Kitbashing Chaos Knights of Slaanesh for Warhammer The Old World

[Music] hey today I'm going to put together some slanesh kns for my Warriors of chaos for the old world so I'm currently doing a project where I'm making one of each unit in the book for each Mark of chaos or maybe not every unit but just my favorite units so I'm making Warriors and knights for all five marks I'm doing all the Lords and Sorcerers with all their various mounts demon princes forsaken all the cool stuff but today I'm doing knights with the mark of slesh and you can see I've already put together four of them here's the champion I'm not really sure what type of weapon he's supposed to have the unit's going to have lances but I try to go wizzywig but the rule of cool always trumps that here's the banner Bearer and he actually has a mutation he's got this third arm that helps hold the banner hopefully you can see what I'm going for with these guys they're riding the mounts of slanesh but I wanted them to still look like Warriors of chaos with their heavy armor big horned helmets bulky shoulder pads and all that stuff and this one here is the musician you can see he's got a horn and his weapon is actually strapped on the back I believe this comes from one of the big Mega gargin one of the big uh Giants and here's just a regular Knight I actually really like this guy he came out a lot better than I expected I usually make the command group first and I use all my favorite bits for them and then I kind of just use whatever's left over for the other two nights but this guy turned out to be one of my favorites in the whole unit I like his pose and I like his Crest on his head so today in this video I'm going to make the final night and show you how I kit bashed these things together and what parts I used so the mounts obviously come from the new slick blades Seekers that's really hard to say but like I said I really wanted the Riders to still look like the heavily armored chaos Warriors and not like the um slanesh hedonites so for the bodies and the legs I'm using Skull Crushers bodies from corn and I just scraped off all of the Corn symbols some of the symbols though needed to be filled in rather than scraped off so before assembling all these guys I mixed up some green stuff and Millie putut mix and I started working it into the deep recesses of the Corn symbols I like using 50% green stuff in Milli putt mix because it's kind of The Best of Both Worlds the green stuff doesn't crumble like Millie putt but when you add Millie putt into it it's not gummy and rubbery when it dries it's hard and sandable okay so once I've customized all the bits now it's time to start figuring out how to get the legs attached to the Mount so I use the skull crusher legs which are different from the night legs the night legs are kind of molded together as one piece and the thighs are sort of already removed so it would fit on a horse but these skull crusher legs they're kind of independent and it's the entire leg with nothing removed so I need to remove some of the thigh so that it fits flush with the mount and I try to remove as little as possible and do test fittings as I go but you can see that here on the knee this little plate is kind of sticking out so I have to remove that too unfortunately I'm just going to clean it up a little bit with a knife and you can see it almost fits but there's a couple bumps on the mount itself that I need to get rid of it's got a little hip bone that sticks out and some of the saddle parts are also sticking out a little bit too much and then of course I repeated the process for the other leg whenever I'm Kip bashing something like this I always spend a ton of time test fitting over and over like 90% of my time I'm not cutting or gluing or I'm I'm just holding things together and imagining what it's going to look like when it's all done so I'm trying to figure out here how this is going to fit how high up the legs should go I'm trying to imagine the full pose because it's really easy to make a goofy looking pose or really bad looking proportions like a torso that's too short or too long things like that so I'm cutting out a lot of test fitting just for the sake of time okay when I think I've got it I like to do a test fit with some Putty I don't have any blue tack right now so I'm using green stuff once I like the look I'm going to do it for real so I'm going to add a little bit of glue to the leg and to the mount and then put some green stuff in between and it's important to remember that the green stuff is not used to actually adhere and stick the leg to the horse it's just there to fill the gaps because these pieces weren't made to go together and so I need more surface contact once it's on there and while it's still soft I'm going to remove some of the green stuff bits that came out through the creases or maybe it got stuck to the model in an area where the leg isn't covering I just want to remove any visible green stuff on the surface and then what I also like to do is take some Tama extra thin cement or plastic glue or something like that and just rub it into the areas where the plastic is touching but where I haven't placed glue okay and while that's curing I'm going to test fit the upper body and kind of work on the pose this weapon is supposed to be just a regular Lance for a night but it kind of looks like a banner I probably overbuilt it by the way most of it is from the corn Skull Crushers kit but the top is from some dark elves kit I'm not sure which one but it looked really slany so I thought it would fit so I'm trying to figure out a good pose for the weapon and for The Shield as well as the head so I'm just making sure that these horns don't hit anything um probably not going to pick any shoulder pads that have large spikes sticking upward so it doesn't conflict with the horns now I really like this Shield here it comes from I believe the bellor unit from war cry I'm not sure what they're called but the bellor aligned unit uh I like this one because it has like a unicorn horn sticking off the front and you know sles Knights are showoffs um and flamboyant and I thought maybe it looks like he stole it from some brettonian lady or something cuz I think they read unicorns right for his other shoulder pad I thought about using the skull one from the corn Skull Crushers kit cuz again I want them to still look like big Baroque chaos Knights not like graceful lightly armored slanesh uh heon nightes but this one was just too square and too corn likee so I ended up going with still a big bulky shoulder pad but something more smooth and round I really want smooth broad surfaces because I'm thinking of making these characters Chrome and I really want to show off the Curve surfaces and the reflectivity of it um if I don't do Chrome I might