CS' Plogging for Chaos - Be'lakor WIP

[Closet Skeleton]

Tournament report over in another thread

I also had some prep to do on the army for the big tournament.

I dropped the helbrute so thought I'd make him more secure when I put him back on his base. Then I added some more basing material to hide the greenstuff. I also needed some combi-bolters to make the rhinos wyswyg.

I also thought I would get the 5 raptors I'm taking finished. I abandoned them at a table top standard when I did the full 15 a year or two ago.

[Gederas]

The combined Loyalist Dread/Helbrute looks pretty cool. Might yoink that idea for in the future.

[Closet Skeleton]

Had three spare deathguard to get out of the way before I do a 7 man Plague Marine squad for my Black Legion.

Oh yeah, I posted some tournament pics here.

Edited March 8, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[hushrong]

Looking good! Plague marines are looking sweet and I love action shots fresh from the battlefield.

[Closet Skeleton]

Plague Surgeon still needs some work, plague marines are done. This puts me at the round in the wrong way number of 30 death guard plague marines.

Edited March 13, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Your Plague Marines are well-painted.

[Closet Skeleton]

Got these guys off ebay when they were in Warhammer conquest (it sold out too fast for me to escape being scalped). I intend to use the Lord Feltheus model as a Terminator Sorcerer. I'll probably just add them to my existing Blightlord squads to make up for the samey bodies in the multipart kit. I'm also getting started on the bloat drone and plagueburst crawler from the Christmas Battleforce.

Edited March 15, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Closet Skeleton]

Started on my Plague Burst Crawler over the weekend.

Made some terminator progress at the same time. There was a lot of rust to do.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

The rust and/mud on the Plagueburst crawler shows a great devotion to Nurgle. I eagerly await photos of the completed model.

[Closet Skeleton]

Plague Burst Crawler pretty much done, tainted cohort almost ready to base.

My copy of Shadowspear came in the post today. Here's some size comparisons

two greater possessed, regular possessed I got in an auction and only partially repainted, 3rd ed plasma gunner I built when there was no official possessed box and I forgot to read that possessed don't get special weapons (they did get bolt pistols back then).

Noise marine, shadowspear marine, dark vengeance chosen 3rd ed plastic marine, metal 2nd ed marine

Shadowspear Champion, custom guy (second ed plastic legs, mark IV torso), dark vengeance chosen, 3rd ed plastic marine, metal 2nd ed marine.

With news of Fallen Sorcerers in the new Vigilus book, I'm going to have to get the dark vengeance librarian I have lying around painted.

Edited March 20, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Closet Skeleton]

So it begins...

Got my tainted cohort blight lords based so I could start on my shadowspear. With Obliterators now on 50mm bases I needed to experiment with doing more detailed large bases.

Edited March 22, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Custom Hero]

Nice!

[Givemead]

Nice progress on your Death Guard, I particularly like the rust on the Plagueburst Crawler.

 

The side by side with the new Shadowspear models is interesting.  I'm struck by how good the obliterators look as just grey plastic - must hae been the GW paint jobs that were putting me off.

[Closet Skeleton]

Got the backpacks done, started on the marine squad.

Ordered 5 of the new terminators and a box of deathshroud for converting another obliterator and then maybe finishing off that Plague Brethren squad.

[BrotherEndcat]

God those shadowspear sculpts look good don't they... loving the work so far mate, keep it up! :) 

[Closet Skeleton]

I'm not a big fan of the new heads, they have the Dark Vengeance Chosen issue of being more trim than not.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Chaos Space Marines.

[Closet Skeleton]

Got an email saying my terminators are delivered tomorrow. I have to leave for a tournament on friday. Can I get them ready in time?

Shadowspear marine progress, only one of these will probably even be in the army. Top row is after the wash just to confuse things.

Edited April 8, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Closet Skeleton]

Going to a tournament at the weekend.

Player Name: Alex Cable

Army Faction: Heretic Astartes

Command Points 14

Total army Points: 2000

Brigade Detachment == Heretic Astartes, Black Legion [ 2000 points], 12 CP Specialist Detachment: Bringers of Despair (-1cp)

HQ1 Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour Combi Melta Power sword = 118 points, 6 power
warlord: Chosen of the Warmaster (specialist detachment trait)

HQ2: Sorcerer in Terminator Armour combibolter (2) force stave (8) mark of slaanesh =112 points, 8 power relic: angelsbane

HQ3: Dark Apostle mark of tzeentch = 100 points, 5 power

TRP1: Chaos Space Marines 4x Chaos Space Marines 1x Aspiring Champion Plasma gun combi-plasma chainaxe mark of slaanesh = 88 points, 4 power

