Pauls Chaos army progress - updated 29th April

[PaleKing]

I thought that I'd pull together a few shots of my progress with my new Chaos army for WFB into one place where I can chart some of it's progress for a while. Otherwise the shots get scattered around the forums.

A Nurgle Sorcerer is the only character painted up so far.



I may mount him in this chariot for the better save and mobility, but I'm undecided on that.






A unit of 20 Plaguebearers:






More Daemons in the shape of lovable Nurglings. A cookie for anyone who can identify the old mushroom model...



Three units of five hounds:



20 Marauders. This ended up a rather expensive unit as it contains a box of Genestealers, a box of Zombies, a box of Marauders and 20 pit fighter heads.







Next up is my Chaos Dragon. I'm using the Zacharius model from the 6th ed VCs. I've given him an extra head and Galrauch's wings.

[Alasandril]

A cookie for anyone who can identify the old mushroom model...

May be showing my age but is it an old D&D model that came with the Shambling mound?

A Shrieker perhaps? Not sure if that's its name mind you.

Army is looking pretty good though mate, Those Marauders are sweet.

I really must get an other army under way rather than my Empire. I'm at over 8000pts painted and not stopping yet.

Have started Dwarfs but the new sculpts are really bad and repetative. Might start a Chaos army once those Bloodletters etc come out ;D

[finlayk]

looking good as ever paul, your photography has rocketed too!

[PaleKing]

alasandril said:

May be showing my age but is it an old D&D model that came with the Shambling mound?

A Shrieker perhaps? Not sure if that's its name mind you.

A cookie for Brian That's exactly the one. I still have the Shambling Mound that came with it too so if I can work that into the army I will.

[Alasandril]

I may have a shrieker somewhere, if i find it I'll post it off to you mate.

I'm sure you have more use for it that i will.

[PaleKing]

My Chaos Dragon is finally finished and I've built up and undercoated the Gaffer to sit up on top. I'll hopefully get him finished this week if I can.

After much umming and ahhing about what to use for the Chaos Knights I'm going for the cool new VC Blood Knight models. They are ace and really just need a weapon and head swap. The steeds are already cool.

So, two Spawn, five Knights, the Lord, an Exalted Champ and seven Furies to paint and that will be a legal 2250pts.

[Private Iron]

armies looking great so far Paul, mind if i steal a couple of the photo's for the site's gallery? as my Ork boss is feeling kinda lonely at the moment

[PaleKing]

Help yourself :-)

[PaleKing]

Got my seven Furies all converted and primed now. The wip photos I took were rubbish so I'll try again tomorrow. I shamelessly nicked the basing idea from Neil - I'm using bits from the Empire Manor House barricades to make the bases more interesting.

[Scott]

You mean like his Fell Bats; the idea for which he also shamelessly nicked from a forum?

[Agemman]

Yip I have to admit I stole the idea from another forum

The shame

But it does look cool
Steal away...

[bjornagain]

xan said:

You mean like his Fell Bats; the idea for which he also shamelessly nicked from a forum?

Bit like ur Gorger idea u took from Donz?

Anyway stuff looks really cool Paul

[Scott]

Bit like ur Gorger idea u took from Donz?

Why I oughta....

*grabs pitchfork*

Very nice models there Paul - I might borrow your idea for basing on those Nurglings...

[PaleKing]

After some slow progress I've managed to get my Lord on Dragon finished off as well as some Furies so Here's a wee update :

The Dragon is obviously the Zacharius Zombie Dragon model. I didn't change much of it at all, just added a second head from another older Zombie Dragon head that I had in my bitz box and added Galrauch's wings. The plastic wings that came with Zacharius were nice and big but not really Chaotic enough for my liking. Galrauch's wings are metal though which does make the whole thing pretty heavy.

The gaffer on top was a mounted lord model and has the Dark Emissary head and Archaons sword. His shield is a re-worked plastic Chaos Warrior shield. 6th ed Chaos sprues has those wee rectangles that I think were 40K chaos vehicle upgrades or something. I scraped and filed one of them down thin until it was thin enough to lay the face onto the shield. Actually the hardest bit about the Lord conversion was simply getting his legs to go wide enough for the mount!
















The Furies are the brand new VC Crypt Ghoul models. They are so hunched over that I thought that they would make for some quite good flying poses. The wings were donated by Donald so cheers for that. I think they are from Harpies.

[Asurya]

I think my eyes just popped out my skull!