Enter, and Be Welcome Once More to the Grand Apothecarion

[Elazar The Glorified]

 

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"Enter, and be welcome once more to the Grand Apothecarion, Oleander Koh. The Chief Apothecary is expecting you."

- Arrian Zorzi in 'Primogenitor' by Josh Reynolds

 

 

 

I'm of the very firm belief that the Fabius Bile trilogy by Josh Reynolds (Primogenitor, Clonelord, and Manflayer) are amongst the very finest of works from the Black Library and I'm currently working on my Chaos Space Marine army based around some of the themes of Fabius Bile's 'Consortium' and the Emperor's Children legion. Essentially, my army isn't looking to represent the Consortium of the books but my own ragtag band of hedonists, misfits and deviants who have fallen into the orbit of Fabius Bile (or he has fallen into theirs).

 

I love kitbashing and coming up with some bits of my own fluff so this is just as much an excuse to create lots of little characters as it is anything else, but, I need to get the hobby momentum going as there's lots to build and paint. My timing couldn't be much better as part way through the project, we have the new 10th Edition Codex Chaos Space Marines and the announcement that there's going to be an Index for the Emperor's Children! Can't wait!

 

I'll use this post as a bit of an introduction one and something that I can come back to and amend to as a bit of a hub once more things actually get built and painted!

[Elazar The Glorified]

The Consortium
This seems like a good place to start with some minis for my warband. The warband is a majority Slaanesh warband but when planning the army from the Index, as Fabius Bile has the Mark of Chaos Undivided the squad he was attached to would also need to be Undivided.

 

With the new Codex Marks of Chaos aren’t really a thing anymore outside of Pactbound Zealots - there’s a review of the new Codex on Oath of Moment if you’re interested (shameless plug - sorry!)

 

As I’ve said before, outside of Fabius, the characters for these are my own creations but certainly some of the inspiration from the Josh Reynolds book series is there.

 

Vortalkai The Whisperer - Apothecary - Tzeentch

Tzeentch was one of the more interesting challenges I thought as there really isn't a great deal of Tzeentch in 40k outside of Magnus and his Sons but they seemed like a legion with the least use of an Apothecary nowadays so even if one was formerly a Thousand Sons Legionary he'd probably not be one nowadays as he wouldn't be leveraging the valuable skills he has to those making their base in the Eye of Terror. So I wanted an Apothecary from a Tzeentchian warband and I wanted to avoid the stereotype of him just being a Sorcerer and lean more into the politicking and subterfuge angle of Tzeentch. The Scourged also present an interesting concept with their ability to hear all the lies of mankind but I don’t like their scheme so he’s borrowing some fluff from them but will have his own scheme.

 

 

Vortalkai has aligned himself to Fabius, to exert the subtle influence of Tzeentch over the Spider and his Creations. Vortalkai (and Tzeentch) know that Fabius is too crafty a creature to be yoked but that his influence as the Primogenitor and the Pater Mutatis extends to a great many Cultists, Mutants and Legionaries alike. Vortalkai often presents himself to those 'lesser' beings as the voice of Fabius. Shepherding them in directions that suit Fabius' designs perhaps, but definitely suit those of Vortalkai and his patron. With an impressive aptitude for unearthing the secret treacheries and betrayals of others, Vortalkai is an able student of the apothecarion and, for now at least, Fabius is amused by the scheming of his protégé. Better the devil you know not to trust than the one you don't!

 

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Vox-record from experiment 3412889 Designation - Caprine-Alpha Study
"What did you tell the Primogenitor of our conversation?"
- Response unclear -
"I can tell that you're lying. "
- Distortion caused by drilling noise accompanied by braying screams -
"What does the Primogenitor know?"
"You know, they whisper to me the truth behind all your lies? But no matter, there is no greater way to offer praise to The Great Changer than the making or unmaking of a thing. I shall be incredibly thorough and exacting in my praise through the gradual unmaking of you to ensure there's no detail I have missed.”

 

Gremulus Kron - Apothecary - Nurgle
Formerly of the Death Guard, Gremulus Kron was mostly an excuse to purchase the Plague Surgeon and put him on a smaller base. I love the mini for this so much so nothing special here. He’s going to get some Nurgling friends though.

 

 

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“Hush, hush little one.” Gremulus burbled to the Nurgling as it’s impatience got the better of it. “All in good time.”

