Frank's Great Work Continued, A Daemonic Legion of Slaanesh - Leaders - June

 Last month was a bit of a hobby letdown. I was forced to burn my Wild Card month to mulligan as I sliced through the tip of my finger in a freak accident. It took several weeks for the stitches to come out and for me to be able to get back to work. But, with such trivial issues pushed aside, I got down to June being my Leader month. 

I have only three models this month, but all are conversions, two of which were on the complicated side. 

First off we have what I have taken to calling the Golden Pair. I wanted an Exaulted Champion to ride with the mounted Daemonettes in the Legion. I took a classic Slaaneshi champion and removed his legs. To this 'rump' champion model I added the legs from the two piece Chaos knight. This was just about right to fit on the Mount of Slaanesh 'seat' where a saddle would go. This was not a pretty adjustment though, and some belt accoutrements and a slung shield were needed to hide the worst of the sins on display here.

I have searched for many years to find the unreleased Mount of Slaanesh to include in my Slaaneshi Legion. It was clear from 'Stuff of Legends' that a key difference between the unreleased model and the Realm of Chaos era Mount of Slaanesh was that it was a single piece sculpt. What I did not realize until I hand one in my mortal hand was the reason it was never sold. It is about 60% the size of the released model. Any normal sized rider, daemonette or otherwise, was going to look comical riding it. But what if the rider was not 'normal' sized, I wondered to myself...  

I decided that my mighty champion would have a familiar. Since he was carrying some dread spell tome it seemed only appropriate. I had a tiny armored combat familiar, and decided he would ride the tiny steed.  To get him on to the Steed, his poor legs had to come off and get reposed to allow something like sitting on the steed. Unlike like his larger master, this was not as messy a conversion and only a tiny shield and some junk to give the impression of a saddle was needed to hide the scars. Lastly I printed him a tiny slaanesh icon to go on his helmet because there was no Slaanesh icon on the model anywhere otherwise.

 

The urge to make these two look as closely linked as possible was too good to miss. I'm sure there is a "mini-me" joke here somewhere. Both got a gold color scheme for their armor with pink lacquered shields. The steeds are mirrors of each other's colors, purple and green. Lastly the Champion got a fancy paint job on his daemon weapon.

 

My next leader character is specifically for the undead contingent. In theory the undead Minotaur Champion could lead the undead troops but as I now had a unit of combat skeletons and a unit of skeleton archers, I wanted a proper leader to provide some sorcerous support. I went with a liche. I decided this model was likely not part of the fallen cult who made up the Legions undead fodder, but rather a fallen necromancer who made a deal with a slaaneshi daemon to extend her life. The result was losing her soul, which is now carried as a jewel in the armor of the Legion's commanding Keeper of Secrets. She is indeed immortal, having cheated death, but has to serve forever at the head of a cohort of doomed fools for her new master's entertainment. For the model, I noticed two of the old Chaos Sorcerers clearly had been made from the same manikin. One was a generic Sorceress, the other a Slaaneshi spellcaster. I simply took the arm with the slaanesh icon wand from one and put it on the other. The result was a convincing sorceress. She got the same red paint scheme that her minions were given.

 

The Mighty Champion of Slaanesh with his mount and his mounted familiar, have a variable cost depending on the number of rewards the champion has. I wanted the Golden Pair to be cream of the crop so I opted for the full 360 points. I didn't buy him the Mount extra, but safely assume it will turn up in all those reward rolls. The Liche I opted for a level 3 caster, which meant a "Liche 20". She costs 345 points and has no optional extras built in. This brings has me adding 1,005 points to the Legion this month. The total models and points for OWAC VIII will be totaled up and shown off next month, as well as totals for the entire Legion beyond just this OWAC.