peregijn's long planned chaos project log

[Peregijn]

First things first:

Hi I am Peregijn, a long time collector of the hordes of chaos.

Some personal stuff: a student living still living with my parents and looking for my own place. I live in the Netherlands in a small village in the neighborhood of Rotterdam.

I am trying to become a psychologist (psycholoog) and with some luck I can get that degree in January.

I sometimes go to the local gw store in Rotterdam to play a game but not that often. I know some of the more regular guy’s there are also members here so maybe they recognize some stuff.

English isn’t my first language and I am a dyslectic so try to read around all the horrible spelling and grammar mistakes. If they get really severe please just say it and I’ll try to correct it.

I am making this blog to receive feedback on my painting and modeling skills. Which aren’t that bad but can still improve a lot. I like to do crazy stuff with my models that doesn’t always come out right. But you will see that happening if you look at all the pictures.

My plan for the setup is to make a list of links to my pisca-webalbum from google instead of putting in the pictures directly (mostly because I don’t know how to do that, if someone can explain to me how that works than I will put direct pictures in future update’s)
This first post will have links to picture’s to my whole collection to unit’s and characters that I consider finished, to unit’s and characters that can definitely use a better paint/convert job. I will categories my collection in 4 categories: finished, based, (re)paint and under construction.

I am aiming to get at least 1 update in a week but sometimes I won’t even make that because there will be work, school, a new game for my xbox, I need to get out sometimes to have something called a social live (whatever that is).

Note: I am, add the moment, not really interested in making good looking bases of movement tray’s these will be a simple combination of vermin brown, modeling gravel, and devlan mud wash. I realy dislike “graveling” my bases. so most in that category will be standing there for a long time…

Note 2: As for the picture’s. they are made on my cell phone because I don’t have a camera at the moment. Some picture’s are good but most of them are blurry or over light with the use of the flash. Any tips on cheap digital camera’s are welcome.

finished:
lord on a chaos dragon
close up on the dragon rider
khorne champion on juggernaut
khorne champion on foot
hell canon
dragon ogre’s
close up on dragon ogre champion face

Based:
war hounds

forsaken
of chaos 1
spawn of chaos 2
spawn of chaos 3
sorcerer on foot

In the need of (re)painting:
spawn of chaos 4
warriors of chaos 1 (don’t mind the white one in the far right corner that was just a color test)
warriors of chaos 2 (and again don’t mind the white one)
marouder horseman 1 (the effect of the “flash” of my phone)
chariot of chaos (sorry for the bad picture I will replace him sometime next week)
marouders of chaos 1
chaos knights 1 again sorry for the bad picture. And yes only need to finish one knight and he can go to “based”
tzeentch champion on disk yes I know he isn’t standing on a disk but look he has wings… same effect
maraouder horseman 2
maraouder hoseman 3
chaos champion on foot this guy just didn’t want to have a clear picture, I took 10+ of them and this one was the best. O he only needs highlights but then again most of my already painted stuff needs that.
chaos knights 2

Under construction:
chosen
tzeentch champion on disk
marouders of chaos 2 someday this will be my cloven marauders.
now where did I put his sword??? my undivided army general. Never to be used in battle.
chaos knights 3 old school knights

[Peregijn]

Current project: building chaos warriors with great weapon’s

the champion

the claw of the champion

the start of the second rank

I haven’t decided what to do with the heads yet. I dislike the chaos helmets. In my unit of warriors with shields I took al the horns of the helmets… but in the unit with dual hand weapons they got a little more horns and stuff than normal. Still thinking what I will be using here.

And this is going to be the standard bearer of the unit
klik

[Orodreth]

Nice. Keep up the good work! I like the colour of the Dragon Ogres' skin.

