++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[Metzombie]

 

'Teets of Khorne'

So "Sisters of Blood" https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryWarhammer/comments/b7tuti/40k_sisters_of_blood_by_%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9%E6%A1%91/

[Nomus Sardauk]

@ Nomus Sardauk: HAHAHAHAHA that's such a crazy Type-O - the H and S aren't even near each other on the qwerty keyboard. Must be a freudian slip or something. I normally won my type-o's and mistakes but I'll make an exception for this one and editted it. Leave your comment though! Thanks for the kind words on the Champion, buddy, I appreciate it. BTW have you commented on this thread before? I don't recall you have but it might be that it's been a while. You certainly have enough posts to indicate that you've been around this board for a while. In any case: If you haven't -welcome to the thread! If you have, I apologize for forgetting about you!

 

You're welcome brother, glad my tomfoolery could give you a chuckle.  And yes, I have posted here before though I have been absent for a quite a while, plus I went by SanguiniusReborn way back then. That was around the time when you were doing your Night Lords and Imperial Fists, perhaps you still remember old Erhard Zeikfried, Sergeant of IXth Devastator? Or Brother Rüdiger Hoss of VIIth Bike Squad? 

Edited May 21, 2021 by Nomus Sardauk

[Augustus b'Raass]

Yeah, so I went on a bit of a building spree today. As I've written here on the previous page, I have three Venomcrawlers in the list I'm building but do not want copies of the same miniature in the army (a principle I am and have always been super, super strict about) so I need to convert at least two Venomcrawlers, which are monopose minis. The second one was a succes and I've been turning ideas around in my head about the third one for almost two months. I already settled on a kitbash/conversion weeks ago, but have waited building the damn thing because I want to keep the build-paint-build planning quite strict to avoid burnout. Too much finished but unpainted miniatures gives me paint burnout, so I reward myself for finishing a paint job by allowing myself to build the next thing. But man, I just didn't get my building fix with just five Havocs, plus I really wanted to get the idea for the conversion out of my head. So I build the Venomcrawler. 

It's quite an involved kitbash actually. 
1. swapped the hind and middle legs of the venomcrawler out for the front and middle legs, respectively of the Discolord's Helstalker. They're the exact same size and design, if you haven't already noticed it. I searched online and was surprised to not find a single picture of other people having done this.
2. removed the mouthed chaos stars on the body and replaced them with pressmolded World Eater icons of the OOP Chaos World Eater Rhino hatches.
3. added pressmolds of shield with Khornate runes on them to the Eviscerating Claws
4. removed the spikes on teh body's trophy rack and replaced them with a trophy rack from the Chaos Vehicle Sprue
5. removed the head and replaced by a de-horned Bloodthirster head (and added some smaller horns)
6. removed the front trophy rack altogehter and replaced by a Juggernaut head shield/crest thingy, including a spiky honr/crest-like thing.
7. replaced the Soulflayer Tendrils with Drukhari Talos Mechadrendrites
8. The base also is quite the ensemble. It features a dead MkIII marine, plus empty shells from the Venomcrawlers Excruciator Cannons. Pew pew!

Anyway, here's pictures.

Boom baby!

A couple of you have noted my increased activity here and I'm glad that you did, but there's a reason for that and it's that I have more time behind a screen because my health isn't doing too well. *insert sad violin music* I've had two non-covid pneumonia's this year (one viral, one bacterial) which, coupled with a year of decreased activity due to working from home (with what the pandemic and all) pretty much led to my old back injury, a spinal hernia/slipped disc return - and with a goddamn vengeance. It's worse than ever. I was already having neural pains in my leg for a couple weeks, but then last week my leg suddenly just quit on me and and I fell down the stairs, which exacerbated the pain. Last Wednesday I was in so much pain, I called emergency services and I got picked up by an ambulance and was in the hospital for two days. (that ambulance ride was awesome though - I got a huge shot of Morfine and Ketamine - best trip of my live. Literally adn drug-erally). They gave me a neural block so my leg hasn't worked since and I've been on crutches, and, more importantly, Oxydon (a morfine) and a couple of other neural painkillers since Friday last week and will be for at least four more. I've tried to paint but it's super slow going as my hands tremble because of the drugs. The upside is I have a ton of time to reflect and do some of the things I like but don't have time to do - like hobbying and posting hobby stuff here and on instagram. Oh and video games! I'm hardcore into Assassin's Creed! I already finished Black Flag and am now 85% of the way into Syndicate. Awesome games. 

