* Legion of Thorns *

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**Lamby**

The Legion of Thorns - Army plan (29 April 2011):
Using the Cool Before Rules approach, this army is not strictly game legal, primarily intended for Armies on Parade in September.

I've listed them in the intended creation order:
- COMPLETE - Marine squad - The Stormbringers - so far 8 - 2 troops, 4 Havocs (heavy weapons) 2 Banner bearers
- COMPLETE - 2 charging Berzerkers
- COMPLETE- 2 x Raptor variants... not your usual CSM raptors (can't stand those)
- BUILT - Terminator pair - The Mournblades ... not painted and may yet become donor-models towards my new Inqu][sitor project...
- COMPLETE- Defiler biped heavy support variant - maybe...

**Imperial Monkey**

errr...nice green?

**Lamby**

Imperial scout-servitor night vision green

**Limbo**

Nice, where is the haleberd from?

**Shelegelah**

I really dig the spear. I plan on converting a Chaos Lord soon with something similar... So I echo the sentiment. Where'd ya get it?

**Killmaimburnkillmaimburn**

It looks like a WOC sword stuck on the end of a banner to me.

**Lamby**

Limbo and Shelegelah - thanks!
Killmaimburnkillmaimburn - that's correct!

The spear uses the blade and cross-guard from Warriors of Chaos sword, hand and grip section from other Warriors of Chaos weapons, and the skull-spike thingy from a Chaos Terminator Lord kit.
All that plus lots of careful drilling and pinning - next time I make one I'll photograph the bits pre-gluing if you like.

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**medabee**

Ah the nurgle helmet, Digging the spear. you should cast that mug and give to all your units, Power weapons for everybody.

**Imperial Monkey**

ooooh, nice use of kroot shoulder pads!

**Lamby**

medabee - Thanks - I have a few more Nurgle helmets, will be using those and the lumpy Chaos one to keep a little diversity in the Stormbringer squad

Imperial Monkey - Thanks, and well spotted!

**LiveforFun666**

Very nice

are you going without horns on all the helmets? seems like these two have had theirs removed ^^
can we hear about what you have in mind for the army?

//Toby

**Lamby**

LiveforFun666 - Thanks!

Horns are generally non-combat friendly to the wearer!
(Not a big fan of the CSM horned helmets!)

(Edit) Army plan: see edited first post

Meanwhile, another intel transmission from the scout-servitor...

**Killmaimburnkillmaimburn**

SOunds like a cool theme, I totally agree with the cool before rules approach.

Can't wait to see some more work done.

**Miss Dee**

this looks very cool,

**The Ravening Jaw**

Love the converted nurgle head's really make the poses look dramatic.

**Lamby**

Killmaimburnkillmaimburn, Miss Dee, The Ravening Jaw - Thanks!

**Lamby**

Needs some greenstuff patching-up around the fur of the cloak, but otherwise pretty happy with this guy.
WoC cloak attachment idea was courtesy of this great dakkadakka tutorial http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/313112.page, (Thanks Hyenajoe!)
though I decided to sculpt extra cloak over the (non-exsistent) shoulder pads rather than Hyenajoe's cut-shoulder-pads-in-half method as per the tutorial.

C+C welcome!

**Jackal**

CSM GK? love it

Looks pretty damn good so far.

**crimsonfist832**

Sweet army you have going there Lamby, what Codex are you considering to use is itr C:CSM or a different one from the loyalists. Loving the standard btw

**logg_frogg**

I am really enjoying these conversions! That cape turned out really nice! I may have to do somethig simillar for some of my Asp Champs

Are we going to see some paint on these guys in the near future?

**Miss Dee**

Im using Blood Angels for my Night Lords.

**Lamby**

۞ Jack ۞, crimsonfist832, logg_frogg and Miss Dee - thanks!

I've designed the army around the CSM codex mostly because I like the pics in the Codex!!!
Also, there's cool things like Obliterators and Summoned Daemons in it - must admit though I have never played CSMs before, only Loyalists, so I'm wide open to suggestions.

Been a busy week at work diving, so no updates yet - my next one is in bits so I might photograph a bit of a how-to montage maybe...

**Tortured-Robot**

Liking the work so far, and the extra effort to document your stuff!!

So, he has teasted us with his modeling skills..... but can he paint? I hope to Find out!

**Killmaimburnkillmaimburn**

Loving the pose on the standard bearer. You need to paint something!

**LiveforFun666**

Nice standard bearer, look neat

using fantasy chaos bitz really brings character to these models, keep up the good work

Ps can we see some more awesome speciall weapons like that plasma/flamer

?

//Toby

**Shelegelah**

I love using those cloaks with Chaos Marines, it really provides very unique and flavorful models. I actually stumbled across that exact same tutorial and used it to create my Chosen!

Edit: You seem to be a bit more skilled than I am when it comes to sculpting, though. Would you mind sharing your technique on how to make greenstuff cloaks? My attempts have failed miserably...

**Knightley**

Really like the way you take your pictures, much more interesting that the norm. Nicely converted models as well, I look forward to seeing these with some paint on them

**moonshine**

Wow, epic poses and great pictures

**Lamby**

Tortured-Robot - Thanks - if you like, check out my Blood Ravens http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/334237.page for some painted models - hopefully some painted CSMs soon-ish...

Killmaimburnkillmaimburn - Thanks - and yes I do need to paint... life is interfering with hobby atm

LiveforFun666 - Thanks - I really like using the chaos fantasy bitz and soon (life willing) you will see a lot more Warriors of Chaos stuff... like whole models converted to CSMs!
- And I'm working on another heavy weapon atm - that flamer was fun to build!!!

Shelegelah - Thanks - Command has inserted a *CLASSIFIED* operative into the *CLASSIFIED* Area of Operations (AO) to provide imagery to answer your special Request for Intel:

So you can hopefully see I didn't sculpt the entire whole cloak, just smeared GS around a plastic WoC cloak to blend edges and hide the shoulder pads.

Knightley - Thanks - glad you like them, there's a few photoshop hours gone into them!!!

moonshine - Thanks!

Planning on some weekend hobby time so more to follow - Thanks for looking, C+C always welcome !

**Shelegelah**

Fantastic! Love how you made the edges of the greenstuff blend so smoothly into the plastic. This standard-bearer has to be my favorite yet. I can't wait to see what you've got planned for HQs...