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I have recently decided to start a 1000 Sons army. I'm going full out, only Rubric Marines as my troops choices. I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas on how to convert/paint things like rhinos to make them seem more... in step with the theme of 1000 Sons. I don't just want blue chaos rhinos, you know? I want to make them identifiable as 1000 Sons. Can anyone help?

The easiest method is probably Forgeworld's TS rhino doors.

I agree completely but unfortunately they are beyond my budget range

If you've got an airbrush, you can make some stencils using Thousand Sons iconography.
That and a nice paint job can make them stand out pretty well, like this.

Try your hand out with kneadatite or other putty, and try out one of these designs, placing a varation over the front/glacis, and the side door.

You could also try sculting the faces of the rhino to look more like this:

or like:


There's a lot of fun to be had with the thousand sons, going either the egyptian route, or trim everything so that it looks like it's gilded, and fill everything with horizontal striped panels (again, kneadatite or some other sculpting putty will do. I used plasticard to do the encasing on my iron warrior predator) and then just paint in alternating colors of blue and gold.

The last option is the most difficut I feel. Amp up your painting and paint onto it the egyptian heiroglyphics.

A number of people have done hover-rhinos, removing the tracks/wheels and replacing them with antigrav gubbins, and mounting the whole thing on a low flying base (so that the resulting model is still around normal rhino height). It fits in nicely with Tzeentch's mutation theme. You could go totally mental and create walking rhinos or something even more extreme. - people have done interesting vhicle conversions with Defiler legs for example.

Wow guys, great ideas! The most ambitious I've ever been in the modeling department has been kitbashing... but I'm looking to do more difficult things with my 1000 Sons. I especially like the idea of floating tanks and Tzeentchen mutation. I also think your paint ideas will do wonders!