New 40k, New army

So why Chaos Squats? Well Chaos should be weird and who else is gonna hang out with Chaos Men of Iron? Squats that’s who!

I wont insult your intelligence. All I’ve done is head and back pack swap, swapped some weapon hands out.

What will they be? My Chaos Chosen.

But back to weird. Back in the day with slaves to darkness and lost and the damned, chaos was weird. It had a weird mishmash of units, deamons, marines, cultists and chaos squats rubbed shoulders and it was cool. Chaos warbands were eclectic strange groups that felt like they were gathered by a strong champion on their quest to power.

So thats why Chaos Squats.

So the next 1k and what they will be:

10 Chosen – Chaos Squats
1 Exalted champion – Chaos Squat, maybe converted from Hearthguard
1 Sorcerer – Chaos Squat, I think if im buying a box of Hearthguard for the champion, i may as well use that for the space wizard too.

1 Warpsmith – Chaos space marine, i think adding a marine who has chosen to follow the men of iron is thematic and again adds something to make them look chaotic….rather than a sea of black and gold.

1 Maulerfeind – Ive got one so its cheap, but also on theme for an army of machines

1 wardog executioner and stalker – I love the minis and i like the idea of knights swearing to a robot warband. Almost as if the machine spirits of the war machines have opinions…..

3 Flamers. Utility deep strike and effective overwatch, plus i want more daemons, just need to decide on a geometric shape for them.

This leaves me 90 points for something else, so a master of executions to go with my warlord and bodyguard. Yeah i know cultests would be better, but its an excuse to model something. I think it maybe something daemonic, like a summoned bodyguard or extreme mutant.

In the words of the Remones. Hey ho let’s go. I want to go to 2k….or worse, do knights.

All I know right now is want to add 2 war dogs.

I like me a stompy robot so let’s add some. I think I want a stalker after this. Just because it means I can add more close combat assets.

Also the other given is some more daemons. Probably flamers cause they work well with deep striking horrors.

So 1k. Not a great photo. But finished.

Now to decide on if I’m going to 2k or not. If I do it will have:

Geometric lord of change

2 mor armigers

Because cool conversions are cool. 🙂

So armiger done and that’s 1k.

It’s a simple conversion. Just upended the body and added some guitar wire.

I like the cyclops look to it a lot.

Right need a group photo and decide if I’m going to 2k.

So the blue horrors are done. I thinknthey look right. The flesh bursting out like a grim ice cream sandwich works and I enjoyed putting little paintings on some of them(I like the bird a lot).

I also did the change caster. Bigger with more geometry. It has encouraged me to do a lord of change as a mass of floating geometry. So I’m doing a 2k army then…..

Just waitingnon my armigers from goblin gaming now then 1k done.

So geometric patterns that are warp reactions to programs and human sacrifice as ritual.

Its foamboard. I then used neddles pushed into the shapes to give them thrir gloatiness.

Sprayed with white acrylic. The propellant partially melts the foam giving texture. DO IT OUTSIDE!

Then I used a mixture of cracle and texture paint to add corruption. After all chaos cannot replicate proper ordered geometric shapes.

Over this I used the same mix of paint as the mortal types. However pushing the browns harder to give a difference.

Next up their bigger buddies.

So now i have all the parts for the army, although some are not assembled, i have decided on a final 1k list.

I think building armies based on what you like the look of is cool I think for me the building and painting part of it is the important part. Now we have points values an proper rules its worth actually worth building the army for use.

Warlord. Warpsmith – mark of Slannesh, Warlord.

Legionaries – Mark of Slannesh
Champion – bolt pistol, close combat weapon, Heavy melee weapon
4 Legionaries – 2 chain swords, 4 bolt pistols, 4 close combat weapons, 1 heavy melee weapon, reaper chain cannon, chaos icon.

Chaos Bikers
Champion – Chaos icon, close combat weaponm Combi bolter, power fist.
2 Bikers – 2 chain swords, 2 close combat weapons, 2 combi bolters, 2 melta guns

Hellbrute – Slannesh
1 close combat weapon, Multi Melta, Power Scourge

Hellbrute – Undivided
Close combat weapon, Twin Las-cannon, Power Scourge

Noise Marines – Slannesh
Champion – chaos icon, close combat weapon, doom siren, powerfist, sonic blaster
4 Noise marines – 4 bolt pistols, 3 close combat weapons, Blast master, 3 sonic blasters

Blue Horrors
10 Blur horrors

Change caster

War dog Huntsman

Working on not so blue horrors and brimstone horrors.