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I,m in the process of making a chaos space marine army but all themed around space Skaven. As it goes the story I've thought to go behind them is, they got cursed by Nurgle as they ran away from one of the great 30k battles. This cursed caused their cowardly and hoard like nature to manifest itself in physical form This cased them to transform into rats. Now the only way to recover their original features (they hope) is to prove themselves brave in battle; that and now they've been driven bat s*** insane by the 10,000 years in the warp because that's what tends to happen. aesthetically their armour shredded its paint long ago and became a bronzey colour. after that the atmosphere and the 10000 years began to corrode the armour and it began to take on a blue hue which intensified over time.

anyway if anybody has any photos of any conversions for chaos rat marines i'd love to see them and even just hear they ideas for conversions.
I've alredy got plans for:
a hellpit defiler ( a hellpit abomination and a defiler rammed together at high velocity causing an awesome explosion of flesh and metal WITH CHEST CANNONS)
ogre-lators(rat ogre-mutilators conversion)
and some rat faced plague zombies ( Clanrats?)
also rat ogre obliterator( rat ogre heads on obliterators but needs more rat, halp?)

ive done one squad of rat marines already so i shall pt on my awful 1MP pic

That's an incredibly good idea!!!!!!!! *Files away for stealing*

It's mainly because its the only way ATM of putting rats into 40k and I'm done with making/painting DA.

Another option would be to make Skaven Cultists, or Traitor Guard. :3

Check out the new skaven storm fiends, just asking to be used in 40k and fantastic models

Not the ONLY way of getting skaven into 40k

I love it tomcat31! They actually look good in there.

I think we need space version of the Necrosphinx

Mantic Veermyn. The range definitely lacks breadth, compared to Skaven or CSM, but they may be a cheap and simple option (requiring no conversion, as they're already space-ratmen) for something like cultists. Their retro-future laser blaster-type guns would play rather nicely with the 'updated old-school' aesthetic of 30k, too, tying them into your fluff.

Talys. Watch this space.