The Lost Maiden

The Lost Maiden - A tragic tale. . .

She was a beautiful young girl who’s life was unfortunately to become a plaything of the chaos gods. Born blind, she learned how to survive, being a resident of the far flung planet of Null, lying on the outer most reaches of known space. . .

The girl had the misfortune of wanting to travel amongst the stars, Null is a frozen planet and entirely hostile to live on and so it was with the mind of seeking a better way of life that the girl stowed away on a merchant vessel. . .

The vessel unshielded as it was fell pray to the creatures of the warp, the girl’s fate however was decided by the chaos god Slaanesh, the god saw something in her divine beauty, and decided to make her his plaything. . .

Knowing nothing of the universe apart from the planet Null, being as it is completely blank to the warp for reasons unknown, the girl had no concept of other such beings, thus it was that Slaanesh was able to take her and mould her in his image without any concept of this event being known to the girl. . .

Father Nurgle learned of this beautiful creature who now, albeit unknowingly served Slaanesh, with the knowledge of the girl, father Nurgle took it upon himself to steal the girl away from Slaanesh, jealous as he was of the girl as a plaything. . .

To deceive the girl, father Nurgle sent a plaguebearer to visit her, under the influence of a powerful glamour, the daemon appeared to her as an elderly woman, bearing a lantern, this she told the girl would light the way and allow her to see, even though she was blind. . .

All that the elderly woman asked of the girl was that she picked an almighty flower for her, knowing not of her transformation or the true identity of the old women, the girl reached out with a claw and picked the flower, in fact, she had just removed the head of the plaguebearer. . .

It was at this point that father Nurgle’s plan came into fruition, the girl picked up the lantern as promised by the elderly woman, even as she did, the corruption of father Nurgle started to spread through the lantern and through her claw arm that had just removed the plaguebearer’s head. . .

It is to this day, that she wanders on the frozen planet of Null anathema to daemons as it is, her own complete lack of awareness of her true nature shielding her from this, her lantern, cruel a bell of plagues in reality, guiding her through her dark world and lighting the way for this unfortunate puppet of the dark gods. . .

Another finished model! The Ice Warrior cometh. . .

Better late than never. . .

I promised I'd upload a photo of this little lady from my Golden Demon attempt for this year so here she is. . .

On my way for skulls, a path to glory chronicle

Hi ! As usual, Games Workshop and The Black Library offer some nice stuff around Christmas in The Advent calendar . And this year, I was really pleased to see some old rules adapted to the Age Of Sigmar : The Path To Glory (Still avaible here).

I can't renember exactly when, but I think the rules were published in some White Dwarf issues in the early 2000 (?) .

The original cover with Engra Deathsword, Butcher of Praag...

And the new one, less attractive, but the main one is in the content 

So... a new year... new rules... new reasons to cut, glue and paint some plastic... Well I'm in !

One other point, and not a small one, is the new GW "Lowcoast" boxes :

39 minis for 160€... instead of 220€ ... well done, good deal !

And the last point... what some friends began to do with the Chaos goodies showed in the excellent "The Convertorum" from my friend Johan... Both Jeff Vader (Nurgle), Nordic (Tzeentch), Alexander (Slaanesh) and of course KrautScientist (Khorne) started some awesome warbands ! Please treat yourself to Chaos and have a tour here or here to admire their creations. And don't forget to keep an eye on Tommy's excellent blog to see his impressive warband.

That said, I'll roll my dices... See ya.

A special featuring.... Mister Vader's warband

Hello!

I'm Jeff Vader and Legatho/Manu has kindly asked to present my chaos related warhammer stuff on this fabulous blog. I mostly focus on 40k but have recently done quite a few fantasy themed models. There's something that makes chaos more compelling in the fantasy setting - purer somehow. 

We start with my nurglii warband, led by the egregious champion Mawgut Gloop.

His lieutenant Skytho Spasmodius and standardbearer Fladdrus Flatulus. 

A heavily mutated chaos thug (or beastman - it's hard to tell) and two chaos gobbos who have sort of just tagged along.

When the winds of magic grow strong they're also joined by the daemon Poxgut. 

There's also a third chaos warrior in the works, plans for more beastmen and a big guy or two -perhaps a heavily converted minotaurs or chaos trolls. Or one of each. 

So that's the Nurgle part of my foray into the Realm of Chaos. 

But I've also started work on a rival tzeentchean warband. The only model done so far is the Champion Mandragore Warpfeather. 

I'm taking a lot of inspiration from Realm of Chaos: Lost and the Damned for these two projects. The idea is to create warbands with an oldschool feel but mainly built from the new plastics. 

Hope you all dig!

Cheers

/Jeff Vader

If you love Jeff's work take a tour on his blogs : Convertorum and Johan Egerkrans

So many things to do...

Did I told you we are legion ? Some months of work... maybe years... waiting on my desk.... thanks to friends, sales and shares...I was just asking for bitz.... I have more than an army

Off with their heads!

Down the Ashen Stairway,

'Cross the Sour Glen.

 We daren't go a wander,

For fear of the Headsman.

Ancient Norscan Rhyme

Loki on undead mechanical dragon by Julian Bayliss

This was an idea to give Loki an equal footing against Thor in a physical fight. I wanted to create a mount for him to lead his armies against those of Odin.

I could have spent alot more time creating this, but i made it when i was in the middle of my project and eager to get onto the next models! So the conversion is simple and not immediately noticable.

The main part fot the undead mechanical dragon, created by the chaos dwarfs for loki, is the heldrake.

I used the Spare head i had from the zombie dragon kit, added 2 dragon wings in amongst the mechanical ones and put a bone tail on the end, also one or 2 smaller details to embellish it.

I used the vampire torso from the same kit and the horned head of the chaos lord from the metal juggernaut kit. I liked the idea to make Loki more evil in appearance, so wanted the horns to be growing from his head rather than being part of an elaborate helmet. This is warhammer after all!

I didn't spend long on the conversion as i had lots of other projects i wanted to get on with.

My school report for this, Good, but could do better! Lol

Wings

"Thorns and...s...stings 

And those such...things,

Just make stronger

Our divine...w...wings!"

-Karl Gehrmann

Former Patient of the Order of Shallya, Altdorf

A Fly on my Desk - WIP

"Buzzing. Incessant Buzzing.

Why won't it stop. Make it stop!

I close my eyes and it is all I hear.

I can not stop it!

Make it stop!

Why won't it stop!"

- Karl Gehrmann,                

Former Patient of the Order of Shallya, Altdorf                 

We also have contributors

Hi slaves, here's a pic from Ronin Klaus, posted in our facebook page... Stuning!

We're glad to see some other chaps work. So do not hesitate , post yours now !

LEGATHO

Soon....

"One day they'll be mine... Oh yeah, one day they'll be mine...." Wayne Campbell

Odin, Thor, Bor....

Some of Julian's recent Chaos stuff based on the Norse mythology. A tale of fur, horns, metal, bones, snow and blood...

Odin

Thor

Bor

Heimdal

Volstagg

Valkyrie

What is the "New Realms Of Chaos" blog about?

Thor by Julian Bayliss

Hi everybody, Legatho's speaking. I create this blog to show you a brand new project. Julian Bayliss and I have several things commun... a painting style ( he's a bit my master after all ), some love for kitbashing, John Blanche art in general and the Chaos ! So, after some years, we got the idea of this blog, featuring our minis around the Chaos theme. Hope you all enjoy it !