Greetings Terrans, I trust this finds you well. I’ve been looking forward to putting this post out because it marks the beginning of the end of my Realm of Warcry project… well, sort of.

So far, Chapter 1 has been focused on Tzeentch, and Chapter 2 on Nurgle. Both of those warbands have been expanded, and are both pretty decent sized forces by now. Most recently, I launched Chapter 3, dedicated to Slaanesh, and I certainly have more planned for that warband, but I couldn’t resist kicking off Chapter 4 in parallel… obviously, this one will be dedicated to Khorne.

So, as with all the other Warbands, this one started with a randomly generated champion and 4 rolls on the follower’s table in the Realm of Chaos books… and that’s where things started to get pretty weird…

For the Champion, I rolled a highly unlikely Lizard Man, and his ‘gifts’ were a missing limb, an extra eye, and Chaos Armour. His followers were no less unusual, with 2 Ogres, 11 Humans, 4 Hobgoblins and 5 Snotlings… yeah, Snotlings of Khorne! (I’m already reimagining the pump-wagon idea crossed with a Juggernaut of Khorne… Bloodling Pumpanaut anyone?). I haven’t built the followers as yet, so that will give me something to work on over winter, but I did build the Champ & got him undercoated before the weather turned. Here he is, K’horanak Dark-Star, Champion of Khorne:

He’s based on the newish ‘Seraphon Saurus Scar-Veteran on Aggradon’, who has quite a nice ‘come at me bro’ pose going on. I added some chunky Chaos armour, and I think the legs came from the old Possessed kit (with a slight toe-swap and a tactical rock to get the balance right). The right arm got given a whopping great mace from the Slaves to Darkness kit I think, and I modelled the left arm to be amputated but growing back, (because Lizards?), to reflect the missing limb ‘gift’. That little chaos badge on the right pauldron is his extra eye gift, but I’ve just realised that I forgot to paint it realistically! Don’t worry, I’ll get that fixed :-)

I went back and forth with black, grey and red for the scales and flesh, while the armour is a 3 part affair of steel, bronze and metallic red. The red was thinned Flesh Tearers Red over a gold basecoat if anyone is curious!

And that’s it for now folks, but I do have one last pic that I have really been looking forward to taking – the 4 Champions together!

I’m somewhat annoyed that Scynir is facing the wrong way, but meh – Tzeentch.