A Sample of CSM and the Daemonic Contingient

Righto, as promised, this time there's a few shots of one of the squads of my Chaos Marines.

Champion, two plasma gunners and normal marines in the back

Standard Bearer and Champion. I've been using that banner top to represent an Icon of Chaos Undivided - I think it's from a beastmen set? 

Just another angle of the squad.

So yeah, that's what my regular marines look like! I'm really pleased with how the branches-for-horns thing has worked out, even if it does make them a little difficult to store! The Aspiring Champion is equipped with a power fist - even though it's a grassy bit from the dryad sprue it's sufficiently obvious and I've never had any complaints (Most AC's have one, though this looks to change with 6th so any future squads may have power swords or nothing particularly special at all). All the AC's in the army have that head (or the eyepiece variant), and those on foot and have a larger branch piece mounted on their backpack as opposed to on their helm, in addition to the chainmail loincloth. I find it helps tie them together.

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Raptors - I've not heard of many other chaos players advocating their use, but I really like them! They're certainly useful for getting an icon into place quickly and for melta delivery, as well as being O.K. assault troops. Anyway, here are mine so far:

First thing that people notice is the contrails, which I'm pretty pleased with. It's all made of melted sprue, once again, ventilation is a good idea!! In the back you can see the AC for the unit, he's an oddball in the army as he's equipped with lightning claws. I think originally he had the rending upgrade thing from the 3.5 codex, hence the hands!

More Raptors. They all have pennies glued to the underside of their bases, they fell over alot before I did that!

And one more. I know the lines in the jump packs aren't right, I did these a while ago O.K.! The heads for all my raptors (including some metal ones I'm in the process of converting up) are the Khorne Bezerker skulls with the 'ears' filed off.  

I've had this squad of 6 for as long as I can remember, but I'll be adding a few more, as mentioned metal (urgh) to the pool. Here's hoping they get some fun rules soon! Either way I'll keep using them, no-one expects them.

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Possessed! - In order to ease into the Daemonic side of things I figure I'd show some of the possessed. They're one of the rare units who feature exposed skin (except havocs who are all bald, I'll post them up at some point). Ghoul and Kroot parts are a big feature with them, as well as more green sprue and of course dryads!

This guy to the foreground is one of my favourite possessed. He just looks... gnarly.

Check out the guy in the background, his upper thigh and arm (between shoulder to wrist) are green melty stuff!

And of course the obligatory 'aaargh' pose. I'm working on another one who is actually being split in half by the green glow. It's going to be tough to pull off, I tell you!

So yeah, possessed. They don't achieve much really! But they're fun to make so that's enough of an excuse to have some! One day they'll be useful.

Though not quite a possessed marine, this <-- is Geoff. He doesn't get used very much, he's an aspiring champion with no upgrades who exists solely to be possessed by greater daemons. I like the wood parts I've used on him though so I might make him some kind of funky possessed champion. Who knows!










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In a similarly not-quite-Daemonic vein, here are two Obliterators. They're made of Treeman models, one of which is veerrrrrrrrry old I think!

This guy needs a smaller base, I'm not sure why I put him on that one. The blue bit is meant to be his helmet/glass dome head thing, but it looks kind of like he's wearing a hat. Oh well.

Both of these guys have their green glow stuff magnetised on. Mostly because at the time I'd just got some magnets and hey, why not!?

 If I get any more Obliterators I'm not really sure where to start. On a side note, I knew I had a power scourge dreadnought arm somewhere, now looking at that last picture I finally know where it went! What it takes to notice....

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Daemonic Incursion!!

Not much to say about them really, they're lesser Daemons, though from now on (given the allies system) they'll mostly be Plague Bearers.

I've only finished painting 8 of them, I have 30. :(

In an equally dryad-tastic style, here's my take on epidemus. I couldn't think of a way to represent him so he's a hollow cloak, which echoes the hollow helms or bare skulls my marine HQ's have.

I wasn't sure whether to keep it completely tree-based but once I'd settled on making him a cloak with hands, I figured he'd also have scrolls etc.! The Empire flagellant and bretonnian men at arms sprues are full of useful bits like these. 

You can see how I've replaced an arm each (and used that back slot thing Dryads have) as branches to support Epidemus' platform. And how branches for the legs for his 'desk'.

A recent convert to Nurgle is up next, previously he's been my summoned greater daemon. Now he'll just be a Daemon Prince (of the Chaos Daemon variety) with Gaze and not a great deal else - dedicated to getting that tally up!

Except his head, he's entirely custom sculpted from melted sprue. It worked pretty well I think. 

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As they've served me so faithfully in recent years (what, with those delicious 20pt wings!), and I neglected to put them in my last post about HQs, here are my daemon princes. One is a tree with Orion, king in the woods emerging from it, one is a huge mishmash of ork, tyranids, uruk hai, ogres, tank parts and green stuff. That's all there there is to it really!! 

A lot of people actually mistake him for a tree in some games. Which is hilarious when they forget how dangerous this tree is. Camouflage is fantastic.

Yeah, I can't name all the parts on this guy. I know this legs are mostly some shoddy greenstuffing around a tyranid warrior, and that his body might be mad-dok grotsnik bulked up. This is his 2nd army, previously I collected alpha legion   - this guy and my land raider survived only to be tree-ified!

Also, the second guy has magnetised wings. Now he can double up as a Chaos daemons prince, without costing an arm and a leg! 

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That's about it for this post, I think I've covered all my daemonic things so far! Well, except the tzeentch element, but they'll get their own thing soon enough.

Of course, honorary mention goes out to the most useless unit in the codex, who once, once, did something useful by charging 24" in a turn (to the surprise of everyone) and wiping out some guardsmen. 

If my memory serves correctly, the original purpose I bought this model (there's a mordheim possessed under all that dryad) was as a daemon prince. His wings kept falling off and he was just too short. How the mighty have fallen to the ruinous powers!

Next time I might post something other than chaos. A Likely Story...