TRP2: Chaos Space Marines 4x Chaos Space Marines 1x Aspiring Champion Plasma gun combi-plasma chainaxe mark of slaanesh = 88 points, 4 power

TRP3: Chaos Cultist Squad 9x Chaos Cultists 1x Cultist Champion = 50 points, 3 power

TRP4: Chaos Cultist Squad 9x Chaos Cultists 1x Cultist Champion = 50 points, 3 power

TRP5: Chaos Cultist Squad 9x Chaos Cultists 1x Cultist Champion heavy stubber )= 52 points, 3 power

TRP6: Chaos Cultist Squad 9x Chaos Cultists 1x Cultist Champion heavy stubber )= 52 points, 3 power

EL1: Terminator Squad 4x Chaos Terminators 1x Terminator Champion icon of despair , heavy flamer power maul chainfist combi-melta (15) 3x chainaxe ) 2 combi-bolters pair of lightning claws (12) mark of nurgle = 203 points, 10 power

EL2: Terminator Squad 4x Chaos Terminators 1x Terminator Championreaper autocannon combi-flamer , 2 power mauls combi-melta 2 combi-bolters, 2 chainaxes (2x1), chainfist (9) = 188 points, 10 power

EL3: Terminator Squad 4x Chaos Terminators 1x Terminator Champion combi-melta (15), 5 chainaxes (5x1) 4 combi-bolters (4x2) = 158 points, 10 power

EL4 (no slot): Dark Disciple= 5 points, 1 power

FA1: Chaos Spawn, mark of nurgle= 25 points, 2 power

FA2: Raptors 4x Raptors 1x Raptor Champion 2 Plasma guns Plasma pistol power fist icon of wrath , mark of khorne = 121 points, 5 power

FA3: Chaos Spawn mark of nurgle= 25 points, 2 power

HS1: Obliterator mark of slaanesh = 345 points

HS2: Havocs 4x Havocs 1x Aspiring Champion 3x autocannons 1x heavy bolter = 110 points, 7 power

HS3: Havocs 4x Havocs 1x Aspiring Champion 3x autocannons 1x heavy bolter = 110 points, 7 power

TO's ruled that obliterators are 115 so I had to drop my plans for more raptors.

Got to get these ready by the end of the day.

edit: 1522 pm

Edited April 11, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Closet Skeleton]

Went 1/5 at the tournament. 2 minor losses 1 massive victory 2 major defeats. Main problem was having the bad luck to have to go against a Castellan twice.

Upon getting back I managed to get the trim done on the other 5 Shadowspear marines in between getting my Age of Sigmar army ready for the GT in a few weeks. Also got my the Bloodthirster of my youth out to finish some half started repairs.

Got started on building some wrath and rapture stuff. Fiends are amazing models but will probably need some filling with greenstuff (the flesh hounds did).

Edited April 22, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Closet Skeleton]

Picked up a box of the finecast havocs at Warhammer World and I'm not sure what I was expecting but it contains 4 identical finecast bodies. Which wouldn't have been a problem once upon a time but I don't plan on buying any more of the old marine plastics so I had to take apart some bolter guys I already had.

Also decided to update them to 40mm base and use up some warptalon spares from my raptor sprues.

[Closet Skeleton]

Got the bodies from havocs box mostly done.

Along with the havoc box weapons on old bodies rebased to 40mm. My box of the new multipart marines came in and I stuck a resin havoc head, some old legs and the new heavy bolter/backpack together.

I also rebased most of my old havocs onto 40mm.

[Closet Skeleton]

Start Collecting Nurgle box and a Great Unclean one came with the new havocs and marines which is a lot to paint so despite ETL only being in a short while I thought I'd get the nurgle out of the way.

Going off same tutorial as my first 10 plaguebearers. I just replaced carroburg crimson with army painter red tone because that's what I have, added some spodges of army painter blue tone in between Duskraider's steps 4 and 5 and watered down p3 murderous magenta before the last wash.

Edited May 24, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[Closet Skeleton]

Nurglings and plague bearers pretty much finished, rot flies going in the cupboard for when I have a plan for their carapace.

Great Unclean One magnetisation took a few days due to greenstuff drying.

Edited May 25, 2019 by Closet Skeleton

[hushrong]

Nice work on converting the havocs. If you don’t mind me asking why’d you pick up a box of those finecast ones?

 

And the Nurgle horde is looking great! The paint job is spot on and I’m looking forward to seeing the great unclean one get the same treatment.