Azrakh the Annihilator - World Eater or Alpha Legion

Based on the iconic 90’sart work of Mark Gibbons, a friend gifted me this mini he received a few years ago with his warhammer plus subscription. As I don’t intend to start a World Eater list anytime soon, the only choice was for Azrakh to reveal his true allegiance to the Alpha Legion.

Painting started with a gold undercoat that would mean all that gold trim painting will be a little less painful. The red was a mix of velvet and blood red speed paints. I used a plasma red for the world eater cables and my usual yellow green mix for the other side.

To achieve the transition effect I followed the approach from my Landraider using the lighter gun metal and white air paints for the sections between the main colours.

With the face I chose a dark skin for the world eater and my usual pale skin for the Alpha Legion side.

 I chose parts of the mini that would complement the transition effect whilst keeping the khorne and world eater symbols in their traditional colours of deep reds and gold/brass.

 

One of the parts on the mini I always liked was the skulls that feature prominently. Unlike the box paint scheme I painted these in whites and bone with a GW contrast skeleton horde paint.

As the height of chaos space marines have increased to match their primaris enemies, I based Azrakh on some cork / tactical rocks so his underlings won’t be looking down on him.

Game wise I will run him as a terminator lord as in a few issues time, the chaos termies will appear in the combat patrol magazine here in Australia.

I also finished painting the Haemotorope Reactor which Azrakh has claimed in the name of Angron or was it Alpharius or someone else.

I am really happy with the finished mini and am proud to call him one of my favourite miniatures.

Alpha Legion Landraider or is it?

The last of my Alpha Legion I have scheduled for painting is now finished with this Landraider.

I picked up this mean machine secondhand and it was painted in a light red red with a legionary in a clearly khorne helmet, some chaos armour and spikes, and the head of an unfortunate imperial guardsmen.

I decided it was time to try the “transition effect" (or "Omegon's Wrath").  To achieve this I used my chrome paint over the soon to be Alpha Legion sections that were then hit with GW kroxigor scales. To get the transition effect, I used an air brush white between the two colours. Over the white I used GW gunmetal air paint.

I used a thin paint brush and in sections that were too big or messy, the key colours of the tank were used to even the effect lines up.

The khorne sections were then painted with a red speed paint and the trim was touched up with various golds.  This came out a more favourable deeper shade of red than its first paint job.

I kept most of the original owner’s flame paint job on the back left hand side but added a little more red to the motif. 

The lascannon power cables had a mix of nuclear and plasma speed paints to contrast with the other base colours.

The Alpha Legion sections had the metal trim painted in silvers and a few transfers were added to various panels.

If you look carefully you will see a Hydra logo over the original paint job that had the mighty words of Angron of “kill, maim, burn” painted on.

For a first go at the effect I am really happy how this turned out despite my shaky hands and hesitation of trying something outside of my safety net.

Khorne Warriors of Chaos vs Vampires

Had a cracker of an Old World game with my khorne warriors beating up some vampires.

My opponents only had their blood knights left at the end of the game.

My list was full aggression with magic resistance where I could find it. I only lost some dogs, the marauder horse and a couple of chosen to his big skeleton and zombie blocks with characters in each unit.

The khorne characters were a match for the vamps and wight lords with the undead infantry crumbling due to the number of wounds these frenzied bros and their buddies can dish out.

The massed block of skeletons made it into the marauder infantry who held. My chosen then took them in the flank after killing his lord and his zombie baggage unit.

Not a friendly list but may be worth a tournament run.

200 - Aspiring Champion, Halberd, Shield, Mark of Khorne, Battle Standard Bearer, Banner of the Dark Powers, Crown of Everlasting Conquest

156 - Aspiring Champion, Lance, Shield, Mark of Khorne, Daemonic Mount, Talisman of the Soaring Eagle

307 - Chaos Lord, Shield, Mark of Khorne, General, Meteor Hammer, Daemonic Platemail

197 - 5 Chaos Knights, Lance, Mark of Khorne, Champion, Standard Bearer, Rampaging Banner

257 - 30 Chaos Marauders, Shield, The Cult of the Fell Raptor, Marauder Headman, Standard Bearer, Musician

35 - 5 Chaos Warhounds, Poisoned Attacks

35 - 5 Chaos Warhounds, Poisoned Attacks

213 - 10 Chaos Warriors, Additional Hand Weapon, Mark of Khorne, Champion, Standard Bearer, Banner of Rage, Musician

77 - 5 Marauder Horsemen, Cavalry Spear, Marauder Horsemaster, Standard Bearer, Musician

120 - Chaos Chariots, Mark of Khorne

401 - 15 Chosen Chaos Warriors, Additional Hand Weapon, Full Plate Armour, Mark of Khorne, Champion, Standard Bearer, Totem Of Wrath, Musician

9th Age game - Warriors of the Dark Gods vs Beast Herds

Some pics of a friendly 5000 point battle.

Despite losing my choppy Chosen Lord on his dragon the chaos knights took out the left flank whilst my centre and right flank routed the beasts.

Great game for the Warriors.

Heroes and Lords of Chaos Warriors of the Dark Gods

A couple of new heros/ lords of the dark gods.

First up is an old GW sorcerer with an oversized icon. Paint scheme is slaanesh/lust for the old world/ 9th Age.

He was going to be a dragon rider but the sculpt was a little too inflexible since he is old school metal.

Next is a kit bash Khorne/Wrath badass with paired weapons on a chaos knight plastic body with a head from an Avatars of War lord on foot. 

Great news is he fits great on old Galrauch.

Marauders/ Barbarians Part 5

With the below six more spear bros my unit is now complete

Although the original plan was to get the unit up to 40 strong I have tapped out at 32.  Next up will be about the same number of great weapon barbarians that will require some minor conversions using the GW plastic flails.

Marauders/ Barbarians part 4

Another brief update of a couple more spear armed followers of the blood god.

The standard comes from the old plastic GW bloodletter kit.

Again I mixed up the skin colours and am happy with how these dudes fit in with the other bros.