BfSP box, Dark Elves, Warmaster and various other stuff - by sigur

[Crazy Harborc]

Perhaps a long chariot base........A peasant just coming out from under one of the wheels. Legs and arms still raised into the air. A warrior or peasant being devoured by one/both of a/the horse(s).

Oh, so many innocent fun scenes are possible.

[sigur]

@Crazy Harborc: I also still got some of those Battlemasters chaos warriors. They look pretty badass. I'm pretty sure Harry used them for chaos warriors in his Khorne army. And concerning your basing ideas....erm...yeah, maybe on the other chariot.

@Dino: Your wish is my command. (eventhough the base is just primed really)

Pix!!

[Gargobot]

That's one massive chariot, was a great idea to change the horses.

[sigur]

@Gargobot: Thanks for dropping by. I agree, changing the horses really makes this chariot look mighty heavy but I can't claim the laurels for that idea because the client suggested it. It included a minor bit of converting and bending of the middle part thing between the horses (I'm not a professional charioteer and even in German I have trouble thinking of an appropriate Term. It's probably called Steg or something.) but the new horses fit quite well.

So the chariot's finished:






I didn't get as much work done as I'd liked to. Truth is, I was mighty hungover today. I actually wasn't able to do ANYTHING (apart from trowing up violently in the early morning) for the most part of the day. It's terrible. I used to recover amazingly fast from nightly booze-ups but I must have lost this ability some time ago. Crazy Harborc surely will rejoice about the fact that I'm getting old as well.

Anyhow, the chariot possibly needs some neatening up in some places but it's done mainly. I also started assembling, basing and priming the first unit of Marauder Horsemen. (no pictures for now because they're being primed and still have to dry) Everyone was so impressed with the kit when it was released, even more so than with the chaos knights if I remember correctly, and it is a cool kit indeed.

I only saw the minis at Warhammer World and the lighting was pretty bad so I faultly assumed the horses were as large as the ones on the Knights but thankfully they are not. They are reasonably sized and look good. The way you put them together looks weird at first but turns out to be quite clever because in the end it almost nowhere shows where the parts went together. Mould lines have always been bothering on horses (especially the mane and the tail) but they were very few on this box. There actually are variant heads for the horses (I think that there's 6 to 8 in the box for five horses) which are very well done. The Marauders themselves are good as well. There are only five torsi which are all the same pose. That's a bit of a letdown because it would have been nice to be able to pose the upper body a bit differently and it would also helped with using the bits on other kits like Catachans or Marauders on foot. There are loads of different heads in this kit. I didn't really count but It surely aren't less than 11 very different heads. If you are a Space Wolves or White Scars player and aren't happy with the about 1,350 heads that come with the new SW boxes; here's some more very good barbaric heads. The whole kit also seems to be pretty mandatory if you want to make an Attilan IG regiment. I just wish I'd thought of all those additional heads before I assembled the chaos marauders regiment. The added variation and just awesome faces would have really added to the thing. Oh, the weapons you get are also pretty awesome. I'm pretty sure that there's all possible weapon loadouts in the box, with the exception of bows but I'm not sure Marauders can get those in the new army book.

So...yeah, it's a neat kit.

Hope you like the chariot, next thing: five Marauder Horsemen with Musician.

[Dino]

The chariot looks really nice. I serioulsy can't wait to see the horsemen.

[sigur]

@Dino: Thanks, I hope you won't have to wait too long.


After some finishing touches, I just put the chariot into the cabinet and had to notice that I'm seriously running out of space on this panel:



Had to put the Blackguard somewhere else already and once the Horsemen are done, I'll have to put the Corsairs (who cleverly hide behind the chaos knights) somewhere else too).

Anyway, an excuse for some kind of army shot there. Hope you like it.

edit: Interesting. With the flash turned off, my camera seems to love blues while it really likes to enforce reds on everything when the flash is turned on.

[Aulbath]

Made of equally great parts win and awesome. That's all I have to say.

[sigur]

@Aulbath: Thanks a lot, Sir.

