#professor paris

[paris-rokin]

Paris' guide to making kickass Chaos Space Marines

specifically turning Berzerkers into a Legionary kill team

I had to do something with the new Khorne Berzerkers kit, so I decided to turn one into a Legionary kill team. This tutorial will follow my thought process for assembling & kitbashing models, which is my favorite part of this hobby tbh. It'll be it rambley & I probably didn't take enough pictures, but hopefully this'll inspire other hobbyists to chop up their expensive plastic & stick it back together in beautiful ways.

I'm assuming basic knowledge of model assembly; how to clip, clean, & glue plastic together is beyond the scope of my post, and extensive coverage of those topics can be found elsewhere.

Step 0a: Strategize

A Legionary team can use six astartes at a time, so I want a Chosen, Icon Bearer, Butcher, Anointed, Shrivetalon, and Gunner. I'll also make a Heavy Gunner, so I can choose between two guns each game. That leaves three models to join the Berzerker horde I already own; I'll give them two-handed weapons or a plasma pistol, as my collection lacks those options.

Step 0b: Gather bits

In addition to the Khorne Berzerker box, I have an unopened box of Blood Warriors from AoS, as well as spare parts from Bloodletters & many, many Chaos Space Marine boxes. I ordered some custom female heads from an Etsy shop, designed by Keta Minies. This project isn't as elaborate as my Berzerker horde, I'm not replacing Blood Warrior shins or anything. But it's more than enough bits to make sure none of these ten Berzerkers are 100% made out of Berzerker bits.

Step 1: Bodies

I made all ten torso & leg assemblies as per the instructions. I like to work on all of them at once, so I can compare how bits look on different poses. I've also glued the icon to its backpack.

Step 2: Two-handed weapons

Any object that's connnected to both arms is more annoying to assemble; the pose is more restricted, there's three points to glue at the same time, and (when kitbashing) you may find that certain torsos just don't fit well. Therefore, I want to do these weapons first, so I can give them any of the ten available bodies, and so I get the annoying part out of the way first.

The special & heavy weapons are taken from the Chaos Space Marines (reaper chaincannon is from the Legionaries; the same kit with an extra sprue for Kill Team). They are assembled per the instructions. The two chain weapons are Khornate eviscerators from the Khorne Berzerkers. The normal axe is the goreglaive from the Blood Warriors; I cut the smaller blade off, mostly to differentiate it from my Master of Executions, who uses the same weapon.

Before I actually glue arms to bodies, I spend a lot of time holding them in place, comparing poses, making sure everything lines up in a satisfying way.

Blood Warrior arms don't fit well on marine bodies, they must be scraped into shape. This can be a bit tricky; how you carve into the joint will determine the exact angle of the arm. I recommend doing this with one-handed weapons to get a feel for it, before trying the two-hander.

Step 3: Custom weapons

Now for my favorite part: custom weapons. I don't have another daemon blade, Shrivetalon knives, or Annointed claw from the Legionary kit. So I make my own.

For the Shrivetalon, I take a Blood Warrior axe & remove the axe head. The blade I removed from the big axe will make for a strange, short brawling weapon (my apologies for not getting a good post-assembly picture of the axe. You'll see it on the finished model below). The other arm will be the knife arm from the Chaos Space Marines missile launcher model. For the Anointed, I use a Bloodletter arm. It must be trimmed to fit under a pauldron. Note that the unseemly hole in the shoulder will be covered by the armor piece. Any bare Blood Warrior shoulders will need to be filed down a bit, as they are just too beefy to fit in a pauldron. Always dry fit, after little bits of work, to make sure you don't take too much away!

For the Chosen's daemon blade, I want a Bloodletter hellblade. First I look through the Chaos Space Marines chainsword arms for a good pose, and remove the sword from it. I remove a hellblade from a Bloodletter's arm. Simply gluing the blade & hilt to the hand could work, but I don't trust that to hold, so I get the hand drill. I put a rod through the hand, connecting the blade & hilt, so now those tiny joins aren't so fragile.

Step 4: Oh yeah, it's all comin' together

Now I can start gluing the rest of the arms to bodies, as well as backpacks & pauldrons. There are infinite choices to be made here. A backpack with more skulls might make more sense on a leader, or one with horns growing out of it may be better for the Anointed, for example. For the left shoulders, I've used blank pauldrons from the Chaos Space Marines instead of World Eaters pauldrons from the Berzerkers, so I can paint a custom warband sigil.

For the Icon Bearer's weapon, & the Chosen & Annointed's pistols, I carefully consider the different bits to make good poses. They're from the base Berzerker kit, so they aren't exactly kitbashed, but these choices are critical to giving a model a pleasing silhouette.