 

 

Mararon Shosk - The Exiled Son - Undivided
A Legionary of the Sons of Horus who has refused to take the black of the reborn Black Legion. Originally taken as a prisoner on the Emperor’s Children’s raid on the Monument, Shosk survived as a gladiator, killing for sport in the arenas of Canticle City. A shrewd and calculating mind backs up his brawn and when he was elected commander of a slave revolt he instead betrayed his former legionary brothers in exchange for the protection of Fabius Bile. Alone in the galaxy and hated by all, Shosk is a reliable ally for Fabius Bile because he’s despised and distrusted by all around him.

 

 

Delupon Baul - The Phoenix Guard - Slaanesh
Once one of the 200 blades guarding Fulgrim, he spent centuries roving across the Eye of Terror in search of the Primarch in his repose. Delupon was a mercenary, a reaver and a raider, fighting alongside warbands in exchange for rumour of Fulgrim's whereabouts or the resources to continue his search.

Now though, he accompanies Fabius Bile. Respecting his rank as Lieutenant-Commander, if not having a great deal of respect for the Spider himself, Delupon guards the Chief Apothecary for Fulgrim. He knows that Fulgrim will look for Fabius when he awakes, so Delupon will ensure that Fabius goes to him. Whether that's to return him to the Primarch unscathed or to deliver his head will depend on the whims of Fulgrim when he stirs, but either way, Delupon is confident his proximity to Fabius will enable him to win his father's favour when he returns.

 

 

The Butcher Kinakh Randar - Apothecary - Khorne

 

 

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Kinakh Randar was a contradiction. An artist possessing the soul of a dancer... but the nails clawed into the meat of his brain and made of him a savage beast straining against its leash. Those two elements of his being might be in stark contrast but neither diminished the other and indeed only heightened them. When Fabius let him loose, the nails burned and his chainblades span and kicked with the clinical efficiency only an Apothecary could bring. Who better to fell a foe than one that had intimate knowledge of all that had built him. Kinakh was less a scalpel making a deft cut and more the bonesaw that removed the whole limb.

Finally, the five of them together - need to add Fabius in next time!

 

Edited December 30, 2024 by Elazar The Glorified

[Terminatorinhell]

This is a cool thread... Also funny because I want to make a group of like 13 apothecaries for my loyalist chapter. 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Nice conversions, and I like that you're giving them all background

[Elazar The Glorified]

On 5/20/2024 at 10:06 PM, Terminatorinhell said:

This is a cool thread... Also funny because I want to make a group of like 13 apothecaries for my loyalist chapter. 

 

On 5/21/2024 at 10:07 AM, Firedrake Cordova said:

Nice conversions, and I like that you're giving them all background

 

Thank you both! 

 

It's Emperor's Children Index Release Day (making it sound more exciting than it technically is seeing as they're just the same warscrolls from the original CSM Index) but Lucius and Noise Marines seems like a good theme for a post today!

 

Because it's felt rather inevitable that Noise Marines and Lucius would get new minis I've struggled to make piece with them as it's a great deal of effort to convert anything half decent but knowing it'll be invalidated sometimes soon makes it a bit tricky. However, I decided I'd try and build something that I could repurpose when the time comes that these all get new proper kits!

 

Blade-Prince Nicepherous Grycas - Lord of the Weeping Blade Dance, Prince of Envy, Lord of Hubris, 'Little Lucius'

 

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"He fancies himself a swordsman. Like Lucius"

"Don't they all," Bile said.

- Exchange between Oleander Koh and Fabius Bile from 'Primogenitor' by Josh Reynolds

 

I was re-reading Primogenitor and this little exchange between Fabius and Oleander discussing Gulos Palatides struck me with an idea..

 

I didn’t want to make Lucius at all (he’ll join when he gets a new mini) but a warrior consumed by Hubris and Envy in equal measure and trying to live up to the paragon of swordsmanship within his former legion. That could be an interesting character. So, Blade-Prince Nicepherous Grycas was born. Mockingly called Little Lucius by those who see him as a preening imitation of The Eternal - although none have survived using that name within earshot… He’s a duellist always desperate to prove his superiority, driven by the ever-present doubt that if the one he aspires to match ever faced him he’d be shown to be inferior. 

 

There's a beautiful irony in that if he and Lucius ever faced off, should Grycas prove justified in his own self-importance and triumph, he'd be unable to resist revelling in his victory and very soon become Lucius anyway... Hubris and Envy indeed!

