Kitbashing Chaos Warbands of the Abyssal Crusade | Warhammer 40k Obscure Lore
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Once proud warriors of the Imperium, these Astartes were ravaged by a warp storm of unprecedented magnitude. Now with their bodies corrupted, chapters of The Judged are sent on a penitent crusade in the Eye of Terror to regain The Emperor's favor. However, none could see the hand of the Ruinous Powers manipulating the pieces on the board behind closed doors...
Enjoy the latest showcase for victims of Warhammer 40k's most ill-fated crusades! These minis are meant as a starting point for other conversions in the army. They can either be downscaled into regular troops or upgraded into HQ units, allowing you to make your own warband!
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Helpful STLs (updated as I find thing)
Invocators (Can use the Thousand Sons Ouroboros if you paint a flame in the middle):
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Death Shadows: Robed torsos
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0:00 What Was the Abyssal Crusade?
5:27 The Magma Hounds
11:40 The Oracles of Change
17:11 The Death Shadows
22:22 The Invocators
27:43 The Grey Death
34:19 Outtro - Zábava
Was gonna sleep but this is more important
I'm honored chief 😂
Enjoy the nightmares and/or dreams
It's 2:30am and I have work at 10am. Caffeine is sleep.
Same here buddy
Abaddon after getting more chaos marines, gears, and ships thanks to the penitent crusade: "well this was unexpected but thank you anyway"
A gift from a secret admirer ☺️
Abbadon after being a bi-
Ghostriding the Heresy Whip sounds fucking baller
I LOVED the grey death mini. The colors made me think about what a frozen corpse may look like. With making non, deathguard nurgle marines, it can be hard to think of color schemes that fit other than straight green. The idea of basing them on different types of decay is awesome. Great vid, subbed.
Thank you kindly! And yeah, it feels like Nurgle marines all just look the same to me so that's why I was turned off to them for so long. I can feel my appreciation for them growing though 😁
I love how you adapt so many no body in such a cool way
Thank you friend 😁
That Death Shadows cloak marine you made DRIPS harder than the pacific.
Got that Sybari Style 😎
That Invocators paint job you did actually really slaps, I love some wacky color schemes
Thanks man, and I do as well. Really makes them stand out in a crowd lol
It looks great - and its obvious why it turned purple in the official mini artwork... you go and tell the Eavy Metal artists under time pressure to do the original scheme for an unknown warband that will get barely any notice in the codex :D
All five of these guys came out really well. Just superb work. The Abyssal Crusade sounds rad as heck. I wish GW gave more love to these variant CSM warbands.
For those looking for more parts for these kinds of conversions, Spellcrow has a bunch of them. Both for regular Space Marines and Chaos ones. They've got fur-covered wolf parts that would look great on Magma Hounds, robes for the Death Shadows, etc.
Third party bit sellers are definitely a great option! I just don't have a lot of bits myself 😅
Wow. Was just looking for chaos kitbashing ideas 2 hours before this drop. Pleasantly surprised, and instant subscription. Don’t disappoint me for your lack of clairvoyance in the future.
Thank you friend! And I can't reveal too much, but let's just say I knew you'd say that 😏
@@TheLichsLaboratory😂
the way the Invocators color scheme has been slightly altered it feels to me like it's supposed to be a red to blue color shift metallic
I actually considered using a color shift paint but didn't like the result I got with it. I used Turbo Dork but maybe a different brand like GrernStuffWorld's color ahifting paints could get a better result for the altered scheme
It took a few seconds for the joke to click with the Magma Hounds, but when it did I let out a groan on a spiritual level.
You have no idea how happy this comment makes me 🤭
It would be cool if the Vorpal Swords went on a crusade to hunt down the remaining warbands spawned of the Abyssal Crusade
That's a fair point. I imagine they'd be a bit reluctant to take up any other kinds of missions knowing those corrupted chapters are still walking around and making them look bad
Using the Fallen is more practical but your version just looks so godamn cool
Thank you! My robe isn't as crisp but having some of the new CSM models underneath adds, I think
Great job man, really impressive editing at the start and all the kitbashes and paintjobs were awesome!
Thank you chief! Glad you enjoyed it!
Obscure lore, painting, kitbashing AND 30+ minutes long? Fucking hell, the algorithm gets something right!
Glad you have you here mate 😁
Ah you were intending to use the old chaos space marine sorcerer helmet. One of my favorite (now OOP) bits. The old chaos space marine kit had a lot of those. I wish they would've kept the god specific heads in production for the chaos marines.
