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    jeudi 5 décembre 2013

    Chaos Knights : Final part (Banners and Relics)



    Ian Miller
     The global aspect of the regiment is a compact unit, heavily armored and saturated by an abundance of details and ornaments. Different elements overhang the Knights (weapons, lances, personal banner, totem…), the result is a formation with a rather big size necessary to occupy the space around the huge army banner.

     As usual, I use different colors to paint chaos armors but the final result is a cohesive mass, to get this effect, I unified every horsemen with several links like golden parts on armors, brownish parts of leather, blue steel weapons/chains, same colors and technic to paint the horns/spikes/hoofs and  I used a sick flesh color for shields/champion arm/mutations/banners.
     
     
    This Chaos Champion is the leader of the unit. His face is hidden by a hood in memory of his Chaos Cultist life. He wears the Crown of Commanding, a testimony of gratitude from his God for his long progression on the road of the power. 
    He has a second relic, a demonic weapon forged by an unknown Chaos entity from the Warp, this weapon involve the Champion in a perpetual blood lust.
     

     

    Sir BridgendSteve is an Undead Chaos Champion, his God rewarded him by a magical lance decorated with the heads of his rivals from past. Chaos relics are not an obligation, but they add details on mini’s and help to suggest back ground of the Chaos Knights, here I added a sword and bags to embellish the knight.
     

    Bones protections are inspired by Chaos bones armors of Jes Goodwin. But it’s not the only reference from his work, riveted disk on shields and banners come from the Skaven and Elven range of the same era. Diamond chaos rune is another reference and recurrent in my chaos army.
     


    Your doom cometh Man-things, that’s a warning for human race and their allies.  It’s inspired by a famous banner in the Citadel Third Compendium.To build this banner, I stuck the painted paper banner on plastic poles and I decorated it with green stuff items like chains, bags full of magic stones, chaotic rune… 



    Black eyes on shields are ensorcelled. They give a magical protection and guide the arm of the knights during the battle. Blood tears symbolize an old defeat on the battlefield, in the case of Sir Vintagephreak, the tear represents the defeat during the final battle of the campaign against Norsc Dwarfs clans.



    This figurine was bought at the end of 80’s by my brother, I lightly modified the position of the front legs of the horse. 

     
    Damned, wicked, hated, defiled and foul. These words are the battle cry of the Regiment, they scream it to transcend them before a charge. I wrote their battle cry on the banner in the same way of the old Napoleonic French Flags embroidered with names of victory from the past, testament of a life on the battlefield. I was inspired by a banner in the WHFB 3rd ed rules book page ().

     
    Lord Weazil, this Knight is the second and last leader of the unit, he’s the keeper of the Chaos Star relic. The vision of the banner on the battlefield is sufficient to scarify the most courageous heroes from The Empire. Lord Weazil is a head taker, his life is dedicated to challenge every heroes on his way. To help him in this eternal labor, his god blessed him with a massive ensorcelled battle axe.

     


    Three names appear on Knights bases, these names belong to members of the OldHammer scene, I swapped or bought with them certain parts of the knights where I sculpted their name. Thank you Gentlemen, now your names (and your lead) follow me on every Battlefield.
    (Weazil : Knight Body, Vintagephreak : Knight Body, Bridgend Steve : Horse)


    To finish, I propose you a game. Try to find the owners of these following pieces. Good luck.


    lundi 23 septembre 2013

    Chaos Knights : Part Two (Shields)

    Hi folks !! After five weeks of constant painting (and three weeks of modelling works), I finally ended my unit for the D day at Nottingham, work, work and work every day until the day before the event is a hard experience but the result is more than I could imagine and that’s only the first step…


    
    From Third Citadel Compendium
     I started the second step of the project last week with the creation of shields. The choice of the shields shapes was easy because I have affection for the originals Chaos shields. Their strange and aggressive shapes are the perfect to equip my chaps.
    
    Fraser Gray work
    Fraser Gray Madness
    But how I will paint them?I usually paint a wood effect on my shields to obtain a neutral aspect for my units. However for this time, I need something more sophisticated and personal, with more details. My only solution is to sculpt my own shields, the “eye” thematic come from the Fraser Gray style and directly connected to my next work, the banners. This last step will be inspired by the famous “Chaos eye” banner published in the 3rd Citadel Compendium.
    
    Here you can observe the colors test shield, I choose to use the same skin colors than the champion arm (and tentacles) and the chains/amulets create a “metallic contrast”, all that things contribute to unify all the models of the unit.

    jeudi 25 juillet 2013

    Chaos Knights : Part one (Unit)

    Dreaded Chaos Knights, Lords of the Battle fields, Keepers of Chaos Sciences and blablabla... This mythic unit is the most powerful cavalry across every editions of Warhammer. It’s time for me to have my own unit … for my own God.
    I spend a lot of time to find this picture in my White Dwarf collection, a unit of ten marauders horsemen (knights) on battle field... Hard to manage for a Chaos opponent!
    This small pic is a real obsession for me since many years... Thank to Steve Casey, he have the good idea to publish the Bryan Ansell collection and now we have close up of a part of this marvelous unit.

    Oldhammer Day is the perfect excuse for me to realize my Chaos Knights project. No doubt, their best incarnations are the the 3rd edition range, three massive and aggressive steeds with pure Chaos armored Horsemen... They're for me the spirit of the 3rd ed Chaos army like the Champions of Jes Goodwin.

    I dont want a unit of Four, five or eight mounted warriors, I when ten !! With my own interpretation of (d6-4)+(1d4 ) Chaos attributes. Horns, weapon tails, tentacles, heavy Chaos bardage, chains, rivets, trophies, add weapons, bags, scabbards, Flags, personal banner,... As you can see I make a lot conversion with green stuff. I used many others metal part like Chaos champions torso, Chaos chariot Driver torso, Fiend of Slaanesh tails, Unicorn head, etc…

    Five weeks to paint this unit... Nice holidays works :) I hope meet a lot of people at Nottingham, Bye. 


    
    Finished at 80 %, I am very satisfied by the result.

    Rest : Bags, scabbards, shields and other mscellaneous.

    I love this Champion of Slaanesh, but with a Chaos Star and a JG Rune, he's better :)

    First colors test and bardages creations, the bones bardage is a tribute to Jes Goodwin
    and his bones armors.

    vendredi 8 avril 2011

    Followers of Tzeentch

    Les chevaliers de tzeentch, j'ai utilisé les champions de Jes Goodwin sur disc en count as. La finesse des figurines est toujours aussi impressionnate, la taille des rivets en particulier.
    Le porte baniere est une fig 40k, j'ai simplement remplacé le pistolet plasma par une main d'horreur (Bleu).
    Question peinture, les armures sont pleines de dorures (Bling bling)et les tissus sont multi colores avec une dominance de violet, rose et bleu. Je fonds les couleurs avec des glacis successifs.