Homebrewer and aspiring kitbasher

[Cal Paquette]

Hi everyone! My pseudonym is Cal Paquette and I am based in the Utrecht province of the Netherlands.

 

The way I engage with most fandoms is that I tend to immediately dive into fan creation rather than playing. It's usually what I get the most joy out of, anyway. I want to be able to understand particular universes and understand how to achieve it's tone or understand what goes unstated by doing some of my own world-building in it.

 

I was recommended to join this forum to showcase some of my homebrews. I'll use a trick to introduce them real quickly here, which is to name a verb, a noun and an adjective for each of them and quickly explaining why I chose them, as well as a core irony.

 

Storm Tigers (WS successor loyalists):

• Verb: Salvage
• Noun: Huntsman
• Adjective: Penitent
• Irony: Self-fulfilling prophecy

The chapter has been reduced to aggressively salvaging their gene-seed and wargear due to a one-time event of withheld support from the Imperium. They've leaned into their hunter culture, combining it with their culture of combat engineering, echoing the pioneers of the past White Scars. They seek penitence for any unstated misgivings that lead to their support from being withheld, even though it was probably just a clerical error. Their penitence to avoid censure by the Imperium has only caused them to deviate from the codex more, inviting more censure and penitence.

 

Lateralist Creed (admech)

• Verb: Repurpose
• Noun: Cultivator
• Adjective: Ultrapuritan
• Irony: Hypocrisy

The Lateralists believe that STCs are an end unto themselves and are therefore limitless in their tangential use cases. Biological machinery (including xenobiology) should simply be cultivated to facilitate STCs and not the other way around, and one should only see the flesh as a means to an end. Their conspiratorial beliefs about the inherent anti-logic of the Imperium at large (which is, trying to optimize for the needs of the flesh rather than the needs of steel) makes them ultrapuritan even by admech standards. Behind the scenes, their conspiratorial levels of ultrapuritanism stem from a project reverse engineering exodite flora lead by a Drukhari Haemonculus, who pulls the strings behind the scenes.

 

Paladins of the Black Lake (WE/AL chaos undivided)

• Verb: Misappropriate
• Noun: Memory
• Adjective: Delusional
• Irony: Salvation through damnation

The Paladins of the Black Lake style themselves as the sole protectors of humanity. They appropriate all of the Imperium's history and believe it can only be preserved by consuming all humanity into one pool of mnemonic gore. After imbibing, the identity of the paladin becomes a delusional muddle of all the Imperium's worst and greatest. They genuinely see themselves as the Imperium's greatest saviors and regularly comes to its rescue, but the rescuees are damned to live forever in the cauldrons of the Black Lake.

 

 

Edited June 19 by Cal Paquette

[W.A.Rorie]

Welcome to the B&C,  @Cal Paquette, Very interesting armies and cant wait to see more. 

[Cal Paquette]

7 hours ago, W.A.Rorie said:

Welcome to the B&C,  @Cal Paquette, Very interesting armies and cant wait to see more. 

Thank you, that's so kind!

[Kommisar_K]

Welcome! Very interesting bits of lore - have you/are you planning to build any miniatures projects relating to these? 

 

Lookin' forward to seeing more!

[Cal Paquette]

15 hours ago, Kommisar_K said:

Welcome! Very interesting bits of lore - have you/are you planning to build any miniatures projects relating to these? 

 

Lookin' forward to seeing more!

Yes, very much so! I'm currently working on a dread raider, a land raider that's housing a sarcophagus. I'm doing a bunch of other modifications to it to make it look more articulated.

 

The Lateralist Creed would be fun to kitbash. I already have some build ideas. They repurpose human skin as sensors and cloaks, so I'll have fun converting some of the ghosts and zombies.

 

The Paladins of the Black Lake will be also be great fun. They get to use some of the heresy models and their auxilia are kroot, so I'll have fun converting them into Cultist proxies! My plan is to use a bunch of ghouls to convert into kroot.

Edited June 20 by Cal Paquette

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Your projects sound neat - you should share your work in the Work in Progress subforum.

 

I know the Ossiarch line from Age of Sigmar is great for kitbashing with marine kits to create an undead feel - though that's more skeletal than zombie/ghoul.  Anyway, if you are interested in marines with a strong undead/spirit connection, you should check out @Volgon's fantastically converted and painted chaos space marines (particularly his most recent models - so you might want to start looking from the back of the linked thread).

Edited June 23 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Tawnis]

On 6/20/2026 at 6:30 AM, Cal Paquette said:

The Paladins of the Black Lake will be also be great fun. They get to use some of the heresy models and their auxilia are kroot, so I'll have fun converting them into Cultist proxies! My plan is to use a bunch of ghouls to convert into kroot.

Always happy to see more Kroot out and about. :D Interesting take on a Kindred allying with a Chaos Warband, but given their unique belief system, it makes sense. I look forward to seeing what kind of conversions you come up with. 

[Cal Paquette]

On 6/23/2026 at 6:34 PM, Dr_Ruminahui said:

Your projects sound neat - you should share your work in the Work in Progress subforum.

 

I know the Ossiarch line from Age of Sigmar is great for kitbashing with marine kits to create an undead feel - though that's more skeletal than zombie/ghoul.  Anyway, if you are interested in marines with a strong undead/spirit connection, you should check out @Volgon's fantastically converted and painted chaos space marines (particularly his most recent models - so you might want to start looking from the back of the linked thread).

I've seen their stuff around! I'll give them a look! I definitely plan to use the same helmet they are for their second to most recent built for the teletarch of the warband. I definitely think I'll end up stealing some of the ideas to represent the simulacra they summon from their cauldrons. I love all the AoS undead stuff, always happy to work it in. For my Storm Tigers, I actually already have some bits from my decades old box of tomb kings models! Skeletal horses that I'll be using as decoration on the side of land raiders. 

 

14 hours ago, Tawnis said:

Always happy to see more Kroot out and about. :D Interesting take on a Kindred allying with a Chaos Warband, but given their unique belief system, it makes sense. I look forward to seeing what kind of conversions you come up with. 

Thank you, haha. The idea is that the Paladins of the Black Lake are so addicted to cannibalism that they resorted to xenos as auxilia so they wouldn't be tempted. It leads to awkward situations where the kroot are better at coordinating with ordinary mortals than the paladins themselves are. Because of how much time the kroot spend staking out voidships, they end up looking more ghoul-like from all the voidborne they eat. That and being in the proximity of a chaos warband probably hasn't helped.

Edited June 25 by Cal Paquette

[Alby the Slayer]

Welcome @Cal Paquette!

 

Wow, very interesting projects and I praise your details and precision in the story. Good job.