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So, the time has come.

I'm expanding my Chaos Space Marine army. I love my emperor's children, but there's only so much that you can do with pink and purple tentacles. As such, I've mocked up four potential color schemes.
Each scheme is dedicated to one of the four gods (except Slaanesh, which is replaced by Chaos Ascendent).
The schemes are, I imagine, pretty obvious as to who they follow, but just to make sure I'll give a bit off fluff that I have in mind for each.

The Butchers of Chogoris.
Khorne worshippers, renegade white scars.

The Schistematicals
Nurgle worshippers, renegade Iron hands.

The Sons of Lilith
Chaos ascendent, use all marks, fluff pending

The Mage Lords
Tzeentch Worshippers, renegade Imperial Fists.



Which should I choose? I hope to expand my flexibility of play, while also being to practice a cool new color scheme and expand my painting abilities.
As the army is designed to be compatible with Slaaneshian allies, I suppose fluff should be taken into account.
Don't forget to vote! And if you feel like leaving a comment to explain your choice, by all means do so.

I'm digging the spider pattern, and being all marked will give you the flexability. But free handing all that webbing is gonna be a test skill and endurance.

Spider if you can manage it. Will be a heck of a job to do it well.

Challenge accepted!

Just be careful it's not too busy. Might want to simplify it a little to match the models better and suggest webs rather than going too hardcore.

Or just lots and lots of decals.

The beauty of micron markers


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Potential alternative scheme for the Sons of Lilith. Views?

The butchers, khorne will be most pleased.

Nurgle one.. because I wanna make you suffer doing them webs MUAHAHHAHAHAH HAHA ahhhhh got something in my throat

Just clarifying, the nurgle one is the rusty one with the gear icon.

Sons of Lilith. The blood stains will really stand out on the beige paint job.

With a bit of tweaking, the webbed pattern could readily be used for tzeenchian marines, especially with a bit of highlighting. Crawlers of the Tangled Fates or something like that.

The left 2 are the best by far. The right 2 are still nice. I prefer the slight green of the first webbed version.

I'd contemplate template + airbrushing for the webs rather than micron pen.

I am contemplating stealing your sorcerer's scheme for my own chaos terminators.

Yellow blends well with purple, and the marking looks cool.

I voted for the Mage Lords because of all the chaos gods I prefer Tzeentch the most.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!

I want a squad of each with tutorials

@buckero0...

Sure. Why the hell not? I'm actually going to do that!


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And, it'll be good for me to do that as it will help me determine which scheme I like the most.

That Spider scheme is so cool that if you don't do it I might have to steal it

Just to calrify for voters:
Top left is a Son of Lilith,
bottom left is a Butcher of Chogoris,
top right is a Schistematical,
bottom right is a Mage Lord.

Spider ftw. Just think of all the bad puns you could do in the army, lord Peter Parker CSM lord. Eight legged defiler. Giant fantasy spider conversion. Full of possibilities. You could even have the chaos sorcerer be aunt may.

Oh dear...


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Is it wrong that I'm arachnophobic and that I made up this scheme?

How dare you say imperial fists would go renegade death to the heretic lol