Counts-As Daemon Compilation

[Corpse.]

Description is a bit long:

Coming up with special demons from various lores and fantasy styles. Gibbling demons using Skinks, shaving parts down and using them as daemonettes by the rules is an example. Others would be pure skeleton armies set aflame and hurling their own immolation as a horror would do.

 

With lots of creative demonic projects out there, I felt it might be nice to have a discussion on fantasy models used for daemons. What could replace what, like a tomb kings scorpion could be a daemon prince of nurgle with noxious touch(stinger).

 

I'm half tempted to buy a bunch of night goblins and make them look mage-like to be horrors.

 

Ideas compilation thread.

[Primarch16]

Plaguebearers:

 

Bloodletters, clip the horns off, then stick one of them on his forehead, model over the eyes with GS, then give him one eye. Shorten the head down if you like, get rid of the khorne symbol on the sword. Maybe shorted the sword down if you like. Presto, plaguebearers.

 

Vampire counts ghouls: I run them strait out of the plastic set, but if I had a little more imagination I'd sculpt them so they were cyclops and with a horn.

 

Tau Empires Kroot: little more difficult but I saw it done, more or less replacing arms with vampire counts zombie arms and sculpting a horn and eye. They have a desirable hight too them which the other plastics lack.

 

Vampire counts zombies... duh.

 

Bloodletters:

 

We've got a plastic kit but I used Beastmen, I like the fur and axes look more. Plus this way bloodletters become an option for plaguebearers.

 

Daemonettes:

 

If like me you hate the new nette models then Wood Elf Dryads would make good daemonettes I reckon. I used them to make my flamers though. I have a few of the old metal diaz nettes which are amazing sculpts.

 

Horrors:

 

Tyranid spore mines: tenticle brains anyone? Its what I used, but I greenstuffed them some eyes on as well, I painted them to look bloodshot, to represent them firing bolts from their eyes :yes:

 

Vampire counts ghouls: Leave the head of and just paint the round neck bit as an eye, give them greenstuff flames to throw and you're set!

 

Wood elf dryads could make decent horrors too I bet.

 

Kroot again have very bird like heads, typical of tzeentch. Not sure about arms though, have to lose the rifles.

[Master Exorcist]

I use dryads as horrors, im also using ironguts as bloodcrushers and a gorger as a herald on a juggy. Using ghouls with GS horns as plaguebearers, I reckon spawn or rat ogres could become beasts of nurgle or a DP in the case of the rat ogres.

 

alternate 'grinder models would comprise the giant or DP/GD torso on defiler legs, or a converted defiler.

 

shaggoth with wings could become a thirster.

 

Im using the crocodile Ushabti as a tzeentch DP but someone i know uses them as crushers.

 

You could also use the torso of the daemonettes and GS them to the spider rider spider torso to make fiends, you could also use the mutation sprue with any army infantry, I.E. guardsmen looking like they are being warped by....well....the warp.

 

just my 2 cents,

 

ME

[Ail'Slath'Sleresh]

A good bloodthirster model is the balrog kit an Ive seen someone turn an inquisitor range assassin into a KOS. I was thinking of giving sigvald some dark Pegasus wings and calling him a slaanesh daemon prince :huh:

[10thkingdom]

My army is comprised of mostly swap ins for Daemon models.

 

Daemonettes:

 

15 Dark Elf Witch Elves (with tails attached)

1 Dark Eldar Wytch

4 Blood Bowl chick models

10 Marauder Witch Elves (Circa the late 80's early 90's)

10 New plastic Daemonettes

 

Daemon Princess:

 

Morathia on Dark Pegasus (Dark Elf) with icon of Slaanesh on staff and a Dark Eldar Prisoner positioned under Dark Pegasuses hoves.

 

Chariot of Tzeentch:

 

Fantasy Orc Chariot with mark of Tzeentch, driven by a high elf spearing an Eldar. Random chaos bits attached including a large flame off of one of the tires.

 

Epidimius:

 

hand sculpted base with LOTR well for seat. Model is comprised of Ogre parts as well as Chaos Spawn parts and some hand sculpting

 

Greater Daemon:

 

Nurgle, hand sculpted to look like the Forgeworld model (just a little smaller)

 

Plague Bearers:

 

20 Old School Marauder models with missing parts.

 

Flamers of Tzeentch:

 

Dark Elf Harpies

 

Seekers of Slaanesh:

 

2 metal seekers

2 mounted witch elves riding platic cold ones.

1 eldar riding a metal cold one (head missing)

2 foot witch elves (came with the mounted girls) standing beside metal cold ones.

 

The Masque

 

Taken as she is (I love that model)

 

All of my models, including Epidimius have exposed breasts (he has orge man titties). They even have a banner that read 'Awesome Rocking Tits'. Some models (male ones mostly) have sculpted boobs, where as the other models have flesh colours painted over where covered boobs would be!!

