Khorne Blood Slaughterer “Impaler” and Friends!

Some more escalation in the Khorne 40K project. This is a Khorne Blood Slaughterer Impaler (a mouthful), it's a resin model designed by Forgeworld. And I say "designed by" deliberately.

The Blood Slaughterer looks like a cross between a Brass Scorpion (cool) and a Defiler (ugh) and there are two versions: the standard Slaughterer with two close combat cleavers, and this Impaler variant with a harpoon on a chain.

The model comes in a bunch of parts, the legs being particularly confusing and tricky to assemble. But I found a blog post that gave some helpful tips and better than that, included photos of the assembled legs. So I just put together the legs to look the same as the ones in the pictures, then assembled the lot. While the other blogger painted the parts as components, I put most of the model together before painting and just did the "arms" and shoulder plates separately. I also didn't glue the model to the base till it was all painted, which allowed access to the underside.

I knew that there was no way this model would survive sitting on a shelf, let alone gaming, without a base, so I got a 100mm round base from GW. It was just big enough.

 

This is a really characterful and cool model. We'll soon see how clever it is on the battlefield.

The other models I've finished for the army are three icon bearers. Back in fifth edition, daemons were summoned to battle, and appeared within a short distance of a chaos icon. If you had no icon still on the table, your daemons didn't appear - an undesirable outcome to say the least. So I had to paint one icon bearer for each of the three Berzerker squads.

This is the only metal icon bearer GW produced for the army, it came out in 1996. It's a great little model too, I like the bareheaded Berzerker. Really fun to paint.

 

I had to convert a couple others, for two reasons. First, I didn't want multiples of the same model, and second, said model was friggin' expensive. So I converted a couple plastic Berzerkers to carry icons. This icon is from the Bloodletters box.

This icon is another random plastic bit, not sure what Khorne kit it's from, but it looks fine.

Here's a picture of the Blood Slaughterer with the Berzerker icon bearer, just to show how big the model is.

And lastly, here's something to make collectors' heads pop off. Yes this is how I got the icon bearer I painted for the army.

                                                

What can I say, it wasn't the first time and won't be the last. Models are meant to be painted!

So until next time... Blood for the Blood God!