Alpha Legion test figures

I have a bunch of the new chaos marines and cultists and I'm thinking of doing a skirmish bunch similar to my Genestealer cult with them. I like the Alpha Legion colours so I tried those on these figures. Pretty nice effect with very little trouble. I'll figure out the basing to these later once I get around to painting some of those cultists, too.

Chaos Warriors for Heroquest

A bit surprisingly I had trouble sourcing metal chaos warriors for my "HQ in old metal" -project. Apparently metal chaos warriors are less common than I thought! Good thing I got Slambo!

At first I planned to do bright 80's style colours but opted for a black armor look in the end. It was much quicker to do and they look a bit more menacing now.

Epic chaos tanks and defilers

Some armored support I did for my Epic Chaos army for a game a few weeks ago. No fancy stuff but I'll log it here anyway. Note the forumware defilers which were pretty neat but I'm one defiler short of a defiler pack. I can drop one here and there in infantry units, luckily.

"Gargoyle" Bloodthirster

My kids have now grown old enough (ripe old age of 3 and 6) to play Heroquest with me. I want to play with a painted set, but the original figures might not be a joy to paint. Luckily there are plenty of old Warhammer figures to use! Here's the gargoyle. Better pack your brodesode!

I tried to do a "glowing hot iron" effect on the horns. Works for an oldhammer figure.

The figure is based on a 25mm base so I can still put it on a Heroquest board. I was afraid that the small base would make the figure unsteady but it's surprisingly stable. I think the center of gravity is pretty close to the center of the base.

Scale creep *sigh*

Tzeentch we can believe in

Ok, here's the last batch of Epic figures I needed to get done for this weekend. I painted the whole chaos army in a month so it was a bit of a crunch to do but well worth it and still not that time consuming. I saved some good bits for last and really enjoyed painting the Tzeentch daemon engines.

The doomwings and firelords are pretty cartoonish and I tried to tone that down a bit by using metallic colours instead of flat ones. I like how these turned out.

There are no official thousand sons figures so for these cult marines I used some suitable old chaos marines and a couple of sorcerer models. Nothing fancy but it works.

Nothing says grimdark 40k like fairy tale castles flying on magic mushrooms, right? The silver towers are total Jefferson Airplane White Rabbit stuff and I tried to blend some psychedelic colours on the mushroom the castles sit on top of.

So there you go, all figures complete. Now there's just some minor terrain work for today and then it's off to Kinkkucon!

Chaos Undivided units for Epic

After a bunch of specialists, here's the backbone of my soon-to-be-finished chaos army. Doing these took a fair amount of time even if the end result is quite one coloured. The chapter is called "Invocators". I was trying to find an undivided chapter with fluff that would fit a chaos army fielding a bit of everything and these guys apparently do just that. It's serious business, doing fluff appropriate armies you know. The colours make them easily mixed up with Emperor's Children I guess, but that'll just give me permission to play them as Emperor's Children too!

Closeup on the troops and a rhino. The spiky bits on the rhinos are a bit goofy but the previous owner of the models had already drilled holes for the nails so I ran with it.

The predator tank and some terminators. I was initially supposed to do four terminators per base but found out three already fill up a base just fine.

First models for my Epic Chaos project

I've gone a couple of months without painting anything but I'm getting back in the groove again. Here's some Epic figures. I started my undivided themed army with the Khorne units as I was unsure how the red units would pop out of the reddish brown Mars bases I use with my epic figures. I think they're just fine.