Slaaneshian Chaos Hounds

 Yet another not so very active month of painting. Just a single Chaos Hound - the blue one got finished. One more to go the the sacret number.

Another chaos warrior of Slaanesh

 It´s been a pretty quiet hobby month this june. Job, daughter´s graduation party etc. got priority over painting old lead. However this Slaaneshian chaos warrior got completed and will join his brother/sister in my slowly growing army.

White, metal, pastel pink and purple. For me this the way to paint Slaanesh.

The armor of this sculpt is very nicely detailed in my opinion.

Slaanesh warrior

 I´ve had this Jes Goodwin laying around on my painting desk for a while and suddenly got an idea to paint it as old school as I know. Chose pastel pink and purple as main colors with soma black to give some contrast. Not completely satisfied with the result but he is as good as my humble skills allow.

Chaos Warrios "Flail 2" (Stuff of Legends)

Next time it´s propably more Epic Eldar.... or another Chaos warrior.

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.

Trying to activate myself

 It´s been too long since myh last posting. I have had very little interest in painting as of lately but now I´m doing my best to get back into action. Basically the only thing I´ve completed since february is this single beastman. And it too ages and is not a good paint job even on my humble standards.

The six mutants I built earlier are now on my painting table and I strongly intent to get them completed during april. So very limited goal but hey - you have to restart somewhere.

New mutants

 I hate to show unpainted models but I´m making an excepting here. Mainly due to the fact that I´ve been buried in work and haven´t had time and energy to paint pretty much anything. What I´ve managed is to build six new mutant models for Slaanesh alligned Genestealer Cult.

The older mutants are here.

All six together.

Over grown arm, claw, tentacle and limb transference head --> shoulder

Three legs, insectoid head

Over grown head and tentacle

Over grown arm, claw, headless

Insectoid head, lizard arm

Crest, insect limbs, extra limb

IG trooper plastic bodies and CP models conversion parts.

Plus some skink and Necromunda Goliath bits there too.

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.

Leader for Cult Beastmen

 The Genestealer Cult Army beastmen don´t actually have a squad or platoon leader. They just come in bands whose size depend on the chaos power they are alligned with. As I intend to use my beastmen in WFB too I wanted to have a model that can be clearly distinquished as a unit leader. This Champion of Slaanesh model by Jes Goodwin is perfect for my purposes. A lovely sculpt he´s quite large and very fit to lead the beastmen. 

3142/3 Champion of Slaanesh: Huge Mace and Minotaur head

Funny little detail: a daemonette face groin armor.

Basing, rebasing and re-rebasing

 So I painted a Marauder MM42 Minotaur and based him on a 40x40 base as he comes with that round stud instead of a regular slotta tab. Then, looking for more minos on ebay, I saw old Citadel ones (C25s) with a slotta tab and started to wonder if my choise of a base was false a one. I checked the 3rd edition rule book and behold, 25x25 square base. So I gently removed the 40x40 and put the model on a smaller base. A couple of days after that I was looking for something in the WFB: Armies book and there the base size for minos was indeed 40x40. Discussed the matter on Facebook and ended re-rebasing the model back on the original base. Should do ones homework before acting...

So this is how he originally was and again is. After being on 25x25 for a few days.

Skin is very heavily thinned Shyish Purple, hairy parts Volupus Pink, horns Iyanden Yellow and leather parts Black Templar. Metals are regular paints and highlights were mostly painted with a mix of contrast paint and regular white.

I think I actually liked the way he looked on this 25x25. But it could get pretty hard to get a unit of minos to rank up. 

Power behind the Thro... er Coven

In a perivious posting I mentioned that there something big on my paiting table. That something is this Keeper of Secrets that can be used as a summoned daemon in my genestealer cult army.

 A pretty big lump on old metal it required quite a lot of pinning and filling. Paint job is mostly contrasts with regular metals and some gray and white for highlights. Skin is thinned Shyish Purple, Yellow parts are Iyanden Yellow and Black Templar for used for leather.

