Finished Khorne Angels

Well it took 2 years, but I finally finished Khorne, probably because I was commissioned to do them.

Astorath/Kharn

I sold the army to a mate at the beginning of the year, and since then hes been using some of the models in his Khorne army, and playing with unfinished berzerkers. There's a tournament in 2 weeks he wants to play at with a requirement of painted model, so I got the job of finishing what I started.

 All of the models were built using the FW torso and heads, and plastic CSM legs. Each set of legs has been converted slightly to give a greater sense of motion than the stock legs have (ie none), I really think GW missed an opportunity to redo the plastic warriors.

Since they had to be painted to match an existing army I couldn't use and weathering on them, it was an interesting exercise to paint "clean" again. I prefer dirty.

The blood effects were done with tamiya clear red, then a second coat of TCR and a touch of black acrylic, the acrylic and whatever the TCR is based on react and the paint gets thicker, making it perfect for congealed blood and gore.

The backpacks are also all magnetised, to make is easy to run them as Death company with jump packs if necessary.

The whole gang

I apologise for the shonky pics, I really need a better camera then my iPhone4.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Contemptor #2 - Kheres Mortis

Managed to get a day of modelling in as a reward for finishing all my assignments, and this is what I knocked out.

Kheres Contemptor 

Being the poor uni student that I am now I was forced to make the arms myself. I had previously cast the multimelta for a failed autocannon conversion, so I used it as a base. The ammo hopper is from the front mount of a Leman Russ MBT, the assault cannon barrels are from the stormravens I built for the khorne wing. Cyclone is from the termi box, again because I'm cheap.

The groin had to be cast as well, because I didn't receive one in the package whan I bought him, and seeing as I could, and it would take weeks and alot of hassle to get a replacement I thought this was easier.

I tried really hard to make the cowering fist look like he was actually afraid. It wasnt actually working til i remembered I had a fine cast termi Librarian left over from my conversion for the GK's I never finished.

In the eventual list #2 will play flyer defence, Bs 5 skyfire and 12 assault cannon shots, and 2 krak missiles will ruin most flyers days.

First berzerker + FTW

So today is an exciting day in the young life of this blog. Through some careful editing and patience on the part of Ron, my humble little blog has been added to the monolith of GW/modeling blogs that is FTW.

Thanks Ron, and I hope I don't disappoint your faith in my ability not to swear ;)

Secondly, the next tournament I will be attending Quarter Master IV on the 26 - 27th of November, is fast approaching, I love these tournaments, great company terrain and good games, however I have made a promise to myself that everytime I win best painted or players choice I will play a new army at the next one.

(Un)Fortunately I've won best painted on 4 of the 6 times I've attended (4 tournaments a year, at the same venue = quartermaster geed it). This was the original impetus behind starting the counts as BA's. Plus the original khorne army I did (counts as SW's) won best painted, and I like the scheme.

Enough waffle:

This bloke will be pulling double duty in the khorne lists I take to Adepticon, in the 1850 point list he'll just be a DC dude (maybe with a power fist), and in the 400pt list he'll be a vanguard vet Sgt with lightning claw.

Aaron

Welcome

Hello one and all to my humble blog. As has been said in the description, I've been modelling and painting GW products for along time, 16 years.

During that time I've completed several armies for my self and others. The largest of which would be my Death Korps of Krieg, taking just over 5 years of on and off painting to complete it tops out at just under 5500 points.

Painting this army has taught me alot about weathering, and also how to paint to a good standard quickly, with much of the infantry painted in one month blocks.

Now I'm planning my first overseas trip next year to coincide with Adepticon, Chicago USA, in April. and I want new army that  think will represent where I think I am as a hobbyist atm. To that end I'm painting a counts as army of blood angels. Counts as lists are a tricky topic some times, especially in the US tournament scheme. So to that end everything in the army will be converted and painted to the highest standard, with no ambiguity of armament or miniature type.

So here's the list for my Khorne angels, Khorne models using the Blood angels rules. A conscious choice because A: the rules fit better then the abortion of a codex that is Chaos B: its a strong list with some interesting builds. I may accused of playing a WAAC list because of the strength of the components, but the list itself has zero scoring units, a huge disadvantage in the modern game.

The list:
Astorath
Chaplain
10 Death company w/2x powerfist & power weapon
10 Death company w/2x powerfist & power weapon

Death company dreadnaught w/bloodfists & magna grapple
Drop pod
Death company dreadnaught w/bloodfists & magna grapple
Drop pod
Death company dreadnaught w/bloodtalons
Death company dreadnaught w/bloodtalons
Stormraven
Stormraven
-1850

For the Australian tournament scene I will drop the chaplain to run at 1750.

And now onto the things that everyone loves the most about modeling blogs, pics.

Firstly Astorath, this was my first finecast model, and I must say despite all the doom and gloom surrounding the product on the internet, I had no problems. The material is very soft compared to resin, and allowed me to convert much more quickly and safely then if the base model had been metal. I doubt If I could have even done the conversion if I used metal. The base model is the chaos raptor champion, I removed the head and left shoulder pad, replacing them with FW components from the khorne berzerker and khorne terminator upgrade kits.

Front

Back

Angry face

Next are the stormravens, a combination of the terrible kit from GW, a missed opportunity on their part, it just needed to be a little longer in the fuselage to stop it looking like a caricature of an aircraft, dubbed the chibi hawk by the forums, fortunately chapterhouse studios have released an upgrade kit that fixes these short comings.

WIP

PIP

Thats enough for one post I think, next up is the dreads and pods, but if anyones made it here with out prior knowledge of my logs on Warseer and Ammobunker, more pics can be found there.

Aaron