++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[KrautScientist]

Another cool squad of Plague Marines -- I especially love the sergeant's pose!

 

Regarding the Knight interior: Attaboy! ;)

Seriously, though: It's really not that daunting anymore, because there are enough templates to work from spread across the blogosphere. You may want to check out Biohazard's Knights, because IIRC, he has come up with a way of using one of the Space Marine flyer cockpits for a nearly seamless Knight cockpit. And one word of warning: Whatever you do, I don't really see anyone adding a cockpit after the torso has been completely glued together and the model has been painted -- that would just be making your life needlessly hard for you.

 

As for the facemask, your ideas sound good. Personally speaking, however, I think I'd discard the stock FW facemask altogether and - if you want a skull-like visage) go for the combination of a Bloodthirster skull shoulder pad with a kitbashed jaw (also visible on at least one of Biohazard's Knights). That would give me machine a much cooler skull visage, in my opinion, and also leave a bit more of the fully detailed metallic skull visible underneath. The stock FW bit just seems so generic and "expressionless", for lack of a better word, to me.

[DuskRaider]

IMO the FW Knight head looks extremely Khornate, maybe Undivided at the most... but I do agree, it's kinda meh. Although as you've stated, this isn't meant to be a strictly Nurglitch Knight so it might not be horrible with the lower jaw.

[Eldrick Shadowblade]

Cool new Squad Augustus! I especially liked the plague cannons made from the heavy-bolters. It's an idea i might have to "borrow".

I also liked the beastmen head for the standard bearer. That kit is at least a decade or older. I have those bits waiting to be used!

Also, that knight and the sculpting is excellent. You'll need to share your techniques in a vid or tutorial sometime!

[Pearson73]

The Knight looks great with all the extra sculpted details, the hanging torso is cool too. The new Vexilariusis nicely done using that shield.

 

Congrats on the new house! I hope the family and cat recover swiftly.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Wow, almost three weeks without Bolter&Chainsword. And in those three weeks, life has been consistently kicking me in the nuts. At least there's some huge silver lining (you could say, silver trim - with chaotic pointy bits): I bought a house with the GF and we got registered as legal partners! Also, Peer the cat is finally cured and has stopped pissing on the couch! Woooooo

 

in any case, I have not been idle on the hobby front in the B&C-less period of time. Although that has mostly been building, and not a lot of painting. In fact, the last squad of Death Guard is the only thing I actually finished in 20 days. Behold!

 

 

Plague Sergeant Vulgarus (who has a nice set of bells . Seven of them, to be precise. Nurgle's favoured number!)

 

 

Vexilarius Wurat

 

 

Melee Specialist Pusit 

 

 

Weapon Specialist Scuhub

 

 

Weapon Specialist Korst 

 

I hope you like them! I'll most likely create one more squad of Plague Marines with two Blight Launchers, so that I can create the list of five 5-man squads with two blight launchers. Add a Chaos Lord of Nurgle with Arch Contaminator and watch everything disappear before them!

Speaking of which, I finally finished building the Chaos Lord of Nurgle:

 

And I've also build a bog-standard Tallyman.

 

They're what's on my painting table at the moment, and hopefully I'll be able to paint them up tomorrow. After I post them, I'll give you some insights into the crazy building frenzy I've been up to.

 

Thanks for your C&C and for looking even.

 

Cheers!

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@ Biohazard: Peer the cat has been cured! Hurray! I hope you had a good night's sleep - a month ago.

 

@ DuskRaider: you should really check out BCK's sculpting tutorial. It's what made me make a huge leap in sculpting skill.  Also: red hazard stripes bordered by cream - check!

 

@ Dantay VI: It's not that people will be able to see it, it's that I will know it is there. Also, KrautScientist will get mad if I don't do it, and as history has shown, you shouldn't mess with Germans. I saw that chaos Knight kit as well and although it's excellent craftmanship, it doesn't really float my boat. Besides, I have sold off all my Night Lords, so there's no reason for it to look like this.  Thatnks for pointing it out to me, though!

 

@ KrautScietist: I've been buying recast Knight pilots from China and real Sentinel pilots from eBay like crazy. I've also swapped a spare bike I had (a real bike, of the ones we have 1,5 of per citizen in my country) for two Armiger Warglaives. So coupled with my two plastic Knights, a posable Knight Legs set, the Chaos Knight resin parts, an extra Knight body, shield and heavy stubber I bought off eBay, the Armiger Warglaive I already had, and the two Helverins I've just bought, I'll have three Knights and five Armigers to crew! I have since gone and left the idea of using the stock Chaos Knight mask and crafted something different  - more on that later.

