Hordes of Chaos! - WoC-armeijan konverttailua (update 27.9.2016)

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Heippa. Tässä ensimmäisiä kuvia jo pitkään vaiheessa olleesta (+10v *köh köh*) undivided-teemaisesta WoC-armeijastani. Olen nyt faban jälkeen pelaillut vähän aikaa 9th Agea Warriors of the Dark Gods -armeijalla. MAINOS: Tykkään tasapainoisista säännöistä ja siitä, että oikeastaan kaikkia unitteja kehtaa pelata. Eli eikun rakentelemaan. En tosiaan paljoo maalaile, mutta askartelu on kivaa.

Pidempi tarina Warseerissä WARSEER ON TOISTAISEKSI NURIN
Katso sen sijaan 9th Age -foorumilta samat läpät kuin täällä enkuksi, eri kommentein!

Warshrine (wip):




Shrinesta tuli ISO ja sillä on ongelmia mahtua chariot-baselle. Hepat ehkä erikseen omalle irroitettavalle 50mm baselle?


Plasticard-paikkaukset ja koristeet puuttuu ja kärryn aisoja odottelen vielä saapuvaksi ebaystä. Loput osat on melkein kaikki sieltä myös. Ideana on tehdä shrineen 25mm baselle slotti, mihin voi vaihtaa erimerkkisiä pappeja kyytiin. Olisko ukkelin paikka parempi portaiden ylä- vai alapäässä? Muita ideoita? Kalloja ei tuu lisää. :)

TÄÄLTÄ lisää kuvei
GW:n Chaos Dreadhold -linna ja sen spruet, josta pilkoin palaset

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Shrine on jämähtänyt vielä suunnitteluasteelle. Tällä hetkellä portaiden madallus ja papin pistäminen portaiden yläpäähän tuntuvat parhaimmalta optiolta, koska silloin demonipää näkyy paremmin edestäpäin eikä se jää vähemmälle huomiolle kuin jos pappi heiluisi tuossa ylimpänä.

Palasin mökiltä lauantaina ja kävin samantien poimimassa postista Avatars of Warin kaaoswarriorit ja marauderit. Näitä saikin sitten odottaa yli kuukauden tilauksesta. Shipping swiftly my ass. Kaaoswarrut olivat niiden joku oma angry-bird-special-edition-paketti, jossa tuli 8 ukkoa lisää ja metallinen vapaavalintainen hero. Eli 24 warrua ja 16 marauderia. Marat halusin lähinnä päiden takia. :) (Sivuhuomiona mainittakoon, että 9th Age -foorumilaiset saavat Avatarsin nettikaupasta 10% alen, joka tosin tuli voimaan vasta kun toi early bird -hommeli päättyi. Olisi se 7,5 € säästö kelvannut.)

Huomaa laatikon kyljessä komeileva 9th Age seal of approval!




Muovin laatu on parempaa mitä se niiden aiempi Warcast-hartsi, mutta valusaumoja on välillä tuplasti GW:n muoviin verrattuna. Siistiminen siis kestää ja käsi väsyy. Näyttää myös olevan vaikea sovittaa vieri viereen. Mutta onhan noi nyt todella päheitä! Tässä kuva aiemmin hankkimistani hartsisista hilpariwarruista:

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Tällä hetkellä tämän blogin ykköspäivityspaikka on 9th Age -foorumi, koska Warseerin kohtalosta ei ole selvyyttä. Copy-pastella tulee englanniksi loput päivitykset. (Turha kääntää ja tiivistää juttuja.)

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I tried to find ways to shorten the warshrine but thought that it's going to be rather hard since I used a lot of glue to seal the seams and the shrine is still going to have difficulties to fit on the base. I'm leaning on the separate steeds option. Sadly, no progress on the warshrine yet.

I've been distracted for a while because I got my AoW warriors and have been building them. Very laborious and time consuming because the latest plastic warriors are in 6 pieces and they have lots of mould lines. I also need green stuff + superglue everywhere or otherwise they are a pain to get to decent poses and also to rank up. Pics or didn't happen? Sure thing.

GW warriors in a unit:


I added some Chaos warrior/knight heads here and there. I also had some extra Bestigor weapons and found a good use for them.

rank at a time:


Mister B here is made out of three different generation AoW pieces. Feet are 1st gen resin, torso is 2nd gen resin/plastic hybrid and axe is 3rd gen plastic. 2nd gen is cool because head and arms are already attached to the torso. Much easier to work with but then again the poses are limited. Adds a little variation to the unit in small numbers.






Note: A few of the AoW warrior heads were silly with the guy's eyebrows showing but a little green stuff fixed it.

Here's some of my (first gen resin) halberd warriors that I bought a few years back. (And waited forever to arrive.)