Anyway, I just thought I'd share this here. 

Take care, stay safe, and have a great day!

Cheers

Replies:

 

@ Majkhel: Cheers, buddy! Yeah man, I have come to like doing bases again! I kinda did the bare minium for them for a couple years, with the Imperial Fists, Death Guard, and Necromunda miniatures. But I thought I'd try and make an effort again, and am enjoying it a lot! Thanks for noticing :)
 

@ Mechanist: Hahaha that was deserved! ;) And thanks for saying that about the helmet and photo. :)

@ Metzombie: Hey buddy! I haven;'t seen you post here before so first off: welcome to my thread! Please check it out - there's an index in the first post that will help you navigate it. It's quite long now, so I hope that helps you enjoy it more. 

 

@ Nomus Sardauk: of course I remember the names of those Imperial Fists miniatures, but when you said SanguiniusReborn I immediately knew who you where of course! The jester, the hokester, the guy who always made me laugh! Hurray! Welcome back then, buddy! Great to hear from you. But man, why change the name? You know people won't recognize you then, do you? This is why I've stuck with the same name, avatar (and thread) for the last eight years. :D

[Kizzdougs]

Those Havocs look fantastic bro! Really nice work :tu:

[BadgersinHills]

Wonderful stuff. The head is really nice! The Havoc helm is sooo cool, great work. Looking forward to seeing more. :) 

Edited May 22, 2021 by BadgersinHills

[Nomus Sardauk]

@ Nomus Sardauk: of course I remember the names of those Imperial Fists miniatures, but when you said SanguiniusReborn I immediately knew who you where of course! The jester, the hokester, the guy who always made me laugh! Hurray! Welcome back then, buddy! Great to hear from you. But man, why change the name? You know people won't recognize you then, do you? This is why I've stuck with the same name, avatar (and thread) for the last eight years.

 

Thanks! It's good to be back. I'm sorry to hear you've been having such a rough time of it though brother, hope your condition starts to improve soon.  As to why I changed the name, well I've been heavily involved in a Alt Heresy project (The Broken Throne AU, over in the Special Projects section) for the past several years and since I haven't actually touched anything to do with Blood Angels in a long, long time I felt like representing my Alt Heresy creation a bit more by using the name of my DIY Primarch instead, and as for being recognized I did leave a note acknowledging my old title in my signature, though I admit it is rather easy to miss... 

 

EDIT: Also! I almost forget to mention how much I love, love, love those gorgeous Zerkers you finished recently! As I said before, your kitbash-fu is unrivaled. I particularly adore those kick-ass Chain-Khopeshes, which despite their usual association with the Witches of Tzeentch, are very appropriate for the chosen of Khorne given it's origin as a hybrid design between an axe and sword. I think my favourite members of the squads are the two Champions Mr Fist and the mutated Lord Two-Shanks, as well as the standard Zerker with the Khopesh, Axe nd the classic T-visor helm, but Blood God knows they're all so characterful and dynamic. 

Edited May 22, 2021 by Nomus Sardauk

[Majkhel]

Ooooh, so sorry to hear about your health issues! I also hope you will recover soon. I can't talk too much about the need to do proper exercises to strgthen the muscles that will take off some of the weight off your spine... so I won't :P Especially since it's not for now but rather the future.

Anyway, excellent feel of movement on that last crawler you have achieved!
Very nice tech-heresy in other parts too ;) I like that the head is more animalistic now.