 

 

 

The base for the conversion is the Forge World Captain Lucius. Seeing as Lucius has both of his melee weapons included on the one profile I decided to go for the dual blades approach. One is the power sword from the Chosen kit the othee is a sword from the Myrmidesh Painbringers kit from Age of Sigmar. The face, also an Age of Sigmar piece, is from the Slaves to Darkness Chariot and then his Doom Siren has a combat drug injector added.

 

The Ensemble

 

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The Ensemble, as it was known, was less an organised unit of warriors than it was a loose assembly of Slaanesh's Chosen. Pilgrims drawn from warband to warband, following the Song of Slaanesh. In battle, they grouped themselves around the strongest voices in their choirs, but there's little uniformity to their structure from one battle to the next.

 

Just the Noise Champions to share for today. Noise Champions are an odd mini in that they can take a Sonic Blaster, a Doom Siren, and a Power Fist so they were always going to be fun to model!

 

Noise Champion Telukion - Orchestrator and First Voice of The Ensemble

 

 

Noise Champion Kelios - Second Voice of The Ensemble

 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Elazar The Glorified
Updated picture of The Blade-Prince

[Elazar The Glorified]

Wow I've been really bad at adding anything else into this thread!

 

I built these a little while back to celebrate the Night Lords Kill Team.

 

I wanted a Nemesis Claw or Terror Squad that had found itself indebted to Fabius Bile, and he has called in his marker. The Terror Squad known as the Keening Wail is led by the Headsman, Morvek Flay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The extra Night Lords sprue in the Kill Team box is pretty awesome and has loads of bits for use beyond just Night Lords actually, I did a review of the kit for kitbashing potential for the Oath of Moment blog (link in signature). Tempted to paint these in alternative Night Lords colours to include some pink lightning!

Edited November 23, 2024 by Elazar The Glorified

[Firedrake Cordova]

They look great, especially the first one. Night Lords are probably my favourite of the Heretic legions ...

[Elazar The Glorified]

On 11/19/2024 at 3:22 PM, Firedrake Cordova said:

They look great, especially the first one. Night Lords are probably my favourite of the Heretic legions ...

 

Thank you! I do have a lot of time for the Night Lords. The Aaron Dembski-Bowden trilogy is high up on my list of favourite Black Library stories - obviously the Fabius Bile trilogy rates higher for me, or I wouldn't be quoting it in the title of this thread - but ADB through those stories and the Talon of Horus and Black Legion has done a lot of good for Chaos Space Marines and really bringing them to life in a properly three-dimensional way.

 

However, it's time for some proper proper Heretics of the most perfect of Legions...

 

This is a Chosen Squad built around their leader, Prefector Axiter Gine formerly of the Palatine Blades.

 

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Axiter longs for a return to the former glories of the Emperor's Children Legion of old. When they cast off the Imperial yoke it should have freed them to pursue those glories for themselves but instead his brothers now pursue only their vices or the deluded whispers of those champions already too lost to the embrace of the Dark Prince.

Axiter has surrounded himself with those who share similar ideals, or at least in theory. They are the least outwardly corrupted amongst their brethren, although of course the touch of the warp is felt by all confined for so long to the prison of the Eye of Terror.

Lieutenant Commander Fabius Bile, whilst a monster, is a monster largely unchanged since the Siege of Terra and for that reason Axiter has aligned himself to the Chief Apothecary.

Of course, Axiter is as deluded as those former brothers he looks down upon. Addicted to the chemical stims provided by Fabius Bile and in constant pursuit of the glory of single combat on the battlefield, longing to prove his superiority over the champions of other Legions and races, Axiter is as corrupt as all of them. He offers up the souls of the vanquished to Slaanesh for a taste of power and to stave off some further corruption.

But whilst Axiter thinks that if they only sip from the poisoned chalice that the Dark Prince offers them in exchange for his gifts, they will not be made fully into their patron's slaves, he and his followers are entirely in thrall to the Youngest God and amongst Slaanesh's favourites, for what souls could be more delicious than those of the vainglorious and deluded..?

