Sons of Deceit - Thousand Sons (my first army)

[Deceit]

In need of motivation to complete my first army, I've decided to create a log here of my WiP. I've been following many logs here for a couple of years now, and have gained inspiration from quite a few other member's logs, as well as learning quite a lot of tips/tricks.

This army will be a (relatively) pure Thousand Sons army, and will consist of the following (so far):

HQ:
Daemon Prince (winged)
Sorcerer (in Terminator armour)

Elites:
Terminator Squad

Troops:
3 x Thousand Sons Squads with Aspiring Sorcerors & Rhinos
2 x lesser daemons squads (horrors)

Heavy:
Predator
Defiler


So thanks for looking, hope you enjoy following my progress as I learn to convert, magnetise, sculpt, cast, and paint my way to a finished army

[Deceit]

Daemon Prince:

I'll leave this guy pretty much as he is now, but may do something with his head/face before painting if I can figure something out.



Sorcerer:
Magnetized for weapon swap, have some lightening claws as well. Painting still a WiP

[Deceit]

One more WiP of Sorcerer:







Next up, terminators (and lots of magnets).

[Deceit]

Terminators:

[Deceit]

Magnetised weapon swap options:







More greenstuff conversion to come

[MrWigglez]

Looking good! the sorcerer turned out nicely. Its always nice to see another thousand sons army, there arnt enough of them out there! Cant wait to see some more progress!!

[Deceit]

Thanks!

This log is going to be a little bit all over the place as I have a small back-log of photos of completed/un-completed units.

The primary reason that I magnetised my terminators was to enable weapon swapping (if I ever get a chance to play a game). The second reason was to allow transport/storage in regular foam cases:


From the above pic you can see I have one squad of Thousand Sons troops assembled/painted. They were the first one's I did and were used to practice my painting on before I started on the Sorcerer, so not sure if I want to take a pic of those one's close up. I'll probably use the second squad for that

Terminators with Thousand Sons 'helms': (not sure if that's the right word or not?) - I prefer to think of them as an antenna for the sorcerers to control/guide them




Was a good excuse to learn how to cast with greenstuff. Time consuming though.

[Deceit]

Some of them are a tiny bit wonky, but not really noticeable at arms length. They also needed a little bit of greenstuff added to fill the gaps.

[Deceit]

Up-to-date progress shot of Terminators (+ Sorcerer, a couple of the second Thousand Sons squad & converted Apsiring Sorcerer in background):



Undercoat and basecoat only so far.

[TheConverter15]

Very nice army! Well done with the magnetisation too! Since they're Thousand Sons you could swap the demon princes head with something more bird like? I think there could be a suitable bird head in the spawn box, look at some bitz sites. Otherwise FANTASTIC!

[Deceit]

Thankyou very much!

I'll have a look at the bitz sites for birds heads for sure, I never really thought about using the Spawn head until now (if it is the same size). Very good idea!

I still have a Defiler kit enroute from Maelstrom Games (my last order ever due to GW's new trading rules) I was thinking I could maybe use one of it's head/mask options to cover my current Daemon Prince's head/face.

I have NO faces uncovered in this army, they're all either Psykers with masks, or automaton marines. Daemon Princes and Lesser Daemons the exeption. I'm not going to include mutuated/chosen/normal marines in this army.

[Deceit]

Just an explanation for my army:

I have an overiding theme for this army based on the fluff and available miniatures/kits, and I really buy into Ahriman's storyline where he seek's to destroy mutation within his chapter and subsequently turns the non-psykers into 'rubrics'/'automatons'. I really want to collect Ahriman as a miniature, and maybe incorporate him into my army (Finecast if possible ) So as far as Daemonic mutation/Sorcerer ascending to Daemonic status goes, I'm still pretty much divided (but not UN-divided ). I've read almost EVERY single bit of fluff, book, codex on the subject of Thousand Sons/Ahriman, and have found nothing concrete to found this army on, but I have found a lot of inspiration.

I am basing this army on the fluff/codices of 2nd Edition Wh40K, and every codex fluff material covered up till now (including Horus Hersey Novels - but not as a pre-heresy army) if anyone has any other official sources about the Thousand Sons, please let me know.

This is a 40k army and I am trying to avoid using Tomb Kings or Ejyptian symbols/references, as much as I can.

[Deceit]

I hate metal miniatures, so I convert my own from bits...

Aspiring Sorcerer for squad 2 WiP:



Aspiring Sorcerer for squad 3 WiP:






Next up: magnetised Predator

[Rogerio]

Loving the use of gun parts from the vehicle sprue on the sorcerer back pack

[Deceit]

Yeah, they were the closest looking things to to a sorcerers backpack I had (and I had heaps of them).

Magnetised Predator:

[Deceit]

[Rogerio]

What size magnets do you use to magnetise the turret weapons mate ? i really fancy doing that.

[NightseeR]

Good work on those termies and sorcerers!

[Mace1982]

looks really really good so far cant wait to see those termies painted up, might get me back to finsihing my high elves, hopefully i can get back at it keep up the good work

[LokkoRex]

some really good stuff you've got going here, but aren't you afraid the green stuff crests on the terminators are gonna fall off or something?

i thought green stuff was more brittle than normal plastic