[Peregijn]

Thank you, I was planning to use that on all my monsters and maybe the beastman unit that are going to be my marauders with shields.
Today I decided what to use as the heads of most of the great weapon wielding chaos warriors. I had some mutation sprue’s left from somewhere in the far past and I used those heads. Also there are a few heads from the new 40000 bloodangels sanguine guard. Very slaanesh like.

klick here 1
a naked head of the sanguine guard
second and third rank please ignore the white coller scheme that will change
in zooming onto the heads
the first rank
focused on the sanguine guard head
banner think I need to do something about the fact that he doesn’t see where he is walking…
musician this guy has a head as arm… the weapon didn’t want to stick so I got a little impatient and just glued that head on the arm stomp

Also I worked on an idée for my battle standard bearer.
klick 2
klick 3 I don’t know if it is allowed to mount normal food models on bigger bases but it’s a broad figure and it looks better this way.
this is going to be the bases of the icon/banner that will represent my army. It’s my first self sculpting thing so I hope its going to work out.

[Orodreth]

Aww, I actually kind of like the white colour scheme! He looks kinda cool... although he does remarkably resemble a Stormtrooper. lol

[Peregijn]

problem is my other warriors are normal black and red scheme. i was thinking to make a white scheme but i decided against it, to many models to repaint. i am planning to paint them all in a dark blue lined with purple silver and gold scheme. a little like the dragon lord.
thats easier to redo because it take's less layers of gray and white paint to over coat the black. its still a neutral scheme so i can still switch marks around freely.

only the nurgle knights will stay green and dirty. and if i am finished with the warriors and my other knights i will start adding more god specific units.

edit: music to listen to when painting and modeling

[Xcross]

niceee, seems like you got a nice army running there !

Wish I had the money/models :P

edit: (kom zelf uit amsterdam)

[Peregijn]

after 8/9 years of collecting it just seems to pile up... i am trying not to buy much any more because most of the stuff isn't finished. but they keep releasing nice models that i can use or i get crazy ideas to convert something...

too busy today with school and battlefield bad companie 2. i hope to start undercoating the warriors tomorrow. but it could be that it won't happen before Friday because i have a big test Wednesday and Thursday its gamesworks shops veterans day so ill be playing in the locale store. (its good to be a student)

[Peregijn]

Yes big exam tomorrow but I have studied enof for today so I start experimenting on the color scheme of the undivided part of the army

its blue
dabadie dabaday

And this is what it has become:

klick once
klick twice
klick trice
klick four
klick last

Picture’s are a little dark but with the flash al you could see was white… . I tried to make tham blue and in every other color you should be able to see blue-ish tint or shine. The hear on his cloak is dark purple but the picture isn’t showing that correctly.
I am going to try to do the whole front rank so I can show them to you on Friday.

[Peregijn]

Alright as promised the Friday update. I did the front Rank, the banner, command group, I even make picture’s.

I like blue
front rank 2
banner
the command group

Next update somewhere next week and by then I hope to have finished this unit AND finished my last nurgle knight. with that many models painted in one week that will be a personal record.

[Peregijn]

May 28, 2010

finaly finished a unit this blog is starting to serf its purpose: making me want to finish units, and than actually doing it.

As you can see the first unit of chaos warriors is finished. This is going to be the color scheme of my army and most of my warrior and knight units will be painted like this. Only the units that are really god specific and witch I am sure to always give the same mark of chaos will be painted with a different color scheme matching that god.

frontal view

3e rank, you can see here how well the old mutation sprue heads fit the new models bodies. Only thing you have to do is removing some of the neck or else the heads will stick to much out of the armor.

2e rank , here you can see the 2 heads of the sanguine (don’t know if this is the right word) guard. They look clean (no mutation) but actually they represent Slaanesh in this undivided unit, they are to perfect in their beauty to be left out in the wild.

random rank and file, although not that random. It’s the only one without a mutation. And the first one of this unit to be painted. Let’s say he was my color scheme test model.

cloaks, the cloaks… I love the simple effect of codex gray, lightly covered with space wolf gray and finished with the blue wash. Gives a little bit of a misty look

banner, same as the above, just love the effect. And I think that this is one of the best banners I ever did. Although I see that there is a small piece of gray that is lighter than the rest of the banner, ill have to correct that.

scary champion with claw

So finished my first new unit (although what’s new if you have them laying somewhere in your home for a few years without doing something with them?)

