Chaotic Restoration - Characters! Project Complete!

 To the end - characters. Ages of these range between my having had them since the mid 90s through to converting one last year.

V nice to just sit and paint out 4 character models of an evening though. Especially, as being in mainly red armour, the undercoat does most of the work!

First up - ye olde Warhammer Quest Chaos Warrior of Massive Axe.

Not a jot of paint for 25 years. 

Ye Obligatory Classic Realm of Chaos Chap. 

Ebay job, from around 2008ish. Back when such could be bought for 99p free post and there was none of this OOP OLDHAMMER RARE fishing happening. Not painting until now, although I suspect he'd been stripped in the past before I purchased.

Ye Properly Used And Loved Model.

This fellow we've seen before, so won't linger.

Ye New Boy

Plastic! Knocked this up as a conversion last summer in a fit of NON KHORNE WEAKNESS, before seeing the error of my ways and embarking on this entire army restore as penance. The idea of a chaos champion of another god crossing the floor to join Khorne is a nice one though, so his background is sorted.

Group shot. Need to think of names for three of them, but time being what it is............

AND WITH THAT..............project complete! I might tidy up my demons at some point as well, but I think thats enough WFB painting for now. 

Next step? FIGHT THEM AGAINST SOMETHING.

Chaotic Restoration - Chariots

 Chariots and what was a Warshrine at the time of building, but will just be a chariot now (6th FTW!)

Enjoyed these, and knocked them out over the course of two evenings........so an hour each, then. 

God knows what I was thinking with the placement of the drivers back in the day, but thats how they were pinned and thats how they remain! Photos don't show it, but Mnsr Halberd is staring straight into the back of Mnsr Whip

Warshrine was an odd one - I woke up one morning with a flash of inspiration, got set to building and within an hour or so, I ended up with a carriage of SKULLS AND HEADS. Its been a bit battered and broken campaigned since then, never saw table use and never got any paint, so its nice to finally see it in a finished state.

Chaotic Restoration - Chaos Warriors

 Not so much a restoration, these, as they are new. I used to have loads of them in the past, but they all got binned. A chaos army needs chaos warriors, however, so hand in pocket (again).

I really really REALLY did not enjoy painting these! I actually like painting and paint every day if I can, but these were just awful. Should have been very easy as pretty simple, but they were just dragging the paint off the brush and killing momentum every time I picked them up..........which is very unusual for me. NEVER AGAIN.

With that, heres the current standing of the force. 

Chaotic Restoration - Chaos Knights

 Next up in the restoration of my old chaos army...............the Knights.

Chaos knights, iconic really, aren't they? I certainly always took a unit when this was a regular table force, although being Khorne, they'd often gallop headlong into some absurd position to fight some chaff. Khorne cares not where the blood comes from.............even if its 10 skinks.

So, this is how they looked originally.

Not too shabby on a couple of them - that made a decent base coat, and the horses were in pretty good nick from when I last repainted them around 2008ish, looking at that snow basing. The brown bases? That'll be 1998ish.

Couple of things in here:

1. That metal horse in the middle and its rider. I never built nor assembled that, nor did Roger the Todger who I sourced the items from, Back In The Day. Had a good look at it, thought about what I could do to convert or paint, and decided "nope, this is a duff model and theres a reason its been sitting untouched by three owners for 23ish years". Into the grave he went.

2. The other bare metal and plastics had been stripped by me in the past, so were easy to work with and suss out what should go where and with what. However, I did some repositioning on the 5th edition Knights as, much like the plastic warriors from the time (long binned by me), their heads came out of their chests rather than proudly on their necks, held high and proud, so a minor piece of work to amend that.

3. Banners. I absolutely need to do banners this time around! The thinking used to be "I'll do the army, then do all the banners at the end", but how often did I complete an army? NEVER, thats when. Unlike now, but I did the banners at the same time.

So, after a pair of hours assembling and a couple of hours across two evenings work, here we go with the restored Knights.

Very happy, once again. This lot is going to ruin someones life/village/head/day!

Here they are with Arbaal leading the way...........

