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

[Majkhel]

Very nice work! I always admire the bravado in repainting a perfectly good mini to make it something more. And definitely something more it is  
Base is great! I don't know how long does it take you to make one like that, but it seems you remain confident, creative and consistent in making them interesting.

[ChazSexington]

Thanks, peeps!

 

 

What size of chain are you using? I'm going to start converting/kitbashing Berzerkers from BA/DCs  

 

Your work is exceptional! 

Edited February 14, 2022 by ChazSexington

[Augustus b'Raass]

Hey guys and gals,

After a couple of weeks on contemptor paitning duty, I finally did some infantry again - hurray!

Here's a couple of Berzerkers and their Aspiring champion.

Number one:

 

 

Number two:

 

 

Aspiring Champion:

 

 

Done! I'm VERY motiveated right now, as I've heard some wonderful news. I applied to SN Battle Reports to attend their yearly, very exclusive Warhammer 40,000 tournament No Retreat, and I just have had word that my application has been accepted! Hurray! 

And it's a double hurray, as this year there's only 24 spots instead of 48, like in previous years - while the number of applicants was at a record high with oer 160 this year! So I'm super happy, humbled, and dare I say a little bit proud of myself.  I hope you can forgive my moment's lapse in humility. 

Cheers

Replies:

@ Dwango: Thanks bud! Yeah I really like to make the poses as versatile as posible. What did I do with the name? O Ka'Ruat - yeah that's been his name since he was in red, and it's a public secret that KrautScietist and I are super chummy and name our miniatures after each other all the time.   

 

@ BadgersinHills: Thanks bud. Yeah for this army I've really tried to up my basing game. I've never shied away from basing and dare I say mine have never looked bad, but for this I wanted to really go to town. 

 

@ ElDuderino: Haha for sure!! And it's also quite sad, as KrautScientist was a very active contributor to this forum. He's gone off to the realm of video game design, unfortunately. 

 

@ Valkia the Bloody: Hello and welcome to this thread, buddy bud! I appreciate the comment!

@ BCK: Oh please do! I'd love to see you do a contemptor. How's that redemptor coming along?

 

@ Majkhel: AHha well if I purport to bravado in anything, it;s in my hobby. I have been known to put sawblades, stanly knives and other cutting implements to perfectly good and OOP miniatures, just for the sake of my OCD 'I must convert everything' mentality. 

@ ChazSexington: I'll answer your question if you promise to remove the quote of my entire comment just to reply to it (you know it's bad form on this (and any old-school) board - because you annoyingly force others to rewatch and scroll through something they've already seen, while it's perfectly doable to just write 'on those berzerkers' what size chain are you using?" ) and promise to never do it again. The size chain I'm using is 1.5 mm.

Edited February 12, 2022 by Augustus b'Raass

[Shovellovin]

Excellent work, as usual. Congrats on your invitation to No Retreat! Please let us know if there is a way to view your participation in the event.

[Forté]

Fantastic stuff as always expected

[Montuhotep]

KrautScientist was a very active contributor to this forum. He's gone off to the realm of video game design, unfortunately. 

 

Thank Heavens you said that; I confess as I'd not seen him around on here, in this Covid-crap I feared something terrible had happened to the man.

 

[Valkia the Bloody]

Oh wow.

These are gorgeous!

Of course, for my taste, there could be a bit more gore, but still.

:p

Khorne would be proud.

[Gederas]

Haven't commented here in a hot minute, good to see you're still at it! :tu: (whereas I've been exceedingly lazy, especially with fatigue from waiting for releases and only being able to play the same lists at my FLGS because no one has money to really have multiple lists, let alone armies)

 

Liking the Contemptors, especially an old favourite (Ka'Ruat). The Tortuga Bay models are slick, and it makes me want to get them, but it annoys me they only accept payments through PayPal (even on their Etsy store), as I don't have one :lol:

 

Gonna echo Valkia about the models being a bit "clean" for World Eaters, but hey. They look amazing either way :yes:

 

Also:

KrautScientist was a very active contributor to this forum. He's gone off to the realm of video game design, unfortunately.

Thank Heavens you said that; I confess as I'd not seen him around on here, in this Covid-crap I feared something terrible had happened to the man.

