Black Pox part VII: The first games of Vortapt IV

Vortapt IV

My Nurgle warband is a part of a larger Chaos campaign with three friends, Vortapt IV. Last weekend we played the first games in the campaign.

Tommy, the writer of the blog Bigbossredskullz, has written six great battle reports, one for each game. Head over to his blog to read them!

I'm too lazy to write a battle report. Instead I'll leave you with a lot of pictures from the event. As you may notice there are a lot of new models in his game. These models will get lightbox pictures and their own post sometime next week.

The games was fantastic! It was a great experience to play using Tommy's homemade rules, great models, awesome terrain and dice made from bone!

The Gameboard

In the different games we used a mix of tiles from Rebecca, Mikkel and my gameboard tiles. These first pictures feature my nine tiles and some new terrain (the houses on poles) I made for the game. 

In several games we used a bigger board, made from putting Rebecca and Mikkels Armies on Parade boards together with my tiles.

In the heat of battle

The Oratio

Rebecca's Tzeentch Warband

Blood Pact

Tommy's Khorne Warband

The Black Pox

My Nurgle Warband

World Eaters Legion Praetor

A couple of weeks ago I posted some pictures of the limited edition Legion Praetor for my World Eaters. I finished painting the model right after, but forgot to post the finished model here until now.

The conversion was quite simple. I swapped the original head, which I think looks really silly, with the scarred Empire Flagellant head. I also replaced the sword blade with a FW World Eaters Meteor Hammer from the Rampager kit.

to make this model stand out from the rest of the army, I painted it in a new colour scheme. I chose the colours from one of the newer FW books. in this book some World Eaters, like Red Butchers and veterans, have painted their armour red. This is a step closer to what they will look like in 40k, which I find fitting to my army, since I sometimes use them with the Khorne Daemonkin: codex.

Yesterday when I took these pictures I also tried to make some short videos of this model, and many others in a 360 degree view! It turned out pretty good, but I haven't found an easy way to get them on my blog. They are however on my Instagram! Follow this link to see some cool 360 degree videos of my miniatrues!

This is the picture I found on Google from one of the Forge World Books. I think I will paint more World Eaters in this colour. It really gives the army some much needed variation, and it was a fun colour scheme to paint.  

WIP: Bloodthirsters

When the plastic Bloodthirster came out, I didn't really like it. I thought the weapons was too big, the wings had some weird looking chaos symbol scars on them, and they had too many oversized horns. I did however buy one, to give myself a conversion challenge. The Khorne: Daemonkin Codex had just come out, and I needed a Bloodthirster for my army, and started to convert it. I failed, and the resolute became far from a Bloodthirster. I ended up creating "The Beast", one of the models I entered in The Fang 2015. Even though I didn't make a Bloodthirster, the Beast turned out quite good. 

I didn't think much more of it, until Skarbrand (the named Bloodthirster) came out, and I wanted to try again. This time I managed to convert the model into a Bloodthirster that I like. I actually made two!

Since I don't like the wings, weapons or heads, the only thing I needed to create another BT out of the spare parts was a torso. 

I'm quite pleased with how they look so far, and think I managed to make two quite original Bloodthirsters without turning them into something else entirely (like the Beast). What I like most about them, are their heads. I used the heads from FW Hounds of Xaphan, and turned them upside down. The Bloodthisters are blind. The idea is that the wholes that kind of look like eyes are nostrils or ears. I hope they will look less like eyes when painted. 

As mentioned, I'm not a fan of the original wings. I gave them creepy fairy wings instead, taken from Nurgle Plague Drones. 

Armies on Parade 2015 part V: Cyberhounds

It's time for another unit from my Armies on Parade 2015 entry. This time i want to share my Cyberhounds and their Handler. Originally These models where made for my daemons, as Flesh Hounds. If I ever play a game using Daemons, I'll probably use them as such. But when I was building my second batch of hounds (the four painted beige), I put them beside one of my Mechanicus models and they looked great together. I then decided to use the hounds as some kind of dog servitor, with servo-skulls as heads. 

The Houds are based on GW Fantasy Chaos Warhounds and Tomb Kings horse skulls. I only had one Horse skull in my bitz box, so I made a quick instant-mould to cast the rest in green stuff.  Green-stuff dries softer than plastic, so I was able to cut off the lower jaw, and glue it back into place on some of the hounds, to make a couple with open mouths. If I make more hounds, I'll add some cables and other mechanical details to make them more 40k/mechanicum looking. 

The Handler is based on the Corpse Cart driver, with a FW servo skull and servo arms. 

When using them as chaos hounds, I decided to make a daemon leader for the squad instead of the Mechanicum Handler. I had a FW hound in my great box of bitz, and made it into a classic Cerberus conversion. The model is still WIP, so I'll add some more 40k details and cut the cables.

More INQ28 WIPs

I've been working on more models for my INQ28 warband. Most Importantly the leader of the warband; Lord Inquisitor Hannibal Rex. This is another version of a model i did a while ago, my inquisitor lord on walking throne. I wanted to be able to use the same character in a game, so i decided to make the same inquisitor, only dismounted. I have given him the same torso and hairstyle, with mechanical legs to show how he walks around without the throne. 

I also made a grim reaper looking tech-priest, with a pet crow and plasma gun servitor. I'm quite pleased with his relaxed creepy pose on this guy.

Lastly I made a Herald, for my Khorne Daemonkin army.