 

For the minis themselves, first up, Axiter Gine himself:

 

 

The two main parts to this particular kitbash are a Horus Heresy MkIII Tactical Marine and the resin Horus Heresy Captain Lucius, The Faultless Blade. I had a vision for a fencer-like pose for a duelist (so many duellist conversion idea rattling about in my brain, just as well I play Emperor's Children!). This particular MkIII Marine pose felt perfect, there's a bit of a juxtaposition between the lightness of foot that comes from the overall pose and the chunkiness of the MkIII power armour and as a result this is one of my favourite conversions. I swapped the second sword that Lucius carries for an open hand, luckily there was the perfect one amongst the Horus Heresy Rhino crew bits. The head is taken from the command sprue for the Tactical Marines with the addition of a horn. Even the purist living in the Eye of Terror are likely to pick up some extra bits courtesy of the warping powers of the wound in reality and importantly, Axiter kids himself at a level of purity and self-control above that of his fellow Legionaries but the truths of the darkness in his soul are written upon his flesh despite his best efforts at self-delusion. The shoulders, sword arm and cape are all from Captain Lucius. As these weren't meant to go together there were some quite chunky gaps to have to take care of between the shoulders and the torso, so I decided on the streamer like extensions on his cape as I think they add a bit more motion to the pose of the mini without overdoing it. I quite like the idea that when in full flow, there'd be all these extensions to his whirling form from the cape, streamers and the trinkets on ribbons on his belt. Those Slaaneshi sigils on the ribbons are clipped from the Myrmidesh Painbringers kit. Finally, because this is chaos and he is a Champion of the Dark Prince, the trophy rack is taken from the Chosen kit.

 

Next up is a Chosen Marine with two Accursed Weapons:

 

 

A far more straightforward kitbash by comparison to Axiter Gine. The torso is a MkVI Tactical Marine and the helm is again taken from Captain Lucius. The backpack is a Chaos Space Marine one, I think from the Chosen kit. Some studs were added to one of the greaves on the MkVI armour and then the arms are taken from the Myrmidesh Painbringers kit, well more specifically the alternative Symbaresh Twinsouls build of these. I liked the way the pose looked with a real balance of threat and malice and the twin weapons feel like a good pairing of shorter blades. Wasn't happy with the helm on its own so I added the crest, clipped from a Slickblade Seeker rider another kit from the Age of Sigmar Hedonites of Slaanesh range.

 

Then we have a Chosen Marine with Power Fist:

 

I liked the idea that with Axiter being a Palatine Blade, even if his current squad aren't of the same mindset, they'd be used to their leader engaging in challenges with the champions in enemy forces and that whatever passed for discipline amongst the remnants of the Emperor's Children would likely sit with another in this squad so I pictured this guy as the one who would enforce it. Largely a MkIII Tactical Marine, the Power Fist is from the Chaos Raptors kit (right-handed close combat weapons are pretty rare for Chaos outside of the Raptors!) the left arm carrying the helm is taken from the Command Squad Horus Heresy kit. I added a chain across the torso to mirror the ones on the resin shoulder pad taken from the Esoterist Consul. The head is from the Chaos Legionaries Kill Team sprues, I believe normally reserved for the heavy melee weapon wielder.

 

Chosen Marine with Combi-weapon:

Love a marine with a combi-weapon! A fairly straightforward kitbash this one. A MkVI torso, Chosen Chaos Space Marine arms carrying a combi-plasma from the same kit and then the helm is taken from the Horus Heresy Command Squad sprue.

 

Chosen Marine:

 

What's calling than a combi-weapon? Just an honest old Bolter! The final Chosen Marine is another MkVI Tactical Marine although I've mixed up the armour marks a little by giving him a MkIII helm. The plume on the helm is taken from a Hedonites kit again and I think probably a Blissbarb or Blissbarb Seeker but can't remember for sure. Chosen Chaos Space Marine arms here (always a fan of a marine with an actual bolter - doubly so if he's showing old school 'True Grit' to fire it in one hand - will always have a soft spot for Space Wolves!). His sword is from another Myrmidesh Painbringer and the little Slaaneshi sigils is taken from the Slickblade Seekers sprues as that kit is chock-a-block with lots of great trinkets and treasures for the followers of Slaanesh.

 

The squad together:

 

Finally a little fluff snippet to help bring Axiter to life a tad...

 

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The tired din of battle faded into the background, his brothers forgotten about, as Axiter Gine felt the universe come into sharp focus once more. He raised his blade in salute to the Aeldari champion.

 

"The youngest god hungers for your soul, alien, and I shall make a gift of it." he called as he closed the distance between them. "Be sure to tell Slaanesh that it was Prefector Axiter Gine that dispatched you to Him."

 

For its part, the Eldar warrior spat something back at him in the clipped and cold sounding drivel that passed as language between their kind. The Chief Apothecary held the Aeldari in higher regard than he did. As far as Axiter was concerned, they were a vile race, clinging on to a doomed existence rather than facing their fate with honour and good grace. When his time came, he would rather it ended quickly than be something as drawn out as the final death rattle of the Aeldari.

 

The distance between them became as nothing and their blades met in their first dance. The Eldar moved with an inhuman speed and grace that put his teeth on edge but, begrudgingly he couldn't deny that it possessed some modicum of skill. A true test of his mettle perhaps? Its electric blue form-fitting armour flexed and rolled with its wearer's movements and Axiter found himself quickly on the defensive as the keening blade it wielded slashed at him first from left, then from right. A feint to the left was redirected gracefully into a swipe from the right and, unable to get his sword across in time, Axiter instead parried the alien's wrist with a strike from his vambrace. The alien saw the parry coming and flexed with the movement so that the impact didn't shatter its wrist. It knew well enough the strength and power in the enhanced body of a chaos space marine. He pressed the space as the alien tried to dance away and put his strength into some ringing blows that the Eldar was forced to meet, blade to blade, with gritted teeth. Keen to disengage it dove into a pirouette, blade outstretched and Axiter was forced to give ground.

 

Axiter's body and soul felt alive with the dance of blades. The Eldar gave him a mocking bow as it caught its breath. He felt anger rise like bile within him and in response, chemical stims flooded his system like ice water. Gifts from The Manflayer, in return for him lending his sword arm to the Chief Apothecary's cause.

As he pressed the attack once more, everything else felt as if it moved a beat slower, the speed of the Aeldari champion tempered somewhat by his heightened senses. He on the other hand, felt as if he was not subject to the same laws and his sword arm felt lighter, faster, stronger. Whilst the Eldar met every lunge, swipe and strike of his sword, it was being harried into a reactive battle that did not suit it.

 

Axiter aimed a kick at the alien and whilst it shifted backwards to rob the blow of some momentum it couldn't escape him fully and was thrown off balance. Axiter swept his body from the kick into a spin, his sword arm whirling with chem-hanced speed before the blade bit deep into the Xenos warrior's flank. With a flourish he pulled his sword back, widening the cut and enjoying the stink of alien blood as it spilt heavily from the wound.

 

The Xenos blade fell from slackening fingers as it's wielder fell to one knee. Using the tip of his blade, Axiter pried the Eldar's spirit stone from its mounting on its armour. The last of its energy was expended in a terrified wail as the implication of this desecration became clear to it. He examined the stone between thumb and finger for a moment before letting it drop to the dusty ground.

 

"Perhaps there will be one amongst your kin that might pose me a greater challenge," he said with a resigned sigh, before crushing the alien's spirit stone beneath his heel.

 

A wave of ecstasy washed over him, marking his patron's delight with the gift of the alien's soul. The moment was fleeting and once more a spiritual weariness descended upon him as he scanned the battlefield looking for one amongst the foe who stood out for his war-craft.

 

Edited November 23, 2024 by Elazar The Glorified

[Firedrake Cordova]

Yeah, the ADB Night Lords trilogy is pretty great.  

 

Axiter and the Marine with the two Accursed Weapons both look great

[Tallarn Commander]

Superb conversions and a fun Eldar duel story!

[Elazar The Glorified]

On 11/21/2024 at 3:23 PM, Firedrake Cordova said:

Yeah, the ADB Night Lords trilogy is pretty great.  

 

Axiter and the Marine with the two Accursed Weapons both look great

 

On 11/21/2024 at 6:09 PM, Tallarn Commander said:

Superb conversions and a fun Eldar duel story!

 

Thank you so much! 

 

Next up is one I've done some more work on recently, Master of Agonies - Jius Sirovocos:

 

 

The main body of the mini is the Chaos Space Marine Master of Executions. The head has been swapped in from the Horus Heresy Eidolon mini and the hammer, left shoulder and plasma pistol arm are all taken from the Chaos Lord mini that was previously Obsidius Mallex in Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress. The apothecary backpack and gear is taken from the Primaris Apothecary kit.

