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Sons of Malice



5th Company, Aata the "white daemon's" Soul-Reavers
A True-Scale Renegade Marine Force

This thread will specifically chronicle my "adventure" into building a True-Scale Space Marines army, specifically the Sons of Malice. Concerning GW official fluff or history for the Sons, all that is known, is that they are ferocious cannibals, who were excommunicated for this heinous act and fled into the Eye of Terror, which resided close to their home-world. It is unknown whether the Sons worshiped the renegade god Malice (also known as Malal) before their fall or if they discovered him in their weakened state. What is known illuminates the fact that they do follow Malice and every century they gather upon a space-hulk dubbed the Labyrinth, where they compete for a place amongst the legendary Doomed Ones, to be sacrificed so that Malice may enter the material realm and bestow his blessings upon the Sons, so they may one day take back their lost home-world.

So why make a project log?

Well I am a slow SLOW painter (and modeler) and I have a notorious habit for pursuing every Chapter and or Legion under the sun. So I begin this thread in the attempt to keep my attention solely focused on one project, True-Scale Sons of Malice. I must warn you though, I will always do my best to keep the updates... up to date but things like family, work and video-games all fight for my attention and its usually the first two that I give in and commit to

So what does it all mean?

The Sons of Malice have always had a special place in my cold black heart ever since I first discovered them in the 3.5 Codex: Chaos Space Marines. I took the plunge once before and well, I dropped the project as I just didn't feel it. However, recently two other Sons of Malice lovers such as myself, hushrong and GooseDaMoose began a thread on Bolter and Chainsword where we could bounce fluff ideas off each other, show off our recent models and even welcome others into the fold of Malice. With that I combined my two loves Sons of Malice and True-Scale and decided to begin a serious thread. I've been working away on producing some True-Scale marines for a while and have finally settled on committing to building a full Company (or at least half the size). My main inpiration for my army comes from Apologist's Pre-Heresy Praetors of Calth, Fafnir's Gallowsmen, Binary's Pre-Heresy World Eaters and of course the master, Migsula's Alpha Legion. I have at least 5 marines in production and have in my collection 15 more Terminators to donate bits to the project.

I will also from time to time offer up pieces of random fluff that I will post here, concerning the exploits of the 5th Company in and out of the Eye of Terror. So prepare yourselves as I begin my journey to completing a force of cannibalistic rogue space marines...

Getting started...
You cant start a W.I.P. thread without some pictures so I present the first 3 of the 4 marines I have been working on along with a sneak peek of my Captain/ Ragnar Blackmane counts as. I am currently using the Space Wolves codex so these will become my first Grey Hunter squad and are still early in W.I.P. Please enjoy.

+++ Power Fist Grey Hunter +++


+++ Grey Hunter 1 +++


+++ Grey Hunter 2 +++


+++ Some arm and weapons bits +++


+++ Captain Aata the "white daemon" +++


Let me know what you guys think. Comments and concerns are very appreciated.

I have an update with a snippit of fluff for you all to enjoy concerning weapon load outs and such. Also with a few new W.I.P. shots and a group shot!

+++Veteran-Brother Sukh'bata+++



Equipped for C.Q.C. (close, quarters, combat), Veteran-Brother Sukh'bata of the Sons of Malice 5th Company is pictured above with variant chain-axe and bolt-pistol, each of unknown mk. not seen in service to the Imperium. Also note of "trophy rack" adorned with loyalist Astartes helm, a sign of Veteran status amongst fellow brethren. He is seen, advancing, steadily aiming with his modified pistol to compensate for recoil, wind resistance etc.



Sukh'bata's chain-axe seems to be of an unknown manufacture. Notice external power lines attached to bottom of arm guard leading up to shoulder guard, perhaps leading into back-pack generator. Also notice heat exhaust suggesting higher amounts of over-heating perhaps due to experimental production.



Another example of "rogue" Chapters acquiring fire-arms post-excommunication. Take note of elongated stock, assault variant bolt magazine, and side mounted laser sight/flash-lamp added for night "guerrilla" tactics. The flash-lamp allowing the veteran-brother to switch on after landing and or infiltrating, with a strobe effect to blind and confuse opponents.

So Sukh'bata is going to be my "example" Initiate. I love the head and his pose (at least to me) makes it seem like hes eying up targets after hes mowed down some grunts in C.Q.C.(gorey chain axe and a bit of splattered gore expected). I want to order/make tons of trophy racks so every marine will look like he's been around the block and killed his fair share, that or get some jewelry chain and hang some skulls here and there. Also his name Sukh'bata is a shortened Mongolian name meaning "hero of the axe". Also planning on doodling up some heraldry for all the individual right shoulder pads, think, every Initiate is/was a hero in his own right even after their excommunication.

Some updated W.I.P.

+++Veteran-brother Ihaka+++


Held together by blue-tac. I decided the mohawk didn't really work, although I thought I did an awesome job for my first hair sculpt IMHO. I also changed the power fist position and wanted it to look as though hes been chowing down on some poor guardsman sergeant who gave him a good fight. Hes also known to rip off their "balls" and stick them on his trophy rack ala Planet Terror

+++Veteran-brother Chuluun+++



I went to town on this guy who was my first attempt at True-Scale. I wasn't going to use him but I went ahead and added more to him and I now like him and call him Chuluun (Mongolian for Stone). I wanted him to be the demolition guy who smacks around his enemies with a huge hammer when hes not blowing stuff up. I see my Hunter squads being more specialist, one guy carries the demo-kits (krak grenades all over), one anti-infantry/tank (power fist or power sword), one or two special weapons expert(s) and of course the others being a mix of range and C.Q.C. The chest vent is cut from a back-pack vent, I may add guitar wire to the sides... His "belt buckle" is that thing on the back of the terminators, I cant even think of what it could be other then a neat buckle

+++Group shot 5/10+++


The boys of squad Ihaka. Although Ihaka isn't technically a Sergeant I believe he's more of an unofficial squad leader (since there are no Sergeants in Grey Hunters squads). I want to take advantage of the free 2nd special weapon so I probably wont distribute Wolf Guard. If I do then he'll be promoted to Wolf Guard Hope you guys like. I will hopefully be grabbing the GW basing kit this friday to add some dynamic awesomeness to their bases. More to come soon.

