Chaos Army No 4: Undivided Warriors

I really like the way you painted the skin on the Dragon Ogres.

Thanks Sweet_Totally.  The dragon ogre colour scheme is based on the chaos troll one from the 6th Ed Beasts of Chaos release.  (Red scales, black flesh, off-white belly).  I think I actually more or less followed the GW recipe (very unusual for me) the first time I did it but now i'm stuck trying to replicate it 18 years later without the contemporary paints.  Getting something near enough though.  WIP photo of the 3 current ones i'm now working on below (2 layers done on the off-white, 2 more to go), these had been sat round undercoated for about 8 years.  Need to get an order in for another 3 to complete the unit - I like the models and am enjoying painting them though the faces of the old ones have much more character.

6 current Dragon Ogres (finally) finished now, plus my Shaggoth (I originally painted him say 12 years ago, just repaired him and touched up the paint job a little)

Beautiful army. I really like the vibrant splash of colour the marked units bring in.

Awesome looking army

This is an update post on work in progress but also a warning of the perils of mission creep.

I'm often torn between progressing my chaos armies that are already armies in being, developing smaller armies to that level or out and out finishing armies.
So far i've not actually finished any because none of them are quite close enough where I could get it done in one quick push.
The undivided warriors (along with the Nurgle Daemons) have been the closest for a while.
I finally finished off my old metal Dragon Ogres early this year prompted by taking them to a tournament.  I enjoyed painting those so rode the momentum into getting 6 modern ones done as well - which broke the back of what was outstanding for this army.  I was close enough to make that push to get the army finished!
I prepped what was left (all from the stash): mounted chaos lord; warshrine; 5 metal chosen to add to the existing unit of 13 to finish that off.

Even at my current slow pace it won't take me long to get those done, surely.  There's only 7 models and 5 of them are infantry.  Even adding in the Emang sculpt of Kholek I bought (not pictured as it's been printed in dayglo yellow and i've not prepped and primed it yet) is only one extra (very large but quite simple) model.

Then misson creep happened, because if I'm going to finish the army i've got to finish it properly.  Of course I do.

That's Khagra's Ravagers at the front - been tempted by that set for a while and I decided I needed a proper cadre of dedicated characters for the force in case I play campaign games with them where I could use say a different exalted hero for each game.
And there are 12 chosen there now.  Decided a unit of 18 just wasn't chunky enough and I wanted 24.  2 more metals off ebay for semi-reasonable prices and one set of the finecasts before they go oop and bob's your uncle.  Second from right in the back row is a standard bearer conversion because i've decided the actual chosen standard model needs to be the BSB full time.
I can still just about cope with these additions though it's now looking (with the warshrine and Kholek) like about 6 months work.

But the threat of even more mission creep lurks, and it is twofold!

Firstly, I still want the start collecting Slaves to Darkness models.  If I got the knights from that i'd have to get the new box with command options that is coming out too.  And if I managed to rank up the warriors to add to my hw/sh unit i'd then be getting tempted to split the halberds into 2 units adding extra models.  At least I don't like those new warriors holding their halberds halfway down at an angle so I'm not tempted by those.

And i'm tempted by the idea of a Monsters of Chaos list all painted in the same scheme as my Drogres and led by Kholek.  Add a Throgg stand in and a bunch of trolls to fill core.  Get some lizard theme chaos hounds for chaff (options here are the 5th ed scaley sculpt hound, and 5th ed flesh hounds without the ruff), paint the Chimera in that scheme and away we go.  If I did do this it would really be a another army in it's own right and i'd be up to [redacted] planned chaos armies.  Insane.

Well mission creep (to the max) predicatably occurred.

Did have 2 units of 20 warriors plus a spare command group.  Now planning 4 units of 20.  First 18 extra troopers to complete 2 of those 4 units below.  Finished these about a month ago and been working on Khorne since, will update that thread later.

8 more halberd warriors (made with the official upgrade kit) to go with the 12 i already had.  Disappointed to spot mould lines right there on the helmets on these photos i'd not spotted the entire time I was painting.  Fortysomething eyes for you.

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And the complete unit.



And 10 start collecting hw/sh models.  They are lovely models.  Managed to graft them onto the front of my existing standard warriors - they do have to be in those specific positions to rank up though.

And the complete unit.