Yeah man. Good to see ya here
@@Matt-md5yt Matt like in the fella which I meat in the comment section of Vivid Mini Mods?
I think it's been a while since we last talked. How are you doing?
@@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290 I am good dude
Good eye chief! And I agree, it makes me wish that some bits could be moved to like, faction specific accessory kits (that are reasonably priced unlike the modern ones)
@@TheLichsLaboratory it's the oddest thing.
All these god flavoured bits were part of a separate command sprue, you most likely know which one I'm talking about. (The one with the banners and special weapons)
So it really wouldn't be too much of a hassle to keep that one around as an upgrade sprue for flavoring you chaos marines.
Another excellent job mate! Really nice work on the gradients of the Invocaters, and that Grey Death marine is wickedly unique!
Always cool to see more lore and mini representation of these obscure chapters and war bands😁
Thank you friend! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
I gotta know what that Invocator clip was. That had me rolling on the ground when he said "a Dungeons And Dragons demon"
Here you go! czcams.com/video/QGVlKc7zDGU/video.htmlsi=iyIzom1_HSbI5ubX
For me, I think the texture of the grey death would work perfectly as some kind of underwater undead marine. I instantly thought of like barnacles and that kind of crud, kind of reminiscent of the the undead pirate crew in the Pirates Of the Caribbean Movies. Amazing job!
I absolutely love the kit batch that you did of the Invocators as the chaos space Marine looks aesthetically pleasing.
Thank you friend! I'm very fond of him as well 😁
@@TheLichsLaboratory you're welcome and their color scheme reminds me of Night Lords but they're bit on the purple side.
The editing you do for the painting steps is really good.
The explanations you use with the info banners at the bottom are sweet. You do good work guy.
Glad you like them! I realize it can be a bit disjointed sometimes but I try my best to make the viewing experience as smooth as possible
Babe wake up, new Lich's Lab video just dropped.
We'll switch spots. You wake up and I'll take a nap. I need it 😓😂
That little ‘hardened paper for green stuff skeleton’ was actually a really good idea. I’m definitely going to be using that for my SM and S2D models. Fur capes for everyone!
It's definitely a nice budget/improv option but just be mindful that it doesn't hold up to a lot of pressure before the putty 😅
I wish the Abyssal Crusade was given a campaign book by GW and a visual aid of what these chapters and warbands looked like.
Chances are slim to none, but it would be cool 😔
You're so underrated!! I wish more people find your channel❤
Thank you for the kindness friend 😊
I waited at the flagpole for over an hour, wtf!! 😂
That nurgle marine is amazing!!
My friggen mom picked me up early to go to the friggen dentist (I have to say frig bc I got in trouble for saying the F word already) 😡😡😡😡😡
Came here from the Mythos Angelica Mortis video - I actually paused it when you brought this video up because I have such a fondness for lesser-known Chaos Warbands. Painted my first Chaos Space Marines in a variety of Warband colors, even. It was less about "Oh, which Warband do I like the lore of the most?" I just went through the wikia's "Pictorial Lists of Traitor Legions & Renegade Space Marine Warbands" pages and went with what caught my eye. ...And then I learned about some Khorne Daemonkin Warbands and got attached to them. So it goes.
I did try painting up one of them as an Invocator but I'd ended up frustrated trying to get the blends right and just went for a Sons of Vengeance scheme instead.
Anyways! Great video.
The Invocator is tricky so I dont blame you! 😅
Seriously impressed with your Grey Death Legionaire. Always wanted to paint up a Nurgle Chaos Warband, but ended up following Malal/Malice. Subbed!
Thank you friend! And Malal is still an excellent choice, my brother of Chaos 😎🤝😎
I love the Invocators’ odd gradient, personally. It matches so many descriptions of Slaaneshi marines painting their own armor however they find pleasing, instead of just pink and black. If you stuck to the color palette, each marine looking different because you bulk painted them would fit the lore.
Really loving these obscure chapters paint guides! Getting me really in the mood for painting every time I watch one of these.
Death Shadows seem like a good opportunity to make a Chaos Lion El Johnson kitbash
That's a pretty good point. Could be a cool daemon prince or something 🤔
@@TheLichsLaboratory depends on the size relative to the Demon Prince model.... Although I feel like yeah, they'd definitely be a chapter whose idea of a Demon Prince is just "A Bigger guy"
Editing and humor was on point, great paint jobs as always!
Thanks for the support man, hope you're doing well 😁
This is sick bro! Cant wait for more!
I love this obscure schemes series! You did great work on all these schemes and I'm looking forward to see what's next.
