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The Thong Throng? Still painting my first three noise marines, those possessed have so many details! Here’s a possibly uninteresting wip shot for your viewing pleasure. I blocked in the colours, now trying to figure out what my direction for the metals will be. I also cannot figure out if I want to go blue-ish for the black like Flavius posted above. Or if I want to go for a more dirty desaturated black. Any input or tutorials for a nice grim black is very welcome!

In between the maulerfiend post and the terminators I am really starting to like the colour scheme! It’s a nice canvas to splatter with the paint of the battlefield as well. Would love more group shots down the line.

I’ve been building and building but as mentioned I haven’t been able to get myself started painting again. Yesterday I figured that setting up my airbrush at home was a barrier for getting started, so this morning I brought two pinks and some airbrush medium with me to my job, together with the models so I could start painting the basecoat. After checking out for the day I grabbed the airbrush we have in the lab and painted the pinks while I still had the workplace energy in me. Worked like a charm and have been brushpainting all evening after coming home! Hope to share finished pictures with you all in not too much time. You’ll need more noise boys for when we get a detachment for them anyways! Or when using the homebrew one being cooked up om this forum! Thank you Tallarn Commander, very kind. It’s been a while and two since I painted him but I’ll do my best going by what I would do it if I had to replicate it today: As far as I remember I painted the weathered leather in the store when I was still working for Games Workshop, which means that I would probably use whichever paints were available from the starter sets or set out for any store projects. Knowing myself the basecoat is 100% dryad bark which is a lovely and slightly desaturated brown. The hatches and criss-crossing is then whichever light browns were available, probably some gorthor brown, baneblade brown, ushabti bone, etc, mixed with the basecoat or fresh from the pot going with darkest colours first and then thinner and thinner lines the lighter it got. Hit natural highlight points with the darkest highlight colours first, some nice fat lines to work the motion into the wrist. And from there you’ll have a nice feel for the rest of the scratches to paint. Don’t worry about layering the colours, just paint them over in different patterns to build up some 2D texture. I love to ‘shade’ with thicker Contrast type paints which is also why I wouldn’t worry too much about the highlight colours. Shade and glaze the areas with Garaghak’s sewer thinned with water or lahmian medium (or a mix). This allows you to correct any mistakes, pull back an over-highlighted area, or just bring some nice colour onto the surface if the highlights were too pale. After this I would probably go back with the lightest highlight colour once more, but only underlining already existing paint lines (kind of like how you would underline a scratch when painting chipped panels on armour?). I probably used the same paints but swapping garaghaks sewer for cygor brown when painting the more reddish gun holster (how he will ever fit that needle pistol down there only Slaanesh knows). I hope that chaotic walkthrough is at least somewhat useful! Let me know if not.

Hi again. Thank you BadgersinHills. Glad to hear you like them. You can always convert the next six! I've bought two possessed kits so far, and scrounged up some more bodies for the last eight (out of 18) models to not have too many repeat poses. I haven't done any painting since last time, but I have been building away. I will need a lot of new champions, as the lack of power-fists and doom sirens (my favourite wargear!) in the new codex is such a challenge. For the last years I've really been scrounging up powerfist bits to kitbash with. Any ideas? Here's a model from my old army. A legionary unit champion, Flavius the Violator, who's been on double duty as an aspiring champion in games of kill team. He will soon be accompanied with a full kill team, since my kill team models are a bit mixed I've started building more models bridging the new tormentor kit with my CSM body noise marines. Obviously a student of Fabius Bile. I used the body of a primaris chaplain, with a chosen powerfist, as well as bits from Chaos Chosen, Primaris Apothecary, Legionaries, LotR (severed heads), plastic glue bottle (needle for the gun!), Warpsmith head. I remember it as being very enjoyable to paint the distressed leather. I also had a lot of fun copying some of the details from the old Fabius Bile model; severed head in the belt, tools hanging from the side, needle pistol. This guy is one of the most recent models I made before my Warhammer hiatus that started a few years ago. His colour scheme probably resembles what I will do going forward quite well.

These guys are indeed possessed marines, mostly just possessed bodies and then main bits from noise marines and a few from tormentors for taste. The next 6 will probably have some Gal Vorbak bodies mixed in as well, requiring me to have some weapons held in the left arm. I also want to use some of my older noise marine bits a lot more! Cheers, I am glad you both like the miniatures!

Thank you. The caped guy was the first I built but was missing something, being too front heavy. Then while rummaging through my bits (looking for capes and loincloth after reading your remade guide) I moved a Dark Apostle out of the way before going back and picking up the cape from that model! Had the perfect schwung for finishing his silhouette.

Horrible job to make the X fit a ball-joint! If you’re not going for ruins or similar in the end I would dremel out the X centre until the circumference fits the ball. Then plastic cement before using miliput or similar to finish the deal. this would make a much stronger hold, and if wanted you could even give it more support by pinning the ball to the bottom armour plates after glue but before fill? Didn’t see the daemon prince sticking his head up in the picture, but of course you have three already! I guess we’re all drowning in daemon prince models after all. Make two more!

I wouldn't worry too much about this particular part with the 1000pts list you're describing, there's plenty of pressure units, and potentially going for middle objectives and enemy territories allows you to give up your own objective at little risk. Or as you both say, the spawn would be a fun model to keep at home, with the redeploy shenanigans should people want to come for it.

The Talon and the Voice of Slaanesh are such gorgeous models that you should definitely paint them up! Your other Keepers already look so nice that you could count them as a winged Daemon Prince proxy?

