Warriors Of Chaos - Blog Posts

I just got this big behemoth! Tamurkhan on his Toad Dragon!

Chaos Warrior from Battlemasters! Painted up for Olden Demon season!

I just got a bunch more kitbash material this last week for the bits boxes!! Including this bag of metal riders!

Look at this Mordheim Warband waiting to be given lore!

Do you remember how there was several different origin stories for Master Splinter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Sometimes he was a rat that turned into a humanoid, sometimes he was a human that became rat-like? You know how Master Splinter predates skaven by a year? I decided to make a skaven if they had been humans that became rat-like! Happy April Fool’s whatever!

Join Chaos, we’ve got bad girls!

Some of my Warhammer Books!

Various Reaper Miniatures frost giants for use in my Warriors of Chaos army.

Here are some chaos units I kitbashed into existence using GW parts. Chaos marauders with great weapons, marauders with halberds, and marauders with javelins. I based the leader of the great weapons unit off of what I thought a chaos warrior would look like if drawn by Rob Liefeld so I gave him skinny Eldar legs and a big front plate shield. I based the leader of the javelin unit on Volgarr the Viking which I’ve never played but have watched others play. Looks hard but fun. I was thinking about Minotaurs when I made the halberd unit.

Also I’m aware Beowulf is a sword guy. This guy just looked like a Beowulf to me!

I found the first Warhammer thing I ever painted, these Eldar Warp Spiders, in 1995 or 1996. I didn’t even know what they were! I would get the 2nd edition 40k big box with the beloved mono pose space marines, space orks, and gretchin, as well as the ever infamous and tournament legal cardboard deff dred in 1997 which is when I consider my actual start in Warhammer. Here they are next to the last thing I painted for a competition, a Chaos Daemon Prince, in late 2024.

Here is my custom chaos champion on a dread eagle! I based him more off Moorcockian Chaos than Warhammer Chaos, but he is a champion of chaos nonetheless! I usually run him as a champion on manticore or chaos dragon if I feel like spending the points!

Throgg the King of Trolls and Harold Hammerstorm! I was lucky enough to buy Harry the Hammer for Games Workshop’s 25th anniversary in 2000. And Throgg I paid way too much to get in box on eBay. It was worth it to paint him though!!

The Mysterious Exalted Champions of Tzeentch! Aekold Hellbrass and Vilitch the Curseling! How long ago did this meeting of the minds take place? Or is this yet to come? Irrelevant in realm of chaos! I have a tendency to paint older miniatures more vibrantly than the modern counterparts, I’m hardly alone in this, but I kind of wish I had made Vilitch more old school looking. Tzeetnch looks better in oldhammer paint schemes.

Here are my Exalted Chanpions of Khorne! Valkia the Gorequeen and Scylla Anfingrimm! How many battlefields have these two bathed in blood and broken skulls for their father? Countless! I’d love to get my hands on the other versions of of Scylla as well. Both of these minis are Finecast models and here’s the thing…. Finecast…. Was fine by the time they discontinued it in favor of Forge world resin. But the original Finecast was garbage. I say this in case you ever come across a Finecast model on eBay. An Age of Sigmar label is usually a good sign that your Finecast is the better stuff.

Here his is! The big man himself! Archaon the Everchosen! The Grand Marshall of the Apocalypse and all his other final fantasy final boss titles! He really was everything a big bad in fantasy should have been and he had to fight with Grimgor, Malekith, and Mannfred for that spot. I bought this mini when he first came out and boy is he heavy. There isn’t a lot of empty space inside all that pewter. Archaon the Grand Marshall of Paperweights!

I needed someone for Grimgor to fight after all!

I’m going to start showcasing more of my Warriors of Chaos stuff for a while. Starting with this converted chaos champion who rolled particularly peculiarly on the Realm of Chaos tables.

I love this guy.

A Fimir shaman that rolled particularly well on the old Realm of Chaos mutation charts!

Some tips for hobbying while being cheap and neurodivergent:

If you, like me, pick up cool rocks and want to show them off and have cool terrain at the same time: glue them into cool piles on a piece of cardboard to make landmarks. People have been stacking large rocks in piles for millennia to mark trails and denote distances. And now everyone can see your cool rocks on the tabletop!

Do you ever worry about mixing up too much Green Stuff or Milliput? Have a leftover epoxy putty project. Don’t rush it, it’s just where you put all the leftover stuff. It doesn’t look like much now, but one day I’ll have a four armed, two headed Chaos Giant because I keep mixing up a little too much putty!

Do you ever want to do make statues for your terrain, but you don’t want to sacrifice a whole mini to make one? Glue extra horns and weapons onto Knights and Warriors style army men from the dollar stores! You’ll have some convincing statues after just a prime and a dry brush or two!

Skullvane Manse! This is the third of my big trio of Warhammer Fantasy Battles big towers. This came with an option to make the tower into an observatory and at the time I thought that was less cool, but these days I think the observatory sounds pretty rad and I still have the dome so I might be due to make one sticking out of a mountain or something!

The Dreadstone Blight! I put this one on a base which I carved deep drainage ditches into. I was going to fill it in with a clear resin or something to simulate water but I decided the elevation didn’t make a whole lot of sense. I’ll revisit it someday.

The Witchfate Tor! I painted this a long time ago around whenever it came out. It’s due for some touch ups! The “statues” are game pieces from a TSR Hobbies board game called “Dragonstrike” that I bought at a surplus store called Ax Man. Back then I was a smoker with a Redbull habit. Nothing some steady dry brushing and spot detailing couldn’t fix!

I also have the ruined version, the Dreadstone Blight, and another tower whose name escapes me. Not the Deathknell Watch, the other one with the asymmetrical construction that could double as an observatory. Let me know if you know the name!

Some miscellaneous minis that I’ve painted!

I love when Grimgor Ironhide checked the hubris of both Valten (and Karl Franz) and Archaon the Everchosen at the conclusion of the Storm of Chaos (global) campaign for Warhammer Fantasy Battles 6th Edition. Just smacked both of them around to prove a point and then left. What was that point? That both of them had made a terrible error not considering Grimgor and his ‘Ardboyz as the main threat.

Also Vardek Crom trying to take his army through Sylvania was equally a dumb idea.

Here are some very old paint jobs from when I played in that campaign!

Khorne Juggernaut!! From 2023 or 2024!

For Pride Month last year (2024) I did everyone’s favorite Slaaneshi Smokeshow: Stupid Sexy Sigvald the Magnificent, in both his Warhammer Fantasy, and Age of Sigmar versions.

Chaos War Mammoth that I painted a few years ago!

Close ups of the Warriors of Chaos army. Still need to finish basing a lot of them.

The games room.

(Most of) My Orcs and Goblins army is on the left and (most of) my Warriors of Chaos army is on the right inside three Warhammer Fortresses.