World Eaters Legion Praetor

A couple of weeks ago I posted some pictures of the limited edition Legion Praetor for my World Eaters. I finished painting the model right after, but forgot to post the finished model here until now.

The conversion was quite simple. I swapped the original head, which I think looks really silly, with the scarred Empire Flagellant head. I also replaced the sword blade with a FW World Eaters Meteor Hammer from the Rampager kit.

to make this model stand out from the rest of the army, I painted it in a new colour scheme. I chose the colours from one of the newer FW books. in this book some World Eaters, like Red Butchers and veterans, have painted their armour red. This is a step closer to what they will look like in 40k, which I find fitting to my army, since I sometimes use them with the Khorne Daemonkin: codex.

Yesterday when I took these pictures I also tried to make some short videos of this model, and many others in a 360 degree view! It turned out pretty good, but I haven't found an easy way to get them on my blog. They are however on my Instagram! Follow this link to see some cool 360 degree videos of my miniatrues!

This is the picture I found on Google from one of the Forge World Books. I think I will paint more World Eaters in this colour. It really gives the army some much needed variation, and it was a fun colour scheme to paint.  

WIP: World Eater Tactical Squad & Contemptor Dreadnought

I haven't had the chance to work much on my world eaters lately. But during the holiday I did manage to put together some tactical marines and a contemptor from the Betrayal at Calth box. I used spare FW heads, and some chaos backpacks to make the squad more interesting.

World Eater Contemptor Dreadnoughts

I have finished my World Eater Contemptor Dreadnoughts. The one in the middle was painted a long time ago, but I Fixed up his base, when painting the other two, to make it more similar to them. I painted the World eater symbols on the new Contemptors red, and I think this look a lot better than gold. So I might get back to the first one, and repaint the symbols. 

WIP: Red Butchers

I have some quick pictures of my World Eater Red Butchers from Forge World. These are lovely models, with a lot of small details, which make them fun to paint. Even though they are cool, I don't like their helmets much. So I exchanged some of the helmets with bare heads.

Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters

I painted Angron over a year ago, but when I fixed Kharn's base with pigments, I felt I had to do the same with this model. Here are some new pictures of Angron, with a better looking base.

Kharn the Bloody, 8th Captain of the World Eaters

I painted this model about a year ago, and it has been featured on the blog before. But when I painted my newest squad of World Eaters, I painted the bases in a slightly different way. I used a lot more orange weathering-powders on the rust, and burnt umber on the grey areas, to make them look more interesting. The new bases looked a lot better, so I gave Kharn's base a little upgrade, similar to the other new ones. I think it looks a lot better than before. The bright orange makes the model stand out more. 

World Eater Tactical Squad

I just finished a tactical squad of World Eaters. Or at least most of a squad, I only had enough FW parts to build nine models. But now that I've got the Betrayal at Calth box, I'll complete the squad and make more.

WIP: World Eater Contemptor Dreadnoughts

I started painting the Contemptors today. Here is a quick mobile photo of the progress. Hope you like them.

Thanks for looking!

WIP: Betrayal at Calth boxed set

When the Betrayal at Calth boxed game came out, I felt it was about time to get back to my Horus Heresy World Eater army. While waiting for the box, I kit-bashed a gladiator themed veteran of some kind. I think he will be the sergeant of my rampagers, if they're allowed to have this weapon combination. I'm not sure, but he will at least be a sergeant of some kind. The torso and right arm are from the Blood Reavers in the Age of Sigmar box, the shield is an ogre belly protector (or whatever the metal things on their bellies are), and the rest are some FW bits I had laying around. I'm quite pleased with this one, so I think there will be a squad of similar looking models for him to lead. 

I also made a pair Contemptor Dreadnoughts. I forgot to photograph them before priming, so that are quite dark, but you get the idea. 

