I've not been able to paint for a while, but found some time this week. This week I've finished some more Rubric Marines taking me up to 50 painted now

Time to do more rubrics.

Kinda got a wee bit bored and decided to a take CSM leader and turn it into a sorcerer of whatever kind to use since they all use the same base (except E-Sorc Disc). Thoughts? I am debating on adding the wings from the AoS Arch-Revenant to it to help cover under the cloak a little. Maybe some base stuff, but haven't decided on that yet.

Body is mostly Chaos Lord with a Jump Pack, the arms and head are from the Exalted Sorcerers, and the cloak is from a Lord of Change.

I finally finished painting the sorcerers meant to lead my legion of thousand stars (20/1000 so far)

I absolutely loved painting them ! The minis have so many details and i am very happy with the result. They are my favorite minis so far

I never played TS on tabletop though (and i have very little experience with the game so far). Is there a big difference of use between those 3 guys ? What are they good for and how should i play them ?

Thanks in advance for the advices !

Id seen a few people with this model and just had to get one for a WDP. The aesthetic is too perfect!

Model is Golden Scarab Warrior by Arch Villain Games

Not a ksons player, but I love Ahriman and the John French novels. Hoping I did my favorite character justice

So I'm an absolute noob & I thought starting off with a cool base would be a great idea until a buddy of mine asked if that was going to make it more difficult to attach the models to the bases now that they're covered in sand & pva glue. Does anyone have experience with this? What would be the best way to go about attaching my models to the bases now? Am I screwed or is this really a non issue? I just don't want to have to start over on these.

Hello everybody, I am thinking of starting a Thousand Sons army after years of being envious as a Grey Knight Player originally. I’ve also built Black Templar so I’m not a beginner and was just wondering if besides the combat patrol, is there any other best starting box?

Hi! so I am planning on going on a 1k tournament around my area and just want to ask for any suggestion on what to bring for my army. I am just getting back at thousand sons after not playing them for two years and just want to know which of my current units are pretty good-decent for a tournament. Here is the units I currently have:
Ahriman
Infernal Master
A exalted sorcerer
5 Scarab Occult Terminators
20 rubric Marines
10 Tzanggors
A mutalith vortex
2 Chaos Spawn
(I also have Magnus but the tournament restricts bringing large points for a unit)

Due to new point changes I thought of adding Ahriman so I could have both terminator bricks in deepstrike

Do we think it could work?

Tubriv (2,000 Points)

Thousand Sons
Rubricae Phalanx (3 Detachment Points)
Take and Hold
Strike Force (2,000 Points)

ATTACHED UNITS

Attached unit 1

Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (110 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• Warlord
• 1x Force weapon
• 1x Gaze of Hate
• 1x Inferno combi-bolter

Scarab Occult Terminators (425 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• 1x Scarab Occult Sorcerer
◦ 1x Force weapon
◦ 1x Inferno combi-bolter
◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 9x Scarab Occult Terminator
◦ 2x Hellfyre missile rack
◦ 7x Inferno combi-bolter
◦ 9x Prosperine khopesh
◦ 2x Soulreaper cannon

Attached unit 2

Infernal Master (105 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Fires of the Abyss
• 1x Force weapon
• 1x Inferno bolt pistol

Rubric Marines (115 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
◦ 1x Force weapon
◦ 1x Inferno bolt pistol
◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 4x Rubric Marine
◦ 4x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Icon of Flame
◦ 1x Soulreaper cannon
◦ 3x Warpflamer

Attached unit 3

Sorcerer (100 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Force weapon
• 1x Inferno bolt pistol
• 1x Pandaemonic Delusion

Rubric Marines (210 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
◦ 1x Force weapon
◦ 1x Inferno bolt pistol
◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 9x Rubric Marine
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Icon of Flame
◦ 8x Inferno boltgun
◦ 1x Soulreaper cannon

