Freehanding Chapter Badges: "Make em' by hand, Break em' by hand"

     First, quote by Mr. T from an episode of the A-Team. Tyberos here represents my first model that is based, has a chapter badge, and gloss coated/matte sealed. Ready to rock.

     Freehanding the badge was easier by breaking it down into different strokes. Steadying my painting hand with my freehand. Also, using black to go and make touch-ups when completed.

Dragon Ogres WoC

I love the monsters of the WoC book and I think that they add variety to the endless plate armored legions. Dragon Ogres are surprisingly great! They are fast, have 4 wounds, and can get up to Strength 7! They make great flank chargers as my Warriors waddle up the middle.

I converted these out of Gors and DE Cold Ones. I wanted my Dragon Ogres to look more like miniature Shaggoths than Ogres.

I still need to either convert a 6 one or make a little unit filler. I can't figure out how I want to run them either 3 or 2x2 (No rank bonus though) or 3x3 (expensive!).

I had to green stuff some fur where the two models connected.

First Name Mister, Last Name Siege

     I have a Mr. T car air-freshener that I have owned since I was 16. It smelled like cheap men's cologne, in case you were wondering. Anywho, Mr. T has been a long time hero in my life since watching the A-Team as a kiddo and his short-lived Scooby Doo-esque cartoon. Heck, PeeWee Herman ate his cereal for breakfast!

     Also, I am in the Ron Swanson mindset that all men must sport facial hair. So, Siege's standard babyface was offending my mustachioed Nemo figures.

     Notice in the first pick that I planted a little "Mr. T" easter egg in his base ring. I like to mark my warcaster with these "runes." It makes them stick out of the battlegroup.

     

The Warhost of Vigo the Unholy: My Warriors of Chaos Part 3 - Hellcannons?

     The Hellcannon model is awesome, but I loathe GW's metals. This hatred is a fallacy because I am endeared with Privateer Press' metals. One of my new found loves is pinning warbeasts and warjacks ever since I ponied up for the citadel pin vise.
     Anyway, I decided that I didn't want to buy the Hellcannon model, so I looked for alternatives. I saw a post of another player using Todd Macfarlane's Warriors of Astrology Gemini to represent his hellcannon. The post was found here The Inspiration Here is my take on it.

  

    These "model" is awesome for 2 reasons for me. 1) I wanted my arm to have a Monster Mash theme, so this baddie fits right in. Plus, I can see this lug raging off and eating its crew way easier than the official model. 2) You get 2 of these guys in one model because the above picture is half of it. Here's his baby brudda.

     I used cork to make it seem that Vigo, my general, was summoning these daemonic machines from Hell or its hellish Fantasy equivalent. The bases are from movement trays. The crew are Ungor painted Hellboy red (Scab red). I painted their bodies Mithril Silver to make them look like living metal. The armor is Enchanted Blue, which is a theme color of my army. Another great thing about his model is that it is WYSIWYG since the cannon has Chaos Armor.

     I feared that people may scoff at me using a toy to play Warhammer with, but everyone so far loves them and I receive many compliments for them.

The Warhost of Vigo the Unholy: My Warriors of Chaos Part 2 - Sorcerer Lord

     Here is the main man, Vigo the Unholy. Try to guess one of my favorite movies?

      His fluff is that he flies around on his Tzeentch with his monstrous bunch to seek out enemy wizards. Once defeated, Vigo grinds up and snorts the ashes of the wizards skull to gain their knowledge. For this reason, I always run him with the Third Eye of Tzeentch, so my wizard can cast any spell of an enemy wizard in LOS.
     The green arm is from an ork and represents the corruption from his demon pact. The head, book, and staff are from the Chaos Terminator Lord kit. The cape and skull shoulder pad are from the Marauder kit.

     The disc is a pocket watch fob that I covered in green stuff. You can see a small blemish in the center right of the disc. That is a magnet that I embedded in the green stuff. There is another magnet in Vigo's boot. I have another base that I can use to run him on foot if I wish, which I have yet to do. Running him with the enchanted shield (2+ to shrug off the first hit) and Talisman of Protection (3+ Ward with Tzeentch) is survivable enough. The only thing that has been able to reliably tag him are Doom Divers.

The Warhost of Vigo the Unholy: My Warriors of Chaos Part 1

     To add content, I will do posts displaying units of my Warriors of Chaos army. These models were done for a summer league at my local game store. Many of conversions were inspired by others.

     Here is my unnamed BSB. Guess what mark he is? The Tzeentch symbol is my first attempt at free-handing a logo. The banner comes from the Gor box with extra skulls that I have collected from my bits box. I guess this guy really likes skulls, huh? You gotta keep the Khorne marked units in line.
     He also has the Bronze Armor of Zorak. Thus, the armor color. His painting was simple in that I just base coated in simple colors and then slapped on the ol' liquid talent a.k.a Delvan Mud.