Morbid Angel's Blog

[daboarder]

It was suggested I post this in teh WIP forum so here it is

 

Let me start this topic by providing some of the background as to how it came to be..... You see way back when GW released the PDF and DA plastics I cam up with what I thought at the time was a great idea. Since all the Loyalist armies at the time looked like they we're going to be the same at their core I descided it would be great if I added squads from other chapters to form a "crusade" addition to my BA's, this would mean that I would be able to field any of the minatures from any of the SM ranges. In order to allow acces to Chaos marines I intended to include a contigent of soul drinkers into the army. With this in mind I bought 2 boxes of Chaos marines, a box of Chaos termies and the lord. Then rea;l life caught up and the project was left by the wayside.

 

Then with the release of the current BA I decided I wanted an army that played differently to my BA's. Being the fluff nut that I was I decided that the best counter to my BA would be Chaos space marines that used to be BA, or atleast lead by a lord who was once a BA. The only problem wiht this was I couldn't really find a good fluffy way to take the army I wanted to without breaking some fluff. What I wanted was a "shock and awe" army made of Plague marines, Chaos termies, Land raiders, and Obliterators. I had been going to make them a "black legion" force that had access to traitor apothecaries allowing for the PM's to get FNP from a fluf percpective however this didn't sit well and so the project looked ready to go back under the bed.

 

Then low and behold the great BnC offered me delliverence, and it's name was the Dornian Heresy. With this alternate Time line in hand I decided that it was perfect for my BA's to succumb to nurgle and so the army began again.

The colour scheme for this army will be Blood red and gold trim with strong devlan mud washes to produce a highly aged look. I have considered using scab red as it is darker but we will see how the current ideaturns out.

 

 

Now I intend for this thread to allow me to show you guys my WIP as well as explaining my design deciscions, so without further ado I shall kick off proceding's with my WIP Chaos lord.

 

These pictures are all of the Pre-Greenstuff stage.

 

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This next shot is his Daemon weapon. the fluff behind it is that my lord was possesed by a Daemon of nurgle but supress's it ad uses its power to his own ends. Model wise the right hand side of the minature is going to be more mutated than the left, as seen with the arm and the spikes growing out of the armour on the shoulder and legs.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/021.jpg

 

Next up is his shield, The idea behind this is that I wanted to take the classic image of a knight/space marine/ generic hero standing with one foot on a vaquished foe, with weapon in one hand and shield in the other and twist it into a cruel parody. (see I'm playing the nemesis card again) as such I decided it would be cool if my lord had taken a shield from a vanquished hero and "improved it". This is what I came up with.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/018.jpg

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Conversion notes: The shield/ left arm is going to have green stuff added on the back to make it look as if the shield is starting to grow onto the lord, as well as a toxin sac for the spike at the bottom. The blood angel symbol will also be growing onto/into the shoulder pad along with the spikes on the right arm and the Daemon head on the chest. The lord is also going to be "gifted" with a set of Wings from the TK carrion to provide yet another ironic counter to my BA succesor HQ's, as well as having key plates or armour recieve the "musculature" treatment.

 

So what do you gusy think? Love it or hate is please let me know, and as always advice is appreciated.

 

PS: please excuse the terrible spelling, I'm a chemistry student, haven't done english in years.

[daboarder]

The second Instalment

 

So last night I decided to do alot of the green stuff work on my lord. The torso is complete barring the wings and cloak that will be attached this weekend and the front half of the shield and the shoulder pad on the left arm have been completed.

 

I'm currently thinking that I will paint the "stretched flesh" bits in red and use a red wash on them but I'm not sure If that will constrast it enough compared toe red armour with a devlan mud wash. What do you guys think? How about painting one of the 2 reds as scab red and if so which one would you paint darker, the flesh or armour?

 

Also does anyone know a good way to paint a Sickly green corpse flesh colour using only a few coats? If so could you please tell me as I want to paint the "Marine" parts of these models as cadavers to play on the undead side of the vampire mythos.

 

Onto the pictures:

 

First up is the Deamon weapon, Its pretty much complete now I'm happy with the way the green stuff has really blurred the line between flesh and armour.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/004-1.jpg

 

Now we have the front and side versions of the lords torso. I decided to mold the Skull on the front into the armour to help make it look more a piece of it and less of an ornament that was just tacked on.

