Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an army
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Gargolock
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08-04-2018 05:58 AM |
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Fuggit Khan
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kids trying to make an armyFuggit Khan 08-04-2018
"Where there's a whip, there's a way!"
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08-04-2018 08:12 AM |
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Uther the unhinged
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08-04-2018 12:02 PM |
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kids trying to make an armyboyfights 08-04-2018
Very cool stuff! I'm just starting to look into some toys for conversions and terrain myself, it seems like a great way to get nice looking results on the cheap!
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armytjub 08-05-2018
Ambitious intro! The lore in AoS might grow on you, atleast it has on me. 
The conversion looks great as well, there should be loads of ideas from you in the older threads pre Chaos Dwarfs from Forge World. As for the K'daii Id recommend a hot glue gun on a wire frame. Seen some really cool demons and Tyranids done this way. Might take some practice, but I you have more time than money that might not be a problem? 
Have a look at this Instagram account for some inspiration on building with a hot glue gun. https://www.instagram.com/thewarsinger/
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08-05-2018 03:02 AM |
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyDuncan 08-05-2018
Paint pots are very useful for a whole range of things as are many other bits that you just find lying about. Have you started a bits box? They are a great way to gather lots of parts that may be of use somewhere down the line and for putting all those extra parts left over from model kits. Even if you do not have an immediate use for something it maybe worth hanging onto it just in case, although somewhere down the line the box will need to be upgraded to a shed or attic or even spare room! Great start though.
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08-05-2018 09:03 AM |
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Gargolock
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Gargolock's Experience Being A Broke Kid trying to make an armyGargolock 08-05-2018
August 5th, 2018 (I got a good nights sleep last night so hopefully I won’t make a stupid mistake like "August 4rd" )
Hello again, it’s me Gargolock. It’s summer break for me so I have almost nothing to do all day but work on this army. So Since I don’t have money to spend on actual miniatures right now this army isn’t going to look like... well an army until probably Christmas. It’s most likely going to be warmachines and some actual miniatures here and there. It’s not going to have any infantry for a while. But I am having lots of fun making these war-machines. Also I do actually have a bit box, three actually. One for sprues as they are useful to use as supports on big things, one for old toys I think I might be able to use eventually and the main one is for model bits left over right now it’s full of arms with swords, bows, crossbows and daggers and it has some dark elf heads and dragon scale capes all of this came from one kit for 10 mantic dark elves. And it had a lot of extra stuff I didn’t use. But without further ado let’s get into the progress for my jabble (still not a word) of constructs!
First off the hellcannon is finished. I made it out of a skylanders dragon that was sitting on a skull, so I chopped it up. Used its feet for the claws on the tip of the cannon, used its head for a little bump underneath the cannon, used it’s wing to hold the cannon and it’s headless and feetless body as the body of the cannon and for the actual cannon I used an old pirate cannon.

I tried to do a incandescent hot metal effect on the top I don’t know how it looks.

