Warriors of Chaos...next army update

Progress shots over the next couple of posts, as I plug away on my 35 marauders. Here's where I'm at with them so far. Last tiem you saw this guy pretty much just the skin tones were done, minus the washes and shading to come at the end.

Here's the backside ofthe same model. On my armies I'll typically only drybrush the fur.

Here are one of the Red Box Games mini's. I love all of these guys they are so much fun to paint.

A backside shot, I love all the skulls and bones on them, its a neat touch of detail.

And yes, I did not forget to detail the shield, inside and outside.

Next up some more progress shots.

And then Nascar in Montreal:

My absolute favorite track to watch the big heavy stock cars. The beating and banging that they can absorb really makes for a fun watch. Who Said? Boris Said! I'm definitely a Boris Said fan, love the way the guy races and handles himself in the media. He's the man and I'm glad to see him finally win. And it goes to show what good equipment can do for Mad Max Papis, another favorite of mine to watch on the road course, you have to love his enthusiasm. Spectacular race, if you like racing, you have to watch the racing on that track, its a must see.

Warriors of Chaos Spawning Season...

In my Fantasy games I almost always run a couple spawn. They are good humor, they look cool, and quite often do the unexpected. The spawn kit is one of my absolute favorites. You can create a regular old spawn like this one.

Or do something else with all of those cool parts, and a bit of creativeness.

In this case, a chaos troll and an ogre head. I really dislike the troll bodies, but with a dremel and a bit of GS work I think they make really cool looking spawn.

Both of these will be in my Warriors of chaos army. They'll be fun to paint.

Gamesday Baltimore....

I didn't go to Gamesday this year, because it was in Baltimore. Too far away for me, I won't fly to event like that. I did however hear that Gamesday will be moving to Chicago next year. Here's hoping that GW puts on a better event than the last time they were in Chicago, because that event was so poorly run and organized. It was really discouraging for someone like me who enjoys the hobby.

And Congrats to Todd Swanson, who I heard won the Slayer Sword through some email I read from other members of the Team North America painting & converting club. It will be nice to catch up with them if its true that the event will be back in Chicago.

One Exalted Champion done

Tzeentch themed, a little bit of converting. Not sure how exactly I plan to use him, but I wanted a test piece for painting the knights, chosen, and chaos warriors that I'm building.

So this will work, continuing my blue and orange paint scheme.


Converted the shield using a 40k symbol.

I should have fix the fur cape a bit. After painting it, I really don't like the fur texture on this model.

And yes that is a little eye ball on the forehead of his helmet.

More Chaos Marauder WIPs

Like the previous post I have quite a bit left to do with these, but I'm liking the looks of them so far.

Some WIP shots of a Red Box Games miniature. Tre Manor's sculpts of these models are really good. They have really opened my eyes in how to successfully sculpt the exaggerated musculature of barbarians. These sculpts kind of scream Conan which is really appealing to me.

I have 8-9 of these guys, and boy they are easy to paint in my typical style of painting. They practically paint themselves.

Another of my favorite miniatures at the moment. I love the looks of this head.

This one is another Reaper Miniature, sculpted by a buddy of mine, Matt Gubser.

Its quickly becoming a favorite of mine, something about the pose, it will be positioned of on one of the flanks when the unit gets ranked up.

Also not the stylized hot rod flames. This is another carry over from the previous group of miniatures in this army. I plan to carry the flames throughout the army on capes and tabbards and such.

Chaos Marauder Progress

This is pretty early in my painting process. The Fleshtones I've pretty much finished all of the highlights on, except on the faces. The steel is based and highlighted twice which is all the further I'll go with the highlights, they'll get a series of washes once everything else is done to do the weathering and further defining. The Blues are essentially done, as are the burnt oranges. I typically paint dark to light, building sort of a contour map of color. Leather will probably be next. Fur and Hair will be one of the last things I do.



As I stated earlier I'm using a few choice pieces from other manufacturer's mostly pieces sculpted by Tre Manor. This one is Reaper Miniature, with no conversion work. I think he fits the bill.

This guy was one of my favorites in the modeling process and the paint is furthering my liking of him thus far. The new marauder horseman heads are so good expression wise.

Much more to follow on these WIPs. There are some additional pics of these models if you are interested in seeing them on my Forum in the WHFB Madhouse Workbench, which is linked too on the blog in my Web Links.

Marauding Hordes...Continues & Initial thoughts on 8th

In one of the more recent posts I had shown some work in progress of the painting of my marauders, and I will probably show some more of that later on today or tomorrow. But, I thought I would back up just a bit and show a few of converting shots prior to paint.

With my chaos warriors I'm really playing up the mutations throughout the army, using all kinds of kitbashing. The one thing I found long ago was that scale wise ungors and flaggellants are basically the same, so that lets you do things like the above.

This guy is one of my new favorites, and yes he will rank up with the others. Again another kit bash. The new gor bodies are very much adorned with more details than the older ones.

I'm also a big fan of axes, and the new bestigor axes are quite cool in my opinion. When you put the marauder heads on the gor bodies you do need to fill the gap with a little GS to make a neck. Fairly straight forward.

Not sure what I was thinking with the guy below, but he fits the bill of my mutants. Remember that armor tutorial I did, well here's another model using that.

This guy is my absolute favorite of this batch of conversions. He screams chaos and barbarism to me. Not really a mutant, just an ultra cool conversion, and he fills the barbaric bill so he made the cut.

Next up more the WIP on the paint work.

Played my first game of 8th edition, as part of team battle in which we were all attempting to learn the new rules, 1000 points per player, so it just happened to turn out to be Warriors of Chaos teamed with Warriors of Chaos against my Warriors of Chaos teamed with some all Khorne Demons of Chaos. We lost but it was kind of close and we definitely had some army build issues that worked with last edition but not so well this addition. Khorne Demons were killed to a man. One of the stars of my game was my Spawn that ran off a unit of Marauder Cav and was chasing down another at the end of the game. Ran a pair of chariots and they are almost always underestimated on how devastating they can be when charged as pair at one unit.

I liked somethings, somethings I didn't like. I don't like the new charging rules, I can tell you that. I really don't think there was really much wrong with it before, but the new charge distances are too far over the top in my opinion. I liked combat the way it was, now I almost think its too fast, but I can live with it.

I've never been a big fan of the magic phase of the game, I think they missed on correcting this phase. Not as bad as thought though on the magic, but its still too over powered in my opinion, and very annoying phase.

I do like the new frenzy rules. Do need to play a few more games to get the hang of the changes.