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I've got to say that this is a pretty awesome project you've got going on. You could also just use the Regular BA dex to play chaos you know. And I wouldn't just consider you to be jumping on the band waggon. You're actually making these guys look like fallen blood angels. And they look great!
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Hi guys another day another update. First I would like to take the time to answer the questions you guys have asked concerning this project.

Unfortunately I can’t really offer you guys a list of parts as most of the interesting things are from my bits box which have been sitting in there for ages, sometimes as long as ten years.

As for the list I will be using the chaos marine codex for this army as I want it to be fundamentally different to my other BA army and it is a Dornian heresy army after all. Though I’m still unsure of whether to take 3 squads of 7 plague marines as my core or instead taking 2 squads of 10 marines with a mark of nurgle and rhino’s. I’m leaning towards using the 3 squads of 7 because it would fit the theme very strongly.

A couple of you guys have also questioned why I chose nurgle, I know it doesn’t seem like something that would happen I thought about playing up the Undead side of the vampire mythos and once I had that idea I felt that is was too good to pass on. This theme will become more evident once I get to painting some flesh on my marines as it is going to be rotting and dead.

Anyway onto the update, news on the chaos lord is that I was able to get the carrion wings today and so he should be finished within the next 2 days and painted within 2 more, updates will probably follow his progress more than anything else. I’m hoping to finish both the lord and the terminators this week and then move onto the regular chaos marines next week as progress should speed up due to all materials now being accounted for.

Here is something I threw together this weekend based upon a concept I developed. It was practically a given that this force would end up including at least one dreadnought in the list, after all the dreadnought is the epitome of Heavy infantry. I know the Chaos ones are sub-par rules wise but honestly if he decides every so often to nuke my own unit, well it all adds to the fun. This guy was originally going to be built from one of the new Space marine venerable dreadnoughts but I was unable to afford it and so decided to cannibalize one of my as yet unused BA ones instead. The arms will be pinned in such a way as to allow me to equip him in any way I want.

While I would love to say that the coffin idea is completely my own I have to give a shout out to Luke yates from Australia and his always astounding Plague marines, particularly the one where his army was used in a CoD battle report against tau. Originally I had intended to leave the facing off the venerable and use the bare chassis but with that idea out the window I decided to use an open coffin style and again play upon the undead aspect of vampires.

 

As for the weapons I wanted to increase the mutation and demonic influence on this model further than the Terminators, the Obliterators will again be even more mutated and warped.

 

This is the pre nurgleisation dread.

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This photo shows the banner for this dreadnought along with the heavy flamer and one of the pre-construction alternate weapon load outs.

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Here is a close up of the coffin. I wanted to go for a face full of expression and chose a screaming space marine head because I love the idea of an insane space marine controlling a deadly war machine. I also had the idea that if the marine inside the dread was ever killed the Chaos marines would just rip him unceremoniously from inside the coffin and promptly replace him.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/P5230164.jpg

 

So what do you guys think?

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Awesome work on these models, youve got a real talent.

 

Also love how your working the fluff and the whole shebang, looking forward to more updates as they come along.

 

B.

 

ps Personally I would have thought BAs would succumb to Khorne.. seeing as they have the whole Red Thirst and Black Rage thing going on and Khorne has the whole 'Blood for blood god' thing happening.

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Hey guys here are the final WIP pictures of the lord. The next time you see him he will be fully painted. I must say that this is the first time in ages that I have actually been intimidated by the thought of painting a model, I find this even more interesting when I consider that it is a model I created myself. As for scheme I am still a little unsure whether to paint him with the bone armour or the red armour, there are benefits and drawbacks to both decisions and I will have to think carefully about the overall scheme before deciding.

About halfway through attaching the wings I was really worried that they wouldn’t fit really well, I ended up having to trim the trophy racks a little but after some wing reconstruction I’m very pleased with the results.

 

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Here are some close ups of the Joints.

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I’m considering making a painted picture of this shot my profile picture, its nice and menacing.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/006-4.jpg

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Where did you get the wings? They're perfect.. as is he.

Remember though: BLOOD angels! Red them up, then Nurgle them a good bit.

 

I can't wait to see the result!

 

edit: Maybe paint one of those marine helmets a Dornian loyalist legion.

Heck, I'm sure that's the plan. What legion are you going for?

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hey guys I’m back.

So basically it has taken me two weeks instead of two days to finish my lord and I must say that unfortunately the rest of the army is going on hold for the next three weeks due to university exams sorry guys.

 

However there is good news, this army is going all out beyond the original 1500pt list! I’ve decided I’m going to raid my bits box for the parts that were never really likely to be used in a BA army but I had picked up for a number of reasons. What these bits will give me is.....

Another squad of 7-6 terminators converted from AoBR termies, another (hopefully) 2 squads of 7 plague marines based on AoBR tac marines, and finally a 2-3 squads of 7 chosen/havocs OR 2-3 squads of 7 raptors, these will be done from the rather numerous DA minis I have that will be converted into plague monk style Space Marines. Oh and eventually I will be converting an ascended version of my lord as a daemon prince.

Without further ado I present to you

Tyranicus Trepes: lord of the Carrion.

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Believe it or not the hardest part of this mini to paint was getting the damn brush into the nooks and crannies on the base.

 

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Overall I am VERY pleased with how he has turned out, so what do you guys think was this a success?

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Awesome job, love it - he's terrifying!!! As soon as I took a glance at the model the intro to Run to the Hills started playing in my head... or was that due to the sneaky CD case under his feet? Hmm! ;)
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Jeez Louise!!! I think that you should now be purged of your Nurgle influence and brought back to the righteous light of the Emperor before it's too late.

