2025 continues to be a busy and dare I say chaotic time. Various malignent entities continued to conspire to embugger my time, but progress was made all the same. The field of bones, on its face is clearly a domain of Khorne, and I shant be going there. So, what did I accomplish in April, you may ask? Weirdness and oddity, is my answer. Last month's Rippity Rabbity was just the first of a growing menagerie of strange monsters, and chaos spawn.
The first new arrival is a grotesque chaos dragon. A daemonic legion can include up to three dragons, which can be small or large as desired. Wings are also an option if you want to spend for them. In this case I wanted to use a Reaper miniatures monster that had been hiding in my box of shame for quite some time. I would be including it as a dragon with a mid-sized profile at 600 points, When included as part of a daemonic legion, dragons may be given D6+1 chaos attributes (aka mutations). I took the liberty of assigning him at a minimum, hideous appearance, short legs, and a mace tail. The dragon profile itself has a random chance of magic ability, and is assigned a random breath weapon. The dragon's job in the legion is most likely to give some zappy support to the infantry, and be a somewhat resilient piece to slow down enemy lesser daemons.
This model was painted in drab bony colors to lean into it's hideous appearance attribute. The lack of color is a sharp departure from the rest of the Slaaneshi Legion, and in a strange way, makes this guy stand out. Everybody can't be a model after-all. Shown here with the Legion's Jabberwocks for scale.
Next comes a pack of spawn. Unlike the pack of elven slaaneshi spawn I did in my first OWAC, these spawn are not dedicated explicitly to the pleasure god but rather seem to have fallen in with the legion by chance. The models I assembled for these were from a number of sources, and I chose to paint them in wildly divergent color schemes. I shall begin by introducing the little guys.
These two are smaller than man-sized. The first is an odd little beast, the model for whom I found at Fenris Miniatures, and added quite a few bits like the wings, extra tails, and spikes. His comrade, is a classic Citadel chaos dwarf mutant, who I simply mutated further by taking away his normal hand holding a club, and giving him more tentacles. They serve no useful purpose in the legion and are merely cannon fodder.Next we have the mid-sized spawn. These two are some fantastic Satyr Art Studios sculpts, which I was lucky enough to acquire second-hand, as they are no longer sold. I didn't convert them at all, because that was clearly unnecessary. I painted them to be as different from each other in pallet as they are in form. They will serve in the spawn pack as tougher cannon fodder, but fodder all the same.
Lastly, and possibly least (who knows with a spawn pack?), we have a strange reptilian creature with a crested mutation and far too many legs. This model is a Reaper miniatures basilisk, and so I also have assigned him an 'Evil Eye' mutation. The color scheme was done in hopes of making him pop with his pack mates.
All together, my pack of spawn only accounted for the minimum 'ten' rank and file models required this month. The tally being x2 man-sized models, and then x4 big guys who count double as eight total. Points wise, spawn cost 100 in a daemonic legion regardless of how big small or weird they turn out so the pack adds another 500, which alongside the dragon, totals another 1100 points for the Slaaneshi Legion. Next month is to be leaders, and will feature at least a couple champions of Slaanesh. Till then, here is a pic of the spawn pack all together with Rippity from last month...
Wonderful colours - really vivid! And each one full of gruesome character. Love 'em!
ReplyDeleteThat is unquestionably a chaotic ensemble despite the lamentable ongoing embuggerance of your time, well done sir!
ReplyDeleteThank you. Appreciate the positive vibes.
DeleteThat's what I like about chaos - colour.
ReplyDeleteI love your Chaos Spawns-so diverse in both form and colour, just as they should be. Absolutely awesome!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a crazy looking bunch of crazies. Love this use of that Reaper Catoblepas model, it really does look like a Chaos beast.
ReplyDeleteAhhh, a Catiblepas. I could not figure out what it was, but I remebered it was a Reaper fig. Thanks
DeleteLovely work. my favourite has to be the Satyr sculpt which you've polka dotted and that stripe down the tongue. Great job!
ReplyDeleteCheers. Paint job needed to be as odd as the sculpt.
DeleteThese miniatures smell like chaos! That's for sure. Well done on your paintings and your choice of minis.
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