Which is why I have kept thinking about giving the character a re-imagined model at some point every once in a while - even moreso since I have begun to build some new, updated World Eaters since the end of 2019.

So he actually saw quite a bit of action on the table and led my World Eaters to victory a bunch of times during our short-lived campaign for the fate of Haestia Primaris, back in the day. The other thing that’s interesting about Bardolf is that he has actually earned himself his own battle history, as he used to be my go-to Chaos Lord for small, 500 point-ish games. I also have to admit that I still think that the pose works rather well to make the character seem relentless and unfazeable, like a true implacable men. So even if the model looks all kinds of weird today, it still marks a pivotal moment in my personal hobby journey. From a modern standpoint, the model is a really dodgy conversion, but back then, it felt like a very important step: Bardolf was one of the first models where I really stepped beyond my comfort zone and seriously cut up a model (a plastic warrior of chaos, for the record) and put it back together in a way that seemed new and exciting to my less discerning self from back then. Wait a second, though: Christmas is all about men in red with bags full of…er, shall we say “offerings”, right? Excellent, I can do that! The emotional side of Christmas is also about the fuzzy feeling of nostalgia, of remembering a time when everything was still much easier - so let’s check two boxes at the same time here:įor today’s update, allow me to share a recent project of mine that definitely deals with a man in red, and is also slightly nostalgic, if only because it revisits one of the very first characters I built and painted for my then-new incarnation of Khorne’s Eternal Hunt: One Huntmaster Bardolf:īardolf was originally created back in 2010, or thereabouts, fairly shortly after I got back into the hobby. But oh dear: Now I don’t have anything prepared for the occasion - what to do, what to do…?

Seriously, though: Given the slew of current events (and the fact that the RL version of Nurgle’s Rot is, unfortunately, still very much on the prowl), it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that Christmas has once again managed to sneak up on me. Not only has it been ages since my last update, for which I apologise, but it’s also THAT time of the year again - how did this happen…?

Chaos space marine conversion