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Having trouble picking an army of mine to kitbash a kill team out of, and in the spirit of this being my first attempt at making YouTube content I want to know what you guys think. So I’m gonna give a little bit of lore and aesthetic notes on each

My Pirates: The Eastern Fringe Raiding Company
For this kill team I plan on using de-plagued deathguard and Corsair raiders to kitbash them.
They’d be painted like the blue chaos lord, but I was too proud to not include their original look (which I’m still debating whether to use or not even though it’s essentially fancy black legion)
They are at their core sunken marines, I picture them a lot like Davy Jones and his crew with less mutations. I want them to look like they been under water for centuries.
They have a lot of classic pirate tropes, hook hands, peg legs, and exotic animal pets galore.
For Wolf Scouts they will have a kitbashed xenos creature with them.

My Cavemen: The Umbral Claws
The Lapdogs of the Ordo Chronos, and a forgetful chapter. Painted with their deeds on their armor and adorned in the exotic furs of mega fauna of their homeworld these monster hunters are adept with blunt weaponry, and tinkering with their guns in hopes of creating a chapter relic that they will be remembered by. The curse of their founding carries an Amnestic property, causing most people to forget their existence or at the very least be unsure of it.
These guys are a combination of black Templars and space wolves, with a primal aesthetic and seraphon bits sprinkled in.
The wolf scouts animal would be one of the sabertooth tigers from the new ogor mawtribes kits.

My Alpha Legion
I actually don’t have a whole force of these guys, nor plan to sadly. While I love the alpha legion I already have one chaos army in progress. I painted these guys in a classic scheme and then tried to update it to the modern day.
The killteam will be classic chaos marines, using Horus heresy models, old legionnaires kit, and new legionnaires kit to achieve a very 2-4th edition feel to the kill team.
I think it’d be really fun to try and kitbash the drones for the Tau team, I know nothing of the rules for it but I think it’d be interesting to kitbash the alpha legion as a Xenos team rather than marines.
And of course the sneaky Phobos team has to be an option.

All these teams will probably be made one day, but my friend wants to play a big game of 40k and I was able to talk him down to a kill team since I’m no where near ready for a physical full 2000 point game, so I have to kitbash a kill team promptly. I was originally going to do angels of death since he has a box of Kasarkin, but he opted for kitbashing a salamanders angels of death and I don’t want to just be the same kill team fighting each other.

Da Boss of my FreeBootas, as well as a Pirate Lord in my CSM renegade Pirate warband. Hoping to make him a stand-in for Huron! Or possibly a demon bring if I can bulk him up a bit more.

Armed (literally) with “Da Meg”, his power claw fashioned from a Xenos space swimming creature that took his original arm.

And also The “Waghhlass”, a mystical ork sword that has some weird abilities including:
Taking control of allied vehicle weapon systems with a simple wave, following Snappa’s commands without the need of middlemen
Controlling vehicles he is on, again without need of middlemen man to act out his commands.
It’s almost as if the sword takes command of whatever machine spirit or waghhh energy lies within the vehicle.

The sword is his mark of office, Admiral of the The Dreadfleet and Lord Boatswain of The Eastern Fringe Raiding Company.

I’m very happy about the hat, it isn’t green stuff, it’s actually thin styrene plastic with my green sprue goo layered over it. I’ve discovered that doing this allowed me to essentially sculpt a realistic hat without even needing to touch putty, gonna make making FreeBootas much easier in the future.

Da Red Snappa
He’s gonna be painted red instead of green, which is why he gained notoriety in his lost clan of regularly green orks.
Mork, or perhaps possibly Gork, blessed him with being the Fastest, leading him to rising in his clan rather fast, everything he does is fast, even thinking, making him a rather smart ork compared to others, allowing him to both outsmart and out speed his adversaries in his rise to the top.

A young Edwakka Tatz had overthrown his old boss after they lost a battle involving the Necrons and Aeldari, and I mean so bad they had to leave. The boyz did not like this, that their boss declared defeat rather than coming back to fight another day, Edwakka hated it most, boarding the boss’s ship and killing him and his large aquatic pet. He lost an arm in the battle, which he then replaced with the beasts head.

This caught the Dredgelord’s eye when a newly christened band of FreeBootas entered the Charybdis Reach in search of a good scrap.

After a month of non stop fighting, Dredgelord Davnir took to the field himself, and was able to restrain Snappa, and they forged an agreement. Da Red Snappa’s forces were now under Davnirs command as well, and Snappa was given a station of command in the crew, as well as a relic cutlass.

