Mordheim Carnival of Chaos

Meet the Jolly Fellouws, a group of travelling players in the ruins of Mordheim.

Throne Of Blood

Blasting back into blogging with the ferocity of a tank-mounted daemon. I hope this smashbashed Blades of Khorne Herald of Khorne on Blood Throne will make up for my long absence.

Beasts of Chaos update - new kitbashes and Folk Horrors

I've been adding to one of my favourite running projects, my Beasts of Chaos gang. Now I've completed the second unit of Ungors and added a Smashbash monster and some fantastic new metal sculpts from Gardens of Hecate and Andrew May Meridian Miniatures. More pics below the jump.

Beasts of Chaos Bbrogganogh

Something I put together last year - a monstrous mounted Gor champion on an utterly horrendous monstrous mount. Pictures, lore, and Warscroll below the jump...

Beasts of Chaos Ungors

 

I'm picking up a project I started last year - some truly wretched Beasts of Chaos. The goal was always to make two ten-strong units of Ungors with accompanying heroes and a Herdstone. This month I'm working on finishing that second Ungor unit, with a few extra curveball conversions. Plenty more pictures and a deep dive into the process below the jump...

Beasts of Chaos Tree of Woe (Herdstone)

 

A centerpiece for my Beasts of Chaos project, and the first piece of terrain I've worked on! More pics and background below the jump...

Beasts of Chaos Great Bray-Shaman

 

A character to lead my Age of Sigmar Beasts of Chaos warband. While the rest of the band is a gaggle of assorted bugbears and cryptids, this one has something crafty and witch-like about it...

Beasts of Chaos

 

It's been a little while, hasn't it? Just in time to avoid a full six months of no posts, here's a new project I've been working on. A weird Beasts of Chaos army for Age of Sigmar. More pictures and lore below the jump.

Followers of Obol

Here's a rag tag bunch of misfits for you. Close behind the Greater Daemon of Obol I made for #28magchallenge, here's some of Obol's followers. A mix of daemons, mortals, and other unfortunate creatures.

Greater Daemon of Obol, Chaos God of the Old World

#28magchallenge is back with another great prompt, and of course I had to make something for it. This time participants were invited to create a fifth Chaos god. So here's my scratch-built contribution, a Greater Daemon of the Chaos God of the Old World. More pics and story below the jump...

Mordheim Beasts of Chaos – done for now

Well I got most of the way through this side project and I realised I've done all I wanted with it. That is: write an all-Beasts Mordheim list and make some cool Beastmen. I've built five of the seven models in the list. I didn't make the magister and second ungor (officially a mutant with cloven hooves). The painting on the completed models is only around 80% done and I'm going to put them aside for now. I might come back to it another time but my neglected Relic Lizardmen are calling out to me.

Mordheim Beasts of Chaos warband

With the renewed buzz around Mordheim and the new Beasts of Chaos release I've taken the opportunity to have a break from painting my Relic Lizardmen and delve back into Mordheim to make something very Chaotic indeed.

The Lamians Slaanesh Chaos Space Marine Warband (Complete)

The Lamians Warband, complete

My Lamians Slaanesh Chaos Space Marines project was inspired by the #INQ28 setting, and its cousin #AoS28. While Space Marines are the kind of OP megaheroes frowned on in that setting, I really did want to explore niche bits of their lore – the weird grim pathos that #INQ28 looks into. So this Slaaneshi warband was built with the aim of delving into a small-scale character project in an original way.

Here's the story of the Lamians warband and their allies, the Slaan Sala Movement:

Lamians Warband: Painting Update

Group shot – The Lamians Warband

It's been a while since I posted last, because I've been knuckling down and just painting all the models at the same time. Instead of posting about 10 models in gradually decreasing states of bareness, I thought I'd hold off until they're (almost) done.

So, here they are!

"Elephant Seal" Rhino Variant

The Slaanesh Space Marine squad needed a big center-piece model. I decided on a transport vehicle, and of course I couldn't resist tinkering with it.

There are two undercurrent styles to the models in this squad: extravagant, and brutally efficient. This Rhino variant is the latter: a boxy battering ram designed to crash into the enemy and disgorge a load of evil Space Marines. I imagine it to be a rare, outdated and not very popular Rhino variant pattern called an Elephant Seal.

Making a Mounted Chaos Space Marine

There's a sixth member of the Chaos Space Marine squad I last posted. It's the most involved conversion I've done on any of the models, but the idea was cool enough that I wanted to try it.

The Chaos Marines

I'm getting a brilliant response on Instagram (@instahekatoncheires). Thanks if you follow me on there.

In the mean-time, I've made progress on the Chaos Space Marine models to the point that I think that they're more-or-less complete (give-or-take some tweaking). Here they are:

Captain

Work In Progress

Here's a group shot of the Chaos Space Marine squad. There's a lot of blue-tacking at this stage, but they're taking shape. I began with a set of 5 Dark Imperium space marine intercessors from ebay + a big grab bag of assorted bitz. My working process involves cutting and splicing small pieces of bits with generous millput useage to fill the gaps. The commander character for example has the breastplate from a Blood Angel model which needed some trimming & padding to fit on to the Primaris torso. The winged shoulderpads are also from the same Blood Angel kit and have had their iconography scraped off and replaces with (carefully trimmed) Harlequin masks. I seem to be doing a lot of careful trimming.
Since my last post, the commander character (left) received a promotion to a bigger base, which I'm going to milliput texture onto like the others. He's a Slaaneshi champion so he is going to want to look as grand as possible.
The dog-helmed marine at the back has had his snout replaced with an old Tyranid nozzle bit, which I imagine to be some kind of elaborate rebreather. He's also got an extended bolt rifle that's just out of shot in this photo.
Front-right is an in-progress noise marine! I'm scratch-building a noise cannon out of a bolt rifle and fleshy bits from Tyranids and elsewhere. Without access to the rules I don't know if you can take a single noise marine in a squad of bolter marines but as I mentioned before I'm not planning to make a game-legal regiment.

I am planning to start showcasing them individually on here as each one is more or less completed. There's also more models in the works as part of the same project and some of them are very experimental indeed.

I have started adding some in-progress photos to Instagram. My handle is @instahekatoncheires.

Hek

First post

Hi Blogspot.

Inspired by some great WH40k and Inq28 modelling and conversion blogs on here, I'm trying my hand at some modelling work for the first time in about a decade.

I'm working on a small unit of true-scale Slaaneshi space marines based on the new Primaris sculpts. The goal is to see what I can make without relying on the usual Slaaneshi tropes. I'm more interested in making and painting the models than playing with them so I'm not expecting the resulting squad to be legal in game terms. I'm aiming for a characterful squad of unique models.



Here's a preview. I'm basing the marines on a squad of Primaris Intercessors from the Dark Imperium box, with parts from Harlequins, Blood Angels and Mechanicum to make for some more ornate armour. I also have some further bit box experiments in the pipeline which I'll show if they turn out well!

Hek