Old Stuff Wednesday: Adepticon Team Army

Circa 2006 - A team-up army with my buddy Mike Butcher.  This was from Adepticon, our first team up playing in their Warhammer Fantasy Team tournament.

It featured my Beastmen and his evil Dryad trees.  

I don't remember what we called the army, I think I wrote the fluff.  Mike built the longest display base on the planet.  I think it was part surf board.

His trees were quite evil looking.

 Not sure what happened to his tree army, probably sold to someone, but the conversions standard amazing.

The centerpiece of the display was the Khorne monolith, that warped the trees into something evil.

Butcher's Nurgle at Adepticon.....

So I'm cruising around the net and came across some Adepticon coverage.  Appears my buddy Mike was really busy on his Nurgle and hit them with both barrels.  Very cool stuff by Mike.  Although I think the display needs some slime and box of Kleenex. 

Wish I could be there, but I'm just not up to that yet.  But fear not, the recovery is happening and I have some cool stuff done that needs photographed and some stuff in the works. 

Old Stuff Wednesday - December: Butcher's Nurgle versus the Cerulean Templars

 I don't really remember when I had taken these, but its was in one of those classic battles between my Cerulean Templars and Mike Butcher's horde of Nurgle.

Very cool old stuff.

Old Stuff Wednesday - December ... Cerulean Templars vs. Nurgle

A long long time ago (circa 2004) Mike Butcher and I played this epic game of 40k in a local store, with tons of miniatures on the board, nearly every last one of them converted in some manner. I don't really remember the outcome other than I lost, but I took a number of photos.  Most all of the pics are after the unpacking.  Dig the craziness of the conversion work. Nothing like throwing down with really cool miniatures.

 He's phat.

 Help me!

New Spawn….Influenced by the Disc and a Buddy

As things come together, you always get new ideas and the Tzeentch disc that was previously shown gave me some ideas on a new chaos spawn. The ideas were mainly to help tie more of this stuff together in the army. My previous chaos spawn for this army, affectionately known as Blue Spawn and Brown Spawn, were based on the metal chaos troll bodies and current plastic spawn kit, respectively. I do very much like both of them and I am always toying with the ideas of how to include more spawn in my army lists. They are very quirky in games and cause havoc in both sides, and I enjoy running them as a pair. 

So, how to do that? Well, my buddy Mike Butcher created these wonderful looking models back a few years ago for his Nurgle Demon army.



And my Blue Spawn uses an ogre head on the chaos troll body, so combining that I came up with this…

It uses a rat ogre body left over from the Warhammer Fantasy boxed set. I particularly liked how Mike tied together the ogre head and the lower jaw of the tyranid heads on his models, so I attempted to do something very similar in hopes that this ties together better with my disc.

Not sure what I will do with the paint schemes just yet, but they should all tie together with the other spawn. I do really like the use of the armor on these rat ogres, they do kind of resemble the armor on some of my marauders. I’ll probably incorporate some of the armor elements into my Chaos Ogres down the road.

 This will be one of those freaky models.  I'm very much looking forward to the completion of it.

For the second spawn, I will go back to the rat ogre body from the box set and combined in some more tyranid pieces in the conversion.
 
Until next time...