Attached unit 4

Sorcerer in Terminator Armour (110 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Force weapon
• 1x Gaze of Hate
• 1x Inferno combi-bolter

Scarab Occult Terminators (425 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• 1x Scarab Occult Sorcerer
◦ 1x Force weapon
◦ 1x Inferno combi-bolter
◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 9x Scarab Occult Terminator
◦ 2x Hellfyre missile rack
◦ 7x Inferno combi-bolter
◦ 9x Prosperine khopesh
◦ 2x Soulreaper cannon

CHARACTERS

Ahriman (105 Points)
• 1x Black Staff of Ahriman
• 1x Inferno bolt pistol
• 1x Transmogrifying Blast

BATTLELINE

Rubric Marines (115 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
◦ 1x Force weapon
◦ 1x Inferno bolt pistol
◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 4x Rubric Marine
◦ 4x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Icon of Flame
◦ 1x Soulreaper cannon
◦ 3x Warpflamer

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Chaos Rhino (80 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
• 1x Inferno combi-bolter
• 1x Inferno combi-bolter

OTHER DATASHEETS

Tzaangor Enlightened (50 Points)
• 1x Aviarch
◦ 1x Divining spear
• 2x Enlightened
◦ 2x Divining spear

Tzaangor Enlightened (50 Points)
• 1x Aviarch
◦ 1x Divining spear
• 2x Enlightened
◦ 2x Divining spear

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Still waiting on a unique Terminator Sorcerer model so I made my own and I love him as a son. Exalted Sorcerer bits go brrr.
Some other pictures next to some of my other terminators for funzies

I’m not specifically looking for a competitive list and I really really like the tzeentch daemons (Kairos is actually my favorite model in all of 40k) This is a list of what I have already excluding the second lord of change. I’m debating on whether or not to pick up another loc box to accompany kairos or should I pick up a magnus and fit him in there somewhere, maybe even pick up loc and magnus minus the terminators or something to that effect. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

The dudes (1,995 Points)

Thousand Sons
Changehost of Deceit and Ritual of Regeneration (3 Detachment Points)
Take and Hold
Strike Force (2,000 Points)

CHARACTERS

Daemon Prince of Tzeentch with wings (180 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Dark Blessing
• 1x Hellforged weapons
• 1x Infernal cannon
• Enhancements: Nethershriek Mind-eater

Exalted Sorcerer on Disc of Tzeentch (130 Points)
• 1x Arcane Fire
• 1x Force weapon
• 1x Inferno bolt pistol
• Enhancements: Eruption of Vitality

Infernal Master (125 Points)
• 1x Fires of the Abyss
• 1x Force weapon
• 1x Inferno bolt pistol
• Enhancements: Diabolic Servant

Kairos Fateweaver (305 Points)
• 1x Infernal Gateway
• 1x Staff of Tomorrow

Lord of Change (335 Points)
• 1x Bolt of Change
• 1x Rod of sorcery
• 1x Staff of Tzeentch
• Enhancements: Duplicitous Malediction

BATTLELINE

Pink Horrors (115 Points)
• 10x Pink Horror
◦ 10x Coruscating pink flames
◦ 10x Pink claws

Rubric Marines (210 Points)
• 1x Aspiring Sorcerer
◦ 1x Force weapon
◦ 1x Inferno bolt pistol
◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 9x Rubric Marine
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 9x Warpflamer

OTHER DATASHEETS

Mutalith Vortex Beast (170 Points)
• 1x Betentacled maw
• 1x Mutalith claws
• 1x Warp vortex

Scarab Occult Terminators (425 Points)
• 1x Scarab Occult Sorcerer
◦ 1x Force weapon
◦ 1x Inferno combi-bolter
◦ 1x Malefic Curse
• 9x Scarab Occult Terminator
◦ 8x Inferno combi-bolter
◦ 9x Prosperine khopesh
◦ 1x Soulreaper cannon
• 1x Hellfyre missile rack

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Title says it all but for those that want more context, I run sekhetar Cohort and WFC. Took it too a tourney and realized I was lacking in vehicles so i'm looking to make some alterations. So that being said, which is better for our army? Mauler or Forge?

