Rouge Mechanicus Lord, Now Needs A Re-work

This is the one I'm most proud of my Rouge Mechanicus Lord, treated as a Chaos Lord in the Codex, at the core of the model is the Blood Bowl Wraith, to this I've added a Necron Lord arm to give him 3 arms, spent ages looking for another arm I could use but in the end just gave up, 3 short curved blades and with the knuckle duster on the other hand that makes paired lightning claws, the twin linked bolter is an ork shooter that I've cut up, filed down and added 2 bloter mags to the top of and attached to the 3rd arm after removing the wrist. The hand i cut off and then mounted the wrist and forearm guard on the shoulder as a plasma pistol. I've since added some Kroot head quills to the back of the helmet.

Slannesh Sorceress

This is My Slannesh Sorceress, no conversion done at all on this one, just straight from the blister pack, a Senior Sister from a Serephim Squad. Although I have since added a pair of the old Dark Eldar Scourge wings. Look like a winged jump pack rather than the flutes on the Serephim model.

to the left you can see 1 of my Terminator conversions for my Corrupted Sisters of Battle. Going to run with them as Marines for as I have the Chaos Marines Codex. Terminator body and legs, from club bits box, Chaos Terminator Chainfist with the lower blade removed and switched with a meltagun. The model is armed with a combi bolter the idea for splitting the barrles came from a guy at the club who had done that with his Tech Marine and mounted the Infernus pistol onto the models jump pack. I've since gone on to make more of these, photo will follow soonish.

Cypher

This is one of my fav bits of work. This is a Cypher conversion I did last yesr to finish off my Chosen Marines for my XIX Chapter. Second pic is the parts that went into making the miniture, Khorne Berzerker Power Pack and Sword, one of the last of my old style bolt guns with the strap taken off a Scout Marine Bolt gun and Cyphers Bolt Pistol arm

First of the Knights Of Blood

Okay this is a conversion I did a couple of months ago when i first had the idea, it's made from Terminator legs, a tank tech marine body that I filed flat, a Khorne Berzerker power pack and Teminator arms with Ogre pit fighter punch dagger hands, after seeing how much damage a punch dagger could on Deadliest Warrior. The basic idea was to do a cheap terminator with spare parts I had and had scrounged from the club bits box.

The Rework

So between the bank holidays we've all enjoyed in this country and the amazing weather as well in this country( I'm putting some washing out on the line to dry when i get home, better than a rain dance) I spent an afternoon in the house with my collection and an agenda.
As mentioned before I'd made some Daemon Hunters and had some Chaos stuff that I wasn't using so I pulled all of those out, lined everything up on my coffee table and shuffled stuff around till I was happy(got some funny looks off the people walking by my living room window as well). Most of the standard bolter across the chest models, the Space Crusade and some Soul Drinkers I'd bought, will be going to make the Iron Warriors. Most of the Daemon Hunters have been put in with the XIX as more dynamic stance Chaos Marines, most of my troops where split when i still played them as loyal, and had half charging with either a bolter and bolt pistol or knife and bolter(personal preference there) and the other half more statically stood as if covering the Heavy Weapon guy. So most of the Marines I've pulled from the box and culled from my assault squads( my Assault Squad/Raptors are now all Dark Angel Veteran models with jump packs) are going to represent fallen The Knights of Blood in my massive army.

This has left me with some massive amounts of painting to be done and some more paint to be bought, need some bleached bone, sounds so much better than beige, and some more bolt gun metal, as for now the only things I can finish off are the Knights of Blood and of course I can make a start on the XIX's new recruits , just need teh beige to finish them off, oh yes and 5 more Dark Angel Vets and some jump packs from mail order. And then I can start to but the next round of tanks and transports and all the rest, and by then we should have the plastic Sisters of Battle for me to start the Corrupted Sisterhood.

Something I've Had Plenty Of Time To Think About

Oaky what follows is a short piece I orginally posted on the Warhammer40K forum site about how the Blood Angel Army list makes a better siege army than the assasult army it was designed to make, comments would be welcome.

Iron Warriors Dreadnought Heavy Army

I've got insomnai at the moment and find myself with lots of spare hours in the dark, so the other morning while waiting for the Grand Prix practise session to come on the red button on my freeview box I was reading through the Index Astartes with the Iron Warriors in and then I started on the Blood Angels Codex and a thought came to me of doing a very Dreadnaught heavy army, for fun rather than a seriuos attempted at building it. the following list is from memory of what i wrote out
HQ Captian in Terminator Armour with 2 thunder hammers
Captain in power armour with infrnus pistol and power fist(use a tech marine back pack for that)
Elites 3 Furioso Dreads
Fast Attack 1 Baal Predator or 1 Vanguard Veteran Squad
Heavy Support 2 Dreads and 1 Predator
Troops 15 Death Company in a Land Raider Crusader, 3 Death Company Dreads and 2 tactical Squads.


Justifaction :
Death Company- The Iron Warriors are type cast as seige specialist and come to realish the realise of the storming of the breach, hench the death company to represent the frenzied warriors who are over come with blood lust.
Land Raider Crusader- The Iron Warriors have a massive motor pool and are known to salvage tanks and big guns, hence the Crusader, or having seen how effective made their own version.
Death Compnay Dreads-If a warrior is that unhinged give him something to really take the fight to the enemy fortifcations
Baal Pred- why wouldn't the preeminent seige corps have close assault varient preds to clane out the cities of thier emenies?
Vanguard Vets- You want your best close assault troops at the froe front of your Fallorn Hope
Furioso Dreads- Honored Fallen of the Grand Company still ablr to wreck unholy havoc on the lackies of teh false emperor.

Insomnia Strikes Again

So saw the dawn again this morning, we do get some very nice sun rises and sun sets round here... I'm a little bit tired so may be rambling.

More thoughts on using the Blood Angels Codex for an Iron Warriors Army;

What you can't have.
Danta, Sanguinary Guard, The Sanguinairy- Sorry but models that represent whats best in the chapter just don't fit with Chaos Marines.

Storm Raven- Sorry but no, unless you want to spend the near £100 on the Hell Tallon and call that a Storm Raven untill this rumored Summer of Fliers comes round then that's a no.

Captain Tyco- Altough I'm not to sure about this one, he was insane by the end so I could let you have this one.

Mephisto- No, just no.

Razorbacks- Sorry, but no Chaos force has them yet, though I don't know why not

If not mententioned below with a reason then of course you can have it.
Death Company Tyco- Insane combat womble? Throw him into the breach, if he gets killed at least he'll of taken some of the enemy with him.

Astorath the Grim- Yes someone to take down the frenzied breach stormers and he is a nasty piece of work as well.

Chaplains- Just treat them as a Chaos Lord choice in this case.

Librarian- Sorcerer , Blood Lance would be handy wouldn't it?

Land Raiders as Dedicated Transports- Most of the Iron Warriors Equpiment would of been stored in the Chapter Houses the Legion was garrisoning, they would of had a lot of the large parts left after the Seige of Earth.

Assault Troops as a Troops choice- Well storming a breach in a fortress wall is close combat of course you want lots of assault troops going in there.

Decnt of Angels- The Iron Warriors are siege troops par exellents, part of seige work is knowing where everything is, another part of seige work is time, so the Grand Company command will have lots of time to map and re-map the target area and learn where everything is sited, hence keeping the Decent of Angels special rule.

The Red Thirst- The Iron Warriors are known to get themselves a little worked up when it comes time to storm an enemy citadel, doesn't the Red Thirst fit with that?