[Commisar Necros]

Good on you to grab the silver lining by getting some 40k and work done still. Awesome job. Great way to break up a mono-pose unit, and amazing kit-bashing on the World Eaters. Shows that even without much green stuff work you can vary your units with planing and deft exacto work.

[Monstra Sumus]

So

 

*checks*

 

210 pages later.

 

Bravo, sir.

 

I left the B&C years ago and this plog was about 20 pages deep.

 

Your technical skill has improved so much I am very impressed.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Glad to see you back on the boards, Augs, and that it took me this long to get back and reply. What can I say? Fantastic as always. 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks, everyone. 

The first post on this page of this thread features a hidden picture by a 3D artist, of extremely cool Khorne Berzerker helmets. This artist makes a lot of stuff that's fantastic and just passes the GW IP police checkup, but these helmets didn't. They got taken down from Etsy because of IP violations. I can imagine why - they're basically the Forge World Khorne Berzerker headfs with the crests replaced by the exact design of the Blood Warrior helmet crests. But my god are they cool. So I had to have them. For some reason, the artist was still allowed to sell the STL files of the design, along with a Khorne pauldron design. SO I bought them.

If you don't know what I am talking about - his instagram account is corvinius_redwardenminiatures and these are the helmets and pauldrons. 

Hidden Content

In any case, I dn't have a 3D printer but my buddy does. So I asked him to print a buttload of these for me. Initially he asked a for 20 euros for it but then he asked if I wanted to paint some of his miniatures. I was a bit reluctant at first but then I saw that among his unpainted backlog was the seven Chaos Space Marines from Dark Vengeance. Now, I have these miniatures myself, but me being me, I've cut them up and used them in conversions. So I jumped at the chance to paint these in their original form.

Also, I have been lamenting going for the pre-heresy scheme for my World Eaters lately, because I'd love an added contingent from another Legion to get access to Psychic and non-khorne related shenanigans (Endless Cacophany on Havocs or Rapier Batteries, for example...). Word Bearers are perfect for this - and their red scheme would look really well next to the classic Red'n'Brass khorne colour scheme. But I didn't so now I need to find a colour scheme for Word Bearers that could go together well with my World Eaters. So I decided that these seven miniatures would be the tester for that. 

Here's how I got them:

 

Ouch. First up, I needed to rebase them. The picture above showd them just after I cut them off their 25mm bases. I wanted the characters to stand on 40mm bases and the Chosen on 32mm bases. So I made some. 


The recipe for this is:
-superglue cork to the base. Use filler to bled the cork to the edge of the bases.
-push some plastic skulls from the citadel skull kit in the filler
-sprinkle with sand and tiny slate.
-three layers of watered-down wood glue to seal the cork and the sand.
-primer with light primer

-base coat Zandri dust

-drybrush Bleached Bone
-was with Agrax Earthshade
-varnish with 1:1 matt and satin varnish

-paint the rim with Gorthor Brown
-add tuft
-done

So after three paint sessions that together amount to 9.5 hours of speedpainting, here's the final result:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So there! I hope you like them. Let me know what you think, please. I appreciate your comments.

Cheers!

Replies:

@ Kizzdougs: Thank you! I can't wait to show the community here what they have come to look like after painting them.
 

@ BadersinHills: Cheers! But which helmet helm are you talking about?

@ Nomus Sardauk / SanguniusReborn: Eh, I haven't done any Night Lords (infantry) in literally six years, and my Avatar is still a Night Lord. Once you choose a name and avatar, you must stuick to it! Thanks for the kind words on my Kitbash-Fu - I like that word! I also agree about the Kopesh - it fits the world eaters so well!

 

@ Majkhel: Thank man. Yeah it sucks. I'm doing exercises but can't really do much atm as the pain is killing me OR I'm to groggy to do them from the painkiller medicine. 