Glad you like them friend!
really cool video i love the format incorporating all aspects of the hobby. great job!
Thank you! I am still experimenting with the particulars but this video format has generally been pretty well received! I'm glad you like it as well friend 😁
This was so good man. Fantastic work!
Thank you! 😁
A very thorough and fun watch, you earned a sub ❤
Thank you friend 😊
Good stuff, first vid of yours I've seen and i have subscribed. Calm presentation, Great insperation, and a sence of hummer. 👍
Thank you kindly! I try my best to just be myself in these vids. I find the high energy, in your face style of presentation exhausting to watch so I don't subject people to it lol
Would you be up for doing more of these? I can find hardly any references to obscure Chaos Marine warbands from the old books (New books just seem to delete them).
This was absolutely amazing to see done as a video and I really hope to see more (I'd love to see your take on the Brotherhood of Darkness).
Of course mate, I love doing these little dives into obscure factions. Funnily enough the Brotherhood of Darkness was slated for my other obscure Chaos Warbands video but they were bumped out by another warband. I don't quite remember the reason though, think it was for color variety maybe? They're still on the radar though so I wont forget em 😁
Also if you're looking for more obscure factions, I'd comb through the oldest codices you can find or just fall down the 40k wikipedia rabbit holes. With both the fandom wiki and Lexicanum there's a lot to sift through
Great work man! I'm envious of your sculpting skills. Seeing the Invocators mini further solidified my decision to go with crop top power armor on some of my Berzerkers when I get to them. It's awesome watching your journey in the hobby and how much your channel has grown.
Hey man! Thanks a lot. Good to hear from you chief, hope things have been going well on your end 😁
Found a new favorite conversion channel! I keep running out of kitbash content, and I just discovered your channel and I'm gonna devour it, cause this was awesome 👍🏻 😎
Thank you very much boss!
Totally Awesome, Thanks for the effort. Please do more.
Thank you very much!
I love all the editing and memes
Also the models are fantastic
The oracles remain me of the heresy thousand sons
Definitely, just not as deep of a red
Not sure if someone said this yet but that shoulder and helmet are both from the 3e Chaos Marines kit, they were originally meant as a Tzeentch-marked Champion helmet and shoulder.
People have mentioned it's an older kit but not specifically which one I think. Thanks chief 👍
As someone ho also happens to not love the current death gard, I totally adore your version of the nurgel marines. And now even I want to own one.
Glad to see I'm not alone on this!
Absolutely wonderful work all around, great conversions and paint schemes, that Invocators scheme is very nice!
Carry on being awesome and take care ;)
Thank you for the kind words, boss. Glad you enjoyed them 😊
The Grey Death mini is actually pretty lore accurate to the Death Guard, like there's passages and descriptions of them being CAKED in putrid rotting filth and then the actual minis are all very clean and covered in bloated meat/tentacles/horns but nothing that would even vaguely describe 'literally bathed in lakes of congealing waste and rot slop'.
Now I'm just wondering how many layers of texture paint I can put on a mini before God casts me out from Heaven 🤔
@@TheLichsLaboratory I'd estimate a solid bottle would do it.
Kitbashing and sculpting custom minis is what brought me into the hobby from the lore i love this stuff i am currently working on a custom heretic astartes army
I really do like your videos a lot. I think more people should do deep dives in on weird obscure factions and how to paint them. I do intend to one day have a small army/kill team thats based on either one of your videos or something youd focus on, but havent found the right one just yet. your videos are inspiring, keep up the good work
Thank you very much! I'm glad I can inspire you! 😁
Awesome, especially the Invocators. Subscribed.
My headcanon is that all their armour is colourshifting due to chaos corruption, so the newer purple ones are just what those individual marines looked like, at that moment.
Thank you very much! 😁
Each is so cool in their own right, love these minis!
Very glad you liked them! I feel the same way. Even warbands I wasn't as crazy about when I started ended up producing some really cool minis
I once did a killteam for the deathwatch where I kitbashed them all to have as much flavour from their chapters as possible and always wanted to do some chaos counterpart for them...this really inspired me to do so. Awesome work
Always wanted to do some magma hounds. Love that someone's painting up the obscure codex warbands
Another great video, thanks for being an excellent part of the community
Much appreciated friend!
Next one should be about the guardsman regiments.