 

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Now we have the front facing of the shield, this is probably the part of the minature that I'm most happy about, Its turning out even better than I intended.

 

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And last but not least are the front and back pictures of the shoulder pad.

 

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[cathar the great]

I like him. A little different, thus cool ^^

 

I'll also convert the Sang. Guard I got into Nurgle Blood Angels, so thanks for the inspiration.

[Brother Aiwass]

Really inspired plague angel, I like a lot your concept and outcome.

[Tutteman]

I like, I'm hoping to jump on this bandwagon, the Dornian Blood Angels that is. I'll probs be aiming for less chaosy feel, more nurgle angels...I think ;)

[Vlâdvar The Destroyer]

Very cool concept, I like the interesting use of bloodletter parts & your sculpted nurgley detail! :) look forward to seeing more!!

[daboarder]

Here are the Latest photos of both the back of the shield and the attached arm, I'm quite please with the results but what do you guys think?

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/001-1.jpg

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And here is the attached shot.

 

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[daboarder]

So this time I'm going to be delving ALOT deaper into my design process and the further developement of this army starting with the basing and slight alteration of my "Typhus".

 

First up a rules explanation, you see for years I've wanted to convert a Chaose lord based upon the Deathknight image in the warcraft 3 handbook, I never could quite get it down right until I started this incarnation. Now the Idea of a death knight is and undead champion that has both magical powers and notable battle prowess, now in the Chaos Undivided realm the closest one can get to this is to take a Sorcerer. Now there were a few problems with this in my mind and the first of which was the sorcerers ability to only take and cast one power a turn. Thats kinda pitiful with regards to the more recent codex really. And the second was becasue the Sorcerer isn't much of a beast in combat. Now when I felt the pull of the Plague god I was reading through the rules for all the dedicaded nurgle units and I ran across the entry for Typhus, this was exactly what I had been aiming for ( though originally without the nurgle lean) so my new Plague lord will be following the rules for Typhus.

 

Now onto the minatures.

 

First up is my lord again, this time he is on what will be his base after some green stuffing to nurgle-ize it and some sand so that it fits my board. Originaly I didn't want to use the base supplied by with the chaos lord as it seemd too "generic" to me but due to lack of being able to find a suitable replacement and the success of the green stuff on my lord I decided to go with simplicity and modify this myself. Also of note is the removal of the Tyranid skull trophy rack, this was in part to make room for a pair of carrion wings and also to allow for the addition of one of the skeletons like the one on the base.

 

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This shot shows the back where the carrion wings will attach when they become available ( Curse GW selling the last one to the guy before me, TWICE!)

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Now we have the Pre-Green stuff Terminators, This squad will ultimately consist of 6 terminators and act as a retinue for my lord adding up to the magic number of nurgle.

While cinstructing the squad it occured to me that I would need to include a bearer of an icon of nurgle, after a little rule checking I found no reason not to take it on my asspiring champion and so decided upon the Idea of making all my aspiring champions into Sanguinary Plague Priests, to facilitate this idea I decided that they would all have a "plague grail" upon their right shoulder pad. this one on the Terminator is made form an unsided down shoulder pad slightly carved to fit and will be heavily greenstuffed.

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

 

His load out is a combi-flamer and power waepon.

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This is the rest of the squad, first guy is equiped with a Heavy flamer and Chain fist. With this army I was trying to get back the wackyness of 40k and many of my miniatures are an attempt to recapture much of the 3rd ed or older artwork with john blanche of particular note.

 

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These guys have a combi-bolter and power fist.

 

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The last guys has a power weapon and Combi- bolter.

 

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

 

 

This guy is going to be the "aspiring champion" for my first marine squad and will also likely be the test marine for my scheme. He is also pre-greenstuff and canny BA's will notice the use of a grail shoulder pad. (it was a painful descicion believe me.)

 

he has a power fist and bolt pistol

 

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Thats all for now but more greenstuff/assembly will be conducted tomorrow.

[eldarranger]

simply awesome, looking forward to more!

[Abbadons Chosen]

wow, just wow. I think that lord proves how amazingly detailed plastics have become, and of course your talent at converting them.

