From DallasE: Khorne Bloodletters (25 points)

More on the Khornate 40K project... of course there has to be some daemons right?? Well, I'd painted three Bloodletters for an Idols of Torment game a few years ago and had four left in a Plano case. But Khorne's sacred number is 8, so I had to find another one... which I did, on eBay, a couple weeks ago. So the remaining five Bloodletters went under the brush this weekend.

This is the new one, he looks like a Champion of some kind which is good, he's the only example of this sculpt in the group.

The paint recipe for these guys is easy... the skin is Khorne Red, Mephiston Red, Evil Sunz Scarlet just blended upwards. Horns and claws are Cantor Blue highlighted with Thunderhawk?

Eyes and teeth are Wraithbone, I was reading in the old Slaves to Darkness book that Bloodletters have "milky eyes" so I redid the eyes on the first three as well. The weapons were fun to do, they were painted Corax White and washed twice (heavily) with Biel-Tan Green. I think they look pretty cool and of course red and green are complimentary colours so that works.

 

Can't not post a bare-cheeked rear view of these daemons! ;-)

Counting twenty-five points for five 28mm models here, that will bring me to my goal of 500 points, ta very much. Hopefully I'll be back with another entry later in the week.

Cheers,

Dallas

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You did terrific work on these iconic castings, Dallas. Even though the posing is a bit limited, these are still my favourite Bloodletter designs to-date. I like your blue-black horns and nails, and the Biel-Tan Green swords are the chef's kiss. What a great contrasting colour!

Congrats on meeting your 500 point target and I look forward to seeing a final entry later this week.

- Curt
 

From DallasE: Khornate Chaos Dreadnought (20 points)

 

Well I'm back with some more old-school 40K goodness. This time it's a metal Chaos Dreadnought done up in Khornate colours, for service with my Berzerkers.

Firstly a word on collecting these ancient out-of-production models. I might have mentioned this in my post on the Chaos Lord on Juggernaut, but generally speaking OOP Games Workshop stuff ain't cheap. Yes you might get lucky from time to time (like I did with the Jugger), but people on eBay generally are aware (or think they are aware) of the prices these models will bring and set their own BIN accordingly. Models sealed in original blister packs or boxes can be outrageously priced, but painted stuff can be had for not-unreasonable prices. This model was unpainted and loose and acquired on eBay for about $100 CAD.

 

"A hundo for a chunk of metal that cost $55 brand new? That's crazy!" you might exclaim. But I have a perfectly reasonable justification for this. The Bank of Canada has an "inflation calculator" that compares the cost of a basket of goods in any year to its cost in any other year, and that's a good enough proxy for me. It tells me that $55 in 1999 is equivalent to $99.18 today, and that's about what I paid for the model. The other thing to consider is "what would an equivalent model cost, brand new from GW?" The answer here is... about $75 for the Space Marine Venerable Dreadnought. So maybe that's a bad example.

 

But then again, maybe not... is the new Venerable Dreadnought "comparable" to this classic Dreadnought? The new Dread is a million plastic parts that you have to assemble (correctly), and has a fist on it that would put Hellboy to shame. This one is METAL and fewer than 10 parts. I'm also paying for the old-school cool because this model fits right into the 25-year-old aesthetic of my project. To me that's worth $25. I know, this is all just to make me feel better, but it works :-)

How cool is this, right? I know it's missing the trophy pole but I have a plastic one I might add later... anyway the red was done with Khorne Red, highlighted Mephiston Red, washed with Nuln Oil, then brought back up with KR and Mephiston. Brass bits were done in Brass Scorpion, highlighted Retributor Gold then washed with Agrax Earthshade. The rest is mainly Leadbelcher washed with NO. Groundwork was Dark Brown, Steel Legion Drab, Rakarth Flesh as a final drybrush.

I'm claiming 20 points here for a 28mm vehicle.