@ Commisar Necros: Thank mate! Yeah kitbshing really is the way to go. Especially nowadays with the trend towards limited posability of kits (designed to thwart 3rd party scalpers). Some people hate this trend but I really enjoy the challenge. I've kitbashed 55 different Plague Marines with three kits of DI PM models and two PM kits from the store. 

@ NomadPainting: Haha welcome back, buddy. Yeah this thread grew just a little since that time....

@ BCK: Thanks bud! It's good to see you're still active here too, despite the draw of Instagram...

Edited May 27, 2021 by Augustus b'Raass

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

 

@ BCK: Thanks bud! It's good to see you're still active here too, despite the draw of Instagram...

 

 

Man, I'm old. Anonymous likes with almost no comments or interaction isn't what I crave and I use Instagram a lot more to find new sources of inspiration (and envy, let's be honest) than to ring up a meaningless tally of likes for myself. B&C is a community and a damn good one. Maybe the best 40k one on the web in my surely biased opinion, and while it's not perfect, it's been my online 40k home for a long time.

 

Also, getting to paint some figures you like for 3d printed bits? Nicely done!

[BadgersinHills]

Great painting, really nice!

 

I was talking about this helmet, really cool stuff. 

 

[jaxom]

I think the Word Bearers could work with the pre-Heresy World Eaters. I think the trick would be leaning into the blue-black shoulder pads. 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Also, I finished this guy. He took me about as long as those seven Word Bearers took me. I'm trying to up my painting game - bought some magnifying glass thingy and am working with Scale75 metallics and a wet palette lately. I hope it shows. 



 
Let me know what you think. I'm really trying to improve my game here, so any C&C is welcome. 

Cheers

Replies:

@ Brother Chaplain Kage: Ah well I'm on there for the same reasons as you and don't realy care about the likes I'm getting - but I have found that there's also a community there as well. And you can't argue against the point that uploading stuff there is far easier than it is here. Granted, it's not the B&C in terms of community. Not by a long shot. But for a while, the B&C was not the same for me as it has been. I'm getting the feeling back though, however! It's the reason I am posting more frequently again. But a lot of the old frater seemed to have moved on! I mean - even Krauty hasn't been on here for months now.  

 

@ BadgersinHills: Herp derp of course you were talking about that helmet. Sorry, my bad. I'm high on morphine almost all day, so please forgive me. And thank you! 

 

@ jaxom: I will not disagree with you! I just gotta find out if the WB colour scheme will work on the WE bases I'm doing. Because the army needs to look unified...... AAAAAND writing this answer has given me an idea! I'll make a base like my WE and see how one of the WB I did looks on it (they're pinned on the bases sans glue, so it should be easy enough!) I'l do it tomorrow and show pictures here. Thanks for the idea!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the rotary cannon wielder.

[Mechanist]

Wow that chaingun guy looks the bomb.

There is a very noticeable difference to the speed painted squad and totally worth the extra time. That's not to suggest the squad is bad as it looks really good and your friend should be really happy with them.

[BadgersinHills]

Looking really nice!! Crisp painting, very well done. 

Edited May 28, 2021 by BadgersinHills

[deathspectersgt7]

Looks Awesome. My Chapter Scourge would like to go at him.

[Shovellovin]

Excellent work! That Havoc looks mean. 
 

I see that you painted the gun connections a sort of flesh color. Do you view them as a type of membrane concocted by the Dark Mechanicum to protect the connectors? Or perhaps keep them lubricated? I’ve been painting mine gray because I’m not really sure what they’re supposed to be. Perhaps some sort of wired targeting/status interface that feeds into the power armor helmet?

[Augustus b'Raass]

Woop! Another Havoc finished.

 

For some reason I only took five pictures of him, hence the bit of a divergance from my normal format of three pics in a row. 