Over time he slowly began to be affected by the warp, really it just gave him larger arms and enhanced strength. He does not purposefully or truly serve the Chaos Gods, but neither does Davnir, taking whatever gifts they can, and giving nothing back.

Just wondering what custom terrain you guys have made and what you’ve used to do it!

I received this box at a store sale for like 30 dollars because the box was crushed. The models were still pristine inside so no complaints here! This is my first 40k terrain piece so I’m unsure on how to tackle making it my own!

I fear I may have blundered by not pacing myself.
I’ve made a lot of really cool characters to replace named space wolves ones for eventual army lists but I’ve neglected to actually make any other cool whole units besides 5 terminators, some head takers, and my “outriders” / “Thunderwolf Calvary”.

My favorite thing is kitbashing characters so obviously it’s what happened first but I feel like I may have run out steam, like most of my cool named guys feel finished and I don’t really know where else to go from here. Maybe I’m just over thinking it but it just feels weird that I’ve made the “Chapter’s Greatest Heroes” without making the Chapter itself yknow?
Like I’ve already made the Chapter Master (Logan stand-in), a cool lone operative character(combi lieutenant) , master of the forge (arjac rockfist), my raptors (Thunderwolf), my head takers (not pictured here), some terminators and a generic captain. I feel like I’ve just hit a rut creatively on continuing them.

Pictured at the end is essentially the rest of the chapter, some half kitbashed, others not at all, I have so much more I can do but I feel like I’ve just hit a wall.

Anyone else feel like this? How did you over come it?

TLDR: help me pick a claw for him!

Da Boss of my FreeBootas, as well as a Pirate Lord in my CSM renegade Pirate warband. Hoping to make him a stand-in for Huron weapons wise, with a squig representing the hamadrya.

I’m very happy about the hat, it isn’t green stuff, it’s actually thin styrene plastic with my green sprue goo layered over it. I’ve discovered that doing this allowed me to essentially sculpt a realistic hat without even needing to touch putty, gonna make making FreeBootas much easier in the future.

Da Red Snappa
He’s gonna be painted red instead of green, which is why he gained notoriety in his lost clan of regularly green orks.
Mork, or perhaps possibly Gork, blessed him with being the Fastest, leading him to rising in his clan rather fast, everything he does is fast, even thinking, making him a rather smart ork compared to others, allowing him to both outsmart and out speed his adversaries in his rise to the top.

This caught the Dredgelord’s eye when a newly christened band of FreeBootas entered the Charybdis Reach.

A young Edwakka Tatz had overthrown his old boss after they lost a battle involving the Necrons and Aeldari, and I mean so bad they had to leave. The boyz did not like this, that their boss declared defeat rather than coming back to fight another day, Edwakka hated it most, boarding the boss’s ship and killing him and his large aquatic pet. He lost an arm in the battle, which he then replaced with…

That’s where I don’t know what to do, I added some options at the end so I’d like to see what yall think!
I think I’m leaning towards the shark head, but i think I’m gonna have to cut it down a lot to make it properly fit with him.

Edwakka Tatz is meant to be Edward Teach but ork, I hope to also sculpt him a beard, special type of hair squig that likes chins maybe.

I’m trying to film myself doing kitbashing of a Killteam for my custom chapter, but everytime I’ve tried to sit down and record myself messing with models (has happened on many occasions) it ends up being hours upon hours of kitbashing and figuring out what looks good and what doesn’t.

They gotta make them ahead of time and then just put them together on camera right 😂? I can’t imagine they just parse through hours of footage.

Anyone have any tips for making this kind of content?

As the title says, I’m looking for more of these kind of arms/bionics, I know it’s a longshot since I’m pretty sure he’s meant to be a named character (or atleast was before age of sigmar) but I wanted to ask and see if anyone knew of similar bionics or even 3D prints someone made to match them?

I used one the main one to outfit my space marine chapter master, but I would love more to sprinkle through my force!

Behemot The Shattertusk
Lord Commander of the Umbral Claws
My cavemen space marines finally have their commander.

Taking any suggestions for finishing off his details.
I know i need a beltbuckle and some more fur for him to be done, but any other suggestions I’ll happily take!

My lieutenant with Combi-Weapon, Sakaar the Knife Tooth. Only a lieutenant with combiweapon for games, but in my lore he is a lone operative captain of the 7th company.

