It’s been ages since I last painted a chaos marine (in fact, looking back at the archives proves it to be almost exactly a year) – high time I cracked on and painted another one. This time it’s the turn of a chap so enthusiastic about burning his enemies with his flamer he’s been warped by Tzeentchian flame himself. These are the perils of life within the Eye of Terror!
I’ve got a couple more sitting on the painting desk and finishing them would round out a squad of ten, hopefully it won’t be another year before I get around to them!
September 14th, 2020 at 10:29 am
Nice one mate. He looks the business
September 16th, 2020 at 11:30 am
Cheers dude! 🙂
September 14th, 2020 at 5:28 pm
Very nice- quite restrained for chaos but works because of it.
Cheers,
Pete.
September 16th, 2020 at 11:38 am
Cheers 🙂 For me, when I make a chaos model, I try to start off with something as restrained as possible, basically just an ordinary loyalist marine (perhaps in slightly spikier armour as in this case) and then work up, adding mutations and chaotic elements until he looks right. That way I’ve still got somewhere to go if I want to make something really crazy and mutated!
September 14th, 2020 at 6:19 pm
wow not painted one of these for yonks, looks good mate..
September 16th, 2020 at 11:48 am
Cheers! I know, it’s been absolutely donkeys since I painted one, funny to think that when I started out with this blog I thought it would be almost exclusively about chaos marines.
September 14th, 2020 at 10:34 pm
I like the color combinations a lot on this traitorous marine. They subtly match each other very well which is always what you want with an army. I wouldn’t mind seeing some of your chaos marine squads when you have some to show off! 🙂
September 16th, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Thank you! Well, if you’re curious you can find the rest of this guy’s squad so far here; https://convertordie.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/cursed-in-eternity-part-5/
These are all the ones made using the new models, there are pictures of the old models further back in the archive (lots of them actually) but I’m going to keep quiet about them (suffice to say that both GW’s model making and my painting skills have moved on a little since then but if you want a quiet chuckle at my expense/to wonder at how far I’ve come then take a nosey here and scroll down until you can’t face it anymore! https://convertordie.wordpress.com/category/chaos-space-marines/ ). I’ve got a couple more of the new ones on the desk so hopefully I’ll at least get this squad finished soon.
September 17th, 2020 at 11:57 pm
Thanks for sharing those links! The more recent ones look fantastic and the old ones don’t look bad, just a bit muddy/dark for lack of a better way to put it. There are a lot of people painting ultra grimdark these days and I think your older minis fit in that style that style but look a bit better than most in my opinion.
While scrolling, I saw tons of awesome conversions. I ought to look through there for inspiration and see if I can’t get an idea for a project of my own. I’ve been wanting to do some kind of Chaos Space Marine or even fantasy Chaos mini that is painted to a high level. I’m sure I’ll get to it as soon as I get those Ogres painted I’ve been wanting to do too… If only there was more time in the day! 🙂
September 19th, 2020 at 10:41 am
Well thank you again 🙂 I really like that grubby, John Blanche style of painting miniatures, but it’s easy to get wrong – I’ve seen some real works of art in that style, and just as many things that would be better forgotten. Certainly it influenced me a lot in the past, although I’d say that nowadays I have my own style.
Yes, you should definitely do something Chaos – your style would really suit it (and of course after painting that Dark Angel you need to make amends by painting one of the good guys 😉 ).
September 19th, 2020 at 7:47 pm
Yeah, the Blanche style is one where it looks easy but is hard to excel at I think it is fair to say. And haha, you’re right that the Chaos Gods have certainly been calling for me much louder after they thought I had fallen into the Emperor’s grasp 😀 I will definitely do some thinking on a cool Chaos themed mini I can paint 🙂
September 15th, 2020 at 4:26 am
Very nicely done as always but I can’t remember the others you done. Then again I couldn’t tell you what I had for dinner yesterday so that is hardly surprising!
September 16th, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Thank you! Well I can sympathise – it’s been a very long time after all (and to think that I started my blog thinking it would be all about chaos marines and very little else, mind you I think you thought the same thing about cowboys so you know how it goes). If you want to see the other chaos marines I’ve painted using the new (decent looking) models (as opposed to the old ones that I used to paint which were a long way past their best) then you can have a nosey at the rest of the current squad here (scroll down to the bottom); https://convertordie.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/cursed-in-eternity-part-5/
September 16th, 2020 at 1:35 pm
Ah ha, I did see them before! Conclusive proof if any were needed that I am indeed losing the plot! 😉
September 16th, 2020 at 7:54 pm
As someone who’s managed to get this far in life whilst having only a tenuous relationship with the plot I wouldn’t lose sleep over it 😉
September 26th, 2020 at 2:42 am
That’s a cute use of the flame effects coming out of his helm/head to form an echo of the rune of Tzeentch. 🙂
September 27th, 2020 at 7:34 pm
It’s cool isn’t it? It’s from the old Forsaken kit – which for my money had the best range of cool bits and the some of the worst completed models that GW has ever produced.
September 28th, 2020 at 12:19 am
Yeah, I remember those. They also packaged them with Catachan sprues/boxes at one point as an officially-unofficial kitbash kit. I don’t believce I ever got any of those. I may be wrong and there might be a single sprue or two somewhere, lost and damned and forgotten – but then again maybe not!