Choas Marauders, Warriors and Sorcerers

I bouht these marauders originally out of a desire to get some Chaos Thugs for the long long goal of collecting the grand Army of Nurgle 3rd edition ever since I picked up a copy of the Lost and the Damned all those years ago.

There hasn't been any really good models for Choas Thugs since the old metals of the late 80s, but I thought I'd give these a go. As it turned out, the models were very janky and did not fit together well. The heads were ok, but nothing great and even though they were sold as Marauders, they really lacked a kind of ferocious appeal.

I took ages to assemble them and still didn't like the bodgy half-capes that came with them. The standard was boring and I made no less than five attempts to bases them, putty the gaps, and muck with them to get them into some kind of good form.

When we started playing Frosgrave, thugs weree required, so I picked out a couple and painted them up. I liked the shields, but in the end decided to use some of them for other armies.

When we were discussing playing something other than undead, Robyn suggested a beefcake army of bodybuilders and this was the motivation I needed to finish them off. With heads replaced by chaos helmets, a new standard and a specific model called Hulk Grogan, the unit was finished.

I toyed with the idea of giving all of them black and white death metal make-up, but decided that the helmets were a better choice. Finally finishing off the banner with the symbol Choas undivided brings them back for dual purpose as the Chaos Thugs I was after in the first place.

After they were finished, I then set to finishing off the new unit of Choas Warriors that I got second-hand for cheap. I really like the look of these imposing warriors over the Battlemasters and old Heroquest Choas Warrior sculpts, but they cerrtainly fit enough with the thugs and the resculpted Choas Chosen (Chaos Warrior kit) that I had redone some time back to make them not hunchbacks.

These were originally red, and after a little testing, the combo of dark green, silver and black provided the colour I was after to bring them into the Nurgle paint scheme, as did finishing off the banner with the symbol of the PlagueFather.

A quick wash with the new Skeleton Horde brown was brings the Nurgle Sorgerers up to scratch.