Guard regiments is something I want to expand into in the future but at the moment I just have a lot of spare SM/CSM laying around. Also been brainstorming some more stuff for obscure xeno species after my Slaugth video I did. Even though I agree that marines get enough attention, they and their spiky brethren are still my favorite factions so it's what I'm most likely to gravitate to
@TheLichsLaboratory fair fair, and you know what? I'll be there to support you every step of the way.
@@pablomireles7443I greatly appreciate the support friend! It's very heartwarming
Oh yeah!!!!! The invocator is my favorite of the bunch 👍 awesome video
Thanks man! 😁
Awesome work!
Thanks boss 😁👍
Great video 😍 nice editing.
Thank you 🤗
Don’t forget the most important chapter sent in there. /yourdudes/
Also that is a kino old-school FW Plague Marine
/yourdudes/ is always the optimal choice 😎🤝😎
Amazing work! Thank you❤
Thank you 😎👍
Cool kitbash ideas for each warband:
Magma hounds: maybe the leader of their warband has either a dog head, or has 3 separate heads extending from his neck
Oracles of change: I think it was nailed by adding thousand sons bits, maybe add some other tzeentchian deamon bits for their special troops like a guy riding on top of a screamer of tzeentch or something
Death shadows: they seem pretty sneaky, I would suggest some raven guard bits actually, that or maybe some grim reaper aesthetics what with those robes
Invocators: maybe some word bearer or thousand sons sorcery bits, I also personally really like the idea of making them more deamon-y
The grey death: I’m thinking an iron warrior aesthetic but nurgle-fied what with the 100 years siege and all, maybe bring the fungus theme back with some more nature-y bits
Lore, humour and awesome conversions, a perfect video
Thank you friend! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁
Yaaay a long(ish) form Lich video
That last poll about video length may have had some relevance lol
Amazing I love these vids!
Thank you, Confirmed-to-actually-be-Alpharius! (Allegedly(Unconfirmed(Needs a Source)))
awesome dude!!! absolutely loved the video!!
my fav one is also the invocator (i have a thing for demons), next is the nurgle one, pretty damn cool idea :3
Thanks boss, glad you enjoyed it 😁
that plague merina looks gnarly af
Love the basing detail
Thank you! 😁
Hi! Just wanted to say thank you: I just finished building my my first gunpla (it's an Aerial Rebuild) while watching (well, rather listening to) your videos on kitbashing space marines. I certainly haven't learned a lot of lore or techniques (I'm also not really into tabletop gaming), but it was a very nice, even kind of meditative experience! You style of narration is very relaxing.
Thank you very much friend! I'm glad I could still provide you with something for your hobbying 😁
Awesome vid. The crop top armor is so iconic !! Definitely gonna use it for my exalted champion of Slaanesh
Crop top supremacy 😎🙌
Looks great I love all of these I’m really into blood angels and more specifically Death Company. Weathering the paint with sponge is so great and some blood is so good you should try out a blood splattering effect on a mini some time.
The Lich's Laboratory has finished cooking folks. Great video as usual, everything came out amazing. Keep it up king, the people love it
Thanks chief! Appreciate the support 😁
I really like these, I think you went a bit overboard with the texturing on the last one but the ideas are really cool and the kitbashes even cooler!
More chaos warbands for my chaos armies
A fine addition to my collection.mp4 😂
Great video!
Thank you for watching friend 😁
Loved the look of the Oracles!
They grew on me quickly as well 😅
Going to start a magma hound army now, thanks
Hell yeah dude 😆👍
The Grey Death are my favorite just to due to how much better they are than the current Nurgle Marines, really got the crusty fungus infected nurgle aestetic that was in the first WD I read right. My favorite sculpts of Death Guard/Nurgle Marines are probably the early 00s ones, shame I have only seen one box of them for sale for an acceptable price.
Kind of want to make a Death Shadows Kill Team just so I can blame any losses on it being in character, lol.
Yeah I think I'm also just burnt out of Nurgle stuff from the various Warhammer games too. The Plague Marine aesthetic can be really cool, but just not the current ones. Definitely some good bits to poach though.
And you can just call loses a Death Shadows patented tactical feint 🤭
Love it, earned my sub.
Thanks boss, welcome aboard 😎👍
Hell yeah, a long video! Watching
I was never really into playing 40k but I used to paint space marines and other miniatures years ago. Somehow your videos make me want to try it out again. Those obscure warbands are a pretty interesting topic.
I'm glad I could inspire you lol. If you do, I'd love to hear what warband/chapter you end up picking 😁
So far I've done Steel Brethren (boring...), Corpus Brethren (look kinda cool, but painting white is a pain in the ass) and The Scourged (so far the most fun to paint). Gonna do either The Tainted or The Purge next. I have not painted a single miniature for the last ten years before picking up those Chaos Marines. I'm still a terribly slow painter but the results look pretty neat.
