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Reddeth
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army  Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:08 pm |
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Hi all,
I've been meaning for some time to write up a bit of an army diary for my new chaos army. I find diaries are great for inspiration and also help the writer to make steady progress painting new units. Unfortunately I've left creating this diary for so long that the army is almost finished!
The army is themed on the warp ghosts chaos space marine chapter. The basic fluff is that they are recent converts to the chaos cause as of the start of Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade. The renegade chapter marine's are known for their ferocity. The new W40k chaos codex confuses things a little by naming a marine painted in warp ghosts colours as belonging to the Deathmongers chapter, whether this is a typo is anyones guess. Beyond these scant details nothing else is known, so With this in mind I pretty much had a blank slate as to what formations and models to include in the army.
The basic warp ghost paint scheme is a kind of greyish green with black trim on the armour and the odd detail in gold. I experimented painting a test stand in this scheme but it simply didn't work in epic scale, all the detail was lost when I painted on the black trim. I decided to simplify things and stick with a nice green scheme with white coloured highlights.
I've been playing epic since the space marine days and I'm lucky enough to have a few of the older models that are difficult to get hold of these days. I wasn't playing during the day's of the Epic 40K chaos release so I missed out on some really cool models. I've had to get round that with heavy use of conversions to cover some of the stuff that is no longer available and The chaos infantry box set re-release luckily made an EA Chaos army (using the black legion list) possible.
Anyhow, enough talk. Here is what I have painted thus far. I've added some comments for each unit re any conversions/suggestions for the aspiring chaos generals out there, starting with the infantry...
The two Retinues that form the heart of my army. One is led by the warlord, another by a sorceror lord:
These guys are current release chaos space marines with added rhino transports for both formations. I've used the old space marine era rhinos, added some spikey bits and the odd skull.
Chaos raptor formation and two forlorn hope formations:
The raptors are converted imperial jump infantry, with chainswords added from SM assault marines. The lord figure has a old eldar style back banner denoting the formations khornate worship (hard to see from this angle). The forlorn hope stands are simply the early style chaos space marines.
Chosen Terminator Formation:
I found I didn't have enough of the new chaos terminators to go around. Luckily I found a conversion suggestion on the net and used the older terminators to bulk up the numbers. I've also added some reaper autocannons (almost impossible to see in this pic) and some converted obliterators (old imperial robot bits mixed with green stuff and terminator shoulder pads).
Bike Company:
I wanted to use my old slanneshi cavalry and decided to dedicate my bike company to Slaanesh. I've updated the models by modifying the helmets to remove the tzeentch stylings and have also modified the bodies of the riding beasts to look less daemonic.
Lesser Daemon Pool:
The current edition lesser daemons which still paint up very nicely. I plan to add more soon...
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Reddeth
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:14 pm |
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Continuing with the heavy firepower...
Armoured Company:
As great as the new epic landraiders look I simply had so many of the original edition versions lying around that I just had to use them. I've resisted converting these ones, they still look chaotic enough due to the Horus Heresy stylings. The front rank predators are conversions using old rhino bodies, ork battlewagon turrets, ground zero tank turrets and twin lascannons made from spare whirlwind missile launchers.
Assault Company:
With only fan inspired creations to go by you can really let your imagination run wild with these war engines. The decimator is created primarily from some old epic W40K era landraiders while the death wheels largely follow the modelling guides available online.
Hellblade fighters and Helltalon bombers:
The models are from forge world. I'm not normally a fan of resin models but the detail on these things is amazing.
Ravager Titan:
A conversion of the standard reaver titan. The death storm guns have been created using ork shooterz. The most annoying part of the conversion was modifying the armour trim to make it chaotic. I created my own titan legion colour scheme, "The Warplords", using one of james Hetfield's guitars as inspiration. I particularly enjoyed putting the fangs on the battle head.
Chaos Objectives:
I'm a big believer in themed (and painted!) army objectives. The landing pad one, a forward refuelling base, is my blitz objective. I also have the summoning circle and the fuel refinery.
The Completed Army (so far):
When I put them all together I realised why it's taken my so long (almost 12 months) to paint them. The sight of them all together makes it all worthwhile!
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:19 pm |
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:22 pm |
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Gorgeous! Hats off to you chap, it looks amazing!
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:32 pm |
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Fantastic, a really beautiful army.
Can you show close-ups of some of the stuff that's difficult to see, the Termie conversions and the Lord Figure particularly. Thanks
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:34 pm |
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Nice work Reddeth. There are so many good things in there. I am a big fan of your objective markers and I am really impressed with all the detail you have put into the army.
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:41 pm |
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Finally...
I've been looking forward to seeing this army for soo long!
Lovely work Reddeth. Great conversions and paint jobs.
Outstanding. Thanks for sharing them mate.
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:41 pm |
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Absolutely stonking!
Keep up the great work.
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:47 pm |
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Very nice job! Love your objectives.
Now, battle reports? 
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:59 pm |
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I am not a big fan of Chaos stuff but these models are absolutely beautiful. It looks like it took a year to paint them.
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:10 pm |
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Very nice. I love the objectives.
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:26 pm |
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Great paint job
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:48 pm |
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Reddeth, that is a fantastic looking army. You must be very proud of your efforts there. Some excellent painting and converting work.
Thanks for sharing
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:53 pm |
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That's a great job sir - the army looks really cohesive.
Nice colour use too.
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Post subject: Warp Ghsots Chaos Space Marine Army Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:30 pm |
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I wish to know more about how you constructed the objectives.
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Looks great!