 

Between the flesh-coat and the Apothecary tools in a chirurgeon style he feels every bit the former protégé of Fabius Bile which was the look I wanted. But a former protégé who has demonstrated the level of ambition to seize control of a warband of his own. Jius is a devotee of Slaanesh, addicted to the infliction of agonies on his enemies – whether by his own hand or through the warriors of his warband.

 

Finally, a little fluff snippet to go with Jius:

 

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Jius Sirovocos' face held all the stern hard edges and lofty disdain so common to those last scions of the Great Houses of Europa. So many of them had been offered up as tithe to the Emperor's Legions and a great many found themselves amongst the brotherhood of the Emperor's Children. Eyes like blue shards dissected and disassembled everything with a clinical coldness and that detached focus was on the brawl that had broken out amongst some of his battle brothers.

It was always the way when warbands were brought together, the boasting quickly turned to violence. Where once duels might have been fought to first blood for the right to lead the vanguard on an assault, now rival Champions sought only to gratify their barbaric urges to deliver pain or death and to prove their superiority.

They hadn't even outlined the plan of assault yet. Whilst Jius Sirovocos lamented the loss of his brothers' dedication to the pursuit of perfection in all things, he knew that they were both less than and more than what they once were since being welcomed into the embrace of The Youngest God.

He saw his former master, Fabius Bile, stood on the fringes of this assembly of his brothers. Disdain writ large across his features.

"The Spider has always looked down on the rest of us," drawled Azyvius through his thick tongue, seemingly following Jius' thoughts.

"Fabius hates us because we remind him how far he has fallen," Jius responded, his tone distracted. "He made us. He made me. But he is uncomfortable with the reflection he sees in the mirror that we hold up to him."

"I would wipe that self-important sneer from his face."

"Whatever the Clonelord is, he is still our Lieutenant-Commander," Jius clipped.

"He holds no rank if he's dead," Azyvius said with a wet chuckle.

Jius was shrewd in how he played the game. There were some amongst this gathering he perhaps had need to be concerned by and then there were others, like Azyvius, whose job was to fight and die for their betters. If that death needed to be a demonstration to others of the limits of his patience, then Jius felt that a fair trade.

"You'd be surprised just how much the trans-human physiology can survive, Azyvius," he warned, with a voice like daggers of ice. "Don't tempt me into demonstrating the breadth of pain that you could suffer through."

Azyvius to his credit fell silent, there were many who would have compounded their mistakes and ended up on the slab subjected to Jius' careful ministrations.

The brawl had ended with death, inevitably. Jius could see there were two fallen marines and that Nicepherous Grycas, the self proclaimed Blade-Prince, was gloating over a victory.

Fabius stirred himself then, setting attendants to gather up the choicest organs and samples from the corpses of the slain.

"Always such a greedy one, master." Jius called to Fabius as he rose from his seat and stepped into the now empty ring that had formed to allow the combatants to settle whatever petty differences had sparked their violence. "My brothers and I are worthy of nothing but your disdain in life and yet in our deaths, you show such tender care..."

"Jius," Fabius said. No matter how many corpses his former master had inhabited, that voice never changed. Jius felt the familiar stirring of something close to fear at the core of him at its sound. "If you remember anything that I taught you, then you'll know that one should never squander the opportunity to harvest fresh materials."

[Firedrake Cordova]

It's another nice kitbash  

 

Part of me wonders if the pose looks a little closed, and might benefit from the hammer rotating around to his right (our left)?

[Elazar The Glorified]

1 hour ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

It's another nice kitbash  

 

Part of me wonders if the pose looks a little closed, and might benefit from the hammer rotating around to his right (our left)?

 

Hmm, good point, will have a play with it later on and see if opening it up a little looks better - than you!

[Elazar The Glorified]

Still working on this one so will save the background/ fluff but this is a rough mock-up of Salazel The Flawless:

 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Elazar The Glorified

[Pearson73]

Love the Tzeentchian apothecary, the pose and head choice are ace.

 

Ace builds in the Chosen squad too, they're wonderfully posed.

 

Digging how brutish Salazel is looking with that head and broader pose.

 

 

[Elazar The Glorified]

Obviously I'm utterly overjoyed that this Christmas we're getting regular little reveals of the new Emperor's Children AND we've gotten a Creations of Bile detachment for Chaos Space Marines too. Now I can actually play them as 'Emperor's Children / Creations of Bile' which is how I've been describing this army since starting this iteration of it!

