WIP: Chosen Chaos Warriors

Once again, looong time without posting. I think it's not worth to explain why the real life is sometimes such a bitch! It's better to use that time showing you some pics of my recently built Chosen Warriors!

I finally received the 2 boxes I needed for assembling this unit (I already had one); and, a couple of months ago, PapaJJ sent me a box of Chaos Knights with another miniatures. I had no trolls before, neither the Nurgle sorcerer he sent me, but I already had enough knights, still in box. When I first received that box of knights I thought: "FINALLY A BOX OF KNIGHTS, JUST TO USE THEM FOR CONVERSIONS!". That's right, I built my 15 men unit using lots of bits from the Chaos Knights sprues and also some Possessed Space Marines bits!

Enough, too much words, let the pics talk for themselves:
(please click in the fullscreen button!)




It's still a very early WIP, but at least I selected all the bits I wanted and pinned every arm and head, and glued the modified bits. Believe me, that's a hughe step for me; my friends say I "play sudoku" when thinking about building units, because I like them too look very chaotic, but at the same time, martial. The poses can be similar, but I hate to use the same bit twice. When I can't avoid it, I figure it out to use the bit only one time in a rank and also one time only in that column. A litle obsessive, maybe. Chaotic enough, almost never. =P
Also, making all the Chosen fit in that tiny bases, was almost an engineer work. The Chosen are freaking big! And sometimes mine look bigger because of the possitioning of their weapons and shields I gave them. The idea was to achieve a little more movement for such static models. They are big, cool, badass and chaotic, but assembled all with 2HW and in the same position it's kinda... boring!

Ok, that's for now. I hope next time I could post earlier.
What do you think about the conversions? Do the Possessed SM bits and Chaos Knights fit with the Chosen?

And what about the slideshow? It's better for sharing lots of pics, without filling pages and pages with the same images, don't you think? I changed the slideshow service, because of the fullscreen button, I think it's pretty cool and overall, simplier than the previous one used.

Well, see ya next time!
And again, THANK YOU PAPAJJ! That Chaos knights box it's being SO useful! I have lots of projects for all the remaining bits!!

GD UK 2010 - Warhammer Forge picture report!

Woa! Long time without posting (again).

I was preparing a short post explaining how to make your own wet palette for less than 5USD, then I saw that the GD UK was today! I was so excited looking to the pics of the Warhammer Forge miniatures that are coming, that I couldn't believed no one else hasn't make a pic report about it yet! So, I searched the best pics and made a slideshow! I will not cover the 4WH40K releases; I enjoyed looking the new DE, but there are a lot of blogs and sites where you can watch those news.



I must say I just loved that Chaos Ogre. And also the Chaos Dwarfs Machines. It's a shame that Warhammer Forge will begin focusing in Nurgle. I would like it to be chaos undivided first, but hell, 4 books, minis, 4 IA-like narrative campaigns dedicated for chaos it's more than excellent enough!! I find pretty cool to have great campaign/background book (series of books) with minis to match; they will be resin casted, just as FW ones. Mark Bedford amd Rick Priestly have a lot to do with this huge project.

The first book will be called Thamurkhan: Throne of Chaos and will tell the incursions of Thamurkhan, a Nurgle-devoted champion. Initially this guy who spreads west through the lands of the Chaos Dwarves and the Ogre Kingdoms. Finally pitching up in the Empire. This is not written as an unbroken narrative but rather as a selection of scenes or encounters, parts of the story which give the background for the battles. Spread over more than 40 chapters he will follow the fortunes of the key characters. He follows the fortunes of TamurKhan for a bit then leaves him hanging whilst following the fortunes of one of his lieutenants for example or spotlighting events elsewhere in the warhammer world which have a bearing on the tale, before returning to the main characters again. All sumptiously illustrated with fine artworks and wonderful maps showing the routes followed by the main protagonists so we can place the events in the warhammer world as the story unfolds.

My understanding is that the first book features the expansion of Nurgle into the West. This will be followed by the expansion of Tzeentch into the south, Slaanesh into the East and Khorne into the North. I think we can only begin to imagine what happens when all four points of the Chaos star are in place. Hopefully, something better than the Storm of Chaos. (LOL)

Nurgle only gets all the love initially ... with the first book.
They get something similar to an IA book but a series of books are planned. All centered around Chaos. *INSERT "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY" SOUND HERE*
The first book will be released in about six months time and then I guess the rest over the coming few years (much like they have rolled out the AI books).

Well, quite enough excitement for today. That's quite a summary from all the info over the Bols Lounge, Warseer forums and some blogs. I've selected the best pics I could find, to represent this colossal expansion of my hobby. What do you think about the Warhammer Forge? About it's project? What about the new minis?
From my part, I will begin sparing some money in order to not be forced to sell one of my kidneys, a part of my liver or both of my corneas to get some of these models. For now, I'm just drooling with that Chaos Ogre and thinking about the other that will be released (at least 2 differents more) and probably in the future, some Dragon Ogres. Damn!! This whole thing it's almost too cool to live with! xD

See ya!