 

OTT, he is horrific and beautiful at the same time! My apologies for not delving into your thread from the start, but I will be following from now on! Great conversions and GSing. WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Now get cracking on those Termies...let's go, let's go, let's go!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

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Hey guys I posted this a little while ago on the other forums but for some reason forgot to post it here.

 

 

Bits list for lord:

Head: DA veteran

Shield: assault terminators

Daemon weapon: tyranid MC sprue

Body+Legs: chaos terminator lord

Shoulder pads: chaos terminator lord

Shield spike: nurgle specific head from CSM command

Shield cover: Chaos undivided standard CSM

Bones: ghouls

Bodies: CSM command nurgle standard

Bloodletter skulls

Various skulls and spikes from CSM standards, sprues and pieces

Wings: tomb kings carrion

Also here are the pictures of my Pre-green stuff sorcerer the cloak and stuff came from another lord that I had bought along with Abbadon to modernize him after giving it alot of thought I decided to butcher it for parts because it’s not something that I would field and if I want it as a display piece I can always do the conversion again.

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Hey guys!

One thing first, I know you guys want more painted miniatures but that is going to wait a bit as first I want to get my 1500pts sculpted so I can start playing but once that done then I will be painting them before I go on and do more sculpting.

 

So here is my first 3 obliterators, I had a lot of trouble getting the concept for these guys. At first I was going to mount the weapons on the arms but they kept looking just like terminators carrying heavy weapons, something I most definitely did NOT want.

 

Then I had a brilliant idea while looking through the old, old chaos codex. Why not mount the guns on the torso like the old obliterator models? So that’s what I did, then I decided that the techno virus wasn’t very nurglely and so I decided to go for more “organic” weapons and swapped to the tyranid one’s. However I would like to point out to those who would also like to convert their own obliterators, using mechanical imperial weapons on the torso still looks REALLY good it’s just not what I was after. The sculpting was mostly to make the marines look like they were possessed and I think it went alright.

 

On to the pictures.

 

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Edit: ignore the feet they will be sculpted into cloven hooves when the bases are done.

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begone foul traitor! the blood angels would nev.....wait what? alternate timeline you say! yay go for it :)

 

great looking marines brother :) even if they are chaos, theyre still kinda blood angels (well theyre red :sweat: ) they look suitably messed up, gross and brutal. so a perfect looking chaos force right there :)

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Cheers for the compliments guys, I often wonder if its appropriate to most these BA's here but I think so long as you guys enjoy them then I will contiue posting.

 

This time I'm showing you the current pictures of my dreadnought so you can see how he's doing.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/013-2.jpg

 

First up we have the banner, I love how this has come out so far especially how it looks like the blood drop/ puss sack is corrupting the rest of the banner, and I'm almost tempted to use it for soemthing else.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/010-1.jpg

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Heres the coffin, It'snot quite what I was after but I think its a fair compromize between imagination and acheivability.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/014-2.jpg

 

Next up is the gun arm, its only about 25% complete to be honest, buy the time I'm done I want the head part to look like a deamon of nurgle and NOT a carnifex, I also intend to corrupt the powerpack at the end of the gun a fair bit more.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/012-2.jpg

 

This one is a close up of the left leg for the dreadnought, originally it was going to be armour plated like the other leg but with puss sacks hanging on it. Unfortunately I lost the peice after it broke off while repositioning the dreadnought so here is what I came up with instead.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/015-2.jpg

 

Finally a rear shot to show how the vents are attatched to the dread.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/016-2.jpg

 

So guys please leave any C&C you feel like below.

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Hi guys a quick weekly update before the weekend.

This week I will be playing my first game with this army and though the miniatures aren’t finished and most of them don’t even have the detailing done to them yet, I decided that I really really wanted to start playing with them so that by the time I’m done I will have a firm grasp of how to use them to full effect.

So heres the final list for this weekend, I know the units aren’t optimal but I’m going for fluff over effectiveness.

HQ:

Mordread, Lord of The Scourging: Typhus

Total:225pts

 

Elites:

6xTerminators: 180pts

Icon of nurgle: 40pts

Champion: 10pts

Combi-flamer: 5pts

Heavy flamer: 5pts

Chain fist: 15pts

2xpowerfists: 20pts

Total: 265pts

 

Iscarion, the Traitor of malthax: Dreadnought: 90pts

Plasma cannon: 15pts

Heavy flamer: 5pts

Total: 110pts

 

Troops:

7x plague marines: 150pts

Champion: 15pts

Power fist: 25pts

2xplasma gun: 30pts

Total: 231pts

 

7x plague marines: 150pts

Champion: 15pts

Power fist: 25pts

2xplasma gun: 30pts

Total: 231pts

 

7x plague marines: 150pts

Champion: 15pts

Power fist: 25pts

2xFlamer: 30pts

Total: 231pts

Heavy support:

3x Obliterators: 225pts

Total:1498pts

 

No post would be complete without some picture updates so here’s how the dreadnought is coming.

I once read a quote from a famous sculpture whose name I no longer remember that said the strongest images are the ones that are recognizable in silhouette, and that’s the basic design philosophy that goes into all my models. With that in mind I’ve redesigned the gun arm for my dreadnought to this the final incarnation. Of particular note is the “organic” limb joint, I think it makes a nice contrast in the model having the mechanical limb attached organically and the organic arm attached mechanically.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/174.jpg

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Along with this redesign I needed to change the angle of the head so that the entire model was clearly directed in the same way.

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