Coming along nicely. Next up..............some heavy artillery.

Chaotic Restoration - Arbaal

 Some time ago, I posted about retrieving my old chaos army from a friend who I had donated it to in the past, and subsequently was enough of a gentleman to return it to me.

https://themosquitoonthetenthfloor.blogspot.com/2021/05/chaotic-restoration.html

After a pause in this, I'm finally getting around to making these into the chaos army I always wanted, but wasn't really able to in the past for various reasons (laziness, generally)

First up - Arbaal. THE Khorne bad boy to end them all, Looking thus:

HARDMAN

My Arbaal, however was in a bit more of a sorry state:

I'd already stripped the paint of him around.......2010ish, I think? Around then was when I was more willing to get things stuck into the Dettol. The Hound came like that, and was a classic mid 90s style paint job, painted by someone else, but not too thickly. 

"Fine", thinks I, "can paint straight over the top of that, nay bother".

So, an evenings work later and Arbaal is now ready for his return to the tabletop:

Banner pole is long long gone, but thats no major loss. Obviously, if I had it, I'd be painting a suitable livery for him, but as theres no pole, theres no point and the model looks pretty good without it.

Very happy with this one, very happy indeed.

So, the Khorne army has its general! Now onto the next units that take my fancy.

Chaotic Restoration

 "So, mate........you remember that chaos stuff I gave you about 7-8 years ago?"

- ".......yeeeaah?"

"you still got it kicking about? You done anything with it?"

- "yeeeaahhh, and no"

"any chance I could claim it back?"

"............    ......  .. .    ...... yeah, I suppose"

AND THUS THE REMAINS OF AN ARMY RETURNS FROM THE WILDS

SO, the above is the remains of my once proud (?) Khorne army, which brutally fought its way through endless club nights, campaigns, skirmishes and the like. The demonic element still resides in the warp (i.e. my storage), but I gave or sold off lots of it many years ago when having a good purge.

Time for a restoration project! Although, in recent years, I've flirted with other gods and colours, I was and remain a red armoured beserker at heart, so its Khorne all the way and my faith is reaffirmed.

Lets see what we have left of this once mighty force (was around 8000 points back in 6th, before they split all the books up in 7th)

Ye mighty Hellcannon of doom. Yes, and yes. I once lent this out to a team member in a big battle and it misfired and blew up on the first shot. Some weeks later, he borrowed it again and it, again, misfired and blew up on the first shot. He shewed insufficient dedication to the cause, clearly.

A selection of knights, which I swapped in the late 90s for a pint of Courage Best.

A chariot and what was intended as warshrine. A spark of inspiration 'on waking one sunday morning around 2010ish saw me rise and build this carriage of heads throughout the day. Will counts as a chariot, I think.

The stragglers from where used to be 50 marauders...........now promoted to chaos warriors, I reckon.

ARBAAL THE SOMETIMES DEFEATED WHEN I HAD A BAD NIGHT. 

Yes! I picked this up second hand in a games show in Woolwich around 2005ish, I think. don't blame me for the orange, but do blame me for never repainting it.

Yes, it looks defeated.

Yes, it looks rather pitiful.

Yes, its battered.

BUT

These gentlemen have been through some serious wars with me, and the time is ripe for a return. Oddly nostalgic when I opened the bags and spied what was within, as strong memories here.

So, whats next? Well, I think I'll add a box of current chaos warriors to the force, plus some odds and sods I've had kicking around for a while, so there'll be two units of 15 warriors in there. That should be enough, along with the demons I've kept and can restore at the same time.

The exalted champion of the force - Obrist Weil - can return to his rightful fellows and has been seen in this parish before: https://themosquitoonthetenthfloor.blogspot.com/2020/03/khorne-warlord.html

Think I'll stretch out on the demons slightly, to get some colour variation happening. Decisions on how to base this need to be taken as well, as I rebased my demon legion of Khorne from squares to rounds in Lockdown last year, so I may continue with these (not the cav) and use those movement trays to rank them up.

The Good Book needs reference too: