From IannickM - Blood for the Blood God! (60pts)

To this point my Oldhammer Chaos army, which I've been working on since last year's challenge, has been made up of worshipers of Chaos in all its undivided glory. My plan was to create to create a core of Chaos undivided troops, and then I could add contingents of worshipers of the chaos gods. My army is a dark and brooding undivided force and I plan to include equally dark and twisted Nurgle and Khorne contingents to it.

So after working hard on the undivided troops, it's time to start working on some Chaos God's specific units.

The first such unit is a unit of Khorne warriors; crazed and bloodthirsty warriors who like to kill, maim and spill blood. You know, your average bunch of evil medieval psychopaths!

The unit is made-up mostly of Khorne  champions designed by the master Jes Goodwin in the 80s as part of the massive and now iconic Citadel Realm of Chaos range. There is also a few chaos warriors which style fitted Khorne and which I really liked, like that crazed cleaver wielding warrior in the last row. I wanted a unit clad in dark red, and I had to experiment a lot to find the perfect recipe, red being a notorious bitch of a colour to paint and highlight well. To blend the unit with the rest of my army,  I went with dark green as a secondary colour, and picked details in the "poison green" (bright green) which I have use throughout my Chaos force. 

 I painted these guys in small batches of three, since they are unique and characterful sculpts which don't lend themselves well to mass production. I actually put paint on the first batch in the first week of the challenge and I slowly worked on these between bonus round entries and other units. 

You will notice the warriors without helmets have African skin tones; I thought it worked really well with the look of the unit and colour scheme, and the notorious lack of black skin characters in fantasy is a pet peeve of mine. I will also admit enjoying painting black skin!

The standard bearer is a conversion, I cut the sword he was carrying and replaced it with a pole. I'm quite happy with the whole figure and the standard; I haven't painted a standard in literally 20 years and I got the bloody and dirty look I wanted. In my youth I wanted to use chains to decorate my banners like I would see in White Dwarf but never did it, so 25 years later I did not miss that chance! I find it looks as good as it did in the 80s!  

Arkil Gorefury and his cadre of maniacs

Unfortunately there is no movement trays for these guys like I usually do; my original plan was to do a unit of 10 and I got carried away, and I realized yesterday I do not have a 12 figure movement tray! Litko will get a bit more of my money apparently!

Awesome sculpts full of details

So that's 60 pts to add to my total.


From Curt:

Ahhh, more wonderful Oldhammer goodness, wonderful. These are fantastic Iannick. Such crisp and clean paintwork, yet still very 'Chaos'. I really like the pointing green fellow with the tail and axe. Also, the banner is absolutely terrific. The blood spatter is suitably gory, yet restrained, and the chains are a excellent touch.

I have a bunch of these old Chaos figures in storage and this post makes me want to pull them out to take a trip down memory lane. I seem to remember that it always made me crazy that they would never rank up properly. I had to make up a template with the bases labeled on the bottom so they would all properly fit together as a unit - a little OCD glimmering through again there...

Iannick, what version of Warhammer do you use for these? I know 3rd edition seems to be the favoured child amongst many Oldhammerians but I thought I'd ask.

Great post!