More kit Bashing the Warriors

I have a few of these Max-Mini heads left over and plan to use them with one more batch of knights that I will do up in the future.  They are very cool looking heads.  So I thought I would try one on the bestigor body.

 I think it works nicely.  I blended in the chaos warrior arm fur with some GS sculpted fur.

 I also got around to putting together my Khorne Lord on a juggernaut.  What a huge piece of metal.  I look forward to painting this in my warrior paint scheme of blue and burnt orange.

A few more things in the works, finishing up the last Viking unit.  Getting ready to switch gears and paint some.  Also built a bit of terrain this weekend that I might show pics of also.  Much more to follow as always, and then back to the race track on Friday night, will be making changes to the kart probably Tuesday night in preparation for that.  I should probably take some pics of the kart, show some of the scarring that has taken place over the season.

Some more Mutants and Warrior of Renown

Added a few more models.  Harry the Hammer is one of the models.  He'll be destined to a regular rank and filer, but a cool looking model.  Also have two more half-breeds.

 Using the Bestigor bodies again.  These will be part of the marauders again.  The metal sword is a leftover Avatars of War bit.  Rather simple kit bashes and one normal dude.

Ah its Mini-Spawn

My mini-spawn.  Avatars of War dwarf, chaos spawn appendages, Battleroad Games head by the Bugman.

A new Midget Mutant Gor

My newest teenage Mutant Midget Gor.  Another kit bash, using a whole variety of bits.

 His unique profile.  I look forward to painting these little midget gors.  I think they add some strange character to my chaos army adding the mutant to the barbarians.

Now back to turning some wrenches on the kart, fixing some things.

Some more additions to the Mutant Marauders

No racing tonight, got rained out on Wednesday night, race again on Sunday. So tonight we have beastman/bestigor with a weapon swap.  Another model that will be part of the mutant marauders.

 Here you see the chaos warrior weapon swap.  Just something very simple.

And below are a couple of the Avatars of War dwarves that I also plan to use in the Marauder unit.

Again some simple weapon swaps and chaos shields along with a few chaos chains.  Straight forward stuff.

Ah....A Kit bashing we go...Bestigors to Warriors of Chaos

I've been doing quite a bit of kit bashing lately as I build a few other things.  Also getting ready to bust out the paint on some Vikings and Warriors of Chaos at the same time.  10 of each out to work.

I really like how the one on the left turned out.  Very appropriate for a blind chaos model to have his eyes on his shield.  The middle one is a fun one also, I've used this chaos space marine arm on a number of marines conversions before, this looked like a good use for it.  All of these are putting emphasis on my mutant theme.  I'll use these as chaos warriors or marauders. 

All in all, I really like the bestigor body model.  Very dynamic, much better than the chaos warriors. 

I've also come to the conclusion that I may be approaching the end of me doing chaos modeling for awhile.  I've grown tired and don't feel the enjoyment of modeling them as I used to.  So we may be nearing the end of chaos kit bashing for me.  I will carry through painting this huge army, there are a few more pieces to finish up and add to the army, and I keep looking at other very cool pieces by other manufacturers that I want to add to my collection.  I have all of the GW stuff that I need to do some more chaos knights and probably will as I scoped out some really cool Puppets of War stuff recently.  I have way too many projects that need finishing, this is one of them, the vikings is another, the Fire Forge models, some Napoleonics, Space Marines loyalists, Orcs, and some more Romans.  So, soon I'm switching to paint mode.

Tomorrow night is race night, hot/sticky/possible rain.   Time for speed....

Clash of Empires

Not something that I wanted to do, but preparing for possibly the inevitable.  I picked up this ruleset by selling a couple of minis to pay for it.  So far I like what I have read about 15 pages in.  If there is going to be a possible exodus from my game of choice, Warhammer Ancient Battles due to the shutdown of Warhammer Historical, then I'm likely going to gravitate to one of its clones and so far I like what I see of CoE, the only thing I dislike so far is the metric system.  As an American and an engineer, don't get me started on the damn metric system.  But I know that 1 inch equals 2.54 cm.  I see things in inches and feet and yards, not centimeters. 

Now you may say, like many, why not Hail Caeser.  Well HC is not for me, I think its rules are better suited to Napoleonics simplifying many complexities.  And I don't plan to ever play Napoleonics competitively, even if I ever find someone that shares the interest of that period locally.  Black Powder is one thing, but when I play with my ancient armies, I happen to love Warhammer.  I love the core rules of Warhammer, if I have to play a different rules set its going to be one more like Warhammer was.  I also don't believe that HC will make for a very good tournament rules set.  This is not meant to be a knock against Warlord Games or people that enjoy HC, its just not my cup of tea.  So no plans to play it, ever.  In the near future I plan to have another ancients tournament in La Crosse and River City Hobbies, the rules will be Warhammer Ancients, its what I like the most.  This probably won't occur until this fall, I'm going to be busy racing through the rest of the summer and through September.

Tomorrow night, I strap on the helmet and go oval track racing once again.  Its been getting rather rough the last 3 races or so, lots of rubbing, bumping, spins, and what not.  Maybe a week off will have an effect of tempering that.  We'll see.  Supposed to be hot tomorrow, but the evenings have been cooling off okay and the road race last Saturday was a better test of fitness in the heat than the Oval is.  I also won't be packed into that old vintage kart, you don't realize how uncomfortable that old kart is until you run 8 laps in it on 1/2 mile plus road coarse.  Hope to have a successful evening.  The season is winding down, I'm currently the season championships points leader by a small margin.  Next week we race twice, as its La Crosse County fair week.  So I'll be at the track Wednesday night and Sunday afternoon if it does not rain.