While it is a shame that there still isn’t a proper multi-part kit for the Chosen or Cultists, they are both sufficiently cheap to pick up odd figures 2nd hand on Ebay that it is very viable to simply chop them up and kit-bash. I really got inspired to pick up the Chaos themed forces again back in 2012 when I picked up a copy of Dark Vengeance: while I quickly got bored with painting the Dark Angels in the set and ended up training them away, both the Chaos Chosen and the Cultists really seemed a creative high note for GW and simply blew away the rather tired looking old school Chaos Space Marine kits.

Fast forward to 2016 and I have managed to have accumulated around 3k each of Imperial Guard, Tyranids and most recently expanding into 30k/40k Chaos themed forces. A great source of recent inspiration has been Wudugast’s Convert or Die blog which features some fantastic traitor guard themed kitbashes lately and has reminded me of when I had just got back into the hobby around 8 years ago after a long hiatus.īack then, I hadn’t anticipated starting to collect and paint whole armies again, but I had dipped my toe into assembling and painting a half dozen Cadians and Forgeworld Chaos Renegades for use in a Dark Heresy RPG campaign I was intending to run at the time – largely inspired by the Blood Pact from Dan Abnett’s Gaunt’s Ghosts series. I have really been feeling pulled back to working on my various Chaos themed projects lately.

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