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  • zulu.tango

    Wrapping Wreckas

    By zulu.tango

    Hit the throttle on the Wreckas last week. I've been painting pretty slowly this year all things considered, decided to change that with this project. Finished up free-hand on a few items, got the squigs painted up, did the bases and oil washes last week resulting in a final project I'm pretty happy with!    I dug out some of the leftover terrain bits I had from the sector imperialis/Chalnath terrain. I put a fine terrain paste around those bits and then put in some sand to act as larg
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  • W.A.Rorie

    XIVth Legion build

    By W.A.Rorie

    So am I back from Indiana. I have to head back to move In-Laws into a Retirement Center, in a few weeks. And of course everything goes sideways at work moment I get back. So hobby time has been non existence. Silver Lining is LGS not get Saturnine until Monday, so I can get everything I need to do first i.e. my XIXth Legion and Exorcists  Call to Arms Vows, that I have not started. And won't have time this weekend.   I did start on building one of My XIVth Legion Commanders, not sure w
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  • GSCUprising

    Jagieŀŀo inspects their prizes

    By GSCUprising

    The Resistance have finally captured the war machines they believe they require to make their stand.   Brutus, the Malcador, reliable, dependable the spine of their battleline. She will not fail them. She will hold the line, her battlecannon roaring, her sponsons blazing as she paves the way for the Resistance's advance. The Iron Duke, his twin Earthshaker cannons blasting holes in the enemy's fortifications. He guards those retreating and the wounded behind his massive blast shield
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  • Bouargh

    Square Pants Bob

    By Bouargh

    Hi Folks,   Today’s blog entry is a little bit specific as it deals with something different from my usual inputs: instead of reporting hobbying progress, I will talk about a trail I did for a new technique (à la TITH – i.e. something that is not new in general but new for me).     The technique is often reported on purpose of adding details and create battle damages or war-torn marks on miniatures. But beyond painting damages, the sponge might be used on purpose of
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Bragun

For I am of the Word and by the Word Flesh and blood bound to my masters and makers Chaos guide my stride My body a shield to those raised above me My axe death to those opposing my masters For I am of the Word and by the Word Soul and sinew pleged to the Four and the One Chaos guide my hand - Bragun, Lifeward   Bragun Master of Executions and Lifeward “I guard the Word with death. I speak it with the fall of the axe.” Bragun,
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Abraxis

Our weapon sings the fury of the Golden One Mine armor imbued with denizens of the Primordial Our minds armored by the Word Mine soul dedicated to the Eightfold Path This is what it means to be of the Ebon Word   We bring death to the blind and foolish We bring truth for those that wish to be free We bring the enlightenment of the forgotten We come for all We are the Ebon Word   - Coryphaus Abraxis of the Ebon Word    
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Vor Skral

From the sermons of the First Chaplain: Doubt begets failure, never doubt the Word Sever the thoughts of serving one God alone Chaos united shall run through your veins   From the catechisms of the Black Cardinal: Seek the powers of Chaos through force and guile Trust no mortal, only faith will be your guide Bring the aethyr into your soul   From the Book of Lorgar: Turn to Chaos when lacking true purpose The Four will fill you with the
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Orren Malith

The blade came free with a slick sound, suction trying to hold it tight in the body of the broken... thing. No longer was it a Night Lord, not even a Warp Talon touched by the fickle aether. This was something darker, more bestial and savage. A creature that kept the form of an Astartes but thought alien thoughts and bled black, stinking blood.   The Gloamclaws encircled the dueling pair, flickers of warp energy running up and down their shadowy forms. The winner watched them in turn,
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Veydras Kaith

The squad moved in silence. For beings as large as they were, the lack of sound in their advance was disturbing and unnatural. The darkness of the lower hive hid them, midnight blue armor blending into the natural shadows. Only their pale helms showed, skull-masked visages that floated like ghosts.   The leader, Veydras Kaith, directed them with blink-signs and hand-talk. No vox signal to give away their position, no loud war cries or terror-calls to announce their presence. Those gutt
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The Pale Wake

