Chaos warriors part 2...

My first three miniatures was a good start, and they made me want to build more.
Here I have the 12 man strong start of a mortal chaos army. This will also include chaos knights and special troops (haven't decided what kind of special troops yet though, so suggestions are welcome).
After this picture was taken the boys had their final brush-up and the bases finished with static grass. I kept the colors exactly like on the first three, but stayed away from the ink this time.

I've really fallen for the chaos warriors, and I have three more boxed sets to build for now.
One of the sets will be exactly like this lot, but without the standard bearer and musician. I figure they can both go as one large unit, at least on paper. Don't know if it will be allowed in-game though, but I don't worry too much about that now (I can always make a standard bearer and a musician later if I need to). The third set will be done in silver (or chain mail) and gold, all armed with shields and swords. The last batch will be done with some red (though black will still be a primary color), armed with axes, to look more like followers of Khorne. I will have to do some thinking on the silver and gold batch to make them recognizeable as the same chaos army. The great thing about building an "undivided" army is that it's ok to mix elements from all four chaos beliefs and build a strong army to make life hard for future opponents...
There is a new rulebook out banning the use of deamons, but that doesn't bother me much as I already had opted them out of this army. There is rumors of a new rulebook this fall, so I will have to see what that book says before I buy more units than I have on the shelves at the moment.

In the beginning...

Once upon a time there was a little boy (well not that little really)...
He came across a box of three small figures that seemed easy to assemble. But the most important thing for him was that they looked cool. He already had glue from building a lot of 1:35 scale models, and he had a lot of brushes to paint them with. So he bought the box along with Citadel paints, and that was supposed to be it...

This not so little boy was me, and I've just emerged from my workshop containing a whole lot of Warhammer boxes. The desition to buy just one box were changed to just buy Chaos Warriors and then changed yet again to only buy traditional warhammer miniatures. The final change (so far) includes also buying Warhammer 40.000 Space Marines (what can I say, I've got a thing for Marines).

On this pic the models are still missing the last brush-up and the bases have not been worked on yet. The plan was originally to use fine aquarium sand, but after trying that on some black orcs I ended up using a mix of two kinds of static grass instead. They have also been sprayed with matt varnish to make them ready for dioramas or gaming.

This was also a chance to try using inks, but it soon was clear that I didn't do it right. I've done a little reading on the subject now, and found out that I should try agiain on another model in the future. The result on this one still worked out ok, though it was a little messy. I've used chestnut ink on the gold on the shield of the left warrior.

It was important for me that these miniatures looked quite mean, but still passable as goodguys if I found someone meaner to use as enemies (and all of a sudden I bought some big, mean, black orcs).

This was a very simpe unit to put toghether, but it didn't leave much room for changing from the original scheme. But that was just fine for my purpose.
The color scheme used here will be used for my enitre mortal chaos undivided army. There will probably be some variations, but the main scheme is set.

I've used the following colors for these models:
The plated armor, the helmets, the boots and the shields are all Chaos Black.
The chainmail and the weapons are painted in Chanimail
The axe handles and the capes are painted Scorched Brown.
The golden details are pure Shining Gold, but the shield on the left has then been painted over with Chestnut Ink giving it a little more "used" look.
The fur on top of the capes is painted Graveyard Earth.
The horns and sculls are painted bleached bone.