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Group shot of my #emperorschildren - next up proper 30k ones!
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Group shot of my #emperorschildren - next up proper 30k ones!
Final one of my mid-change #emperorschildren . I wish I had finished the squad but I ended up co-opting the remaining bodies to fill out my space Wolf squads. One day I would like to add a sergeant to the squad but I’ve never thought what he should look like...
I learnt so much from these Emperors Children. It was the first time I had done line highlight like this, previously I preferred shading flat colour, rather than lights. I used to strong a final colour and I was too keen on making the lines perfect initially, rather than cleaning them up after - it produced a worse result. I do really love this colour scheme - the big pink panels against black is really eye catching - I think only a chapter like the Howling Griffins has as much visual impact. Few more to go before I get to my 30k emperors children...
Mid change Emperors Children. I’ve never been fond of the Chaos troops, other than certain models the aesthetic never appealed to me - however pre-heresy Emperors Children did. Back when I made these the #horusheresy books didn’t exist and #forgeworld only made imperial Guard tanks - so I made these - my take on a crossover point between loyalist and traitor - parts of both, but still looking clean, if only a little spikey - more to come!
Hive Tyrant. My first paint ever. Still have to touch up the wings but I love it so far.
One more @40kartweek 40k Chaos Week under the wire, @jacktheboltsmith in his Slaaneshi goodness.
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A Question of Loyalty
@40kartweek Chaos Week Day 7: Undivided Yesterday: Duality
Another couple of characters coming up in Project Resurrection. A Warpsmith reflects on conflicting loyalties within his warband.
[A Question of Loyalty on AO3] [My Works on AO3]
“Freedom is the only thing worth fighting for.” - Angron
“WHOM DO YOU serve?” Samn Tansek mused as he heaved on the haft of his greataxe Avetevos to lever open the crimson sarcophagus. Mechatendrils slid into the narrow crack he had opened and added their strength to his. “That is what they always ask me. I expect you get the same.” With a sickening crack of fracturing ceramite and a spray of amnion, the split armour plate was wrenched aside to reveal the wretched form of a mutilated space marine. Gurgling bubbles formed around the Iron Father’s skull, though it was impossible to tell whether he was trying to respond or merely suffocating. “The Emperor or the Machine God?” Tansek cocked his head to one side. “You do not believe the Emperor is the Omnissiah, surely?” Silence. “I thought not.” Tansek’s mechatendrils plunged into the remaining amnion, grasping appendages searching out the roots of the precious mind interface unit that linked the Iron Father to his walking tomb. The Red Talons had received a rich inheritance from their parent legion. “You cannot serve two masters, or so Mahr tells me. He has a certain point. That is how this whole affair started, after all.” There was a wet sucking noise as the MIU was wrenched from interface ports in the back of the Iron Father’s head. He convulsed violently, the stumps of his limbs flailing wildly. Surprisingly, his wheezing continued after the fit had subsided. Tansek tutted. “The dreadnought was a choice, then? Perhaps I will hand you over to Khiron and he can share his own views on the Deus Machina.” A stabbing pain shot through his skull and down his spine as the Butcher’s Nails bit. They didn’t like the idea of handing this prize over to the Crimson Priest of Sarum. The Nails urged him to claim the cyborg skull, and his grip tightened on Avetevos as he fought down the urge. “I am no-one’s slave,” he hissed through gritted teeth. “Why serve even one master? We slaughtered millions to shrug off the Emperor’s yoke. Now Mahr serves the Blood God, Khiron the Machine, and Knox the dead ideal of our dying legion.” Lowering his servo-arm with care at odds with the crushing strength obvious in its brutal design, Tansek gently grasped the ragged half-corpse and lifted him dripping from his grave. The Moriturion brought the Iron Father level with his skull-masked face. He sighed. “Alas, we were created to be slaves, and the hardest chains to break are those we forge for ourselves.”
It’s the last day of Chaos week at @40kartweek and Sunday’s theme is Undivided!
Abaddon the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos and posterchild of if you don’t succeed, try and try again!