Alright next one:

Please focus on the 2e from the right. The musician of my Nurgle marked knights isn’t painted yet. So that’s what I am going to do this weekend I hope.
left side
right side
Note that the tentacle that is serving as his left leg isn’t a voluntary mutation.. it was necessary to be able to rank the unit up. Ranking up these knights was a pain in the a**

Next week I hope to finish a unit of marauder horseman

front view. As you can see these are actually bretonian horses. I used these as chaos knights back in the day you would pay like 50 euro’s for a unit of 5 knights. So converting some brets was WAY cheaper. Now they are converted again to a unit of lower social standing but also a more used unit (in my experience) sprayed black like 3 years ago and put away because of my break from the hobby only to be dug up again last year when I started picking things up.

We use the heads of our kinsman to smash in yours.

more heads
left side
right side

I am still undecided if I am going to paint them slaanesh or khorne. I know that they will always have one of those marks. So I am playing with the idée of painting them neutral with some khorne and slaanesh symbols on the cloth of the horses.

And the last 2 picks are from my side project:

icon
bearer

My army bsb.

Can someone explain me how to get a smooth surves on something you sculpt yourself with greenstuff???

Alright that is it for this week. I might give a small update on Sunday evening if I finished the musiscian of the chaos knights and I hope to have the marauder horseman up next Friday.

Have a nice weekend.

Greetings,

Peregijn

[Angelic Dawn.]

Smoothing Greenstuff surfaces.

I think, Get Something smooth & wet, "Like a Brush & Some water" and make some strokes on it while the surface hasnt hardend yet/Is still fresh.

Beyond that,
Go go go, you can do it, Paint, Paint! :P

[theimp]

Smooth surfaces on most putties, including greenstuff, is accomplished by lightly running a lubricated tool over the surface. Most frequently this is a metal sculpting tool with a smooth, rounded, head; sometimes known as a burnishing head. I've lately been using a silicon clay-shaper. While water is the most common lubricant, I prefer a very thin coat of mineral oil and I've read about people using carnuba wax or spit.

There's definitely a trick to it though and you'll need to experiment with different tools and at different stages in the putty's curing to find the right combination to get the kind of surface you want. Greenstuff has very different properties when it is freshly mixed than when it is almost completely hardened and there will be moments when it is very good for smooth surfaces and moments when it is impossible to get one.

[Peregijn]

Not much to say…
Busy week so very short update

the knight the knights musician is finally finished. Well he was finished last Sunday but I didn’t had time for a update.

they JUST can’t rank up.. or I just can’t rank them up
I just like this one
compensating
first one’s finished YES
the other side. I was trying to do some runes… but they

Very thin layer of skin color stuff to keep seeing the blue undertone

And all together

more blue
single shot 1
single shot 2
single shot 3

I hope to get something done the next week but I don’t know I have the time

[Peregijn]

Alright,

After like 2/3 weeks I finally found some time to take a few picture’s and upload them.
I haven’t painted a lot, but finished 1 unit and 1 hero model so that’s more than I thought I could do with the time I had the last couple of weeks.

First: another unit of chaos warriors, this time the one with hand weapons and shields:

part of the front rank.
3e rank, the unit has 3 ranks in total so this is the last one.
random rank and file model
2e rank
another random rank and file, but with the cool skull cap helmet
random pick
unit champion, can function like an exalted champion on foot
different angle, little blurry can’t see the paint job now…

Now the flying exalted/lord. I am using him as a disk rider and so far nobody complained about it

looks evil to me…
This picture is a little clearer then the previous one
old mutated arm
walking in the air
He leaves ruin wherever he goes
look ad his eyes, I wanted to give them a red glow so I deliberately went outside the eyes with the red paint. I don’t really like the result but I also don’t know a way to make it better looking.
mixed feelings about the model. It didn’t come out the way I planned and looks less awesome than the idée I had in my head. Still I love the possessed models and will try to find more uses of them in my fantasy army.

I don’t really know what to paint next. But you will see when it’s finished anyway.