That all I have finished for now but I have started some other things. So I could show some WIPs.
I have looked through some old pre AoS forms and found some altars of hashut. I personally love the idea of a mobile war church to a god of fire, submission and sacrifice so even though it wasn’t in the original plan I have started contruction of a great altar to hashut. It’s made from one of those LEGO spiked wheels, then a playmobil fire andwith an old cheap 50 MM crusader knight guys metal base held up by GW sprue bits. Thats the platform for a priest/sorcerer. I also used a old fishers price knight's sign post it’s gonna be a place where I put some runes of hashut free hand. I don’t even know if I can use this in battle I will have to check tommy H's rulebook but I just love idea of a huge altar on the battlefield. I may make it bigger by putting a wider thing under the LEGO wheel. I mean it’s already huge. With the sign post included it taller than the kdaai is and for scale that makes the altar like 4 or 5 inches.
Speaking of the 50mm knights they came with horses to. I will give you one guess of what I did...
Thats either right or wrong, I don’t know what you guessed. Anyway I cut it’s head off then cut a guys legs off and strapped him to the horse to make a bull centaur! I don’t know if I like this. I have a couple more horses but I have no clue if I should make them into bulls centaurs.
Maybe the reason why I am not liking him is because he doesn’t have a base so he looks like he’s tripping and falling over. Actually I think it’s the fact he doesn’t have a beard or a weapon or maybe it because he still looks like a crusader. I already cut the cross off of him maybe he will look better painted in my black, red and silver colour scheme.
Either way thats all I have done mostly just a bunch of unpainted WIPs. I think I might order some infantry either from Russian alternative or Titan wargames with some of the money I have, cause I still have some just not much. Anyways thank you for reading through this blog post or just scrolling through the pictures. I am guilty of that sometimes. Goodbye for now.
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This post was last modified: 09-30-2018 07:24 PM by Gargolock.
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08-05-2018 08:33 PM |
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyUther the unhinged 08-05-2018
Go Gargolock. Warmachines are how I started. Love the Altar (I still have not got one) I have used the same lego base for a counts as cauldron of blood for my daughter. Don't worry about the size as one wise blogger on here once wrote 'Big minis are cool minis and cool minis win battles'. Brave man for going for the centaur. To turn it into a bull just change the tail and model cloven hooves on. My kids have the same toy horse (I think). It is rearing and stands up on its tail. Would be a great pose for Shaar tor but you would have to reposition the knight torso. Great start though.
As for AoS lore I now what you mean, we hardly figure. But if you think of the realm of fire the great parch continent where all the GW history is detailed is only one of hundreds on the realm. You can make your own fluff on any other. I created my own Aos Creation myth on CDO. Gargolock the great CD emperor could rule a continent or vie for control with the hated twig people or control a realm gate to the realm of life and raid through it. You have thousands of years of fluff to play with or just have a continent that looks suspiciously like the old world. You can also have realm themed armies; Steampunk from the realm of metal, Realm of death armies with warmachines made from great skeletal beats held together by wire or rivets (I love rivets, I can do rivets) Kdaii as daemon ridden spirits of those who died by fire, troopers with skeleton masks like some Tjublings, or a realm of beasts army with huge shaggy mammoths (with attachments) as iron daemons or skull crackers, sabretooths with short range flame throwers attached/grafted on as kdaii, dreadquakes as great troll like beasts with catapaults like in the Battle of five armies film, Winged creatures with rockets attached as deathshriekers, great toad like creatures spitting bile (like forgeworld squig cannon). With AoS GW probably unwittingly set us free to do what CDO members do best and be wildly creative. The realms are your mollusk!
An AoS creation myth: http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showth...?tid=17414
Uthers’ legions of Hashut: http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showth...?tid=17110
Bosom of Hashut: http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showth...?tid=18010
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08-06-2018 04:35 AM |
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Gargolock
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Gargolock's Experience Being A Broke Kid trying to make an armyGargolock 08-26-2018
August 26th, 2018
Hello,
So I haven’t done as much work as now school has started but long story short my friend is starting to influx some good units into his army, he just finished painting a terrorgheist. So I have done a portion of work but I will show you only small amount as I haven’t finished the others. All I am gonna say is the altar of hashut is now 3x larger then before and I made two bull centaurs and turned them into proper bull centaurs. I scratched my other k'daai destroyer as the miniotaur just wasn’t working at all. The pose was clunky and he didn’t look right next to miniatures, I ended up using an old reaper bones fire giant jailor I had, I just need to do some edits to his paint job and update it as I am a better painter now then when he was initially painted. I ended up with this.


The big rock underneath him isn’t part of him it’s just a chunk of terrain I converted.
He is painted to look good on the table so he’s not meant to be looked at closely.
I put a rune of hashut on his back which was quite hard as I kept messing it up and having to redo his entire back. I would either make an A not a V and I made the top line one part one time, it was a nightmare but it’s good now.
I am also working on some hobgoblins to whip my slaves into order and I might look into more war machines, maybe I will make a skullcracker.
Anyways farewell.
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08-26-2018 07:30 PM |
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyXander 08-26-2018
Cool stuff! Where in Canada are you located? School started in August?! What kind of craziness is this?!
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Gargolock
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyGargolock 08-26-2018
Cool stuff! Where in Canada are you located? School started in August?! What kind of craziness is this?!
Thanks and I live in alberta, but I go to a charter school were we have short summer breaks but we get every second friday off and longer fall, winter and spring breaks.
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08-26-2018 11:16 PM |
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyDuncan 08-29-2018
Looks like some good ideas for conversions. A good bits box of odds and ends is essential and LEGO make some fantastic bits and bobs that can be obtained in bulk and cheaply from the likes of Bricklink.
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08-29-2018 12:58 PM |
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10-27-2018 12:46 PM |
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyAbecedar 10-27-2018
Great work. Keep going like this and you will have a unique army
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10-27-2018 08:36 PM |
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyZanko 10-28-2018
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RE: Gargolock's Experience being a broke kid trying to make an armyGargolock 12-17-2018
Sunday, December 16th, 2018.
Been awhile hasn’t it? Anyways I am gonna gloss over the time and just get right into my shoestring budget army is coming along. It feels good to be back to the Verdana glory that is CDO.
On October 31st right before I went to a Halloween party I got s package from Russia. The Halloween party was magnificent. It was me and 6 friends having fun at night but it paled in comparison to how beautiful Russian Alternative’s miniatures were. I painted these guys in 15 days. Here’s the great weapon warriors. You will notice the one with a gun. He is the champion.

These are my blunderbuses. Since one of my gaming group comrades birthday was 19 day ago (has it really been that long?). He got the battleforce: blade of the blood queen set. His army is a lot larger now. He also has a disposable income and no rent or food to pay for. What I am getting at is that these might become fire glaives over winter so my army doesn’t fall behind in size.

Here is my magma cannon. I tried to use silicon to make magma beneath the cannon but I horribly failed at painting it. I will have to redo that.
And last but most likely least is this iron daemon. The wheels are still blue as I didn’t want to lose the ability to roll.
That is it this time. I still have a jabble (My language Arts teacher is convinced this isn’t a word.) of partially painted miniatures to show later. But farewell.
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This post was last modified: 03-15-2019 05:57 PM by Gargolock.
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12-17-2018 01:41 AM |
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