Khorne's Eternal Hunt - KrautScientist's chaotic WIP thread: Fine-tuning Eightbound...

[Trysanna]

Thanks for the size comparison. I've been ogling that kit since it went up for pre-order. 

-Tarvick

[KrautScientist]

Cheers, guys! Glad to be of help!

 

Most of my time this week has been spent participating in a local independent film festival, so I didn't really get that much hobby time. I did take a much needed breather today and relaxed with some kitbashing:

 

First up, I made a few very early attempts at "40k-i-fying" the Putrid Blightkings:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656444-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Death%20Guard%2C%20Kitbash%2C%20Nurgle%2C%20Putrid%20Blightkings.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656445-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Death%20Guard%2C%20Kitbash%2C%20Nurgle%2C%20Putrid%20Blightkings.JPG

 

Nothing huge so far, just messing around with a few 40k parts and seeing what works. A more involved conversion was trying to add a breastplate to the one Blightking in the set that normally HAS to be assembled with a bare belly:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656446-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Death%20Guard%2C%20Kitbash%2C%20Nurgle%2C%20Putrid%20Blightkings.JPG

 

That did take quite a bit of cutting (and the model still needs some serious gap-filling).

 

 

I was so busy this week that I have not yet made up my mind about whether (and to what extent) I'll be participating in this year's Call of Chaos Challenge. However, in case I participate, this conversion of the AOBR Dreadnought will be one of the units I add to my vow:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656447-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Dreadnought%2C%20Helbrute%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656448-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Dreadnought%2C%20Helbrute%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656449-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Dreadnought%2C%20Helbrute%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.JPG

 

The basic idea behind this guy is that he is a former Breacher Sergeant whose calling is still reflected in some elements of his ironform -- the Mk. 3-ish helmet, the shield on his left arm recalling a boarding shield and the melta, for example.

 

As always, let me know what you think! :)

[Flint13]

Tons of awesome little details on that dread. He looks nothing like his original humble origins ^_^

 

I'm especially in love with that siege claw dealy. What are those, helldrake talons for fingers?

[Urauloth]

Very glad to see you got yourself some blightkings - I thought you probably would! Looking forward to seeing what you make of them.

 

The size comparison puts them at about the size I figured; from the WD picture pitting them against some skeletons I didn't see any way they could be ogre-sized. Seems like they're in a weird place for 40k basing, since you can't really stuff them onto a 25mm and use them as chosen or plaguemarine champions, which they'd be great for if they were slightly smaller. How do the heads scale with power armour, by the way, if you've tested that?

[KrautScientist]

Thanks a lot, guys! :)

 

@ Flint: Cheers! It took me ages to finally get the AOBR Dread to a stage I am happy with, to be honest. As for the claws, those are spiky bitz from the WoC Chariot's wheels.

 

@ A Kvlt Ghost: The Blightkings do indeed occupy a slightly awkward size slot between Marine and Terminator -- my solution will probably be to build them to look like enlarged power armoured Plague Marines that are so swollen with Nurgle's corruption that they count as Terminators.

 

As for the heads, they should work reasonably well with power armour, although they are less bulky than regular (Chaos) Marine heads. It's also important to note that most heads consist of a facemask that comes as a separate bit, while the back of the head is part of the respective model's torso.

[recon0321]

Wheres that dreads head from? Wow it fits perfect with the whole dread

[KrautScientist]

Cheers, mate! It's a head from the WFB Skullcrushers, with the "bunny ears" clipped off.

[Barabbas Sogalon]

I've spent a few days looking through all this and I love it. Pure chaotic awesomeness!

 

Reminds me why I once wanted to start a chaos army.

[KrautScientist]

@ Barabbas Sogalon: Thanks a lot! Starting a chaos army is very much its own reward, you know... ;)

 

On a mostly unrelated note, let me just congratulate you on winning Greyall's little competition, btw! That Unification Wars vet was beautifully done!