Cheers,

Dallas

No need to justify your labour of love here Dallas, although I teach class in financial mathematics so understand inflation adjusted prices.  It's a great bit of kit.  I love the steam punky look and the fact that it appears to have toes.  The Red and Gold livery suits it very well, and you basing is aces. 

From DallasE: Khornate Chaos Lord on Juggernaut (20 points)

 

Another entry in the Insane New Project sweepstakes, here is a Khornate Chaos Lord on a Juggernaut to accompany the Berzerkers I painted last week.

Since our preferred edition of 40K is 5th, I'm trying to build my Khornate 40K army exclusively from models that were current for that edition, and that means everything but the Berzerkers will be metal.*  

This model was obtained through the mail from Tista Minis in Hamilton, Ontario and I feel like it was a bit of a bargain. I think I paid $35 CAD for it, painted (badly) of course, but it stripped down VERY nicely to bare metal in no time at all. Contrast that with a new (plastic) Chaos Lord on Juggernaut, available from GW for... $83 CAD. Of course the new one is likely twice the size of this one (it comes on a 90mm oval base, as opposed to the 60mm base this model sports), BUT it's also 66 parts, when the old metal model was... ten parts. AND IT'S METAL. A no-brainer.

I just love the character on these old metal models. I think I finally discovered the blue formula for the armour deco.

The Juggernaut has a very determined look on its face too. This is peak 1990s GW isn't it??

Sadly I think this giant model counts as 28mm cavalry for scoring purposes so I'll take ten points, please :-)

Dallas

*I do have a random box of newer plastic Bloodletters that came from... somewhere, that may get assembled and painted for this army. But there will be a unit of metal "Casey at the Bat" Bloodletters too. And of course the Rhinos and other vehicles will be plastic, probably Deimos-pattern Rhinos and a Predator, as MK1 Rhinos are now far too dear. But don't worry, they will all be plenty spiky :-)

Great work Dallas on this big angry dude on his big angry mount.  I am essentially GW ignorant so nothing of the back story, but I don't want to meet them!  I am going to count this as 20 points, equivalent to a vehicle.

From DallasE - Khorne Berzerkers! (55 points)

Well isn't this a surprise. A planned project is unceremoniously shouldered aside for an insane new project!

So it goes, as they say... I've had ten unpainted second-hand Khorne Berzerkers (the old style multi-part plastic models from 1999) in a Plano case for years (over 10?) and on a whim decided "wouldn't these be fun to paint?" and it was on...

Several eBay purchases later I've got a pile of unpainted metal old-school metal models (and more plastic Berzerkers) for the army, and these are the first painted Berzerkers.

Of course I had to do a bit of repair and conversion (I wanted each model to have a bolt pistol and either a chainsword or chain-axe) but I think they've turned out OK. The paint formula is as follows: basecoat Khorne Red, overbrush Mephiston Red, wash with Vallejo Red Wash, paint metal bits Leadbelcher, wash the whole model with Nuln Oil, paint the brass bits Brass Scorpion highlighted Retributor Gold, wash the brass bits with Agrax Earthshade, that's pretty much it.

Groundwork starts Dark Brown, then Steel Legion Drab, then Rakarth Flesh drybrush.

Of course Kharn sneaks in a photobomb... he doesn't count because someone else did the basic painting on him, I just touched him up and redid the groundwork.

There's more yet to come on this project of course... but for now it's eleven 28mm-ish models for 55 points.

Cheers,

Dallas
 

Finding old figures in the stash, scouring the web for more and putting planned projects aside.  Nope I've got no memory of doing that sort of thing at all!  Anyway I'm glad that you did go down that rabbit hole as these are fantastic.  Love the red, and looking forward to to more of these plus what you originally had planned!

From StuartL - Man's Best Friend? - 33 pts

Hi all,

    This week I just have a small post, though I may have something later if I can find time to get some painting done. During the challenge, I often see challengers posting comments about their dogs and their antics. I don't have any pets, but as I didn't want to feel left out, I thought I would see if I had any of our four-legged friends in my to do pile. Luckily, I did, sort of. 