Have a nice day, and I hope your country will win with soccer/football

Greets
Peregijn

[Peregijn]

Lots of picture’s today, first like promised an overview of the things that I consider almost finished.
Almost because most of the stuff I have finished are still in need of better bases. I also started testing my mom’s digital camera to see I can make clearer picture’s with it.

overvieuw 1
the zoom function with the Sharp detail thing on
dragon lord I think that if I can master this camera I can make very nice picture’s of the models
random shot 1
random shot 2
overvieuw 2
nurgle knights random shot 3
overvieuw 3

Alright and now the picture’s from my phone’s camera, I have had a lot more practice with this one but I have to take 5 picture’s with it to have 1 reasonable sharp one.

overview 4 definitely less clear than with the digital camera.
overvieuw 5, the problem is that my phone camera is so much simpler in his use and I always have it with me.
overvieuw 6 , and the camera of my mom is one of her more treasured possessions and not always available.
random shor 3
random shot 4

Alright, after making a nice cup of coffee I am ready for the second part of the update, it will be more testing of the camera, a few picture’s of my whole collection and the start of my next project: Chosen of chaos converted (or perverted if you are a space marine fan) blood angels: Sanguine Guard.

chaos lord on foot, this guy actually was finished. But because I am redoing my army he is also in need of a repaint job. This is based on the chaos space marine terminator lord and he is big. He stands 1.5 the size of a regular warrior. If you look fast than he might even resemble Sauron in the first LthR movie.

her is another pick, the same angle but slightly better picture.

Complete collection overview:

overvieuw 7
Who said that you can’t make a horde of chaos anymore?
random shot 5
Horde 1, a better horde picture
Horde 2

Goblin powered Hell Cannon, that’s what happens if you lose 1 chaos dwarf. They need 9 goblins to replace 1 dwarf.
Pull you lazy ass goblin scum!!

chaos warriors, 1 unit of chaos warriors to make blue, and after that one I still want to make an 4th unit of those guy’s. that way I have covert all the equipment options. O and I love the models.

And the last picture’s of this morning: the start of my chosen unit. Well technically I have had this models made before the start of this plog but I pulled them apart again because I couldn’t get them ranked up properly. Now this will be a unit of 12 to start with and hope to eventually make them 18 strong like my normal warriors.

sanguine guard
the bits and pieces
pulled of their bases

Now the plan to rank them up is to make small hills/rocks on their bases. Props of tinfoil covered with greenstuff, deferent heights so that their wings don’t get tangled up with the models behind them. I am going to keep a good more detailed log on this one because I think I need some help here and there.

This is it for now, I hope I will be able to give some more picture’s of the chosen’s project today.

[Peregijn]

all right finally found the correct way to post picture's, is it just the normal code... stupid me

ah well here are the first images of the chosen unit:





those wings are a bitch to get ranked up... long live green stuff and tinfoil



edit: the picture's dont work for me, i cant see them... so for the people who also cant see them: the normal url's

klik 1
klik 2
klik 3

[Peregijn]

Alright and another update:

Last week, and the upcoming weeks are going to be really busy again so don’t know when I will have finished another unite, or even model again so this one is a small update to let everyone see what I am working on ad the moment.

But first: I did finish something, my chaos lord on foot with 2 hand weapons.

lord on foot 1
lord on foot 2

Just 2 picture’s and have to hurry on to the next project:

building the chosen

I wanted the ground to be mutating and changing where they stood so almost all the models have cinematic (if that’s the right word) bases.
like this
random stuff 1

the unit unpainted, if you thought that chaos knights where a Bitch to line up. Try to make a unit of 40k stuff with big attachments that get in the way of the models that needs to stand next to each other.

I love the look of the musician

Big leap in time (couple of days I think)
Finish 1 model of the unit, and started to make a movement tray for the whole unit.
like this
The one finished model
diferent angle
same different angle but more focused on the angel
a facial
My first sword with power lines on it. Doesn’t look that bad.
looks good

That was all for this update and I hope to have more to show in a couple of weeks.

A quick question:
guess what this is and tell me if I should make him blue to.

[Tigranius]

nice paintjob master Hobbit

The last picture is the Khorne Lord on a Juggernaut i think.

We should do a battle soon, i got some new empire models, glowed them together .. should make a decent battle line against your bad blue boys

Cya!