Tzeentch army, second attempt at daemons

looking to try Daemons again and had a few ideas on what I wanted to do and maybe get advice as well. Here is my idea for a Tzeentch themed army.

The army will be themed around Tzeentch but I want to use the other daemon units (bloodletters, plaguebearers…) as well without using the specific models for them. My idea is that the Lord of Change (my HQ) uses his magic to create a mock version of the other chaos god’s daemons to fight with the Tzeentch daemons. This way I do not have just an allied force, or say the other daemons were tricked/corrupted into fighting for Tzeentch.

The mock daemons will have no connection to any of the other chaos gods. They are just a representation of other chaos daemons created by the Lord of Change. I built a test model with some bitz I had to show what I am thinking about.

It is basically a counts-as plaguebearer, but he has no ties to Nurgle nor is he a real plaguebearer, it was created by my HQ.


My other thought was that the mock daemons were created from things on the battle field, so say the above model was created from a destroyed tank/metal building or pile of scrap metal, or my mock bloodletters being created from a burned/charred forest. I am still working on an idea for Slaanesh, but have a few ideas for some other units. Here is a list of what I am thinking of doing.

Flamers- Flamers
Fiends- ?
Bloodcrusher- scratch build/Dryads kit bash (tree beast)
Horrors- Horrors
Bloodletters- Dryads
Plaguebearers- Necron/Space Marine kit bash

So that’s my idea, I hope I explained it well. Please let me know what you think.

Interesting concept with having minions created from materials at hand. Sounds rather Tzeentchy to me

I also did a Tzeentch-themed army using all of the troops, but in a slightly more direct way (mostly conversions from the base models and a suitable color scheme). Have a look and you might get some inspiration:

http://z7.invisionfree.com/wyrmling_x/inde...topic=7907&st=0

Only problem I might see with your approach is that it could get confusing as to what each model represents, as even with an effort like mine to keep them recognizable I still get quite a few questions when I play.

It should be a super unique army though, and given the great quality of your first PB, I look forward to seeing the results!

Thanks Noisy. Your army is awesome, very nice conversions. I did see a few things I liked that may help me decide how to do the Slaanesh units in the army.

I had considered that, but I think it is a small price to pay for having a cool and unique army.

A friend of mine did a counts-as Ork army using old Squat models. In order to help his opponents tell what unit was what he had a information sheet with photos of each unit on it and what unit they were counting-as next to them. A bit of effort perhaps but seemed to work pretty well.

Anyway, I really like the first model you have done and look forward to seeing more of your army.

Thanks. That is a really cool idea, I might try something like that as I get more units finished up.

Been doing a lot of thinking on what to do for the Slaanesh units, and the past couple of days I had an idea. I am not sure if I will use damonettes but the idea was to have them made up of pieces of broken and shattered glass. I would use some transparent rod to make a swirling design then glue different color transparent sheet cut into small pieces to it. This way it would look like a living spiral of glass.

For the fiends I would do something simular but use barbed wire. I was also thinking of adding in some bitz from the vampire counts corpse cart to look like scliced up victims.

I am going to try and do a test model for a fiend as i have a lot of barbed wire I made some time back. Let me know what you think.

Did a rough version of what I was thinking for the Fiends. I will be adding more barbed wire to the central body as well as the tenticals, I just wanted to see how it would look and hold up. I did a mix of razor and barbed wire, but the core was regular wire and it shows more than I would like so I will be fixing that on the others I build. Let me know what you think.

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That looks awsome and rather creepy, reminds me of the end of silent hill the movie

Creepy...

That's what it reminds me off! All it needs is a creepy little girl and your all the way over to a level of creepiness that levels "overly attached girlfriend"

I must also apologize for my ramblings, today I have so many pills in me that I swear I rattle when i move.

thanks everyone. Sat down tonight and started making razor wire, then I will do some more barbed wire. I am looking to make four Fiends so I will need a lot. Hope to have another update in a couple of days as I get all the supplies I need together.

Been working to get the razor/barbed wire made and got a good pile so far. I had a tooth removed today and wanted to spend my recovery time working on some more, but I was in so much pain I just could not concentrate. I have four more 20" long pieces of barbed wire not in this picture so I may have enough. I also found a thin sheet of clear plexiglass at Hobby Lobby yestrday, with a discount coupon I got it for $0.64 and it should be more than enough to make my Daemonettes. I am also looking into how to make my own trees for the Blood Crushers, but still want the Dryads for a BL unit. More to come, I have a scratch built Deff Dread I am trying to finish, so for now I will stickpile supplies for Daemons till I can finish that project.

Cool idea. Maybe add in some armor bitz, pieces of dreadnaught claws or tank bits to make it more humanoid and sentient looking? Or is this not 40k?