the chaos tribe of Methil Flamecollar

I'll start a gnoblog for my growing chaos horde.

First some background on my general: an exalted hero of tzeentch on disc who is equipped with a collar of khorne and the book of secrets:

Methil Flamecollar, once a champion of chaos unnoticed by the chaos gods was pillaging a village once inhabited by an empire wizard who secretly worshipped tzeentch. Amongst the rubble of one of the houses he found a book. He felt the power within and when he opened it, he was instantly sucked into the realm of chaos. He found himself amongst countless daemons of each of the chaos gods. He proceeded to read a line in the book, and before he could even unsheath his sword a flaming sword appeared in his hand. His combat skill, combined with this magical sword were enough to slay all the minor daemons around him.

This drew khorne's attention, and he immediately sent a dozen flesh hounds in to test this warrior's skill. He bested them all, and took one of their collars as his own. Trapped inside the realm of chaos, Methil decided to aid his new patron in capturing part of nurgle's garden. While slaying all the plaguebearers with his sword and burning the garden by casting the fireballs he mastered from the book, a strange form appeared, shifting in appearance until it was an exact copy of Methil himself. It seemed this changeling creature was captured by nurgle in one of his plants, and soon after releasing him from his rotting prison Methil heard a voice, which claimed to be tzeentch. 2 weird flaming discs appeared floating about. The changeling jumped on one, and Methil was gifted with the other.

As soon as he mounted the disc, it took him out of the realm of chaos. He could feel the power of tzeentch flowing through his body, but leaving the realm of chaos took its toll. The collar lost some of its effectiveness in warding off magic, and the book left some of its power behind. Now he's only able to harness a small amount of its former power, but it has proven enough in his last battle.

Since then, sorcerers have felt his power, and have followed him in his quest for immortality. Tzeentch still has his eye on Methil, and has blessed the sorcerers with some of his own power, including discs to further their goals.

This will eventually be an all-mounted WoC list featuring all 4 gods, and here's what I have painted so far;

my first complete unit: a unit of khorne knights (the red looks flat in the pics, I know, but it's a lot darker and shaded IRL):


















the first marauder horseman of slaanesh:










and finally the first warhound:

i love the models and the fluff i cant wait to see some nurgle stuff though

simply amazing

Looks great, just one thing:
The right arm of the marauder horsemen is slightly displaced.
There is a very obvious distionction between the body and the upper arm.
You see it at the picture from the back.

Painting is great.

great looking models so far, arisen.

Great paintjobs and I really really like the purple color (that particular color tone)

Very nice paintjobs, can't wait to see Methil himself

pez

thanks for all the comments already

i cant wait to see some nurgle stuff though

well, here's the first knight of nurgle already












and I took some new pics of the knights of khorne; hopefully this shows the colors better;

I LOVE the sheilds on the red guys!

Genuinely superb! Some of your best models to date

JJ

Ok, now that it's daylight out I took the opportunity to take some pics of the khornies in the shade, because it seems a strong lightsource really ruins the paintjob on pics.

I decided to paint a character today, and it's none other then methil himself (note that the red is the same as the red on the knights, but the light source screwed it up again 

Genuinely superb! Some of your best models to date

JJ

Scrap what I said above, that Methil guy is your best ever model Truly wonderous

JJ

great work,i especially like Methil, its actually making me want to start WoC

here's the list I've been using so far, and am very pleased with it;

methil flamecollar; exalted hero
mark of tzeentch
disc of tzeentch
flail
shield
book of secrets
collar of khorne

sorcerer lord
level 4
mark of tzeentch
disc of tzeentch
golden eye of tzeentch
spell familiar

chaos sorcerer
level 2
mark of tzeentch
disc of tzeentch
infernal puppet

chaos sorcerer
level 2
mark of tzeentch
disc of tzeentch
power familiar
dispel scroll

core
5 marauder horsemen
mark of slaanesh
musician
flails

5 marauder horsemen
mark of slaanesh
musician
flails

5 marauder horsemen
mark of slaanesh
musician
flails

5 warhounds

5 warhounds

special
5 knights of chaos
mark of khorne
musician

5 knights of chaos
mark of khorne
musician

5 knights of chaos
mark of nurgle
musician

5 knights of chaos
mark of nurgle
musician

Genuinely superb! Some of your best models to date

JJ

Scrap what I said above, that Methil guy is your best ever model Truly wonderous

JJ

I couldn't agree more JJ

pez

I had a battle again with the list last night, and somehow, chaos is all about ... well... chaos 

First turn, my sorcerer lord miscasts when trying infernal gateway. I get the "take a S2 hit" with my infernal puppet, and even though I'm T4, it still wounds me

2nd and 3rd turn, it does 4 S5 attacks and 5 S2 attacks respectively

But in turn 4, my sorcerer lord miscast again when trying to cast infernal gateway on a unit of graveguard with lord mannfred in it. I rolled on the miscast table, and rolled a natural 12, which I decided to keep with infernal puppet as he was already at 2 wounds and didn't want to risk losing him. So I go on to cast it with irresistable force and get 7 ... S12 hits, such is the power of chaos  . Needless to say his army began to crumble entirely.