 

@ DuskRaider: You're right, it's not a Nurgle Knight - it's supposed to be undivided. I'll probably make a more 'aggressive' Knight next - which may be interpreted as Khornate?

 

@ Eldrick Shadowblade: Ha! That kit is from the late 90's I believe. I was very lucky to reacquaint with a friend from that period last year, and he gave me a big shopping bag of sprues. Suffice it to say I can make an enormous Slaaneshi CSM/Noise Marine army, with a whole bike platoon and several squads of Beastmen cultists.

 

@ Pearson73: Cheers! Glad you like it

Edited November 1, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Isengrin]

Great work on the chaos lord! Understated yet very powerful. It's always nice to see true scale marines from you. 

[Viridia]

Loving that nurgle lord now. Congrats to you and the missus, as well!

[rednekkboss]

Great looking stuff, mate!  Grandfather is proud!

 

Congrats on the house, lady and non-pissing cat as well!

Edited October 12, 2018 by rednekkboss

[DuskRaider]

Looking good as always. You've got to be close to finished with all of your infantry, yeah? I really do love that Lord, such a bestial pose. Start on the damned Knight!

[Panzer]

Looks awesome as always. I missed your updates when the B&C was down! :D

 

Only complain would be that the Icon looks a bit plain from the frontI think the wood and Nurgle marking lacks ... depths? Dunno, it's early and I'm bad with words right now. 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks, guys!

I finally got round to doing the Knight cockpit today. I'm getting more and more comfortable with plasticard lately, and it's been fun using these skills into the cockpit. Here's how it's looking!

 

First, here's something to get you in the mood...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blrHHRWKygw

 

 

 

It's finished now - the Pilot's seat is completely removable for easy of painting, so that'll be a blast.

 

Now, all that is left is sculpting of the Knight's head itself. Here's what I have so far:

 

 

So the horns on his temples and below his jaw just need some chaos banding/trim and it's done.

 

I hope you like! Let me know what you think.

 

Cheers!

 

Replies:

 

@ Isengrin: Ha, thanks! I certainly don't consider myself to be a truescale modeller...

 

@ Viridia: Thanks, buddy!

 

@ rednekkboss: Non-couch-pissing cats are the best, aren't they?

 

@ DuskRaider: Yeah, except for 30 Plague Bearers and 2 x 10 cultists, as well as five more Plague Marines. I started the knight...

 

@ sfPanzer: Thanks! I missed the entire B&C! I'll see what I can do with the icon!

Edited October 12, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[DuskRaider]

Wow, impressive job with the interior. And you did this after assembling the Knight? The head looks neat, like a corrupted Roman Centurion helmet.

 

I meant start painting the Knight.

Edited October 12, 2018 by DuskRaider

[Biohazard]

The cockpits looking great, really neat work! I especially love the emaciated pilot :tu:

[lionofjudah]

Wow o wow!!! Come back to the BnC and see this incredible knight!! Lüv the toes gripping the mound and the twin GC is a fun look! The detailing is looking great so far... I’m glad I’m on the loyalist side as otherwise I’d feel not chaos enough and want to sculpt teeth and star points on everything;)

[KrautScientist]

Okay, so I am feeling really pleased with myself right now, because I kept pestering you about doing a cockpit, and now the finished build is looking spectacular, as I know it would. QED, I'd say What's the base model for the pilot, by the way? I'd say a Titan princeps of some sort...?

 

Regarding the head, it's a huge improvement over the somewhat soulless, vanilla FW facemask. My only criticism would be that I am not a huge fan of the horns you have chosen, as they are just so clunky and cartoony -- I think a pair of Bloodthirster horns would make the design even cooler -- compare ElDuderino's WIP renegade Knight for reference, as I believe he uses the Bloodthirster horns.

 

But anyway, fantastic work -- as expected, buddy!