    For those of you unfamiliar with Games Workshop's offerings, these are Flesh Hounds of Khorne, the Chaos God of War, Blood and Skulls. They are demonic entities that hunt down Khorne's enemies (as the god of war, he has a LOT of those). 

    I painted these in exactly the same way as I painted my other Khorne daemons in previous challenges. (For example) A very dark grey base coat, with red drybrushes going lighter at the top of the model. As these are not 'real' creatures, I figured that they didn't have to adhere to 'real' colours and patterns. Their fur is made of the same warp ecto-plasm as their skin after all. I have made their claws, teeth and tongues a different colour, along with any spikes, as a way to break up the red a little. 

    Being the god of skulls, Khorne obviously has a thing for them. He isn't quite at Barks' level of obsession with them, but he does like them a fair bit. As such, there are a few skulls on the bases of these figures, which will add to my side duel total. 

    

    Scoring wise, there are 6x 28mm minis, which will add 30 points to my tally.

    My ongoing duels information:

Skulls - 218 (+12)
BSRoD - 16 (+0)
Squirrels - 12 (+1) - D&D Animals, 30K Militia, Plague Clowns, Afghans, Robots, Anglo-Saxons, Medieval Polish, Clan Smoke Jaguar, 81st West Africans, Undead, 10mm FPW French, Daemons of Khorne

From DaveD. These are some fine looking beasties .. the colour scheme works nicely for me , always like a bit of well done red - 33 it’s is . 

From Curt: Champion of Khorne for Nick (Violence) (25 Points)

Hey There!

I thought I'd start sneaking in some entries of my own before we wrap up just to keep my meagre points tally ticking along.

Nick (AKA 'MartinN') and I have been doing an annual figure exchange for quite a while now and for this year I promised him something 'Old World' themed. 

So here we have a Champion of Khorne, a model that was released way back in 2004. 

I think I got this guy from a Games Day in Toronto (I went to a few when we were out East), but I can't be sure of that. He has been lurking on my paint desk for two decades now, so I thought it high time for him to get painted, and what better reason than as a gift for a good friend.

You usually see these guys in classic red Khornate armour, but I thought I'd keep him a little more subdued and down-to-earth in brass, bronze and steel. 

He's standing astride a great heap of skulls (24 of them I think) so Barks should be quite pleased.

I hope you like him Nick (if not he'll happily take your skull).

I'll also have this lad stand in as my submission for 'Violence' - Khorne be praised.

5 for the Champion and 20 for the theme.

Thanks!

- Curt

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Its always a treat when one gets to Minion our benevolent Snowlord! :-)

A classic model that I've always liked - in fact I painted one of these in my first challenge back in 2014. The pose is so dynamic. I always saw him as appealing to the Blood God with an impassioned "Are you not Entertained?" :-) 

As ever, Brass works brilliantly for Khornate folks and gives him a great "I don't waste time cleaning armour, I just sharpen my axe and claim skulls" kind of vibe.

Great job mate - Lucky Nick!

- Paul

From KyleC - Let's Go! (116 pts)

So we are down to the line, and the painting desk has been heavy in painting to get ready for more gaming in various games. 

First up is the leader of my Legion forces, Mortarion. Although no rules exist for him, yet, I am using him for my Legions command base. He is an absolute unit of a model when compared to the normal troopers, and fills out a base like he is a dreadnought ready to smack units around. Sadly the legion command base is not as tough so its all intimidation tactics being used here instead. 

Speaking of absolute units.. these Deredeos are also impressive compared to their plastic counterparts. Mostly due to me incorrectly guessing their size when printing and making them about 20% larger than needed. But when on the table, it is barely noticeable. 

Switching over to units used in my game this week are 2 units of 6 Javelins. Only got to use one, the missile launchers, and overall they failed to do much in their game. Though hoping to bring them back into a game once more this Sunday. I do hope that they help more in clearing buildings as I suspect many a Raven Guard will be squatting in more than one on Sunday. 

