New Chaos Army

[TristanHoag]

So, at Ed's event in Dover New Hampshire last month, I ended up buying a bunch of chaos figures. After the event, I gave my painted Chaos army to my friend Larry, who had played his first games there. This leaves me with a newly unpainted army - which is like a blank canvas...

So I have decided to go with a Nurgle theme this time, and I want to go very heavy with conversion work and even some scratch build sculpting!

I was doing some searching when I came across this photo:

knight by TristanHoag, on Flickr
Someone named Ben Komets did this piece, and I love it! I think it would work very well as a hero for Warmaster.

So this will be my first scratch build for the army, and I will try to do it step by step.

First the dolly

Juggernaut1 by TristanHoag, on Flickr

Juggernaut2 by TristanHoag, on Flickr
Next step will be to sculpt the rocks...

Tristan

[Lex]

Tristan, what is the blue stuff you are using ?

[TristanHoag]

Hey, Lex - that's actually supposed to be gray.  It's plastic sprue bits.  The camera just makes them look kinda blue...

Tristan

[pw]

First up, I salute your ambition, that's a very cool idea to copy.
It'd be no way near as much fun, but isn't there a Chaos Juggernaut in the Chaos Daemon's character pack? Probably not as big as this thing looks.

On a very dull note (that's me  ) perhaps coins with smooth edges would look nicer! The British two pence coin is without peer!

[TristanHoag]

Hahaha - I had to go and look. There is a juggernaut in the chaos demons set...  but it looks like the older style juggernaut, not the new and fancy looking one.  (I think it even looks a bit stubby)

As to the coin thing, I agree, but there are no smooth sided quarters in the US - so I've always just accepted it as such.  I'll maybe have to look st some exchange rates at the bank next time...

[Dave]

1" fender washers are cheaper and readily available in the US though . Also, assuming your opponent is willing to allow you the extra .2mm in radius it's a legal 25mm character base. Looks good Tristan!

[TristanHoag]

Yeah, but if I use washers instead of coins, I cut down on the bling factor!  I have vague ambitions to be the Mitt Romney of Warmaster... wanna bet $10,000.00 that I can get this sculpted? 

[Geep]

I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. My only minor comment so far is that the legs look like they'll end up too long- unless you're planning on sculpting the rocks higher or body fatter. I also like the sprue idea.

[pw]

It looks like you're planning to sculpt the head, but if not, the gun bits from the chaos vehicle sprue might be useful:

[TristanHoag]

@ PW: I hadn't thought of that - I'll have to look at that bit - though I do want to see if I can do a good enough job sculpting it first....

@ Geep: I do plan on both, actually - building the rocks up a little and bulking out the body quite a bit. Whenever I scratch build something, it seems like I always need more height and more sculpting space than it feels like I should.

[jchaos79]

Seems a great and very fun project! I think only for skilled sculpters ...

[TristanHoag]

I sculpted the rocks last night, but as rocks are just rocks, I didn't bother with in-progress shots. I should start getting into the meat of the sculpting pretty soon...

[BlackEd]

Wanna see!  Wanna see! Rocks are NOT just rocks! 

 

Oh, wait, yes they are...

 

[Stormwind]

Oh wow - I'm amazed by the idea of sculpting at this scale...

I'm afraid that the Chaos vehicle heads would IMHO be too big for something that size - even the smallest one is almost too big for what I use them for:

Replacement gun barrels for plastic melta guns for my space wolves - which means the proper gun barrels can be re used as combi melta parts.

[amnar]

Very Ambitious... Love it.