Banner for Thousand Sons Dreadnought

I guess I forgot to include these images when I first posted the dreadnought images!

Really Pre Heresy Thousand Sons :-)

I know that these days what constitutes "Pre Heresy" colors and appearance can get folks in a bit of a tizzy, but I think there can't be much question with these guys :-)

It was a fun squad to paint, but my favorite was the Prospero banner.  I would love to make myself a Prospero gaming table.  OK, I think I will! 

Also, blue purity seals were the most guilty of pleasures!  It was also a blast to do the scarab bases.

And now for something completely different...

OK, this had to be the most unusual commission request I have ever gotten.

The buyer wanted to have a 40k Thousand Sons sorcerer on a captured Slaan Palanquin, with the poor toad sitting there in chains!  So sad. :-(

To assist with issues of weight and scale, I had to scratch sculpt both the Slaan and the Palanquin.  It pained me to do the whole thing with the chains, but it was fun to make a palanquin!  That was made with sculpey and Apoxy sculpt, while the Slaan was created with Apoxy sculpt and green stuff.

I also made the base with the crystals.













Here's a  few images of just the sorcerer and Palanquin:

Thousand Sons Games Day Squad with display base: part two

Here's the rest of the squad, including another view of the display base and some group shots of the minis by themselves.

Thousand Sons squad with display base (Games Day 2009)

Here is a Thousand Sons squad that I created for Games Day a few years ago.  My primary goal with this project was to see what I could do in terms of a display base.

I knew I wanted to have the marble filled with daemon faces, which would also be carried onto the base of every miniature.  I was reminded of this when I started painting the floors and bases of my new Tomb Kings army.  You also saw some designs similar to this painted on the 72mm mounted Chaos Knight.

This is not a very easy design to carry across large surfaces, as I discovered!  To get enough variation in the faces becomes more  and more trying the bigger the space you need to cover.





Here is the display base minus the minis.  You can see the daemon faces a bit better with the unobstructed view.

Thousand Sons icon bearer

Here is another exercise in using Reaper Amethyst.  That is an amazing color!  It is a bit like the old GW nauseating blue.  When mixed with a space wolves Grey type color, you get a deep blue that is still a middle tone, and a hint of purple.  The color literally transforms itself depending on what you want to do with it.  It can also be incredibly dark if need be, and still have some saturation.

Very cool!  I have not really been able to find something exactly like it.  Most attempted substitutes end up being more on the green side, or to far on the purple end of the spectrum.

Thousand Sons Chaos Lord

I had loads of fun with this guy, just like anything that is Tzeentch!!

I probably had the most fun with the base, as usual :-)

Classic Tzeentch character

Now this really qualifies as a 'classic' mini :-) I am sure it would be very difficult to find one of these today!

A gallery of Thousand Sons miniatures

This collection of Thousand Sons minis was done a few years ago.  I have another squad that I will be posting soon.  If they get some kind of love in the upcoming Chaos Legions codex, I may have to give them a second look!

There are some very old 'classic' minis in this bunch, including some sorcerers and champions.