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Well, sooner it or later it was going to happen - with this thread, I will now have an army showcase in each of the main chaos subforums. This is a very new project - I only started it next week, though I have been collecting the pieces without any real plan for them for a while. The first piece of the project was the guardsmen from the Servants of the Abyss (also in Blackstone Fortress) box, which I had never built as I didn't really have a use of 7 models with mixed rifles and close combat loadouts. I had bought the Orktarius kill team box for the terrain and ork models for a friend, and has the Krieg models left over. I had been idly thinking about how to convert them to be chaos guard pretty since I got them, but hadn't really come up with anything more specific than "remove imperial symbols, add spikes & fur" but hadn't really come up with any real plan to make it both look good but not be super fragile for the spikes. More recently, I bought the kill team set with the renegade guard & chaos commissar + ogryn, but it too had been sitting without a real plan for its use. Then, a couple of weekends ago after not wanting to paint after finishing 2 character models, I was looking through the index and noticed that it had datacards for the chaos commissar, and for renegade guard squads. So I got the idea to kitbash the Krieg and renegade guard, roll in the 7 Blackstone Fortress chaos guardsmen and then build 3 models left over from my imperial guard playing days to give myself 3 squads of 10. So, after all that exposition, its about time time I start showing some pictures. First, the models that don't form part of the 3 renegade squads. Can't currently field the psycher (hopefully it will get rules someday), but the beastmen will get folded into the Fellgor Ravagers squad that I have ordered, for the day when we are again allowed squads that aren't exactly 5 or 10 models. No conversions here. Next are the 7 Blackstone guardsmen. The first 3 have no conversion work (and none planned), while the other 4 do have some. The guy on the far left is so I can field him as one of the killteam choices - for 40K, he just counts as having a lasgun. The flamer (the far right) has been converted to a plasmagun and still needs some work. Next are the models that are largely built out of the renegade guard kill team box. There are some small conversions here and there, but nothing major. For the Krieg models, as the renegade guard box comes with 24 heads and lasguns for every model, I gave each of them a renegade guard head, gun and arms - for the plasma guy, this meant giving his arms to his chaos counterpart (above). This did require drilling out the neck on the Krieg models (easy enough with a power drill) and in most case trimming down the collar. The effect works better for some than others. I have also tried to position their arms to obscure the little box on their abdomens. Part way through this project, I realised that the renegard guard kit also had 3 more chest pieces than the kit actually required. So, with the help of my trusty jewler's saw I amputated the front chest from 3 krieg models and replaced it with a chaos guard chestplate. Here are the 3 such models plus a medic made from a renegade guard model with Krieg arms and medical bag. Finally, the 3 models made out of my old cadian and catachan models (plus an old fantasy battle head). They still need significant chaosification. I still have to do a fair bit of greenstuff work and such to add fur and chainmail (and spikes to the older IG models) to make them fully blend in. If nothing else, I need to fill in the holes in the backs of all the Kriegmen - normally, their backpacks go there, which I'm not using because they are too distictive. That said, I'm really happy with the transformation I was able to make to the look of the Krieg models, especially those with chest swaps. Rather than keep the various models seperated into squads based on their body origins (so, 1 krieg, 2 renegade guard) I will be mixing the models freely between the 3 squads. One squad will have 3 plasmaguns, one will have 3 grenade launchers and the last will have 3 sniper rifles.