Barbarians/ Marauders Update 3

This will be my last update for a month or so as the family and I are on our way to northern chaos wastes aka Santa’s village in Finland.

Anyway, with a few hours before we leave I finished the next five of the barbarians/ marauders with the exception of their bases.

The champion is the bro with the two axes and GW marauder body and a suitably mutated head.

When I return it will be back to finishing the 17 odd bodies left for the 25 man unit.

I have also converted the musician with a simple arm swap of a horn from the beastmen for plastic set.

Barbarian/ Marauder update 2 - first 3 finished

For update 1 please see here.

After a few highlights and basing I have managed to finish the first of my three barbarians/ marauders.

Work in progress barbarians / marauders update 1

Below are some WIP pics of my new barbarians of sloth/ marauders of nurgle.

The minis come from the 40k conquest kit and fit very nicely on the 25 x 25 base.

Skin tones are bleached bone hit with a reikland fleshshade and then bleached bone, skull white highlights.  Weapons, bones cloth follows my usual approach from other posts.

More to come including some conversions for the command group.

Putrid Blightkings Update 2 - first four finished

For update 1 please see here.

After a little delay I have finished the first four of these badass bros on 40x40 bases.

The below pictures are prior to some dull coat so I expect the gold trim and silver weapons and armour to tone down a little.

Ranking up is fine in various options and I look forward to the next project below that will be some nurgle marauders/ sloth barbarians.  Again these are straight from the 40k conquest kits and apart from needing a few grenades to be removed, the conversions so far are limited to the standard bearer below.

Forsworn update 1

As part of my update to my twenty five years old Chaos Warriors of the Dark Gods army, I have decided to convert the terminators from the 40k conquest periodical into Forsworn for the 9th Age.

The terminators needed a mix of conversions mainly to chop off storm bolters to be replaced by paired weapons.  I found an orc arm with a large meat cleaver and added some extra spiky armour plates that seemed appropriate for the sloth/ nurgle theme.

I decided to break up the dull greens and browns to paint as many of the non bone tentacles pink and purple with some black boils.

The rest of the painting followed the same recipe as the chosen warriors prescribed here.

The below are some work in progress shots and I hope to finish the unit in the next week or so.

Chosen Warriors Update 3 - first six finished

Just as the title suggests, the first six of my chaos space marines converted to fantasy Chosen for Chaos Warriors of the Dark Gods are now complete.

I am really happy with how they turned out and I hope to get this unit to about 12 in the coming months.  Next will be the Fallen and some suitably infected barbarians.

Chosen Warrior Update 2

This is the second update of my conversion of 40k Nurgle Marines and Terminators into the Old World and the 9th Age.  The first instalment is here.

Unlike most times where I simply rank up my minis and do what comes to mind, I decided to do a test miniature.

I mostly followed the nurgle paint scheme in the 40k conquest using the following colours over a tamiya dark green base coat.

Armour: Death guard green, Agrax earthshade and then back to death guard green for highlights.
Weapons and chain mail: leadbelcher and agrax shade leadbelcher again for highlights.
Horns: rakarth flesh, skull white and agrax shade. Highlight with skull white.
Tentacles: bug man glow, tentacle pink, drucii violet wash.
Armour trim: retributor armour and agrax wash with a final highlight with retributor and a tiny bit of mithril silver from Vallejo.

As you can see most sections use the agrax shade which means painting is pretty speedy before highlights.

This is the final product which I am extremely happy with.

To fit it with my existing Chaos warriors of the Dark Gods minis, the bases will be sanded with brown  paint and a little flock.

Below is also the next five bros who have been washed and are now basically ready for the highlights  and finishing touches.

The champion is the one without the helmet and his skin is is similar to the horns paint scheme with a bit of pale flesh from Vallejo thrown in.

Finally, this is my first terminator I have converted into a Forsworn for the 9th Age. They are based on the 40 x 40 so the larger mini fits on well. The storm bolter was removed and replaced with a sword from the plastic ogre bull sprue.

Chosen Warriors

Time to change focus away from my now finished Infernal/ Chaos Dwarfs and work on some new (Chaos) Warriors of the Dark Gods.

These miniatures are the Nurgle chaos space marines from the 40k Conquest periodical.

All bar one of the six miniatures required conversion and include a range of weapon, arm and head swaps.

Most of the new bits come from chaos knights or warriors with the exception of the cloaks which come from the marauder, hunchback chaos warriors and the goblin wolf rider kit.

The capes may make ranking up a little difficult but the plan is to get around twelve of these bros to use a unit of chosen.

For the 9th Age the plan is to use them as Sloth or another suitable Nurgle esq type unit.

More Disciples of Lugar

After a concerted effort I finished the last six of my disciples. You can see the previous post here.

This brings my unit to twenty and ready for the full Infernal Dwarves book for the 9th Age.

These ones again use the Avatars of War not slayers and Lost Kingdom heads.