 

EDIT: Also, just some food for thought:

 

Edited October 12, 2018 by KrautScientist

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

As always it's a pleasure to come back to this thread every time for the eye candy. really fantastic work on these models.  Hopefully the better I get the more the ratio of Intimidated-Inspired will shift, but I'll settle for how I feel now over not seeing your stuff  . Super excited to see you working on a knight as thats my current project as a present for a friend and I'll take all the inspiration I can absorb. The head looks awesome and I feel like maybe I haven't put enough effort into mine so I'll have to do some more thinking.  I'll be sure to revisit frequently.... I've been away for 6 weeks as I was bogged down by something I had to get on with at home and I feel like I've missed TOO much.  great work Augustus, thanks for sharing.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks guys, I'll hopefully be making some progress today on the Knight helmet. 

 

@ Kraut: I hear what you're saying about the horns - a friend told me he found that the horns give the head a 90's chaos vibe, which I guess you could say is more comical, as you've described it. I'll take a look at alternatives, although I can't give any guarantees - for the fact of the matter is; my perception and style roots in the 90's, so I'm a bit enamoured with the look as it is. Plus, we've already established that I'm a bigger fan of the Masters of the Universe-look in 40k than you are But I will give another rummage through the ol' bits box and see what else I can come up with. 

 

In the mean time, here's some pictures of another project I started (actually I already started it here, but I guess it was snowed over by the Knight pictures in the same update...) finished while the B&C was offline. 

 

A Foetid Bloat Drone with a fleshmower. I was gifted the dedicated GW Bloat-drone kit for my birthday by my gaming pals. It's a great kit, with three different carapaces. It also holds one of each weapon option: a fleshmower, a pair of plague spewers, and a heavy blight launcher. The heavy light launcher sucks, and I already have three converted DI drones with spewers, so it's going to be build with a fleshmower. Seeing as I had two carapaces spare, I figured I could use one of those on the last of the four DI Bloat-drones I had. The problem was that there's only ONE fleshmower in the dedicated kit, so I had to make my own for this conversion... 

 

I used the arms from the Dark Eldar Talos kit, coupled with the landing gear of a Storm Raven, which I had left over from the Night Lords Storm Eagle and Fire Raptor commissions I did in the beginning of this year. I combined them, and started glueing a ton of spikes from chaos vehicle sprues on a piece of plastic tube...

 

Here's what I have so far:

 

 

 

 

So this is a standard DI Bloat Drone with a converted fleshmower and a dedicated GW Bloat Drone kit's carapace. I also gave it a plasticard mohawk instead of the spikes, which unfortunately broke off in the converting process... 

 

I hope you like it! Let me know what you think! Comments more than welcome!

 

Cheers.

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@ DuskRaider: Thanks! And yes, this was done after assemling and glueing the knight. This did not make things easier - and I have learned my lesson. I'll make the cockpit with one side unglued for the other two Knights and the five Armigers that are up next (someday).

 

@ Biohazard: Cheers! Yeah that pilot is a great piece of kit. It's a recast of some FW kit, I have no idea which one. The only thing that I changed was cutting away his head and replacing it with that of a DV cultist.

 

@ lionofjudah: Haha thank you for the kidn words, buddy! And be sure that I'm glad you're on the loyalist side - we need you guys as enemies.

 

@ KrautScientist: I already commented on the pilot and the horns above, but about your food for thought pitcure: I kept looking at it and searching for the cat hair. Untill I realised you cut away the spacing between the nose and the middle mouth slit to create a chaos arrow. BRILLIANT! Thank you!

 

@ Pandoras Bitz Box: Your kind words are always flattering, sir! Thank you! I hope your RL is going good or at least better than before. Take care of yourself! 

Edited October 13, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Pandoras Bitz Box]

Great effort on that flesh mower, and I love the jagged mohawk. That's for referring to that other post with the howling Plague Marine, he looks great. I'm reminded of a little while back when you were working on one of those guys and it had like a huge cancerous growth on it's back? Did you finish that guy? I feel like you normally finish the things you start... Oh and the prince! Man... It's been ages... I need to have a proper sift through the history.

[Viridia]

Oh, now that plague drone, I'm just in love with that. Love the threshing blade you've given it, makes it look horrifying.

[Grizzly_bear]

Fantastic work yet again fella

[Augustus b'Raass]

Because I forgot that there's a local 2000-point tournament, the Lord and the Tallyman will have to wait two weeks to get properly finished - even though I'm half-way through them. I had been getting a pretty decent player on a competitive level in 7th, but 8th knocked the wind out of those sails. My regular hobby group of 30-somethings has been getting a lot more competitieve and they've infected me with the disease again. So even though I have no more than 12 games of 8th edition 40k under my wings since its release, I'm getting into a tournament - and ICT-training tournament. Golly. 