[Dantay VI]

Wow, I like the dread, especially the close combat weapon and the Blight Kings do look like they will make really nice exalted champons to lead packs of Plague Marines too ina ll their bloated glory..

 

The only wee niggly thing is that the first Blight King lower legs. It is obvious he is wear ing boots and not power armour, how easy would it be to gs or carve up the legs a bit to give it an armoured look rather than boots? The second King has armoured legs which could pass for a baroque, decayed suit of power armour as befits a champion.

 

Its only a little thing, but otherwise reall awesome...

[Barabbas Sogalon]

@ Barabbas Sogalon: Thanks a lot! Starting a chaos army is very much its own reward, you know...

 

On a mostly unrelated note, let me just congratulate you on winning Greyall's little competition, btw! That Unification Wars vet was beautifully done!

 

Thanks!

[KrautScientist]

Alright, ladies and genzlemen: It has taken me quite a while, but gakk is about to get real:

 

Thanks a lot, you two! I really appreciate the help!

 

Alright, here goes nothing:

 

 

I, KrautScientist, answer the Call of Chaos and vow to complete four units before January 15th 2015. Though this call may be pledged to Nurgle, all blood serves Khorne in the end, so my contribution to this challenge will swell the ranks of He who hunts at the head of the pack:

 

• 1 custom Khârn the Betrayer
• 1 Chaos Lord in Terminator armour with Thunder Hammer and Lightning Claw (actually a Talon of Horus expy, but yeah...)
• 1 Chaos Dreadnought/Helbrute with Multimelta and Power Fist
• 1 Forgefiend with twin Hades Autocannons (slightly converted)

 

My progress will be chronicled here, in this thread.

 

If I do this successfully I will receive the Mark of Pustulent Glory and continue on the path to ruin. If I fail I’ll wear the Mark of the Lost and I expect no mercy on my soul!

Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!

 

 

So yeah, no going back now

 

As for the models for my vow, here we go:

 

 

1.) custom Khârn the Betrayer:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/21/657263-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Kharn%2C%20Kharn%20The%20Betrayer%2C%20Khorne.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/21/657264-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Kharn%2C%20Kharn%20The%20Betrayer%2C%20Khorne.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/21/657265-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Kharn%2C%20Kharn%20The%20Betrayer%2C%20Khorne.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/21/657266-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Kharn%2C%20Kharn%20The%20Betrayer%2C%20Khorne.JPG

 

This guy was built fairly recently for a conversion/painting contest over at Throne of Skulls, and seeing how I'll need to get him painted pretty soon anyways, I might as well throw him in

 

 

2.) Chaos Lord in Terminator armour with Thunder Hammer and Lightning Claw

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/8/2/634805-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Lord%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Doomwall%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Kitbash.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/8/2/634807-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Lord%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Doomwall%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Kitbash.JPG

 

Well, I guess you'll remember this guy: The Doomwall. Time to finally get some paint on him!

 

 

3.)  Chaos Dreadnought/Helbrute with Multimelta and Power Fist

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656447-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Dreadnought%2C%20Helbrute%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656448-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Dreadnought%2C%20Helbrute%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/19/656449-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversin%2C%20Dreadnought%2C%20Helbrute%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.JPG

 

This model was completed fairly recently -- more or less especially for this vow, as it happens

 

 

4. Forgefiend with twin Hades Autocannons (slightly converted)

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/9/17/538854-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Daemon%20Engine%2C%20Forgefiend%2C%20Khorne.JPG

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2013/9/17/538853-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Daemon%20Engine%2C%20Forgefiend%2C%20Khorne.JPG

 

Aw, man, this poor guy has been built and undercoated what feels like ages ago -- but nothing has happened since then. Time to change that!

 

So, this is my vow. These are my Before pictures. Wish me luck in my endeavour, boys and girls!

Edited October 21, 2014 by KrautScientist

[Montuhotep]

Luck?

 

 You are the mighty K-Sci - since when did you need mere luck?

