Multicoloured Chaos Marines

"Well mine's THIS big"

Since moving to Spain progress in painting has dropped to a snail's pace. Painting every model in the army differently is  interesting, but progress is f&^cking slow.

Yeah I know you've seen these before. Stop whining. There's new stuff further down.

The ongoing theme is changing; lack of bits and a desire to model has meant the marines are looking less and less 'renegade but not corrupted' and more and more 'chaotic', with iconography and skulls popping up much more often.

Go Go Chaos Rangers

Posted again only because I took better pictures.

Khorne!

Nurgle! 

Slaanesh!

Tzeentch!

Unaligned! Gooo Chaos!

This motley crew of starter set marines like to show off how edgy they are, flaunting their defiled loyalist shoulder pads while recreating the front cover of Abbey Road.

They were all walking the other way on Abbey Road, you philistine.

Ass shot

All the bases are crap, I know

This little fella was fun to paint. Sadly, like all good older models, he's short.

Continuing the Red Corsairs shoulder pad cross when I feel like it. Not really sure whether they even are Corsairs yet though, I haven't come up with any fluff.

All of the following models are waiting for autocannons and various other special weapons to be delivered and fitted. I plan on fielding these as a unit of havocs, or to just have them accompany other units.

A Khornate shooting a f^&king gun for once

And, a WIP of a Space Marine scout / counts as hive ganger pirate type. Still needs some highlighting, and as usual the base is crap.

He reminds me of something out of 2000AD

As usual, comments and criticism are unwelcome.

I used to imagine all of these miniatures being on the same side on the tabletop, and enjoyed the riot of colour. Does this give me grognard-veteran40ker-kudos?

To be honest, this next picture is probably just as much if not more to blame for the Attention-Deficit-Disorder paint scheme.

Ha Ha! Look at the stupid proportions! And riding into battle with a sword when their are GUNS available?
Yup, this is well 40k.  Fuck, I want a robot horse.

The illegal chinese recaster says the stuff will take about 2 weeks to arrive. I'll post what they look like when they arrive. Hopefully the resin won't cause me to explode into cancerous lesions.

Fallen Dark Angels conversions

I recently moved to another country and had to go without my modelling stuff for a while.

I ended up buying another starter set, and repurposed the Dark Angels models. It was a lot of fun! I'm glad to be back painting and modelling again after a break.

The pictures are pretty naff, I'll take some more when the weather's a bit better.

For the 'Tzeentchian', a took a scheme taken from a player at my old club.

They're also very shiney because I only have gloss varnish.

More on the way!

Kitbashed Necromunda / Chaos Cultists

The Berks have survived a few games now, and are becoming a little more effective at what they do. Last game I rolled two 'Specialist' skills which enabled a ganger and a juve to take special weapons, so I gave them both a flamer for use in Dan's next mutie hunting scenario. 

The Space Marine conversion represents Dhecker in his mesh armour, with new power axe and bolt pistol. He received an eye injury last game, hence the eyepatch head.

Chaos Mordheim gang

A Mordheim gang for a now lapsed campaign. They're a combination of classic old Chaos Warrior figures and converted Marauder Orx from Mantic, mixed up with old plastic Chaos Warrior bits.

The one on the far right was a recast of another figure using oyumaru.

The gang used the rules for the Chaos Beastmen, and had a minotaur with them. They were quite fun to put together, but lacked any kind of missile weapons so were pretty limited in how they played.

Converted Chaos marines painted

Shot of Unit 1; made from a combination of the old plastic fantasy Chaos Warriors and Chaos marines.

I painted them with a mix of colours so the group would fit better with Unit 2.

Shot of Unit 2; All of these marines are converted loyalists, including the champion, whos just had a head and torso swap.

After painting 5 marines white and getting tired of it, I decided to indulge, and used paint from just about every pot I own. All too often I've bought an interesting, bizarre colour only to find it months later unusable in the pot (which is why I'm moving over to vallejo paints).

With a totally mixed up paint scheme the marines go quite nicely with the pirates I converted up for use as cultists, and in my head, I think of them all as renegades and deserters from chapters and warbands, each with their own story.

The guy in the middle's been bouncing around on his own for years and finally has some mates.

Filing off all of the iconography was a bit of a pain. Some of the heads are straight swaps for chaos marine heads, and some of them are the original heads (securely fastened as part of the single piece figure), where it was simpler to just glue on some horns.

Catachan parts made these marines look more like renegades.

That's it!