Make your own Chaos Warrior, A tutorial

This is a repost of something I just posted over at COTEC. It's not beastmen, but it's chaos, so anyway.

As you're probably aware you only get 12 bodies in the box, but much more arms and heads. I made my own, 13th warrior out of a shield arm, a sword arm, a helmet, some sprues and green stuff.

This is my first WIP:




My goal was to make the cloak bigger than usual. This hides any imperfections in the sculpting.


This was almost the finished result (apart from head and shield, of course). Due to some feedback I got I realised that the torso was too long, so I made the belt higher and made a bigger belt buckle. Yes, that's cheating, I know. I also made some more details on the right knee. The left will be hidden behind the shield.

Before painting it looked like this:

Here it stands besides a "real" Chaos Warrior.

After painting it looks like this:



In the unit you can hardly see that it's there.



I hope this can give you some ideas.

woot! i may not be the best with greenstuff, but i'm trying this once i get some warriors, i'll post results here.

Wow! That is some great stuff! I was thinking of making a thirteenth warrior out of the extra cape you get from the sprue and some GS! If I would have to take a guess at witch CW it is I would have to say: 2nd rank, second from the right. Im just wondering, how did you do the one in the back rank and at the corner? Great stuff! Keep up the good work!

I will have to try this sometime.

i love that you used sprues as a skeleton.


nice work

Yes, that's the one. But then again I posed him a bit differently than the ordinary ones, to make him more dynamic.
The two guys in the left row without cloaks I bought from Reaper Miniatures. More pics of those in my Army Diary.

Thanks everyone!

Nice tutorial, should help players who are low on cash or like to experiment w. modelling themselves.

MRTN you inspired em with your tutorial. I had some bits floating about and had ago.

Lucky for me I had some spare boots/knee pads from a previous conversion and an empire soldier legplate to help mask my poor modelling.

here is the result in a spot the difference:



Thanks for the tutorial MRTN

excellent idea!

nowadays 12 in a box is plenty but the idea and execution is great! Maybe one point to put a little extra effort into is the cloak, to buff it more out, but besides that its a really good idea! in a unit you don't see that much of the warrior to be forced to sculpt it completely, so great idea!

by the way MRTN you get 13 cloaks in the box, because the champion's one is different and extra. I used the spare normal cloak for my extra warrior. All I had to do on mine was scuplt the chestplate and legs.

This post has been edited by daftgor on Jan 6 2008, 01:09 PM

Looks really good! Seems like a lot of work to get one extra chaos warrior though!

Kudos for inventiveness and effort! It's not bad, better than I can do at sculpting

Good job, mrtn - I am all for squeezing every last bit of value out of bits and pieces.

I've got a better picture of the spare warrio I made on my blog, but don't want to clutter mrtn's guide with my pictures, so here is the link HERE

(ignore the quality, or lack thereof, of the painting )

This post has been edited by daftgor on Jan 9 2008, 03:51 PM

Wow saving money or what.........turly makes the use of extra bits and gets your moneys worth out of the box. I couldnt find the CW by the way.