Historically I haven’t been interested in chaos as a faction, but that’s mostly because I was originally messing with post-5e editions where chaos was divided into three factions.
But recently I’ve gotten into 4e and especially Warhammer Renaissance and now I’m very excited about the prospect of chaos soup, working in my just-started TOW beastmen project and expanding into the rest of chaos. Will hopefully document this boundless project here. At present, my plan is to keep this project distinct from my chaos dwarf project, which will be a strictly 4e-style bighat chorf army. Any 3e-style helmet chorfs will probably wind up here in the soup.
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This project began with my acquisition of the 4e Battle Magic and Arcane Magic sets. I was on the fence about going further and getting the chaos box but as I read the rules to chaos I realized how cool the chaos faction is in 4e and especially in WHR I decided to acquire the box and go all in on creating a force.
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Hopefully at some point in this blogging journey I’ll figure out how to take better photos because it doesn’t look this bad in person. Couldn’t find my basing materials so had to stop for the night without putting the ground covering on the base, but otherwise gonna varnish him and call it done. Will run it as a solo centaur character.
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I originally based these harpies to be part of a beastmen army.
Now that I’m going all in on 4e/WHR chaos soup I’m rethinking the basing. I made the centaur’s base to match (still can’t find the basing material, but it was supposed to look like the harpy bases once I do) but today I’ve been looking over these minis and wondering if I should instead go all in on goblin green.
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While waiting for the rest of my chaos minis to arrive, passing the time by agonizing over details. Trying to decide on a base rim. Pretty sure brown is out and just gotta decide between black and green. Leaning towards black right now.
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Best harpy models ive ever seen. I need some now!
I think black base rims look a bit unfinished so id go with green. Im using brown base green sides for my wood elves
80s is about colour!
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Thanks man. My wife was pushing pretty hard for green too. That settles it. Green it is. Glad to finally have a plan.
One step forward, two steps back:
I found the basing material so I can base future minis with the dirt/grass stuff. But I attempted to fix the centaur and it went badly. I decided I didn’t like his skin tone so I tried to lighten it and it went horribly. Too much grey in that paint so the lighter coats just got weird and grey and splotchy and I wasn’t sure how to fix it. Several coats later and it still looked bad. Into the punishment soup he goes.
I was already thinking about doing him over once I got my harpies out and realized I already went for a deep red and black for them. A uniform color scheme seems inappropriate for soup. I just really love red and black that I instinctively gravitate towards it. Can you guess what colors I’m gonna use for my chorf army?
Some new acquisitions recently so hopefully this will be the last setback before I start making some real progress and am able to get something close to a small tabletop force to throw at chitz.
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Progress stalled a bit but I’m back at it. Built up a bunch of 3D-printed Celtic Miniatures guys, only to drop and break a bunch of them. Think I’m going to limit the scope of 3D-printed resin on this and future projects. But I’ll use what I’ve got while I’ve got it.
This was my first time making a paper banner from scratch. I mostly just followed this guide from Josh at the Crown of Command. I’m no artist, but it still was easy enough to do. It was some of the most fun I’ve had in the hobby, and I look forward to dreaming up new and weird designs for all sorts of banners.
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First regiment completed. Love these little guys.
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And with this, I have 500 points of soup painted (by WHR’s reckoning)
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Not much of an update but I knocked one plaguebearer out.
Was hoping for more but when I primed the lot of ten, I blasted cat hair to 4/5ths of them and had to scrape it off with a hobby knife so now they need primer touch-ups. But at least I got to test the paint scheme on the one that was free from cat hair.
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Nurglings! I love these little guys. Celtic as well. I regret gluing them to the stands before painting. Made my work much more difficult, and made the final result not quite as nice as it could have been. But good enough.
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Just repainted the bases for these so I can take a better photo and man they’re rough looking. These were some of the first models I painted when getting back into mini painting and it shows. Might strip them and redo them at some point, but not while I’m still working on the rest of the army.
I suppose it’s only the flesh I’m bothered by so maybe some touch-ups are all they need.
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Not my best work but these guys were haunting me on my painting bench so I just cleaned them up quickly
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Decided I’ve painted enough to indulge in a family photo
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Especially excited to see these guys in action on the table
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