Khornate Chaos Space Marine Army Log

[mallymoocow]

So here is my third 40k army.
A Khornate Chaos Space Marine army that i have been building since the 08 codex release.

Pictures to follow in next post...

Currently at 1205 points here is a quick army list: -


Khornate Chaos Terminator Lord 160 pts
Mark of Khorne
Terminator Armour
Blood Feeder [Daemon Weapon]
Combi-melta

5x Khornate Chaos Terminator Bodyguards 245 pts
Mark of Khorne
2x Chain Fist
Combi-Melta
Combi-Flamer
Reaper Autocannon

10x Khornate Chaos Space Marines 285pts
Mark of Khorne
Aspiring Champ with Power Weapon
Plasma Gun
Autocannon
Rhino
Havoc Launcher

10x Khornate Chaos Space Marines 280 pts
Mark of Khorne
Aspiring Champ with Power Weapon
Melta Gun
Missle Launcher
Rhino
Havoc Launcher

2x Khornate Chaos Spawn 80 pts

Khornate Upright-Defiler 155 pts
Havoc Launcher

[mallymoocow]

Here are some army shots...

The defiler is the only thing i'm still building at the moment, the other models are ready for painting.

I always liked the idea of having a Slannesh Sorceror and Noise Marines with the army but i am very tempted to keep it strictly Khorne themed.

I have 295 points left to make the force 1500 points, i'm interested in the following options: -

20 lesser daemons 260 pts

Having a lot of icons in the army makes this mini-host of twenty daemons quite handy but again the risk of having premature or delayed reserves makes them a tricky unit to field.

Khorne Berzerkers in Rhino 245 pts

A nice unit of bloodthirsty marines, with their furious charge ability they can be useful against Grey Knights and they are another valuable troop choice which this army lacks.

Khornate Chaos Biker Lord 160pts

Ideal for contesting objectives on the last turn with his turbo-boosters and higher toughness, with a personal icon he can help summon reserves to the front line, he is also a good HQ replacement to the expensive Terminator Lord and Bodyguard.

Land Raider for Terminator Unit 220 pts

At the moment a Land Raider is very enticing as I played a game against Imperial Fists and my Khornate Lord & Terminator Bodyguard charged out of their Land Raider and massacred an entire Fist tactical squad in one turn! It was just so cinematic.

What do you think would help round off this force?
Cheers

More detailed pictures of each unit to follow...Attachment 53013

[mdiscala]

I dont know anything about forty K force organizations but thats a pretty bad ass khorne lord. Are you planning on painting them other than just red?

[mallymoocow]

Yes red is the main colour scheme for the army, the models above are just at the undercoated stage atm working on getting some nice photos of my test models a marine and terminator to put up onto this log

[mallymoocow]

here is the lord roughly painted and ready for first wash, will then continue to build up the layers of merchite red then blood red, whilst adding all bronze and metal details

[mallymoocow]

After the first wash...

[mallymoocow]

Starting to rebuild the colour again with blood red after the wash...

[JDLovesCake]

Those look awesome! Good quality pictures, too. Good luck :3

[mallymoocow]

cheers man, still trying to get some better photos of my test term n marine will put up some shots of the defiler in a bit...

[mallymoocow]

Now apart from the Lord, which yes is a very obvious choice of bits from both the lord and spawn sets (but i still love it), the defiler is my other heavily modified model in the army...

I looked at a lot of the other amazing defiler conversions on this site and others, and just felt the need to make one upright myself.

To be honest a Defiler isn't my ideal force choice, i like its mobility but wish it had a higher weapon skill, i'm going to try and build mine so i can interchange the additional weapons whilst still maintaining the main Battlecannon [right arm] and the Close Combat Weapon {chainfist} [left arm (counts as 2 arms )]. I really just wanted one in my army for its appearance of being upright.

So here are the pictures, still modding it at the moment so it is just pinned (so tricky to balance) lots more stuff to do on it (gun fittings, chain armour, cables and wiring etc)...

hope it turns out the way i imagine it eek!

[mallymoocow]

Some more pictures after sunday's painting..

[mallymoocow]

here is some more work on the lord.

i've painted more armour details started adding colour to the cloak and tried my best to blend in some white to the bone sections aswell as red inking the armour panels again

oh yeah i was unhappy with the wing like parts so i've cleaned them an reapplied some astronomican grey

these photos have come out a little dark sorry about that

[Dragonlover]

My word. That walking Defiler is pretty badass. I also like the weapon on the Chaos Lord, the third arm is quite subtle until the brain clicks that theres too many hands.

Dragonlover

[mallymoocow]

Cheers dragon

the codex states that daemon weapons are two handed i think the daemon limbs carry this off well, im still playing with what colour would look best for the daemon skin i'm thinking a dark greyish blue would contrast well with the red

[mallymoocow]

Once again been working on this project every now and then so here is my update.

• Been trying to paint the daemon weapon blades on my term lord. Not having a lot of luck i am trying to paint a dark green to black blend with white highlighting and a lightning type effect; it just ends up looking to segmented i need to practice more blending...
  
• My standing defiler conversion has seen a bit more attention these last few weeks here are some drawings i've done to try and figure out the eventual look of the model...

1. the first image was my first ideas for the machines details [extra armour plates and chains]
2. the second was more of a focus on a armoured warrior/robot/construct type look [with a ornate skull like face and and sparse emblems]
3. with the third image i wanted to try and figure out a daemonic look, including a daemon head and 'skin'[in the form of blue muscle like growths]

So what do you guys think?

>>"Its a standing defiler, a least make it look daemonic, keep it like the fluff!"

>>"Its a mini titan, keep it rusty and mars-ish, the machine could date back to the heresy!"

I just can't decide, like the idea of a daemon looking model but sculpting the muscles could be a tall order!

Cheers
posting pics of the defiler so far in a sec

[mallymoocow]

here are some pics...

with the bands it helps balance the model still unsure of a final pose but i think the weapon arms, lascannons and flamers look well where they are fitted. I've made a reaper autocannon sponson but need to create a havoc launcher fixture

i'm thinking about a tail to represent the second defiler close combat weapon but it could be a little to much for the model, (i think it would be good to seperate every weapon system on the defiler so if the weapon is destroyed in game i can just take it off)

but i'm tempted to build a half-destroyed chain-saw arm to show the drop in attacks in game

what do you think

Cheers

[Brother Jones]

Damn this is a cool Khorne army! I am loving that big hulking machine you made too!

[mallymoocow]

defiler update

a bit more progress on the weapon arms and fittings, as well as the torso chains...

i'm starting to get reallly excited about painting this model, and choosing its final pose...

[eltanko]

both of those main models so far are absolute BEASTS!!!!
excellent, thats how bulky and huuuge a chaos lord should look!

ElTanko

[Kronos]

THATS a daemon engine, suberb kitbashing/conversion work their mate, i think every chaos marine should have one of those now... or at least a variant.