 

Here's the list I've come up with:

 

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

 Detachment 1 battalion (Chaos Daemons) 598 points

HQ : Spoilpox scrivener (75) plaguesword (0) distended maw (0) disgusting sneezes (0) 75

HQ : Daemonprince of Nurgle with wings (170) malefic talons (10) 180 WARLORD

TROOPS: 29 plague bearers (203) 1 plague ridden (7) plagueswords (0) instrument of chaos (10) daemonic icon (15) 235

TROOPS: 3 nurglings (54) teeth and claws (0) 54TROOPS: 3 nurglings (54) teeth and claws (0) 54

 

 Detachment 2 battalion (Chaos Daemons) 530 points

HQ : poxbringer (70) Balesword (0)  70

HQ : Daemonprince of Nurgle with wings (170) malefic talons (10) 180

TROOPS : 20 plague bearers (140) 1 plague ridden (7) plagueswords (0) instrument of chaos (10) daemonic icon (15) 186

TROOPS : 3 nurglings (54) teeth and claws (0) 54

TROOPS : 3 nurglings (54) teeth and claws (0) 54

 

  Detachment 3 Superheavy Detachment (Renegade Knights) 866 points

Renegade Knight (285) 2x Avenger Gatling Cannon (150) 2x Heavy Flamer (34) Heavy Stubber (4) Stormspear Rocket Pod (45) 518

Renegade Armiger Helverin (160) 2x Armiger autocannons (10) Heavy Stubber (4) 174

Renegade Armiger Helverin (160) 2x Armiger autocannons (10) Heavy Stubber (4) 174

 

That's 2000 points on the button, and no less than 16 CP (which I'll need with the CP-heavy Knights in there).

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

The problem is, that I don't even own half of this army yet. 

 

I have the Princes, the scribe, 9 Nurgling bases, and 30 Plaguebearers painted, as well as the Knight build, but that still leaves me 22 Plaguebearers, 3 Nurgling bases, and two Armiger Helverins short. Luckily for me, this tournament does NOT require everything to be painted or even build completely, so long as it's clear what something is, which weapons it has, and it's of equal size. In addition, I already ordered three boxes of plaguebearers and they have arrived yesterday. The Helverins and the Nurglings will be bought tomorrow. 

 

So the plan is to build the plague bearers and the nurglings and paint them in one fell swoop (they're mostly drybrushing and washing, so they can be done between anything), exactly like I did with the same amount of Plague Bearers and even more nurglings in ETL VI. With that, only the poxbringer and the Armigers need building. I've already reconciled the fact that I wont be playing with a completely painted army, despite my principles against such abhorrent practices. But at least I can make the army WYSIWYG. During the week, I'll make a dent in painting the Knight and building the Armigers (including cockpits and pilots), and I'l hopefully be able to start chaosifying them.

That leaves me with the poxbringer and of course, objectives. I've build those yesterday. Here's proof:

 

The poxbringer (build from the Lord of Plagues, a Plagueridden's head and plaguesword, and some sculpting).

 

 

 

Then, there's the objective markers for the army! As you can see, they're mostly build of banners and the same grim reaper-like thing I used on my Imperial Fists objective markers, only I have exchanged his hammer head with a scythe blade instead of an Imperial Relinquary. 

 

There's also three objectives of lower height - they all use Lord of Skulls belly weapons as a base. I'm quite in love with the bathing Nurglings! 

 

Anyway, I hope you like them and I appreciate your comments (and any gaming advice with this list...). 

 

Cheers!

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@ Pandoras Bitz Box: Yeah you mean the Chaos Lord of Nurgle in terminator armour? Of course I finished it! It was part o the ETL, no? And ETL vows are always finished. OH wait, no they're not. That's why we lost. By 343 points. It still hurts.  

@ Viridia: Haha cheers! I love it!

 

@ Grizzly_bear: Thanks!

 : 

Edited October 14, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Good start on that cockpit and the nurgling hot tub is one of the best objective markers I've ever seen!

[Quixus]

Love the nurglings in a tub.

[brettfp]

Some great stuff! Those nurglings are adorable....and I've been trying to think of another Nurgle objective to complete my set :)

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Impressive.