 

Echoing this. Good to hear he's doing fine enough :yes:

[BadgersinHills]

Lovely models. Congratulations on getting invited to No Retreat!

[Freakshow668]

Excellent models as always dude, and well done on the invite, can't wait to see how it goes. Have fun.

[ChazSexington]

 

 

@ ChazSexington: I'll answer your question if you promise to remove the quote of my entire comment just to reply to it (you know it's bad form on this (and any old-school) board - because you annoyingly force others to rewatch and scroll through something they've already seen, while it's perfectly doable to just write 'on those berzerkers' what size chain are you using?" ) and promise to never do it again. The size chain I'm using is 1.5 mm.

 

Promise  Thank you! Do you just glue them on all around? I'm curious about them moving and chipping.

Edited February 3, 2022 by ChazSexington

[Markus_]

Been following the development of these guys on Instagram, very cool use of the Tortuga bodies.

[thamier]

looking great, can i have them?`^^ 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Oh hello!

Well, I have two things that are cool to tell and then one thing that is cool to show. The family show has only gotten worse, so I'll just leave those out and focus on the positive things. 

First and most importantly: in less than a month I'll be a father to my second son - ie hobby virus victim, ie nurgling. 

Second, a while ago I sold Einherjar the Eternal / Captain Eight Legs to a guy I met on instagram. For those of you who can't remember or weren't around when I made and painted him, he's an eight-legged Lord of Skulls conversion I made waaaaay back in 2014. This guy:

 

Well, the guy I sold it to, motleys.warhammer40k, had new pictures taken and posted them on his insta, which then got picked up by none other than MiniWargaming Dave, who gave full credits! That in itself was prety awesome, but then the following happened: MWGDave wrote in his post that he wanted it, and wanted to buy it off Motley. Motley declined, and then I thought "why not send MWGDave a message offering to build one for him." Which he accepted - so now I officially have a commission by MWGDave to build another Eight legged Lord of Skulls!

Damn, pretty nifty, wouldn't you agree?

And then finally, the thing I wanted to show you - the Champion for the thrid and final Khorne Berzerker squad for the World Eater army I am bringing to No Retreat. 

 

 

Now, there's a cfew things about this guy I'd like to highlight: let's start with the claws: they're part of a discontinued miniature called a Dreadlord by Artel W Miniatures. Aparently GW thought it was too close to their Night Lord IP and send a C&D, so it is now OOP, but I managed to get one of the very last. Its Lightning Claws are just incredible, to say the least, and I jut had to have a pair of them for the champion of the last berzerker squad. 
 Then there's the head, which is a new CSM head with the crest of a Blood Warrior glued to it, of which I really like the look and have decided to make more of. And lastly, the backpack. Oldies will recognize it as one of the three oldest Chaos Space Marines backpacks - one I've always had a soft spot for. I have a couple more and will most certainly be using them to decorate my Miniatures with. 

Anyhoo, I hope you've enjoyed this eventful update. Thanks for looking and for your feedback and comments. 

Cheers

@ Shovellovin: Cheers buddy! Like last time, I'll share some pictures of the armies. The event itself doesnt offer a life stream, plus I'll be mostly drunk the entire time. So no way your seeing the participation itself!

 

@ Forte: 

Duuuuude! Suuuuuch a long time ago! Good to see you back on the board! (or have I missed your presence elsewhere?)

 

@ Paladin7221: Yeah he's alive and kicking for sure. Just no longer active on the board or blog, sadly. I miss him. 

 

@ Valkia the Bloody: The gore has already been offered up to Khorne. This is just them posing after washing up. ;) 

 

@ Gederas: Aww! Good to see you back too, budski! I found the thing with altering lists is to do it slowly - so one unit every couple of months. It gives you plenty of time to paint it and sreads cost far better than buying an entirely new army at the same time. Regarding Paypal: it's super easy and free to have a Paypal - just get one! 

 

@ BadgersinHills: Tanks a bunch, bud!

 

@ Freakshow668: Thank you! I'm looking forward to it. Won;t be as long as many days as before, but hey.

