Spawn complete

Looks like I forgot to post pics of the spawn painted up.  It's been a crazy 6 months so it's not too shocking.  I think these guys turned out pretty good.  They are always fun to convert and paint.

Slightly converted FW spawn.  I replace a few of the bits that were going to easy break off or already had broken off.

 

 
   



One of the older GW spawn converted a bit.  You can see my poor attempt at a freehand eyeball there.  It's really bad...






A converted Kromech spawn.






A stock Kromlech spawn/mutant thing.  Notice after my previous terrible eye I decided not to muck this eyeball up. :)  I love those little arms on top, too funny.






Another older GW spawn.







As you have probably guessed, I like spawn but not the current GW spawn models.  The do have some nice bits though, just not a fan of the bodies primarily I guess.

 

Typhus the Herald of Nurgle

Typhus is easily one of the coolest characters in the CSM army.   He's also nasty on the table top and looks great. I didn't spend a lot of time on him but enough to get him looking decent enough to use.  My hobby time is pretty limited these days so I've taken to spending less time on individual models so that I can still manage to get armies painted up.



 

I need to get a better pic of his scythe.  I used the typhus wash and some rust pigments and I think it turned out fairly cool looking.
 

Plauge Toads Counts as Spawn with Mark of Nurgle

I loved these toads as soon as I saw them.  So cute and cuddly.  The make excellent spawn of chaos with the mark of nurgle. They are a joy to paint and have so much character.

Gors as Lost and the Damned Mutants

I wanted two units of 30 mutants plus a unit of 30 zombies.  I decided to be lazy on the second unit of mutants and just use Beastman Gors.  I had contemplated some alternate heads and arms but monies a but tight so I didn't want to spend the money on it.  I already had these figures laying around.  I need to get 10 more though.

I still need to convert the mutant boss as well.




 


Here's a pic of the whole herd together thus far.

Adding some chaos Spawn

I've been wanting to get some chaos spawn but I dont like the current models much.  I've decided to use the FW Plague Toads.  They are a good size and look like they would move like beasts and they look nice and disgusting.  I'm pretty happy with the models and how they fit in, especially with the Death guard army.

Did a bit of airbrushing...

I have not touched a paint brush since the first of the year sadly.  However, this past weekend I was able to break out the airbrush and get a little work done a few new models.

First off the Decimator.  I love the model, the legs are a bit of a pain to get positioned right but worth the hassle.

Next up was the Hell Talon/Blade.  I can never remember which is which....

Then finally is the ork fighta.   I know blue is not the traditional color of the ork fightas but I wanted something different and I was tired of painting red.  Plus all my ork vehicles are blue so it fits.

After doing several layers and getting the colors the way I wanted them I went back and sealed them with a satin coat.  This will keep other inks, washes and glazes from distorting the final air brush color.  The air brush paint can be porous which can sometimes adsorb the washes and distort the end result.

I actually did a few other items as well but didn't get them completed.  So still on the air brush work bench are 2 triarch stalkers, 3 acenthrites, 1 squiggoth, 9 penal legion, and 1 test marine, iron hands.

Small unit of Chaos Marines

I ordered these heads/shoulder pads from Puppetwars because I thought they look cool.  I really like them, very evil and twisted looking.  These would be great for Iron Warriors, Fabius Bile's augmented CSM or just about any other units but I think those two are great.  I may order another set and flush out the unit.

The melta gun is from Maxmini, I just like the alternate look of the gun.

I want my tzeench termies to have combi plasma guns.  But such a thing doesn't exist.  So using the combi flamer and the plasma bit off the obliterator sprues I made this.  I'm sure if I like it or not.  Looks sort of like a hack job, which it is, but I dont have a ton of time any more.  So I'm wondering if you think it looks good enough to get by with.

Chaos Space Marine Raptors

Before the new CSM Raptors came out I had built my own.  I really didn't care for the older ones and I just wanted CSM with jump packs.  I wanted them to be followers of khorne.  I finally finished putting them together.  The jump packs are from maxmini (yes I love their bits).  Oh yeah, I also used their Nuclear Guns for my melta guns.

I think they turned out pretty good.  The new rules for them with the mark of Khorne and the Icon make them pretty fast and hard hitting.

Nurgle Paint in Progress

I've been away from the hobby lately with lots of family things going on so I have not had a lot of time to do much. I am slowly working on some nurgle items though and have the base colors completed and need to start on the details.

Update on some various things

Well, it seems that I went and forgot to post some updates from a while back. Here they are in no particular order.

Airbrushed the base colors on some additional tanks.

Basalisks



Leman Russ:



Scartch built Leman Russ Demolisher Malcador Pattern:



Scratch built Malcador Defender:



Blood Slaughterer:



Plague Hulk:


Khorne and Nurgle rhinos:

Forge World KHORNE WORLD EATERS TERMINATOR LORD ZHUFOR

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

Forge World Khorne Terminators

I also picked up a unit of 5 Khorne Terminators. These models are also great.

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures

From Chaos Miniatures