Hi guys another day another update. First I would like to take the time to answer the questions you guys have asked concerning this project.
Unfortunately I can’t really offer you guys a list of parts as most of the interesting things are from my bits box which have been sitting in there for ages, sometimes as long as ten years.
As for the list I will be using the chaos marine codex for this army as I want it to be fundamentally different to my other BA army and it is a Dornian heresy army after all. Though I’m still unsure of whether to take 3 squads of 7 plague marines as my core or instead taking 2 squads of 10 marines with a mark of nurgle and rhino’s. I’m leaning towards using the 3 squads of 7 because it would fit the theme very strongly.
A couple of you guys have also questioned why I chose nurgle, I know it doesn’t seem like something that would happen I thought about playing up the Undead side of the vampire mythos and once I had that idea I felt that is was too good to pass on. This theme will become more evident once I get to painting some flesh on my marines as it is going to be rotting and dead.
Anyway onto the update, news on the chaos lord is that I was able to get the carrion wings today and so he should be finished within the next 2 days and painted within 2 more, updates will probably follow his progress more than anything else. I’m hoping to finish both the lord and the terminators this week and then move onto the regular chaos marines next week as progress should speed up due to all materials now being accounted for.
Here is something I threw together this weekend based upon a concept I developed. It was practically a given that this force would end up including at least one dreadnought in the list, after all the dreadnought is the epitome of Heavy infantry. I know the Chaos ones are sub-par rules wise but honestly if he decides every so often to nuke my own unit, well it all adds to the fun. This guy was originally going to be built from one of the new Space marine venerable dreadnoughts but I was unable to afford it and so decided to cannibalize one of my as yet unused BA ones instead. The arms will be pinned in such a way as to allow me to equip him in any way I want.
While I would love to say that the coffin idea is completely my own I have to give a shout out to Luke yates from Australia and his always astounding Plague marines, particularly the one where his army was used in a CoD battle report against tau. Originally I had intended to leave the facing off the venerable and use the bare chassis but with that idea out the window I decided to use an open coffin style and again play upon the undead aspect of vampires.
As for the weapons I wanted to increase the mutation and demonic influence on this model further than the Terminators, the Obliterators will again be even more mutated and warped.
This is the pre nurgleisation dread.
This photo shows the banner for this dreadnought along with the heavy flamer and one of the pre-construction alternate weapon load outs.
Here is a close up of the coffin. I wanted to go for a face full of expression and chose a screaming space marine head because I love the idea of an insane space marine controlling a deadly war machine. I also had the idea that if the marine inside the dread was ever killed the Chaos marines would just rip him unceremoniously from inside the coffin and promptly replace him.
So what do you guys think?