u/Oggthrok

I finished up the first 500 points of my The Damned based traitor guard. It’s been a really fun project, and now I’m musing on where to go with it next…

I should also name them. I have a vague story for them, an overworked Imperial munitorium planetary shipping depot who rebelled for better working conditions. The governor called up a regiment and sent them to crush the worker’s strike, only to find most of the constricted troops were sympathetic to the strike and switched sides, creating an armed rebellion that would go on to topple the government.

Of course, this is 40k, and as the Imperium dedicated more efforts to crush them, the enemies of the Imperium were quietly providing support, and offering spiritual relief to tired soldiers who were now watching their children come of age and join the struggle. In time, their deep hatred of their former Imperial masters made accepting the enemies of the Imperium very easy, and Chaos worship spread and corrupted their world and society.

Few would even now recognize the hate fueled, drug addled, ritually scarred trooper of today, to the noble laborers who fought for breaks and enough food to do their jobs

So, what should their home world be called?

I needed a Hellhound to go with my Damned, but they’re out of stock and I need one by this weekend, so I took a damaged Chimera I picked up second hand with a caked-on paint job, mounted some vehicle accessory sprue fuel tanks for the promethium, and a 3D printed turret from a non-40k tank, and cobbled them into this. The transfers were old and didn’t go on well, but otherwise what do you think?

Finished up a three pack of The Damned ogres to represent a Bullgryn squad.

I needed a trio of lascannons, so I searched my bits bin for some left over lascannons from an old Cadian heavy weapons kit, and bashed them together with crew and tripods courtesy of WGA’s The Damned range, creating this pack of heavily armed traitors.

I like to think, there are simply lascannons from knocked out Leman Russ hulls, salvaged and mounted to a battery pack and repurposed field mount.

People will correctly tell you the WGA ogres are smaller than the GW Ogryn. But, I hadn’t seen a side by side view yet. These are some I’m working on now, alongside some actual GW Bullgryn, for anyone curious.

I posted the first five, but here’s the first ten man squad finished. Don’t ask me why they have miss-matched uniforms and taped together slug throwers, but they can afford plasma guns. They must have intercepted a shipment meant for the loyal guard

I picked up an army box of The Damned from Wargames Atlantic, and have been working on a scheme. I knew I didn’t want to do blood pact, but I was afraid a green scheme would look too regulation. But, I don’t know, I think you can tell they’re a scrofulous band of degenerates, right?