The Judgment on Kadeth - Dr. Ruminahui's Slaaneshi CSM

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Here you go - here he is with my Emperor's Children characters, where he is an Exhaulted Lord with 3x pistols (sorrry about all the primed models - haven't started painting my EC yet)

 

 

And here he is with my most commonly used CSM foot characters, who are painted, and where he will be my Cypher stand-in.

 

 

Hope that helps on whether to frill or not to frill.

Edited May 24 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Teetengee]

I like the frill in the Emperor's children context, but less in the CSM one. Idk if that helps.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Your comment was helpful, and I agree.

 

That said, that kind of works for me.  In EC, the model is part of the base army and its more important that he fit in there.  In CSM as Cypher, he's an outsider hanging out with the rest of the warband, so the slightly different look works with that.

Edited May 25 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Finally finished doing up the background for my Slaaneshi Battle Goats over in the Killteam "Knives in the Shadows" painting challenge.  You can find it here:

[Tallarn Commander]

I found the background to be both engaging and hilarious, I especially liked the leader’s doubts, the goat names, and the anthropologist’s closing comment.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks!  Yeah, having dubbed them Slaaneshi Battle Goats, I couldn't play it totally straight.  Incidentally, the shaman model actually does have an empty pistol holster despite not carrying a pistol, which brought to mind the character from Arms and the Man who stuffed his cartridge case with candies rather than ammunition - and giving bribes to have him accepted as wise seemed right for the tone I was going for.

 

Naming things what they are but in a different language has been a naming staple of mine for a while in RPGs and background fluff generation like this.  Plus, it seemed particularly on the nose for tongue in cheek tone I was going for.  Google translate is my friend. 

Edited May 31 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Sadly, I have to report an accidental blinding - he fell off a shelf a couple of weeks ago, and now his eye is loose in his chest cavity.

 

 

So I guess he has a mouth now instead?  Anyway, here's what he used to look like - which is actually the very first picture I ever posted in this thread:

 

 

Anyway, have to figure out if there is any way to fix him - it likely requires cutting a big hole in his chest, which I would like to avoid unless absolutely necessary.  Anyway, that's a job for "post-Call to Arms" me, not "frantically trying to finish me vow" me.

[gaurdian31]

Sorry to hear that, it is always a bummer when a model breaks like that especially a completed and painted one. The maw does look appropriately creepy for CSM at least.

[Tallarn Commander]

Perhaps it is a happy accident.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks guys.  I wouldn't call it a "happy accident", though - I did the eyeball after considering the open mouth, and chose it because I preferred that look.  Plus, having it a mouth makes it too similar to my squidnaught, IMHO.  So, someday I may carve it open to fix it, but in the meantime it will have to do with a mouth instead of an eye.

[Volgon]

I'm so sorry @Dr_Ruminahui, that's a heartbreaker. It definitely had a unique look with the eye. I'm not sure how big the eye piece itself was but I do think you could possibly semi-fix it without cutting the chassis open. Whatever the choice it would certainly be finicky. 

[madlibrarian]

On 9/2/2025 at 5:32 AM, Dr_Ruminahui said:

Thanks guys.  I wouldn't call it a "happy accident", though - I did the eyeball after considering the open mouth, and chose it because I preferred that look.  Plus, having it a mouth makes it too similar to my squidnaught, IMHO.  So, someday I may carve it open to fix it, but in the meantime it will have to do with a mouth instead of an eye.

Get a paperclip / stiffer guitar wire, blob of superglue or tacky glue etc, tack it onto the eye and pull it back into position. If you have fine tip superglue could reglue easily enough with the tacky rod holding it in place?

[Volgon]

On 9/4/2025 at 2:24 AM, madlibrarian said:

Get a paperclip / stiffer guitar wire, blob of superglue or tacky glue etc, tack it onto the eye and pull it back into position. If you have fine tip superglue could reglue easily enough with the tacky rod holding it in place?

 

This was my first thought as well when reading through the post! I think it can be done.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks, @madlibrarian and @Volgon for the suggestion.  That said, given the fiddliness of the proceedure and the difficulty of applying glue to the surfaces I want to stick together (both of which are inside the model), I'm not sure I would get a solid enough bond that I wouldn't just knock the eye loose again at some point in the future.  As such, I'm more inclined to open the thing up, glue it back in place and then reinforce the join to try to prevent a reoccurance.

 

That said, I'm not currently playing my CSM (as I'm currently working on and trying out my new EC army), so there's no hurry for me to do so - maybe it will be a project to work on over the winter if I run out of primed models to paint.