The Umbral Claws job is hunting anomalies, with a focus on time anomalies, in the 40k universe.
Afflicted with a gene curse of an Antimemetic aura, causing about 95% of people to forget their existence, making them the perfect tools of the ever mysterious Ordo Chronos.

Lord of Redaction must take up the job of ensuring the Umbral Claws remain redacted. This usually involves taking lone missions where they are: infiltrating inquisitorial outposts and Xenos ships, intercepting and destroying documents, even terminating targets if deemed necessary, which is their last resort and a rare occurrence.

Sakaar’s Equipment:

Normal bolt pistol: he uses a normal bolt pistol, reason being is its one of the only thing the chapter has a surplus of, and he is constantly losing his. Whether incompetence or warp shenanigans always leaving a trace of the Umbral claws causes this is unknown.

D-15:
An ancient bespoke pistol, possibly a disintegration pistol from the heresy, however it’s been heavily modified on its journey to the modern day. It now acts more like a plasma gun, being able to be overcharged at threat to the user. It has served as a, fairly useful, long range assassination tool. Firing a beam that atomically annihilates anything in its path for up to 40 feet, with the overcharge expanding this range to 200 feet if used properly. However it is not unusual for this to backfire

The Codex:
A relic of unknown origin, seemingly the perfect combination of Eldar and Imperial technology. Gives the user the prominent abilities of invisibility, minor teleportation without the use of the warp, and energy shields. Minor abilities range as this is meant to be essentially a highly sophisticated multi-tool. Also nicknamed the “Skeleton Key” for it seemingly being the reason The Master of Redaction can actually do his job. Whether a relic of the Dark Age of Technology, A Deathwatch tool, or even the remnants of another timeline, The Codex is one of the most valuable relics available to the Umbral Claws.

TLDR
Looking for suggestions for his other arm, I want him to have dual wield pistols like a moritat but not matching pistols. If anyone has any bespoke pistol kitbashes I’d love to see them!

Im trying to emulate the legs of Devastators, simply because I like them and I think having an adaptation of Phobos that has the extra armor was the right move to achieve the look.
He is a rather tall marine now due to how I attached the normal Primaris legs but my Homebrew has a history of size fluctuating between the marines so it’s fine.
His torso is a bit small, but it doesn’t bug me much since literally everything else about him is big.

Minos The Rebuilt
My Homebrew Caveman Inspired Space Marine chapter Arjack Rockfist!

I’m very happy with him. The only thing I’d look into now is bulkier legs but I don’t think that’ll be possible so I’ll leave him as is for now, unless I end up wanting to make them bionics.

Some background on my chapter:
The Umbral Claws act as Chamber Militant of the Ordo Chronos.
They hunt down and deal with Time Anomalies and Various relics, ranging from dark age to Xenos.
They are allowed limited use of these artifacts, usually only chapter command having any eccentric weaponry and abilities.
I see the Ordo Chronos as an SCP foundation type organization but in 40k, making these guys one giant MTF
They come from a deathworld where it is an megafauna filled ice age on the surface but a tropical, dinosaur filled, paradise beneath the planets crust

Some lore:
Minos, Master of the Forge, Clad in his box-standard Terminator Plate, was sent into a spacehulk to scavenge supplies for the chapter along with an honor guard of terminators. However after a run-in with The Dredgelord (My CSM warbands Abaddon) and facing him in one on one combat, Minos learned he was no match for the terminator lord’s mighty ork claw and Necron staff. His squad died first, picked off one by one, somehow the hulk clad in dark armor moved in silence, and caught Minos off guard. Minos, armed with a thunder hammer and storm bolter was cut down easily by the Pirate Lord of the Ghoul Stars.
His body was retrieved by tech adepts who were sent into the space hulk once the terminator squad failed to respond.

Lacking a spare dreadnought, but having many half working relics, an idea was formed to resurrect Minos. After receiving the blessing of the Chapter Master, the tech marines of the chapter were allowed access to the reliquary, however they could only use damaged items.

Minos was brought back from the brink, using a handful of broken artifacts, entombed in terminator armor with an advanced life support system. Once his Tech Marines brought his back “online” he got to work forging his own new body.

Relics Used in his reforging:

Runic Plate:
Blessed plate made by the chapter, adorning the user with carved runes to enhance psychic might or to ward off corruptive forces.

