Call me cheap, but I consider it killing two birds with one stone. I designed the army to be able to function with either codex. You might have noticed that I used the term ‘Tactical / Chaos’. The idea of a green tabard would come from various inspirations, but the one that stuck is Violet Paint’s Blood Ravens. I had shaved off the Dark Angels iconography on their shoulder pads, but I left some more ornate details behind to help distinguish them apart from the rest of the army. So it’s back to painting – and to start things off I did a Tactical / Chaos Marine Squad that was lightly converted from the Dark Vengeance boxed set.
(honestly, if you have not been to the Miniatures Showcase room of Warhammer World, make it a point to go there. It would take a ‘pilgrimage’ to the ‘holy site’ of Warhammer 40k to instil the passion in me once again. Oh, I am going to have so much fun when I get to doing up Martellus, Galen… maybe Diomedes? Hmm.īut that was some time ago – I hit a painting funk and couldn’t pick up a brush, so every single project got stalled while I searched for my mojo once again. Expanding on that idea, I decided to explore the (sadly) non-canonical ending of the Blood Ravens falling to Chaos. Also, there was a huge hint in one of the Horus Heresy short stories that the founding chapter of the Blood Ravens was none other than… the Thousand Sons (I could go on and on about this theory).
I touched on this in the Havocs post – in the events of Dawn of War II, it was entirely possible that the entire chapter be consumed by Chaos following the ascension of Azariah Kyras – their Chapter Master. The main foot troops had to be someone who would follow Ahriman or a Tzeentch lord, and I picked the Blood Ravens for that. I have a Zombie Dragon Heldrake (which is still unfinished, woe be me), for example. I think you have heard the story before – I played a few games, discovered that some units are just -needed- in a CSM army, and got to work creating a Warband that would fit the theme still. I started out playing Chaos Space Marines with a distinct Tzeentchian / Thousand Sons theme. You have seen the Wolf Guard I did earlier – the next project I got on was doing up a simple Tactical / Chaos Space Marine squad for the Renegade Blood Ravens. Well, you -could- have started work on that Firestorm Redoubt…Īnywho, having just gotten back from the motherland of Warhammer 40k hobby (Nottingham, England), I was really, really inspired to start painting again. With legitimate reason this time – I am waiting to get my hands on some sculpting putty so that I can do up the lava flow on the Armies on Parade Terrain board.
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