Wing Wong Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Firstly, I have been heavily inspired by the blogs of both RazakelXIII and kizzdougs. I love both armies for completely different reasons and they gave me some ideas (and tutorials) for how to do certain things. Unlike both blogs however, I have always seen Word Bearers as primarily robed and covered in excerpts from the Book of Lorgar and have been steadily collecting Dark Angel vets and other suitable gubbins for a few years on the side of other projects. We are starting a campaign at our excellent FLGS (Cut and Thrust Wargaming in Bristol) to celebrate the release of 6th edition. My first every 40k army was Word Bearers and I have wanted to return to them for a few years now that most of the army has been piecemealed and sold. However, the current chaos dex didn't really do it for me so after 2 years of tournament playing mainly khorne I moved onto Eldar, SW and dabbled in GK. However, the upcoming release of the chaos dex has reinvigorated my love of Lorgar's faithful and I want to really do the awesome fluff justice. My last few armies I have really concentrated on cleaner painting but I want to return to my usual 'grubby' style - lots of washes/OTT blood and gore and OTT conversions. I consider myself an average painter so please do not expect anything amazing but I hope it will turn out characterful and fun. This army is focused purely upon models/fluff/fun and is not aiming to be overly competitive. Anyways, onto some pics. http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/000_0115.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5127.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/000_0116.jpg While they will certainly be Word Bearers, I simple MUST get these guys in somehow for coolness [http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5136.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5139.jpg Painting started! THis guy was a test model really to see if I could get the colour of the robe. One guy died (ie, all went wrong) but this guy is ok. He's not nearly finished yet but I am liking how he is progressing so far. http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5159.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5160.jpg Once he is done I will get my lightbox sorted and get some proper pictures. What I really like is, apart from wash drying time, this is speed painted and I think I could do 5 in as many hours which is novel for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Have been taken down with a serious case of man-flu today so didn't fancy painting. I did, however, manage to finish assembly for my first CSM squad. Apologies for the quality of the pics; I will get them in the light box once they're painted and do it properly http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5161.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5162.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5163.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Apostle Thirst Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Nicely done, both converting and painting ^_^ Welcome to the brotherhood here on the BnC ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Spent a bit longer on "Testy" today. He's now pretty much done apart from the base. I got a little (ok, a lot) carried away with the clear red but, hey, he's a chaos assault marine. If they can't be covered in blood, who can? I will tone it down slightly for future models though http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5165.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5166.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burias-Drak'shal Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Great start to your army! Looks very good! Look forward to seeing how it progresses! Your Marine certainly has a butcher theme going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 First unit complete. Only 5 pictured. I had an absolute nightmare with these guys; got everything done and then completely messed up with the blood as it spilt all over the models. Essentially forced a lumpy repaint. Was 1 minute away from rage-quitting the hobby but touched them up as well as possible. Unhappy with them overall but at least I have a unit done. Still struggling to get some better pics; my light box is far too big and my lights far too wimpy. The first pics don't show the blood well but the 3rd does. http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5181.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5180.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5171.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 And the whole unit mugshot: http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5184.jpg First acolyte http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5185.