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Complete newbie to 40k and trying to run a chaos list. Is there a place to go for beginners to ask simple questions?

For example I'm trying to determine what a hellforged model is. On the Forgeworld Imperial Armour Website it explains:

https://golden-demon.com/2017/06/15/warhammer-40000-large-model-gold-warhammer-fest-2017/

"It provides rules for Forge World’s Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, Chaos Titan Legions and Renegade Knight units, including ancient relics from the age of the Horus Heresy in the shape of the ‘Hellforged’ for your Heretic Astartes forces, as well as revisiting characters and monsters from Forge World’s Siege of Vraks campaign."

But when I check the Forgeworld website / Ebay (anywhere else to find models?) I only find:

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-JP/search/searchResults.jsp?qty=com.gamesworkshop.endeca.EndecaUserContext%40761a2c0f&sorting=&view=&Ntt=rapier

All of which are space marine units. Can I just buy one of these and "chaos it up" to run an official hellforged rapier unit? Or is there actually a specific hellforged model with hellforged crew I have to buy (where?)? Does Hellforged have a suggested color scheme? I guess it would be whatever deity / legion it is declared as?

If there is a better place to post these questions please direct me. Relatively new to the site (as 40k). Thanks.

Some models, chiefly Space Marine ones, pull double duty as both loyal and traitor units in the Forge World range.

While the models are identical (and were you to want to use them as traitors you should have all sorts of fun converting and painting them to look more evil) Forge World do publish different rules for them, hence the term "Hellforged" to distinguish them from the 'good' version (who are typically referred to as Relic for 40K.)

There is always the Search Bar. But this is a forum for us to lend our help to you rather than sift through an FaQ! Just make a thread with all your questions and people will answer as best they can.

If you're a "complete" newbie, then my advice is to shy away from ForgeWorld for a while. Though the stuff there can be great, it's generally aimed at veterans of the hobby and people with more money than sense.