When I got the Betrayal at Calth set, I started to play around with the bits, and made myself a squad of Destroyers. What really annoys me with the box, is that they all have GW's classic Space Marine poses. No running poses, and only one pair of arms able to hold two separate weapons every ten models. This probably works with most legions, but not World Eaters. I want my army to be running towards their enemy, waving their chainaxes around.
Even though they look a bit too relaxed for my taste, the destroyers turned out alright. A thing that is quite great with the set, is that you get a lot of the MKIV helmets with the breathing stripes pointing downwards. These helmets look a lot angrier than the regular ones, which make them work great in my army.

Lastly I made some changes on the Praetor that came with the box. I'm not sure if lightning claws are the best choice game wise, but he looks mean, which is more important.

Tutorial: Heresy Era World Eater

I thought it was about time that I made a tutorial for this blog. The obvious choice was to make one that shows how I paint my World Eaters. This is a colour scheme that works on all kinds of white armour. I use the same method on Death Guard and 40k buildings. The techniques I use too make the models look weathered and battle damaged are techniques that also can be used on any other coloured. I hope you find this tutorial useful, and that you enjoy reading it. 

I. The model was built and based. 

II. I used GW's Skull White spray to prime this model.

III. The model was based in Mechanicus Standard Grey.

IV. The model was ones again hit with a Skull White spray. This time it was done in a 45 degree angle, to only hit the raised areas and give the model a quick natural highlight. 

V. The model was lightly sponged with White Scar. This stage doesn't look like much at this stage, but it helps highlight the model further, and gives a 3D effect to the battle damage that will be added later on. 

When using other colours than white, it's important to sponge the model with a slightly lighter colour than the one you're weathering. 

VI. Kantor Blue was added. As you can see in earlier posts about my World Eaters, I vary which details I choose to paint in this colour. 

VII. Using a sponge, Alaitoc Blue was stippled onto the blue areas. This has the same purpose as the white sponging, it gives a highlight and a base to the weathering in the next stage.

VIII. Using a sponge, the whole model was stippled with Abaddon Black. This is a quite effective way to give your models a battle-damaged look. On larger models, like tanks, I sponge a layer of Dryad Bark before the black. This gives the battle damage a rusty look. 

IX. All the armour plates on the model was washed in a 50/50 mix of Lahmian Medium and Nuln Oil. It's important to not have too much Nuln Oil in the blend.  This will make the model turn out grey and not the dirty white colour you want.

X. Leadbelcher was painted on the metal areas, and Abbadon Black on the black details.

XI. The cork on the base was painted in Mechanicus Standard Grey, and Astrogranite (a texture paint) was used to tie the cork to the rest of the base. 

XII. The black, metal and grey areas got a shade of Nuln Oil.

XIII. Metal was highlighted in Runefang Steel.

XIV. Warplock Bronze was painted on the Gold/bronze areas. The grey on the base was drybrushed Longbeard grey.

XV. Bronze shaded with Agrax Earthshade. 

XVI. Previous stage highlighted Auric Armour Gold.

XVII. The metal details on the base was roughly stippled with Typhus Corrosion.

I painted the rim around the base in Abaddon Black. (Usually this is the last thing I do)

XVIII. I drybrushed the metal on the base in Ryza Rust.

XIX. These four next pictures, shows how I paint Space Marine lenses. I didn't really think this through when building the model, so i chose a bad-ass FW World Eater Helmet without eye lenses. So I'm going to show you how I do it on the severed head on the models base. 

The lens was painted Evil Suns Scarlet. A smaller area, moving towards the centre of the eye, was painted in Wild Rider Red. A smaller area was painted Flash Gitz Yellow, Again towards the centre. Lastly the same was done with White Scar, Showing a bit of the other colours towards the edges of the eye lens. 

XX. Blood for the Blood God and a drop of Abaddon black was mixed roughly on a palette . Using a sponge, a random blood pattern was dabbed onto the axes and a bit on the model itself. When doing this, it's very tempting to cover your whole model in this blood and gore mix. Don't do it. Too much blood just looks tacky, and ruins all the work put into the model until this stage. Build the layers up carefully until you're satisfied with the amount of blood. 

And now the World Eater is finished!

Lastly I want to show you a sneak peek of my next project.