The Odyssian Carapace:
An ancient terminator torso, possibly even predating the Great Crusade. Embedded with technology similar to Necron Chronomancy, allowing the user to detect Time Anomalies and Chronomancy, with the user potentially being able to harness that power.
Equipped with “High Pressure Exhaust” systems, allows exhaust fumes to be stored, pressurized, and released at will, allowing for momentary flight (think the assault class from SM2 but on a terminator).
Made bulkier to encase the life support systems.

The Saurian Axe “Rhitta” and Saurian Brace:
Relic of their homeworld, thought to have belonged to the xenos race that existed there before them. The Saurian Axe is made of an obsidian like substance. The Axe is capable of supernatural flight and homing when thrown while the brace acts as a homing device for the Axe to return to.

The Fortress Shield:
A relic belonging to the previous Master of the Forge, Krogg the Fortress. Can be folded into a small arm guard and redeployed into a shield, said to be made of the same material as custodes armor.

The mark 2 heads are the best heads ever released by games workshop I will not be arguing this point.
It just works so perfectly with all the rivets, very knightly yet robust. These kitbashes are a lot simpler than my usual stuff but I think they’ve become some of my favorites immediately!
This is for my Caveman space marine chapter and they will be painted like the last mini pictured, various panels painted brown with cave paintings, purple tabards, and their black armor.
Planning on running them as wolf guard terminators for my homebrew, but I may make their fists magnetic so I can give them actual power weapons to not confuse them with normal terminators.

Something about him just feels weird, and I can’t place my finger on it.

Meant to be an Arjac Rockfist stand in.

Minos the Reforged
The master of the forge took the field with his mighty headsman axe, however he was gravely wounded by the Dredgelord (my homebrew Chaos lord) and his axe snapped in half.
His body was found and returned to the chapter, however they lacked a dreadnought to put him in. Instead of keeping him on ice, and by order of the chapter master himself, the tech adepts of the Umbral Claws were allowed access to the various relics aboard the flagship, including dark age technology.
After a successful few days of surgery, and the use of dark age relics, and possibly even Xenotech , Minos was reforged into a “Tactile Dreadnought” in more than title. Now more machine than man, and unable to ever leave his armor, Minos wields his now one handed axe and a gifted shield from the chapter master. His axe able to be recalled due to an ancient augmentic, now known as Rhitta, and “The Guardian Shield”, a shield said to be made of the same material as custodies armor and able to be deployed and redeployed at a moments notice when ever needed.

I’m listening to the Master of Maelstrom, and this is how I’ve pictured Huron and his homunculus the whole time.
Posing based off of my favorite artwork of him.
I don’t plan on ever using him in game, this is just going to be an art piece as I wanted to challenge my self to kitbash a character without using any pieces from the character, I made an exception for the axe since I probably wasn’t going to use it anywhere else.

The only thing I can think of is as the ATV to match my raptor outriders, it is a bit big for that but the raptors are also a bit tall for outriders so I think it balances out. Wanted some feedback on the idea

My ring light I got a couple days ago for my hobby desk was acting weird last night, power button not working and the modes not changing. I unplugged it so I could deal with it in the morning but it no longer turns on.

Since it was only 25 bucks I figured I’d try fixing it rather than just getting a new one.

I opened up the controller and it looks like something literally burned out (see melted plastic on the casing and some discoloration on the board).

How do I fix this?

This is Behemot The Shatter Tusk, Lord Commander of the Umbral Claws.

I don’t know what weapon to give him.
I can’t decide between a handful of weapons:
Dual Saturnine Fists with dual plasma guns on them
Dual Lighting Claws
The Saturnine Hammer
The Saturnine Axe

I’m just trying to find what weapon screams “Shattertusk”, like when I say that name what weapon do you picture being named that.

Blunt weapons are very thematic to my army as they only use bladed weapons in the form of spears, claws, and the occasional axe

He is gonna be ran as Logan Grimnar, but I also don’t want to give him an axe just because Logan has one yknow

I incorporate space wolves, black Templar, seraphon, and ogor mawtribes bits into the army

I wanted to make how I always pictured Huron. I really liked him up until putting the backpack and shoulder pads on him, but after looking at him “done” he just doesn’t feel “Huron” enough. Idk what it is so I’m turning to the community for help!

Based off the attached artwork, and I’m very proud of my Tyrants Claw I made out of scrap pieces of a demon prince hand, chaos termie claw, a HH flamer and some styrene!

Post your Huron Blackheart from before he finally got his model!
Looking for inspo for kitbashing my own!

I’ve found these in both my bathroom and now my bedroom , should I be worried?

They seem to disappear and reappear, not seeing any wings for weeks at a time.