Step 5: Heads & bases

I always leave the head as the last bit to glue on, before I glue the model to the base. Tiny changes in the head's position can radically alter the emotion or action of a miniature, it's the most important part.

The 3d printed heads I have don't have astartes collars, so I make tiny green stuff balls to serve as necks. It goes tiny bit of super glue, green stuff, press head into place, remove head, tiny bit of super glue, place head again.

Note, this one model is an exception to my head last rule, as I need to place it in such a way that the braid fits, before I can make decisions about the right arm.

Finished Models

Chosen: I am so very happy with her!! The hair, arm, & body all come together in a pose that, dare I say it, could pass for an official sculpt :D

Shrivetalon: this is an example of a pose that doesn't photograph well; from this angle, the knife isn't visible. From other angles, the right blade isn't, or we've got an odd angle on the face, or whatever. This isn't terrible, but professional model design is all about making a 'golden angle' to view it from, & this model doesn't have that. She's cool anyway.

Anointed: here's another good pose. I imagine she's tearing our some poor mortal's throat as she transforms.

Heavy Gunner: I've always loved the idea of a Khornate Havoc, so I made this gal a normal Berzerker, except for the big fucking gun. This amuses me.

Gunner: I pretty much always make my special & heavy weapons aiming down sights, it's satisfying to check line of sight with them. But I am so happy I didn't do that here, she's so brutally aggressive, she looks like she's running up to a barricade & blasting a hidden coward >:D

Icon Bearer & Butcher: these are standard Berzerker models, with headswaps. Not difficult, & sometimes a headswap is all you need to change the feel of a model.

Khorne Berzerkers: the three remaining models will join my 40k army. They each have a bit or two from the Blood Warriors, just to keep the Crimson Hounds from having any non-converted models in it.

Thank you for reading! I'll do a painting tutorial, hopefully soon, as I'd like to have these gals finished in time to play a game in one month. If I've inspired you to do your own kitbashes, please show me ^v^

[magnetoisnotahappybunny]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

was talking to my brother the other day after i rewatched dark phoenix and he was like 'why is everyone so mean to charles in this movie?? were they always this mean to him ?? is it cause he's bald now- he lost his pretty privilege??' and i fear i havent recovered

[wishchip106]

Erik did not smile like that with anyone else.

Charles exclusive smile

i don’t think he ever smiled like this again in the movies after this

that week or 2 at the mansion was likely the happiest time in his life

he could actually forget about the consequences of it all and just live

this is all Shaws fault. i’m gonna shave off every single molecule of hair on his body and then proceed to cover it in tar and feathers. he cannot run from me forever

[heckcareoxytwit]

The Quiet Council and the Five variant covers by Phil Noto

Quiet Council variant covers by Phil Noto

Immortal X-Men #1-18 and X-Men Forever #1-4

Magneto (Erik Lensherr) = Immortal X-Men #1, March 2022

Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) = Immortal X-Men #2, May 2022

Destiny (Irene Adler) = Immortal X-Men #3, June 2022

Emma Frost = Immortal X-Men #4, July 2022

Exodus (Bennet Du Paris) = Immortal X-Men #5, August 2022

Sebastian Shaw = Immortal X-Men #6, September 2022

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) = Immortal X-Men #7, October 2022

Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) = Immortal X-Men #8, November 2022

Mystique (Raven Darkholme) = Immortal X-Men #9, December 2022

Professor X (Charles Xavier) = Immortal X-Men #10, January 2023

Storm (Ororo Munroe) = Immortal X-Men #11, May 2023

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) = Immortal X-Men #12, June 2023

Cypher (Doug Ramsey) = Immortal X-Men #13, July 2023

Krakoa = Immortal X-Men #14, August 2023

Selene (Selene Gallio) = Immortal X-Men #15, September 2023

Hope Summers = Immortal X-Men #16, October 2023

Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) = Immortal X-Men #17, November 2023

Jean Grey = Immortal X-Men #18, December 2023

Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert) = X-Men: Forever #1, March 2024

Elixir (Josh Foley) = X-Men: Forever #2, April 2024

Tempus (Eva Bell) = X-Men: Forever #3, May 2024

Egg/Goldballs (Fabio Medina) = X-Men: Forever #4, May 2024

[wwprice1]

RIP Greg Hildebrandt.

[rei-ismyname]

The (first) Trial of Magneto

Starting with the aftermath - a very straight chat between two old friends after dickhead Nazis attacked the courthouse. But how did we get here? TW Nazis and antisemitism.

Way back in the day when Chuck and Magnus first met in Israel, Baron Von Strucker attacked a camp survivor hospital to kidnap Gabrielle Haller. Charles both sides'd the conflict while sleeping with a patient in his care - and Magnus killed a lot of Nazis and bounced with their gold. He also gave Chuck a tongue lashing.