Now make more :)

[Lord_Azoth]

really nice conversions, I think you have caught perfectly the Chaos "spirit"

[cathar the great]

That's a Mark of Slaanesh on the Terminator shoulder pad ;)

 

Otherwise, I like them a lot. I like that you're going a John-Blanche way, looking forward to more of your conversions

[Vairocanum]

whoa that really kicks ass! i love all the skulls on the shield, it fits really nice! cant wait to see him painted.

[cunvikted]

I really like your conversions, I'm gonna have to use a couple of these ideas...if you don't mind of course :lol:

[daboarder]

First of all allow me to thank everyone who shows enough interest in this project to leave a comment; it can be disheartening to see large numbers of views with very few replies. Even if it is just a “keep up the good work” or “I’m not really a fan” you’re comments are much appreciated.

 

So here is the first painted miniature. This is ultimately how I want all my Aspiring champion’s to look, however for the other marines in my army I intend to invert the scheme so that the base colour is the red with a mud wash and the “growth’s” are bone with a red wash.

Note: the model is not complete because my fine brush died doing the flesh area’s and it will be a few day before I get a replacement.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/006-2.jpg

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This next photo is what the red looks like when it has been given a mud wash. Some will not that this place was previously taken by a slaanesh shoulder pad that was intended to be the body for a chalice conversion; well I couldn’t get that to work to my satisfaction and so replaced it with this simple conversion.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/008-1.jpg

 

As always comments are much appreciated.

[daboarder]

So it turns out devlan mud has a green pigment in it (I honestly did not know that). this works unintentionally well on my aspiring champs but it gives me a problem with my red marines, and that problem is named purple. That’s right when I wash my red marines in mud they don’t look so hot and I was a little unsure on how to overcome this and get an aged red. The possibilities are I think either changing to red gore and ditching the wash (I think the washes add to much character to drop though), changing the wash used to badab black ( I might go with this one, if anyone has any experience with this please let me know how it turns out) or doing what I did this time and after washing very lightly dry-brushing with blood red one final time (though I’m not sure this achieved the look I wanted). If anyone else has another idea please let me know.

 

So here’s the basic scheme and there is just a few things to note here. Firstly I was trying to do this one quickly this morning and so decided to dry the wash with my halogen lamp (I’ve done it before), unfortunately I just melted my dude so some green stuff will be added to the back to alleviate this mistake.

 

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PS: does anyone have any good ideas on how to paint warpfire?

[Exquisite Evil]

hey man - great log and great minis!

 

ok 2 suggestions for the red both based on washes;

 

1. simplest would be heavy baal red washes over a lighter base colour that isnt red. for a more metallic copper feel use a slilver base (drybrushed boltgun for instance) for a 'dustier' feel use a light brown (vomit brown or even a foundation yellow). basically you just keep washing the base colour until you get the desired red- if youve drybrushed the black under coat still should be in the recess, so youll get shading.

 

2. create your own wash usin dark flesh - its a great colour for shading red as it has a purple undertone. you can create your own wash by just watering down the paint and addin some future floor wax for even better , grab some mixing medium from an art shop - this will be a little less shiney.

 

for warpfire use some greens or blues - both will complement the red. start dark basecoat highlight up to white and then use washes to bring together.

[Angrypantz]

I would go for gryphonne sepia since your going for a dirty aged look and it is the closet to mud your going to get from the washes. If that fails then ogryn flesh wash.

[daboarder]

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?

[Eberious]

Looking awesome, kinda makes me wish I had went with the idea of chaos BA's when I thought of it back before release.

[daboarder]

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.

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[malika666]

I love that terminator character/lord/leader. The wing might be a bit overkill though. What about making his face a bit more warped though?

[Jarl Bloodwolf]

I like the conversions, especially the Bloodletter head on the torso. I myself am making traitor Blood Angels but I am not using the Dornian Heresy. I am braving the firing squad by having my marines be apart of the normal 40k universe and im giving my firing squad grenade launchers by having my main BA traitor be a fallen Sanguinary Guard. But anyway great models

[T0MMY]

The Lord is epic. So much going on but manages not to look cluttered - I see something new everytime I check him out. I vote for red (he seems more BA than DA to me) but he's your mini - I'm sure you'll do a great job of him.

 

The other models are ace too - shows how far the loyalists can fall from the light of the emparah! I really get the feeling that they've been wandering around in the eye for a few millenia.

 

Good work! :)

[daboarder]

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.

 

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/047.jpg

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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?