realm of chaos: blackened skies

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vanregiak rockfire

December 3, 2023

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Leader of the blackened skies, a chaos dwarf turned from the worship of hashut and to that of the dark prince. He now seeks to gain power and influance before leading the enlightenment of his fellow Dawi-zarr before turning all of malus into the same kind of industrial hellscape as the darklands, whether the rest of the world wants it or not.

So Vanregiak here started life as a heroforge design due in large part to the lack of offical chaos short minis and my not wanting to pay ebay prices, as for why I didn't go with a range from a differant company? well I never claimed to be clever or do things the easy way. fortunately for me i have a very cool friend of mine that was willing to do a little editing and subsequantly print me a few of my boy here.

So as can be seen his weapon was removed and some flame effects were added across the mini. This is to represent his burning body gift that not only means that my boy is made of fire but is also unable to use weapons of armour unless they are magic.

Next step, modeling the ensnaring tounge gift mr. Firerock here rolled. This is just a basic bit of green stuff rolled out flat and with the end cut to vaguelly resemble a snakes tounge; Slaanesh is the serpant after all. Nothing else too fancy at this stage just finally getting round to sticking him on a square and starting with my basing scheme, being the skull lands (guess what they're famous for) around Uzkulak [the place of the skull], by littering some skulls around.

So up next blocking out some colours. Intention here was to pull in aspects of the colours assosiated with the chaos dwarfs, the red, and the colours of slaanesh, the purple, as well as making sure that the rolled gifts and mutations stood out, mainly white.

The armour I had no special plans for and since it is techeniclly not their I only saw fit to give it a couple of layers of valajiho metal colour steel, with a darker steel for the inset spoulders. At some point I will probably go back and snaz it up a bit. The edging of the armour and the blades on his left hand are the result of pro acryil royal purple mixed with some metal medium.

The face and other skin I have painted in a dark gray to have slight resemblance to basalt. The idea here being that it is some left over cursing curtacy of the lord of tyranny, And a little refrance to the chaos dwarfs’ sorcerers turning to stone over time as magic is forced into them.

The red I want to say is citadel mephiston red, or somthing simalar. Again nothing special here since i’ll have my work cut out for me later so why not save some time here.

origanally the flames were purple but I ended up not liking the look so they were changed to be white, simalar to future mutations.

A bit of tiding up and some more added colour later we have a short king that looks somthing like this. I went with a ginger beared to help it to stand out against the face and tounge.

first senario down and we rolled ourselves a crab like claw. So I started with a claw hacked off of a deamonette sprue, since I have a few sitting around unused. I then used green stuff to build up the wrist a little since deamonette arms are very slender, rather approratlly for the deamons of the go fast faction of chaos. I also used some bits of green stuff rolled into sausage shapes to continue the flame effect onto the claw. With a bit of painting in white with druchii purple wash used like a stain, as well as a stripe of purple on the top side. I even managed to get some decent looking white flames with the purple pulled through them. I also got round to painting the base skulls and used a differant way to represent ash that I tested on Vanregiaks’ chaos hounds. The ash is a combination of pva glue, bicarbonate of soda and cheap white and black acrylic paint mixed into a graining gray mush. it looks alright for the layers of ash with skulls visible in varous stages of buried. and i think it looks alright though it dose have a way of getting on some places i don’t want it since i have no elagant way to get it onto the mini. I’ll throw some pictures up as soon as i’ve finnished scraping the stray ash peices off of everything.