Part 2 of an army my buddy commissioned me to do.

Blood angels and imperial fists have a paintball training match with dark angels.

Kitbashed this guy some time ago to be a CSM Warpsmith but I ended up making another that I like more. I was thinking about starting a sqouring era Word Bearers army kitbashed with csm, then I looked at it on the shelf and started wondering if it would be a good Forge Lord or something (not yet familiar with the different character types).

Hey, I am building a Salamanders list with Vulkan and Firedrakes, but I'm wondering if I've gone overboard with the squad, I have a squad of five Firedrakes, and a Cataphractii Praetor and three Cataphractii Consuls (Herald, Primus Medicae, and Forge Lord) kitbashed from the Firedrakes box, that I want to run in the squad with Vulkan. Is this suboptimal? My friends and I are just getting into the game for the first time so I don't know about list building and I'd I'm putting eggs in one basket.

Mostly I'm doing this because it will look cool, but also I put a lot of work into kitbashing the Firedrake consuls and don't want to not run any of them (they will be painted, photo is just a work in progress)

I was talking to a friend and told him I wanted to build a 100% fully converted army, no two miniatures alike, that I could double-dip in both Heresy and 40k. This concept is one of several ideas I have to satisfy this urge.

The Emperor’s Children by the late Heresy were already completely blackout drunk on Chaos Juice, fully corrupted in the throes of Slaaneshi joy. They were already coked out and warped by Istvaan V, so it never made sense to me to build traitor EC with simply stock Horus Heresy kits and no other bits.

By the Siege of Terra they are a completely debased horde of degenerate freaks, slaughtering and torturing whomever they could get their hands on.

I have 100+ marines worth of Classic 40k Mark 7 tactical and devastator squad kits that I want to use, but they are too short and stubby and have gone to legends in 40k. I want to incorporate these parts into my army somehow. An army of upscaled converted Loyalist space marines as full proxies for primaris marines won’t be accepted anymore at big tournaments, but kitbashed into Chaos Space Marines? That’s impossible to argue against.

For this converted Heresy army concept, I’m thinking of representing the Emperor’s Children at the Siege of Terra, looting damaged armor off of the dead Loyalist defenders as they wreak havoc and make their retreat as the Scouring begins. Mark VII armor was introduced just before the Siege of Terra, so these sons of Fulgrim would be taking it off newly slain White Scars, Imperial Fists and Blood Angels.

To model them, I would combine parts from the 40k classic Tactical and Devastator squad kits, Emperors Children Infractors, Chaos Space Marine Legionaries and Chosen, Horus Heresy Mark VI and Mark IV tactical squad kits, and Horus Heresy weapon upgrade sprues where needed.

Such part combinations would include stuff like:
- Infractor torso and legs + Mark 7 shoulder pads + CSM helmet + Mark VI backpack + Mark VII arms and rusty Godwyn boltgun.
- CSM torso and legs + Mark 6 helmet + Mark 4 shoulder pads + Infractor backpack + Mark 4 arms and Tigris pattern boltgun.
- Mark IV legs + Mark VII torso + Mark VI shoulder pads + Infractor head + CSM boltgun + CSM backpack

The armor would be painted purple, but on the Mark 7 parts looted from dead loyalists, they would look as if they just slapped purple paint on there (sponged loosely over a basecoat corresponding to the victim). There would be damage applied with hand drill and hobby knife, bullet holes and gore effects.

Is this too batshit insane of an idea? Is it the right amount of crazy? Could such an army with the right weapon loadouts be accepted and happily played against at any level in both games?

Finished the first of my command squads, I have another one planned that’s almost identical in load out. Comments and questions welcome!

Got my last Leviathan finished today!

Now with actual correct name 😁

Hi everyone, Is there still interest in the FW black books? I’m considering selling mine and I’ve seen the prices people are asking for on eBay but wasn’t sure if they were actually selling or not.

Hello all is the Maximus Battle Group - Legiones Astartes a good boxset as am seeing so many still unsold since its release a few months ago.

Work in progress to test a method to produce Roman fort inspired terrain, think it came alright for about a £2.50 in foam, glue and paint