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So I've decided to add some pre heresy thousand sons to my marine army. It will join some Luna wolves, death guard, and salamanders. I've decided to use the grey knight terminators as the base for the conversions. I will remove most inquisition stuff from the models. So now here is my want for brainstorming. I would like to make them scarab occult, and will be adding green stuff scarabs, a sorcerer head from a CSM box, and some other misc. stuff. So my question is what else should I do to make them more pre heresy style?

I'm thinking GS scarabs, sword blades from the tomb kings boxes(don't know the name), some sorcerer heads from CSM boxes. They'll have books and such from the GK kit.

Well why not use more bits from the tomb kings? There are here and there some nice decorations. They also have scarabs so you don't need to sculpt them all from GS.
Then you could add different shoulder guard and tabarts as well as scrolls and gemstones.
Maxmini, kromlech, puppetswar, anvil industry and chapterhouse studios are all making parts that could be used for your scarab occult like shoulder guards, heads and some other stuff.

And additionally here are some pics from dakka to fuel your inspiration:

Wow thanks man, that second pic is more or less what I had imagined in my head(minus the winged head). Loving it, I also didn't realize tomb kings had scarab bits as well, that will make things easier even though I love making them from GS. I guess the next purchase is a tomb guard kit.

So scarab occult are 1st company but they come from the different fellowships. I was reading through lexicanum and going back over the thousand sons book as well. But a question I had was do they have markings from their individual fellowships as well as the scarab occult markings? And is it pretty widely excepted that they used cataphractii armor exclusively?

Here's an idea; use the dark angels upgrade pack, kit bash it with various other tomb kings/ necrons parts and you have a five-man squad of robed mystics, fine sons of Magnus.

So I got started on some things. I did a 5 man squad of terminators that's still WiP and I started a counts as coteaz conversion.
I painted the power weapons differently than I do usually and I'm not sure how I feel about them. I also take crappy pics ;p

But let me know what you think so far.

First the coteaz
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Now the terminators