Topic: My New Chaos Infantry

[Jehan-Reznor]

i like the whole WW1 feel to it.

[Meatshield]

Okay I been busy but here more stuff. These are my beloved cultists. Cheap. Expendable. Die in scores. Yet so many they can overwhelm enemies with sheer weight of numbers.

Imagine yourself as an Imperial guardsman. Your entire field of vision is filled with cultists charging straight for you.

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-10-15

Cleaver waving maniac

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-10-15

Maniacal Cultist with an old autopistol

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-10-15

Keeping the thread kicking.

[Fugitive]

Imagine yourself as an Imperial guardsman. Your entire field of vision is filled with cultists charging straight for you.

Well, I would be glad my Ld: is only seven, so I can run away.

Looks good Meatshield. You wouldn't happen to have a pic of one of your sweet looking bloodpact dudes (painted) as well?

[Greggor Sin, the Jolly]

What kinds of bits did you use on those cultists?  I really like the look, and may convert a few for my traitors...

Obviously I can pick out Ork weapons and Imperial Guard body parts... Marauder heads?  What else?

[Cripple, Whose Corporeal Form is Now a Shade of Blue]

hmmm... from the looks of it most if the torsos came from bretonnian men-at-arms (of whatever they're called). I think most of the heads are from empire miniatures. I definitely recognize some flagellant heads and some state troop heads. I dont think I see any marauder heads in there.

Nice work!

((P.S. is that an old chaos cultist model I see in the back there, one of the ones with the cone-shaped hood?))

[Meatshield]

Well, I would be glad my Ld: is only seven, so I can run away.

Not with a nearby Commissar you won't! Also I have not yet painted any of my new Blood Pact yet.

What kinds of bits did you use on those cultists? 

There are a ton of different types of bits I used on the cultists. I mainly use Bretonnian men at arms bodies for my cultists although I have used some some state troops I got for free at Gamesday. For arms and weapons I usually use a mix of Imperial guard, Chaos warrior, Chaos marauder, Empire flagellant, Empire state troops, Bretonnian (unsurprisingly) and ork parts. Some of the heads I converted from trophy decapitated heads or heads meant to be part of a chaos spawn. 

is that an old chaos cultist model I see in the back there, one of the ones with the cone-shaped hood?

Yes it is. I also use some old scavvy Nercomunda models as well.

[Meatshield]

Okay here is another Blood Pact where I custom made an autogun out of the cadian lasgun.

Pactman and Mr. Blasty

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-10-27

Watch where you point that thing! Someone could get hurt...

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-10-27

I ran out of the side pockets for back packs.

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-10-27

And the Autogun up close

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-10-27

Yep, this thread is still going. Needs some mutants though...

[Heretek]

Looking good, as usual.

What did you use for the ejection port on the autogun? The bolter mag I recognise, but that part is unfamiliar.

[Meatshield]

The ejection port is made from one of the ejection ports of a bolter I carefully cut out. The magazine is actually from a bolt pistol because I think the bolter clip is too long. Also I stuck the gun sight of the bolt pistol near the barrel end of the gun. The white gun sight parts are plasticard.

[Grimfang]

Meatshield, I like the shell ejection port but isn't it incredibly tedious removing the port from the bolter? where did you learn to do that anyways?

[Meatshield]

Meatshield, I like the shell ejection port but isn't it incredibly tedious removing the port from the bolter? where did you learn to do that anyways?

Taking out a bolter's ejection port is easy. I thought of the idea my self when I had found a bunch of messed up bolters and thought "how can I salvage these".

I think I'll do a tutorial on making my version of the autogun which will explain this as well.

Okay here are the materials you need to start with:

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10

First cut off the Lasgun's scope and powerpack and then trim down the barrel. 

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10

Next carefully score a box around the sides of the bolter's ejection port. Make sure your cuts are deep.

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10

After this, make a vertical cut from the top of the bolter and carefully cut out the ejection port.

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10

Next, gently cut the forward gun sight and ammo magazine off of the bolt pistol.

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10

Now this is what you should have to make the autogun. A trimed down Lasgun, a bolter's ejection port, and a bolt pistol's forward gun sight and magazine.

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10 

Now just stick them on the gun like so.

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10

Next cut some small thin strips of plasticard and afixthem to the top of the gun. Now you have your own Meatshield pattern Autogun!

By meatshield, shot with Canon PowerShot SD770 IS at 2008-11-10

Hope you liked the tutorial!
 
-Meatshield
 

[voltarian]

im building a traitor army for doubles tourny in nottingham and this will be handy!

though im not sure im allowed to use them

[magos maxwell]

may i requisition/use your backpack design?

[Meatshield]

im building a traitor army for doubles tourny in nottingham and this will be handy!

though im not sure im allowed to use them

What type of list are you running? If its just the normal guard list with chaotic models, it should be perfectly fine.

may i requisition/use your backpack design?

Sure you can! What are you going to use them for? Cool Skitarii or something? It would be cool to see some pictures of what you did when you are building/finishing your army! 

[sgt. Brutal]

your other guys just look like bog standard imperial guardsmen

Wait what do you mean by "Bog Standard"? You mean like they can fight in a bog because they have tools to hack through the dense undergrowth

I hate to be completely oblivous to a joke (if this is one!) but bog standard means normal!
(soory about the butchering of the quote system, im not to good at it!

[Greggor Sin, the Jolly]

About the Autogun, I have a few qualms:

• Why do you need the Bolt Pistol?  Could you not get those same parts off of a Bolter?
• The muzzle appears to be for a laser shot (judging by the forward lens and flash); Is there a way to make it appear more like a slug-firing weapon?

Otherwise, I love your work.  I've already commented on the Cultists, and I love your Blood Pact.  I'm likely to borrow a few notes from your conversions, but nothing signature.  Keep up the impressive conversions!

[magos maxwell]

may i requisition/use your backpack design?

Sure you can! What are you going to use them for? Cool Skitarii or something? It would be cool to see some pictures of what you did when you are building/finishing your army! 

well, actually my army is made up of regular soldiers whose officers are skitarii/cult members. i need something to bulk out the regular troopers backs, so i thought i would give it a shot. it works wonderfully, thanks. i'll post pics in my blog later with my newest trooper (unfortunatley my only update cept fluff until probably next week)

[voltarian]

Im using the usual guard army list like i do with my non-traitor guard and just one squad of plague marines to bulk out my friends force a-bit.
Ill be making a thread about mine so check it out soon

[Cripple, Whose Corporeal Form is Now a Shade of Blue]

hmmm... nice job making autoguns.

can't really say anything else about em'

(I'm not being sarcastic, you did a great job)

[Jakinder]

Is that a German helmet I see?