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sword brethren Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 very nice, a great mix of bits making them all very individual. do i see a maxmini steam backpack in there? always wondered how they would look painted up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 Thanks man, It's actually the anvil industry one. Well scaled for marines IMO. THere are quite a few bits from Anvil. Awesome site and amazing service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sword brethren Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Thanks man, It's actually the anvil industry one. Well scaled for marines IMO. THere are quite a few bits from Anvil. Awesome site and amazing service oh right, i'll look into their stuff, it looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EgoDraconumNigrorum Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 :) PURE EVIL!!!! awesome! - EgoDraconumNigrorum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 Cheers for the comments. I think they'll be fun to do. What do people think I should do next? It's a little hitn'miss at the moment as no-one knows wha the new codex will bring. Some options are (I am definitely having daemon allies anyway so please treat daemons as an extention to CSM) 1: 12 Fiends based on spiders (GAWD THE LEGS WERE HORRIBLE TO CUT!) 2: A Bolter CSM squad - pretty safe bet that they'd be useful 3: Cultists - like the unit above - covered in script etc - have quite a few Redemptionists already 4: Decimator - Have a NIB one of these from FW 5: Characters - Either Apostle or FW Renegade psyker as Sorcerer, Terminator Lord 6: Daemon Princes - Ultraforge war daemon, Galraush as Lord of change, Helldorado Eurynome 8: Noise Marines (but painted as bearers) 9: Old school Plague Marines (painted as bearers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Nice blood going on you have there. The scriptures look great as well! Cheers for the comments. I think they'll be fun to do. What do people think I should do next? It's a little hitn'miss at the moment as no-one knows wha the new codex will bring. Some options are (I am definitely having daemon allies anyway so please treat daemons as an extention to CSM) 1: 12 Fiends based on spiders (GAWD THE LEGS WERE HORRIBLE TO CUT!) 2: A Bolter CSM squad - pretty safe bet that they'd be useful 3: Cultists - like the unit above - covered in script etc - have quite a few Redemptionists already 4: Decimator - Have a NIB one of these from FW 5: Characters - Either Apostle or FW Renegade psyker as Sorcerer, Terminator Lord 6: Daemon Princes - Ultraforge war daemon, Galraush as Lord of change, Helldorado Eurynome 8: Noise Marines (but painted as bearers) 9: Old school Plague Marines (painted as bearers) Galrauch! With different wings, maybe the pegasus or carrion wings, and some feathers sculpted on here and there, with a Tzeentch staff in one of his claw hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazakelXIII Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Great stuff, brother. I like the direction you've taken the red and the blood, but I might be biased on those. :D I really like the bone color you've got on the robes and some of the shoulderpads, too. Especially dig the First Acolyte with the bloody shroud over his face, and you've got some fantastic poses all around. Coincidentally, my Host is also the 13th - wanna share? ;) I'll second Circus Nurgling's vote for Galrauch, though I wouldn't mind seeing Eurynome or the Redemptionists either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 Thanks for the replies. Raz; your blog was what gave me the final push to get these started so especially thanks for that. Apologies as well for stealing your stuff:Reds, bloods, daemon symbol etc but it looks so nice:D Galrauch is tempting but I agree that he needs some sort of staff to make him less dragon and more daemon - any ideas? One where I don't have to buy a whole model would be nice. I suppose I could bash one together with some rod. THe model is actually missing his left top claw so I am going to have to have a good think about how to do this as the claws are tight to the body. The different wings are a really nice idea - I love the carrion wings but I don't think they'd be big enough though I do have a set somewhere. ANy other suggestions for the wings? Eurynome is also aching to be completed. As he is wingless and wings would not look right on the model's pose, coupled with the fact that it looks like wingless summoned daemons are out for next edition, I am really tempted to have him in the middle of a summoning to represent a base for the base missions. I was thinking of having a pointed star on a 100mm base and having spikes with sacrifices on each point with Eurynome in the middle and some sort of sorcerer somewhere. Not sure if it would work but I think it would look cool. What do people think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Pegasus or Griffon wings might work. I dunno I'm not too big on sources for feathered wings... the old Lord of Change model wings as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 3, 2012 Author Share Posted August 3, 2012 Small update: Squad 2 Of all my complicated conversion ideas, I decided to go for something REALLY out there: another CSM squad! I need to think more about a Galruach/Fateweaver conversion; particularly about different wings and a staff. I thought 2 CSM squads would always be useful regardless of the new codex. The GS on the leader looks a little weird in the low quality pic but it's fine on the model. I'm quite hapy with the unit so far though they did take a while to put together. Any comments on these? does the mixture of action and more static posing in a single unit work? http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5248.