Hey all, I'm Sam Bogits, the artist behind this painting!

I see my work has found its way onto this sub already and I'm glad people like it! I have plenty more including Word Bearers, Sister Repentia, and Imperial Fists on my Instagram if anyone is interested.

Since people seem to enjoy this art I thought I would create a post to provide a little more information about it and my process. This was a passion piece fueled by my love of the Emperor's Children and Fulgrim himself.

I created this while reading the Siege of Terra for the first time, specifically Saturnine and Mortis. I was struck by the descriptions of the 3rd Legion and how much they differed from much of the art and minis I have seen around. The garish splashes of random color, hues so bright they hurt the eyes, materials that make the mind reel, and the utter debauchery of the marines themselves. I decided to make something that captured these descriptions as best I could.

I started off just drawing a bunch of EC marines and arranged them in a composition, but the most interesting part was the color. I used a random color shifting brush under a black and white value layer to start the painting. That way when I finished the initial block out and turned the black and white back off, I was left with an insane and random color scheme for me to play with and adjust.

I really loved playing up all the spikes and teeth and eyes, the living armor, self mutilation, and Fulgrim himself was probably one of my absolute favorite things I have ever painted. I based him heavily on his official model, but I decided he would look a lot scarier with his long stringy hair hanging loose over his horns and face.

I created custom body armor of my own invention for him based on a mix of 30k models, 40k models, real samurai armor, and his original 1992 mini, seen below. I ended up making him in part a resurrection of his first design, with the same shoulder pad and weapons as well as black leather armor pieces. I also revamped his original weapon set, giving him back him living snake whip along with a blue power sword, a shiny scimitar, and a flaming golden demon blade.

For the Daemonette I also wanted to do my own take. I thought it would be cool to have her running around with some huge ostentatious demon machine grafted to her arm, injecting people with the Emperor's Children's famous drug juice. I looked at many different designs for her inspiration and ended up with a mix of the new models and the ones from the 90's. The marines them selves are based heavily upon the current range of models with a lot of mixing and matching of details and personal flavor.

Here's the rest of the process all the way from sketches to painting, thanks for reading!

Holding the head of the high marshal he uses to taunt Barengar, along with the black Templar trophy attached to his belt and ofc the black blade. Head is the Flawless blade head, and the Icon is from the deamonettes box. What do you make of him?

I just had this idea and I wanted to ask you guys if (with a lot of kitbashing) i could turn either deathshroud into flawless blades or blightlord into a regular terminator squad

What do you guys think a new army rule for emperors children should be?

11th edition space marines/Orks can now really utilize advance and charge / fall back and shoot. So it feels like Emperors children’s thunder has been stolen. Even with certain clauses and limitations, it feels like they can do what Emperors children do but more easily.

I’m a world eaters player but also an Emperor’s children fan and I wanna hear what you guys, the real emperors children fans/players think would be an effective and thematic new army rule should be?

I was looking through some of the other chaos marines (World Eaters, Death Guard, Thousand Sons) and I noticed they have a few more characters that are unique. We share the same amount with WE (I don't count Daemon Princes cause they're for all four) and noticed DG have the most. Do the EC not have any other unique leader units in lore besides the Kakophonist and Lord Exhaultant?

I've got the scheme down, but I need it to be really striking, and clean too, any advice or criticism is greatly appreciated. I really want to stand a good chance at winning some competitions with this model when it's finished!

Whipped up this fella recently. Head needs sorting and hair sculpting, then he's done.

Let me know what you think.

Will be sticking him up for sale when he's done, if you are UK based.

Just some kitbashing bits I’ve finished recently. Terminators, Lord Exultant, two daemon princes, two spawn and changed defiler guns.

Excuse the low quality photos!

I play both Tyranids and emperor’s children, and I’m curious how a rules interaction would work. Slaanesh’s chosen detachment rule says character units can ignore modifiers to advance rolls. Spore mines don’t allow you to start or end an advance within 6” of them. Which rule takes the other?
I’m leaning towards spore mines because it’s not interacting with the roll, but isn’t not rolling a modifier as well?

I've tried 2 different schemes:

1 with naggaroth night as a base, conclusion is that the coverage is completely terrible and requires 3 layers at which point it just looks terrible and extremely dark

I also tried following the purple scheme in this video here, but when I applied the genestealer purple that required 1 coat for complete coverage for this guy, I had to put on 3 for not even full coverage, just for it to look way too bright and not anything like the one in the video

does anyone have any paint suggestions?

Fairly new to Emperor's children and wondering about this list?

Specifically, wondering whether I should swap out the Maulerfiends and Daemon Prince on foot for a 2nd Defiler. Just feels like you need to trade a lot for that 2nd one.

Emperor's Children - Saturday (2000 points)

Emperor’s Children

Coterie of the Conceited (3 Detachment Points)

Priority Assets

Strike Force (2000 points)

CHARACTERS

Daemon Prince of Slaanesh (190 points)

• Warlord

• 1x Hellforged weapons

1x Infernal cannon

• Enhancement: Pledge of Eternal Servitude

Daemon Prince of Slaanesh with Wings (205 points)

• 1x Hellforged weapons

1x Infernal cannon

Lord Exultant (95 points)

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Close combat weapon

1x Phoenix power spear

1x Plasma pistol

Lord Exultant (95 points)

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Close combat weapon

1x Phoenix power spear

1x Rapture lash

Lucius the Eternal (130 points)

• 1x Blade of the Laer

1x Lash of Torment

BATTLELINE

Infractors (95 points)

• 1x Obsessionist

• 1x Bolt pistol

1x Power sword

• 4x Infractor

• 4x Bolt pistol

4x Duelling sabre

Infractors (95 points)

• 1x Obsessionist

• 1x Bolt pistol

1x Power sword

• 4x Infractor

• 4x Bolt pistol

4x Duelling sabre

Tormentors (85 points)

• 1x Obsessionist

• 1x Plasma pistol

1x Power sword

• 4x Tormentor

• 2x Boltgun

4x Close Combat Weapon

1x Icon of Excess

1x Meltagun

1x Plasma gun

Tormentors (85 points)

• 1x Obsessionist

• 1x Plasma pistol

1x Power sword

• 4x Tormentor

• 2x Boltgun

4x Close Combat Weapon

1x Icon of Excess

1x Meltagun

1x Plasma gun

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Chaos Rhino (70 points)

• 1x Armoured tracks

1x Combi-bolter

OTHER DATASHEETS

Defiler (330 points)

• 2x Excruciator cannon

1x Hades battle cannon

2x Hades lascannon

1x Shearing Claws

Flawless Blades (95 points)

• 3x Flawless Blade

• 3x Blissblade

3x Bolt pistol

Flawless Blades (95 points)

• 3x Flawless Blade

• 3x Blissblade

3x Bolt pistol

Flawless Blades (95 points)

• 3x Flawless Blade

• 3x Blissblade

3x Bolt pistol

Maulerfiend (120 points)

• 1x Lasher tendrils

1x Maulerfiend fists

Maulerfiend (120 points)

• 1x Lasher tendrils

1x Maulerfiend Claws

They don’t seem very EC to me but I want to be at least a little competitive when I’m playing 😭