Showcase: Khorne Hellbrute

Here’s the first model of a batch of Chaos Space Marines I was called to do on a hurry for a big apocalypse event.

This model is slightly converted (weapon swap). Still, it was only the first time I painted the Hellbrute model from the new 40k starter box and I have to echo many of the voices who say that the ‘Eavy Metal paintjob didn’t do the model many favours.

I ended up really liking this model. You get to do lots of armour, some slightly organic looking armour plates, a lot of skin and flesh and so on. Very varied model with lots of interesting surfaces.

So, I hope you like what I made of the model and stay tuned for bigger and nastier Khorne war machines soon!

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Sigur

Sigur is a full-time professional painter and founder of Battle Brush Studios. As a passionate wargamer he champions variety in miniature gaming, be it figuress, rules sets or hobby supplies. His collection includes a variety of scales, historical periods and settings, such as Space Orks, Imperial Guard, Sisters of Battle, Dark Elves, Ancient Persians, Thirty Years War, Napoleonics, WW2 and much more.

7 Comments

CMDante

The weapon swap really makes the gun look a million times better – great job.

Cheers,
CMDante

9 years ago Reply
Sigur

Hey, it's CMDante! Hullo, thanks for dropping by and commenting! Didn't do the conversion myself, I'm just the painting monkey, but I certainly will pass on the praise.

Personally, I like the weapon swap as well. I think that it makes the model look more balanced in the way of armour-flesh-ratio.

9 years ago Reply
RichV37

Looks great, looking forward to more Khorne war machines…

9 years ago Reply
Zab

Damn fine conversion there. Nothing screams Khorne like the overkill of a huge plasma cannon 😉

9 years ago Reply
Sigur

Thanks, guys! Oh yes, especially a plasmacannon with a maw and huge teeth in the front. 😀

9 years ago Reply
Garfy

I like the plasma cannon conversion. I'd probably trim it down a touch, it looks a bit too long and unbalanced. In fact I might make my own version for my black legion 🙂

Thanks for the inspiration.

9 years ago Reply
Anonymous

The conversion looks great, but I would have used the Forgefiends ectoplasma cannon head instead of one of the arms since it's fairly shorter and results in the arm size remaining about the same as before.

9 years ago Reply