do super glossy black I'm not really sure yet now you can see here that it kind of came back to bite me that I used my Milli Putt and green stuff mix just for test fitting it's a lot softer when it's still wet and it doesn't really come out in one piece so I had to do a lot of cleanup and scraping if I had just used pure green stuff it would have come out in one piece but I wasn't really thinking ahead okay and now that the legs are dry enough it's time to start test fitting and working on the pose for the Torso so now I'm trying to figure out how high up and how far forward or back his body should be I feel like I kind of put his left leg on wrong it's too far forward you can see it doesn't really Point towards where his body is going to be in the saddle so hopefully I can fix that or maybe just no one will notice so what I've been doing for these nights is mixing up two little balls of green stuff and this is pure green stuff it's not mixed with Milli Putt and I use them to make like upper legs and torso and kind of the hones region and then I just stick the Torso on top and what I've been doing is just pinching the top into a little point and sticking the Torso on you can see here that I've used way too much green stuff but this is just a test fit so it's okay I'll just remove some and try it again so here I'm doing another test fit with a lot less green stuff and it looks a lot better and once again I pinch it and I test fit the Torso I don't press it all the way down because I don't want to squish too much green stuff into there when it's not the final placement and now it's time for the real thing so I'll reform my little leg shapes I'll Place some super glue and I'll push the green stuff on and just hope that it's going to look good cuz I really have no idea I'll place a little bit of super glue around the bottom of the Torso and then press it on there well the green stuff is still malleable I like to kind of twist the Torso and turn it in different directions and try to imagine different Dynamic poses maybe I'll lean it forward or back uh in the end I want to lean it a little bit forward but this Spike from the mount is kind of poking him and he's in the way so I'm just going to clip that and then I can get the forward leaning pose that I'm looking for and while that's drying a little bit I'm going to do another test fitting of the weapons I have to be careful here though because the green stuff is still really soft and it's easy to mess up the pose which I actually did a couple times um off camera I had to keep putting it back where I want it to go once the green stuff has hardened just a little bit for a few minutes I'm going to sculpt it into hopefully some fabric looking folds I don't think I did a good job and the leg like I mentioned is kind of pointing the wrong way so that plate looks really disjointed on his front thigh but hopefully no one will notice if I don't point it out in person uh and you can see I'm also removing extra green stuff because there was there's always too much it always squishes out too much so I just cut some off okay and I'm placing the shoulder pad now and you'll notice that his arm has been glued on I did some work off camera because I realized that the unicorn horn shoulder pad wasn't going to work and that's because when I originally did my test fitting the legs weren't there now that the legs are there I can't get the arm into a position that I like and that will fit the unicorn horn shoulder pad and again now that the arm is attached I can see that the bottom of it is touching him around the foot area so I'm going to use some more of that liquid cement to just strengthen the entire figure next I'm going to add the shield arm and originally what I wanted to do was twist the Torso around so that the shield arm was kind of touching the neck of the mount so it looked like he's holding on to the rins but when I was test fitting the Torso I didn't like how far I had to twist it it didn't look natural so he's just kind of holding the The Shield up and then I'll put on another random shoulder pad that looks like it fits with the overall silhouette that I'm going for I'm kind of bummed that this guy didn't end up with at least one of those sort of flamboyant shoulder pads because I really wanted by Knights to each have a wildly different helmet and wildly different shoulder pads from each other just to show off the extravagance of slanesh Warriors but that's all right in the end I think it still fits with the rest of the unit all right now I'm doing a one last test fitting of the head to try to figure out which direction I want it to go and I feel like looking out over his shield is just more Dynamic so I'm going to go with that the last step is just to add some green stuff for his neck glue it on and he's done so there's the final slanesh marked Knight now the next challenge with these guys was to rank them up on Square bases now I started building these guys before I had these Square bases and I had no idea how small these bases were for the old world so it was really hard to rank them up I'm definitely going to have to number them so that they go in a certain order but somehow I was miraculously able to rank them up just fine there's going to have to be a little bit of a gap between the bases but if I make a movement tray with a little bit of Gap I think it'll be fine the biggest concern actually is how long the mounts heads are I never really thought about that when I was building these guys but whoever they charge into can't be very tall because the heads of the mounts go over but you know what I'm going to solve that problem by never playing a game I've never played a game of any Warhammer I just like to build armies maybe one day I'll play um I hope to but it's not really a huge priority so it's really just about how cool things look I want to flex my creativity and try to reimagine a lot of these favorite units from the past and maybe one day I'll play a casual game with someone who doesn't care that all of my units are hanging over the edges all right and that's it when I paint these guys I'll come back and show you guys how they turned out um this is my first time doing any sort of a hobby video like this so if you have any suggestions for how to do it better or anything else you'd like to see just leave a comment um if you like this sort of thing be sure to follow the channel and check out my Instagram for all of my previous work so far that's @ cxus Crusade or the Link's in the description all right thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Calixis Crusade

Views: 959

Keywords: warhammer, fantasy, the old world, kitbash, warriors of chaos, chaos knights, slaanesh

Id: MW66641Ac0o

Length: 11min 36sec (696 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2024