Boraks Glorious Damnation

[Lord Borak]

Well..........I guess none of you liked the Chaos Champion then

Here's the W.I.P Chariot. I've just sanded the base. It will be dark grey with snow and blood splatters here and there. There's also a few skulls and bits lurking in the sand.

I've done the wood and the metal. The Brass still needs to be highlighted.

[HappyJim]

Champion and chariot look very nice mate, maybe just change the hair color

[Lord Borak]

I might just take anoter pic of that Champion as the lighting did something odd to his hair. It's up to Bleached bone so it's alot paler than the pic shows. If I changed it what colour should I do? Orange? Brown? Grey?

Finsihed doing the Green stuff on all my Chosen this morning. Have at you!!

[praxis]

Chariot looks outstanding, and i would'nt want to meet the chosen after dark for that matter either. Lovely work. Here's the Rep i owe you for it.

[HappyJim]

Gotta say im very impressed with your chosen mate, good stuff!

[andrew_88]

This all looks fantastic. It's looking like an excellent army. The Chosen look awesome, and that chariot looks massive.

Is your Chaos Lord made from the Archaon mounted and on foot models? You might have already said, but I haven't seen it mentioned.

[Lord Borak]

Cheers guys! Glad someone’s reading this anyway (other than you Jim that is )

Praxis: Firstly thank you very much for the rep matey. If you have any ideas mate just let me know. I’ll be re-doing a lot of this army and need some funky ideas.

Andrew: Aye the chariot is rather ‘big’ I put it next to the old one just for a size comparison and it dwarfs it. Maybe I’ll take a photo just for giggles when the first one’s done. The Lord is indeed Archaon. The Legs are off the Games Day one but the Torso is off the Mounted one (his cloak is cooler) Now I look at this though the paint job is fairly mediocre and I really don’t like the legs. So I might scratch build some new legs for him, strip him and start again!

[Mr_Wayne]

Here's some of my WIP Warriors with halberds. I'll be doing 14 of them, just waiting for my bitz order to arrive.
I just snapped them off for inspiration.
Don't wanna hijack your thread.
They're not that hard to do, but will kill your bitzbox. You need the champion back, the champions outstretched hand with sword or axe and a Chaos Knights Lance. Then you just go to work with the scalpel and the clippers and will have a chore to fit them into a good angle. Good luck if you give it a try.





Compare these to Empire halberdiers. These look just brutal in comparison.
Only thing though is they have one gauntleted hand and one gloved, so I guess they'll pose as Chosen too.

By the way, have some Rep for a great thread.

[Lord Borak]

They're not that hard to do, but will kill your bitzbox

WAYNE: Nothing will kill my bitz box. Nothing.Cheers for the Rep though It's very much appreciated!

Those look cool Wayne. Did you have any trouble ranking them up? Why didn't you just do them holding it one hand? Surely it would have been easier that way. How about converting some so they're holding the weapons forward? You'd have to cut them at the waist but that shouldn't be too hard.

I've based the Chariot and done the Brass. I've also painted the helm on the spike Red with Brass horns (Khorne) in reference to an old game. I'll put some pics up tomorrow.

PS: It took 4 Boxes of Chaos Knights to do that Chosen unit. Just so you know. Oh and if anyone has some of those shields left over.........can I have them? pretty please?!?!

[Mr_Wayne]

They rank up perfectly, just have to make sure the shaft doesnt extend far behind the back hand.
Yes, it would have been much easier to make them holding the "lance" in one hand. But theres three problems with that sollution.
1. It looks like they're carrying spears.
2. Leaves the other hand doing nothing. although you could put a shield there, but to what use? Just gives space for another confused debate when playing.
3. This looks SO much meaner.

cutting the models at the waist you say? Nice idea. But I like it like this. if I twisted their waists it would look like they were pointing their halbers at the enemy. Now it look like they're raised ready to chop down - more down to business than just pointing the halberd saying "look how sharp my stick is".

I've been thinking about another way to point the halberds forward, but that would be very difficult. as it is now the back hand is just a normal additional hand weapon with the blade /mace/hammer/axe cut off and then attached to the shaft of the halberd and glued to the body of the warrior at an angle. The angle is almost impossible to do if the warrior is supposed to point the weapon forward. As it is now I just use the warrior champions positioning, I've just connected the two arms with a halberd between them.

Why go the easy way.
It will be pure pain to see these 1 hour worth of modelling a piece get shot to death by cannons.

4 boxes of knights? Seriously? You didnt bitz order?
If I would make this unit of warriors in the same way I would have to buy 14 boxes of Warriors (because, as you probably know, you only get one champion back in each box, I think).