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Hey all, with the new prospero burns box coming out, I am excited to start a 30k Thousand Sons legion

About a year ago, I had planned to make a 40k Thousand Sons army, and had gone and purchased everything to make a couple of Rubric squads.

I am considering using them for 30k, but the biggest problem I see is the helmets are what appear to be artificed mk 7?

Am I correct on this? or could I perhaps play it off maybe as mark 5?


Also, their legion insignia of the dragon/snake eating its tail, does that date back to pre-heresy as well?



I am just trying to figure out a timeline of when these helmets would have been around so I can still be lore friendly with my legion.

I plan to use a calth and prospero box with forgeworld conversion kits as well, but wouldn't mind the extra bodies since I already have them.

They would have come with the creation of the Rubric Marines, after the Horus Heresy. I don't believe the helms are part of any known Mark of Power Armour - they could have been made before the end of the Heresy, however I have not seen them featured on any 30K Marine; it is more likely that they are a manifestation or mutation of Chaos of sorts, to accompany the Rubric of Ahriman.

I did some digging around, the top part seemed to exist before the rubric spell was cast, but these appear to be mk3 suits.




The base helmet seems like maybe mk7 for 40k tsons, but I may just try and play it off as mk5 since they share a lot of similarities and these helmets are heavily artificed.