http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net tl;dr version: I wants ta get me a Chaos Daemons army, without spending myself into debt!

So I'd like to get into playing 40k. I've played a handful of games, many with almost completely proxied armies. It let me get a feel for which armies I liked the best, and much to my own surprise, I kept coming back to Chaos Daemons. I seemed to do pretty well with them, and they're just fun to play.

But Games Workshop seems to have done their best to make it impossible for a newbie to get into playing this army. Either their models are just plain ugly (like the Fiends of Slaanesh), or they're really expensive (like... well, Fiends of Slaanesh, but also Bloodcrushers, all the Greater Daemons/DPs, Soulgrinders, etc.). Most of the troops aren't exactly cheap either, so it doesn't leave much room in the budget for the more fun sections of the army.

So I'm looking for ways to make some cheaper conversions for some of the units. I've tried looking for what others have done, but since it's such a new army, there aren't tons of really cool conversions out there, and looking for alternative models is not easy. Anyone got some good advice, or could point me in the right direction for ideas for converting some of the more expensive units in the army? I'm hoping I can make my search a bit more methodical and productive.

I don't necessarily need a tournament-legal army (not gonna be tournamenting for a while at least!), I just need something I can bring to a local game store and people will be willing to play it. I'm willing to put in a good amount of effort into this, and I'm prepared to spend some good money (just not as much as GW would have me spend).

One idea I had was to convert some bloodcrushers by getting some plastic triceratops (or similar dinosaurs), adding some spiky bits and some plate armour, and giving them bloodletter riders.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620051.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620051.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620085.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620085.page GMT ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620130.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620130.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620556.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620556.page GMT
*By the way, 36 fiends of Slaanesh in an Apocalypse game will absolutely rip s*** up. Along with being a nice fluffy 6 squads of 6, which is the perfect squad size to chop up most enemies in one charge. Not that I plan to own 36 fiends, mind you... not yet, anyway.*]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620883.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/297632/1620883.page GMT
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