Easy Chaos Lords

[eyescrossed]

I thought of having a Lord with Jump Pack to accompany my Raptors, so I thought of doing this

 

1. Buy Possessed box (already have), buy CSM box (already have) and buy the 3 man CSM box.

 

2. Make Winged Lord by adding wings and Champion head (and suitable weapons).

 

3. Make either winged Sorceror, another winged Lord, or a Raptor.

 

4. Make Sorceror or Lord on foot.

 

5. Use the 3 man box to fill your CSM squad.

 

Like it?

 

Also, as an alternative, you could make 1 Lord/Sorceror, and add the other 2 CSMs to a 5 man unit, paint it Nurgley and count them as Plague Marines.

[Leonar the Nutter]

sounds good.

[eyescrossed]

Really? I wasn't sure if people would like it or not.

[Drudge Dreadnought]

I'd avoid the 3 man box, its pretty static.

[Roultox]

I usually grab me a berzerker box set, and cut up as many limbs and gibbins that are required for my objective. Chainaxe wings or the like.

 

Just take 4 to 6 chainaxes, cut them from their hands, chip chop as many backpack vents, one or two per chainaxe if you want to get crazy. Put the vents on the backside of each chainaxe, while the hilt of each weapon will be like the "joints" if you want to make ball-like joints like a defiler, use more vents. Chopping the model's backpack (using one that already had its vents taken) chop off the long vent "arms" and smooth out the sides of the backpack however you want to add the axes to it.

 

There, fun DIY backpack from one kit. Every backpack used, you can make your own custom pack with the long extenders to the vents that were taken, just slice under them equally and make your own vents. The swords inside their sheathes put on the hips of the zerkers who had their axes taken will count as their WYSIWYG close combat weapons.

 

If you want to do an entire unit like this, then you could just buy the extra backpack sprue from a bits store. Cut up the backpacks for their vents *with* their long arm extentions and carve at their backpack however you deem fit to make them all jumpy.

 

Robes:

Also, if you get tired of the generic look of their chestplates. You could dress them up like dolls, well not literally. More along the lines of getting "paint on glue", the tougher glue the better. Cut out paper however you can fit it onto the model, and using small scissors you trim the bottom however you like it. Remember, its battlw worn and torn so any accidental effet can be used or covered up! Paper is real thin and painting on the paper (preferably before primer, and priming the paper robes makes them tough). Being plastic models it will stick. Glue the paper on, spray it down and with something to poke at it while it dries you make your own effects.

 

 

Since magic fellas like robes, and lords like fancy looking gear. You can do either this way with any marine box set if your creative. Heck even use the bits from the damn sprue frame! Just be sure to have something to hold what your cutting or you end up with a red model as often as I do....

[MuGGzy]

great idea, one I have been using for a while. I think my CSM squads have used 2-3 boxes of generic CSMs, 2 boxes of possesed, 2 boxes of berzerkers and some random bits from WFB chaos chosen/knights. Funny thing is I have no possesed or berzerkers in my list. ;-)

[Bonham1963]

GW has a blister of a Chaos lord with lightning claws and a jump pack. Should be awesome with a group of raptors.