My Tzeentch Sorcerer enters into my 'Hall of Honour.'
It is finally finished...
The picture isn't of the best quality, and the face isn't the best either (but then, I think that's at least a little down to the sculpt).
That's two models finished!
I think that's a record for any of my armies to be fair!
Expect little progress for a while as I work on several other things at once!
Until then!
-DH-
While doing the shields I also did some work on the Warriros...
Usually I'm not a huge fan of mutations on models, but I felt that some well placed, thematic/ relevant mutations here and there would really sell the Tzeentch and CHaos theme of the Warriors, who are a little too 'clean' usually.
Speaking of, the 5 'clean' Warriors.
Just a little Green Stuff work to fill in the mold lines on the fur.
The next 5 were my 'front rank.'
Back in the old Warhammer Fantasy Days, the front 5 models usually formed the first rank and therefore had to be slightly better looking XD
This was a simple kitbash; I took a bit from the 40K possessed Chaos Space Marines to replace his combat weapon.
The next was also a quick kitbash, taking the head from the Chaos Spawn kit
As for my 'Command,' I have a musician; using the head from the old metal Chaos Space Marine Lord model...
The squad leader/ vertan/ sergant/ champion
And finally my personal favortie, the banner bearer.
For this guy I sculpted my own tentacle arm to hold the banner pole.
This was done by using my usual Green Stuff Mix and using the rolling tool made by Green Stuff World.
And that's the whole unit built.
Left the shield and banner off for painting (like that'll happen)
And with that, my 1000 pts Aos army is fully built.
Since building it, I've changed a few of the spells and items round, but I'm fairly happy with the list.
It is really fun to play with, and I'd like to think it represents the narrative I've set for the army quite well.
Though, I do plan on going back to it at some point and having a tinker around here and there, see if I can't make it a bit more fitting.
But that's all for now.
Remember, if you want to see what I'm currently working on, I'm much more active on Instagram, and I stream painting sessions on my Twitch, so click those links for more stuff!
Catch you soon
-DH-
There be daemons.
Screamers and Flamers to be precise (as well as a sneaky Gorebeast chariot later on)
The flamers got the same treatment my Chaos Warriors did when it came to basing, with an added bit of brass etching.
The Screamers on the other hand were another thing entirely.
Firstly; I hate flying basses and stands in general.
While the later is kinda important, I decided to sack off the clear basses.
Secondly; The flying basses are around 28/ 32mm. Not sure which.
Either way, far too small.
I took this opportunity to upgrade them to bigger basses.
This gave me some room to experiment too, which was awesome.
I finally got to use the dremel!
I decided to use slate to anchor the flight stands in and give some weight to the Screamer so they don't just fall over constantly.
Even with these big chunks of slate and the, now standard, basing scheme, they felt a little...empty.
Luckily I had already been messing about with push molds and casting various bitz.
They didn't turn out too good if I'm honest, however, they're perfect for basing!
I love that runic circle from Eldrad's base so much!
Anyway, I had to finish off the mortal contingent of my army too, so I built and based the Gorebeast chariot too.
I wanted to make it more Tzeentch themed, so I stuck a icon of Tzeentch from the Chaos Space Marines sprue on one of the poles.
I've got some more ideas for this thing, but they'll come later.
All of these basses are going to get some crackle paint before they get undercoated and painted.
That's it for now.
Feedback, conversation and constructive criticism is welcome,as always!
-DH-
It's a wall of text update!
YAY.
In all seriousness this is the post I said I would do in 122.
1k Tzeentch Disciples list: Godsworn Champions of Ruin:
Exalted Hero of Chaos:
Sorcerer Lord
10 Chaos Warriors
Gorebeast Chariot
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Gaunt Summoner
10 Pink Horrors
3 Flamers
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General - GS w/ Magical Supremacy
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Artifacts of Power:
EHoC - Timeslip Pendant
Gaunt - Souldraught
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Spells: Arcane Bolt, Mystic Sheild
GS -Infernal Flames, Tzeentch's Firestorm, Glimpse The Future
SL - Daemonic Power, Shield of Fate
PH's - Bolt of Tzeentch
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I've played a couple of games with it so far.
Destiny Dice are amazing (Yay Glimpse The Future).
1 got slaughtered in my first, but because of the DD's I managed to keep bringing horrors back on every bravery check.
My opponent. ended up killing about 37 from a unit of 10 XD
In my second game I was on the back foot until I had 1 good turn of magic, inflicting 22 mortal wounds from 3 spells.
Things that I've learned:
1)
Pink horrors are kinda pointless... blue horrors are better value.
PH's would be great if you didn't have to pay the points for the BH's you split into, but alas, you do.
Going forward I'll replace PH's with BH's and just use Chaos Marauders for battleline.
2)
Big things are hard as fuck to kill.
The Gorebeast isn't big enough.
I need to add a Lord of Change as soon as I can haha
Anyway, that's it.
