Failures of the Apocalypse

My chaos knight regiment is finally complete. They dont quite rank up so I couldnt get the exact sort of group photo I wanted.  Thankfully the individual pictures are better: The standard bearer: Musician:   Champion (you've allready seen this one): And the rank and file: This post may have come off as a bit long, but Im pleased with how the whole squad turned out. Dont expect to see individual photo's for every single chaos warrior though.

One (rather literal) necessity of a chaos army are chaos spawn, those unmentionable horrors that give you an excuse to throw whatever you have in your bitz-box at a lump of green stuff and call it a day. Theyre an iconic part of the chaos arsenal, and despite being rather sub-par on the tabletop the eye of the gods chart makes having a couple on hand rather important. Despite this, to my moderate shame (in part at not simply making some) I have never had any. But, while taking a break from painting The Hexed (which are still in progress worry not) to assemble some recently arrived models (which I will most definetly show off at a later date) I decided to cobble together some custom spawn for my army. Spawn 1: "Headbutt".   Ironically he was the last spawn I made, his "head" is the Minotaur skull from the citadel skull kit, with the visage augmented with a whole bunch more skulls attached where his limbs should be. Spawn 2: "Horse face". Im quite please wit...

The champion for my chaos knight regiment (The Hexed) is finished. Unlike the other riders he has a lance and horns to give him some verticality and help him stand out among his peers. In addition I decided to play with the colors on the details, since with such a uniform armor scheme its easy for models to end up looking samey. As such his horse is a brown (in contrast to the previous riders dark grey/black charger) and the reins are a beige/white with some blood stains on) Overall I am fairly happy with how the model turned out, and I look forwards to having the full regiment painted up and assembled in formation,

While waiting for some deliveries I have worked on my chaos knights, and I am happy to present the first finished model (#1 of 7). While I am unable to provide full pictures for the process due to the models being started before the blog I hope you enjoy the finished product. The models were primarily painted using an excellent tutorial I found online ( https://borgninespainting.blogspot.com/2019/04/rusted-armor-statues-tutorial.html ) Typhus corrosion was used to dull the metal somewhat after my washes gave it an oily look and I didnt quite get the rust effects down so I decided to forgo them, maybe next time (hellcannon perhaps?) Overall I am rather happy with how the metal turned out, its exactly the sort of muted and drab color scheme I was going for. and in my opinion the bright blue of the Ensorcelled Weapon helps give the model a nice visual focus and will serve to tie the regiment to my army. The further members of the regiment (and their fluff) will be posted soon.