Zealot Miniatures do an interesting Greater Demon of Khorne style model: Through smaller plague bringers, which would make a good herald: Maxmini do a fantastic line of Nurgle style demons, from Greater Demons: I love the thought of fielding Plague Bears instead of Plague bearers!Īvatars of War do fantasy models, but that isn’t a problem for Daemons! They do a couple of cracking models that would make amazing Heralds of Khorne and Nurgle. You could probably get away with the smaller version as a Chaos Lord in a CSM force. They also do a great demon option for a Daemon Prince or Greater Daemon of Khorne. Raging Heroes do some amazing Preying Mantis models, which would make fantastic Daemonettes. Scibor do a small range of Chaos terminator types, which could be could for chaos lords. Zealot Miniatures do a model I think would work well as a chaos spawn. Raging Heroes have a cracking model that could be could as a Nurgle general. On the zombie front, Hasslefree Minis do a great, and cheap, set of zombie plastics.Īnd finally on the zombie/cultist front, Mantic Games do a great range of plague zombie marines: They also have some cracking zombies, for Nurgle plague zombies. They also have a reasonable number of troops that are probably better guard proxies, but would make OK cultists. In terms of straight models, they have a great squad that work work as a Raptor Squad. Puppets War do quite a good range of conversion bits, much of which is suitably spiky for the forces of Chaos. Very cool, and ornate enough to be used as chosen if you just wanted some specialist models. However, Evilcraft do a fantastic set of Chaos looking troops in power armour with bolt pistols and bolter style weaponry. It’s a very iconic look, which doesn’t lend itself to alternatives terribly well! I’ve never found much in the way of alternative Chaos Space Marines. These are just my opinions as to what you could use the models for, rather than what they are being sold as – you may disagree, or feel they’d be better as something else. With that in mind, I thought I’d take a look at alternatives to GW models for various forces in the 40K universe. Everyone makes mistakes, so that tends to wind me up! Suing authors for using the term “space marine”, a term that predates GW by a significant margin is not exactly great work, for example. I’ve personally found some of the employees of GW to be pushy, unpleasant, and of an aggressive opinion that GW can do no wrong. However, I’m not as keen on GW as a company these days. I love the universe, the Black Library books and authors are fantastic, and the game is generally fun, interesting, and has evolved in interesting ways (even if there are enough quibbles with the rule set to start a fresh Horus Heresy!)

Let me start by saying I love Warhammer 40K.

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