Chaos army update

 Having finished the last of the six thug horsemen I have I felt it´s time to take a pic of all things Slaaneshian I have now. Most of these guys have beeb posted here before but not all. And certainly not all in same photo.

Six minotaurs, 12 thug archers, 20 beastmen, two beastmaster with six chaos hounds and six thug horse.

These thug horse are the last ones to be finished.

Rough points value for whole army:

Minotaurs: Lvl 20 hero, 5 minos inc. banner for 480 pts

Beastmen: Lvl 15 hero, 19 troopers inc. banner and musician for 440 pts

Thug horse: Marauder leader, 5 troopers inc. banner for 150 pts

Thug archers: Marauder leader, 11 troopers inc. banner for 170 pts

Beastmasters: Two beastmasters with six chaos hounds for 170 pts

Grand total: 1410 pts

Next I´m going to paint another 10 beastmen to have a unit of 30. And I need to add a chaos sorcerer or two. 

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.

It´s been a looong time

 Oh my! Nine months since the last update. That´s terrible and I feel a bit ashamed. But I really haven´t had motivation to paint anything and because of that no reason to blog. There was also a lot happening during 2021 (I wrote a book and got on retirement just to begin with) and hobby activities were put on semi permanent pause.

Now with more time on hand because of my retirement I´m once again trying to activate myself. For that purpose I chose some of  my uglies models -  a group of Battle Masters Chaos thug archers. So if they turned out terrible I wouldn´t be too sad about it.

Here are the first six of them. Very simple paint job on very simple minis. Pastel purple armor pieces, black leather, browns for bow and finally pink hair. Old school Slaaneshian style.

Will paint another four of these and add a leader and a standard bearer to get a unit of twelve. That Marauder chaos thug standard bearer seems to be pretty rare and expensive so I might just do a little conversion myself.

Anyway, it´s good to be back. I hope this new energy doesn´t fade off.

Half way through with the Thug horses

Completed the third Chaos Thug horse model this morning. This means that I am half way through with the unit of six models now. Hobby year 2021 has started quite slowly for me but I´m hoping to catch up speed in a next few weeks.

Keeping both the thugs and their horses just slightly touched by Slaanesh.

These are individuals in the beginning of their journey to corruption.

Horses look mean but not altered. Thugs have colored hair and not much else.

The musician on the left is the most choas affected of the three

with his left arm replaced with a tentacle.

Chaos Thug Horse

 WFB 3rd edition chaos included a unit type for which there was no official miniatures at that time: Thug Horse i.e. mounted chaos thugs. Old School Miniatures Company brings us this nice set of six mounted thugs. I received my unit just before Christmas and now got the first model painted. Let´s see if I can find time to complete another one before new year.

Because he´s a chaos thug - just in the start of his way to Chaos, I kept

the looks of him quite ´normal´. Just the purple hair to give a hint of Slaaneshian corruption.

The same applies to his horse. It´s dark and mean looking but not yet mutated.

Pastel pink shield to give some color to the model.

Liked the details on the rider. Clean, sharp and easy to paint.