He crouched in the alleyway, damp palms pressed against the crumbling walls on either side. There was something here; something that didn't belong in his world of narrow alleys, creaking shanty houses, and bellowing manufactorums. It wasn't the gangs like the Razor Kids, or the Pain-Jacks, wasn't any of the obscura-freaks or ghast-heads.    No, this was something worse. It was here in the dark, the sideways tunnels that were avoided by the drug workers and the Lexmen. It had been here
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The Gyve

To be the hammer of wrath among the faltering hordes   To light the fires of Fury and Faith   This is to be the Gyve   The steady blade of the Coryphaus   Exemplars of the Ebon Word, faultless obedience   For they are the Gyve   The Gyve, Bitter Legionaries The Gyve are the Ebon Word’s unyielding line-breakers, a kill-squad of bitter veterans who embody the creed of faultless obedience and the cold discipline of the Coryphaus. They fight as the warba
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The Fated Sons

The Fated Sons of the Word we are  Chosen from the masses, raised up by the Four  To their power do we aspire  The glory of Chaos in full bloom  Behold us and tremble, you foolish mortals  We are the Word, we are the Blessed  We are Chaos emerging The Fated Sons, Chosen of the Word The Fated Sons are a paradox within the Ebon Word: a squad of Chosen who embrace the full, mutating glory of Chaos, even as the warband’s elders reject such lesser gifts i
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The Choral Undue

The Choral Undue Bitter remnants of the Ashen Circle Bound soul-hunters of the Ebon Word Devoted to the True Faith Charged to illuminate the unfaithful To prey upon the followers of the Corpse-Lord Through fire, blade, and bolt To tear asunder false piety and weak worship Old hatred, blazing zealotry To teach the Word with violent fervor The Choral Undue     The Choral Undue, forerunner squad of the Ebon Word They fal
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Changing up the blog slightly

So I've decided to move over all of my Chaos stuff to this blog, rather than just focus on just the Shrikeborn. Since I plan on now combining the Shrikeborn and Ebon Word in-game, I will combine them into this blog instead of having a blog for the Shrikeborn and a WIP forum thread for the Ebon Word.    That means that I will slowly be moving over pics and lore from the Ebon Word thread into distinct posts into this blog. Since I do have a couple of fully painting Ebon Word units, they
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Making the Dirgebound and Mortals

So I go the last of the Strikeborn in, my terminators and all of the mortal fools. These were super easy builds because none really required any additional modeling- the Contekar termies are full of all the ridiculous NL details you want, and the Nomads have loads of character without needing anything other than a decent paintjob.   Dirgebound (Counts as a regular CSM termie squad, with 4 accursed weapons, 4 combi-weapons, 1 powerfist, and 1 heavy flamer)   Traitor
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It's Worbla-ing Time...

So I finally got all of the models together that would need to have worbla skin-trophies modeled on them and got the time to spend messing around with the stuff. Not going to lie, was not as easy as I wanted it to be. The main problem was that I was using a pair of metal tweezers to try to hold/place the worbla onto the models, but the tip of the tweezers would get hot and basically cut the worbla in half instead of holding it. I worked it out eventually, but it was annoying.     I thi
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Making Chosen, plus bits for the Headsman

The Chosen are a simple group to put together, just a Nemesis Claw box with a couple of changes to loadouts from the suggested version. I'm going to be running them as two identical Chosen squads with the following loadout- champion w/plasma pistol, powerfist, and icon, chosen w/twin accursed weapon and plasma pistol, 2x Chosen with combi-weapon, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol, Chosen w/bolter, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol. Since I love the chainglaives that all good Night Lords carry, thi
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Mortals- The Howlbrood and the Still Order

For along the stars they travel, in ships of night and blood Screaming rage and silent death Mortal in flesh, in purpose bound to the more-than-mortal Clad in dusk, armed in fear They are the Howlbrood and the Still Order Twin brotherhoods of the damned Know their mark and beware For if they are near, so are their Masters - Poem found at Unil VI, Bondri Subsector Raidings      Howlbrood “Terror is the only truth.”   The
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Butterfly moment - Cultists and Guardsmen idea, Xmas stuffs

