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Simple question: If you slap some holstered bolters/sirens/blasters would the Wych body be a suitable stand in for a Slaanesh Marine?

Personally, I don't think they are bulky enough. Space Marines are supposed to be very powerfully-built, and wearing heavy armour, while Eldar are very slender and wear form-fitting clothes.

 Magos Explorator wrote:
Personally, I don't think they are bulky enough. Space Marines are supposed to be very powerfully-built, and wearing heavy armour, while Eldar are very slender and wear form-fitting clothes.

And what if I added the shoulder pads that come with the CSM? That adds significant bulk to a model without sacrificing the aesthetic I am going for.

The reason I pegged them for Slaanesh marines is that they're all about experiencing the battle in as extreme a way as possible. Why bother sitting around in all the bulky power armor when you can get a 3+ spandex save?

Right, but even in that case I think the models would be too slender... if you wanted an unarmoured look, perhaps Chaos Marauders would be a better starting point?

 Magos Explorator wrote:
Right, but even in that case I think the models would be too slender... if you wanted an unarmoured look, perhaps Chaos Marauders would be a better starting point?

I actually like the fact that they are fairly slender. I never went for the idea that people that love the fastest, most brutal parts of combat would bulk themselves down. It's also a shoehorn way of getting female models into a mostly male/mutant dominated army. I'm sort of looking for the minimum amount of armor or plasticard I'd have to put on. I could do sort of a halfplate look. One arm and one leg as armored as a regular space marine.

If you'd like to do it, go for it. When I think of Space Marines, though, I think of them being shaped like this: http://www.philipsibbering.com/wh40k/10-01-marine-morphology.shtml

... so for me there's no way that Eldar could be the 'right' shape.

Fair point. That musculature picture says it all. They look like apes with longer legs. I'll fluff it away. Time in the warp contorts their bodies into forms more pleasing to Slaanesh.

If you want to go with wyches you should think about replacing their arms with regular csm arms. The wyches arms are so thin that even a normal bolt pistol looks massive. And a bolter is even more ridiculous.


What i've seen that works very well as slaanesh marines is scm combined with daemonettes. It doesn't require that much scratch build details like i do with my slaanesh marines(link in my signature) and still looks slaaneshi while keeping the power armored look.
Sadly i don't have the source for those pics anymore. But i think those came from the dakka gallery.

Let's see:
Human? Check.
Male? Check.
Heavily armoured? Check.
Bolter? Check.
Slaanesh worshipping? Check.

So practically identical
Only gretchins fit better

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-35704-27190_New%20Noise.html

Source of the daemonette marines =)
I've done the same with posessed marines, pics coming up when they're finished.
Now about the wyches; when you'll give them blasters and shoulderpads they're going to look kinda odd I think.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/438009-Conversion%2C%20Kitbash%2C%20Sisters%20Of%20Silence%2C%20Sororitas%20Silentium%2C%20Warhammer%2040%2C000.html

This model is okay, but imagine the shoulderpads being even bigger and giving it a massive gun, you'll expect it to fall over in real life :p
But it's your idea and if you're not giving them big guns I think it's okay.

 Kroothawk wrote:
Let's see:
Human? Check.
Male? Check.
Heavily armoured? Check.
Bolter? Check.
Slaanesh worshipping? Check.

So practically identical
Only gretchins fit better

Yes indeed! In fact I was going to build up some Khorne Berzerkers using gretchin as the base model. Keep em the way the are, just add some chain axes from the Berzerker box. Because they're so fearless and fearsome in close combat! Right? RIGHT?!?


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 btldoomhammer wrote:
If you want to go with wyches you should think about replacing their arms with regular csm arms. The wyches arms are so thin that even a normal bolt pistol looks massive. And a bolter is even more ridiculous.

Those look pretty good. I may use the CSM arms and see if I can't get away with no shoulder pads. We'll see. The bolters would be strapped to their backs, like a lower back holster you see in ME3. Hell, maybe I can shave some bolters down. Thin 'em out a bit.

 btldoomhammer wrote:
If you want to go with wyches you should think about replacing their arms with regular csm arms. The wyches arms are so thin that even a normal bolt pistol looks massive. And a bolter is even more ridiculous.


What i've seen that works very well as slaanesh marines is scm combined with daemonettes. It doesn't require that much scratch build details like i do with my slaanesh marines(link in my signature) and still looks slaaneshi while keeping the power armored look.
Sadly i don't have the source for those pics anymore. But i think those came from the dakka gallery.

The orginal person i foudn that made thouse was DPBellathrom

i know cause i made some useing his techniuqe they looks flippen awsome, thou to be completly fair and honst i made raptors dedicated to Sal with them and used witych weapons(thats y i checked on this thread) and it really gives them some peronallity i love them, thou they die in a spectaculerlly bad fashion 80% of the time.

 btldoomhammer wrote:
If you want to go with wyches you should think about replacing their arms with regular csm arms. The wyches arms are so thin that even a normal bolt pistol looks massive. And a bolter is even more ridiculous.

I think even regular CSM arms on a Wych are going to look big. I just started assembling my Wyches and they are pretty slender. Cadian arms might be closer in size, and I think they have smaller shoulder pads attached, don't they?

It's too bad that Sisters of Battle don't have a plastic kit, if you could scrape off their heraldry and pop on a Daemonette head, I think that would look great.

That second image above of the narrow-waisted marine in the pink armor with the agonizer looks pretty great, too.

1st: try it, we will never know if you dont.
2nd: try this: http://www.meowmeowminis.com/