World Eaters : Possessed Marines

Hey everyone! A quick post before leaving home for two weeks of vacations. I hesitated during a long time before working on a Possessed Marines unit. The concept is tricky, cause Marines half possessed by Daemons can easily look like and confused with spawns or highly rewarded Chaos Champion. But I finally accepted the challenge and did my best to carry out this band of 8 chaps. 

My conception of Khorne Possessed Marines integrate Machines Daemons in addition with 'Standard Daemons', Meaning that the possessed body of the hoster can be progressively transformed into partial mechanical engine with specific technological body parts and / or Daemonic body parts. Khorne's works in mysterious ways!

I used a big bunch of Khorne Champion from Jes Goodwin 80's serie and I coupled them with different elements from my bits box, those sessions of modeling still be my best moments in the hobby, more then painting I admit. 

Still 2 Jes Champions to integrate in my World Eaters Legions 

World Eaters : Spawns

Hi guys ! Today another brick in the World Eaters wall that I started to build 3 years ago (Jeez!). To celebrate this event, my proposal is a colorful bunch of Chaos spawns. Those tragic Champions are inerrant to each Chaos legions or armies and it’s a Chaos duty to build at least one unit for every Chaos force. It’s not so easy to obtain creatures with unhealthy look and at the opposite, it’s easy to fall in the creation process of monsters barded of tentacle without characters.

Tony Ackland minions

Another Roc goodness

Miniatures web market can bringe some good solutions ready to paint such as Knightmare Miniatures, Mierce Miniature, Citadel Miniatures and  kickstarters as well. For enthusiastic hobbyist it’s also a great moment to let the creativity take the control and explain your vision of the ‘Chaos’ in all his glory. The list of personal gift contained in RoC Slave to Darkness book is prodigiously helpful and definitely a very good source of inspiration for you models. 

Citadel miniatures beauty!

Some links for ready to paint spawns models :

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1900818244/dark-rituals-malleus-maleficarum?ref=discovery

https://bitsofwar.com/daemons/547-morbid-beast-araneaeman-5902216113251.html

https://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_blg_bnb_mon_059_000

https://knightmareminiatures.com/product/hellbringer

https://diehardminiatures.com/product/head-scuttler/

World Eaters : Khornates Legionnaires part Three (final)

Hi ! Here we are, 5 months of works to finish those 8 lads. Regarding the paint job, tThe big challenge was to manage the brass color(s) which cover Juggernaut’s bodies. Brass/Gold/Bronze are not so easy to paint and the final result can disappointing if using the wrong process. Oxidation as well, I applied two variants of oxidation colors : Greenish and blueish version. Mainly to provide a plurality in the color scheme and avoid redundancies. Might be to the detriment of the ‘standard’ Vert-de-gris color ton but it bring a bit of Daemonic fantasy in the whole unit . Riders are in regular WE colors in order to keep a link with the remaining part of the legion. Banners are in Green/Blue/Purple/pink tones to counter balance with the other colors of the model.

Chaos Legionnaires Lore

Legionnaires are mortals chosen, often at the point of the death, to serve their chaos god in a direct fashion. They are maintained by arcane magics in endless, undying glory. The ‘legendary heroes’ of Chaos, they fight and die in huge numbers , yet can rise from the dead in a single night , protected by their dark master’s awesome power. The once-mortal Legionnaires become arrogant, disdainful of other in the service of chaos. They start secure in the knowledge that they have been specially chosen end granted pleasures beyond their dreams. But as the centuries of death and rebirth stretch into millennia, doubts seep into the minds of the Legionnaires. Their existence is a purposeless one, doomed to death and subservience , the future merely another battle to be fought. The Chaos gods , however , do not care. The Legionnaires are trapped in a endless cycle of battle, death and rebirth, tied to their god and theirs empty pleasures.

Legionnaires are well supported by Khorne's minions

Word Eaters : Khornates Legionnaires part two

Hi there! The second step is done and sound the end of the modeling part of the project. 

I focused on pole weapons and the back banners. Both provide a great consistence to the models and participate to extend the height and make the juggers tallers.

Pole weapons

I gathered several spare parts from my bits box as : Skaven blades, Chainsaw swords, modern plastic Khorne Icon, parts of original juggers such as Bloodletters heads, etc… To hold all those stuffs, I designed new scabbards in line of the Jugger new armour style, stamped with Khorne Skull rune, of course. All those artefacts represent gifts given by their patron for centuries of wars.

Back banners

Most of those pieces are revamped banners from Knightmare miniatures range. Sculpted by the talented Roberth Breséus and inspired by Ian Miller art works, I reused them as a solid base for my own interpretations of dreaded Chaos banners.

The non-squarish back banners were designed by my self with additional bits from (again) Knightmare miniatures range and also from Diehard miniatures range. Those shields give an extra RoC flavor to the overall aspect, they’re inspired by Tony Ackland artwork from Slaves to Darkness book.

Inspirations and bits from cool miniatures ranges

Left and middle from Knightmare mini and right from Diehard mini.

World Eaters : Khornate Legionnaires part one

Hey boyz !! 3 months without updating… What’s going on there? It’s because the current project is rather long and posting too much WIP articles on the blog isn’t my cup of tea. So today, we are talking about a unit of 8 Gentlemen mounted on Juggernaut, also knew as the Khornate Legionnaires.

That’s an uncommon unit for an Old school Khorne miniatures collection. I guess the main reason is because the avatar of the daemonic Steed of khorne is struck by a weird Hippo Chaos gift. Many incoherencies push this model very high in the crappiest old school miniatures charts.

What’s wrong with this model? The first thing is the forequarter and its non-natural front legs position, which bring and unusual posture to the miniature. The second thing is that half of the purposed heads are shitty and most of them look down and increase the unusual posture. To finish, the global size of the model seems to be fairly small for a demonic steed.

For all those reasons, I decided to take up the challenge and try to do my best to relook this hippo unit and transform it into a fearsome unit of Khornate monsters. And 8 Juggernauts on a wargame table is quite fancy 😊

Juggernauts Heads

This is the first big chunk of the project,  I kept 2 different heads from the initial set. I reoriented their gaze and remove the top armor as well. I fully recreate, the coolest armored head. I wished to add the khorne champion head from Jes Goodwin range. To finish, I created 2 new heads based on Bloodthirster models. After copied them in greenstuff, I splited-up both and filled empties spaces with greenstuff in order to obtain a larger version.

Green = Cool, Orange = Rare and Red = Ugly

Front legs position

The main job there was to remove the front legs from the Juggs body. To help me in this task I used a Dremel, without this tool, wasn’t able to achieve the task. Once ended, I created two different legs position, in X shape. Now those beasts have a more natural front legs position. 

Armor and details

I designed different armor variations for the bodies and forequarters. And to garnish,, I added some standard details as Chainmail, chains, Khorne medals and icons. Also some Technologic thing as Bionic Eye or Hydraulic jaw. And a large amount of rivets 😊 2 pair of riders legs were missing so I created my owned version with a strong Renegade Marines inspiration.

Next steps

Now I’ll start to work on the side poles. Antic weapons, banners, icons, etc… 3 weeks of work, at least. lLet finish this long article with a bunch Juggernauts artworks from Slaves to Darkness. See you.