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Our latest featured army is an amazing Legion done by our German friend Beowahr. With eye catching conversions everywhere and great painting and basing skills, Beowahr has made a Legion that would truly make the Blood God proud! Let's take a look at what the creator of this awesome Legion has to say about the different units he has created.

First off I would like to say that I love Khorne so it was obvious that I would some day put a Legion together. I play undivided by mortals but always with Khorne. I just find it logical that a Khorne war band would always join a marauding chaos war band and it always looks awesome. Then GW brought out SoC and there they were, a playable good Daemon Legion!! It took me about 4-5 months to get all the models because they are very expensive I bought most of them by Ebay and saved a lot of money. I didn't just want the usual Khorne army so it was clear that I would be converting a lot of stuff. I just prefer the new Bloodletter models with their axes and great hairy mains but the posses are still just to boring. I have 64 Bloodletters in my legion and about 40 are converted just to make them look more dynamic and frenzied, but more to that later.

The Thirster!!

I think it was 2003 that FW brought out the Bloodthirster and it was clear that the first one would be mine and actually it was the second one produced. I have quite a few FW models and this one is just a must have for all DL players. It is a fantastic buy so it was clear that I would use it in my Legion because this is how a BT should look, big, bad and ugly!! I made him fit on a 50x50 base so that I could use him in the game, although I do seldomly use him (only in games above 3000P and higher) it still looks awesome on the display. He was also the first model I used my drool effect on his mouth.

Here's the Beast himself!

The Molochs (aka Bloodcrushers)

Thank god that GW brought back the good old Juggas in the SoC because I find these models fantastic. Personally, I like the existing models although they look to much 40K, but that's not a problem. Each Moloch was individually cut and repositioned.

First: To make them look more dynamic

Second: To get them look more ferocious and frenzied

Third: To make the models look larger and more aggressive

Fourth: to make them very personal and individual

I think I managed most of these points and I am very pleased with the results. There are two units of three and one Herald on Jugga. I gave the unit a command group just because it looked better and I am sure that when GW redo the chaos books they will bring out a DL army book.

The Herald on Jugga (Magun Ra)

This is one of my favourites. It is basically Be'lakor with a double handed BL axe and a few more armoured parts seated on an extended Moloch. I achieved this by lengthening and widening the Moloch because the Jugga was going to be covered in daemonic faces it didn't make a difference, you wouldn't see the joints. I then covered the whole Moloch with daemonic faces. Magun Ra can be removed from the Moloch.

Now that's what I call Heavy Cavalry!

Chariot of Khorne

This was just a fun thing while doing Magun Ra so that I started with the chariot because I had a lot of parts left over. I used a chaos mortal chariot as chassis and modelled daemonic faces all over it then I positioned parts of the Hell cannon on to it. Two repositioned Molochs in the front and two Bloodletters on top and that's it. I made the base a little larger that it should be (100x100) mine 100x125.

Now this is what a Khorne chariot should look like!

Bloodletters

Now these took really long to make, repositioning 40 of them and making them look more aggressive. Most of them have dynamic looking posses, axes over the head, jumping forwards, and leaping over rocks. It is amazing how easy you can use the parts you just cut off, if you do it carefully. The Unholy icon is made of a normal BL standard bearer and an old FW symbol. I thought that the unit with the unholy icon should be something like an unblessed/chosen unit so I painted them in the inverted colours, black skin, red hair it works quite well.

The core of the army:

Fleshhounds

Some how GW just cant make good looking Bloodhounds so I just changed companies. Confrontation make perfect awesome looking daemon dogs so it was clear that I would use the "Tiger of Dirz". I also changed a few of these because there are only three different poses and I use two units of six and one unit of five. The muscles are just great on these and they are a lot of fun to paint.

Some great looking hounds there!