WFB Chaos. Knights of Tzeentch

Inspired by the knights of Tzeentch from Realms of Chaos Hardbacks and new notes from the Liber Chaotica.

Lava bases. blue and purple chaos lighting. So have blue source lighting from underneath of silver metal armours.

Probably my highest priority in this army is quality. Its where I apply everything I've learnt from my others. I hope the army to be full of centerpiece level units. Many conversions and even from scratch sculpts are included. I feel one of my main strengths in warhammer is army design but this army is as much driven by what will be a good model to convert and paint as strategy. None the less I think this fast moving, magic heavy army will be highly effective in battle as well as impressive to gaze upon.

This is a work in progress and this site shows many of the stages gone through in the conversions.

In general this will be one step behind the skaven, as I have to practice on the ratties, but done to higher detail.

4310. plus magic items. maybe+517

Army


Hounds in the lead, two squads of knights main fighting power. Furies. Horrors.

Chaos Hounds



Ray. Needed bigger ears
I intend to sculpt another squad of hounds based on Gracie .
  • carrying a snotling
  • sniffing the ground tracking
  • back ridge all puffed up being vicious
  • sitting, leaning on someone
  • lying down, looking noble
  • curled up asleep
  • 'pat my tummy'

    Chosen Chaos Knights.

    I used bretonnian horses because they looked cool. very dynamic and big looking. This meant I needed stuff to do with the knights.

    Armour bolter, followed by a blue wash, gold detail, horse caprisions vary. Light sourcing from where the hooves strike the ground.

    Antlers

    A fairly simple yet I think cool conversion of a bret knight to the true way. Made his gay bretonnian hat thing a hood over his helmet with antlers poking out. Also beefed up his armour a bit with shoulderguards. Gave him a cloak from the old chaos warriors sprue. And the long sword was carved from a lance warmed with a lighter and bent.
    Horse is pretty minor conv. Spiky headpiece and bells from a skaven plague monk musician, but that is one of main images I had for years from the RoCs books. The Knights of Tzeentch with bells and birds on their steeds.
    Its only recently I started putting any effort into horns. Top is bleached bone. A small ring of dark brown around the base lightly flicked up towards the top. Then more layers of bleached and lighter brown at top or bottom as needed. Final tip in white. Plus intermittent chestnut and black washes.

    Beak Face

    Face from an old horror I had never seen before I won it on ebay, his brothers in the horror swarm. CW cloak and shoulders. Bret knight legs. A fairly complete green stuff sculpt of torso. Made me much more confident to work on Kalgave. Technique: get into vaguely right shape, let cure 30mins, use a damp knife/tool to shape, put in feather slices etc.

    Tzeentch blessed this warband with a lot of birdlike mutations.

    Mask


    Asissi, An ex-bretonnian knight. Specialises in jousts, not tournament but full, spear thru the body, duels.

    His armour swirls with symbols of tzeentch.

    Bughead


    Blessed with many mutations showing Tzeentchs connection with the insectworld.

    Chaos Knights.

    I used the normal Chaos knights cos they are just awesome models, 1st thing I got of this army. The trouble was they are so awesome I didn't want to convert them. I changed the poses of the horses heads.

    Shown is the drying of very slightly diluted white Gesso. As you can see it does shrink down quite well especially if you check it at 30mins then an hour for blobs. So not effortless but a very nice paint holding coverage.


    Conv Knight.

    How to make cool chaos knights with Chaos warriors, bretonian knights and a little greenstuff.
    This should come out a pretty comparable price with normal chaos knights (since you're making 8) and you get the cool bretonnian horses, and few extra left over foot warriors.
    This guy gets a normal horse cos he's bulking up my not-chosen.

    Simple enough to start.
    Chop a chaos warrior in half at the waist, just at the level below his belt.
    Stick that on top of a bret knights legs.
    The cloak is the main conversion needed. Here just the backing is done.
    Then next, the outer folds once this has hardened to a nice base to work from.

    The cloak done
    Now how easy was that? One cut and two layers of really simple greenstuffing.

    Exalted Champ on Daemonic Steed. Captain Kalgave

    Not much to describe. I hope the progression of pictures is enough. Skeleton, muscle, skin. Wire and bitz skeleton to get the stance. Milliput initial muscle cos milliput is stronger and more importantly, cheaper. Milliput is sometimes used later, mixed with kneadatite(green stuff) if I need more hardness. In general the later layers of skin and detail are pure greenstuff as it is much easier to work.
    You'll see he can be split away from his steed by a RE magnet and attached to his legs if the steed is killed.

    theme music



    On foot

    Chaos Warriors.

    Slowly bringing up the rear to take and hold ground.
    A collection of the various eras. Same paintjob as the knights, and all other plate. Bolter, blue wash, gold detail.

    The World is my Bitch Auxillary.

    Marauders with great weapon.
    I'm really not a fan of the marauder models. Plus this army is supposed to be drawing together followers of tzeentch from all over so the marauders are a good opportunity to show that.
    I was looking at the sisters repentia as cultists and at the shop everyone said 'oh yeah they'd be great slaaneshi cultists'. Why in the abyss are female chaos worshippers always of slaanesh? Do chicks seem hyper decadent to you in general? No, but they are often sneaky, political and willing to use their feminine wiles to get their way. :) Now that sounds like Tzeentch.

    The Ninja Monkies.

    Followers of Tsein-Tsen from the east. Beast Herd.

    The Pirates.

    Vicious competitors with the Ninjas. Marauders.

    Furies.

    Fast movers, fairly cheap. And the best daemon in 40k CSMv3.2. Long live the Death Chicken!

    Lord of Change


    Horrors.

    From various eras. uniform horrors just seems wrong. I'll sculpt up some transitional horrors as well.

    Wolfen.

    Treat as Minotaurs. Followers of the foxgod. Act as support for the warriors. Hit enemy flanks and help with running them down.

    Riders.

    Marau Fast Cav. Similar scheme to the Ladies of TWIMBA. Basic fast cav. shield the important stuff, hold up peoples flanks. I might get another unit of these guys.

    concept pictures

    From the 1st Ed Realms of chaos books, Liber Chaotica, others paintjobs.