Note the face desing on the head piece.

As mentioned daemons can be added to a genestealer cult army as summoned creatures. Greater daemons are among the most powerful creatures in the old WH40k so using them would propably be justifiable in a narrative scenario. Perhaps inquisition taking on a cult or something like that.

So indeed - the power pehind the Coven.

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.

Band of Beastmen

Boosting the ranks of my Genestealer Cult Army is a six strong band of beastmen. Or slaangors as the Slaanesh beastmen are also called. Pastel colors, black leather and some pink/purple to tie the band together.

 The new guys are in the front row. The three in the back were presented here.

Left: CH4 Chaos Beastman Atzel. Middle: C27 Slugman. Right: RoC Slaanesh Beastman 

That Slugman is one bizarre sculpt. It even has a second face in it´s chest. 

Extra head and headless mutations perhaps.

Perhaps some IG next. I have something biggish waiting to be glued together and primed.

Expanding the Cult

Presenting the latest additions to slowly growing Genestealer coven: four brood brothers and three beastmen. All Slaanesh alligned of course. Both groups will eventually be six strong but I lack beastman models at the moment and I need to assemble two guardsmen before finishing the brood brother squad. And I´m thinking of converting one brother into a standard bearer.

First the three beastmen. All bare brested slaanishian hermaphrodites. The much younger me had clipped the weapons of those two on the right ´cause I used them as Blood Bowl players. Both got swords in this new role of theirs. The shields are pretty terrible but that´s the best I can do freehand.

Brood Brothers. Four metal Imperial Guard/Army models. Very quick to paint with contrasts. As the only weapon choise for Brood Brothers in a developed world is stub gun and sword all those las guns etc. are concidered counts as a stub gun.

Everyone in a group picture. 

Summoned Daemonette for Genestealer cult army

When I kind of accidentally began building a Oldhammer Genestealer Cult army I knew I want it to be Slaaneshian. Slaanesh has always been my favorite chaos deity. And to bring more of that chaos into the force I´ve added now a single summoned Daemonette. Acquired this model through a trade and painted him/her/it to match the few cultist I completed earlier.

"Forward you puny mortalssss!".

Contrast paints over White Seer base. Pink, black, blue and white contrasts. Some leadbelcher for metal details. Agrax for added shading and regular white for highlights. Black leather and pink skin ties this model to the rest of the still small force.

The model is named Suckflesh in the catalogue. Rest of the daemonettes have rather nice names too.

The daemonette range of ´88 from WD106. Because of the stance and mohican hair I would say that Suckflesh was sculpted by Jes Goodwin for sure.

Carried away by Brood Brothers

It happened again. Painted something and got sucked into paiting more of the same stuff. This time it was Genestealer Cult Brood Brothers. After finishing my Legacy Coven 2020 model I noticed I still had some Olley guardmen that I was not going to include to my IG force. And from the WD116 Genestealer list I learned that a Slaanesh worshipping brood brother band is just six models strong. So why not. Plus I wanted to experiment a little with the contrast paints I had bought but not used that much.

I wanted to honor this color scheme from WD116. The same issue also holds the genestealer cult army list. 

 The six brood brothers. Three Olleys, Two metal bodied IG troopers with plastics arms and a penitent.

White contrast paint base. Black Templar shoes/boots, Magos Purple jumpsuits, Nazdreg Yellow armor, Guilliman Flesh face + hands and Leadbelcher for metal parts. Some added shading with Agrax and that´s it.

Very fast and slaaneshian enough for me. Six models in less than 24h is a good pace for me. In my opinion contrasts worked really nice for this kind of paint job. I can imagine myself building a small cult army painted with contrasts.

 Slaanesh workshippers cost 40 points/six model band. Brood brothers are affected by frenzy but are immune to other psychological effects.

Perhaps a beastmen band next then...