In any case, I'm in a bit of an awkward position. I'm pretty committed to this World Eater list I've concocted and right now I am two Venomcrawlers, a ten-man Khorne Berzerker Squad, and half a Havoc squad in. However, after painting those Word Bearers, and realizing that I really need access to Psychic powers to make those venomcrawlers work and to the Mark of Slaanesh to make those Havocs work, I'm seriously thinking of doing a sizable Word Bearers army to the side. Word Bearers are red of colour. And I chose the pre-heresy scheme. It'd be so much easier to do my Khorne Berzerkers in their 40k scheme of Red-and-Brass to make the two armies fit together well on the table. I could do all the daemon engines without any Legion specific iconography and so make them work for both a Word Bearer and World Eater army. But that would require me to repain a sizable model count....

I'd love to hear what you guys think about this....

Cheers

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@ Bjorn Firewalker: Yhank you!
 

@ Mechanist: Thanks! Yeah well that chain cannon guy took as long - if not longer - as the entire WB squad to paint! :D

 

@ BadgersinHills: Thank you! Crisp is what I went for! ;)
 

@ deathspectersgt7: Who's your chapter scourge?
 

@ Shovelovin: Ha! Yeah I did them in flesh colour but mainly because the colours looked beter than grey or black on this miniature. I've alwsy seen them as some weird combination tech and bio/daemonic stuff. Kinda like the Daemon Engines that also feature those kinds of cables. And these Havocs surely are further along the scale of corruption then regular space marines, no? So it'd make sense that their weapons would be too. At least in my mind.

[Mechanist]

Another great addition to the WEs.

With regards to colour schemes blue works with red and it's not like the different factions will clash or anything.

The teeth of khorn looks so cool and to run them in any colour with all that Khornate iconography would just be wrong to put a MoS on them and would probably get your dice cursed.

I guess it depends on how your going to game, is it with friends not worried about meta or pick up games? Are you taking them to tournaments?

I think some photos with both the Berzerkers and the world eaters would be good to see how they look together.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Again, excellent work. Are the rotary cannons from Forge World, or a third party?

[Augustus b'Raass]

FInished the Havoc Aspiring Champion

 

 

 

So now I've got a teeny tiny little illegal squad! Just photographed them together - I'm quite proud of them!

 

Let me know what you think. 

Cheers

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@ Mechanist: I know blue works with red, but White doesn't really jive with red, and white is the primary colour. Also, There's no way I would put the red Word Bearers on those rust-coloured dusty bases I've been putting my World Eaters on. That'd clash and would not look good. In stead, I'd put the Word Bearers on something akin to what I put the Word Bearers I did this week. Which would mean I'd have to at least redo all the bases of the World Eaters, as I think the white-and-blue World Eaters would look better on those than the Word Bearers would on those I've been using for my World Eaters now, wouldn't you agree? Also, I don't mean give these Havocs the mark of slaanesh. What kind of person do you take me for?! I meant make an entirely new squad of Havocs in Word Bearer colours and give them the Mark of Slaanesh - maybe paint a shin plate on each model pink?  As to what games I intend to play: I always make armies so that they can compete in the highest level tournaments - so WYSIWIG as the bare minimum and the highest standard of painting to get into the most exlcusive ones. I want to get into No Retreat Gibraltar at least another time! About the photos you suggested: the Berzerkers I posted earlier are the World Eaters I am talking about - they have the WE pre-heresy colour scheme and the WE symbol on their left pauldrons.

 

@ Bjorn Firewalker: About the chain cannons:

There's no way I was going to do that, so I searched eBay and lo and behold there are tons of 3D options to turn the other projectile heavy weapons in the kit into Chain Cannons. I picked the one I liked the most, which are designed to fit Heavy Bolters. 

So yeah, they're 3rd party 3D prints that fit on the plastic Havoc kit's Heavy Bolter and Autocannon builds.

Edited May 30, 2021 by Augustus b'Raass

[Shovellovin]

That Havoc aspiring champion looks mean! I really like that bolter from CSM box; such a rad set up. I also like the bases for these WE. The color contrast with the white and blue armor works well.

 

Did you purchase the shell casings or make them?