Word Bearers Raptors #1 & #2

And lo', I bring you these bearers of the word of Lorgar.  Or, to the un-schooled, Word Bearers.

These are made up from various bits from Chaos Space Marines, Space Marine Assault Squads, Chaos Marauders, Blood Angels jump infantry (whatever those goths are called) kits, as well as resin conversion parts from MaxminiEU and Anvil Industries.

Once again I've used my scheme that I developed based around a description of Lorgar from the Horus Heresy series of books, and taken his penchant for applying gold to his face, and used it on the armour trims. Much better than the standard silver that our pals at GW seem to think is appropriate.

If any of you fools got beef with this, step to me. We'll settle this with a friendly game of 40k.

I did mean to post this up sooner, honest! But time gets away from a mudderfugger knowhutamsayin'?
Real life gets in the way. As does playing games of 40k and watching TV. And listening to high quality hardcore punk.

However, now Breaking Bad has finished (what an ending) and now Dexter has finished (seriously, they should have canned this trash at the end of the previous season), I find that I have a whole 2 hours per week to spare.

Word Bearers Raptor work in progress

Word up! This is a kit-bash / conversion from various loyalist space marine parts, chaos marine parts, a chaos marauder head and a maxmini.eu jet pack (these guys make some awesome conversion parts as I've said many times before!).

The paint job loosely follows the recipe I previously used on the few Word Bearers I completed a while back.

I think my favourite things about this model are the hair being blown to the side, which I think adds a bit of extra dynamism to the pose, and the torso armour from which I have roughly trimmed away an imperial aquila to give (to my mind) an impression of a salvaged and desecrated bit of imperial armour.

Anyways...

Word Bearers raptors W.I.P

Over the last week or so, I've had a bit of a kit-bash session, using bits that I had lying around the place. I decided that I'd make these Word Bearers raptors.

The main sources for pieces have been the GW Chaos Space Marines kit, jump packs from MaxminiEU, Steam Lord heads from Anvil Industry, and the legs come from both the GW Space Marine Assault Squad and the GW Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard.

There has been some trimming off of Blood Angels and general Imperial insignia and unnecessary Chaos spikey parts.

The results are as follows...

Death Guard raptors of flying Nurgle or something

So I also stuck some more things together.

This time, it's some Nurgle raptors for the Death Guard.

These are basically the Space Marine assault squad miniatures. I've scraped the Imperial Aquilla from the front of the torsos with a craft knife. I've given them alternate heads, which came from the Chaos Knights kit, and the Nurgle marine head from the chaos space marines kit. I've also given them each a Death Guard shoulder pauldron.  The miniatures are pinned to Forgecraft waterworks bases. Which I quite like.

I've tried to make the main squad look like they are either coming in to land on their jump packs, or like they are bounding over terrain features.  The squad leader I've tried to make a bit more dynamic, as if he's throwing himself forward and letting rip with twin bolt pistols.  Either I managed to pull that one off, or I didn't. Depending on individual opinion.

And now some photographic evidence that obviously involves stuff stood on a lunch box.