Age of Sigmar Chaos Chariot (Carl)

I recently finished my Slaves to Darkness Chaos Chariot. Aside from my attempts to wear away at the lead (& plastic) mountain I had the added incentive to get this finished as I’d committed to going to an evening Age of Sigmar Spearhead event at Warhammer World.

The Chaos Chariot was the only model I didn’t have ready for the event so it got bumped up the painting queue. But due to a combination of family life and work shifts I ran the painting very close to the wire completing it in the morning of the event. The build was generally quite enjoyable, I built and painted it in subassemblies however, due to running so close in time, I had to cut a few corners on the painting so the horses and a few details aren’t as ‘finished’ as I’d ideally have liked.

My main gripe was the reins, by all the gods of hobbying they were a challenge, it might have been my build skills but I struggled. After much swearing, huffing and general bad tempered moaning I resigned myself to having a gap that I couldn’t avoid. But in a flash of inspiration I cut a spiky bit from the haft of an unused axehead from the kit and shaped it to the gap, hurrah! Problem solved. If I hadn’t got so wound up with trying to match the kit instructions and simply trusted hobby experience I could have got to this solution a lot quicker. Something to try to remember.

I was gifted this model for my birthday earlier this year and I’ve actually got it completed within six months! That’s a big deal for me.

At the event, a casual affair with ‘Quests’ to complete along with playing the games, I had a win and a draw and completed about half of the quests. It was loads of fun to play in and using a painted force was a big ‘feel good’ moment for me. My opponents were lovely chaps, there were a lot of beautifully painted armies present and good natured story swapping and chat amongst players. A very enjoyable experience all round.

So that’s another completion for 2024 putting my total on 32!

Age of Sigmar Chaos Lord (Carl)

Another finish for 2024 and it’s the Chaos Lord for Age of Sigmar. Unlike a lot of the other chaos minis I’ve been working on, this one has been incredibly quick and straight forward.

Although I did have a bit of a crisis with the blade of his glaive. I got it to the point where I was happy with it. Then, I don’t know why, I tried to do a little bit of glowing effect bling, failed terribly and had to repaint it to bring it back to where it is now.

Other than that, pretty easy.

Total minis completed in 2024 now at 31!

Slaves to Darkness Chaos Knight (Carl)

After months of inactivity I’ve finally finished the last Chaos Knight for my Slaves to Darkness Age of Sigmar force.

I’ve not managed to pick up a brush in months due to work and home being busy.

This takes my tally of completions for the year to 30. Got to get my mojo rolling a lot faster if I want to complete 52 by year end.

Old Warhammer Chaos Warriors (Carl)

We’re into February already! Blimey the year is already whistling by.

I’ve managed to complete the remaining 7 Chaos Warriors for my 10 man unit for my Age of Sigmar Slaves to Darkness 1000pt force. They were a bit of a slog as I got a bit lost halfway through with ideas of doing clearly defined followers of Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh.

My original plan was to do two each of the four powers and plus two undivided to make a truly balanced (undivided) unit. But I got a bit distracted. The final unit (which I’ll do a full shot of when the whole army is finished) has four clearly defined followers, four hinted at and two undivided. It still works just differently to my original intention.

Anyway, here’s the seven completions that along with the three previously finished mean I’ve got one completed unit for my Ages of Sigmar force! Hooray!

This also makes 10 actual completions in 2024!

Warhammer: The Old World - Chaos Marauder (Nick)

Following hot on the heels of Carl's chaos warrior are some of my own old Warhammer chaos miniatures - with the imminent release of Warhammer: The Old World from Games Workshop it seemed like a good excuse to get my Warriors of Chaos army onto the table at last with good old fashioned square bases.

Here are my first two Chaos Marauders, old metal figures from 1997 (and in my opinion so much nicer than the plastic ones that replaced them) - to be fair I only had a bit of touching up to do, remove some old static grass, and varnish while I try my best to match the colours again ...and these are great because the base size hasn't been changed for the new (old) game.

I'm sure I will add some dead grass and tufts in the future, but with so many to do I think I will leave them like this for now and come back to them when the unit or maybe even the army is complete (rather than have some finished and others not)

A bit cheeky calling these x2 finishes, but they are my gateway to more which are already on the way and not the first figures to just need varnish and (not) tufts... let's see where this new madness takes us!