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5249.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5251.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearingtheword Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I am liking them brother! Keep up the great work! ~BtW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 3, 2012 Author Share Posted August 3, 2012 Thanks man,Also glued together Hellbrecht http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5253.jpg Really wan't happy with the MotC hand so swapped it. When a power sword just is not big enough: http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5255-1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 6, 2012 Author Share Posted August 6, 2012 Didn't get a chance to paint this weekend but did start my fiends/seeker conversions. They were a REAL pain the remove the legs fromn the original spiders so the legs could be more splayed. I am kinda happy with them though, for the rest, I want to have their body closer to the floor. On the flipside of this, fiend models are kind of big so it does make some sense for them to be higher. I need some advice on attaching them to a base though. As you can see from the one on the right, I have had to add a big supporting bar in the middle and I am really unhappy with this - does anyone have any suggestions how this could be achieved without the silly bar? It's impossible to do from the legs as they are so thin. http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5256.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5257.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazakelXIII Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Squad and MotC are lookin' good and Anti-Helbrecht is VERY cool, I wouldn't worry about mixed static/action poses - they all look fairly actiony to me, but then I'm used to working with mono-pose Warrior legs. Variation is underrated. :D As for the Fiends, you might try drilling smallish holes in the base with a pin vise and letting the tips of the legs sit in those. GS is a bit hard to make out in the pics, are those eyes? If so, very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 Great idea; I'll try that... THey will be eyes once painted... I am going to try and get some different sizes for the next few. The fiends take ages to do so they will be on the back burner when I can't find the will to paint the main stuff. Thanks for the advice Raz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 Reinforcements have arrived! Blood Slaughterer, Blood Slaughterer Implace and Decimator (all count as dreads at present) http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m55/rage99_2006/100_5308.jpg The 2nd CSM squad are also nearly all base coated so they should be done relatively soon. While doing the 'dreads' looks fun, what I really want to do is a samurai Khorne marine squad - I was going to do a whole army but I couldn't find the bits. Sadly, this means more spends and I really want to stop buying toys randomly and buy a Chaos Warhound or even Reaver instead. Will update with new stuff soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 I have had lots of ideas for this army so I wanted to put together a list of stuff to do. Obviously this will change with the new codex but I think what I am planning will be pretty safe. CSM HQs: Dark Apostle Sorcerer: Forgeworld Psyker Deamon Prince: Based on abaddon model Deamon Prince: A great conversion I got in a trade Terminator Lord Elites: Chosen Squad 5 Terminators Blood Slaughterer Blood Slaughterer Impaler Decimator Troops: 2 x 10 CSM 8 Berserkers - Khornate Samurai Marines 8 Thousand Sons - the awesome upgrade packs from Russia 8 Plague Marines - Rogue Trader ones 8 Noise Marines - 2nd edition ones 20 Cultists - Redemptionists 20 Cultists - converted Flagellants Fast: 10 Bikes 10 Raptors (deamonic) Heavy: Landraiders x 3 (already done for old army - just need to Word Bearer them up) Brass Scorpion - Mainly done - needs updating (did years ago) Warhound Titan Deamon Allies: Bloodthirster (Ultraforge) Skarbrand - Based on FW Thirster - painted years ago but needs refreshing/repinning 12 Fiends (spider conversions) 3 Deamon Princes Fateweaver based on Galrauch 20 Horrors 20 Bloodletters So, it's a HUGE project but I am really enjoying it at present and already have 95% of the above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Wong Posted August 9, 2012 Author Share Posted August 9, 2012 Just found these. O dear http://puppetswar.eu/img/p/139-547-thickbox.jpg http://puppetswar.eu/img/p/138-546-thickbox.jpg http://puppetswar.eu/img/p/141-552-thickbox.jpg http://www.trolltrader.co.uk/ekmps/shops/trolltrader/images/cyber-samurai-backpacks-5--3286-p.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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