First WIPs of the Marauder Horsemen:



...and their formidable horses:



Would have loved to show you the dudes sitting on their horses but I noticed a thing I don't like much about these minis; the riders are more or less designed to "snap fit" onto the horses. It's kind of hard to get the riders onto the steeds and it inevitably scratches some paint off but once they're on the horses, they fit perfectly and don't even move a bit. Still, I'm one of those people who like to sit the riders onto the mount for taking WIP pictures or even just looking at the mini and enjoying it. Not possible with these. Anyway, I hope you like them. Apart from painting these dudes, I used some drying time to add some sculpting to the dragon ogres. Got no pictures of those yet, but they might be the next thing I paint after these Horsemen.

[Mr Feral]

Looking as sharp as always, the gradient red on the shields and the horses are looking mighty fine.

[Dino]

Horsemen are really of to a great start. Your horses look sweet. Keep it up.

[sigur]

@Mr Feral: Thanks. I'm surprised how well the shields turned out actually.

@Dino: Cheers!

Here's some more WIP pictures of the horses, hope you like them:





These Horsemen start to bore me. I went into this with the bold idea of getting them done in two days but as always I underestimated the detailwork and overestimated my stamina (wimp!).


And here's some kind of preview pictures of the Dragon Ogres I'll do next (possibly):





There's 4 of them. As I've written earlier, I added these GS scales (not that visible in the picture of the second dude) last night.

Hope you like everything, C&C welcome as always!

[CMDante]

Great looking army!

Love how the giant turned out, very slick!

Cheers,

Dante

[Tommygun]

Sigur, have you ever done a tutorial for your lava bases?

[Lord Azoth]

really beautiful skintone for the horses, wuld you mind telling the recipe?..
thanks

[Mr Feral]

Awesome, can't wait to see them finished.

A small question, what weapon options come in the set?

[sigur]

Yay, replies! *rejoices*

@CMDante: Thank ye, Sir!

@Tommygun: I don't think I have. Or I might have. Dunno. It's pretty simple: clean base (I also tend to "shave off" most of the texture on these new bases which have a pretty strong texture), sculpt some little islands with milliput where the mini's feet are going to be, glue on some pebbles and the occational lava bubble (little GS balls cut in half) or even a just-popped lava bubble (small piece of GS, push rear of paintbrush into it, smoothen out the borders). Sand the little islands, prime, paint little islands grey, drybrush (2 stages), paint flat parts VMC Hull Red (60/40 mix of scorched brown/blood red should work as well), layer up from there with mixes of Hull Red, Blood Red, some Yellow and white. I use a 60/40 mix of Sunburst Yellow and White for final stages.

@Lord Azoth: Sure, it's a basecoat of VMC Chocolate Brown (best brown evar), Devlan Mud Wash, Highlight with mixes of Chocolate Brown and Kommando Khaki, wash again.

@Mr Feral: Spears, hand weapons and two-handed flails (oddly enough).

[Dino]

Horses look really sweet. I know full well how though it can be to paint horses some times.

Dragon ogres look interesting. Might want to beaf up the dragon bodies a bit.

[sigur]

@Dino: Thanks for the input, I'll look into that. And yeah, horses can be a pain to paint. For a commission long ago, I think it's not even covered in this log as it was before I did the battle for Skull Pass, I had to paint white horses for a HE army. That was painful.

I thought it would be a good idea to deliver you with high-res pictures of woodgrain on this window frame and super-big trees:





I'll take individual photos of the units as well (at least the different ones. ).

[Gargobot]

Nice dusting on the window frame, looks really natural.

I noticed one thing when I saw the army pic, for 2 months painting that's a whole lot of Chaos dudes. Not to mention you also painted Greeks and (carefully) built Greek towers in that time. All the while I'm struggling to keep up with the ToFP, so I'm really impressed.

Anyhoo, horses do look good.

[Kaos]

Those marauder horsemen will look ace when finished! Interesting project with the big lizards, will see where this leads!

Hard to see those small dudes but i think theyre looking great as an army together.

Cheers-Kaos