If you have any feedback, constructive criticism or advice, then I'm all ears.
( I know I should be running Arcanites and Tzangors, but I don't have the money for them XD)
Until next time .
-DH-
I've been plugging along with my Age of Sigmar Tzeentch chaos (still a mouthful) army.
I kinda got carried away with the Exalted Hero of Chaos though XD
He's done irl, I'll upload the final pictures in a separate post though, but he is the 'last' Wip shots of him for y'all to enjoy.
Those of you who follow me on Instgram will have already seen a few of these pictures (and some more besides).
But what you get here is a bit more of an in depth write up on what I've done, how I did it and what the plan is moving forward.
From the black undercoat, the whole model was painted dark blue (Necron Abyss) towards the bottom and dark purple (Liche/Xereus Purple & Chaos/Abbadon Black) towards the top.
After that it was simply a case of stippling gradually lighter shades of Liche/Xereus Purple through to Warlock Purple/ Screamer Pink and then mixing Bleached Bone/Screaming Skull into to it for a more pastel look
When appropriate (read as: guess) the figure was shaded with Leviathan Purple/ Druchi Violet, Asurmen Blue/ Drakenhof Nightshade and/ or Baal Red/ Carroburg Crimson (mainly the later for the bright parts, and the others for the darker parts)
One I was happy (enough at any rate) it was a case of adding the 'Stars.'
This was done with an exceptionally light/ pastel pink and stippled on, with a few larger dots painted on.
As the armour on this guy turned out a lot more purple than I'd planned, I decided to add the blue back in by painting the cape an exceptionally dark blue/ almost black highlighted blue.
We'll come back to the rest of the details shortly.
I wanted to tie the figure back into the rest of the army.
While most of this will be done with the basing (something I've invested a lot of time into), I wanted their to be a presence on the rest of the figure.
I started with the weapons; the disc on my burning chariot is a mix of silver, gold and metallic blue (something that I will post later/ is on my instagram if you're curious)
So I went with that scheme.
The base is where most of the cohesive elements in this army will come from.
The Tzeentch mob will be an eclectic mix of colours, and this will be the main constant in the army.
As I want to use the models I've built for The Silver Tower boardgame, I decided to theme all of my basses around that.
The rest of the details are pretty standard;
Bones are bone coloured, Leather is brown, Steel is silver and the ornaments are gold.
The fur is blue grey to tie it back into the bluish tint that's evident in most colours in this paintjob
And that's it.
Next time you see this guy he'll be all done (as he already is XD)
As usual, all constructive comment, conversation and feedback is welcome.
Feel free to leave me a comment on here, Instagram or Twitter.
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Until next time
-DH-
One of the most fundamental questions when starting a new army is; 'how do I paint them?'
Do you go for an established scheme, or do you try something new?
With 40k I find I'm a lot more reserved; I like to either use something pre-existing (like my Salamaders), or keep it simple (like my Sisters of Battle).
With this Tzeentch army I thought I be a bit more bold and experiment a little.
After thinking on the issue a while, these are the schemes I came up with.
I'm a fan of all of them (some more than others, but I thought I'd take a moment to speak on each of them, to give you an idea of my thought process.
Teal/ Turquoise
I thought a slightly bastardised version of the new Thousands Sons scheme might be nice.
I'm not a fan of this scheme on actual Thousands Sons for lore reasons, but it does look nice, and is quite striking.
Blue.
Not only the classic Thousands Sons colour, but also half of the generic Tzeentch colours (Blue and Pink).
A little darker, which suits chaos, and a lot easier to play on high contrasts (orange and pink mainly).
Green & Silver.
This one may seem like an odd colour for Tzeentch, but let me fill you in on my reasoning.
Despite how nice Blue's look, I am kinda sick of seeing those schemes.
They are EVERYWHERE.
So I wanted to try something different.
The colour concept behind this scheme came form the Adrian Smith Tzeentch sorcerer artwork in the 3.5 Chaos codex
I kinda like this scheme, but I don't feel as if it has enough of a Tzeentch feel to it, and I certainly don't think it does Adrian's artwork justice.
Nebula/ Blue and Fuschia.
This one is actually inspired by myself (See )
Messing with space and time is kinda Tzeentch's deal, so I feel the stray nebula encapsulates that feeling rather well.
Blue and pinky purple are exceptionally Tzeentchy colours too.
This scheme is easily my favorite, and the one I'll be using for this army.
My one worry is consistency; while it'll be kinda cool that each model will look slightly different, I am worried that I wont be able to replicate this scheme consistently in term sof quality.
I reckon I'ma fuck it up a lot...
Ah well...
That's all for now guys.
Substantial building progress is on the way soon though (I've been doing a lot of basing XD)
So stay tuned for more updates.
If you can't wait, go check out my Instagram is I end up posting what I'm currently working on
As usual feel free to leave constructive feedback on here or @DarkHaZZl3 on Twitter!
Until next time!
-DH-