Flipping to over to their heritage within the World Eater faction... are their forefathers from the god of war. Rounding out the first main unit of Warriors now with 6 more to join their cause. 

This now gives me a solid unit as an anchor for the army, and I will get my first game in this coming Tuesday ( club night ) with them. 

To join them though, and this was a rough unit to get finished, are the chaos knights. 

Every time I had thought they were finished, I found new parts or details that needed dealing with. 

I do hope that this is a hammer among hammer units from all the work I put into it here. 

They join their brothers now ready to go to battle very soon!

So a bit of painting this past week, and I have some more to go over the next few days.. as I hope to get in another game this Sunday with Legions. So plenty of WE units to get finished for that game ( or as much as I can ). Let's see how I get on with it all!

Points wise.. 

18*6/8mm Vehicles/Monsters - 36 pts

6*28mm Infantry - 30 pts

5*28mm Calvary - 50 pts

Total here - 116 pts

Skulls - 30 between the Khorne models and Mortarion ( he had 6! )

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Fabulous work Kyle! I'm very jealous with all the Legions Imperialis gaming you're getting in. We've had a few great matches to date, but I'm eager to get in some more. 

Your 8mm Mortarian is awesome. Are there rules for the Primarchs for LI yet? If so, I'm sure they're awful/wonderful depending on your perspective or side of the table. I'm not a fan of the Deredeo design, but your renditions here look great, even if they are a little over scaled (but this is 30K where EVERYTHING is over scaled). 

Your 28mm Khornate brethren look amazing. I really like the oversaturated shades of red set against the blasted groundwork. Very nice.

- Curt

From KyleC: (Moar) Blood for the Blood God! (35 pts)

 

So now that I am back, I was able to get a few bits painted up.. 

Finally got this first core unit finished for the Blood God!

Quite happy with what I have here now, and will be great to see them on the table. 

Now this was a fun little project.. I had a Khorogath for my Khorne Age of Sigmar army, but he was missing a crucial bit for the top section, so I never really built it. But I want a unit of Spawns for this army, and this seemed like a good base for one. So after filling it with tissue and super glue ( and airing out the room from the fumes that came from it ) and doing a bit of greenstuff work to give it a body base. From there I just begun to stick a ton of plastic bits on it. Armor panels and the like from the Deamon Prince that I didn't need when building the fantasy version. 

I think he gives off the brutal Killing Blow feeling, but now I need to figure out 2 more to make a full unit of 3.. let's see how that goes then. 

So this is where we stand now for this army.. and it seems I have enough for a 1000 pt force to play a game with. Not the best, but playable all the same. 

Now for the Skull Count so far in this force.. 

- Khorne Lord on Daemonic Mount - 14
- Khorne Lord on Foot - 5
- Khorne Here BSB - 11
- Warqueen - 5
- Chaos Ogres - 15
- Chaos Warriors - 4
- Marauders - 28
- Khorne Chariot - 10
- Chaos Spawn - 36!

Total Skulls so far for the Blood God - 128, which when divided by 8 is 16 proper gifts to the Blood God!

Also I have brought some of my city walls upstairs to the office for photos, but I am not fully sure if it is better or worse for photos.. would be curious on any comments about the photos.. 

For challenge points... 

5 * 28mm infantry - 25 pts
1 * 54mm model - 10 pts

Total 35 pts

Nice work here Kyle, the lads look suitably blood-soaked and ready to spill some gore. "Khorne cares not from where the blood flows..." etc. Your army is looking great and I do fully support the square based regimen. Your Big Fella warrants 10 points for sure!

35 points added!

Dallas

From KyleC - Reinforcements (Fantasy) (95 PTS)

So the Warriors of Chaos army project continues to grow.. though the lighting in my garage is not the best for army photos.. 😔

First with some Marauders and then also a powerful Chariot. 

