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Back in 2nd edition when shooting into melee was Kosher my favorite unit in the game was my chaos cultists. At first I used necromunda gangs, but it wasn't enough cultists so I purchased a lot of GEQ models that I purchased with the original intent of using as chaos cultists back in 3rd edition. I ended up going into a several year hiatus and ended up missing almost all of 4th edition only to come back to the game to find out that chaos cultists have joined squads in the realm of the lost and the damned. At that point I began converting my cultists into IG so I could use them for something and found that I do enjoy playing them as infantry, but I missed having the mix of MEQ and GEQ in the same army. Then the GK codex came out, and once again for the first time in years there became a way to mix MEQ and GEQ together again.

Found some bits online to help bring my a conversion idea of mine into a real project. Egyptian themed heads and shoulder pads from Scribor + Vibro Khopesh/Glaives from Kromlech + Thousand sons bits and the first of my prototype GKs are finished. Thus far I am very happy with the way they look, especially when mixed in with my GEQ units on a desert basing.

Anyhow here are the first 2 MEQ prototypes along with the some of the GEQ I would use as henchmen. Robed figures would be Purifiers, non robed figures would be strike squads or interceptors if I were to add a disc of Tzeentch.









Basing scheme



GEQ finished a few months ago





Anyhow the real debate now is between proceeding with building GEQ cultists for a PAGK + Henchmen footslogging army, or build IG vehicles and stay IG.

The project is going to be giant because it's actually building 2 armies at the same time. I'm going to be magnetizing boltguns and flashlights to the guardsmen/henchmen/cultists. The plan is to finish the GK army first, and then buy IG vehicles for a pretty much standard mech IG army. Henchmen Psykers can double as IG PBS, and I only have to paint an army once to get 2 armies.

Got my runty little Dremel in the mail.



Now it's time to make like a dark elf and start melting night goblin faces.



*legal disclaimer if the wife ever reads this post, the picture is staged and I didn't actually use the dremel above the hardwood table. The picture is just staged there to raise your blood pressure a bit*

Add green stuff



Add extra chaos spikey bits, and now I have runty little psychers of henchmen psychers or IG PBS



Painted the first 4 as a test batch







Pictures with other modes for size comparison. Psychers as noticeably smaller than henchmen/guardsmen, and tiny little runs when standing next to a space marine.

8 more psykers finished for 12 total, well 99% finished. They need a tiny bit of highland brush on the base, but I want to hit them up with purity seal 1st and the weather is too cold to risk spraying sealer today. Going to start work on purifiers today until the weather improves.

Anyhow here are the next 8 and their bases.



Here they are on their bases





All 12 psykers together





And one picture of them with marines and guardsmen/warriors.



Time to start working on more purifiers and hope the weather warms up enough for purity seal.

Weather picked up so I was able to purity seal all my GEQ and add some highland brush to the bases. Took a couple of pictures while all the finished models are outside of my case to get a feel of what they will look like en masse.





I also picked up some resin terrain pieces from a pet shop's aquarium section. Right now my big debate is if I want to pick up more. I'm thinking of grabbing a few more pieces for a terrain set at home that would double as pieces for a portable diorama.

The biotite in that granite sure looks awfully weathered.

Geological considerations aside, I like you psyker conversion. Simple and effective.

Thanks, was worried at first that they would be to small but it's turning out ok.

Very weathered is just the kind of feel I'm going for. I think I'll pick more of those pieces up eventually.