Much later, after many supervillain schemes and slick retcons, Magnus (now Magneto) came to believe he was doing more harm than good and surrendered to human justice. The X-Men were also there, sent by Loki of all people.

Mags had his say, with Haller as his counsel in front of a pretty reasonable judge. He looked extra AF, as is his wont. Because it's comics, the fact that he'd been turned into a baby since those crimes was a big factor in his acquittal. Other complications loomed.

There were a lot of riots and counter riots, tempers were hot.

He's got the gift of the gab, a silver fox with a silver tongue.

Unfortunately, Strucker had two kids, who followed him into the family business. They've got a real Cersei and Jaime Lannister vibe and they attack. Needless to say, most of this drama is their doing, ironically affording Mags the opportunity to protect the court dwellers and stomp some Nazis.

Though the X-Men do assist, kinda.

Told you the judge was pretty reasonable, slapping the shit out of the prosecutor who's super racist and a dick. Needless to say, all the threats are neutralized and Mags is more or less free to go...

KISS! KISS! KISS!

...At the cost of his old friend being gravely injured (don't worry, his bird imperialist gf whisks him away to be her pet. WOOF!) Before that, however, he asks Mags to take his place. He does so under the name Michael Xavier, to mixed results. He was actually pretty great, but trust issues poisoned the well somewhat (Plus the Hellfire Club interferes, mainly Emma Frost.)

[chadaching]

i wish i could have been the jess marinano for paris geller

[nautilusgays]

Blah blah 20000 Leagues having a cool examination of colonialism and power, by subverting expectations and having the genius enigmatic captain of the awesome submarine be an Indian man, this and that...

..let's talk about the real ground breaking subversion of expectations:

An angry, aggressive Canadian.

And,

most incredibly,

A polite and friendly Parisian!

[kfairy88]

Hey y’all Cherik community!! I don’t usually promote my Ao3 stuff but I had this old fic that I wrote like three years ago and it’s been getting love recently so I thought I’d share! Currently writing another fic (not a sequel) and I could definitely use the motivation🙌 Anyways thanks for reading and hoping you’d check it out!

[ducktracy]

saw "75 influences in 75 seconds" on Twitter and decided to give a go at it! i didn't realize how much print cartooning/fine art/still, non moving images had a stranglehold on me until making this! I'm inspired by so much and so fleetingly it's hard to make a list... still fun to make!

[comicwaren]

From X-Men: Forever #001, “A Ghost”

Art by Luca Maresca and Federico Blee

Written by Kieron Gillen

[martianbugsbunny]

Love the ending (and ONLY the ending) of Dark Phoenix bc it means Charles and Erik don't just get to be old together, they get to grow old together

They get to watch the lines and the wrinkles form on each other's faces; they get to see all of the events that shape those lines, like the way Charles gets a permanent crinkle between his eyebrows from sighing at the prankster students and the way Erik learns to smile so often that he gets proper crow's feet

Charles gets to see Erik's hair go grey, and then white, and he gets to run his fingers through that white hair even when his hands are gnarled and veiny and shake a little bit

They get to play thousands of games of chess together, day in and day out, night after night, until they have difficulty remembering all the rules and they're not as good at planning strategy as they used to be

All of the mutants they help, they get to watch grow up together; they get to see those mutants get married and have children and then they get to see those children grow up as well and neither of them ever has to feel alone again because in finding each other, Erik and Charles started a community that provides them both with more family than they ever imagined having

And eventually they get to die together, within days or weeks of each other, and be buried side by side after having lived the best years of their lives that same way

[wishchip106]

do you think either of them ever wondered how they ended up like this?

“How did we get here, my dear?” kinda thing

like i’m pretty sure both of them were convinced they weren’t getting out of this

mourning what was once there and what might never be again

they went from this to that^^^

damn, they lost their style too 💔😭

if those aliens never ambushed the train do you think they would ever be given the chance to talk things out?

i mean Charles did admit he was wrong and in some way apologized but Erik did nothing ❌❌

maybe one night in a cell all by himself, Erik just thinks about the fact he might never able to show Charles just how much he still loves him

[faramirsonofgondor]

It’s insane to me how straight people will produce media where two men have extreme homoerotic tension and say things like “I want you by my side” “we want the same thing” “you’re so adorable” “you’ve never looked beautiful” and “i’ll always be there” while they stare at each othering lovingly and call each other pet names…..only to turn around and say that they’re “brothers” and “best friends”

[xxplastic-cubexx]

on the absolute highest of keys james mcavoy does pull off bald charles really well and i wish we got another movie with bald james mcavoy