A Tiny New Project

While I stick closely to the core of my Nurgle Daemon lists — plaguebearers, plagueburst crawlers, foetid bloat-drones, and poxbringers — I often swap out various support pieces and leaders. One of the key pieces I go back and forth on a lot is Chaos Lord v. Chaos Sorcerer: The former offers decent accuracy buffs to all my artillery, while the latter offers a significant accuracy boost to a single model. (There's a signature Chaos Sorcerer ability called Warptime that would tilt the decision for most armies ... but I don't use it all that often: I don't run Mortarion, a giant model that really likes getting the massive movement bonus from the ability, and my daemon big bads don't need the speed since they fall from heaven like lightning ... and they're not legal targets for it anyway, natch.)

But I realized the other day that I had a hole in my collection: the palanquin-riding Chaos servants have the daemon keyword (and thus help Epidemius provide boosts to my entire army), but I didn't have a Chaos Sorcerer on Palanquin of Nurgle.

Well, Smite — the Sorcerer bread-and-butter shooting power — can kill things pretty good, and daemon killing power is what powers Epidemius. I set forth with half a dozen boxes full of bits to rectify my mistake.

Chaos sorcerer on palanquin of Nurglings. This kitbash includes: A head from the new Plague Marine kit (GW);
a torso front from the Putrid Blightkings kit (GW); a torso front from the Tyranid Ravener kit (GW); a backpack
from the Chaos Space Marines kit (GW); a bit of pipe from an unknown ork kit (GW); a drill arm from
Wyrd's rail worker (part of The Rail Crew kit); an arm from an unknown ork kit (GW); a rifle and arm from
an unknown kroot kit (GW); a power scythe from the Deathshroud Bodyguard kit (GW), and the tail of
a 3rd Edition Hive Tyrant kit (GW). There's also a classic metal Nurgling and just a smidge of a modern
plastic Nurgling (both GW) in the background.

So, the kitbash is maybe 50 percent done, not counting the green stuff work. I'll be using a Forge World plague marine pauldron on the model's left arm and have some gruesome plans for a gap (not pictured) on its right. It involves a putrid blightking fly head and one of the tongues from a Nurgle-themed kit.

And, no, the model won't be using a palanquin per se. It'll be running along with a caravan of Nurglings — perhaps enough of the little bastards to completely cover the 40 mm base this guy will stand on.

Some of the bits / Nurglings I'm considering for this kit. I'm honestly not sure where
that servitor is from, but it's plastic, so it's from a stock GW kit; the pauldrons are Foge World
resin Plague Marine upgrade bits. The Nurglings come from a variety of sources, all GW kits.

This guy will soon be joined by his polar opposite, an unadorned (and nearly unequipped) Chaos Lord. You shave about 30 points by downgrading to a basic guy, so if you're just looking for the Lord's accuracy aura, palanquin ain't what you'll reach for. I have big plans for that guy, and they'll likely involve a dremel and some massive tyranid bits — I'm looking forward to it. But we're gonna rocket through this sorcerer first (and the rest of the decimator, a-course).