Converted Khorne Knights

Definitely like the Khorne Knights. I have done a bit of subtle conversion work on them to distinguish them. This is all until I get the Centaurs ready for the mutant horde

As can be seen in the unit pics, I've staggered their placements on the bases. In this case by elevating the one on a 50 mm base. This helps with the ranking up. The model on the left is just pinned to the base and is removable, so that I can paint him separately from the base.

What's Khorne without skulls and hook and other nasty implements.

Below is good shot of one of the converted heads using the Storm Vermin halberd blades. I do love the shield that this one carries. Also converted one of the lances to hold up the bloodletter banner.

The GS khorne symbols are real paint to make.

Below you can see one of the other converted heads.

At first I had not thought about doing the fur capes, but as I was assembling the Khorne Exalted metal model I had noted the fur cape and like the look of it. So, that was essentially an after thought.

Below a better shot of the cape and a shot of the back of the converted head. A very simple conversion, but one that I seriously like.

Next up the Crusades, my Perry Miniatures knights.

Khorne Knight Unit nearly complete modeling…

Here are my pics of the Khorne Knight unit. Still need to finish up the basing and build a movement tray. The tray again is from a junked project and will get used for something down the road, so ignore it for the time being.

Added symbols, both sculpted and brass etch by Forgeworld. Also added skulls, heads, and capes. The fur capes were inspired by the GW Khorne Lord on foot.

I remembered long ago see this artwork by Adrian Smith in the Chaos book shown in the below clip. Note the helmet.

I decided I want some helmets that look similar to that. At first I thought about sculpting my own, but that would be a very time consuming process. Then back when I was building the first Skaven War Litter, I was using the new plastic Storm Vermin and had to cut off some of the halberds. I thought they were very cool blades and I needed to use them for something. One day I had the chaos warrior book and happened to see the Smith’s artwork and the storm vermin blades were sitting on my desk and I was like “yea that’ll do nicely”. It’s much easier to convert them. Now, I have cool looking horns that need to be used on something else.

Again like the tzeentch unit, I have staggered the placement of the models on the bases. Eventually, I will be adding Chaos Knight Centaurs, but I need to figure out the best way of molding my torsos that I have sculpted, so that I can vary up the torsos for different looks. The torso will be very much like a 40k Space Marine torso.

Above you can see the fur cap on one of the minis.

Note that I also turned the knights on the flank to the outside, just to give them a slightly more dynamic feel.

Next up many more marauders, new spawn, progress on the Tzeentch hero on the disc, and a unit of Chaos Warriors all converted up to be armed with halberds and shields. Also will have much WAB Crusaders in paint, the models of which are Perry Miniatures with some them being converted.

Tzeentch Knight unit modelled.

Well, made some progress on the Tzeentch unit of knights. I still have one cape to do and have to finish all of the basing and movement tray, but they are essentially done with the exception of few little touch-ups. Hopefully the next time you see them they will be in color.

Below is the bannerman and the musician.

The next shot is of the entire unit. The Max-mini heads really set these apart and make them look good. I have a chaos warrior unit and a chosen unit, those will have plenty of the warrior heads on them, so these knights had to be different.


This is not the movement tray that I will use for these, this is one of the spares that was from a junked project.

The next two photos show the flanks. I like this flank, turning the outside figure ever so slightly to look off in this direction.

The one thing that I tried to do with this unit is have it look like the center models are charging out a little bit. The banner man and the unit champ are mounted a bit forward. The one benefit of doing this is that it does help with the ranking up of some crazy poses. This won't work as well for you if you do not make a movement trays a bit wider.

And another few of the knights from the front.

Next up Khorne!...The Khorne Knight Unit is almost finished. Also got a unit of Chaos Warriors and some more additions to the marauders, along with a spawn or two. And pics of my painted Crusaders are coming also.

Blog Addition

In addition to the afforementioned "My Blog List #2", I have also added my "Hobby Activity 2011". No, its not a stroke of my ego, not really a motivational tool, more for a log of what I have done and to do. Many of us in the hobby, buy lots of things and never get them done. ie. my Napoleonics. I still do plan on doing them. Its just they have gotten put off down the road a little bit. Recently, I bought 3 boxes of Gripping Beast plastic Vikings. That will be my next WAB army. As I've mentioned before, I have basically all of my projects lined up for the next several years, basically have all the parts I need to do everything that I want to do in Warhammer Fantasy and 40k. And I'm nearing that point for Warhammer Ancients.

Next up pushing forward on the Warriors of Chaos.

A bit of shuffling on my blog....

For regular readers you may have noticed I have added a My Blog List #2 to the right hand side. In this list I'm basically putting blogs from friends and others that I enjoy reading that are typically not updated as much, but are interesting nonetheless. These are good blogs that generally disappear for long periods of time until someone hits the Show All button.

VC Bashin' Black Orc BSB banner

The VC Bashin' boys of course need a BSB with an obnoxiously huge banner. So a conversion was in order. I have a couple of corpse carts in pieces, and thought those zombies pulling it along were so cool. So why not put them on a banner.

Simple conversion, obnoxiously huge, bashing VC, what more could a Black Orc ask for?

Another night in the kart...not a good showing.

Got few pics from the past couple weeks, nothing from tonight yet. And honestly tonight was not a good night for me. Had a bad draw for Heat 1 started in the back, got into with two other karts just after the green flag and spun out early before lap one was even complete. Got a restart, go a trapped low, rode around awhile, tried to get a couple a spots late and did, but got greedy trying for one more on the last lap and got hooked and spun out finished last.

The above pic is from the first week during a warm up lap.

The above is the pace lap of the begining of one of the heat races.

In Heat two tonight, they inverted the field so now I'm starting outside of the pole. Got the lead by end of lap one and it went all downhill from there and finished a very disappointing fifth. Had an okay start but I had made an air pressure adjustment in the tires that did not work and lost all the handling on the kart.


The above orange and black kart is my old man. He took third in the feature tonight, pretty good since he had nearly 30+years on all of the other competitors with the exception of me.

Got in the feature, and because of my poor heat races, I was put in the back row. Got one spot on lap one. Then two of the kart in front were fighting back in forth, I felt I was faster. After following them 2-3 laps, I decided to dive the apron a bit and see if I could get one of them, almost got both, couldn't get clear and lost the momentum for the next corner. So got back and line and waited for 3-4 laps while the leaders were getting away. The 96 finally made his move low on the 53 and it was time to go and follow him through. Away we went. I still felt faster than the 96 and diced with him a bit trying to get around him, but he was trapping low. We did this for another 3 laps or so the leaders were gone. Then coming out of turn 4, he got loose tapped his brakes, I punched his left rear and he goes into a spin. I was like I'm going to spin out unless I powerslide into his side, so I held it, side swiped him and straightened him out and then it was drag race down the straight. 96 runs a Briggs, it has more torque, he got away, I lost momentum and it took 3-4 more laps to get back to him. Finally I get around them, and got passed by the leader in a 206 Animal. After that we had 3 more laps and I was flat out getting away from those behind me. Too little too late. 5th in the Feature a lap down.

Yep the above was more like how things went for me tonight. That is me in the middle of the track going the wrong direction. I think this was from one of week ones heat races. I think I got hooked by the silver 73. He is a good hard racer and fun to compete against.