As most models around the army are True Chaos themed I'm going for separate banner bearers for some of the units to be able to play with different marks. I've still designing the banners and command models.

And last a sneak peak of my Lust chosen with halberds. Made from Bestigor bodies. You thought I had Bestigor arms just laying around didn't you?


I sculpted collars for the guys and some chain mail underneath the arms so that they fit the torsos better. Heads are from AoW Barbarians and fit like a glove for Lust boys! (Main reason I even bought them :D)

more pics HERE

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I'm trying to create something unique with them. I must confess that I've gotten lots of ideas and inspiration from here and there but can't make all of them come to life. At times if I see something very cool I try to make a "better" version of it (like Chosen made from Bestigors). Warshrine here is completely of my own design.

I've been designing those command models and building things from plasticard. I seem to have misplaced my supplies but I ordered some more: 0.5mm, 1mm and 1.5mm thick sheets.
Here's a movement tray for my Sorcerer (not painted by me). To be continued... With magnets (that's what the washer is for)!



I also cut 2 plasticard strips as thick as the washer and placed them next to it to prevent the 25mm base from wobbling in the square slot.




Got you there.


I finally had the courage to saw those stairs on my Shrine. Insert the platform with it's sides filed smooth and voilà:


Some of you may be thinking that didn't it have wheels at some point? Yeah, it did. They weren't glued on because it was much easier to saw off the stairs and work on the model without fearing them breaking off.

I cut some sprue and plasticard strips and glued them underneath the stairs to support the front panel:



I didn't glue the front panel (made out of 0.5mm plasticard) on yet because I don't want to accidentally drop anything small inside the model and turn it into a maracas. :)



I still don't know should I use the official Shrine's spiky wall thing in front of the hero model because I think my Shrine would resemble too much the official model. But a good thing is that you can see the hero AND the big Daemon face at the back of the model better through it.
"Spiky wall thing" is not glued on yet for I'm weighing options. Front platform needs something realistic to keep the Sorcerer from falling down from his ride. I've been thinking about either columns on each corner, braziers, Chaos chariot front piece or small walls.



Front panel also needs some minor details. It's going to be mostly behind the steeds so nothing too fancy.

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Got some more bits in the post and started working right away.

I cut a piece of plasticard to mach the original Shrine platform bit in order to make the foot of the stairs look better and to make more room for the (forthcoming) acolytes next to the altar. I cut 3 strips of sprue and glued them together to make the base for the bottom step of the stairs. I will use green stuff to blend it with the rest of the stairs and the same treatment applies to the top most step.




I filled those two small gaps on the sides. I also plunged a strip of plasticard into each of the holes on the back of the Shrine and then cut them with side cutters and filed smooth. The wheels are also now glued on the model.


Here's a side wiew of the Shrine's basic look. I decided to put the steeds on a base of their own so my Shrine wouldn't look too crowded on just a chariot base. (Piece of plastic is there just to support the yoke while taking the picture.) The horse's tails have been switched because the originals were ridiculous. Who has a bunch of chains for a tail?


And here's some pictures that show one of the many possible options what to put next to the priest model on the top platform. In this case, some spiked pillars (from the Dreadhold Fortress). I find this option nice as it still shows most of the big Daemon head. Side view is fine but do you think that the pillars are too much in the way of the face when viewed from front angles?




I still need to figure out what to put on the sides of the lower platform as the Shrine's silhouette is still boring when viewed from the front. The acolytes need something to keep them from falling off and to grant some protection from enemy missiles but it should not obstruct too much the view. You should still be able to see what they are doing back there.
And it seems that the Shrine's front panel is not as much out of view behind the steeds as I thought so it needs some subtle details. A small chaos icon or similiar.

I just need to remember that when adding details they need to be small and scarce enough not to draw most of the attention from the Daemon face which is supposed to be the eye-catcher here.

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TLDR; Pitäisi olla ajatus miten tuota vehjettä jatkaa ja koristelee. Kalloja en lisää, koska GW. Heitelkää ideoita. :)

[MAnkka]

On aika mahtava WIP projekti, näitä ei ihan liikaa tuu vastaan.

Ite lähtisin tekemään tosta mahdollisimman yhtenäistä kokonaisuutta, koska tossa kuitenkin noita yksityiskohtia alkaa olemaan jo nyt aika runsaasti. Eli toi etu kaari samalla tyylillä kun kyljet, tollasta kupruilevaa pintaa ja joku iso riimu keskelle. Korokkeen reunat samaan tyyliin kun ton etukaaren reunat.