 

[JeffTibbetts]

I've been waiting a long time to see some paint on that terminator lord. Bring it on! 

[Flint13]

You go K-Sci!

 

I love that the forgefiend's slight conversion is that little whippy stone horn tail. Good choice there!

[lionofjudah]

DOOOOOMMMMMWWWWAAAAA(iiiiiiii)LLLLLLLLL!!!!! So stoked to see paint on that guy!

I've been loving catching up on your work today kraut. Your knight is one of my favorites and the mki tactical dreadnought armour has been my favorite for as long as I've been into 40k- great job on that conversion!

If I ever decide to go chaos it will be in the hunt;)

[Midnightmare]

Your Khârn is awesome!! Reminds me of the really old artwork of him standing on a mountain of bodies, really cool.

 

As is your Termie Lord and dread, great work as ever :) Good luck with the vow

[Augustus b'Raass]

I never saw that Kharne before, K-Sci! I love him. May Khorne grant you the luck you desire. Although a true warrior doesn't need luck. 

[incinerator950]

Like the kharne ktart.

[KrautScientist]

Cheers, people!

 

Make no mistake: I am such a huge hobby butterfly that participating in a vow like this is quite a challenge for me. There's a very real sense of failing this thing, so if you have any fingers left, keep them crossed for me, okay?

 

Regarding the Khârn conversion, I didn't show it to you before because, like I said, it has only been finished fairly recently for a contest over at ToS: The theme was to take one of the Khornate characters from among the 40k and WFB universes and build a better/updated/reimagined version of them. Since this is going to be a piece for the contest, above all else, I took the liberty of truescaling Khârn a bit

 

Oh, and while the Forgefiend certainly isn't all that heaviliy converted (it basically looks pretty Khornate as is), there are a couple of changes in addition to the tail, albeit small ones: the skulls on the shoulder pads and the collar, for instance.

Edited October 22, 2014 by KrautScientist

[Brother Heinrich]

Do Khârn man, that conversion is awesome.

[Skrundle87]

Cheers for the unboxing rundown I've been tempted to make a purchase of these fellas

[Kizzdougs]

Loving the Blightking conversions! I can't wait for mine to arrive in the post now :)

[KrautScientist]

Thanks a lot, guys! The Blightkings are fantastic models -- almost intimidatingly so, I must add: For now, I've only played around with the bitz, but I really want to create awesome 40k models from these guys, and maybe I just need to work up a bit more courage for that ;)

 

Anyway, another small update today:

 

First up, some of you may have seen that I was lucky enough to be one of the chosen few to win a recent competition over at  Greyall's thread. As a result, Greyall will be drawing a piece of artwork depicting Lord Captain Lorimar at some point in the future. As you can probably imagine, I am super happy about this (especially since the competition was incredible!), and I can hardly wait ;)

 

And while we're on the matter of artwork: Since messing around with pictures of my models and some image editing software turned out to be so much fun, I gave it another try and tackled some more involved photomontages.

 

First up, a picture of my Hellrazor in action:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/23/657625_sm-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Composite%2C%20Heldrake%2C%20Hellrazor%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt.jpg

 

I used both Pixlr and Photoshop to create this image, and while there may be a lot of stuff that can be improved, I am still reasonably happy with the outcome.

I also found this very interesting post over at Tyler Mengel’s blog and decided I needed to try something similar. So here’s a composite picture of Khorne’s Eternal Hunt having some fun on the plains of a conquered Hive World:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/10/23/657626-Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Composite%2C%20Khorne%2C%20Khorne%27s%20Eternal%20Hunt%2C%20Photomontage.jpg

 

Once again, both Pixlr and Photoshop were used in the creation of the image. I also found out that Pixlr is great for quickly obscuring rough areas noticeable seams between different parts of a composite picture. Granted, I still have much to learn, but I definitely like where this is going!

 

As always, let me know what you think! :)

[miteyheroes]

Looking forward to seeing your Call of Chaos, and those Blightking pictures have got me thinking about Nurgle... Dammit.