Breaking the Established Norms, Your Take!

TJ here to talk about how we build and paint our armies to either fit the established background of our games or how we break with those traditions and why. For myself, I have always ridden the fence on the subject because I am an avid fan of the Black Library and to date have read all of the Horus Heresy novels and several omnibuses from the current millennia. When I start a project the background is always right there in my face and I am always tempted to satisfy that itch of making a conversion and paintjob that satisfies that background, however, sometimes I feel like I am painting myself into a corner in more ways than one.

Building a Better Heldrake Part 3: Giving Flesh to My Nightmare!

Old School here with an update on my Building A Better Heldrake project. This bad boy is about half way painted in the Word Bearers theme I plan to use and should be done before the weekend, but let's not bump our gums too much, let's take a walk around this model!

It Came From the Forums: Brutal Word Bearers from RazakelXIII

Old School here with an It Came From the Forums that is special to me because it has inspired some of my own work directly. Of course, I am speaking of RazakelXIII's very Gothic Word Bearers! Where better to begin looking at this army in depth than with the Dark Apostle! The Unhallowed is an enormous model on a very scenic base with tons of skulls and gore! The model is perfect for a centerpiece and certainly one of, if not the best Dark Apostle conversions I have ever seen! But that is just the beginning. There is much more to see, so let's take a look:

Building a Better Heldrake Part 2: Using the Tentacle Maker

Conversions are what happens when ideas meet plastic. Old School here to get into the second part of Building a Better Heldrake. This time, I want to show you how to crank this conversion into overdrive using a simple tool and some Green Stuff before I move onto the sculpting.

Building a Better Heldrake: Chaos Marine Heldrake Conversion Part 1!

I'm the type of guy who seldom complains about something when it comes to models. I prefer to roll up my sleeves and get to work. Old School here and that's exactly what I did to make my own Heldrake. First, I traded the Heldrake I won in the Spikey Bits Chaos Space Marine Contest to a friend for the Terrorgheist and kept the flight stand from the drake, then I took several parts from the Forgefiend/ Maulerfiend kit (which I also won) and got to work. Let's take a look at what I have done so far:

Weekend WIP: Word Bearer Hell Knights and Cultist Conversions!

Old School here with a weekend update showcasing what Wolfson and I put together in a couple hours last night. Wolfson came down to the Carolinas for Thanksgiving and we basically got lazy, ate WAY TOO MUCH and played some games. We finally got to hobbying last night and had a lot of fun putting together my Word Bearer Apocalyptic Horsemen biker conversions and he put together some autogun cultists for me. Let's take a look at the WIPs we came up with: