Vraks Renegade list available for download!

In case you hadn't seen it elsewhere...you can get the updated IA5 version of the Vraks Renegades list from Forgeworld.  They recently also released the Krieg list; hopefully they'll be going through the other lists from IA6 and IA7 soon too!

The Scythiak Usurpation - second wave of recruits WIP

We've had a few more roll in.

On the left is Notbrent, courtesy of Brent .  He seemed to arise out of certain people picking on each other, so I thought that the guy armed with a pick would be appropriate.  Maybe he can spend his energies on the servants of the Emperor and leave Brent alone.  He's an avid plunderer who enjoys long walks in burning cities.

In the middle we have Kantor Fett, who suffered serious burns and the loss of one hand from an Imperial Commissar's plasma pistol.  He strangled the Commissar with his other hand, and has since had the destroyed one replaced.  It's good for combat as well as for divvying up pizza. He's named for that malign Mandalorian, CounterFett.

On the right is Von Drakin, nobleman turned cult leader.  With time the Von Drakin family may have produced a planetary governor, but he has decided to take a quicker route to power by serving other masters.  One such master can be found at the Astral Wolves.

Not pictured is Franz Scorpus...because he's right behind you!  No, he's really not pictured because he hasn't been made yet, but when he is this brutal, bloody beastman will have been brought to you via t800a.

If you haven't selected your alter-ego in the Usurpation yet, check out the collected pics to help you choose.  And if you have a renegade or traitorous army of your own, let me know so I can a) enjoy it and b) add it to the Lost and the Damned Blogroll!

Lost and the Damned Blogroll

As you may notice from the side, I've reorganized my blogrolls a bit, adding a "Lost and the Damned" blogroll.

A casual search didn't find one devoted to this type of thing, so I decided to start one of my own.  While I doubt it will grow to anything like FTW (for one thing, I won't have time!), hopefully it can be a good resource for inspiration.

I've started the roll with a selection of blogs I already follow.  I'm certainly up for more, so if you know of some good ones pass them my way!

As the name implies I'm looking for blogs with content related to "Lost and the Damned" types of armies, as well as other Chaos renegade armies.  Traitor Guard, Blood Pact, Sons of Sek, Vraks Renegades, mutant hordes, cultists, Dark Mechanicus, renegade space marines, breakaway legion factions, radical inquisitors that went too far, etc.  Pretty much everything Chaos in 40K that isn't covered by the regular CSM legions or Daemons.  Straight up World Eaters?  I think people can find that sort of thing easily enough.  Soul Reapers?  Send 'em on over.

The blog doesn't have to be exclusively focused on such things, just some measure of relevant content. 

The Scythiak Usurpation - first "recruits" plus new Primaris (WIP)

Thanks to all who've responded to the call so far!  For those who haven't responded yet, there's still plenty of guys to name, so check out the link and see who you'd like me to name after you.

Here's who we have so far, aside from the previously-named guys like Astrakenor and Khonan. 

From the left, we have:

KILLGORE!, the Minotaur leader of the Chaos Ogryn, in tribute to ColKillgore.

Warchief "Papa" JJ.  May he be as generous in dealing death as the real Papa JJ is in giveaways!

Gyro, Prince of the Steppes, Tramplemaster.  May his battles be as varied as Gyro's own.

"Khorne Dog", techno-barbarian squad leader.  Coming to you courtesy of Da Masta Cheef.

Mors Vaul, Warpmaster, overseer of the sorcerer coven, brought to you by An Enemy.

On the far right is another sorcerer, the old "Hess Poisonbreath" that I forgot I had, but tossed into the mix.  He'll be another option for a Primaris Psyker, and is available for naming.

So far I've just been hitting figs with initial washes, and trimming some more flash and mold lines, especially as they become more evident  to my poor eyes after washing.  After I get everybody washed, painting will commence, with possible breaks for vehicle modeling.

The Scythiak Usurpation arrives! Collected army pics and cultist recruitment drive!

Here's the army so far all in one post.  If you've been following this from the beginning you'll have seen most of this already, but there will be a few new things.  For many of these, check out earlier posts for more pics.
Why am I putting all these up in one place?  One, I think it's nice to see everything at once.  Two, I need your help, and seeing them all will make it easier for you to do so.  Please see the end for how you can help...

Astrakenor and his retinue, company command squad with Straken upgrade, two flamers.  The acolyte with the speaker counts as a standard, amplifying and rebroadcasting Astrakenor's exhortations.  The priest with the chainsword had an =I= icon in his right hand which had to go.  Rather than just replacing it with a laspistol, I decided to turn the hand itself into a weapon.  Various =I= symbols on the henchmen filed off.

Psyker battle squad, bunch of Chaos sorcerers.  First five. 

 

Second five.  The one with the torch and book will be the Overseer.

For times when I want to run a Primaris Psyker, if I'm not running a PBS or just a smaller PBS, I may just use one of them as a Primaris.  Otherwise I'll break this guy out, a Heartbreaker Miniatures wizard.

He's not necessarily the most impressive guy, but I like him.  I saw this fig like a decade ago and always wanted one, but didn't know who made it or what it was called.  Over time I figured out that he was probably a Heartbreaker fig but couldn't find a pic anywhere, but recently found him on ebay.  Woot!  The long search has given him extra sentimental value to me.

Cultist platoon command squad.  Officer is a Dark Age Nathaniel fig.  I was originally going to use a PF, but decided to leave the sword, especially as it comes in a nice swinging pose.  Two flamers and two CCW cultists back him up.

 Cultist platoon infantry squads.  Meltagun, sgt with PW.

Oops, now I remember I still need to add a lasgun to one of those Eschers. Easy fix.

Cultist missile launcher teams.

Techno-barbarian heavy-bolter tough guys

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Vets, 3 meltas and powerfist.

Mortars.

Lascannons.

Spawn Riders (Sentinels).

Rough Riders.  See prior posts for more detailed pics.

Group A

Group B (incl a sgt w/double-bladed axe)

Group C (incl a sgt on left with pistol/chainsword)

Group D

Techno-barbarian platoon CO.  Powerfist, two flamers, two CCW.

Techno-barbarian platoon infantry squads.  Grenade launcher, power weapon sgt.

Squad 1, first half.  Sgt is guy with spiky mace.

Second half.










Squad 2, first half.  Sgt is guy with skull helmet.

Second half. 


















The Man with the Plan; Khonan.  Counts-as Marbo.

And last but not least, the Ogryn squad.

Group 1

Group 2


















Group 3

















And the squad leader.























Now, the building phase isn't quite complete yet, but all the infantry and such are done for what I planned on for the initial lists, unless I've forgotten something!  I still have to do the vehicles - a Hydra-equivalent, five Chimera equivalents, and a Russ-equivalent.  Then stuff will start getting painted!

I have plans for further expansions down the road, but will get this massive first batch painted first.  Some stormtroopers, more tanks and artillery pieces, maybe a valkyrie, corrupted PDF platoon, commissars, some Repentia as priests, maybe some other things as I think of them.

But now as I finish the building stage and gear up for painting, we come to the second part of this monster post, and part of the reason I went ahead and included so many pics above.  In short...

CHAOS WANTS YOU!

 

I want to give these guys names, and would like to incorporate you guys who've followed their progress and kept me motivated as an "audience".  So join up!  Join the Scythiak Usurpation!

What's involved?

As a follower of the blog, put a comment in this post or email me through my Profile here, and let me know who you want named after you, and what you want them named.  Could be your real name, your online handle, your favorite D&D character, whatever resonates with you.  

I do reserve the right to refuse particular names - I don't want to paint "Buttmunch" or something on my bases.  I don't think this will be an issue, but want to set some basic boundaries just in case.  If you get your pick in before I get the fig painted, I'll also try to accommodate things like skin tone and hair color if you specify and want them to look more like you.

I've already named Astrakenor and Khonan, and plan to name the backup Primaris guy because he's sentimental for me.  I'm reserving the minotaur for Col. Killgore, mainly because "Killgore" is just a perfect name for a minotaur.  But everyone else should be up for grabs. Get a piece of the army for yourself, and follow your exploits in my future battle reports, for good or ill!

So what'll it be?  A cultist?  A techno-barbarian?  Rough-rider or Ogryn?  A sorcerer?  Or do you want something related to one of the tanks, or reserve a commissar-equivalent?  The choice is (mostly) yours!

"Damnation's just another word for nothing left to lose."

Chaos Guard - more Ogryn and other gribblies

After working out with the first few how the arms positioned and how to make the guns the rest of the Ogryn fell together pretty easily.






Bear trap and shoota on the guy on the left.  I don't think you want these guys catching you, but if the trap closes over your head you probably won't have to worry anyways.  Big honking sword on the middle one - ever since the Ironguts first came out, I wanted one with the big honking sword and chainmail veil, so here he is!  Hasan chop! I may add a gun to his base, or just assume it's already run out of ammo and has been discarded.  Simple sword and gun on the one on the right.



Last group of three.  Another simple sword and gun, big choppa and gun, and gun with buzzsaw arm.  The saw is a nob arm attached with a greenstuff shoulder.  Ever since I saw that in the nob kit I knew I wanted it on an Ogryn.

Side view.

4 o'clock view.  Guy on the right has a whip from the Gretchin kit.  Whether he uses it to motivate prisoners or drag them into the buzzsaw is anybody's guess.  My guess is that dragging one into the buzzsaw would do a good job of motivating the rest.






I made the weapon change to the Minotaur, and was pretty happy with the new one.  Not entirely satisfied with the pose though, so I pried the hand off and repositioned the buzzy monstrosity to a more dynamic angle, and also added an extra meathook to the front for just a little bit of extra ickiness and to cover a bit of boring flat space.







So that's the Ogryn squad complete, barring any fiddling or extra bits I may slap on if inspiration strikes.




I also knocked out turning a couple of shotguns into pump-action flamers for the cultist platoon command squad.  Originally I planned on more gargoyle heads, but they looked too wide for the shotguns, and the Cadian flamers also have two barrels that lined up nicely with the shotguns.  A round bit of sprue serves as a fuel cannister.

Chaos Guard - First 3 Ogryn

Here are the first three Ogryn, with weapons and some stuff added.  This guy has one of those Ogre cesti and a Chaos heavy bolter as ripper gun. 

View from other side, with marauder shield on the back.

Next up is one of the guys with a defiler mask and blob head.  Ripper gun is an Ork shoota.  I originally was going to use guns more like big shootas or heavy stubbers, but they ended up looking too long.  A regular shoota looked too small, so I added the gargoyle head on the end and a little extra "stock" on the back to make it a little bigger.

Other view, with backup weapon/scalping knife on the back from the berzerker sprues and a maruader horsemen shield.

Drum-fed shoota, and big choppa.  Again, shoota has had some extra treatment to make it a little bigger.

Other views, showing side view of sawaxe and grenades on the back.  Hands are from the nobz too.

I have a feeling that these guys are going to draw a lot of fire.

  

Chaos Guard - Bullish about the Grim Future Redux

 I wasn't entirely happy with the axe the minotaur (which will be the squad leader for my Chaos Ogyrn) had, so I did some chopping and fiddling.

Here's what he had originally:

And here he is now:

Bottom taken from an Ork Nob, top from a Killa Kan.  Maybe directly, this guy looks like he might be tough enough to do it!

Another view:

You'll see more examples in future posts (and indeed have already seen many examples in this army) but this demonstrates one of the advantages of building multiple armies - extensive bits and bobs left over.  While a number of the things I bought directly for this army (like the Mino and the Ogres themselves), a lot of the extra parts come from stuff I already had.  I know not everyone has the capacity to do it directly, but see what you can do when you combine with other local gamers - trade that Ork player those extra bolters and jump packs for him to make some fancy shootas and storm boyz, and get his extra choppas and leftover dread parts for those Chaos marines you've been planning.