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A WIP blog of the Shrikeborn and the Ebon Word, my Chaos Space Marine forces. Lore, WIP, and unit progress shots a-coming.

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Making the Dirgebound and Mortals

So I go the last of the Strikeborn in, my terminators and all of the mortal fools. These were super easy builds because none really required any additional modeling- the Contekar termies are full of all the ridiculous NL details you want, and the Nomads have loads of character without needing anything other than a decent paintjob.   Dirgebound (Counts as a regular CSM termie squad, with 4 accursed weapons, 4 combi-weapons, 1 powerfist, and 1 heavy flamer)   Traitor
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It's Worbla-ing Time...

So I finally got all of the models together that would need to have worbla skin-trophies modeled on them and got the time to spend messing around with the stuff. Not going to lie, was not as easy as I wanted it to be. The main problem was that I was using a pair of metal tweezers to try to hold/place the worbla onto the models, but the tip of the tweezers would get hot and basically cut the worbla in half instead of holding it. I worked it out eventually, but it was annoying.     I thi
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Making Chosen, plus bits for the Headsman

The Chosen are a simple group to put together, just a Nemesis Claw box with a couple of changes to loadouts from the suggested version. I'm going to be running them as two identical Chosen squads with the following loadout- champion w/plasma pistol, powerfist, and icon, chosen w/twin accursed weapon and plasma pistol, 2x Chosen with combi-weapon, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol, Chosen w/bolter, accursed weapon, and bolt pistol. Since I love the chainglaives that all good Night Lords carry, thi
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Butterfly moment - Cultists and Guardsmen idea, Xmas stuffs

So a couple of days ago I had a hobby butterfly moment and decided to go with it. I was looking over the Necromunda book Tribes of the Wastelands and saw the Sha'dar Hunters models from the Ash Wastes Nomads. I have always liked the Nomads, but didn't really think that I would be playing an Ash Wastes Necro game anytime soon so had no large desire to get them. Something about the Sha'dar Hunters clicked for me though and I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole- looking up the rules for the CSM
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Making Warp Talons

Ah, the Warp Talons. They don't quite fit the non-daemonic aspect that I'm going for with the Shrikeborn, but some judicious use of shame/warning/pragmaticism make it alright (i.e.- I really wanted lightning claw jumpy boys for the Night Lords and am ok with them being slightly daemonic if need be).    Anyway. These guys I had a plan from the very beginning. I like the MkVI Assault Marine sculpts as they convey movement without having all the weird one-legged jumpy poses that assault s
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Building Carrow and Kordesh

Started on the characters of the Shrikeborn, the Stained Lord himself and his Headsman. Fairly easy to make them.   Carrow is basically just the HH Traitor Overseer Consul with a jumppack, new head, chainglaive for his right arm, lightning claw for the left arm, and some chain wrapped around his left leg. Actually, writing that out makes it seem much more complicated than he is. All of the parts worked without too many issues and he fit together nicely. Only thing you won't see in the
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Making Raptors, Part II

Part 2 of the Raptors was basically building 5 mkII Assault marines. The models themselves are great- easy to put together, nice solid kit. Only issue was me stupidly snaping one of the two-handed axes near the lower fist, making it look...off. But it'll work out in the end, I've got a plan to make it look not as dumb. Using the chain and GW's skulls worked really well, the chain was perfectly sized and I think looks pretty natural on the models. Next up for these guys is getting my worbla therm
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A hobby outline

Ok... I don't normally do the whole WIP thing, so this will be a learning opportunity for me. Anyway.   This is my current plan for the Shrikeborn as far as gaming goes. This is definitely more of a theme/narrative/fun army, so I'm not going to be looking at any sort of meta list, just make my fluffy guys in-game legal without too much fuss.   The List - Pactbound Zealots Detachment (all Night Lords will be Marked Undivided) Stained Lord Tovach Carraw Chaos Lord w/J
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