Building an army part 1

Hello all, I am undergoing a big project that I have been putting of for years.  I am building an army!  

More to the point I am building a Chaos Daemon 40k/Fantasy army.  I say 40k/Fantasy because the models can be used for both games only if you base them right.  I ordered some models from Games Workshop while I was still working there.  I say some models but it was more like a boat load-o-models.  On top of that they are all metal! 

Thinking about the army, I have mostly Khorne daemons but really I have several from different of the chaos factions.  I wanted to come up with a theme,  I thought about doing something more generic or maybe something dark.  But then I read some more fluff (background) and I found an instance where some daemons were banished.  I thought that sounded cool and I was thinking about how those daemons might look.  I decided on doing a white daemon army.  Not good daemons, but daemons that were trying to get back in favor of the chaos gods.  Plus if I do a white theme, and all the daemons were the same color, I think they would look cool.

So, over the next couple of months I will be detailing the process I go threw to model and paint them.  I got a lot of work ahead of me and I hope you enjoy the ride.

To start with I wanted to build an army from the ground up, well more to the point from the base up. Well that got me to thinking about what kind of bases I had at my disposal.  After looking I only had the bases that came with the models, crap.  Not wanting to use those I decided to look online for some bases.  I went to some sites and found some that were some cool looking but they were either more than I wanted to spend or they were out of stock/low stock on the ones that I wanted.  Also I wanted magnetic bases for the plain fact that they are cool to stick to the fridge…well no, it was so they could rank up nice and not fall over all the time.  After much deliberation I decided I was going to make my own…(queue the scary music)

First I had to get some magnetic bases.  I went to my good friends at Gale Force 9, well not my good friends per say but I do like their stuff.  I ordered the 25mm bases and this is what they look like.

Next I wanted to do some sort of broken lands theme on the bases.  I looked around at my bits and I found that I had some plastic card laying about.  I cut them up and arranged them on a base.

After that it was time to glue the pieces to the base. 

Next the long process of letting them dry…suck part, I hate waiting.

I discovered that they looked just a little plain so I took some green stuff and make little alien looking vegetation that looked like it might grow here or something and glued them to the base.

Finally it was time to prime.  Since I am doing a mostly white army I decided to use that Army Painter “Uniform Grey” primer.

So as you can see there are a lot of steps to get them to this point.  I am going to get the bases to this point and then glue a model to them so that I can paint them all together.

I thank my friend "Stumpe" for kicking me into gear to get this project started.

Please let me know what you think and if you have any questions feel free to ask.

More to come please stay tuned...(queue scary music again)


~Lohr