Greetings and welcome to my army log! I've been a hobbyist for many years, and am recently back from the longest hobby break since I started painting my first Chaos Warriors at the age of five. The reveal of the Emperor's Children codex is what got me back in, and in this log I will detail my EC-CSM army's transition to a true EC army. No more handicapping myself with limiting my Marks of Chaos, or being miffed that the god-specific keyword had no effect! I've been collecting and playing 40k with my Slaanesh/EC marines since 5th edition, which means that a lot of the collection is outdated, all of my wonderfully converted Noise Marines are now a bit on the small side, their power-fist wielding champions have no place in the army. Many of my old characters have found a perfect match for size and vibe with new units like for example the flawless blades! So I'll start this log with my then-exalted champion, now flawless blade member 1 of 3. I didn't realize just how dusty the model was until I reviewed the pictures, apologies! This guy was converted immediately upon the release of the noise marine commemorative model, but only painted two years later. Very indicative for my usual building to painting speed..! I hope to do better with all the new models, after all I need to get these guys on the table sooner rather than later, having vowed to play no more games with half-finished models. I was inspired by colours of a fresh bruise for this guy, and while I like the usual black and pink for my Emperor's Children, this guy and many of the flawless blades to come will probably come with more individuality in their colouring. To round off my first entry we need some of the new models as well! This is my first converted group of Noise Marines made from the new models. To be honest I was quite disappointed in the uniformity and cleanliness of the new Noise Marines, who to me look nothing like the augmented monsters I had hoped for, they look very factory made to me, more hulkbuster iron man than noise marine. But even if I liked them, I would probably convert them anyways since that is such a fun part of the hobby! And as disappointed I was in the overall look of the kit, as awed was I by the bits and possibilities in it! It is such a beautifully tooled sprue, with options for days, and a proper heavy sonic weapon that did not look like a guitar or something equally silly, wow! The clean lines on these guys also makes it so much easier to cut into! The first changes I made to all of my sonic weapons was removing the fluid containers attached to the underside. This allowed me to cable the Screamer Pistol to the wearer, giving me a compromise giving the small sonic weapon (why would a noise marine ever want a smaller gun?!) some more weight by hunkering it down. I wanted the Blastmasters to stick out a bit more as well, by building the shoulder-mounted cannon and moving the dial to the weapons left side so my marine could still tune it. Both blastmasters also have a backpack with the two weaponized exhausts being reduced to one for a Slaaneshi asymmetrical look. Another part of note is the caped crusader using an infractor head, inspired by talks of caping in Dr Rhuminaus thread. I hope you like them! I will get to painting as soon as possible so hopefully I can post some of these painted soon, together with a rebased Lucius the Eternal, and my then-obliterator-now-Lord-Kakophonist.

Good points on the bolters. I think that personally I am more inclined to houserule CSM units into the EC codex rather than continuing playing my CSM army, some of this is probably hobby self-flagellation which I have a lot of comments on, but I’ll reserve that for another discussion rather than your thread here. Here’s the boarding patrol unit selection for EC taken from my copy of WD, it’s a detachment system so I guess there is the possibility of more varied playstyles down the line! Only the warp knows why they’ve limited it like this, but the detachment is called Sublime Strike and the text blurbs attached seem to focus on precise dagger strikes and humiliating the enemy by going straight for the bridge. So in that regard I guess there is a strong theme. I might jump on board for the Call to Arms, thanks! Deadlines and pledges can sometimes be the bane of my motivation, but if with the time to prepare for it I might be able to enjoy it! I’m also wanting to start up an army blog inspired by you and Sume (and more!) since I enjoy reading those and might like a place to record progress. Was a bit halted by trying to learn the blog system (having a thread appear in both WIP forum and here for example would suit my planned posts) but ultimately I haven’t been able to figure out the functionalities so I will probably create it in this sub-forum with the rest of us Slaanesh enjoyers.

Oh my, I think @LSM pointing out the bolter stat being nothing new really is a testament to how ineffective it is since none of us had realised The point about noise marine pts cost is mute however since I’ll already be maxing those three slots out! @Dr_Ruminahui my hobby goal for the new EC was to not play with unfinished models, too bad I focused the time up to release painting my predators and dreadnoughts, thinking that I could then focus on new infantry models and characters! (I was half right) My second plan after seeing the roster was to just focus on noise marines and and infractors for Boarding Action games, not knowing that we’d be limited to terminators and flawless blades(!). Do you have any specific routine for painting up forces? Unit before a character for palate cleansing for example. Or finishing a unit completely before building the next (I realise that you’ve built both your tormentors and noise marines already). I enjoy kitbashing and converting so much that I always end up building more than I can paint in a feasible time-frame.

Love the bolter extensions, works really well. It was only after my first game with the new rules that I realised our bolters actually fire two shots at 24” and not one at full and two at half range! I want to make a large ‘shooty’ squad with a LE to compliment my noise marines (as for calling 14 s4 bolter shots shooty, I’d say that in the land of the blind the one eyed is king!).

Awesome Dr Ruminahui, your dedication to caping your marines is inspiring! Your greenstuff fur matches the orginal tufts quite well, something I’ve been having trouble with myself. I’ll also admit that I dislike just how regal and clean the new models are, so it’s great to see a tattered cloak looking good on the new bodies! I’ve been shaving down the loincloths on all of my noise marines already, so the chaos warrior cloak would fit in nicely without much work. I just might load up one of my obsessionists or noise marines with a cape, so thanks for the guide!

Seems legit, if this is true I welcome the same datasheet with rules changes for spawn, terminators etc which reminds me of the different benefits marks gave when I started collecting (hordes of chaos in WHFB). Very flavourful! And while I am happy for WE to keep helbrutes, predators, and defilers, it only makes me question the nonsensical choice of leaving them out of the EC codex even more! As for the strength etc, we’ll know much more when the post-codex point values are out, and when we’ve seen actual datasheets options in regards to unit sizes (terminators probably locked to 5 man).