I'm glad you shared the link to this thread on Nerdfest's blog. This is awesome. I totally dig the CSM eating that guardsman. it's nice to see truescale traitors for a change.
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FINALLY! Someone has commented haha. Thanks Moltar, I've got more coming


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Bit of an update

Re-worked the boys a bit here and there after some suggestions made on B&C.

+++ Brother Sukh'bata and Veteran-Brother Ihaka +++


I re-sculpted Sukh'bata's chest and gave him a more "menacing" head. I also removed the strobe-light as I figured it threw off the feng shui. I'm trying to not go overboard with detail. I also threw a skin-cloak to his shoulder pad, his latest victim he flayed alive to emphasis on his eviscerating tendencies. Also, I added a combi-bolter to Ihaka, he is a Veteran and I believe Veterans deserve to be equipped with rare equipment Yes this does mean he will become a Wolf-Guard, cant give combi-weapons to any regular grunt now can we? I also added a close-up of his "meal". I had to keep my "happy meal" theme going from the last project.

+++ Brother Chuluun and the revered "White Daemon" Aata himself +++


I cant describe how much I actually like Chuluun now after I re-worked him. I went back over his chest, smoothed it a bit more and went to town on bitz and yes that is a lime green terminator arm (the Termies from my failed Salamanders project have gone rogue). I knocked together the top-knot from two parts, a spare top-knot from a lone marine bit and this awesome "horse-tail" bit I found at the bottom of my old bitz box. I need to find more of those as I really like it and definitely want to give the top-knot treatment to more marines. I added the trophies using the spikes from the Chaos Lord terminator bitz, let me know if they seem a bit too long, as I have this feeling they seem "off". Then there is Aata himself. I originally chose this model to be a Chaplain but I figured it could work for Aata. But of course I really dont know how I feel about it. If I can obtain some Space Wolf bits I can just straight up make Aata in plastic and maybe switch this one out for my original Chaplain idea. Let me know what you all think.

Oh and one more surprise...

+++ Counts-as Fenrisian Wolves +++


I found these two bad boys a few days ago. They are the sabre-tooth tigers from WHFB Ogre Kingdoms Hunter model. I love these models so much, they stand to about the middle of the chest of my Marines and to the neck of a guardsman so I think they add that "oh ! Thats huge" factor to the army. I figured I could fluff up some strange sabre-tooth/beast/wolf in the same idea as the crocodile things in Blood Gorgons to act as the counts-as Fenrisian wolves for my list. These two would of course join Aata in whatever form he takes, once I flesh out a list. If I were to expand on these, for lets say a foot slogging list I would order the WHFB High Elves Tiger models to make a huge pack of them, of course adding GS huge fangs to emphasis on sabre-tooth. Let me know what you guys think.

Nice work so far, i might sugest giving the faceses a aged look, Malice is said to drain the souls of his followers.

bigmek35 wrote: i might sugest giving the faceses a aged look, Malice is said to drain the souls of his followers.

Very true! I will definitely be giving them the pale-slowly being drained of life skin tones, complete with purple veins snaking up the sides I originally was going to convert up some WHFB Ghoul heads but that one kind of didn't work, I gave it a try but they still ended up being kind of off...

really liking the stuff here. Where are yo going to go with the Malal fluff, I've been interested in Malal since i first got into warhammer, but just loved imperial armies too much!
have you also thought about using chapterhouse's truescale kit, i plan to for my truescale army.

Thanks Sageheart I'm in the process of compiling all the fluff myself and a few other hobbyists have been working on, its truly been an international affair. As far as Chapterhouse, I've been on there alot (I really like that Chaplain skull helmet and the FW-esque Vehicle doors) yet I havent seen a TS kit you speak of. Maybe link me?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/306818.page

go to page like 44 i think. it isnt on their website yet but you can order it through messaging chapterhouse. the mold was made by hit the spot.

Thanks Sageheart. Man his True Scale makes me green with envy. I do love his diorama, makes me think twice about the idea I had for one Thanks again.

welcome, love what you are doing here, just thoght i would show you some other stuff, maybe it could help!

Oh it definitely does help alot! Thanks again!

It looks like it has been a while since you posted here, Mr. Malevolent.

Have you been working on anything new for the Sons of Malice?

Begel Dverl wrote:It looks like it has been a while since you posted here, Mr. Malevolent.

Have you been working on anything new for the Sons of Malice?

Actually just a little, bit thanks for asking. Ive ran out of putty recently and I'm also in the middle of switching jobs so the insane amount of attention/time I need to invest in these bad boys has been severely diced and refocused on something "normal". Right now I'm working on re-doing my old Tau, painting some Steel Legion and Vostroyans I've had for years and a "normal" Marine force (probably Knights of Blood).The Sons of Malice have been put on the back burner for now until my money situation settles and I can get some nice new Termie parts to get this rolling again.