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The terminators are looking excellent Proiteus, love the size they are massive.

TUTELARIES OBJECTIVE MARKER IDEAS
The tutelaries were a main part of the pre-heresy thousand sons and were often referred to in the Horus Heresy book as every powerful sorcerer had one, they were warp entities that allowed the thousand sons to scout areas and enhance their powers.
I had plan to use them to fill the 40mm bases when I was planning to use artificer armoured count as terminators at the start of the project, however I’m sure you will agree my terminators don’t require anything to fill their bases.

Anyway I now plan to use them as objective markers with one for each cult, each on a 25mm base as I discovered with the grots 40mm scenic bases are hard to transport. The form of a tutelary depends on the master so here are my ideas so far note they all be painted a ethereal and ghostly blue.

Raptora: Telekinetic
I hoping to convert a feral orc from fantasy with two large gauntlets and a visor from the dark eldar war engine. Hopefully it will portray the strength that I’m after.



Pyrae: Pyrokinetic
2 ideas for this one. First was to convert a vampire counts’ ghoul into a small fire sprit painting the hairs on it’s back and arms as glowing yellow flames and modelling it with a ghost like tail. 2nd was to use the small Dragon from the Dreadfleet boxed set and have some fire modelled on the base. Which one do you think I should go with?



Pavoni: Biochemical Manipulation
My first idea was to model a floating snake of some sorts as it‘s seemed suitable, sadly the best idea involved using the tomb king stalkers and replacing their arms with the wings from the blood angel sanguinary guard. A great idea but far too big. So can anyone else suggest a different model or method.
An alternative idea is to model the sprit healer from world of warcraft using either deamonette or wood elf parts.



Corvidae: Precognition & Atheneans: Telepaths
I’ve had several ideas that are suitable for both of these cults…

My first choice for a tutelary was the new plastic wraith but with bare hands wreathing fate and whispering the paths of the future to it’s master, or alternative reading the mind of an enemy or controlling them like some dark puppet master.
A single Razorwing model; For Corvidae; flying the depths of the warp in search of the future also it is the cult’s symbol. For Atheneans; flying over the battlefield scanning the minds of the enemy and delivering long distance psychic messages.
So which cult do you think these tutelaries should belong to and represent?



Also I had though of creating some sort of floating eye but that I couldn’t figure out how to make that work.

Anyway I’d be grateful for any feedback or suggestions relating to my tutelaries objective markers?

I shall offer my advice, which has been influenced by my brother who has read A Thousand Sons countless times.

For the Raptora Tutelary, that idea is pretty neat and it epitomises their telekinetic abilities.

For the Pyrae Tutelary, the Ghoul King from the Vampire Counts Zombie Dragon would be perfect, with some flames modelled on it. It just so happens I have a spare one of those...

I'm not so sure for the Pavoni, but the winged snake still seems to be a better idea. If it is unviable then a converted female wood elf would look great with wings.

Since Ahirman's Tutelary was a raven (my brother told me this), it would make sense to use the Razorwing model as the Corvadie Tutelary.

And... I think the Atheneans Tutelary should be your suggestion of the Cairn Wraith.

THE SEARCH FOR A HOLY SWORD OF FIRE!
Given how many people were kind enough to send me their scout bits in order for me to create my omen bolters for my interceptors, thanks again guys. I thought I might as well try and ask if anyone knows someone with a spare plastic flame sword from the balrog kit?

I plan to have my Pyrae captain wielding it as it's a fitting weapon for a giant terminator, however I've got the heavy metal one which will make the model unbalanced so I thought I'd ask if anyone could help me find a plastic one which is lighter and easier to model?

2nd SQUAD ASSEMBLED (MOSTLY)
Well I’ve just completed the assembly of the 2nd squad. The 2 handed halberd won’t hold together with blue tac for the photo and the I’m desperately searching for dark angel helmet wings to convert the remaining reaper Autocannon to be like the first one. So here the other warriors from that squad, remember I’ll be adding grenades, pouches and other bits round the belts when they are finished.


So far I’m happy with the warriors with the hammer and sword, but while it seemed like a good idea at the time I’m not sure if the squad leader reading the tome works as he looks a little… idle? Perhaps having him holding his staff up will make it look a bit better?
Also anyone got 3 sets of Dark Angel helmet wings to spare cause can't find any online?

Looking ace! Can you slap some paint on a test mini so we can see what the final product will look like?

I also used those Microart legs for my pre-heresy TS, I really like the added height they give.

