Chaos Spawn Substitutes

[MasterDeath]

1. Take a Body part of a model you bought but never came around building (we all have those)

2. grab deep into your bitbox

3. ?

4. Chaos Spawn

 

I have built two no long ago. An Ogre body with Plague Drone Proboscis for arms and the head of a yeti and a Yeti body with way to many heads.

[bozo69pd]

For my Nurgle spawn I have fenrisian wolves and WHFB dire wolves (they are same size) and have them painted varying degrees of decay.

Very true MasterDeath, but I am lazy when painting rediculous numbers of models. That's right I have a 50 Chaos Spawn wolf army that also doubles as BarkBarkStar

Edited September 21, 2017 by bozo69pd

[Galloway]

I'm pondering trying to turn some kataphrons into counts-as dark mechanicus spawn, not sure if they're too big though

[Excessus]

I think they're a little too big. They're DP-size almost. 

[Cryptix]

If in doubt check out the Beastclaw Raiders for Daemon bits.

[sanityimpaired]

I have a bucket of old Mage Knight models, a handful of which I rebased and painted to use as spawn.  Basically zero cost, and they have a slimy kind of look to them that feel rather appropriate.

[Dallas Drake]

GW have the ability to produce insanely detailed and good looking models. The fact that spawn have been so neglected when some of the artwork depicting them (i.e. in the codex) is so utterly terrifying (on a par with The Thing) is really frustrating and sad. I know we could say that about much of our range (Berserkers, Havocs, Noise Marines, Abaddon, etc.) but I just reckon that new models for these could be so cool and unsettling.

[Fhanados]

Spawn and Possessed were released in plastic back in 4th ed if I remember right. The previous metal model was awesome, but came with a hefty pricetag and there was only one pose without some hefty conversion work. The Artwork is amazing for both, but the models themselves are a bit... flat I guess. I can see the same concepts but it just seems like they struggled to translate the art to the model (or done a really GOOD job at translating the model into art).

[Leonite]

Well, there's also the fact that Spawn are very easy to convert. Like, one of mine is a Kroot head, head (stuck to the first), body and legs, with two ork arms and two dryad arms emerging, charging forth to murder all in its way.

[Iron Skull Mask]

I picket up some skyllax guardian automata, but they are the perfect spawn for IW, but a bit smallish. Still plan on using them when I get around to build and paint them. I will probably convert them a little.

[Trevak Dal]

A small katamari of greenstuff and broken/unusable bits on a 40mm base.

[Excessus]

Why not just have some balls of cotton painted in wierd colours? The EC might have released a soporific gas that moves accross the battlefield...or something... :)

[Kierdale]

One other idea, perhaps more Tzeentch than my usual Slaanesh:

And for scale...

I’m told the weird thing I picked up in the park is the seed pod from Liquidambar styraciflua, also known as a "sweetgum tree". :D

[Excessus]

I wonder who that anonymous hero frater was who told you that. :P

 

 

Btw did anyone mention Kraut's amazing Spawns yet?  https://eternalhunt.wordpress.com/tag/chaos-spawn/

 

Did anyone mention blightkings? They should be properly sized I guess. 

[Kierdale]

I wonder who that anonymous hero frater was who told you that. :P

 

My eternal thanks ;)

[Doom Herald]

I just made a full conversion using Possessed and Daemon Prince bits. My computer is down at the moment,posting from phone and i hate the photo reducers on it, so i cant post but it came out very well. The beauty of Spawn is they can be just bits mashed together if done right. Edited October 2, 2017 by ThanatosMalleus

[nusphigor]

Well I have Greta, The cow of nurgle.

 

 

Which I made with greenstuff and... well... a cow...

[bozo69pd]

That bull needs a penis (I am guessing the original cow base did not have one).

 

Edit: NVM just read it is supposed to remain cow. In that case get that baby some udders! Sweet sweet milk!

Edited October 2, 2017 by bozo69pd

[CrimsonReign]

That bull needs a penis (I am guessing the original cow base did not have one).

 

Edit: NVM just read it is supposed to remain cow. In that case get that baby some udders! Sweet sweet milk!

to my knowledge, cows only have large udders when theyre producing milk, which seems unlikely to me for a nurgle cow :P

[bozo69pd]

 

That bull needs a penis (I am guessing the original cow base did not have one).

 

Edit: NVM just read it is supposed to remain cow. In that case get that baby some udders! Sweet sweet milk!

to my knowledge, cows only have large udders when theyre producing milk, which seems unlikely to me for a nurgle cow

 

I think it seems so likely, she would be so appealing to those great unclean ones! Then the little nurgling babies can suckle.

[Zodd1888]

I wouldn't be so sure milk would be being pulled from the Herds of Nurgle.

[Kristoff]

That Skaven Abomination could work well as a giant spawn as well. 

 

To be honest, there are a lot of ways of building one, including piling Horror bits in to a pile and pouring glue all over it.  One can do the same thing with Possessed as well, if you don't want to use them to actually make the Infantry they are intended for.