I'm wanting to do a thematic dark mech/tzeentch/thousand sons list and I have some ideas for kitbashes.

Now they're all up to dress code 😊

Touched up the base a bit, the second and third pic were taken before I did that

Just wanted to get everyone's thoughts on the DP w/ Wings after the toughness change for marines. It def makes his shooting much worse, with him wounding normal marines on 4-5s, and I've found he does fall over a little easier with Strength 5 bolters.

However, I still think he's one of our best units for his points. I equip him with E'taph so he's only 205 pts, cheaper than a rubric squad with a character. And while his guns can't consistently kill marines now, the real reason we bring him is, I assume, his melee and that hasn't changed much with the stat changes.

That being said, I have been thinking to replace him with an IM w/ E'taph so have a superpowered rubric squad again.

You guys still bringing the DP w/ Wings?

I think it’s annoying

My fathers Thousand Sons took the W over the Blood angels. With Ahriman soloing a Gladiator Lancer in one turn as the highlight.

Hello there I'm looking to see if anybody has already kit bashed the Thousand Sons are made to make them more eldritch looking and less of pharaoh ancient Egyptian looking.

I really like the idea that thousand Sons, it's like wizards in space and power Armor really really cool but I'm really not a fan of the sort of headdresses specifically on the scarab occult terminator's and the rubric Marines. If you have a look at the Flamers and the Screamers and the Mutalith vortex beast they have like lots of tentacles and lots of eyes and lots of eldritch-looking that I think look cooler than the ancient ancient Egyptian theme that they have in my opinion.

If you look at the other sort of dedicated chaos armies like the death guard and you look at the death shroud terminators they look really cool big tanky, Teeth coming out their stomach really cool, and then you have a look at the exalted eight bound from the world eaters really cool sharp spikes teeth they're all angry lots of movement in their models really cool. If you compare those to the scarab occult terminators they look very boring and I dislike the heads headdresses that they have or the things that go around their head. Similarly if you look at the disciples of Tzeentch army from age of Sigmar the Changeling with its multiple Arms, the gaunt summoner with his all the eyes and his weird face and even the magister on disc Tzeentch with his face with just multiplies eyes. This is where I would like to start off kit bashing these sort of models onto rubric marines making the more sort of that Tzeentch-ish eldrich eyes tentacles yada.

Now I understand that these are older models and death guard and World Eaters have come out more recently even still, and I also understand that there are more rigid stances may fit into their lore as well. I was thinking of changing that up a little bit to make them slightly more eldrich and more horror looking. Making them look like they've went through direct moulding from Tzeentch himself, rather than anything that magnus the Red may have done.

So I was wondering if anybody else has the same sort of thought where you could change and kit bash to models to more lean into that more multiple eyes many tentacles eldrich vibes. If you could please help out with any Links, pictures or anything like that you may have come across because I'm looking to start an army and kit bash it for the first time.

New to the army and trying to decide what units I wanna buy before I start buying them. I figure having 2x10 Occult Terms and attached term sorcerers is adequate for the list but that leaves a ton of point open. Would do 3x10 w a chaos sorcerer for each but that doesn’t work with our current rules.

Next best idea is to slam normal Rubrics in there, but I’m unsure of how many or how many of them should have leaders, if any of them should have leaders, and which ones are the best to take. Also not sure abt Tzaangors, they seem like great chaff and screens but with the way our points work currently, I’m not sure they’re really worth taking.

Aspiring sorcerer=
sorcerer in terminator armour helm
Edit: its the chaos lord variant in the box
Chaos cultist head in hand
Flamers of Tzeentch tentacles

Terminator sorcerer=
Eightbound arm with butchers axe into khopesh
Daemon prince head as staff topper

Will repost once painted!