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Just completed the first of two of these squads. The troopers are mutant humans teleported / summoned into battle from their swamp planet.

Some fluff on these daemons from the client's blog:


Images of more mutants, flamer unit and forge world character further down in the thread

Very nice scheme and well-executed. Your client shoud be very pleased. I don't think I've ever seen these sculpts fully painted, and to be honest, I've never thought they were very good. However, seeing them painted sorta changes my opinion on them.

Amazing stuff, as always.

Love the quote as well.

Hey, that was my quote!! I spent all of 5 minutes making it just for my good comrade Swast. Most of that time was spent making sure I chose a low enough rank to not be argued with

Great stuff! I've always thought those models would make great AdMech or Cultists, but mutants-as-demons works too!

Nice!
Definitely now tempted to buy some too!

Thanks for the comments

@don McClain. Ah I hadn't realised it was original but awesome quote by the way!

This commission was a small detachment of mutants, and there are definitely some more units to follow, here's the Flamer daemons counts as!

ahhh i love these models and their fluff background! was a nice little read lol. where are they from? any more fluff available?

These guys are from anvil: http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/Miniatures-of-the-North/Tox-Troopers

The idea behind these is from Swastakowey who commissioned this project, and the discussion on developing the fluff is on the comments on his blog: http://theimperialpatrol.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/magos-dominus-with-twist.html#comment-form

The rough fluff for these guys is they are "stored" on ships that are unfit for standard duty. These are unfortunate mutants who have been taken from the poorest areas of the empire and pressed into service as emergency "shields" for the Imperial Guard.

During battle, a psyker, with great effort can open up a portal gate between the ship and the battlefield. These armed and potentially deadly mutants then find themselves in the thick of the enemy fighting to the death.

The mutants are kept in line through the use of a mysterious goo. Huge slug like beasts produce a lot of this goo on a few particular agri worlds and is harvested in great haste due to its potential. This goo has lobotomizing effects on the mutants who sit in these ships armed and lazy, their weapons rusting away and their motivation dimmed. Then when brought out of this goo they kick into their senses at an aggressive rate as they find themselves unleashing anger into their new enemies.

The Mutants never survive a battle as the cost to ship these lost souls back to their holding ships is too high they are simply killed and replaced.

Of course this information is classified but rumors spread of such beings as they are inevitably seen on the battlefield. Psyers who summon them are watched with an exceptionally close eye and have less tolerance by their superiors. Opening these gates is not only a powerful tool for these psykers to control it is also potentially deadly for all those nearby.

Well thats all I really thought of for them.

The entire commission is now complete, including the second unit of troopers and the Magos Dominus character, images of the full force together to come when I am able to get hold of a DSLR.

http://theimperialpatrol.blogspot.co.nz/2014/12/demon-project-complete.html

Compilation of the best photos of the project above. Not too many but enough to show off his work.