No idea who you are but this was PEAK man, I'm about to start a new Marine army & it's perfect timing, especially how you approached the Grey Death dudes, nice.
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Thank you kindly! I greatly appreciate your support 😊
Your 'The Grey Death' are EXACTLY what I've wanted from true 'Plague Marines'. I would love to recreate this look. And the others are fantastic too. 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you very much! 😁
Amazing jobs!
Thank you sir! 😁
These are all awesome man, but I especially appreciate the Grey Death character - I'm building a few of my own plague/rot miniatures for a game, and hadn't even thought of using texture paste(s) to help sell the oxidation and decay. I'm definitely gonna borrow the idea!
Keep in mind that crackle medium is a bit harder to control than crackle paste! Shoot for variation with smooth areas and different textures for an even better result than what I got 😁
Absolutely! Thanks for the advice!@@TheLichsLaboratory
@@popnihl Of course friend! 😁
Insane! subbed !
Thank you! 😁
Nurgle marine is just awesome. Next time I'll do plague marines I'd definitely kitbash them from legionaries.
I really liked your Invocator kitbash, so a fun idea for melee weapons for them would be to take the handle of a chainsword and the claw of a deamonet or Tyronid and a little greenstuff and have a weird fleshy sword like object for them to wield... bonus points if you have a greenstuff cable coming out of their flesh to connect to the weapon.
Or better yet, graft it into the arm so it's like he has a sword hand 😏
@@TheLichsLaboratory If I did that it would be with the chainsword blade, similarly to chainsaw man, would work very well for a Slaanesh chaos marine, go with one of the world eater double bladed chainsword blades and then cut off an open hand cut it in half and then putty the blade in between the two haves and the whole thing onto the wrist stump, maybe greenstuff on a larger codpiece along with your crop top and some kind of a messed up head.
you could totally get some of those old forgeworld plauge marine bits from recasters. the quality is identical to forgeworld in my experience
While I do know a recaster or two, even a friend whose working on his own recast skills, it'd be nice if they were still buyable through official channels to hit their primary/largest user base. Then again it's Games Workshop so 🤷♂️
the algorithm of the youtube gods brought me here to you and I'm glad for it. You were entertaining AND informative. My only issue is the audio for this video was really quiet. I had to crank my volume more than normal just to hear you m8.
Thank you for your strongest comment, Comment Seller 🤭
And yeah, the audio levels are something I try to pay attention to. I test each video with good headphones and through my normal desktop speakers to make sure the balance is appropriate. General audio levels are something I have been reevaluating though. A few years ago when I was setting the standard I opted for audio on the quieter end since everyone's audio setups are so vastly different. The logic was that I'd rather have to turn up a video rather than have my ears explode two seconds in, but given your feedback I may have to try elevating the audio for a video or two and finding a good balance for everyone. Thank you for the feedback and I'm glad you still enjoyed the video 😁
would love to see your take on the Brethrens of Hel, they are a Iron Hands that have fallen to Chaos.
been thinking of painting my CSM like them :)
Awesome video
Thank you! 😁👍
For the Invocators I'd just translate the armor panels to a Galaxy scheme instead of the weird color transitions in the codex.
While I feel like that wouldn't really encapsulate the Invocators vibe to my personal tastes, the thought of galaxy patterned armor could actually look really cool on something. You might be giving me something to cook with in the future 🤔🤔🤔
20:40 Looks fuggin great bro 🍻
Thanks! 😁
Very cool! Only you cant see the Oracle of Change' cool torso anymore like this.
Yeah the bolter covers the new chestpiece but at least you can see bits of it
Great video, keep it up
Thank you friend! 😁
They all rock. Wicked looking
Thank you friend 😁
This Hooded chaos marine look awesome! You shoud make full squad :P
Thank you! And it would be good sculpting practice 🤔
I was not expecting the Mabinogi reference, but given other vids where you mention your custom marines and the theme, i shouldnt be suprised. That old first aid quest was a nightmare, almost as bad as trying to get thunder pages.
I had the easiest time with Thunder but Fireball was a legit nightmare. I have a bone to pick with whoever thought to put an expiration timer on those pages 😤
@TheLichsLaboratory I feel that. I think I was lucky with fireball. But man, thunder page 4... rng hated me so bad. Spent weeks farming that stupid succubus.
Nurgle be praised, I love diseased gritty marines!