So first up.. after the test model the other week, I spent the last 2 weeks working on these guys bit by bit. 

Spending a bit more time on each model to give a bit of variation on the skintones. Playing with basic skin colors but also different shades of grey and cream colors to give some hues throughout the unit. 

The armor I did not go full red as they are but Marauders. Not yet worthy of the fully blooded armor that the warriors receive. So between the darker black lower armor, the lighter sun averse skintones.. the reds they do get pop a bit further. 

Next real step will be to sand and paint the movement trays, but I do plan to do that for the whole army together. 

Now the big baddie here.. the Chaos Chariot blessed by Khorne. Ready to run over his enemies to feed him with skulls and blood. And even rocky terrain won't deter them from their mission. 

I have had this part assembled in pieces ready for painting since well before COVID was a thing. 

I am glad that I waited though as the motivation for painting it was much higher now, and the amount of effort I could put into it 

Plus for the first time in a long time I am liking how this red came out. A good mix of GW reds wet blended and stippled on top of each other. With a dark burgundy wash in the shadows. But I was finding it too unsaturated.. so I then glazed the Blood Red Contrast thinned over if all. Before tackling the highlights once more to just push it that much further. 

The base is corkboard, dirt, pebbles, and some resin printed bits before tufts of grass were added. 

Fantasy section completed now. 

So altogether we get a nice addition to the army and some points for the trouble also. 

9*5 pt Infantry = 45 pts

1*20 pt chariot/vehicle = 20 pts

2*5 pt riders = 10 pts

Fantasy section = 20 pts

Total 95 pts

Couple characters and more troops to come next.. 

Really nice Chaos models here Kyle! With the return of ersatz-Warhammer Fantasy Battle the thoughts of many are turning back to square bases and your work is really fuelling that excitement. I agree with you that the red looks great. Good work and 95 points for you!

Dallas

From KyleC - Characters (15 PTS)

A really slow week due to work being super heavy, but also trialing out color schemes for armies which is always super frustrating at times. 

First up is the test model for a renewed fantasy army.. Khorne Lord on Monstrous Mount for Warriors of Chaos to be used in the renewed Fantasy The Old World coming soon. Hopefully my rule books arrive soon from Games Workshop but we shall see. 

He is the failcast version, sadly. So lots of issues with the sculpt. And weird tabs everywhere that I needed to clip (and still were clipping after painting portions of it). 

Started with the airbrush to lay down some reds using GW colors to get some intensity here and there. And then used nuln oil to darken the bottom portions some to give it a bit of a gradient. 

Brass for the trims cause Khorne.. I am really happy with how the base came out as it's a lot of sci-fi concrete piles being stuck to the base overr cork. And then dirt added. Fairly simple but yet looks the business. 

He should be a good starting point for the army and is a cheaper option for a dangerous warlord to lead them into battle. 

Then we switch gears fully... I was trying to paint some space wolves but I just couldn't get my heart or head into them. So painted an Eldar Warlock instead 😅

And in yellow of all colours?!?!?! 

It was a fun little distraction that I actually spent a few evenings on him playing around with the yellow bits. 

Am only really not happy with the sword so it might get redone at some point. But the rest of the model is how I envisioned it. And I can see myself painting a few more models randomly for this army in this scheme over the coming months. But it is definitely not a core focus army for me atm so not sure when or if it will ever get finished. 

Easy points today. 

1* 28mm figure - 5 pts

1* 28mm Calvary - 10 pts

Total - 15 pts

Really nice work here Kyle on iconic GW characters. First, the Khorne Lord... I really like this one. The red is saturated and atmospheric, of course brass trim because Khorne, the shading looks super and the base really finishes it off well. Looks like you used a new-size 30x60mm base too? Looks good and suits the model. The Warlock is really nice as well. I totally get your comment about "focus army" - it's hard to stay focussed when there's so much cool stuff to work on. But I'm glad to see you taking these diversions!

Dallas