40k Combat Patrol Delivery 10 - Et tu, Helbrutus?

Here's a piece of information that will interest no one at all. This is the second-longest streak of models for a single force in the Combat Patrol magazine series so far!

Told you.

Anyway, some more chaos stuff. 

This is, apparently, a Helbrute. Why is there only one L in the name? I don't know.

It's basically a chaos dreadnought, and indeed for my 5th edition purposes, that's what it'll be used as. The difference seems to be entirely in the background and is to do with the corrupting power of the warp fusing the flesh of the interred marine with the machine body of the dreadnought. All of which is fine, but it also seems to suggest that because the pilots go insane, the sarcophagus is dragged away from the body when it's not in combat. So... the marine is dragged away from his own flesh, I guess. 

Whatever. I thought the fleshy bits looked a bit weird, so I went with grey to downplay them a bit.

I'd also had to decide on how to arm the thing. Pondering the various options and tactical flexibility I could achieve, I went for multimelta and power fist... exactly the same as with my Imperial dreadnought. 

I assume that first time I use this, it'll go insane and wipe out half of my own force, and then get destroyed.

I also have these...

Havocs! Here I was mostly influenced by the chaos autocannon models looking cool, and then figured a lascannon and a missile launcher might be a good idea. 

Also the aspiring champion is pretty close-combat-focused, which is weird for a heavy weapons squad, but who knows what might happen.

Anyway, it's all progress. Let's not worry about how far behind the deliveries I am now, partly because I've lost track myself.

40k Combat Patrol Delivery 9 - Embracing the Chaos

I might not have been on top of blogging about it, but I've been painting things from the Combat Patrol deliveries so I can do a bit of blog admin now.

We're now onto Chaos Space Marines! 

Here's a Dark Apostle, and friends.

Given I'm doing all of this with 5th edition in mind, a Dark Apostle is not a thing. So this will be playing the role of a Chaos Sorcerer. 

Although they don't actually require models, his two assistants can signify a familiar and a personal icon. 

And then! It's a squad of 10 Legionaries.

Again, 5th edition is less fancypants in the language and just calls these Chaos Space Marines, but they're clearly the same thing. 

This is a nice loadout for a squad of 10. However, 5th edition generally requires two troops choices for a legal force, and the missile launcher is only available with 10 models. So, to allow me to break these into two units and make the force legal, I've printed this:

In painting these, I was presented immediately with a colour scheme decision. I didn't want to suggest that these guys were devoted to any one of the fab four chaos gods in particular. I also didn't want to go with the bog standard black and gold, but I did want to leave the door open to a Black Legion element - I know that I've got some World Eaters on the way and I'd like to tie everything together. 

So, I landed on purple and bronze, which hopefully aren't too Tzeentch-y. But I decided to also go for plain black on the left pauldron - so I have the black to signify that they've joined the black legion and removed the previous iconography from their amour - this has the added bonus of removing the need for me to add some sort of legion symbol.

Enough waffle. I'll want to do more of these in the future and I'll forget how, so here's the list of paints I used:

Armour: Speedpaint Hive Dweller Purple

Trim: Speedpaint Hoard Bronze

Fabric: Speedpaint Gravelord Grey

Eyepieces: Contrast Iyanden Yellow

Left pauldron: Speedpaint Grim Black

Webbing: Speedpaint Dark Wood 

Gunmetal: Speedpaint Broadsword Silver