Emperor's Furor Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Is it a normal guy with some fancy tattoos or is it someone actually possessed like Argel Tal? I have a Legion Champion model from FW here that I was planning to use for something else but that's fallen through and I could still use it for my loyalist force but I'm considering whether I could use it as the base for a diabolist conversion but I'm not sure what it looks like. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 No takers? I just started converting a model from that champion given him a pair of lightning claws, swapped the skull and chain shoulder pad to the right shoulder and given it a Mk III shoulder pad, planning on adding the tattooed head from the new Word Bearers head set, but if he's meant to be more daemonic then I have some possessed heads and stuff available. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Brother 92 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I doubt a diabolist would look completely demonic (at least prior to the Shadow Crusade) so the tattooed head works - Imo it would be along the lines of a librarian meeting a chaplain in an alleyway and picking up bits of the others kit... :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adra'Melek Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 They have the daemon special rule so could be Argel Tal like (but not bulky). But it doesn't read like they need to be like that. Maybe paint him with glowing eyes or something like that but that would be all. Basically anything goes (as long as they look proper Word Bearery) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkin Arenis Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Gut instinct says that he'd look a lot like Erebus in some form, bared arms in wrappings, tattooed skin, runed armour and parchments on his armour. That's my mental image, and I know nothing about Diabolists. Not sure how that fits in for you dirty traitors, but it's my two penneth. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kais Klip Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 My view of them, as apostles of ascendant chaos undivided, is exactly like the rest of the warp's inhabitants; some are corrupted beyond humanoid form, while many others would look cleaner than a Grey Knight after a sister scrub. I think the key is synergy with the rest of your force; do you want him to contrast the overall look to reinforce his importance, or portray him as the obvious patient zero of your contigent's corruption? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vazzy Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Mines the source of the corruption, covered in script and semi ornate armor. I made ihs face incredibly sallow with a bluish tint to imply he's not quite...himself anymore. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hivey Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 when i think of the diabolist, the first thing that pops in my mind is the dark apostle model from CSM. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vazzy Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 when i think of the diabolist, the first thing that pops in my mind is the dark apostle model from CSM. Yeah, so I sorta tried to emulate that here. Untitled by vazzy2012, on Flickr Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 I don't think they are always necessarily chaplains though. I kind of think of Serghar Targost in Vengeful spirit.... Who is the leader of the ritual that is merging daemons into marines to create possessed Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delvarus Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 For my WIP Diabolist I used the champion body, Rampager excoriator chain axe arms with the plastic aspiring chaos champion axe head and a forgeworld khorne terminator head. Plan on a MkII jump pack too. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3729849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Looks Deadly! On another note, does anyone know if Argel Tal had wings? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3730060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A D-B Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Looks Deadly! On another note, does anyone know if Argel Tal had wings? He did indeed. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3730176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 Looks Deadly! On another note, does anyone know if Argel Tal had wings? He did indeed. Awesome thanks, I'm planning on converting him out of a combination of the new Word Bearers kit from FW and the possessed chaos space marine kit. Were all Chaplains from the Word Bearers black after Monarchia to? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3730185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I think a Diabolist should look diabolical. And I know that sounds like a smart alec comment, which would definitely be part of my MO, but "diabolical" basically means "like the Devil"(I think the literal definition is something like "so evil it as well be the Devil", or something like that). So, make the Diabolist however you view as "devilish". This could be the Fallen Angel Lucifer, resplendent in all his dark glory, hiding his darkness with the false purity of heavenly appearance. It could be the hoofed Mephistopheles with his pointed goatee and ram horns. Or it could be a creature of immense darkness who just reeks of destruction. Or, as Vazzy did, it could just be someone who looks mostly normal, but still has that fundamental aura of just being unnatural. Think of it as a lie. Sometimes a lie is taking the truth and presenting it in such a manner that everyone instead believes something else. Sometimes its taking a whole lot of truth, and adding just a little lie. Sometimes its taking a little truth and using it to do a whole lot of lying. And other times, there is no truth. Except replace "truth" with "Humanity" and "lie" with "daemon". Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292950-what-does-a-word-bearers-diabolist-look-like/#findComment-3730188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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