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So I've started sculpting my own chapter of CSMs. They are similar in appearance to the Thousand Sons, except delve even deeper into the Egyptian appearance. They are the 'Sons of Apep' (Apep being the hated Egyptian snake god of the night). I'm writing out a chapter history for them, though not quite sure if they will have an actual link to the Thousand Sons. This project will be very intensive as I plan on reconstructing many of the sculpts to fit the theme.

Currently I'm working on a full set of Egyptian-esque chaos terminators. You can picture them as a combination of the CSM terms and Fantasy Warhammer's Ushabtis. I'm also sculpting a full set of scenic bases for them with desolate Egyptian ruins covered by sand.

I plan on casting these sculpts once I'm finished if anyone would be interested. I'll post continuous updates as I complete pieces.

I expect chaos? if yes COOL !!! if not COOOOOL!! but are you making heads for your entire army? or just key figures? If you amking 30 pieces of these: rather you tan me keep it up

great idea! great heads!
i'm looking forward to seeing some models.

I really like the idea behind this. Perhaps you could cast yourself a load of heads? Variation is good, but so is consistency. I'll keep and eye on this thread .

Love it, im a massive egypt/mytholigy (sp?) Fan cant wail to see a completed mini.

More updates coming tomorrow... I finished a new helmet tonight but I'm too exhausted to take pics hah. It's a scarab lord helm and turned out very well (in my opinion). Working on a terminator chest and then legs next.

By the way, if anyone would like to throw out some ideas towards the legion's history, feel free to do so.

Perhaps Anubis and/or Apep were actually Chaos Gods? The Egyptians worshipped them, but when the ancient's empire collapsed the gods weakened but resurged when a small fringe world began o worship them?

Update!

Here is the scarab helmet for a CSM Lord (or similar type of unit).

Edit: Still a few more touch ups to do, but for the most part finished.

That looks awsome, should make molds and mass produce them lol.

This scarab helmet is genius!

Your work is really promising.

dreadanant wrote:That looks awsome, should make molds and mass produce them lol.

I plan on it - I've got a lot of experience working with molds.

Hmmmm, I might have to price some international post lol

Scarab helm is very neat although theres a nagging feeling that it is not symmetrical

Is it suppose to be like that? (I know it is chaos but this is bugging me, no pun intended)

NICE! Loving the Egyptian themed heads

kenshin620 wrote:Scarab helm is very neat although theres a nagging feeling that it is not symmetrical

Is it suppose to be like that? (I know it is chaos but this is bugging me, no pun intended)

They should be pretty symmetrical - I'm pretty anal about that. It might just be that both photos were taken at a very slight angle.

I'm very interested in this. Subbed. Can't wait to see more. What kind of color scheme are you thinking of doing?

Willhellm wrote:I'm very interested in this. Subbed. Can't wait to see more. What kind of color scheme are you thinking of doing?

I'm toying around with that now, but I was thinking emerald green with gold trim (although that might be too close to the Thousand Sons). I was also thinking of a majority of metallic and gem colors - mostly gold. I need to fool around more. Any ideas?

The problem with doing any Egyptian theme is going to be hitting to close to 1000 sons. The Blue/Gold combo is always fantastic for Egyptian. Emerald Green might look nice, but I'd want to see a test mini before anything with that one is decided.

But a lot of gem colors sounds great. If there's any flowing bits like tabards or loin cloths, they should probably be a mix of gold and a papyrus/creamy white. Or some kind of black. You could probably get a lot of help with color scheme from the mummy's from fantasy battle. Forget their names.

Loving the scarab helm - I'm up for watching this

UPDATE!

Here's a concept sketch for another one - the Thoth Terminator

(The sketch had been in my sketchbook for a while so it's a bit blurry heh)

A-MAZING! if you case will you sale/ trade????

deadman564 wrote:A-MAZING! if you case will you sale/ trade????

Yes I plan on casting and then probably distrubting, but let me get more stuff made before anyone gets too carried away hah.

I'm also currently working on stuff for other armies, such as some custom Space Wolves, Salamander/Red Dragons, and even messing with some Tyranids.

allworkandnoclay wrote:

dreadanant wrote:That looks awsome, should make molds and mass produce them lol.

I plan on it - I've got a lot of experience working with molds.

Paulson Games and Chapterhouse Studios sadly lack much in the way of Chaos; I prefer the former over the latter, but I honestly think you should try sending some of your sculpts to one of them so us fellow Chaos players can benefit!


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Draglide12 wrote:Perhaps Anubis and/or Apep were actually Chaos Gods? The Egyptians worshipped them, but when the ancient's empire collapsed the gods weakened but resurged when a small fringe world began o worship them?

That I like! Apep-followers for normal/Tzeentch guys, Anubis-followers for mayeb Nurgle-marked fellows?

Looks interesting - I am looking forward to seeing how you progress.

Have you thought of picking up some new Tomb Kings and raiding the bits? It might save you some work...

Keep it up! Loving the sculpts!

Cheers,
Rawson

Rawson wrote:Have you thought of picking up some new Tomb Kings and raiding the bits? It might save you some work...

Keep it up! Loving the sculpts!

Cheers,
Rawson

I use some of them for reference and inspiration, however I'm trying not to use any bits that I don't physically make myself. That way, if I ever do sell a sculpt, the legality will be a lot easier to approach.

allworkandnoclay wrote:

Rawson wrote:Have you thought of picking up some new Tomb Kings and raiding the bits? It might save you some work...

Keep it up! Loving the sculpts!

Cheers,
Rawson

I use some of them for reference and inspiration, however I'm trying not to use any bits that I don't physically make myself. That way, if I ever do sell a sculpt, the legality will be a lot easier to approach.

How does that song go again? "You take the high road and I'll take the low road"? I guess the hard way may be the best way in this case.