 

@ ChasSexington: Cheers bud. The chains I usually just glue on the ends (a big blob of gel-like super glue in a hidden place) and then here and there with tiny drops of liquidy super glue. I hope that helps! Feel free to ask more, I'm always happy to help. 

 

@ Markus_: Hey man thaks and welcome to this thread. 

 

@ thamier: Ooooh la la, another ancient Frater buddy comes back! You can't have them. Sorry. ;) 

[Valkia the Bloody]

Wow.

Great job and great news!

[Gederas]

New Berzerker looks good!

 

And cool to hear you're making another crabwalker, this time for MWGDave! Was part of the commission requirements be it feature in a list for Dave's next battle on YouTube and not the vault? ;)

 

First and most importantly: in less than a month I'll be a father to my second son - ie hobby virus victim, ie nurgling. 

 

@ Gederas: Aww! Good to see you back too, budski! I found the thing with altering lists is to do it slowly - so one unit every couple of months. It gives you plenty of time to paint it and sreads cost far better than buying an entirely new army at the same time. Regarding Paypal: it's super easy and free to have a Paypal - just get one!

So congrats on nurgling #2! But I totally misread that and thought you said "the virus victim" and thought you said your second son is "lockdown creation" :lol:

 

And I never left ;) I've just been lurking a lot. I mean now the owner of my FLGS is helping me also truescale my 30k Dark Angels by 3D Printing files I've found and paid for, so progress will start up again soon-ish in my main log thread :yes:

[Forté]

@ Forte:

Duuuuude! Suuuuuch a long time ago! Good to see you back on the board! (or have I missed your presence elsewhere?)

 

Have dipped my toe into the Titanicus section lately, but I still get notifications about some classic threads. Yours is always showing something worth seeing.

 

Congrats on the Nurgling too btw.

[BadgersinHills]

Congratulations on your second child!!

 

It's cool that you're making something for MWG Dave, he seems like a really nice chap and I'm sure he's going to love the Lord of Skulls you make for him. 

 

Berserker champion looks great, the claws are a great choice and the head is nice. 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Did another one of the MkII World Eaters berzerkers, this time the Icon Bearer.

Very, very old members of this board might recognize his banner and backpack from literaly the very first post I made on this board - a contribution to Doghouse's classic and seminal truescaling thread, in which I posted my Word Bearers Khornate Dark Apostle. I kept that miniature when I sold off my Word Bearers, and have now pilvered it that for these bits.

It also features one of my new-CSM-helmets-with-Blood-Warrior-crest heads. I made several, and am very happy with the results:
EDIT: imgur just quit on me, I'll update them later.

As a last point, I was wondering if anybody can help with this bit from the Blood Reavers kit... I have plenty of bits to trade. Let me know!

Hidden Content

EDIT: found it, thanks everyone!
Let me know!

Cheers!

Replies:

@ Valkia the Bloody: Thanks bud!

@ Gederas: Oh you lurker! Well, I'm glad you left a comment! Lurkers are great, but this board lives or dies by everybody contributing. <3

@ Fort Edited March 3, 2022 by Augustus b'Raass

[ChazSexington]

Looking great! Where are the MKII bodies from? 

[Pearson73]

The Lightning Claw champion looks so brutal, the helmet is really nicely done too! 

 

Cool news about the Lord of Skulls commission. Will you make any large changes to the pose or anything, or will it be pretty similar to the original?

[DuskRaider]

Meh... these look alright I guess.

[Gederas]

New Berzerker looks great!

 

 

@ Gederas: Oh you lurker! Well, I'm glad you left a comment! Lurkers are great, but this board lives or dies by everybody contributing. <3

Lack of motivation to paint or convert does wonders for making you into a lurker Especially combined with finding out your car is on it's last legs and you need to get a new one before July... And you haven't saved any money because you kept getting talked out of shopping for cars in the past

 

(also doesn't help that most of my motivation for miniatures work presently is for non-B&C allowed content )

Edited February 24, 2022 by Gederas

[BadgersinHills]

Icon bearer looks great. I really like the Icon. 

[Teetengee]

Congrats on the commission, Auggie, and moreso on the recognition. You deserve it.

And yes, please more of the crests, that is an excellent fit.