[10thkingdom]

I also plan on using gnoblars as my nurglings. and For my secondary Daemon Princess I am going to use an Eldar Wraithlord exchanging his head for the extra one that comes in the Slaanesh Greater Daemon box, and posting his leg (with some work) to be standing on his old head. I love the Slaanesh Eldar fluff in the book. I also have an Eldar Harlequin that I am going to put on the dreadnought base I use for the masque and have it positioned so it looks as though the Masque is trying to ensare him in her eternal dance.

[Skanwy]

I use Skinks with some greenstuff modifications for my counts as Plaguebearers.

 

My Daemon army is Mono Nurgle and i'm using it in tandem with a very strong Cthulhu theme :)

 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_g8OVShPbJA0/S7aUPvD_EdI/AAAAAAAAAPw/AyD1pwo2Xik/s1600/deepy01.jpg

 

The skinks represent Deep Ones (aka fishmen) of the Cthulhu Mythos.

 

My HQ and other choices are from Reaper Miniatures. I do plan on using the Empire Flagellants for counts as Nurglings. They are supposed to represent cultists :lol:

[The_Crippster]

Juggernauts- Combine Chaos Steeds (from the plastic knights/horsemen box) and bloodletters of your choice.

[Scubby]

Great idea for modding bloodletters to make plague bearers. Vampire Counts ghouls or zombies, too, as was noted.

I've thought that the Corpse Cart could make a great herald on palanquin with some nurglish mods.

 

Overall I think the nurgle daemon models are poor... too cartoonish.

 

I struggle more with what could make a better nurgling model....?

[Imperialis_Dominatus]

As a general note on counts-as, when I'm inspired to do such a thing I usually distill the rules for the unit down to basics.

 

For example, Furies are naked MEQs that can fly. Plague Marines are hella difficult to kill MEQ profiles. To take a different tack, Inquisitors and their Acolytes are a multi-skilled unit of regular human equivalents.

 

Then according to the fluff I'm working with I rationalize what might represent those rules.

 

For example, my Angels Ascendant Chapter are aided in battle by Tzeentchian (probably, I don't actually know) daemons that take on an angelic appearance rather than the typically... well, daemonic appearance of other Warp beings. They could be adequately represented by the rules for Furies.

 

Iron Warriors with significant bionics could be represented by Plague Marines.

 

A highly skilled group of cultists and their leader could be represented by an Inquisitor and his Acolytes.

[Master Exorcist]

I struggle more with what could make a better nurgling model....?

 

just green stuff usually works well if youre skills are good enough.

 

Juggernaughts as centaur chaos knights could work.

 

GS'ed zombies/flagellants could represent plaguebearers.

 

Fiends can also be daemonette upper body with GS serpent tail.

 

ME

[Madcap]

I am using ghouls for my plague bearers. I added an icon by sticking a plasticard pole into the trophy rack of the champion and attached a nurgle icon from the Chaos Space Marines sprue.

 

I really dislike most of the Slaanesh models. I am planning on using some marilith models from Reaper as fiends. Since I don't play any GW sanctioned stuff, this should be a cool substitute.

[Seahawk]

I use the Dark Eldar Warp Beasts as yet another set of Fiends.

[Nehekhare]

My Dark Mechanicus counts as daemons...

 

- Dark Magos Omega Tiamat counts as keeper of secrets or sometimes Fateweaver

- Bloat Thrall counts as Ku'Gath

- Blood Slaughterer counts as Scarbrand

- Stalker Fiends counts as Fiends of slaanesh

- Cremator Drones count as Flamers of Tzeentch

- Gun Drones count as Horrors of Tzeentch

- Servitors for Plaguebearers and Defilers for Soul Grinders (Oddly the Armament fit the CD Rules better than their own, and vice versa) as the only GW models. Well, I also use Necron Scarab Swarms as Nurglings, but I plan to change this once I get enough servo-skulls...

- Some bitz-built conversions...

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Deconstructor Drones count as Screamers of Tzeentch

 

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Slaughter-servitors count as Bloodletters of Khorne

[Spacefrisian]

What about those Minotaur models from fantasy as Blood Crushers?

[Gop]

Please exuse the slight threadomancy, but this topic is quite cool considering the new GK might inspire demon armies.

 

The new plastic cold ones make fine fiends (base on 40mm round)

Tzeentch chariots could be anything. The Tomb kings chariots are good and fairly cheap. The old idea of 2 flying bases glued together to make a disk, put a flamer as the rider, pulled by a screamer (or 2) is quite cool too.

[Son-of-Horus]

Apologies about resurrecting this thread.

 

Also the Dark Eldar Khymeras would be great counts-as Fiends. They are appropriately based and look more daemonic that the real ones.