The book reading termie is my favourite!

silveryfox wrote:The book reading termie is my favourite!

So you don't think he'll looks too static at the moment given he's be on a battlefield?

Not at all. I like the idea that in the midst of this swirling combat there is this one guy with power swirling around him, intoning from a book.

Of course, if you change your thought pattern and imagine the book is a White Dwarf, the mini gets a whole new (and hilarious) meaning.

I'm not too sold on the helmet you've used for the guy on the right.

Foxtale wrote:I'm not too sold on the helmet you've used for the guy on the right.

What helmet? Thats a bare head with a gas mask!

haha im personaly loving your pre heresy guys and i like to look at this thread often

Proiteus wrote:

Foxtale wrote:I'm not too sold on the helmet you've used for the guy on the right.

What helmet? Thats a bare head with a gas mask!

That's what I meant!

It does look rather Chaosy though.

ARMY OF GIANTS; A WARRIOR OF IRON
Well finally got the chance to trade my Contemptor Dreads in for much nicer Relic versions and after a bit of work today it was completed.



Aside the basic bits such as putting a scarab over the Aquila and a nice head crest on the helmet I converted the heavy bolters to Autocannons. I shorted down the IG Heavy weapon team Autocannons because I felt they would have looked odd if I had kept them at their original length.
Another edition was 2 strong magnets to make the arms exchangeable, now they weren’t wide enough so I brought some plastic tubing the same width as the arms to put them in and thanks to the Dread‘s size this hasn‘t effected the model too much.

NEW WARGEAR OMEN CLASS BOLTGUNS
Thanks to Wolfs16's ‘Omen pattern boltgun conversion I finally have a weapon to equip my Interceptors to represent their storm bolters. The Omen Class Bolter's light weight allows marines to hold them one handed or two handed for improved accuracy whilst it's duel barrels and large clip allow for increased rate of fire.

Now the only question is will I make the January 21st Deadline!!

Both of those are goo-inducing. Any link to the Omen-pattern boltgun tutorial? EDIT: Derp. Missed it.

Nice work dude! May I ask where the scarab thingy is from on the from of the contemptor? Omen class boltgun is very cool indeed!

Any chance for a tut on that boltgun, all i see in that link is a pic, and i would love to know how you made yours!!

wow thats a great dread nice job pro

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Any chance for a tut on that boltgun, all i see in that link is a pic, and i would love to know how you made yours!!

The Omen Boltgun is nothing more than the forge world Umbra Ferrox bolter with the barrel replaced with binoculars from the land speeder storm kit.

Lol, fair enough! Looks good though, will have to try it

Man this looks amazing so far, I'm almost up to that book so it should have a bigger impact but can't wait to see how the rest turn out.

Really cool stuff, I have always dreamed of an pre-heresy thousand sons army. Just havent had the balls to go for it.

wow thats an awsome look for bolters, i might have to steal that at some point

BROTHER KARGORI RETURNS TO THE FRAY!
Behold the glory of the Thousand Sons dreadnought! A full week and half’s work but without doubt worth it in the end. I’m still planning some additional work such as a name on the script perhaps name it after a dread from the Horus Heresy art book; Kargori.
It’s nice to see the scarab replacement and heavy bolter to Autocannons conversion worked out. I did consider adding water effects to the base but many people believed it would ruin it.



Anyway this will certainly keep me motivated, now to continue work with the terminators and the white robes that I keep putting off but will need to be done in the end!

Sonuvabitch....I need to make some now, because those are WAY too cool!

nice job on that dread, i was waiting for that

Brilliant Proiteus, he looks incredibly mean, the scarab detail is seamless, as are the ACs

You should be proud!

Incredible work dude! This army is really shaping up to be something special!

I take it that you have seen the new Necron weapons, I will probably be getting some for my own 1K Sons when I get the chance!

Keep up the great work Proiteus!

THE ZANATORIAN MACHINE CULT ARMY IS NOW ON SALE
Some of you may have seen one of my previous project logs which was The Zanatorian Machine Cult It was an army of fully converted mechanicus robots under the control of a renegade tech magos that used the daemon codex rules.
Now the Zanatorians were one of my favourite projects to work on, however I don't have the money to buy the materials needed to turn them into a working necron army.
But I love them too much to have them sit around the house gathering dust so I’m looking to sell them to a good owner.

Click on the image below to go to the for sale thread...



But let me just say this; while the Zanatorian Machine Cult maybe gone, Their robots may still return in future projects?

Sorry for you having to loose such an awsome army