seen at the front used callously as cannon fodder and shock troops. Different members amongst their number had found refuge in the worship of various warp entities from the minor to the four themselves. Balgo has dedicated himself to chaos undivided in order to better seek his vengeance. He despises himself but hates the Imperium that cursed and cast him out all the more. He fights just to see the servants of the God Emperor fall. This bitterness has since been harnessed by the Tide of Blood for good effect. As long as the Tide continues to provide Balgo with an outlet for his fury he will lead his men against any of their foes as his hatred toward every being not under his command only grows and he cares little for who he slays each day as long as his blade remains slick with their blood.
UPDATE: 07.06.2015
Their aspiring champion is Balgo. The story behind the thrice cursed name is as follows. Balgo was a sargeant of a squad of space marines from the third company of an [as yet unnamed] Ultramarines successor chapter. When the captain of the third company turned on an attached Ecclesiarchy group the chapter was split between those who supported the captain and those who supported the Ecclesiarchy. Since the loyalist faction were eventually victorious and the chapter master had been a staunch supporter of the Ecclesiarchy, the chapter was allowed to engage in a penitent crusade in and around the Maelstrom to reclaim its honor. Balgo was promoted to the head of the remains of the third company. Because that company had been the greatest supporters of their first traitorous captain they were thrown into the vanguard of battle after battle.
Not only were they thus cursed by heavy casualties they began to suffer from subtle mutations and gene-seed corruption. Balgo, recognizing that the worst of these mutations could never be allowed to be seen by the rest of his chapter started to cleanse his own ranks. The third company accepted their fate and began to keep the names of the lost within their armor, so as to not forget that they were fighting for not just their own honor, but that of their fallen brethren. Miraculously the chapter managed to survive toward the end of its crusade. Unfortunately, upon investigations into the high rate of inoperable wounds and geneseed destruction in the second company, the chapter master discovered what Balgo had really been doing. In horror, he ordered the second and fourth companies to destroy what he saw as mutant harborors and traitors, the third company. Balgo and his troops received early warning from one of the ships sent to destroy them and fled into the Maelstrom. There, whether on his own accord or perhaps due to whispers of some denizen of the warp he nurtured a deep bitterness.
When next the third company returned to realspace, they did so in a raid on an imperial planet. They used their mutations as powerful if unwanted weapons and several chaos spawn were seen at the front used callously as cannon fodder and shock troops. Different members amongst their number had found refuge in the worship of various warp entities from the minor to the four themselves. Balgo has dedicated himself to chaos undivided in order to better seek his vengeance. He despises himself but hates the Imperium that cursed and cast him out all the more. He fights just to see the servants of the God Emperor fall. This bitterness has since been harnessed by the Tide of Blood for good effect. As long as the Tide continues to provide Balgo with an outlet for his fury he will lead his men against any of their foes as his hatred toward every being not under his command only grows and he cares little for who he slays each day as long as his blade remains slick with their blood.
UPDATE: 18.05.2015
ETL IV approaches, these guys are getting finished for it.
After a few licks of paint: One of my favorite things about chaos is that units don't need to follow any one given paint scheme. Therefore each of these guys will be a slightly different variant on the themes I am weaving through this unit. Since some are ore given to certain gods then others, their dedication will be revealed in their paint schema.
UPDATE: 20.05.2015
UPDATE: 07.06.2015
After washes. Still need some touch up, basing, and perhaps highlights.
UPDATE: 13.06.2015
Finished
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