Wargaming, Conversions, Paint and more
Old School here to welcome in Halloween with my Khorne Version of Canis Wolfborn - Khanis Bloodborn! I know it sounds cheesy, but the model speaks for itself! Here is the newest member to my growing 14th Black Crusade - yet another Forge World Khorne Berzerker on Juggernaut!
The arms came from the Chaos Lord plastic kit and they were painted black as a small homage the Blood Lords must pay the Black Legion when marching under the banners of the latest Black Crusade, The bodey is from the FW Berzerker conversion set and the head is the bare FW Lord Zhofur head.
As usual, please forgive the camera for not liking red.
The face really is one of my favorite things about this model as it adds so much life to it, along with the over reaching pose of the model reaching forward every available inch to try to dig those claws into somebody. Coupled with the pose of the Jugger, I think this Khorne Khav model best captures the raging fury of the World Eaters better than the other two I have painted.
As usual, I went for the gritty look with lots of blood spatter and green washed into the brass on the Jugger. I also liked the green lighting effect from the last one so have made it a fixture for all my upcoming juggernaught projects.
This dude has some serious trophies to take home for the Blood God, including a Salamander head taken from the Space Marine Commander set (you know its gonna happen CVinton!), a sanguinary Guard head, and plenty of skulls ... oh and almost forgot the dirty, blooded head of a Dark Eldar (just for you, SeerK).
Old School here with some photos of the Forge World Lord Zhofur model I painted up today. I impulse-grabbed him from my case and got to work on him. When I first modelled him nearly a year ago, I wanted to use him as a Chaos Terminator Lord with Daemon Weapon and I wanted to keep the nude head for another potential project. I hated the trophy racks as they limit the range of motion you get from the model, so I checked them and used some green stuff to fill the gaps - along with tons of pinning. I based him on crushed-up floor tile.
Once that was done, I hit the eyes and the small meters on the back of the model with layers of green starting with Thraka foundation, followed by dark angels green, goblin green, snot green and the hints of scorpion green. The areas that were mechrite, were then painted with thin layers of red gore to build up and blaend the areas shaded by the wash to give the model a time-tested look. I love gritty!
The brass was worked up with Game Colour brass, followed by a wash of 50/50 delvan Mud/ Gryphone Sepia. I then hit the highest points with some flow-aided Dwarven Brass.
The world on the World Eaters Shoulder Pad was done with a progression of greens on the continents much like the eyes. I just thought it looked cool to make the planet look like an actual globe!
The Commisar on his back is an awesome touch by the designers at Forge World. The painting was simple with such smooth, flowing lines and surfaces to work with. There are a ton of little details on it that you don't come to appreciate until you sit down to paint it - like the little medal on his chest.
So the question then becomes "How does Zhofur work into your Counts as themed Black Legion 14th Crusade?" Well, he does have a black powerfist (lol). 
Old School here with a quick little tut for creating cheap Dreadclaws. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a Chaos Dreadclaw is, it is a boarding pod used by Chaos Marines to board ships by clamping onto the hull, blasting a hole and then inserting a deadly team of bad guys. The claws are also capable of making planet fall much like a Space Marine Drop pod. I do not really have a reason for owning a real dreadclaw as I shy away from IA for the most part, but as a guy who is building his Chaos to work as a count-as for any and all power armoured armies, I have plenty of reasons to own drop pods. My feeling however is that my pods shouldn't just be loyalist pods painted evil, they should look different - so along comes the idea of the claw. (Above is the plain, undressed version - the basics before being chaosified)
How do we build one of these - easy, just buy a drop pod kit. take all the outside doors, fins and engine assembly off the sprues and clean off ALL the mold lines and snags (left over plastic from clipping). Now take the fins and cut the pointy corners off like on the picture above. Take a look at the top one (uncut) and compare it to the bottom one (cut). I cut the corner on the inside of the fin (the corner that was cut on the left side as you look at the photo) parallel to the rune-like markings running along the inside of the fin. On the other corner (the small one on the right side as you look at the photo) just near the hose on the bottom part, parallel with the diagonal line below the rune-like marking strip.
Now, because the fins are going on last and the top part here will not be exposed, I shave off this bolt on each side of each fin - just this bolt.
This is what your five fins should look like.
now assemble the pod with just the outside panels of the door (the inside panels will be used for something else (you'll see, just save the inside door panels). Now glue it together so you have the normal pod pedal for the bottom (you don't need any of the bits for the inside as the dreadclaw will never open). Also assemble the engine completely as you normally would with a drop pod. Then glue the top corner of each door to the top of each square section from the engine housing that matches each door, leaving the actual turbine above the door (or hull as they now form on the dread claw.
(the marines fall out of a hatch on the bottom) Now take your fins and insert each one into the slots made between each door. They will fit snugly (good thing), the idea is for the corner to catch under the lip made by the turbine bit on the engine housing, the other area you cut should fit snugly into the grove where the fin would normally go on the bottom side. After one good dry fit, glue the fins into place. Your dread claw is basically complete in form. Now all that remains is for it to get some chaos character and some retro thrusters and other small details which I will cover in part two.
Old School here and while I know Rhinos are not the most exiting thing to post, they are an essential and therefore must be painted. Back when I first started Chaos ('07), I grabbed a number of rhinos, slapped the basic colors on them and left them alone - a shame considering they have graced tables in at least 6 states since then.
This was one of my very first rhinos and the tentacles and painted on arrow were a part of it back in the day, but the tentacles remained unpainted and the arrow has been a little light and messy. I repainted all the black surfaces, then retouches all the gold with Game Colour's Brass followed by GW's Shining gold and a Devlan Mud wash (love dirt and grime and tarnish - these tanks have been to a lot of fights after all)!
The tentacles were painted mechrite, then tentacle pink (great pot to have around still) and washed leviathan purple. It was really great to paint something that I have neglected for so long and hopefully my opponents will appreciate it after I have ran these things so shabbily (funny how I have apinted other peoples' stuff and most of a second army, yet neglected my first real army).
Old School here and the marathon of hobby continues! Here is the completed (99% anyway) Forge World Khorne Lord On Juggernaut with Thunderhammer! I am very happy to have this model painted as it marks another step in the 14th Black Crusade.
I decided to stick with the iron and brass colors on the juggernaut as they provide a nice contrast to the World Eater's armor. I love the Forge World kits, the head is actually from the FW WE terminator kit. I would never attempt this project with plain GW zerks.
Old School here. Still Sick and Still busy. Here is another "biker". This one could fit into a Space Marine Command Squad for counts as, could make an excellent "wolf Lord on Bike" or an awesome Chaos Lord on Demonic Steed.
This is kitbash taken to the extreme. He has the artificer type armour from the Death Company set, chaos bolters, the death company thunder hammer and obviously the Chaos knights stuff. I like the double shoulder pads and may stick with it for the rest of the bikers as it makes them look very gothic and hard and cool.
I am stuck on whether to just make the dark apostle a word bearer or to go for the gothic Word Bearer bikers with black legion paintjobs on thier left arms. hmmmmm.
In case you may be wondering, the bolters on this and the last model are to represent the twin linked bolters on the bikes. I don't want to take a ton of time converting an elaborate twin linked bolter system for each biker and while it would be cool to give them custodian type weapons, it wouldn't fit for each model. So there it is a easy solution. No harder to swallow than a turbo boosting horse LOL!
Well, got some more work to do. Look out for a video and a few painted models coming out of my work bench tonight!
