NEW Chaos Spawn!!!

This is inspired by a Mike Butcher Chaos Ogre that I saw years ago.  I really loved the look of it and I had this Rat Ogre and some Tyranid pieces around and thought, this would make a cool looking figure.

 The figure is massive.  You can see the tentacles from the spawn kit coming out of its back.

 I gave it a fleshy color scheme.

 With some torn skin.

The upper part of the head was is an ogre bit.  The lower part is a Tyranid jaw. With the overall body being from the rat ogre kit.  All blended together with green stuff.

As always much more to follow.

New Chaos Spawn Paint WIP

Well been a while since my last post.  I'm recovering from injuring my back working around the homestead which consequently screwed up my racing for a couple of weeks, but has allowed me some time to sling some paint on a chaos spawn that has sat on my desk for likely 6 years.  As chaos player that likes the looks of spawns, I can never have enough of them.

 I've been playing a bit with my new Nikon DSLR camera, and wow is it something else.  Definitely has more capabilities than I will ever likely use.  The video it takes just about as awesome and the I must say the burst capability is very cool at the race track.

This is the very first miniature that I have photographed with the new camera.  It is likely I will figure out some different things as i go.

 Anyways, onto the miniature.  I converted this one just slightly thousands of years ago and then it sat in primer for a half-life just mutating further.

The paint work matches my current chaos army in detail level and quality.  I still need to work on the eyeballs a bit.  And I also need to add the static grass and such to the base.

 I had a bit of fun on the head.  The rust on the axe I think works.

There you go.  Expect a few more pieces soon....

Ah its Mini-Spawn

My mini-spawn.  Avatars of War dwarf, chaos spawn appendages, Battleroad Games head by the Bugman.

New Spawn….Influenced by the Disc 2

As things come together, you always get new ideas and the Tzeentch disc and my previous spawn gave me some more ideas on new chaos spawn. The ideas like the others were mainly to help tie more of this stuff together in the army. 

 
This one also uses a rat ogre body left over from the Warhammer Fantasy boxed set. I really like these overly muscled rat ogre bodies.  For this one I decide to merge it with a number of tyranid pieces to make it more menacing and this also 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.

 The back banner is from some other chaos model.  I really wanted the extra small arm claw to look like it had some musculature and could actually work.

The recessed areas will soon be rivet heads, but I still have not unpacked that material from my move.

I can't wait to paint the eyeball buried in the shoulder, as strange as that sounds.

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...

Its a Chaos Spawn Thing...Part 3

Yes it is. This is one of the models that got me really into converting.
Lots of pieces and such coming together to make a cool model. It dates back to 2002 or 2003, can't quite remember, and was part of Khorne beastmen army.


Head is from the beastmen standard, lower jaw from the ogre head on the base, not sure what I was thinking at the time with the orc mouth. A tyranid limb and some plasti-card on the other limb for sharp pointy things. And the big hand can't remember where that came from. The metal body was left over from one of my old minotaurs.

The spikes on the back were some rolled Super Sculpey, something I rare use any more.

One of the older possessed heads, licking up the leftovers, you simply must recycle.

Chaos Spawning Season...Part 2: Blue Spawn

This time its Blue Spawn. I really like the look of the model, but in hindsight I wish I would have changed how the troll body leans so far forward. I also attempted to subdue my normal approach to painting blue, making it pop less and also more flat in appearance.
Use of the ogre head and giving it tusks I think worked out quite well. I also think the color selection helped with a nice contrast.

In hindsight though, I kind of wish I would have done the tusks and such in the orange colors that I used on Brown Spawn. I am going to have to remember in my future spawn making to do conversion of the lacerated skin like what this former chaos troll model has. I think that is a cool effect.

All in all, I'm happy with the two spawn and look forward to doing more of them in the future.

While thinking of spawn, it leads me back to the one I built for my beastmen army, back a few years ago. It appeared in the U.S. White Dwarf #323 and was on GW US's website for awhile. Its still one of my favorite models. So in the next post I'll go back in time, dust him off and post some pics of him.

Moving forward in the next few posts...I've placed the marauders and warriors of chaos army on hold for a bit. I've fallen way behind in getting ready for the tournament season this fall and none of my armies are very playable in 8th edition. So with that in mind, I'm going to attempt to get the Khorne Demon Army serviceable, it is the closest to being playable in large point games. To do that I'll be bolstering its roster with some old school metal bloodletters, and with some new style bloodletters to act as Khorne heralds on foot all armored up, as well as some banners. And I'll also be returning to fantasy orcs, and have some more random 40k models in the works.

And for you newer readers of my blog, I finally got around to figuring out how to go back and do labels, so it should be easier for people to find things.

It's Chaos Spawning Season...Brown Spawn!

Well here is the first of the pair of spawn that I have been working on for my Warriors of Chaos army....I introduce you to Brown Spawn.

I think it turned out pretty good, painted up fast and easily. The spines coming out of the back I was going to paint in the bone and claw colors, but as I went I decided the model needed a bit of color.


I'm glad I did that, as that bit of color I think makes it pop.

The spawn kit is definitely one of my favorite kits to work with.

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.

The Spawning

The following is a piece I have been working on for a little bit, something I certainly plan to paint at some point. Calling it the spawning for obvious reasons, does look rather painful.

Did I mention Rome is coming? Probably have some pics of my WAB Romans come this weekend. Nothing really special...but it has been fun, probably the fastest I have ever painted a 1000 pt army, and they are tiny little bastards. After Rome...I'll be moving on to orcs and some more mutated Empire.

Spawning a new bug

A long time ago I built some chaos trolls for my beastmen and absolutely hated the models after I finished them, they were quickly thrown out of the army. When the spawn kit came out I decided to strip them down and see what I could do with them, and the first turned out pretty cool. This is the second one, chaos troll converted into chaos spawn. Now there was a bit of dremel work done and bit of GS work done to blend all of the parts to make a nasty looking bug. Now I really like the chaos trolls as chaos spawns, much better.