 

Thought I'd celebrate by sharing some of the other Chosen Chaos Space Marines I've kitbashed for another squad - probably a slightly more 'traditional' Chaos Space Marine look for these ones.

 

First up, the Champion - Scorpaz The Raider:

 

 

 

There are a few bits and pieces that have gone into making him, he's got the over-the-top chainsword from the Nemesis Claw kit as it felt appropriate for an over-the-top Enhanced Marine in service to Fabius Bile and Slaanesh. To match the over-the-top chainsword I created an over-the-top combi-weapon for him also as the regular ones in the Chosen kit are all held two-handed and are slightly more understated - no time for that sort of nonsense with Scorpaz! The backpack is from the Master of Executions as again it felt appropriately extravagant to have a great many trophies on his back.

 

The claws from the Nemesis Claw set were used to make this Chosen with two Accursed Weapons:

 

 

This Chosen Marine uses the Aspiring Champion from the old monopose kit as the base:

 

 

I've given him a needle-weapon from an Apothecary to count as a combi-weapon.

 

Chosen Marine:

 

 

The Accursed Weapon for this Chaos Marine uses the head of a mace from the Age of Sigmar Hedonites of Slaanesh Symbaresh Twinsouls kit which I think works really nicely to give a slightly different feel to the weapon.

 

Finally, a Chosen Marine with a Power Fist and a Plasma Pistol:

 

 

This one uses a Power Fist and Plasma Pistol from the Horus Heresy Tactical Squads command sprues.

 

Got another 5 Chosen to build to round out the full quota for my list (10, 5 and 5) and I've also made a start on some Terminators that I'll share once I have the first squad done.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Some really nice kitbashes there  

[Elazar The Glorified]

On 12/16/2024 at 10:21 AM, Firedrake Cordova said:

Some really nice kitbashes there  

 

Thank you!

 

Thought I'd share a mini that sits across a few of my armies across both my Daemons and Emperor's Children / Creations of Bile in 40k and my Hedonites in Age of Sigmar.

 

This is Itxaro The Resplendent - Daemon Prince of Slaanesh.

 

 

I've had the rough idea for this Daemon Prince in my head for about 15 years and have started the conversion a few times but never quite gotten it to look how I pictured it. Thankfully the Slaangor kit for the Hedonites of Slaanesh in Age of Sigmar provided the missing bits.

 

Wanted something that looked like an elevated mortal twisted into something crossed between a Keeper of Secrets and an Angel. Nothing particularly original in using a C'tan for a Daemon Prince at this stage but I'm really pleased to have made a version of this I like still by the time it is built. Looking forward to painting this one too which I'll be starting on once I've finished a batch of Daemonettes I'm working on between building marines!

Edited 12 hours ago by Elazar The Glorified

[Elazar The Glorified]

Not sure how often these will get on the table but I was inspired to kitbash a small cabal of Sorcerers for my Emperor's Children / Creations of Bile. I like the idea that their powers make them invaluable to their battle brothers but never truly accepted so they're outcasts even amongst the lost and the damned!

 

First up is Sorcerer Lord Vorterin-Buen:

 

He still needs a little more greenstuff work work to finish off the staff but otherwise pretty much there. The staff top is taken from the Shardspeaker from Age of Sigmar and the head is one of the options from the Esoterist Consul for Horus Heresy, the rest of that sculpt was put to use for...

 

Sorcerer Lord Kesh Meriad:

 

His staff top is off of the Dark Commune Demagogue as I felt it has a suitably fleshy and Slaaneshi feel. The head is from the Chosen kit and was earmarked for a Sorcerer kitbash the moment I saw it.

 

Finally, Lord Revadistreo:

 

Again a few bits mixed and matched between each of the Sorcerers with the plastic Chaos Sorcerer's head here on the plastic Terminator Sorcerer body with bits from the Twinsouls and Shardspeaker from Age of Sigmar and a banner top taken from a Slaaneshi icon for the Hellstriders in the same range.

Edited 12 hours ago by Elazar The Glorified

[Firedrake Cordova]

I really like the first two  

[PeteySödes]

These are very nice! Good choices of parts that feel unique but also mesh well! Whats next?

[Endtransmission]

Some excellent conversions here. The use of Hedonist parts is inspired