Chaos Androids - There is no future

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I'm on a roll. I've set myself a task : clear all those half painted models waiting miserably in the table. Kaleb Daark the other day was the first to take advantage of that new mindset but now it was those chaos androids' turn. Funny thing is that they were started (and forgotten) at about the same time!

I'll be perfectly honest with you here, I really aimed at the most rapid way to get them out of the "to do" list so I took every shortcut I could painting wise.

- Black prime

- Zenithal grey spray

- light drybrush of some areas that were not highlighted

- Big wash (1/4 black paint, 1/4 matt medium, 1/2 water) on everyone

- few sharp highlights here and there

- weathering with blister foam and Doombull brown

- weathering with boltgun metal here and there

- details including eyes, red parts of teh gun and metallics (boltgun metal and couple of washes)

- Typhus corrosion here and there

- blacklining here and there where needed to tidy things up

- DONE

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Those precious models come from the Space Crusade box and for some reason I just had to have some in my Chaos Renegades force because a) they're robots and b) they're chaotic. The conversions are not intentional, they are just repairs for the models whose bayonet broke but in a sense it's not a bad thing they did break because it brings a bit of variety in the unit.

To give some variety I decided to make a leader or champion with Necron bits. It seems quite natural since the necrons are after all the natural heirs of the chaos androids. Given his equipment and thanks to Theottovonbismark, I've decided to call him/it : 4sh

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While those are meant to be chaotic, you can notice I didn't paint any chaotic symbol on them. There are two reasons to this : The first one is that it annoyed me to add decals or paint freehands, the second one is that this way though they're tied to my chaos renegades by being all black, they could just as easily represent regular androids for games where I find there is use of cybertronic muscle...

The very good thing about those is that being robots, you can perfectly accept monoposes which will even make them stand from all the different models you'll find in the army.

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Gaming wise, I have absolutely no idea about how to play them as there never was any set of rules for them in Rogue trader or 40k apart from the late Necrons. I'll probably either play them as vanilla chaos renegades or maybe I'll take the trouble to stat them properly and calculate the adequate Point Value with the Rogue trader rules. or maybe I'll  just pick generic necron rules from the late editions. don't know yet but knowing myself, this won't be a problem before long.

So that's 9 more models added to the "painted" list, not my best but painted so I'm happy. I wouldn't have had the nerves to give my best on such sculpts anyway.

But the real question is : WHO'S NEXT ?

and the answer is the same as usual : I DON'T KNOW...

Until I get the answer, take care my friends.

PS : Enjoy this totally unofficial and silly video which illustrates the best Megadeth tune I could find :

Oh and just because :