Fiends of the Apocalypse - Mortals

[sitnam]

Hello all, this will be my WIP thread for my homebrew Tzeentchian LATD/CSM army. I have been working on them for a while; it originally started as a lore project for a Liber challenge years ago. It's gone through significant revisions, as I have been kind of updating the lore to better match the models I had my eye on. When I first developed this army lore (2015), my son was a newborn, the Great Rift was still just the Eye of Terror, the Age of Sigmar was just begun and a whole bunch of awesome models hadnt been released.

Now it's 2020, and my gosh has GW released some sweet conversion bait. I've only really gotten my CSM/TS stuff painted up, but I wanted to share the conversions I've done so far.

Crow Sisters

The first of these I'll showcase (although they are the latest of my mortals, and still WIP) are what I call Crow Sisters. A coven of low-level female psykers, the warband uses them as assassins' and covert warfare.

This is actually my latest one I have completed, and the one that inspired me to start this thread. It inspired me because, although I quite like it, the pose is absurd lol. I used Warcry Cypher lords as a base, with Tzaangor pistols and Kairic Acolyte blades. The heads are from Maxmini, which recently reopened!. Whilst on the rest of these I replaced the entire blade with the Kairic swords, due to the pose I only modified the right sword by cutting off the end and adding in the tip of a curved Kairic blade.

Just like its Warcry base, I imagine this one as a unit leader of sorts. Though its kind of hard to see, I replaced the fan with a Kairic dagger. If R&H get more expansive rules, or a suitable fandex comes out, I could see it as a type of HQ unit.

I find the Tzaangor pistols fit really well onto these arms. Unfortunately, I didn't have a left hand auto pistol left for this last one. Though you cant see it, I did glue some extra shuriken onto her back as a "counts as" autopistol. My idea for them being low-level psykers includes the ability to launch the Cypher Lords chakram and shuriken bits through telekinesis.

This last one showcases the whole "shuriken as autopistols" idea.

Overall, not sure what role these would really fill with our current Legends rules. I could run them as pistol/ccw cultists, but they just seem a bit too fancy for that (and I have a different group of converted models to cover that idea). I think they could make good stand-ins for Tzaangors, particularly to represent pistol/ccw Tzaangors, though that is less of a R&H thing and more Thousand Sons.

Edited November 18, 2020 by sitnam

[Azekai]

They could be disciples or marauders(?). They certainly standout and look too ornate and special to be mere cultists!

[Tallarn Commander]

Nice conversion. They could also be members of a large melee-oriented Renegade Command Squad.

 

I'm also glad to hear MaxMini has reopened.

[sitnam]

Thanks for the feedback! I don't think they will really work as Disciples since Disciples' can no longer take pistol/ccw iirc, but they can definitely work as Marauders in that case. These ladies definitely seem a bit big for cultists, as the Cawdor figures I'm using for a different set of R&H infantry are notably smaller. 

 

I'm really happy MaxMini is back up. They had a ton of great bits.

[sitnam]

I finally got these gals painted. After thinking it through, I decided to use these as counts-as Tzaangors as opposed to cutlist, mostly because they look a tad more elite then other cultists.

The bottom left mini is my counts as icon-bearer. I used the headdress from the Cypher Lords leader to create the magical flaming stick thing.

I ended up using the leader as a counts-as Tzaangor Shaman with a spare top plate from the Tzaangor Enlightened kit.

I think this post probably should of been in the Thousand Sons forum, but it is cultist related and a continuation of my previous post. Hopefully nexttime I'll have my Cawdor cultist conversions painted up

[Tallarn Commander]

Looking very nice. I especially like the red on the robes.

 

Plus, we might get some form of Traitor Guard in the next CSM Codex so maybe they can go back to being Cultists or Cjaos Militia then. :)

[sitnam]

Thanks! I'm hoping the rumors of more mortals in CSM are true. The nice thing about conversions like these is that they can kind of be multiple things

 

That red is brought to you by contrast Flesh Tearers Red. Probably one of my favorite contrast paints

[sitnam]

So after a long hiatus from my Tzeentchian Heretics (a hiatus filled with Death Guard my son wanted, Aeronautics Imperialis, Warcry, Kill Team, and Necrons), I'm finally back to my Lost and the Damned.

 

Given the impending release of new 40k Beastmen, I decided to finally get started on my Beasts of Chaos start collecting box. I put these models together like 2018 or so, but have put more recent purchases ahead in the paint log

 

I'm kind of thinking between two different schemes:

 

-Natural, classic Beastmen skin

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- Smurfish, Tzeentchian skin

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I (and my missus) are leaning towards the natural skin personally; the blue meshes with my Tzaangors but I feel the natural skin fits the classic Beastmen look.

 

Excuse the poor photography 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I think they both look good.  You don't necessarily have to go all one or the other - you could make individual units multicoloured for a more motley look, or you could differentiate squads by colour. 

[sitnam]

I might go with a mix. I’m thinking of going mostly flesh tones, but perhaps varying  up the skin tones (this was Guilliman flesh with targor  rageshade on top), which a small group of blues just to spice it up.

[sitnam]

Finally finished these guys up; I had them done like two weeks ago, I was just waiting to finish basing them all with help from the missus

 

Ungors

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I see these guys as being hybrids of normal human stock and beastmen, and fulfilling much the same role the do in AoS. The two bow armed arms are my old idea for Tzungors who have been blessed by the changer.

 

Gors

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I hope the new Felgor ravages scale well with these, because aesthetically I think they'll slot right in

[sitnam]

I've started work on the Bestigors for the Call to Arms contest

 

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This guy actually has very little conversion work, just having a pistol pouch from the old CSM kit. The others have a bit more work to 40kify them, but this guy has the best stance to get a hang on the paint scheme

 

Lorewise I envision these as a Beastman equivalent to Scions or Kasrkin, in terms of being the most skilled and best equipment. The warband, given their low number of Astartes, often use these shock troops to make up for it. 

 

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Also, it's impressive how big Beastmen units are. It's an old model range and it still scales up well to modern stuff