They have come for me…

Talos’ “best friend” and wielder of a fearsome Chainblade. Xarl also was best known for donning the Night Lord Ceremonial Winged Helmet as “there is nothing wrong with having a bit pride in your legion”.

So with that in mind I repurposed the Helmeted head from my Sevatar model.

I also picked up some Chainglaives from Kromlech – an excellent source of upgrade parts.

Colour scheme the same as all of my Night Lords.

However Xarl features a lot of lightning bolts (I will get better pictures) and I did that following the Duncan Rhodes Warhammer TV method.

Lightning Bolts

Lothern Blue

White Scar

When I first starting buying the Primarchs, as much as I love the Konrad Curze mini, I did look around for something that could have shown him before his descent into madness.

A more regal Curze if you will, I then saw this fella over at Artel W Miniatures and bought him thinking he could stand in for Curze if I ever played either 40k or the Horus Hersey.

Alas he is too short, but he does now have a place within my Night Lord legion as an exhaulted Champion – or squad Leader.

I may dub him Zso Sahaal The Talonmaster due to his fearsome Claw!

The first thing I needed to do with this guy was to source his individual components.

Famously Talos stole a power sword from a Blood Angel and it was the source of much conflict as various Night Lords tried to steal it and The Blood Angels wanted to retrieve it!

So I was able to secure a very nice looking Blood Angel themed Power Sword from Ebay.

Next, Talos is gifted a Storm Bolter, so back to Ebay we went.

Also for whatever reason, Talos wears the Aquilla on his chest although he breaks it to show his distaste for the Imperium – another Ebay buy.

Finally I wanted a stylised helmet for him and I was able to pick up some from Kromlech.

The tricky part was cutting the Chaos Marine chest plate away and fitting the Aquilla one in place. A bit of liquid Green stuff filled in most of the unsightly gaps.

The armour we did:

Kantor Blue – (shade) Drakenhof Nightshade – *highlight* Kantor Blue – *highlight* (Altdorf Guard Blue) – *highlight* Hoeth Blue 

Metal Trim:

Gehanna’s gold – (shade) Agrax Earthshade – *highlight* Liberator Gold

Weapons

Leadbelcher – (shade) Agraxearth Shade – (shade) Nuln Oil – *highlight* Storm Host Silver 

Weapons

Retributor Armour – (shade) Agrax Earthshade – Blood For the Blood God on the Blood Drop

Skull

Corax White – (shade) nuln oilt – *highlight* White Scar

Once I had the basis of my Night Lord Marines, the next step that any Night Lord fan should undertake is making First Claw.

For anyone who has read ADB’s excellent Night Lords trilogy, you will know that First Claw are a rag tag group of Night Lords still fighting the long war while attempting to stave off the decent into Chaos that has befallen the other Traitor Legions.

Notable Characters are Talos “Soul Hunter” Valcoran who is gifted with Curze’s ability of foresight.

Uzas a Night Lord fallen under the influence of Khorne.

Xarl hands down the best figher in First Claw who wields a Chainglaive

Cyrion the most human of First Claw but secretly under the influence of Slannesh

Mercutian the heavy weapons guy who weilds a huge Heavy Bolter

Variel The Flayer an Apothecary who betrays the Red Corsairs to join First Claw.

So here is Variel.

I have brought the Apothecary upgrade pack from Kromlech to make him stand out. In the books he has the faces of some of his patients / victims on his Shoulder Pads, but I couldn’t really find anything for that. So I have given him two blank Chaos Pads and I intend to paint those up red and black to show his former legion.

So, the easiest thing to do when creating a Chaos Space Marine army would be to just a box of marines and get started.

Well nothing I do is easy! be it trying to paint and buy all of the Primarchs or buying loads of random Blood Bowl players from all over the world to make a Chaos All Star team, so sticking with a box of marines wasn’t going to cut it.

Plus I don’t want my Night Lords to be chaos they are traitors but haven’t quite fallen to Chaos. Curze after all was disgusted by what had happened to the Word Bearers so he wouldn’t have stood for any of that in his own legion!

So I had to do a few things, buy some Night Lord themed shoulder pads, and helmets, and cut off any kind of overly Chaos looking emblems or weapons.