The Spawn Identity

I don't wanna know who I am any more!

Remember kids: perils of the Warp can happen to anyone.

Now, I already have three Chaos Spawn in my ranks, but I fancied having at least one Thousand Sons spawn who had clearly fallen to their flesh-change.

And besides, that Spawn kit is addictive - a cornucopia of tentacles, eyes, spikes and gribblies, and I wanted to use them all!

This is the first of the two new Spawn - affectionately known as 'The Retirement Plan' among Thousand Sons sorcerers. He's got a few genuine astartes pieces on him - the helm, one arm, and a pauldron that I split to have another tentacle writhing out from.

The Thousand Sons part was painted in the usual Rubric Marine colours, while the rest of the body was mostly Rakarth Flesh, Druchii Violet and a Palid Wychflesh drybrush (another plus point for spawn - they're dead easy to paint).

For his buddy, I went with showing what happens when a Tzaangor Enlightened sups a bit too hastily from the cup of enlightenment. There was already a bird head and claws aplenty in the box, and I added the 'split-mutant' head to give a second opinion, plus one of the Tzaangor axes.

Same paint recipe as the Enlightened - although it seems I ran into the same problem about not highlighting the pink skin enough. I have them blue Tzaangor extremities - party for variety, and also to show the change creeping over them (although to be honest, it looks like I've just dressed a Tzaangor in pink long-johns).

So that's two more Spawn to throw into the pit - but with all the bits and pieces left on the sprue, I can see myself cobbling together a lot more to come.

A shame that Chaos Spawn are sub-optimal. I'm going to have loads of them!