Chaos Warriors

“A Chaos Warrior needs not food, drink or sleep, for he is nourished by the carnage that he wreaks. His home is under the cold, uncaring skies. His bride is his blade. He is no longer human — rather he is a living weapon.”

Always wanted to play Warhammer ever since I knew it existed, but never had mustered up the resolve to put down the money and paint the masses of soldiers.

I heard an interview with a Press Ganger in August who mentioned that the Privateer Press studio Epic Eyriss was painted masterfully in 6 hours. It gave me tremendous motivation to start painting minis again. Also I played my first Warhammer Fantasy game with Phil’s Empire and Orcs, and liked it a lot for the formations and their tactical implications. Definitely different from all the mini games I’ve played. Finally I was convinced by my Waterloo game group in September and decided to start a Warhammer Fantasy army. Obviously I chose the heavy-hitting and heavily armored Warriors of Chaos, who in my opinion looks the best, with Dark Elves and the new Skavens closely behind (the new Beasts of Chaos might be pretty cool too) (Daemons of Chaos are cool too).

Bought the Warriors of Chaos battalion box, which includes 12 Chaos Warriors, 20 Chaos Marauders, 5 Chaos Knights, and 5 Chaos Warhounds. Opened it excitedly and for the past almost a month and a half I’ve been working on the 12 Chaos Warriors, meanwhile trying to improve my overall painting time. In the end, I totaled 78.5 hours at the completion of the whole unit. Breakdown of the hours is as follows:

Preparation 8.5h
Assembly 3h
Basing 2h
Painting 65h

78.5 hours might seem like a long time, but this is with 12 models, from cutting the first piece off the spruce to basing the painted and assembled models. My previous time records (averaging 30 hours for the Warmachine minis) only included painting, so this means on each Warhammer model I spent 5.41 hours on painting in contrast to 30 hours on the Warmachine models. Granted I definitely glossed over some details during painting, but they still seem pretty good in these photos.

Next up: 5 Marauder Horsemen. I really love the look of the Chaos Knights and can’t wait to start working on them, but I want to get as much practice as possible on the lesser units. Never painted horses, this will be interesting.