Moo-ve it! Moo-ve it!

 With the completion of the standard bearer and the minotaur lord this unit is now ready. As per WFB: Armies book the unit size for minotaurs is 1-5. But I plan to use the load as the general of my chaos army. And if I attach him to the unit of five minos I get to the sacred number nicely.

This is going to be one expensive unit. Each normal mino costs 40 points. So with a standard they are 240 points all together. A lvl 20 minotaur hero is another 240 points without any equipment.

The minotaur lord and two regular troopers.

Two more troopers and the standard bearer.

Dirk Slammet´s Distributors of Pleasure and Pain

 Finished the last of the ten Battle Master chaos thug archers to complete this unit of Slaanesh followers. As mentioned before the monopose thugs are quite terrible sculpts. Especially the facial mould is bad. The eyes are not at same level and the is no mouth to speak of. But they work well enough in a unit and looked upon from a few feet distance.

There are all together twelve thugs in this unit. One is hidden behind that banner.

Let´s see. Eleven thugs including a standard bearer. Each armed with long bows.

Plus a chaos marauder as a unit leader with light armor and long bow. 

That makes 132 points for thugs and 40 points for the leader.

Or 172 points for the whole unit.

Does size matter?

My opinion is that it sure does. If we´re speaking about Oldhammer chaos banners I mean. Chaos banners are supposed to be BIG.

To go with the chaos thug archers of the previous post I´ve put together a small command section of two models: a champion and a standard bearer. The champion was painted a couple of months back when I was thinking about making a unit out of old metal thugs. Well with brexit making it increasingly expensive to get Oldhammer models I buried that idea and settled with monopose archers for rank and file plus metals for command.

Banner bearer is a converted metal chaos thug. Revoved his mace and replaced it with the banner pole. The picture I used for the banner can be found by Googling: arrow in a**. So it´s a simple crop, print and paint on type of job. And if you wonder where that slogan comes from you ought to listen this: Harvester of Sorrow.

Hope you enjoyed. Now to finish those last four monoposes.

More cult beastmen

I wasn´t planning on making another beastman band for upcoming Geneatealer cult army. And then I ended up having two extra beastmen both of which are such nice sculpts that I just had to include them. Which means it´s off to ebay again to get me four more to have another group of six. As the Brood Brothers are carrying the the Cults banner I felt that the Beastmen need a flag of their own.

Fish faced banner bearer and single horned goat face. Paited mostly with contrasts.

Yes, that banner is a bit profane but they are old school Slaaneshian you know.

Brood Brothers done

With two Brood Brother bands painted and me starting to run out of IG models it´s time to move on. Next it´s going to be a couple of beastmen and then I´m going to start with genestealer hybrids, purestrains etc.

These models were painted with Citadel Contrasts as was the band number one. White base coat, Magis purple clothes, Snakebite leather for gaiters, belts and pouches, Nazdreg yellow armor and helmet, Black Templar shoes and Guilliman flesh hands and face. Metal parts are Leadbelcher washed with agrax.

 Brood Brother band number two. All six as is the sacred number of Slaanesh.

 Over sized and pretty corny - quite oldhammerish I believe.

Wanted to do my version of the Brood Brother from WD 116.

Command section 1st Tactical Platoon B company

With the completion of this command section I call the 1st Tactical Platoon of Bravo Company ready for deployment.

 

 

Las cannon trooper, platoon sergeant, orderly, lieutenant, medic and another las cannon trooper.

The banner is to be replaced later with a nicer design but the colors and shape will remain the same.

 

Being the most senior NCO in the platoon and it´s most experienced soldier the sergeant wears

a older model boots and flak armor. He has also a goatie that wouldn´t be tolarated on ordinary

guardsmen or junior NCOs.

 

So here they are - all 26 strong. Ready to serve the Emperor. I think I need to

write a background story for the regiment this Company belongs to...

 

 

As I´m waiting for backpacks and chainswords for the assault platoon to arrive I think I´ll work on the 2nd tactical platoon meanwhile. But I do have some green skins that need attention not to mention the space elves. Let´s see what happens next.

Sneak peek: IG command group

As the second tactical squad presented in my previous posting nears completion I´ve started working on a command group too. With it I will have a two squad platoon in my hands.

 

At the moment two models out of six are completed - platoon leader and a heavy weapon. Banner will need finishing touches and basing. And a flag of course. Platoon sergeant and medic are just primed and the second heavy weapons is still in bits and pieces.

Hoping to get that squad done during next weekend and these sometime next week. And I have a prototype assault squad trooper waiting too.