Keskiosaan helponta olis varmaan lähteä väsäämään kaiteita keihäistä ja ketjusta, mutta se on varmaan lopputuloksena vähän tylsä. Semmoset kaiteen puolikkaat etu- ja takaosaan (tyyliin DE raiderit) väsättynä samaan tyyliin kun noi kyljet vois olla tyylikkäät, mutta samalla sopii tyyliin sen verran hyvin että ei veis huomiota pois muusta.

Ja ei ka ne akolyytit mitään suojaa putoamiselta tai nuolilta tarvii, vai onko kukkahattubyrokraatit vaatimassa kaaoksn joukoillekin jotain työsuojelumääräyksiä? ;)

[Late M]

Hyvä proggis ja kiva nähdä noita Avatars of Warin ukkoja myös vaiheessa. Hienojahan ne on, vaikka vähän yksikössä näyttääkin olevan mahduttamisongelmia. Alttari näyttää varsin onnistuneelta noin niinku tasapainoisen ulkoasun puolesta.

Tietty nää olis nää kiva nähdä myös maalattuna...

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Kiitti ideoista. Shrine odottelee paria bitsiä postista, minkä jälkeen luulen saavani siitä sen näköisen kuin suunnitelmissa oli. Figu on visuaalisesti paremmassa balanssissa sivuilta katsottuna, kun kyydissä on ukkeleita ja varmasti laidan aidat/piikit/terät auttaa myös siinä. Edestäpäin sen pitäisi näyttää muulta kuin suorakulmiolta, mutta eiköhän asiaan ole tulossa ratkaisu.

AoW warrut tosiaan ränkkääntyy kehnosti, kun suurin osa aseista osoittaa eteenpäin tai ovat poikittain. Asiaa korjaa, jos käyttää green stuffia kokoamisessa ja asettelee kädet pitelemään aseita enemmän pystysuorassa. Noi mun konversiot tosiaan auttaa vielä lisää.

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Päivitys blogiin:

Here's a bonus pic of the game (WotDG vs VS, 1500pts) I played with one of my friends. We were in the middle of deployment when my friend's young son crashed in and deployed a unit of his own.



I was told this resembles a familiar movie scene.


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​The last couple of weeks I've been mostly searching models and bits from the internetz to order for my birthday today. Made some great deals, you'll see. :)


I havent' bothered to take pics for I've made only​ minor process on the Shrine and Warrior's banners. But! I have something else to show you. and that would be some of my Sorcerers who have been on my to-do list for ages:


Change sorc on horse: (duoble duty as Lust sorc?)

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Still needs some green stuff work on the horse's back to make the model more balanced visually.


Pestilence sorc on horse:

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Had to carve that old Bretonnian plastic horse to fit the Nurgle hero on foot on it. Still missing stirrup​s on his feet.


True Chaos sorc on horse:

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This guy is the most unfinished of them all. He's going to have a robe to cover most of his feet and a familiar to tag along. :)


True Chaos sorc:

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Removing the old staff was not the easiest job without a Dremel but I managed to do that without tears. Hand drill to the rescue! He has two right arms and I'm planning on giving him a sword or a reverse grip dagger.


Lust sorc:



My personal favorite. Based on Eldrad and has been WIP for over a decade waiting for the right bits. Looks very nice on the Warshrine.

Lastly a teaser:

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more pictures here

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​Started working on the Shrine again after receiving some more bits. I added second horns from the Chaos Chariot and trimmed the pillars on top of the stairs. Added also some plasticard strips and a base for the side "walls"​. The walls are just bluetacked at the moment.

I'm weighing between two options here with the walls. I need your opinions especially on the front silhouette. See link to more pics below.

Option A is dozer blades from an old Imperial Guard tank I think which makes the Shrine resemble the VC Corpse Cart slightly. Still not sure of the angle.:
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Option B is Chaos tank dozer blades and they would be attached a little closer to the Shrine's body​ than at the moment:
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Pictures from the sides and front HERE​

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A small update:
Here's my two acolytes made out of Dark Angel Watchers in the Dark. Many of the WoC artworks show these tiny hooded minions and I knew I wanted to have them in my army. The Warshrine is probably the best place to put them into.
The first one had a sword swap from a Marauder champ and his marine boots filed to look more fantasy themed. I've had the metal one for years and finally found a good use for him. I need a Dremel or similar tool to remove the DA helmet though. What should he carry? A chaos helmet? A chalice? A book?

[Routasydän]

Itelläki tuo yks erikosempi kaamos sorsa, jolle oot ton manticoresauvan iskeny :) voi olla et joutuu vähän kopioimaan tota sun ideaa, näyttää sen verran mukavalta ja en oo juur koskaan siitä alkuperäsestä kepukasta juur välittäny.
Nättei on muutki konvit, etenki shrinesta on tulossa oikein mielenkiintoisen näköinen.