So a couple of days ago I had a hobby butterfly moment and decided to go with it. I was looking over the Necromunda book Tribes of the Wastelands and saw the Sha'dar Hunters models from the Ash Wastes Nomads. I have always liked the Nomads, but didn't really think that I would be playing an Ash Wastes Necro game anytime soon so had no large desire to get them. Something about the Sha'dar Hunters clicked for me though and I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole- looking up the rules for the CSM
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The Dirgebound

Stab-lights strobed in the dark. A score of men moved quietly, lasguns held ready and sweeping the darkened street, flicking their gunlights on and off in a trained manner, giving an enemy no steady light to target. Imperial Guard, Mordians even, veterans of that world's ever-night. They were comfortable in the gloom but wary. Their parade-ground uniforms blended into the night as they advanced towards the local power depot. The enemy had come to Javan and the Mordian 990th Iron Guard would not
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Making Warp Talons

Ah, the Warp Talons. They don't quite fit the non-daemonic aspect that I'm going for with the Shrikeborn, but some judicious use of shame/warning/pragmaticism make it alright (i.e.- I really wanted lightning claw jumpy boys for the Night Lords and am ok with them being slightly daemonic if need be).    Anyway. These guys I had a plan from the very beginning. I like the MkVI Assault Marine sculpts as they convey movement without having all the weird one-legged jumpy poses that assault s
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Building Carrow and Kordesh

Started on the characters of the Shrikeborn, the Stained Lord himself and his Headsman. Fairly easy to make them.   Carrow is basically just the HH Traitor Overseer Consul with a jumppack, new head, chainglaive for his right arm, lightning claw for the left arm, and some chain wrapped around his left leg. Actually, writing that out makes it seem much more complicated than he is. All of the parts worked without too many issues and he fit together nicely. Only thing you won't see in the
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Making Raptors, Part II

Part 2 of the Raptors was basically building 5 mkII Assault marines. The models themselves are great- easy to put together, nice solid kit. Only issue was me stupidly snaping one of the two-handed axes near the lower fist, making it look...off. But it'll work out in the end, I've got a plan to make it look not as dumb. Using the chain and GW's skulls worked really well, the chain was perfectly sized and I think looks pretty natural on the models. Next up for these guys is getting my worbla therm
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Making Raptors, Part I

So, got most of the stuff I had on order, so time to start building! My favorite part of the hobby, aside from playing. I decided to start with the Night Raptors component of my Raptors squad, as I figured that a five man, mostly stock group would be an easy intro. I was wrong.    The Horus Heresy Night Raptors are pretty clearly old FW design- mostly in the fact that the leg/torso/pauldrons are all one piece and the shoulder/arm connections are all different (both in where the connect
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Sarran Narvok

Slash-slash-thrust-sweep-return. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.   The soft, guttural grunts of exertion arose from the pale-skinned Astartes. Stripped to the waist, he wove a discipline kata of strikes with a chainglaive. Deep breaths powered the massive figure's strikes against the training-daemons. Mindless, gibbering Neverborn beasts that were summoned and bound into servitor bodies, the training-daemons were foes not to take lightly, even for full armed warriors.   This Astartes
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Navir Xikas

Night has fallen on the city of Uld-Town. The capital of the agri-world of Therema-IV, it boasts a modest population of only twenty million citizens, those that are required to oversee the tithes of the massive grain-fields that cover the planet.    The Dreadclaw drops from the sky, landing struts outstretched and engine furiously braking. The droppod slams into the earth as a small mushroom-cloud of dust rises from the impact. At the slum-edge of the city few notice the noise or the f
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Flaymaster Amathys

Click....click....click....   The metallic noise was repetitive and quiet, a sound barely heard but irritatingly present at the same time. It echoed softly from the upper hanger of the Umbral Vos, from the Aerie of the Lost.    Chains hung from the ceiling of the former hanger, strung about with skin-trophies and tally-skulls from noted kills. The pervasive smells of blood and fear-sweat were muted and overpowered by a harsh tang, a burnt ozone that lingered on the mind as mu
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