The final building portion of my CSM journey has been completed! Got the bits to make the Ninth Verse Chosen for the Ebon Word, and the Pale Wake Legionaries and Orren Malith the Dark Apostle for the Shrikeborn. Once my Votann are finished (down to a Land Fortress, 2 Sagitaurs, and a Grimnyr), I should be starting on these bad boys.

The Ninth Verse

Chosen of the Ebon Word, decided to make them very much Iconoclasts and destroyers of the Imperial Lie, so all armed with smashing maces and fists. Even the "twin accursed weapon" member is modeled with a thunder hammer to show the dedication they put into smacking down Imperial shrines and statues. As far as gameplay goes, the "regular" guys all have accursed weapons, with two carrying combi-weapons and one just a regular bolter, which is distinguished by the different shields they are carrying (not great view of the shields, but the bolter one has a mkII round shield vs the others carrying mkVI shields). Pretty standard stuff otherwise, though the Champion has the Traitor Overseer head because it felt right.

Pale Wake

Guess I'm making a lot of semi-Breachers... These Legionaires are armed in a fairly standard way- Champion and one dude have heavy melee weapons (heavy chainsword/powerfist) and plasma pistols, one member carries a lascannon, and the other two are chainsword/bolt pistol grunts. All but the heavy chainsword guy are sporting AoS Blood Knight shields, as I had some extra and I think they look very Night Lords-coded. Helms are the Sons of Horus Mk VI heads, as they look very different from other Mk VI stuff but still feel like a skull-type thing which fits for the Pale Wake.

Orren Malith

Malith turned out pretty good I think. The Sons of Horus Dark Emissary Consul is a good base and his spear I think is suitably nasty looking. Only two issues popped up- I originally wanted his left hand to still have the Emissary's chained skull, but that was way too fragile and broke when I was trying to put it together. The Traitor Overseer power-lash seemed an appropriate replacement, without distracting from the main weapon. The second issue was his head, as I had ordered a set of heads from Etsy that looked good but turned out to be too small (true 28mm size rather than the sort-of 32mm scale that GW's SM are), so I just took the most skull-like of the Sons of Horus Mk VI helms and stuck it on, minus the topknot. Overall I'm happy with him, so can't complain too much.

Next up for this blog will be actually painting some of my stuff, hopefully starting next month!