Mr Tumnus Will See You Now

"I'm crying because I'm such a bad Faun."

"It's no good now, you know," said the Faun,
shaking its head at her very sorrowfully.

"I don't think you're a bad Faun at all," said Lucy. "I think you are a very good Faun. You are the nicest Faun I've ever met."


Chaos Cultists! You need about a million of them, but there are only five monopose models available. Time to stretch the imagination then.

I like the idea of beastmen-as-cultists (even before the Blackstone Fortress beat me to it) and Ungor make perfect candidates for weedy bolter-fodder.

With access with sprues from the Cadian Guardsman, Genestealer Neophyte Cultists, and the original Chaos Cultists, the conversions were simple enough. Mostly weapon swaps, with grenades and pouches liberally applied (I left the Imperial Aquila on the kit - it's clear that looting is this crew's main source of resupply).

Half of them were given autoguns (or equivalent) and the other half given pistols and close-combat weapons - they can operate as a mixed unit, although I might scatter them in among human cultists, just to really give a real polyspecies feel. The Aaron Dembski-Bowden novels about the Black Legion painted a great picture of the tumult that goes on below decks of the Traitor Astartes ships.

Being just cannon fodder, I kept the paint scheme quick and easy:

• Skin: Bugman's Glow base, Tyrant Skull drybrush, Agrax Earthshade wash
• Fur: Skragg Brown or Mounfang Brown or Dryad Bark base, Tyrant Skull drybrush, Agrax Earthshade wash
• Leather straps: VX-88 or Balor Brown base
• Weapons: Leadbelcher base, Death World Forest base, Nuln Oil wash

I quite like how these turned out, and since they're multi-part, it's tempting to get some more. But since they costs as much as full-size Gor (how does that compute?), I may have to content myself with this lot for now.

They've promised to fight like true Black Legionaries.

Fauns will say anything, you know