"Come on, feel the noise..."

“I have shattered the craftworld of Lugganath with my song, little Aeldari… What do you imagine I can do to you?”


They’re finally done. After 4 years of (on-off) working on them, getting new ideas, making conversions, scrapping said conversions, searching the web for cool printable bits and not finding any, finally deciding to learn Blender (3d sculpting software) and making my own, and getting them painted over the last two months, my Noise Marine Kill Team. is. Finally. Done.

I’m really proud of them. They fought me every step of the way, but ever since reading the depictions of Noise Marines in the Fabius Bile trilogy, I wanted to make some - but I hate the 80’s guitar hero thing, and wanted to convey the utter horror, debasedness (is that a word?), and chilling creepiness of a group of 8 feet tall, genetically modified psychopaths, mutated beyond recognition, using sound as weapons, and caring ONLY for experiencing MORE - no matter the cost.


Like I said, the Kill Team really came together when I decided to do my own parts, and the Sonic weapons, heads and backpacks made them FEEL like the vision I had.

The colour scheme wasn’t easy to come up with as well, and I made 4-5 attempts, stripping them and starting again, until I decided on this. I wanted something that looked unlike any other traitor chapter, with purples, magentas and pinks, while not looking like something from My Little Pony - so I decided on a very desaturated purple/grey/ivory tone for the armour and some purple/magenta for the shoulders to warm up the colour scheme.

And yes, some of you will ask “why no glow/osl on the sonic weapons?” - believe me, I’ve tried. I love osl, and definitely wanted them to have it, but no matter what colour I tried (I even went as far as loading an image into PS, and using sliders to try every colour of the spectrum), it ended up overpowering the desaturated tones way to much, and ruining the feel - so, until I get another idea, they’ll stay like this.

For anyone wondering, they’ll be played as Nemesis Claw - it suddenly dawned on me, that almost everything about them is perfect for Emperors Children - sonic screams, mutilation of enemies, wearing skin as cloaks, etc. I’m gonna try them out at some of my painting groups KT weekend (along with DigitAllan) hangout this weekend, and really looking forward to it.

Welcome to the Church of Noise!

Hi guys!

At the moment I'm working on a Noise Marines Kill Team (counts as Warp Coven - yes, I DO think it works. ;) ), and I wanted to make some really cool Noise Marines. That, however, was not an easy task. I spent many evenings scouring the internet, and eventually giving up my search for cool 3rd party bits to make some. Everything I've found was either "boobs! Boobs everywhere!", missing the 40k aesthetic or just plain bad. I don't like the 80's guitar hero thing for Noise Marines at all. I want them to be freaky, twisted and really really scary. 

I took a deep breath, sketched some things on paper, installed Blender (free 3d sculpting software) on my computer, and set to work trying to learn how to use the software, and making my own bits. It took 2-3 weeks of using most of my evenings on it (it is a STEEP learning curve), but I think I've managed getting some stuff done that I'm very happy with. I got them printed by a guy I found on FB, and it was SO cool to get physical copies of the stuff I'd done. 

+++ If you are interested in these files, you can buy them here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/sonic-marine-parts +++

Here are the parts I've done: 

Here are the miniatures (mostly based on Chaos Havocs bodies), with the bits added: 

Word Bearers, an imperial city and a strong desire to destroy some enemies

Oh dear, once again I've been neglecting the blog. I haven't been idle, though - actually I've been quite productive.


Like I mentioned just before Christmas, I've been working hard on my Word Bearers Kill Team. I managed to finish them in time for our Chill Team Get-together weekend with DigitAllan and a couple of other friends (more on that later).
“Faith, hate, vengeance and truth; these are our tenets. Embrace them.”
I finally got them done… I’ve been painting for almost every single night since late december when I started putting paint on them, at least for 2-3 hours each night, which racks up to about 80 hours spent on these guys. 

That’s probably the most I’ve ever spent on any miniatures. I’m sure it could be done better, smarter, faster by a better painter than me, but I really wanted to do my best on these guys (at least without venturing into competition painting territory - the last 20 or so hours of these has felt like such a slog, so I guess spending 200+ hours on a single model just isn’t for me. ). The flames took FOREVER. I don’t know why, but highlighting in “reverse” is much more difficult for me, and seems to require much more precise blending.
Anyway - I wanted to do my best, and try to get a very good standard of painting, without going into showcase standard - I just don't think I have the patience for that. 

I think I've accomplished that - at least in my own opinion. Without further ado, here are my Word Bearer Legionaries:
From left to right:
Heavy Gunner Serakh, Icon Bearer Garash*, Shrivetalon Tilhar, Coryphaeus Kor Gahal, Possessed Torek Cro’zgal, First Acolyte Ereshkigal, and Plasma Gunner Eshkar.
*(has a “Heavy Bolter Lite” (tainted rounds)

I also really wanted to play on an open board for the Chill Team weekend, but I decided that the ruins I bought in the fall, while being painted okay, wasn't really what I wanted - so I took a deep breath, and consigned myself to pretty much drybrushing every night for a couple of weeks, but I'm really really happy with the results - the ruins still need some weathering, and the statues wasn't a complete success (I tried the baby-wipe marble airbrush technique), but all in all I think it looks great, and it is a joy to play on: 

That's it for now, hopefully updates soon, as I have a couple of exciting projects in the works!