Against an army with 17 PD, I failed to cast pandaemonium even once, which was kind of sad, but I'm glad about how it turned uot in the end.

Methil has proven himself to the chaos gods yet again in the battle, killing some annoying fell bats, and 2 corpse carts: one in combat - wish I had rolled flaming sword of rhuin, but I had to make do with my flail, and the other was taken down with a well-aimed fireball

It just seems that miscasting infernal gateway pays off. I was playing a game against DE a couple of weeks ago, and since it was the last turn, I decided to give infernal gateway a try with my lvl 2 sorcerer on 3 dice on a hydra. He miscast (yes, snake-eyes on 3 dice ), and rolled an 11 on the miscast table, which was altered to 12 by the infernal gateway

although a Khorne Lord on a flying saucer is kind of blasphemic in my head, I think you pulled off the conversion really nicely. Where did you get that skull-helmeted head? It doesn't look like the one from the Chaos Warrior box...

Thanks

 - Kyte

Either the Khorne lord on foot or the one on jugger

JJ

I know it's blasphemous (at least in the old fluff, which I was used to as well), but you can't argue he looks the part

the head is the one that comes with the "new" khorne champion on foot (you can choose between this head, and the big khornate helmet)

the first unit of nurgle knights is finished;

Nice models yet again How did you do the skin on the shields? It looks superb

JJ

the skin on the shields is quite simple actually;

tallarn flesh basecoat
rotting flesh
"eyes" skull white
thraka green wash
rotting flesh drybrush

Awesome Thanks for that one mate I'll give it a go

JJ

np, hope it works for you

painted the first unit of warhounds today

Love the champion <3

pez

the disc is awesome, i love that model, and with the disc that looks like a horshoecrab, it ridic, nice work

the first unit of slaaneshi marauder horsemen

the second unit of warhounds is also finished;

Those look great. Could we have an army shot?

TMD is on a POSTING SPREE!!!!

This army is looking really good, and I really like the khorne lord on disc.

For now,

TMD out

Seriously, I leave for a few days, and you go painting crazy You knock out units quicker than Iknock out single miniatures  Well done, superb once again!

JJ

call it khorne's blessing - he frenzied me for a while 

Could we have an army shot?

sure... when it's finished 

Love the Nurgle models, the paint job is great! love the green.

second unit of marauder horsemen done -

models painted for 2250 army; 31 / 49 , so only 18 more to go 

youre painting skills are amazing! you truely are a good painter!

Wow, the detail on the maces made me fill my pants with ENVY.
Excellent painting, bud.

I really like Methil Flamecollar, I think you pulled of the conversion well...and the very idea is the epitome of the new warriors book...the ability to use a khornate item (the collar) with a primarily Tzeentchy character in the rules! Looking good so far

it's been a while since the last update, but I got a little bored with painting chaos, so I continued my high elves and tau a little bit before painting my sorcerer lord of tzeentch on disc;

thats stunningly awesome! wery nice!

Superb! You get better with every new model

JJ

The Lord of Tzeench looks great, I just want to make him a cream cracker out of Green Stuff

Very well done. That robe really is quite impressive.
The robe and disc are too close in color, they just kind of blend together. I don't know if you mind, but it's the sort of thing that bugs me. Some purple/pink in the disc would be nice.

The robe and disc are too close in color, they just kind of blend together. I don't know if you mind, but it's the sort of thing that bugs me. Some purple/pink in the disc would be nice.

That's actually what I was going for . I wanted the disc to look like it's changed its colors to accustom to its new rider.

There's still enough difference though IMO - the disc is darkest in front, which is where the sorcerer is lightest, and the back of the disc is light, while the sorcerer's back is dark.

I had a sneaking suspicion that was so. Well, you pulled it off well then.

looks awesome, good colour scheme!

It's been a while, but here's a long overdue update on the progress of the tribe; my last 2 sorcerers of tzeentch on disc.

here's the first one; a sorcerer who delights in terrorizing his victims instead of just outright killing them, which has earned him the favour of slaanesh, even though he was already marked by tzeentch














and now for the last one - the sorcerer who discovered a weird mix of magic and illness; plaguefire:

awesome models mate! i love the nurgle one best!

Well done arisen. I like the look of sorcerers, and the monochromatic scheme, it's like they formed themselves out of pure warp energy and the entire model is one creature, rather than a creature wearing armor and riding a disc.

They are superb! Really quite incredible Especially the nurgle one

JJ

Really nice army! i also really enjoyed the fluff ^^

Really good work Arisen, love the work on the nurgle guy but can't help but think that both him and the Slaaneshi one could have done with a little conversion work to 1) affiliate them with their patrons a little more and 2) make them a bit more different from each other

Lovely!  I love your colour choices, very cool models, and the tentacley things look great. Nice work!